1 BIBLE -- KING JAMES VERSION

   2 Book 1 Genesis

   3 Genesis 1

   4  1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
   5  2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
   6    upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
   7    the face of the waters.
   8  3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
   9  4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the
  10    light from the darkness.
  11  5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
  12    Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
  13  6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
  14    waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
  15  7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
  16    under the firmament from the waters which were above the
  17    firmament: and it was so.
  18  8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
  19    morning were the second day.
  20  9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
  21    together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
  22    was so.
  23 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together
  24    of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
  25 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
  26    yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
  27    kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
  28 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
  29    after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
  30    itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
  31 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
  32 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
  33    heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
  34    signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
  35 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to
  36    give light upon the earth: and it was so.
  37 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the
  38    day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars
  39    also.
  40 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
  41    upon the earth,
  42 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the
  43    light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
  44 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
  45 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
  46    creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth
  47    in the open firmament of heaven.
  48 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that
  49    moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
  50    kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that
  51    it was good.
  52 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
  53    fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the
  54    earth.
  55 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
  56 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
  57    after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
  58    earth after his kind: and it was so.
  59 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
  60    after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth
  61    after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
  62 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
  63    likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
  64    and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
  65    all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
  66    upon the earth.
  67 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
  68    created he him; male and female created he them.
  69 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
  70    multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
  71    dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
  72    air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
  73 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
  74    seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,
  75    in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
  76    shall be for meat.
  77 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
  78    and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
  79    is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was
  80    so.
  81 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
  82    very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

  83 Genesis 2

  84  1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
  85    of them.
  86  2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
  87    and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
  88    had made.
  89  3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
  90    that in it he had rested from all his work which God created
  91    and made.
  92  4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
  93    they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth
  94    and the heavens,
  95  5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and
  96    every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had
  97    not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man
  98    to till the ground.
  99  6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
 100    face of the ground.
 101  7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
 102    breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
 103    a living soul.
 104  8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there
 105    he put the man whom he had formed.
 106  9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree
 107    that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of
 108    life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
 109    knowledge of good and evil.
 110 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
 111    thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
 112 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth
 113    the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
 114 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the
 115    onyx stone.
 116 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
 117    compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
 118 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which
 119    goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is
 120    Euphrates.
 121 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
 122    Eden to dress it and to keep it.
 123 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of
 124    the garden thou mayest freely eat:
 125 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
 126    not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
 127    shalt surely die.
 128 18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be
 129    alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
 130 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the
 131    field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam
 132    to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called
 133    every living creature, that was the name thereof.
 134 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
 135    and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not
 136    found an help meet for him.
 137 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
 138    slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
 139    instead thereof;
 140 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
 141    woman, and brought her unto the man.
 142 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
 143    flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
 144    Man.
 145 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
 146    shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
 147 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
 148    ashamed.

 149 Genesis 3

 150  1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
 151    which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
 152    hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
 153  2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
 154    of the trees of the garden:
 155  3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
 156    garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall
 157    ye touch it, lest ye die.
 158  4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
 159  5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
 160    eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good
 161    and evil.
 162  6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
 163    that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to
 164    make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
 165    gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
 166  7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
 167    were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
 168    themselves aprons.
 169  8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden
 170    in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves
 171    from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the
 172    garden.
 173  9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
 174    art thou?
 175 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
 176    afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
 177 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou
 178    eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
 179    shouldest not eat?
 180 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
 181    she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
 182 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou
 183    hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I
 184    did eat.
 185 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
 186    this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast
 187    of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt
 188    thou eat all the days of thy life:
 189 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
 190    thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
 191    shalt bruise his heel.
 192 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
 193    thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and
 194    thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
 195    thee.
 196 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
 197    voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I
 198    commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is
 199    the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
 200    the days of thy life;
 201 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
 202    thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
 203 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
 204    return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
 205    dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
 206 20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the
 207    mother of all living.
 208 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of
 209    skins, and clothed them.
 210 22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
 211    to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,
 212    and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
 213 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
 214    to till the ground from whence he was taken.
 215 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
 216    garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
 217    every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

 218 Genesis 4

 219  1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
 220    and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
 221  2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
 222    sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
 223  3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of
 224    the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
 225  4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and
 226    of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to
 227    his offering:
 228  5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain
 229    was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
 230  6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
 231    thy countenance fallen?
 232  7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou
 233    doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be
 234    his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
 235  8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass,
 236    when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel
 237    his brother, and slew him.
 238  9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
 239    said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
 240 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's
 241    blood crieth unto me from the ground.
 242 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
 243    mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
 244 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield
 245    unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou
 246    be in the earth.
 247 13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I
 248    can bear.
 249 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the
 250    earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a
 251    fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to
 252    pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
 253 15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
 254    vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a
 255    mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
 256 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in
 257    the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
 258 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and
 259    he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the
 260    name of his son, Enoch.
 261 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
 262    Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
 263 19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was
 264    Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
 265 20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in
 266    tents, and of such as have cattle.
 267 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all
 268    such as handle the harp and organ.
 269 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every
 270    artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was
 271    Naamah.
 272 23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
 273    voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have
 274    slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
 275 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
 276    sevenfold.
 277 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called
 278    his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another
 279    seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
 280 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called
 281    his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the
 282    LORD.

 283 Genesis 5

 284  1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that
 285    God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
 286  2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called
 287    their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
 288  3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in
 289    his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name
 290    Seth:
 291  4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
 292    hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
 293  5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
 294    years: and he died.
 295  6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
 296  7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
 297    years, and begat sons and daughters:
 298  8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years:
 299    and he died.
 300  9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
 301 10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen
 302    years, and begat sons and daughters:
 303 11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and
 304    he died.
 305 12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
 306 13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and
 307    forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
 308 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years:
 309    and he died.
 310 15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
 311 16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
 312    thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
 313 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and
 314    five years: and he died.
 315 18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
 316    Enoch:
 317 19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and
 318    begat sons and daughters:
 319 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two
 320    years: and he died.
 321 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
 322 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
 323    hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
 324 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five
 325    years:
 326 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
 327 25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and
 328    begat Lamech.
 329 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred
 330    eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
 331 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and
 332    nine years: and he died.
 333 28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
 334    son:
 335 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort
 336    us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the
 337    ground which the LORD hath cursed.
 338 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and
 339    five years, and begat sons and daughters:
 340 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and
 341    seven years: and he died.
 342 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham,
 343    and Japheth.

 344 Genesis 6

 345  1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of
 346    the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
 347  2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
 348    fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
 349  3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,
 350    for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred
 351    and twenty years.
 352  4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after
 353    that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
 354    and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men
 355    which were of old, men of renown.
 356  5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
 357    and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
 358    only evil continually.
 359  6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
 360    and it grieved him at his heart.
 361  7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
 362    the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping
 363    thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I
 364    have made them.
 365  8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
 366  9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
 367    perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
 368 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 369 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was
 370    filled with violence.
 371 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
 372    for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
 373 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before
 374    me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
 375    behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
 376 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
 377    ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
 378 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The
 379    length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth
 380    of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
 381 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou
 382    finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the
 383    side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou
 384    make it.
 385 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the
 386    earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life,
 387    from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall
 388    die.
 389 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
 390    come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
 391    sons' wives with thee.
 392 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
 393    shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee;
 394    they shall be male and female.
 395 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of
 396    every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every
 397    sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
 398 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou
 399    shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee,
 400    and for them.
 401 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did
 402    he.

 403 Genesis 7

 404  1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
 405    the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
 406    generation.
 407  2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the
 408    male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two,
 409    the male and his female.
 410  3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female;
 411    to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
 412  4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth
 413    forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I
 414    have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
 415  5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
 416  6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
 417    was upon the earth.
 418  7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
 419    wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the
 420    flood.
 421  8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of
 422    fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
 423  9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
 424    the female, as God had commanded Noah.
 425 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the
 426    flood were upon the earth.
 427 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
 428    the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
 429    fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
 430    heaven were opened.
 431 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
 432 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
 433    Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
 434    wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
 435 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after
 436    their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
 437    earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every
 438    bird of every sort.
 439 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all
 440    flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
 441 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh,
 442    as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
 443 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
 444    increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the
 445    earth.
 446 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
 447    earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
 448 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all
 449    the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were
 450    covered.
 451 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
 452    mountains were covered.
 453 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl,
 454    and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that
 455    creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
 456 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was
 457    in the dry land, died.
 458 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the
 459    face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping
 460    things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed
 461    from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that
 462    were with him in the ark.
 463 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty
 464    days.

 465 Genesis 8

 466  1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the
 467    cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to
 468    pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
 469  2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were
 470    stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
 471  3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and
 472    after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were
 473    abated.
 474  4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth
 475    day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
 476  5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in
 477    the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops
 478    of the mountains seen.
 479  6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
 480    the window of the ark which he had made:
 481  7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until
 482    the waters were dried up from off the earth.
 483  8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
 484    abated from off the face of the ground;
 485  9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
 486    returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the
 487    face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took
 488    her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
 489 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth
 490    the dove out of the ark;
 491 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her
 492    mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the
 493    waters were abated from off the earth.
 494 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove;
 495    which returned not again unto him any more.
 496 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in
 497    the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were
 498    dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of
 499    the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was
 500    dry.
 501 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
 502    month, was the earth dried.
 503 15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
 504 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
 505    sons' wives with thee.
 506 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of
 507    all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping
 508    thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed
 509    abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon
 510    the earth.
 511 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
 512    wives with him:
 513 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and
 514    whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
 515    forth out of the ark.
 516 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every
 517    clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
 518    offerings on the altar.
 519 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
 520    heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
 521    sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his
 522    youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living,
 523    as I have done.
 524 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
 525    heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
 526    cease.

 527 Genesis 9

 528  1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
 529    fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
 530  2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every
 531    beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all
 532    that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the
 533    sea; into your hand are they delivered.
 534  3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as
 535    the green herb have I given you all things.
 536  4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof,
 537    shall ye not eat.
 538  5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the
 539    hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man;
 540    at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of
 541    man.
 542  6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
 543    for in the image of God made he man.
 544  7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly
 545    in the earth, and multiply therein.
 546  8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
 547  9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
 548    seed after you;
 549 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl,
 550    of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from
 551    all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
 552 11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all
 553    flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither
 554    shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
 555 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
 556    between me and you and every living creature that is with you,
 557    for perpetual generations:
 558 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
 559    covenant between me and the earth.
 560 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
 561    earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
 562 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you
 563    and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall
 564    no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
 565 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
 566    that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and
 567    every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
 568 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant,
 569    which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
 570    the earth.
 571 18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem,
 572    and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
 573 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole
 574    earth overspread.
 575 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
 576 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was
 577    uncovered within his tent.
 578 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his
 579    father, and told his two brethren without.
 580 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both
 581    their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness
 582    of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw
 583    not their father's nakedness.
 584 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
 585    had done unto him.
 586 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he
 587    be unto his brethren.
 588 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall
 589    be his servant.
 590 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of
 591    Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
 592 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
 593 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:
 594    and he died.

 595 Genesis 10

 596  1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham,
 597    and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
 598  2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
 599    and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
 600  3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
 601  4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
 602    Dodanim.
 603  5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
 604    lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in
 605    their nations.
 606  6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
 607  7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and
 608    Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and
 609    Dedan.
 610  8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
 611    earth.
 612  9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said,
 613    Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
 614 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
 615    Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
 616 11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and
 617    the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
 618 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
 619 13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
 620    Naphtuhim,
 621 14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and
 622    Caphtorim.
 623 15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
 624 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
 625 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
 626 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
 627    afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
 628 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou
 629    comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and
 630    Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
 631 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their
 632    tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
 633 21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the
 634    brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
 635 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
 636    and Aram.
 637 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
 638 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
 639 25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg;
 640    for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name
 641    was Joktan.
 642 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and
 643    Jerah,
 644 27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
 645 28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
 646 29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of
 647    Joktan.
 648 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a
 649    mount of the east.
 650 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their
 651    tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
 652 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
 653    generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations
 654    divided in the earth after the flood.

 655 Genesis 11

 656  1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
 657  2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
 658    they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt
 659    there.
 660  3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
 661    burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
 662    had they for morter.
 663  4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
 664    whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,
 665    lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
 666  5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
 667    the children of men builded.
 668  6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
 669    all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing
 670    will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
 671  7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
 672    they may not understand one another's speech.
 673  8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
 674    all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
 675  9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
 676    there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
 677    did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
 678    earth.
 679 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years
 680    old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
 681 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and
 682    begat sons and daughters.
 683 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
 684 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three
 685    years, and begat sons and daughters.
 686 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
 687 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
 688    years, and begat sons and daughters.
 689 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
 690 17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
 691    years, and begat sons and daughters.
 692 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
 693 19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years,
 694    and begat sons and daughters.
 695 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
 696 21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
 697    years, and begat sons and daughters.
 698 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
 699 23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and
 700    begat sons and daughters.
 701 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
 702 25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen
 703    years, and begat sons and daughters.
 704 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
 705    Haran.
 706 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
 707    Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
 708 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
 709    nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
 710 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife
 711    was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter
 712    of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
 713 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
 714 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
 715    son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's
 716    wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees,
 717    to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and
 718    dwelt there.
 719 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and
 720    Terah died in Haran.

 721 Genesis 12

 722  1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
 723    and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
 724    that I will shew thee:
 725  2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
 726    and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
 727  3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
 728    curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
 729    blessed.
 730  4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot
 731    went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when
 732    he departed out of Haran.
 733  5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and
 734    all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that
 735    they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the
 736    land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
 737  6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,
 738    unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the
 739    land.
 740  7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will
 741    I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD,
 742    who appeared unto him.
 743  8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of
 744    Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and
 745    Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD,
 746    and called upon the name of the LORD.
 747  9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
 748 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
 749    Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the
 750    land.
 751 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into
 752    Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know
 753    that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
 754 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see
 755    thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will
 756    kill me, but they will save thee alive.
 757 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with
 758    me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
 759 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the
 760    Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
 761 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before
 762    Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
 763 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep,
 764    and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and
 765    she asses, and camels.
 766 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
 767    because of Sarai Abram's wife.
 768 18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast
 769    done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy
 770    wife?
 771 19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her
 772    to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go
 773    thy way.
 774 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent
 775    him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

 776 Genesis 13

 777  1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that
 778    he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
 779  2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
 780  3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel,
 781    unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
 782    between Bethel and Hai;
 783  4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the
 784    first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
 785  5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds,
 786    and tents.
 787  6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
 788    together: for their substance was great, so that they could
 789    not dwell together.
 790  7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle
 791    and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the
 792    Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
 793  8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
 794    between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen;
 795    for we be brethren.
 796  9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray
 797    thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go
 798    to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will
 799    go to the left.
 800 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
 801    Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD
 802    destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD,
 803    like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
 804 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed
 805    east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
 806 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the
 807    cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
 808 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD
 809    exceedingly.
 810 14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
 811    from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place
 812    where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and
 813    westward:
 814 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and
 815    to thy seed for ever.
 816 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if
 817    a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed
 818    also be numbered.
 819 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the
 820    breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
 821 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain
 822    of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto
 823    the LORD.

 824 Genesis 14

 825  1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
 826    Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
 827    king of nations;
 828  2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha
 829    king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
 830    Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
 831  3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
 832    the salt sea.
 833  4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
 834    year they rebelled.
 835  5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings
 836    that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth
 837    Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh
 838    Kiriathaim,
 839  6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by
 840    the wilderness.
 841  7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and
 842    smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
 843    Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
 844  8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
 845    Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and
 846    the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle
 847    with them in the vale of Siddim;
 848  9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
 849    nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
 850    Ellasar; four kings with five.
 851 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of
 852    Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that
 853    remained fled to the mountain.
 854 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all
 855    their victuals, and went their way.
 856 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom,
 857    and his goods, and departed.
 858 13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
 859    Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
 860    brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were
 861    confederate with Abram.
 862 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he
 863    armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three
 864    hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
 865 15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by
 866    night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is
 867    on the left hand of Damascus.
 868 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
 869    brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the
 870    people.
 871 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return
 872    from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were
 873    with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.
 874 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine:
 875    and he was the priest of the most high God.
 876 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most
 877    high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
 878 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine
 879    enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
 880 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons,
 881    and take the goods to thyself.
 882 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand
 883    unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and
 884    earth,
 885 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and
 886    that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou
 887    shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
 888 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion
 889    of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let
 890    them take their portion.

 891 Genesis 15

 892  1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a
 893    vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy
 894    exceeding great reward.
 895  2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
 896    childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
 897    Damascus?
 898  3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and,
 899    lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
 900  4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This
 901    shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of
 902    thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
 903  5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
 904    heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:
 905    and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
 906  6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
 907    righteousness.
 908  7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of
 909    Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
 910  8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall
 911    inherit it?
 912  9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
 913    and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
 914    old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
 915 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst,
 916    and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided
 917    he not.
 918 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove
 919    them away.
 920 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
 921    and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
 922 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
 923    be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve
 924    them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
 925 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
 926    afterward shall they come out with great substance.
 927 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
 928    buried in a good old age.
 929 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for
 930    the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
 931 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was
 932    dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed
 933    between those pieces.
 934 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
 935    Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt
 936    unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
 937 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
 938 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
 939 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and
 940    the Jebusites.

 941 Genesis 16

 942  1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
 943    handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
 944  2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath
 945    restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid;
 946    it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram
 947    hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
 948  3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
 949    Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her
 950    to her husband Abram to be his wife.
 951  4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
 952    that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
 953  5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given
 954    my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had
 955    conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between
 956    me and thee.
 957  6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand;
 958    do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly
 959    with her, she fled from her face.
 960  7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in
 961    the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
 962  8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and
 963    whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my
 964    mistress Sarai.
 965  9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy
 966    mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
 967 10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy
 968    seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
 969 11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with
 970    child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;
 971    because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
 972 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,
 973    and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the
 974    presence of all his brethren.
 975 13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou
 976    God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him
 977    that seeth me?
 978 14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is
 979    between Kadesh and Bered.
 980 15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name,
 981    which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
 982 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
 983    Ishmael to Abram.

 984 Genesis 17

 985  1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD
 986    appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
 987    walk before me, and be thou perfect.
 988  2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
 989    multiply thee exceedingly.
 990  3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
 991  4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be
 992    a father of many nations.
 993  5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name
 994    shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made
 995    thee.
 996  6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make
 997    nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
 998  7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy
 999    seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting
1000    covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
1001  8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
1002    land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for
1003    an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
1004  9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
1005    therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
1006 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you
1007    and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be
1008    circumcised.
1009 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it
1010    shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
1011 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,
1012    every man child in your generations, he that is born in the
1013    house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of
1014    thy seed.
1015 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy
1016    money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in
1017    your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
1018 14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is
1019    not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people;
1020    he hath broken my covenant.
1021 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt
1022    not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
1023 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I
1024    will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of
1025    people shall be of her.
1026 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his
1027    heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years
1028    old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
1029 18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before
1030    thee!
1031 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and
1032    thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my
1033    covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his
1034    seed after him.
1035 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed
1036    him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him
1037    exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make
1038    him a great nation.
1039 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
1040    bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
1041 22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from
1042    Abraham.
1043 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in
1044    his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male
1045    among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of
1046    their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
1047 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
1048    circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
1049 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was
1050    circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
1051 26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his
1052    son.
1053 27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought
1054    with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

1055 Genesis 18

1056  1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he
1057    sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
1058  2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood
1059    by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the
1060    tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
1061  3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight,
1062    pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
1063  4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your
1064    feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
1065  5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
1066    hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
1067    to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
1068  6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
1069    ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make
1070    cakes upon the hearth.
1071  7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
1072    good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
1073  8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had
1074    dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under
1075    the tree, and they did eat.
1076  9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
1077    Behold, in the tent.
1078 10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to
1079    the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
1080    And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
1081 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and
1082    it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
1083 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
1084    waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
1085 13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
1086    saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
1087 14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I
1088    will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and
1089    Sarah shall have a son.
1090 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.
1091    And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
1092 16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and
1093    Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
1094 17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which
1095    I do;
1096 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
1097    nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
1098    him?
1099 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his
1100    household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD,
1101    to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon
1102    Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
1103 20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
1104    great, and because their sin is very grievous;
1105 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether
1106    according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not,
1107    I will know.
1108 22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward
1109    Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
1110 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
1111    righteous with the wicked?
1112 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt
1113    thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
1114    righteous that are therein?
1115 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the
1116    righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as
1117    the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all
1118    the earth do right?
1119 26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within
1120    the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
1121 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon
1122    me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
1123 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous:
1124    wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said,
1125    If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
1126 29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there
1127    shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for
1128    forty's sake.
1129 30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will
1130    speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he
1131    said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
1132 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto
1133    the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And
1134    he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
1135 32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak
1136    yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And
1137    he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
1138 33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing
1139    with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

1140 Genesis 19

1141  1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the
1142    gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and
1143    he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
1144  2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into
1145    your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet,
1146    and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they
1147    said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
1148  3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
1149    and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did
1150    bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
1151  4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of
1152    Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the
1153    people from every quarter:
1154  5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
1155    which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that
1156    we may know them.
1157  6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door
1158    after him,
1159  7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
1160  8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let
1161    me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as
1162    is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for
1163    therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
1164  9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one
1165    fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now
1166    will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed
1167    sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
1168 10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the
1169    house to them, and shut to the door.
1170 11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with
1171    blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied
1172    themselves to find the door.
1173 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in
1174    law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast
1175    in the city, bring them out of this place:
1176 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
1177    waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath
1178    sent us to destroy it.
1179 14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which
1180    married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this
1181    place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as
1182    one that mocked unto his sons in law.
1183 15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,
1184    saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are
1185    here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
1186 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and
1187    upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two
1188    daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought
1189    him forth, and set him without the city.
1190 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,
1191    that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee,
1192    neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain,
1193    lest thou be consumed.
1194 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
1195 19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and
1196    thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me
1197    in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
1198    some evil take me, and I die:
1199 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little
1200    one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and
1201    my soul shall live.
1202 21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning
1203    this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the
1204    which thou hast spoken.
1205 22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou
1206    be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called
1207    Zoar.
1208 23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
1209 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone
1210    and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
1211 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
1212    inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the
1213    ground.
1214 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
1215    pillar of salt.
1216 27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he
1217    stood before the LORD:
1218 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
1219    land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
1220    country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
1221 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the
1222    plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the
1223    midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the
1224    which Lot dwelt.
1225 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and
1226    his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar:
1227    and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
1228 31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old,
1229    and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after
1230    the manner of all the earth:
1231 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with
1232    him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
1233 33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
1234    firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived
1235    not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
1236 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said
1237    unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:
1238    let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in,
1239    and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
1240 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the
1241    younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she
1242    lay down, nor when she arose.
1243 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their
1244    father.
1245 37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the
1246    same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
1247 38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name
1248    Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto
1249    this day.

1250 Genesis 20

1251  1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country,
1252    and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
1253  2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and
1254    Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
1255  3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to
1256    him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou
1257    hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
1258  4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt
1259    thou slay also a righteous nation?
1260  5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she
1261    herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart
1262    and innocency of my hands have I done this.
1263  6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst
1264    this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee
1265    from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to
1266    touch her.
1267  7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet,
1268    and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou
1269    restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou,
1270    and all that are thine.
1271  8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all
1272    his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the
1273    men were sore afraid.
1274  9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast
1275    thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou
1276    hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
1277    done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
1278 10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou
1279    hast done this thing?
1280 11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is
1281    not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
1282 12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my
1283    father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
1284    wife.
1285 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
1286    father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness
1287    which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall
1288    come, say of me, He is my brother.
1289 14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
1290    womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him
1291    Sarah his wife.
1292 15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell
1293    where it pleaseth thee.
1294 16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a
1295    thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of
1296    the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other:
1297    thus she was reproved.
1298 17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his
1299    wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
1300 18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of
1301    Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

1302 Genesis 21

1303  1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did
1304    unto Sarah as he had spoken.
1305  2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at
1306    the set time of which God had spoken to him.
1307  3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,
1308    whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
1309  4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as
1310    God had commanded him.
1311  5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was
1312    born unto him.
1313  6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that
1314    hear will laugh with me.
1315  7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah
1316    should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in
1317    his old age.
1318  8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great
1319    feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
1320  9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had
1321    born unto Abraham, mocking.
1322 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and
1323    her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with
1324    my son, even with Isaac.
1325 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of
1326    his son.
1327 12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight
1328    because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that
1329    Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in
1330    Isaac shall thy seed be called.
1331 13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
1332    because he is thy seed.
1333 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and
1334    a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her
1335    shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed,
1336    and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
1337 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
1338    under one of the shrubs.
1339 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way
1340    off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the
1341    death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up
1342    her voice, and wept.
1343 17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God
1344    called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
1345    thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad
1346    where he is.
1347 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will
1348    make him a great nation.
1349 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she
1350    went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad
1351    drink.
1352 20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
1353    wilderness, and became an archer.
1354 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took
1355    him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
1356 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol
1357    the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God
1358    is with thee in all that thou doest:
1359 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not
1360    deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:
1361    but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou
1362    shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
1363 24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
1364 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water,
1365    which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
1366 26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing;
1367    neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to
1368    day.
1369 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech;
1370    and both of them made a covenant.
1371 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
1372 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe
1373    lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
1374 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my
1375    hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged
1376    this well.
1377 31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they
1378    sware both of them.
1379 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose
1380    up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they
1381    returned into the land of the Philistines.
1382 33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on
1383    the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
1384 34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

1385 Genesis 22

1386  1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt
1387    Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here
1388    I am.
1389  2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
1390    lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him
1391    there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I
1392    will tell thee of.
1393  3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
1394    and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and
1395    clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went
1396    unto the place of which God had told him.
1397  4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the
1398    place afar off.
1399  5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the
1400    ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come
1401    again to you.
1402  6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it
1403    upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a
1404    knife; and they went both of them together.
1405  7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father:
1406    and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire
1407    and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
1408  8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for
1409    a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
1410  9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and
1411    Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and
1412    bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
1413 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to
1414    slay his son.
1415 11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and
1416    said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
1417 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou
1418    any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
1419    seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
1420 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind
1421    him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went
1422    and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in
1423    the stead of his son.
1424 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it
1425    is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be
1426    seen.
1427 15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven
1428    the second time,
1429 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because
1430    thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,
1431    thine only son:
1432 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will
1433    multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand
1434    which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the
1435    gate of his enemies;
1436 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
1437    because thou hast obeyed my voice.
1438 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and
1439    went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
1440 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
1441    Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children
1442    unto thy brother Nahor;
1443 21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father
1444    of Aram,
1445 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
1446 23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to
1447    Nahor, Abraham's brother.
1448 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,
1449    and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

1450 Genesis 23

1451  1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
1452    were the years of the life of Sarah.
1453  2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land
1454    of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep
1455    for her.
1456  3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
1457    sons of Heth, saying,
1458  4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession
1459    of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my
1460    sight.
1461  5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
1462  6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the
1463    choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall
1464    withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury
1465    thy dead.
1466  7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
1467    land, even to the children of Heth.
1468  8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
1469    should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for
1470    me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
1471  9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
1472    which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is
1473    worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
1474    amongst you.
1475 10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the
1476    Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of
1477    Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city,
1478    saying,
1479 11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave
1480    that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons
1481    of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
1482 12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
1483 13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the
1484    land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me:
1485    I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I
1486    will bury my dead there.
1487 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
1488 15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred
1489    shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury
1490    therefore thy dead.
1491 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
1492    Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the
1493    sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money
1494    with the merchant.
1495 17 And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was
1496    before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and
1497    all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the
1498    borders round about, were made sure
1499 18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children
1500    of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
1501 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of
1502    the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the
1503    land of Canaan.
1504 20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure
1505    unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of
1506    Heth.

1507 Genesis 24

1508  1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD
1509    had blessed Abraham in all things.
1510  2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that
1511    ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under
1512    my thigh:
1513  3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and
1514    the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my
1515    son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
1516  4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take
1517    a wife unto my son Isaac.
1518  5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not
1519    be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy
1520    son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
1521  6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my
1522    son thither again.
1523  7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house,
1524    and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and
1525    that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this
1526    land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take
1527    a wife unto my son from thence.
1528  8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou
1529    shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son
1530    thither again.
1531  9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
1532    master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
1533 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master,
1534    and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his
1535    hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of
1536    Nahor.
1537 11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a
1538    well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that
1539    women go out to draw water.
1540 12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send
1541    me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master
1542    Abraham.
1543 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters
1544    of the men of the city come out to draw water:
1545 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say,
1546    Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she
1547    shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let
1548    the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant
1549    Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness
1550    unto my master.
1551 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that,
1552    behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of
1553    Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher
1554    upon her shoulder.
1555 16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither
1556    had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and
1557    filled her pitcher, and came up.
1558 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray
1559    thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
1560 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her
1561    pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
1562 19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw
1563    water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
1564 20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and
1565    ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his
1566    camels.
1567 21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether
1568    the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
1569 22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the
1570    man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two
1571    bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
1572 23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is
1573    there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
1574 24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of
1575    Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
1576 25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender
1577    enough, and room to lodge in.
1578 26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
1579 27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who
1580    hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth:
1581    I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my
1582    master's brethren.
1583 28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these
1584    things.
1585 29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban
1586    ran out unto the man, unto the well.
1587 30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets
1588    upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of
1589    Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that
1590    he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at
1591    the well.
1592 31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore
1593    standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room
1594    for the camels.
1595 32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels,
1596    and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash
1597    his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
1598 33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will
1599    not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
1600 34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
1601 35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become
1602    great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver,
1603    and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and
1604    asses.
1605 36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she
1606    was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
1607 37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
1608    wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
1609    land I dwell:
1610 38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred,
1611    and take a wife unto my son.
1612 39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not
1613    follow me.
1614 40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send
1615    his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take
1616    a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
1617 41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest
1618    to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be
1619    clear from my oath.
1620 42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my
1621    master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
1622 43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to
1623    pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I
1624    say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy
1625    pitcher to drink;
1626 44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for
1627    thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath
1628    appointed out for my master's son.
1629 45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah
1630    came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down
1631    unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me
1632    drink, I pray thee.
1633 46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her
1634    shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
1635    also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
1636 47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she
1637    said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare
1638    unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the
1639    bracelets upon her hands.
1640 48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed
1641    the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the
1642    right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
1643 49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell
1644    me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or
1645    to the left.
1646 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth
1647    from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
1648 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her
1649    be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
1650 52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their
1651    words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
1652 53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of
1653    gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to
1654    her brother and to her mother precious things.
1655 54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,
1656    and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he
1657    said, Send me away unto my master.
1658 55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with
1659    us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
1660 56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath
1661    prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
1662 57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her
1663    mouth.
1664 58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with
1665    this man? And she said, I will go.
1666 59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
1667    Abraham's servant, and his men.
1668 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our
1669    sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let
1670    thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
1671 61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
1672    camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah,
1673    and went his way.
1674 62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt
1675    in the south country.
1676 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide:
1677    and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels
1678    were coming.
1679 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
1680    lighted off the camel.
1681 65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that
1682    walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It
1683    is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
1684 66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
1685 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took
1686    Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac
1687    was comforted after his mother's death.

1688 Genesis 25

1689  1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
1690  2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian,
1691    and Ishbak, and Shuah.
1692  3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
1693    Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
1694  4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and
1695    Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
1696  5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
1697  6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,
1698    Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son,
1699    while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
1700  7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he
1701    lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
1702  8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an
1703    old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
1704  9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
1705    Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the
1706    Hittite, which is before Mamre;
1707 10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there
1708    was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
1709 11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God
1710    blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
1711 12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom
1712    Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
1713 13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their
1714    names, according to their generations: the firstborn of
1715    Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
1716 14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
1717 15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
1718 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by
1719    their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to
1720    their nations.
1721 17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and
1722    thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and
1723    was gathered unto his people.
1724 18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt,
1725    as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of
1726    all his brethren.
1727 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham
1728    begat Isaac:
1729 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife,
1730    the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to
1731    Laban the Syrian.
1732 21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was
1733    barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his
1734    wife conceived.
1735 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said,
1736    If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the
1737    LORD.
1738 23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and
1739    two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and
1740    the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and
1741    the elder shall serve the younger.
1742 24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold,
1743    there were twins in her womb.
1744 25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment;
1745    and they called his name Esau.
1746 26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on
1747    Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was
1748    threescore years old when she bare them.
1749 27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the
1750    field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
1751 28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but
1752    Rebekah loved Jacob.
1753 29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he
1754    was faint:
1755 30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same
1756    red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called
1757    Edom.
1758 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
1759 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what
1760    profit shall this birthright do to me?
1761 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him:
1762    and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
1763 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did
1764    eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau
1765    despised his birthright.

1766 Genesis 26

1767  1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine
1768    that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech
1769    king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
1770  2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
1771    Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
1772  3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless
1773    thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these
1774    countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto
1775    Abraham thy father;
1776  4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,
1777    and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy
1778    seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
1779  5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
1780    commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
1781  6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
1782  7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said,
1783    She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest,
1784    said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah;
1785    because she was fair to look upon.
1786  8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
1787    Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and
1788    saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
1789  9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she
1790    is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac
1791    said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
1792 10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one
1793    of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou
1794    shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
1795 11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth
1796    this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
1797 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year
1798    an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
1799 13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he
1800    became very great:
1801 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and
1802    great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
1803 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in
1804    the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped
1805    them, and filled them with earth.
1806 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
1807    mightier than we.
1808 17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley
1809    of Gerar, and dwelt there.
1810 18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had
1811    digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines
1812    had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
1813    their names after the names by which his father had called
1814    them.
1815 19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a
1816    well of springing water.
1817 20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen,
1818    saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well
1819    Esek; because they strove with him.
1820 21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
1821    called the name of it Sitnah.
1822 22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for
1823    that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth;
1824    and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we
1825    shall be fruitful in the land.
1826 23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
1827 24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am
1828    the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee,
1829    and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant
1830    Abraham's sake.
1831 25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the
1832    LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants
1833    digged a well.
1834 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his
1835    friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
1836 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye
1837    hate me, and have sent me away from you?
1838 28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee:
1839    and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt
1840    us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
1841 29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and
1842    as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee
1843    away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
1844 30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
1845 31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
1846    another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him
1847    in peace.
1848 32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came,
1849    and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and
1850    said unto him, We have found water.
1851 33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is
1852    Beersheba unto this day.
1853 34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
1854    daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of
1855    Elon the Hittite:
1856 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

1857 Genesis 27

1858  1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes
1859    were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest
1860    son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold,
1861    here am I.
1862  2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
1863    death:
1864  3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and
1865    thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
1866  4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me,
1867    that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
1868  5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau
1869    went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
1870  6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
1871    thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
1872  7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat,
1873    and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
1874  8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
1875    command thee.
1876  9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of
1877    the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father,
1878    such as he loveth:
1879 10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and
1880    that he may bless thee before his death.
1881 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother
1882    is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
1883 12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him
1884    as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
1885    blessing.
1886 13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son:
1887    only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
1888 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and
1889    his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
1890 15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
1891    were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her
1892    younger son:
1893 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,
1894    and upon the smooth of his neck:
1895 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had
1896    prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
1897 18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said,
1898    Here am I; who art thou, my son?
1899 19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I
1900    have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit
1901    and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
1902 20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it
1903    so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God
1904    brought it to me.
1905 21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may
1906    feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
1907 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him,
1908    and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the
1909    hands of Esau.
1910 23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his
1911    brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
1912 24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
1913 25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's
1914    venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near
1915    to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
1916 26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss
1917    me, my son.
1918 27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of
1919    his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my
1920    son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
1921 28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness
1922    of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
1923 29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord
1924    over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:
1925    cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that
1926    blesseth thee.
1927 30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
1928    blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
1929    presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in
1930    from his hunting.
1931 31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
1932    father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat
1933    of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
1934 32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said,
1935    I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
1936 33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is
1937    he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have
1938    eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea,
1939    and he shall be blessed.
1940 34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a
1941    great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father,
1942    Bless me, even me also, O my father.
1943 35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken
1944    away thy blessing.
1945 36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
1946    supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright;
1947    and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said,
1948    Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
1949 37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him
1950    thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for
1951    servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and
1952    what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
1953 38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
1954    father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted
1955    up his voice, and wept.
1956 39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
1957    dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of
1958    heaven from above;
1959 40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;
1960    and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
1961    that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
1962 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
1963    father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of
1964    mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my
1965    brother Jacob.
1966 42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah:
1967    and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto
1968    him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort
1969    himself, purposing to kill thee.
1970 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to
1971    Laban my brother to Haran;
1972 44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn
1973    away;
1974 45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget
1975    that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch
1976    thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in
1977    one day?
1978 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of
1979    the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters
1980    of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land,
1981    what good shall my life do me?

1982 Genesis 28

1983  1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and
1984    said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
1985    Canaan.
1986  2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
1987    father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of
1988    Laban thy mother's brother.
1989  3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and
1990    multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
1991  4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy
1992    seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
1993    art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
1994  5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto
1995    Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
1996    Jacob's and Esau's mother.
1997  6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away
1998    to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he
1999    blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take
2000    a wife of the daughers of Canaan;
2001  7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone
2002    to Padanaram;
2003  8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac
2004    his father;
2005  9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he
2006    had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister
2007    of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
2008 10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
2009 11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
2010    night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of
2011    that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
2012    place to sleep.
2013 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and
2014    the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
2015    ascending and descending on it.
2016 13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
2017    God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land
2018    whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
2019 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
2020    spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
2021    and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
2022    families of the earth be blessed.
2023 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
2024    whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land;
2025    for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have
2026    spoken to thee of.
2027 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
2028    LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
2029 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this
2030    is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of
2031    heaven.
2032 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
2033    that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar,
2034    and poured oil upon the top of it.
2035 19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of
2036    that city was called Luz at the first.
2037 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and
2038    will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to
2039    eat, and raiment to put on,
2040 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall
2041    the LORD be my God:
2042 22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's
2043    house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give
2044    the tenth unto thee.

2045 Genesis 29

2046  1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the
2047    people of the east.
2048  2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there
2049    were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well
2050    they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's
2051    mouth.
2052  3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the
2053    stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put
2054    the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
2055  4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they
2056    said, Of Haran are we.
2057  5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
2058    they said, We know him.
2059  6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well:
2060    and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
2061  7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
2062    the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep,
2063    and go and feed them.
2064  8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
2065    together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth;
2066    then we water the sheep.
2067  9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
2068    father's sheep; for she kept them.
2069 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
2070    Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his
2071    mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone
2072    from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his
2073    mother's brother.
2074 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
2075 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and
2076    that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
2077 13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his
2078    sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and
2079    kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban
2080    all these things.
2081 14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.
2082    And he abode with him the space of a month.
2083 15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
2084    shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what
2085    shall thy wages be?
2086 16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah,
2087    and the name of the younger was Rachel.
2088 17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well
2089    favoured.
2090 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven
2091    years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
2092 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than
2093    that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
2094 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto
2095    him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
2096 21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
2097    fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
2098 22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made
2099    a feast.
2100 23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
2101    daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
2102 24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an
2103    handmaid.
2104 25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah:
2105    and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did
2106    not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou
2107    beguiled me?
2108 26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give
2109    the younger before the firstborn.
2110 27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the
2111    service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
2112 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him
2113    Rachel his daughter to wife also.
2114 29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to
2115    be her maid.
2116 30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
2117    than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
2118 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb:
2119    but Rachel was barren.
2120 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name
2121    Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
2122    affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
2123 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the
2124    LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this
2125    son also: and she called his name Simeon.
2126 34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this
2127    time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born
2128    him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
2129 35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now
2130    will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah;
2131    and left bearing.

2132 Genesis 30

2133  1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
2134    envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or
2135    else I die.
2136  2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am
2137    I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the
2138    womb?
2139  3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she
2140    shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by
2141    her.
2142  4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went
2143    in unto her.
2144  5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
2145  6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
2146    voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name
2147    Dan.
2148  7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
2149    second son.
2150  8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
2151    sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
2152    Naphtali.
2153  9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
2154    maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
2155 10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
2156 11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
2157 12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
2158 13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
2159    blessed: and she called his name Asher.
2160 14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
2161    mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
2162    Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
2163    mandrakes.
2164 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast
2165    taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
2166    mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
2167    thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
2168 16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went
2169    out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for
2170    surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay
2171    with her that night.
2172 17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
2173    the fifth son.
2174 18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given
2175    my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
2176 19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
2177 20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will
2178    my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons:
2179    and she called his name Zebulun.
2180 21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
2181 22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
2182    opened her womb.
2183 23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken
2184    away my reproach:
2185 24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add
2186    to me another son.
2187 25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob
2188    said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own
2189    place, and to my country.
2190 26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee,
2191    and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done
2192    thee.
2193 27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour
2194    in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that
2195    the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
2196 28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
2197 29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and
2198    how thy cattle was with me.
2199 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is
2200    now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee
2201    since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own
2202    house also?
2203 31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou
2204    shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for
2205    me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.
2206 32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence
2207    all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle
2208    among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats:
2209    and of such shall be my hire.
2210 33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when
2211    it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is
2212    not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the
2213    sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
2214 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy
2215    word.
2216 35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and
2217    spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,
2218    and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown
2219    among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
2220 36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and
2221    Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
2222 37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
2223    chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the
2224    white appear which was in the rods.
2225 38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in
2226    the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
2227    drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
2228 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
2229    cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
2230 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
2231    flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock
2232    of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put
2233    them not unto Laban's cattle.
2234 41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
2235    conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
2236    cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
2237    rods.
2238 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
2239    feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
2240 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
2241    maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

2242 Genesis 31

2243  1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath
2244    taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was
2245    our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
2246  2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was
2247    not toward him as before.
2248  3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
2249    fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
2250  4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
2251    his flock,
2252  5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it
2253    is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been
2254    with me.
2255  6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
2256  7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
2257    times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
2258  8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the
2259    cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked
2260    shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
2261  9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given
2262    them to me.
2263 10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,
2264    that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold,
2265    the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
2266    speckled, and grisled.
2267 11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:
2268    And I said, Here am I.
2269 12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams
2270    which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and
2271    grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
2272 13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
2273    where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from
2274    this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
2275 14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet
2276    any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
2277 15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and
2278    hath quite devoured also our money.
2279 16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that
2280    is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath
2281    said unto thee, do.
2282 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
2283    camels;
2284 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he
2285    had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in
2286    Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of
2287    Canaan.
2288 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
2289    images that were her father's.
2290 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he
2291    told him not that he fled.
2292 21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed
2293    over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
2294 22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
2295 23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
2296    days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
2297 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said
2298    unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good
2299    or bad.
2300 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
2301    the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
2302    Gilead.
2303 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
2304    stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as
2305    captives taken with the sword?
2306 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from
2307    me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away
2308    with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
2309 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
2310    thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
2311 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of
2312    your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed
2313    that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
2314 30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore
2315    longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou
2316    stolen my gods?
2317 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid:
2318    for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
2319    daughters from me.
2320 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live:
2321    before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and
2322    take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
2323    them.
2324 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and
2325    into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then
2326    went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
2327 34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's
2328    furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent,
2329    but found them not.
2330 35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that
2331    I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon
2332    me. And he searched but found not the images.
2333 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered
2334    and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that
2335    thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
2336 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found
2337    of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and
2338    thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
2339 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she
2340    goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock
2341    have I not eaten.
2342 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare
2343    the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether
2344    stolen by day, or stolen by night.
2345 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost
2346    by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
2347 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee
2348    fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy
2349    cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
2350 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
2351    of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now
2352    empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my
2353    hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
2354 43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my
2355    daughters, and these children are my children, and these
2356    cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and
2357    what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their
2358    children which they have born?
2359 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou;
2360    and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
2361 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
2362 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took
2363    stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the
2364    heap.
2365 47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it
2366    Galeed.
2367 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee
2368    this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
2369 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee,
2370    when we are absent one from another.
2371 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take
2372    other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God
2373    is witness betwixt me and thee.
2374 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this
2375    pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
2376 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will
2377    not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass
2378    over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
2379 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
2380    father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his
2381    father Isaac.
2382 54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his
2383    brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all
2384    night in the mount.
2385 55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons
2386    and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and
2387    returned unto his place.

2388 Genesis 32

2389  1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2390  2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he
2391    called the name of that place Mahanaim.
2392  3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto
2393    the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
2394  4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my
2395    lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with
2396    Laban, and stayed there until now:
2397  5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
2398    womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
2399    find grace in thy sight.
2400  6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy
2401    brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four
2402    hundred men with him.
2403  7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided
2404    the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and
2405    the camels, into two bands;
2406  8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then
2407    the other company which is left shall escape.
2408  9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my
2409    father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy
2410    country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
2411 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all
2412    the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with
2413    my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two
2414    bands.
2415 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the
2416    hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,
2417    and the mother with the children.
2418 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed
2419    as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
2420    multitude.
2421 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which
2422    came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
2423 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes,
2424    and twenty rams,
2425 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten
2426    bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
2427 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every
2428    drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over
2429    before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
2430 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother
2431    meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and
2432    whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
2433 18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a
2434    present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind
2435    us.
2436 19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that
2437    followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak
2438    unto Esau, when ye find him.
2439 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.
2440    For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth
2441    before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he
2442    will accept of me.
2443 21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
2444    night in the company.
2445 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
2446    womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford
2447    Jabbok.
2448 23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
2449    that he had.
2450 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
2451    until the breaking of the day.
2452 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched
2453    the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was
2454    out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
2455 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I
2456    will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
2457 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
2458 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but
2459    Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,
2460    and hast prevailed.
2461 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.
2462    And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?
2463    And he blessed him there.
2464 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen
2465    God face to face, and my life is preserved.
2466 31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he
2467    halted upon his thigh.
2468 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
2469    shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day:
2470    because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
2471    that shrank.

2472 Genesis 33

2473  1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau
2474    came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the
2475    children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
2476    handmaids.
2477  2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah
2478    and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
2479  3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
2480    ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
2481  4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
2482    neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
2483  5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;
2484    and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children
2485    which God hath graciously given thy servant.
2486  6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and
2487    they bowed themselves.
2488  7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
2489    themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
2490    bowed themselves.
2491  8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met?
2492    And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
2493  9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast
2494    unto thyself.
2495 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in
2496    thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I
2497    have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and
2498    thou wast pleased with me.
2499 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;
2500    because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have
2501    enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
2502 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
2503    will go before thee.
2504 13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are
2505    tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and
2506    if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
2507 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I
2508    will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before
2509    me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my
2510    lord unto Seir.
2511 15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk
2512    that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find
2513    grace in the sight of my lord.
2514 16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
2515 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and
2516    made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is
2517    called Succoth.
2518 18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the
2519    land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his
2520    tent before the city.
2521 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his
2522    tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father,
2523    for an hundred pieces of money.
2524 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

2525 Genesis 34

2526  1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob,
2527    went out to see the daughters of the land.
2528  2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the
2529    country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled
2530    her.
2531  3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he
2532    loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
2533  4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this
2534    damsel to wife.
2535  5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
2536    his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his
2537    peace until they were come.
2538  6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune
2539    with him.
2540  7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
2541    it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth,
2542    because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's
2543    daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
2544  8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son
2545    Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to
2546    wife.
2547  9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto
2548    us, and take our daughters unto you.
2549 10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you;
2550    dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
2551 11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me
2552    find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will
2553    give.
2554 12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according
2555    as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
2556 13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father
2557    deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their
2558    sister:
2559 14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our
2560    sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach
2561    unto us:
2562 15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be,
2563    that every male of you be circumcised;
2564 16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take
2565    your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will
2566    become one people.
2567 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then
2568    will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
2569 18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
2570 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had
2571    delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than
2572    all the house of his father.
2573 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
2574    city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
2575 21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in
2576    the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large
2577    enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives,
2578    and let us give them our daughters.
2579 22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us,
2580    to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as
2581    they are circumcised.
2582 23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of
2583    their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will
2584    dwell with us.
2585 24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that
2586    went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
2587    circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
2588 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore,
2589    that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's
2590    brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city
2591    boldly, and slew all the males.
2592 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
2593    sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
2594 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city,
2595    because they had defiled their sister.
2596 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and
2597    that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
2598 29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their
2599    wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the
2600    house.
2601 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make
2602    me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the
2603    Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they
2604    shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and
2605    I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
2606 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an
2607    harlot?

2608 Genesis 35

2609  1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell
2610    there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto
2611    thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
2612  2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with
2613    him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be
2614    clean, and change your garments:
2615  3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there
2616    an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress,
2617    and was with me in the way which I went.
2618  4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in
2619    their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears;
2620    and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
2621  5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities
2622    that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the
2623    sons of Jacob.
2624  6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,
2625    Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
2626  7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
2627    because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the
2628    face of his brother.
2629  8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
2630    Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
2631    Allonbachuth.
2632  9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
2633    Padanaram, and blessed him.
2634 10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not
2635    be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he
2636    called his name Israel.
2637 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
2638    multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee,
2639    and kings shall come out of thy loins;
2640 12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will
2641    give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
2642 13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
2643    him.
2644 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with
2645    him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering
2646    thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
2647 15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with
2648    him, Bethel.
2649 16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way
2650    to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard
2651    labour.
2652 17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
2653    midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son
2654    also.
2655 18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she
2656    died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called
2657    him Benjamin.
2658 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which
2659    is Bethlehem.
2660 20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
2661    Rachel's grave unto this day.
2662 21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
2663    Edar.
2664 22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that
2665    Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and
2666    Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
2667 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and
2668    Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
2669 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
2670 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
2671 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these
2672    are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
2673 27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city
2674    of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
2675 28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
2676 29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto
2677    his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and
2678    Jacob buried him.

2679 Genesis 36

2680  1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
2681  2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the
2682    daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of
2683    Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
2684  3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
2685  4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
2686  5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are
2687    the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of
2688    Canaan.
2689  6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and
2690    all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his
2691    beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of
2692    Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother
2693    Jacob.
2694  7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell
2695    together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not
2696    bear them because of their cattle.
2697  8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
2698  9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the
2699    Edomites in mount Seir:
2700 10 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah
2701    the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
2702 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam,
2703    and Kenaz.
2704 12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to
2705    Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
2706 13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah,
2707    and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
2708 14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah
2709    the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau
2710    Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
2711 15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the
2712    firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke
2713    Kenaz,
2714 16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes
2715    that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons
2716    of Adah.
2717 17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke
2718    Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that
2719    came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
2720    Bashemath Esau's wife.
2721 18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush,
2722    duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of
2723    Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
2724 19 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their
2725    dukes.
2726 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land;
2727    Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
2728 21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the
2729    Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
2730 22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's
2731    sister was Timna.
2732 23 And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath,
2733    and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
2734 24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah:
2735    this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as
2736    he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
2737 25 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah
2738    the daughter of Anah.
2739 26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and
2740    Ithran, and Cheran.
2741 27 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
2742 28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
2743 29 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke
2744    Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
2745 30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that
2746    came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
2747 31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom,
2748    before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
2749 32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his
2750    city was Dinhabah.
2751 33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in
2752    his stead.
2753 34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in
2754    his stead.
2755 35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian
2756    in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of
2757    his city was Avith.
2758 36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
2759 37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in
2760    his stead.
2761 38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his
2762    stead.
2763 39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his
2764    stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name
2765    was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of
2766    Mezahab.
2767 40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau,
2768    according to their families, after their places, by their
2769    names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
2770 41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
2771 42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
2772 43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according
2773    to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is
2774    Esau the father of the Edomites.

2775 Genesis 37

2776  1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger,
2777    in the land of Canaan.
2778  2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen
2779    years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the
2780    lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah,
2781    his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their
2782    evil report.
2783  3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
2784    was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many
2785    colours.
2786  4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more
2787    than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak
2788    peaceably unto him.
2789  5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and
2790    they hated him yet the more.
2791  6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I
2792    have dreamed:
2793  7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my
2794    sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves
2795    stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
2796  8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us?
2797    or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him
2798    yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
2799  9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren,
2800    and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold,
2801    the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to
2802    me.
2803 10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his
2804    father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that
2805    thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren
2806    indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
2807 11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the
2808    saying.
2809 12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
2810 13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the
2811    flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he
2812    said to him, Here am I.
2813 14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well
2814    with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word
2815    again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came
2816    to Shechem.
2817 15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in
2818    the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
2819 16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where
2820    they feed their flocks.
2821 17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them
2822    say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren,
2823    and found them in Dothan.
2824 18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto
2825    them, they conspired against him to slay him.
2826 19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
2827 20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into
2828    some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him:
2829    and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
2830 21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands;
2831    and said, Let us not kill him.
2832 22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into
2833    this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him;
2834    that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to
2835    his father again.
2836 23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren,
2837    that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many
2838    colours that was on him;
2839 24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was
2840    empty, there was no water in it.
2841 25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes
2842    and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from
2843    Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh,
2844    going to carry it down to Egypt.
2845 26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay
2846    our brother, and conceal his blood?
2847 27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our
2848    hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his
2849    brethren were content.
2850 28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and
2851    lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the
2852    Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought
2853    Joseph into Egypt.
2854 29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not
2855    in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
2856 30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not;
2857    and I, whither shall I go?
2858 31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats,
2859    and dipped the coat in the blood;
2860 32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to
2861    their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether
2862    it be thy son's coat or no.
2863 33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast
2864    hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
2865 34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins,
2866    and mourned for his son many days.
2867 35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him;
2868    but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go
2869    down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept
2870    for him.
2871 36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an
2872    officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

2873 Genesis 38

2874  1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from
2875    his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose
2876    name was Hirah.
2877  2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose
2878    name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
2879  3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
2880  4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his
2881    name Onan.
2882  5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his
2883    name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
2884  6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was
2885    Tamar.
2886  7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the
2887    LORD; and the LORD slew him.
2888  8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and
2889    marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
2890  9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to
2891    pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled
2892    it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his
2893    brother.
2894 10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he
2895    slew him also.
2896 11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow
2897    at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he
2898    said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And
2899    Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
2900 12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife
2901    died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his
2902    sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the
2903    Adullamite.
2904 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth
2905    up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
2906 14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her
2907    with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place,
2908    which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was
2909    grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
2910 15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because
2911    she had covered her face.
2912 16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray
2913    thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was
2914    his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me,
2915    that thou mayest come in unto me?
2916 17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she
2917    said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
2918 18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy
2919    signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine
2920    hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she
2921    conceived by him.
2922 19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her,
2923    and put on the garments of her widowhood.
2924 20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the
2925    Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but
2926    he found her not.
2927 21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the
2928    harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There
2929    was no harlot in this place.
2930 22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and
2931    also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in
2932    this place.
2933 23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed:
2934    behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
2935 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told
2936    Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the
2937    harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And
2938    Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
2939 25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law,
2940    saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she
2941    said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and
2942    bracelets, and staff.
2943 26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more
2944    righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my
2945    son. And he knew her again no more.
2946 27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold,
2947    twins were in her womb.
2948 28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out
2949    his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a
2950    scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
2951 29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold,
2952    his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken
2953    forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called
2954    Pharez.
2955 30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet
2956    thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

2957 Genesis 39

2958  1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer
2959    of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of
2960    the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down
2961    thither.
2962  2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and
2963    he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
2964  3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the
2965    LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
2966  4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he
2967    made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put
2968    into his hand.
2969  5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him
2970    overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD
2971    blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
2972    blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house,
2973    and in the field.
2974  6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not
2975    ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was
2976    a goodly person, and well favoured.
2977  7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife
2978    cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
2979  8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my
2980    master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath
2981    committed all that he hath to my hand;
2982  9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he
2983    kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his
2984    wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against
2985    God?
2986 10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that
2987    he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
2988 11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the
2989    house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the
2990    house there within.
2991 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he
2992    left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
2993 13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment
2994    in her hand, and was fled forth,
2995 14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto
2996    them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to
2997    mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a
2998    loud voice:
2999 15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice
3000    and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got
3001    him out.
3002 16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
3003 17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The
3004    Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto
3005    me to mock me:
3006 18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that
3007    he left his garment with me, and fled out.
3008 19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his
3009    wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did
3010    thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
3011 20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a
3012    place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there
3013    in the prison.
3014 21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave
3015    him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
3016 22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all
3017    the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did
3018    there, he was the doer of it.
3019 23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was
3020    under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which
3021    he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

3022 Genesis 40

3023  1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the
3024    king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king
3025    of Egypt.
3026  2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the
3027    chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
3028  3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the
3029    guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
3030  4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he
3031    served them: and they continued a season in ward.
3032  5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in
3033    one night, each man according to the interpretation of his
3034    dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which
3035    were bound in the prison.
3036  6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon
3037    them, and, behold, they were sad.
3038  7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward
3039    of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to
3040    day?
3041  8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is
3042    no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not
3043    interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
3044  9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to
3045    him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
3046 10 And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it
3047    budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof
3048    brought forth ripe grapes:
3049 11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and
3050    pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into
3051    Pharaoh's hand.
3052 12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it:
3053    The three branches are three days:
3054 13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and
3055    restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's
3056    cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his
3057    butler.
3058 14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew
3059    kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto
3060    Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
3061 15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews:
3062    and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into
3063    the dungeon.
3064 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he
3065    said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had
3066    three white baskets on my head:
3067 17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of
3068    bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the
3069    basket upon my head.
3070 18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation
3071    thereof: The three baskets are three days:
3072 19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off
3073    thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat
3074    thy flesh from off thee.
3075 20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's
3076    birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he
3077    lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker
3078    among his servants.
3079 21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again;
3080    and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
3081 22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to
3082    them.
3083 23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

3084 Genesis 41

3085  1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
3086    dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
3087  2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well
3088    favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
3089  3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the
3090    river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other
3091    kine upon the brink of the river.
3092  4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven
3093    well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
3094  5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven
3095    ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
3096  6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind
3097    sprung up after them.
3098  7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.
3099    And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
3100  8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was
3101    troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of
3102    Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his
3103    dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto
3104    Pharaoh.
3105  9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do
3106    remember my faults this day:
3107 10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the
3108    captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
3109 11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each
3110    man according to the interpretation of his dream.
3111 12 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to
3112    the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted
3113    to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did
3114    interpret.
3115 13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he
3116    restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
3117 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
3118    hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed
3119    his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
3120 15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and
3121    there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of
3122    thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
3123 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God
3124    shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
3125 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood
3126    upon the bank of the river:
3127 18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,
3128    fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
3129 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and
3130    very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all
3131    the land of Egypt for badness:
3132 20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first
3133    seven fat kine:
3134 21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that
3135    they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at
3136    the beginning. So I awoke.
3137 22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one
3138    stalk, full and good:
3139 23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the
3140    east wind, sprung up after them:
3141 24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told
3142    this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare
3143    it to me.
3144 25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God
3145    hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
3146 26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears
3147    are seven years: the dream is one.
3148 27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after
3149    them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with
3150    the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
3151 28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God
3152    is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
3153 29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all
3154    the land of Egypt:
3155 30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and
3156    all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and
3157    the famine shall consume the land;
3158 31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of
3159    that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
3160 32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is
3161    because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly
3162    bring it to pass.
3163 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise,
3164    and set him over the land of Egypt.
3165 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the
3166    land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the
3167    seven plenteous years.
3168 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that
3169    come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them
3170    keep food in the cities.
3171 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven
3172    years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the
3173    land perish not through the famine.
3174 37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
3175    of all his servants.
3176 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as
3177    this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
3178 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed
3179    thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
3180 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall
3181    all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater
3182    than thou.
3183 41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all
3184    the land of Egypt.
3185 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon
3186    Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and
3187    put a gold chain about his neck;
3188 43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had;
3189    and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler
3190    over all the land of Egypt.
3191 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee
3192    shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of
3193    Egypt.
3194 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave
3195    him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
3196    And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
3197 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
3198    king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of
3199    Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
3200 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
3201    handfuls.
3202 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were
3203    in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the
3204    food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he
3205    up in the same.
3206 49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,
3207    until he left numbering; for it was without number.
3208 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine
3209    came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On
3210    bare unto him.
3211 51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God,
3212    said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's
3213    house.
3214 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath
3215    caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
3216 53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of
3217    Egypt, were ended.
3218 54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as
3219    Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all
3220    the land of Egypt there was bread.
3221 55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried
3222    to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians,
3223    Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
3224 56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph
3225    opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and
3226    the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
3227 57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn;
3228    because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

3229 Genesis 42

3230  1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said
3231    unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
3232  2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt:
3233    get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may
3234    live, and not die.
3235  3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
3236  4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
3237    brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
3238  5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came:
3239    for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
3240  6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that
3241    sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren
3242    came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to
3243    the earth.
3244  7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
3245    himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he
3246    said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land
3247    of Canaan to buy food.
3248  8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
3249  9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and
3250    said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land
3251    ye are come.
3252 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy
3253    servants come.
3254 11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are
3255    no spies.
3256 12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the
3257    land ye are come.
3258 13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of
3259    one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is
3260    this day with our father, and one is not.
3261 14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you,
3262    saying, Ye are spies:
3263 15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not
3264    go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
3265 16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall
3266    be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether
3267    there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh
3268    surely ye are spies.
3269 17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
3270 18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live;
3271    for I fear God:
3272 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the
3273    house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
3274    houses:
3275 20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words
3276    be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
3277 21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning
3278    our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he
3279    besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress
3280    come upon us.
3281 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
3282    saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
3283    therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
3284 23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake
3285    unto them by an interpreter.
3286 24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned
3287    to them again, and communed with them, and took from them
3288    Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
3289 25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to
3290    restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them
3291    provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
3292 26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
3293 27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender
3294    in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his
3295    sack's mouth.
3296 28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo,
3297    it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they
3298    were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath
3299    done unto us?
3300 29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan,
3301    and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
3302 30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and
3303    took us for spies of the country.
3304 31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
3305 32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the
3306    youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
3307 33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby
3308    shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren
3309    here with me, and take food for the famine of your households,
3310    and be gone:
3311 34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know
3312    that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I
3313    deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
3314 35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
3315    every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both
3316    they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were
3317    afraid.
3318 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of
3319    my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will
3320    take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
3321 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if
3322    I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will
3323    bring him to thee again.
3324 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his
3325    brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him
3326    by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my
3327    gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

3328 Genesis 43

3329  1 And the famine was sore in the land.
3330  2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which
3331    they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go
3332    again, buy us a little food.
3333  3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest
3334    unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother
3335    be with you.
3336  4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy
3337    thee food:
3338  5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the
3339    man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your
3340    brother be with you.
3341  6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell
3342    the man whether ye had yet a brother?
3343  7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of
3344    our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another
3345    brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these
3346    words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your
3347    brother down?
3348  8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me,
3349    and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both
3350    we, and thou, and also our little ones.
3351  9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him:
3352    if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then
3353    let me bear the blame for ever:
3354 10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this
3355    second time.
3356 11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now,
3357    do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels,
3358    and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little
3359    honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
3360 12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was
3361    brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in
3362    your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
3363 13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
3364 14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may
3365    send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved
3366    of my children, I am bereaved.
3367 15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in
3368    their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt,
3369    and stood before Joseph.
3370 16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler
3371    of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready;
3372    for these men shall dine with me at noon.
3373 17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men
3374    into Joseph's house.
3375 18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into
3376    Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was
3377    returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in;
3378    that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and
3379    take us for bondmen, and our asses.
3380 19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
3381    communed with him at the door of the house,
3382 20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy
3383    food:
3384 21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened
3385    our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of
3386    his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it
3387    again in our hand.
3388 22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food:
3389    we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
3390 23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God
3391    of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had
3392    your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
3393 24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them
3394    water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
3395    provender.
3396 25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon:
3397    for they heard that they should eat bread there.
3398 26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which
3399    was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him
3400    to the earth.
3401 27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father
3402    well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
3403 28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health,
3404    he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made
3405    obeisance.
3406 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his
3407    mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom
3408    ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my
3409    son.
3410 30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his
3411    brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his
3412    chamber, and wept there.
3413 31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself,
3414    and said, Set on bread.
3415 32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by
3416    themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by
3417    themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the
3418    Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
3419 33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his
3420    birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the
3421    men marvelled one at another.
3422 34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but
3423    Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And
3424    they drank, and were merry with him.

3425 Genesis 44

3426  1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the
3427    men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put
3428    every man's money in his sack's mouth.
3429  2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the
3430    youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word
3431    that Joseph had spoken.
3432  3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they
3433    and their asses.
3434  4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off,
3435    Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and
3436    when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye
3437    rewarded evil for good?
3438  5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed
3439    he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
3440  6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
3441  7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words?
3442    God forbid that thy servants should do according to this
3443    thing:
3444  8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we
3445    brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
3446    should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
3447  9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die,
3448    and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
3449 10 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he
3450    with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be
3451    blameless.
3452 11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground,
3453    and opened every man his sack.
3454 12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the
3455    youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
3456 13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and
3457    returned to the city.
3458 14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was
3459    yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
3460 15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have
3461    done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
3462 16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we
3463    speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the
3464    iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants,
3465    both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
3466 17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in
3467    whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as
3468    for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
3469 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy
3470    servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let
3471    not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as
3472    Pharaoh.
3473 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a
3474    brother?
3475 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a
3476    child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,
3477    and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
3478 21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me,
3479    that I may set mine eyes upon him.
3480 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for
3481    if he should leave his father, his father would die.
3482 23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest
3483    brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
3484 24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my
3485    father, we told him the words of my lord.
3486 25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
3487 26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be
3488    with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's
3489    face, except our youngest brother be with us.
3490 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife
3491    bare me two sons:
3492 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in
3493    pieces; and I saw him not since:
3494 29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye
3495    shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
3496 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the
3497    lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the
3498    lad's life;
3499 31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with
3500    us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the
3501    gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
3502 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,
3503    saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the
3504    blame to my father for ever.
3505 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of
3506    the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his
3507    brethren.
3508 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with
3509    me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my
3510    father.

3511 Genesis 45

3512  1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that
3513    stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
3514    And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself
3515    known unto his brethren.
3516  2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
3517    heard.
3518  3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father
3519    yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
3520    troubled at his presence.
3521  4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray
3522    you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your
3523    brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
3524  5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that
3525    ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve
3526    life.
3527  6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet
3528    there are five years, in the which there shall neither be
3529    earing nor harvest.
3530  7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
3531    earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
3532  8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he
3533    hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house,
3534    and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
3535  9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith
3536    thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down
3537    unto me, tarry not:
3538 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be
3539    near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's
3540    children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou
3541    hast:
3542 11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of
3543    famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast,
3544    come to poverty.
3545 12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
3546    Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
3547 13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of
3548    all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my
3549    father hither.
3550 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and
3551    Benjamin wept upon his neck.
3552 15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and
3553    after that his brethren talked with him.
3554 16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
3555    Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and
3556    his servants.
3557 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do
3558    ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
3559 18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me:
3560    and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye
3561    shall eat the fat of the land.
3562 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the
3563    land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and
3564    bring your father, and come.
3565 20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of
3566    Egypt is your's.
3567 21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them
3568    wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
3569    provision for the way.
3570 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
3571    Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five
3572    changes of raiment.
3573 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden
3574    with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with
3575    corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
3576 24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said
3577    unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
3578 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of
3579    Canaan unto Jacob their father,
3580 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor
3581    over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he
3582    believed them not.
3583 27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said
3584    unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to
3585    carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
3586 28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I
3587    will go and see him before I die.

3588 Genesis 46

3589  1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
3590    Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father
3591    Isaac.
3592  2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and
3593    said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3594  3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go
3595    down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
3596  4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely
3597    bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine
3598    eyes.
3599  5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel
3600    carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their
3601    wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
3602  6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had
3603    gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and
3604    all his seed with him:
3605  7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his
3606    sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into
3607    Egypt.
3608  8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
3609    into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
3610  9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
3611    Carmi.
3612 10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
3613    Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
3614 11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
3615 12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez,
3616    and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the
3617    sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
3618 13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and
3619    Shimron.
3620 14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
3621 15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in
3622    Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons
3623    and his daughters were thirty and three.
3624 16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon,
3625    Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
3626 17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and
3627    Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber,
3628    and Malchiel.
3629 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his
3630    daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
3631 19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
3632 20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
3633    Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On
3634    bare unto him.
3635 21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel,
3636    Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
3637 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all
3638    the souls were fourteen.
3639 23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
3640 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
3641    Shillem.
3642 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his
3643    daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were
3644    seven.
3645 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out
3646    of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
3647    threescore and six;
3648 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two
3649    souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into
3650    Egypt, were threescore and ten.
3651 28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face
3652    unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
3653 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel
3654    his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he
3655    fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
3656 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen
3657    thy face, because thou art yet alive.
3658 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's
3659    house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My
3660    brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of
3661    Canaan, are come unto me;
3662 32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed
3663    cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds,
3664    and all that they have.
3665 33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and
3666    shall say, What is your occupation?
3667 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle
3668    from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers:
3669    that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is
3670    an abomination unto the Egyptians.

3671 Genesis 47

3672  1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
3673    brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they
3674    have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they
3675    are in the land of Goshen.
3676  2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
3677    them unto Pharaoh.
3678  3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation?
3679    And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both
3680    we, and also our fathers.
3681  4 They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are
3682    we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks;
3683    for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore,
3684    we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
3685  5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
3686    brethren are come unto thee:
3687  6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make
3688    thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let
3689    them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among
3690    them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
3691  7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before
3692    Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
3693  8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
3694  9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
3695    pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have
3696    the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained
3697    unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the
3698    days of their pilgrimage.
3699 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
3700 11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a
3701    possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in
3702    the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
3703 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
3704    father's household, with bread, according to their families.
3705 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was
3706    very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of
3707    Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
3708 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the
3709    land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which
3710    they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's
3711    house.
3712 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
3713    Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us
3714    bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money
3715    faileth.
3716 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for
3717    your cattle, if money fail.
3718 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave
3719    them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for
3720    the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them
3721    with bread for all their cattle for that year.
3722 18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
3723    and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that
3724    our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle;
3725    there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our
3726    bodies, and our lands:
3727 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our
3728    land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will
3729    be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live,
3730    and not die, that the land be not desolate.
3731 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
3732    Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
3733    prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
3734 21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end
3735    of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
3736 22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests
3737    had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their
3738    portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their
3739    lands.
3740 23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you
3741    this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you,
3742    and ye shall sow the land.
3743 24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give
3744    the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own,
3745    for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your
3746    households, and for food for your little ones.
3747 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in
3748    the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
3749 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,
3750    that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of
3751    the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
3752 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of
3753    Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and
3754    multiplied exceedingly.
3755 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the
3756    whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
3757 29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his
3758    son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in
3759    thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal
3760    kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
3761 30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of
3762    Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will
3763    do as thou hast said.
3764 31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel
3765    bowed himself upon the bed's head.

3766 Genesis 48

3767  1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph,
3768    Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons,
3769    Manasseh and Ephraim.
3770  2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh
3771    unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the
3772    bed.
3773  3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at
3774    Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
3775  4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and
3776    multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people;
3777    and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an
3778    everlasting possession.
3779  5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born
3780    unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into
3781    Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
3782  6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be
3783    thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in
3784    their inheritance.
3785  7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in
3786    the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little
3787    way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of
3788    Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
3789  8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
3790  9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God
3791    hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray
3792    thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
3793 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not
3794    see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them,
3795    and embraced them.
3796 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy
3797    face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
3798 12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he
3799    bowed himself with his face to the earth.
3800 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward
3801    Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward
3802    Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
3803 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon
3804    Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon
3805    Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was
3806    the firstborn.
3807 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers
3808    Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life
3809    long unto this day,
3810 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and
3811    let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
3812    Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the
3813    midst of the earth.
3814 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon
3815    the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his
3816    father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto
3817    Manasseh's head.
3818 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this
3819    is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
3820 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know
3821    it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great:
3822    but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and
3823    his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
3824 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel
3825    bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and
3826    he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
3827 21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be
3828    with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
3829 22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,
3830    which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and
3831    with my bow.

3832 Genesis 49

3833  1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
3834    together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in
3835    the last days.
3836  2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
3837    hearken unto Israel your father.
3838  3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of
3839    my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
3840    power:
3841  4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest
3842    up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to
3843    my couch.
3844  5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in
3845    their habitations.
3846  6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their
3847    assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger
3848    they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a
3849    wall.
3850  7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for
3851    it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in
3852    Israel.
3853  8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
3854    shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children
3855    shall bow down before thee.
3856  9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone
3857    up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;
3858    who shall rouse him up?
3859 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
3860    between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
3861    gathering of the people be.
3862 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the
3863    choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes
3864    in the blood of grapes:
3865 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with
3866    milk.
3867 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be
3868    for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
3869 14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
3870 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was
3871    pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant
3872    unto tribute.
3873 16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
3874 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that
3875    biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
3876 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
3877 19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the
3878    last.
3879 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal
3880    dainties.
3881 21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
3882 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;
3883    whose branches run over the wall:
3884 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and
3885    hated him:
3886 24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
3887    made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from
3888    thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
3889 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the
3890    Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
3891    blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the
3892    breasts, and of the womb:
3893 26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings
3894    of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting
3895    hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown
3896    of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
3897 27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour
3898    the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
3899 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that
3900    their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one
3901    according to his blessing he blessed them.
3902 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
3903    unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in
3904    the field of Ephron the Hittite,
3905 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before
3906    Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the
3907    field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a
3908    buryingplace.
3909 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
3910    buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
3911 32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was
3912    from the children of Heth.
3913 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
3914    gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost,
3915    and was gathered unto his people.

3916 Genesis 50

3917  1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and
3918    kissed him.
3919  2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
3920    father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3921  3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled
3922    the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians
3923    mourned for him threescore and ten days.
3924  4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto
3925    the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in
3926    your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
3927  5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which
3928    I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou
3929    bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my
3930    father, and I will come again.
3931  6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
3932    made thee swear.
3933  7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up
3934    all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all
3935    the elders of the land of Egypt,
3936  8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his
3937    father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and
3938    their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
3939  9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it
3940    was a very great company.
3941 10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond
3942    Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore
3943    lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
3944 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
3945    mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
3946    mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
3947    Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
3948 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
3949 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried
3950    him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
3951    bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of
3952    Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
3953 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all
3954    that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried
3955    his father.
3956 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
3957    they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will
3958    certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
3959 16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
3960    command before he died, saying,
3961 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the
3962    trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto
3963    thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the
3964    servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they
3965    spake unto him.
3966 18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and
3967    they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
3968 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of
3969    God?
3970 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it
3971    unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much
3972    people alive.
3973 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little
3974    ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
3975 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and
3976    Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
3977 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the
3978    children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up
3979    upon Joseph's knees.
3980 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely
3981    visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which
3982    he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
3983 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
3984    will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from
3985    hence.
3986 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
3987    embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

3988 Book 2 Exodus

3989 Exodus 1

3990  1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
3991    into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
3992  2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3993  3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
3994  4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3995  5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
3996    seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
3997  6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
3998    generation.
3999  7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
4000    abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and
4001    the land was filled with them.
4002  8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
4003    Joseph.
4004  9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
4005    children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
4006 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and
4007    it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they
4008    join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get
4009    them up out of the land.
4010 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
4011    with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure
4012    cities, Pithom and Raamses.
4013 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
4014    grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
4015 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with
4016    rigour:
4017 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter,
4018    and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all
4019    their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
4020 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which
4021    the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other
4022    Puah:
4023 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
4024    women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye
4025    shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
4026 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
4027    commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
4028 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto
4029    them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men
4030    children alive?
4031 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women
4032    are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are
4033    delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
4034 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
4035    multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
4036 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he
4037    made them houses.
4038 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is
4039    born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall
4040    save alive.

4041 Exodus 2

4042  1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a
4043    daughter of Levi.
4044  2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
4045    that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
4046  3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an
4047    ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and
4048    put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the
4049    river's brink.
4050  4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to
4051    him.
4052  5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
4053    river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and
4054    when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to
4055    fetch it.
4056  6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold,
4057    the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This
4058    is one of the Hebrews' children.
4059  7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and
4060    call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse
4061    the child for thee?
4062  8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
4063    called the child's mother.
4064  9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away,
4065    and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the
4066    women took the child, and nursed it.
4067 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
4068    daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name
4069    Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
4070 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that
4071    he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens:
4072    and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his
4073    brethren.
4074 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that
4075    there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the
4076    sand.
4077 13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
4078    Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the
4079    wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
4080 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
4081    intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And
4082    Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
4083 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
4084    But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land
4085    of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
4086 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came
4087    and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's
4088    flock.
4089 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up
4090    and helped them, and watered their flock.
4091 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it
4092    that ye are come so soon to day?
4093 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the
4094    shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the
4095    flock.
4096 20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it
4097    that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
4098 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
4099    Zipporah his daughter.
4100 22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he
4101    said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
4102 23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt
4103    died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the
4104    bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
4105    reason of the bondage.
4106 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant
4107    with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
4108 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had
4109    respect unto them.

4110 Exodus 3

4111  1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the
4112    priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the
4113    desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
4114  2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire
4115    out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the
4116    bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
4117  3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great
4118    sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4119  4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called
4120    unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses.
4121    And he said, Here am I.
4122  5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off
4123    thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
4124  6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of
4125    Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid
4126    his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
4127  7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my
4128    people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason
4129    of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
4130  8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
4131    Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good
4132    land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;
4133    unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
4134    Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
4135    Jebusites.
4136  9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is
4137    come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith
4138    the Egyptians oppress them.
4139 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that
4140    thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out
4141    of Egypt.
4142 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto
4143    Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel
4144    out of Egypt?
4145 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be
4146    a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast
4147    brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon
4148    this mountain.
4149 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children
4150    of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers
4151    hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his
4152    name? what shall I say unto them?
4153 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus
4154    shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me
4155    unto you.
4156 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
4157    children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of
4158    Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me
4159    unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial
4160    unto all generations.
4161 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto
4162    them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of
4163    Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
4164    visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
4165 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of
4166    Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and
4167    the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
4168    Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
4169 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou
4170    and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall
4171    say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us:
4172    and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into
4173    the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
4174 19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no,
4175    not by a mighty hand.
4176 20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
4177    wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that
4178    he will let you go.
4179 21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the
4180    Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye
4181    shall not go empty.
4182 22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that
4183    sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
4184    and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon
4185    your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

4186 Exodus 4

4187  1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not
4188    believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The
4189    LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
4190  2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he
4191    said, A rod.
4192  3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the
4193    ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before
4194    it.
4195  4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take
4196    it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and
4197    it became a rod in his hand:
4198  5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the
4199    God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
4200    appeared unto thee.
4201  6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand
4202    into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when
4203    he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
4204  7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put
4205    his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his
4206    bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
4207  8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee,
4208    neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will
4209    believe the voice of the latter sign.
4210  9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these
4211    two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt
4212    take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land:
4213    and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become
4214    blood upon the dry land.
4215 10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent,
4216    neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
4217    servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
4218 11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who
4219    maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have
4220    not I the LORD?
4221 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee
4222    what thou shalt say.
4223 13 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him
4224    whom thou wilt send.
4225 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he
4226    said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can
4227    speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee:
4228    and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
4229 15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and
4230    I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach
4231    you what ye shall do.
4232 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall
4233    be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou
4234    shalt be to him instead of God.
4235 17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou
4236    shalt do signs.
4237 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and
4238    said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my
4239    brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet
4240    alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
4241 19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt:
4242    for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
4243 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an
4244    ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the
4245    rod of God in his hand.
4246 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
4247    Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh,
4248    which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart,
4249    that he shall not let the people go.
4250 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel
4251    is my son, even my firstborn:
4252 23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and
4253    if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son,
4254    even thy firstborn.
4255 24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met
4256    him, and sought to kill him.
4257 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of
4258    her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody
4259    husband art thou to me.
4260 26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art,
4261    because of the circumcision.
4262 27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet
4263    Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and
4264    kissed him.
4265 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent
4266    him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
4267 29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders
4268    of the children of Israel:
4269 30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto
4270    Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
4271 31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had
4272    visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon
4273    their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

4274 Exodus 5

4275  1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus
4276    saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may
4277    hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
4278  2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his
4279    voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I
4280    let Israel go.
4281  3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us
4282    go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and
4283    sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with
4284    pestilence, or with the sword.
4285  4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses
4286    and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your
4287    burdens.
4288  5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many,
4289    and ye make them rest from their burdens.
4290  6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the
4291    people, and their officers, saying,
4292  7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as
4293    heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
4294  8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye
4295    shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for
4296    they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and
4297    sacrifice to our God.
4298  9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour
4299    therein; and let them not regard vain words.
4300 10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
4301    officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith
4302    Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
4303 11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of
4304    your work shall be diminished.
4305 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of
4306    Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
4307 13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works,
4308    your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
4309 14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's
4310    taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,
4311    Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both
4312    yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
4313 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried
4314    unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy
4315    servants?
4316 16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us,
4317    Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the
4318    fault is in thine own people.
4319 17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let
4320    us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
4321 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given
4322    you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
4323 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they
4324    were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish
4325    ought from your bricks of your daily task.
4326 20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
4327    came forth from Pharaoh:
4328 21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge;
4329    because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of
4330    Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in
4331    their hand to slay us.
4332 22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore
4333    hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou
4334    hast sent me?
4335 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done
4336    evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at
4337    all.

4338 Exodus 6

4339  1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will
4340    do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go,
4341    and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
4342  2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
4343  3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
4344    the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not
4345    known to them.
4346  4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give
4347    them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein
4348    they were strangers.
4349  5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
4350    whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
4351    covenant.
4352  6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and
4353    I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,
4354    and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you
4355    with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
4356  7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a
4357    God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which
4358    bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
4359  8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I
4360    did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I
4361    will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
4362  9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
4363    hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
4364    bondage.
4365 10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
4366 11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the
4367    children of Israel go out of his land.
4368 12 And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children
4369    of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh
4370    hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
4371 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a
4372    charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of
4373    Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of
4374    Egypt.
4375 14 These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of
4376    Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and
4377    Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
4378 15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
4379    Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman:
4380    these are the families of Simeon.
4381 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their
4382    generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of
4383    the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
4384 17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their
4385    families.
4386 18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
4387    Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred
4388    thirty and three years.
4389 19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the
4390    families of Levi according to their generations.
4391 20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and
4392    she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of
4393    Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
4394 21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
4395 22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
4396 23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of
4397    Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar,
4398    and Ithamar.
4399 24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these
4400    are the families of the Korhites.
4401 25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of
4402    Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads
4403    of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
4404 26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring
4405    out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to
4406    their armies.
4407 27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring
4408    out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses
4409    and Aaron.
4410 28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses
4411    in the land of Egypt,
4412 29 That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak
4413    thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
4414 30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised
4415    lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

4416 Exodus 7

4417  1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to
4418    Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
4419  2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy
4420    brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of
4421    Israel out of his land.
4422  3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and
4423    my wonders in the land of Egypt.
4424  4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand
4425    upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the
4426    children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
4427    judgments.
4428  5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I
4429    stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children
4430    of Israel from among them.
4431  6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did
4432    they.
4433  7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and
4434    three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
4435  8 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
4436  9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for
4437    you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it
4438    before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
4439 10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as
4440    the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before
4441    Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
4442 11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now
4443    the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with
4444    their enchantments.
4445 12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
4446    serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
4447 13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto
4448    them; as the LORD had said.
4449 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he
4450    refuseth to let the people go.
4451 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto
4452    the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against
4453    he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou
4454    take in thine hand.
4455 16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath
4456    sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may
4457    serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou
4458    wouldest not hear.
4459 17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the
4460    LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand
4461    upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be
4462    turned to blood.
4463 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river
4464    shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the
4465    water of the river.
4466 19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod,
4467    and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon
4468    their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and
4469    upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and
4470    that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both
4471    in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
4472 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he
4473    lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the
4474    river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his
4475    servants; and all the waters that were in the river were
4476    turned to blood.
4477 21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank,
4478    and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river;
4479    and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
4480 22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and
4481    Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto
4482    them; as the LORD had said.
4483 23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set
4484    his heart to this also.
4485 24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water
4486    to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
4487 25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten
4488    the river.

4489 Exodus 8

4490  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto
4491    him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may
4492    serve me.
4493  2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all
4494    thy borders with frogs:
4495  3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall
4496    go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and
4497    upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy
4498    people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
4499  4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people,
4500    and upon all thy servants.
4501  5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth
4502    thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and
4503    over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of
4504    Egypt.
4505  6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and
4506    the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
4507  7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought
4508    up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
4509  8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the
4510    LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my
4511    people; and I will let the people go, that they may do
4512    sacrifice unto the LORD.
4513  9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I
4514    intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to
4515    destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may
4516    remain in the river only?
4517 10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy
4518    word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the
4519    LORD our God.
4520 11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and
4521    from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in
4522    the river only.
4523 12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried
4524    unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought
4525    against Pharaoh.
4526 13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs
4527    died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the
4528    fields.
4529 14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land
4530    stank.
4531 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his
4532    heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
4533 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy
4534    rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice
4535    throughout all the land of Egypt.
4536 17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his
4537    rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in
4538    man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice
4539    throughout all the land of Egypt.
4540 18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring
4541    forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man,
4542    and upon beast.
4543 19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of
4544    God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not
4545    unto them; as the LORD had said.
4546 20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
4547    and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water;
4548    and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that
4549    they may serve me.
4550 21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send
4551    swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy
4552    people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians
4553    shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon
4554    they are.
4555 22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my
4556    people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the
4557    end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the
4558    earth.
4559 23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to
4560    morrow shall this sign be.
4561 24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies
4562    into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and
4563    into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason
4564    of the swarm of flies.
4565 25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye,
4566    sacrifice to your God in the land.
4567 26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall
4568    sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our
4569    God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
4570    before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
4571 27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and
4572    sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
4573 28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to
4574    the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very
4575    far away: intreat for me.
4576 29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat
4577    the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh,
4578    from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not
4579    Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go
4580    to sacrifice to the LORD.
4581 30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
4582 31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he
4583    removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants,
4584    and from his people; there remained not one.
4585 32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither
4586    would he let the people go.

4587 Exodus 9

4588  1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell
4589    him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go,
4590    that they may serve me.
4591  2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
4592  3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in
4593    the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels,
4594    upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very
4595    grievous murrain.
4596  4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the
4597    cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is
4598    the children's of Israel.
4599  5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD
4600    shall do this thing in the land.
4601  6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle
4602    of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel
4603    died not one.
4604  7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle
4605    of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened,
4606    and he did not let the people go.
4607  8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you
4608    handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it
4609    toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
4610  9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and
4611    shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon
4612    beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
4613 10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh;
4614    and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil
4615    breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
4616 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the
4617    boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the
4618    Egyptians.
4619 12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened
4620    not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
4621 13 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
4622    and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the
4623    LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve
4624    me.
4625 14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart,
4626    and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest
4627    know that there is none like me in all the earth.
4628 15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and
4629    thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the
4630    earth.
4631 16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to
4632    shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared
4633    throughout all the earth.
4634 17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt
4635    not let them go?
4636 18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a
4637    very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the
4638    foundation thereof even until now.
4639 19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou
4640    hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be
4641    found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail
4642    shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
4643 20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of
4644    Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
4645 21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his
4646    servants and his cattle in the field.
4647 22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward
4648    heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon
4649    man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field,
4650    throughout the land of Egypt.
4651 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD
4652    sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground;
4653    and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
4654 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very
4655    grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of
4656    Egypt since it became a nation.
4657 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that
4658    was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every
4659    herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
4660 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were,
4661    was there no hail.
4662 27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said
4663    unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and
4664    I and my people are wicked.
4665 28 Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more
4666    mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye
4667    shall stay no longer.
4668 29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city,
4669    I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder
4670    shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou
4671    mayest know how that the earth is the LORD's.
4672 30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet
4673    fear the LORD God.
4674 31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in
4675    the ear, and the flax was bolled.
4676 32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not
4677    grown up.
4678 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad
4679    his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and
4680    the rain was not poured upon the earth.
4681 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the
4682    thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
4683    heart, he and his servants.
4684 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let
4685    the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

4686 Exodus 10

4687  1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have
4688    hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I
4689    might shew these my signs before him:
4690  2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy
4691    son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs
4692    which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am
4693    the LORD.
4694  3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him,
4695    Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou
4696    refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that
4697    they may serve me.
4698  4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow
4699    will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
4700  5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be
4701    able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that
4702    which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and
4703    shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
4704  6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy
4705    servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither
4706    thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
4707    that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned
4708    himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
4709  7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man
4710    be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the
4711    LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
4712  8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he
4713    said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they
4714    that shall go?
4715  9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old,
4716    with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with
4717    our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
4718 10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will
4719    let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is
4720    before you.
4721 11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that
4722    ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's
4723    presence.
4724 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
4725    land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the
4726    land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that
4727    the hail hath left.
4728 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and
4729    the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and
4730    all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought
4731    the locusts.
4732 14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested
4733    in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before
4734    them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them
4735    shall be such.
4736 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land
4737    was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all
4738    the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there
4739    remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of
4740    the field, through all the land of Egypt.
4741 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said,
4742    I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
4743 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and
4744    intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this
4745    death only.
4746 18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
4747 19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away
4748    the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained
4749    not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
4750 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not
4751    let the children of Israel go.
4752 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
4753    heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt,
4754    even darkness which may be felt.
4755 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there
4756    was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
4757 23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for
4758    three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their
4759    dwellings.
4760 24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the
4761    LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your
4762    little ones also go with you.
4763 25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
4764    offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
4765 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be
4766    left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our
4767    God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until
4768    we come thither.
4769 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let
4770    them go.
4771 28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to
4772    thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my
4773    face thou shalt die.
4774 29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face
4775    again no more.

4776 Exodus 11

4777  1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more
4778    upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go
4779    hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you
4780    out hence altogether.
4781  2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow
4782    of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of
4783    silver and jewels of gold.
4784  3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
4785    Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land
4786    of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight
4787    of the people.
4788  4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go
4789    out into the midst of Egypt:
4790  5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the
4791    first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto
4792    the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and
4793    all the firstborn of beasts.
4794  6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of
4795    Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it
4796    any more.
4797  7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move
4798    his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that
4799    the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
4800    Israel.
4801  8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow
4802    down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the
4803    people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he
4804    went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
4805  9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
4806    you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
4807 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and
4808    the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let
4809    the children of Israel go out of his land.

4810 Exodus 12

4811  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt
4812    saying,
4813  2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall
4814    be the first month of the year to you.
4815  3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the
4816    tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a
4817    lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an
4818    house:
4819  4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and
4820    his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the
4821    number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall
4822    make your count for the lamb.
4823  5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year:
4824    ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
4825  6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same
4826    month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
4827    shall kill it in the evening.
4828  7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two
4829    side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein
4830    they shall eat it.
4831  8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire,
4832    and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
4833  9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast
4834    with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance
4835    thereof.
4836 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and
4837    that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn
4838    with fire.
4839 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes
4840    on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it
4841    in haste: it is the LORD's passover.
4842 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will
4843    smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and
4844    beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
4845    judgment: I am the LORD.
4846 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses
4847    where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
4848    and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I
4849    smite the land of Egypt.
4850 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall
4851    keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye
4852    shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
4853 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day
4854    ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever
4855    eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
4856    day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
4857 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and
4858    in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you;
4859    no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every
4860    man must eat, that only may be done of you.
4861 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in
4862    this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land
4863    of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your
4864    generations by an ordinance for ever.
4865 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at
4866    even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
4867    twentieth day of the month at even.
4868 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for
4869    whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall
4870    be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a
4871    stranger, or born in the land.
4872 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall
4873    ye eat unleavened bread.
4874 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
4875    them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families,
4876    and kill the passover.
4877 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
4878    that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side
4879    posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you
4880    shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
4881 23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and
4882    when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side
4883    posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer
4884    the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
4885 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and
4886    to thy sons for ever.
4887 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which
4888    the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye
4889    shall keep this service.
4890 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto
4891    you, What mean ye by this service?
4892 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover,
4893    who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
4894    when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the
4895    people bowed the head and worshipped.
4896 28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had
4897    commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
4898 29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the
4899    firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh
4900    that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that
4901    was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
4902 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants,
4903    and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for
4904    there was not a house where there was not one dead.
4905 31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up,
4906    and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the
4907    children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
4908 32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be
4909    gone; and bless me also.
4910 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might
4911    send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all
4912    dead men.
4913 34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
4914    kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their
4915    shoulders.
4916 35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses;
4917    and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and
4918    jewels of gold, and raiment:
4919 36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
4920    Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they
4921    required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
4922 37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,
4923    about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside
4924    children.
4925 38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and
4926    herds, even very much cattle.
4927 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they
4928    brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because
4929    they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither
4930    had they prepared for themselves any victual.
4931 40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
4932    Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
4933 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty
4934    years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the
4935    hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
4936 42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing
4937    them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the
4938    LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their
4939    generations.
4940 43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance
4941    of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
4942 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou
4943    hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
4944 45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
4945 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth
4946    ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye
4947    break a bone thereof.
4948 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
4949 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
4950    passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and
4951    then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one
4952    that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall
4953    eat thereof.
4954 49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the
4955    stranger that sojourneth among you.
4956 50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded
4957    Moses and Aaron, so did they.
4958 51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring
4959    the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
4960    armies.

4961 Exodus 13

4962  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
4963  2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the
4964    womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast:
4965    it is mine.
4966  3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye
4967    came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by
4968    strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place:
4969    there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4970  4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
4971  5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land
4972    of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
4973    Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to
4974    give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt
4975    keep this service in this month.
4976  6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
4977    day shall be a feast to the LORD.
4978  7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no
4979    leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be
4980    leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
4981  8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done
4982    because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth
4983    out of Egypt.
4984  9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for
4985    a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in
4986    thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee
4987    out of Egypt.
4988 10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from
4989    year to year.
4990 11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land
4991    of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers,
4992    and shall give it thee,
4993 12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the
4994    matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou
4995    hast; the males shall be the LORD's.
4996 13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb;
4997    and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his
4998    neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt
4999    thou redeem.
5000 14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
5001    saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By
5002    strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the
5003    house of bondage:
5004 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that
5005    the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
5006    firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I
5007    sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being
5008    males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
5009 16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets
5010    between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought
5011    us forth out of Egypt.
5012 17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that
5013    God led them not through the way of the land of the
5014    Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest
5015    peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
5016    return to Egypt:
5017 18 But God led the people about, through the way of the
5018    wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up
5019    harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
5020 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had
5021    straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely
5022    visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
5023 20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in
5024    Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
5025 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud,
5026    to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to
5027    give them light; to go by day and night:
5028 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the
5029    pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

5030 Exodus 14

5031  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
5032  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp
5033    before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against
5034    Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
5035  3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
5036    entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
5037  4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after
5038    them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
5039    host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they
5040    did so.
5041  5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and
5042    the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against
5043    the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have
5044    let Israel go from serving us?
5045  6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
5046  7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots
5047    of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
5048  8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
5049    he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of
5050    Israel went out with an high hand.
5051  9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and
5052    chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and
5053    overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before
5054    Baalzephon.
5055 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up
5056    their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and
5057    they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out
5058    unto the LORD.
5059 11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in
5060    Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
5061    wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out
5062    of Egypt?
5063 12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying,
5064    Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been
5065    better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die
5066    in the wilderness.
5067 13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and
5068    see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to
5069    day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see
5070    them again no more for ever.
5071 14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
5072 15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me?
5073    speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
5074 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the
5075    sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry
5076    ground through the midst of the sea.
5077 17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and
5078    they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh,
5079    and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his
5080    horsemen.
5081 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
5082    gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his
5083    horsemen.
5084 19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
5085    removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went
5086    from before their face, and stood behind them:
5087 20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of
5088    Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave
5089    light by night to these: so that the one came not near the
5090    other all the night.
5091 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD
5092    caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that
5093    night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
5094 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon
5095    the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their
5096    right hand, and on their left.
5097 23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst
5098    of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his
5099    horsemen.
5100 24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked
5101    unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and
5102    of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
5103 25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them
5104    heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face
5105    of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the
5106    Egyptians.
5107 26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
5108    sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon
5109    their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
5110 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea
5111    returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the
5112    Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the
5113    Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
5114 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the
5115    horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea
5116    after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
5117 29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst
5118    of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their
5119    right hand, and on their left.
5120 30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
5121    Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea
5122    shore.
5123 31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the
5124    Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the
5125    LORD, and his servant Moses.

5126 Exodus 15

5127  1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the
5128    LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he
5129    hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he
5130    thrown into the sea.
5131  2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my
5132    salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;
5133    my father's God, and I will exalt him.
5134  3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
5135  4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his
5136    chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5137  5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a
5138    stone.
5139  6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right
5140    hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
5141  7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown
5142    them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath,
5143    which consumed them as stubble.
5144  8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered
5145    together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths
5146    were congealed in the heart of the sea.
5147  9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide
5148    the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw
5149    my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
5150 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank
5151    as lead in the mighty waters.
5152 11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like
5153    thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
5154 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
5155 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast
5156    redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy
5157    habitation.
5158 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold
5159    on the inhabitants of Palestina.
5160 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of
5161    Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants
5162    of Canaan shall melt away.
5163 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine
5164    arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass
5165    over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast
5166    purchased.
5167 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
5168    thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made
5169    for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy
5170    hands have established.
5171 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
5172 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with
5173    his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the
5174    waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went
5175    on dry land in the midst of the sea.
5176 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel
5177    in her hand; and all the women went out after her with
5178    timbrels and with dances.
5179 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath
5180    triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown
5181    into the sea.
5182 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out
5183    into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the
5184    wilderness, and found no water.
5185 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the
5186    waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of
5187    it was called Marah.
5188 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
5189    drink?
5190 25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree,
5191    which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made
5192    sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and
5193    there he proved them,
5194 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the
5195    LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight,
5196    and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his
5197    statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I
5198    have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that
5199    healeth thee.
5200 27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and
5201    threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the
5202    waters.

5203 Exodus 16

5204  1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the
5205    congregation of the children of Israel came unto the
5206    wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the
5207    fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of
5208    the land of Egypt.
5209  2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
5210    against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
5211  3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had
5212    died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat
5213    by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for
5214    ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this
5215    whole assembly with hunger.
5216  4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from
5217    heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a
5218    certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they
5219    will walk in my law, or no.
5220  5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall
5221    prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as
5222    much as they gather daily.
5223  6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At
5224    even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out
5225    from the land of Egypt:
5226  7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD;
5227    for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what
5228    are we, that ye murmur against us?
5229  8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in
5230    the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the
5231    full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye
5232    murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not
5233    against us, but against the LORD.
5234  9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of
5235    the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath
5236    heard your murmurings.
5237 10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole
5238    congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked
5239    toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD
5240    appeared in the cloud.
5241 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
5242 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak
5243    unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the
5244    morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that
5245    I am the LORD your God.
5246 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and
5247    covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about
5248    the host.
5249 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face
5250    of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as
5251    the hoar frost on the ground.
5252 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to
5253    another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses
5254    said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given
5255    you to eat.
5256 16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it
5257    every man according to his eating, an omer for every man,
5258    according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for
5259    them which are in his tents.
5260 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more,
5261    some less.
5262 18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much
5263    had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack;
5264    they gathered every man according to his eating.
5265 19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
5266 20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of
5267    them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
5268    stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
5269 21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his
5270    eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
5271 22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice
5272    as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of
5273    the congregation came and told Moses.
5274 23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said,
5275    To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake
5276    that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will
5277    seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be
5278    kept until the morning.
5279 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it
5280    did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
5281 25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto
5282    the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
5283 26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is
5284    the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
5285 27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on
5286    the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
5287 28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
5288    commandments and my laws?
5289 29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore
5290    he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye
5291    every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the
5292    seventh day.
5293 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
5294 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it
5295    was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like
5296    wafers made with honey.
5297 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth,
5298    Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they
5299    may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness,
5300    when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
5301 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of
5302    manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for
5303    your generations.
5304 34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
5305    Testimony, to be kept.
5306 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until
5307    they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they
5308    came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
5309 36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

5310 Exodus 17

5311  1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed
5312    from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to
5313    the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and
5314    there was no water for the people to drink.
5315  2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us
5316    water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide
5317    ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
5318  3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people
5319    murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou
5320    hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children
5321    and our cattle with thirst?
5322  4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto
5323    this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5324  5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and
5325    take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith
5326    thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
5327  6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb;
5328    and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out
5329    of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the
5330    sight of the elders of Israel.
5331  7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,
5332    because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because
5333    they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
5334  8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
5335  9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out,
5336    fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the
5337    hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
5338 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with
5339    Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the
5340    hill.
5341 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
5342    prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
5343 12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it
5344    under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his
5345    hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other
5346    side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the
5347    sun.
5348 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of
5349    the sword.
5350 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a
5351    book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will
5352    utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
5353 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it
5354    Jehovahnissi:
5355 16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will
5356    have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

5357 Exodus 18

5358  1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard
5359    of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people,
5360    and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
5361  2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife,
5362    after he had sent her back,
5363  3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom;
5364    for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
5365  4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my
5366    father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the
5367    sword of Pharaoh:
5368  5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his
5369    wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the
5370    mount of God:
5371  6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come
5372    unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
5373  7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did
5374    obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their
5375    welfare; and they came into the tent.
5376  8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done
5377    unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all
5378    the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the
5379    LORD delivered them.
5380  9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had
5381    done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the
5382    Egyptians.
5383 10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you
5384    out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of
5385    Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of
5386    the Egyptians.
5387 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the
5388    thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
5389 12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and
5390    sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of
5391    Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
5392 13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the
5393    people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto
5394    the evening.
5395 14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the
5396    people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the
5397    people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people
5398    stand by thee from morning unto even?
5399 15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come
5400    unto me to enquire of God:
5401 16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge
5402    between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes
5403    of God, and his laws.
5404 17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou
5405    doest is not good.
5406 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is
5407    with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not
5408    able to perform it thyself alone.
5409 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God
5410    shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that
5411    thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
5412 20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew
5413    them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they
5414    must do.
5415 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men,
5416    such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place
5417    such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of
5418    hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
5419 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be,
5420    that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every
5421    small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for
5422    thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
5423 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then
5424    thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also
5425    go to their place in peace.
5426 24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did
5427    all that he had said.
5428 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them
5429    heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
5430    hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
5431 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes
5432    they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged
5433    themselves.
5434 27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way
5435    into his own land.

5436 Exodus 19

5437  1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone
5438    forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into
5439    the wilderness of Sinai.
5440  2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the
5441    desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there
5442    Israel camped before the mount.
5443  3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out
5444    of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of
5445    Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
5446  4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you
5447    on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
5448  5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
5449    covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above
5450    all people: for all the earth is mine:
5451  6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy
5452    nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
5453    children of Israel.
5454  7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and
5455    laid before their faces all these words which the LORD
5456    commanded him.
5457  8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the
5458    LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of
5459    the people unto the LORD.
5460  9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick
5461    cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and
5462    believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people
5463    unto the LORD.
5464 10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify
5465    them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
5466 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD
5467    will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount
5468    Sinai.
5469 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying,
5470    Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or
5471    touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be
5472    surely put to death:
5473 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be
5474    stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall
5475    not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up
5476    to the mount.
5477 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
5478    sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
5479 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day:
5480    come not at your wives.
5481 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that
5482    there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
5483    mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that
5484    all the people that was in the camp trembled.
5485 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet
5486    with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
5487 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
5488    descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as
5489    the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
5490 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
5491    louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a
5492    voice.
5493 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
5494    mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount;
5495    and Moses went up.
5496 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest
5497    they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them
5498    perish.
5499 22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
5500    sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
5501 23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to
5502    mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about
5503    the mount, and sanctify it.
5504 24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou
5505    shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the
5506    priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD,
5507    lest he break forth upon them.
5508 25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

5509 Exodus 20

5510  1 And God spake all these words, saying,
5511  2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
5512    of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
5513  3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
5514  4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
5515    likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in
5516    the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5517  5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I
5518    the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
5519    the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
5520    generation of them that hate me;
5521  6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
5522    keep my commandments.
5523  7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for
5524    the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in
5525    vain.
5526  8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5527  9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
5528 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it
5529    thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
5530    daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,
5531    nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
5532 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
5533    all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the
5534    LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5535 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
5536    upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
5537 13 Thou shalt not kill.
5538 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
5539 15 Thou shalt not steal.
5540 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
5541 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not
5542    covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his
5543    maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is
5544    thy neighbour's.
5545 18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings,
5546    and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and
5547    when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
5548 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will
5549    hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
5550 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to
5551    prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye
5552    sin not.
5553 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
5554    thick darkness where God was.
5555 22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the
5556    children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you
5557    from heaven.
5558 23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye
5559    make unto you gods of gold.
5560 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice
5561    thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy
5562    sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I
5563    will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
5564 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not
5565    build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it,
5566    thou hast polluted it.
5567 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
5568    nakedness be not discovered thereon.

5569 Exodus 21

5570  1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
5571  2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and
5572    in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
5573  3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he
5574    were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
5575  4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him
5576    sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her
5577    master's, and he shall go out by himself.
5578  5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my
5579    wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
5580  6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also
5581    bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master
5582    shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him
5583    for ever.
5584  7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall
5585    not go out as the menservants do.
5586  8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to
5587    himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a
5588    strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
5589    deceitfully with her.
5590  9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with
5591    her after the manner of daughters.
5592 10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her
5593    duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
5594 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out
5595    free without money.
5596 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to
5597    death.
5598 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his
5599    hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
5600 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay
5601    him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he
5602    may die.
5603 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely
5604    put to death.
5605 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found
5606    in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
5607 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be
5608    put to death.
5609 18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a
5610    stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
5611 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall
5612    he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of
5613    his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
5614 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and
5615    he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
5616 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
5617    punished: for he is his money.
5618 22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit
5619    depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be
5620    surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay
5621    upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
5622 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for
5623    life,
5624 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
5625 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
5626 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his
5627    maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's
5628    sake.
5629 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his
5630    maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's
5631    sake.
5632 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox
5633    shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but
5634    the owner of the ox shall be quit.
5635 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past,
5636    and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept
5637    him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall
5638    be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
5639 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for
5640    the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
5641 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
5642    according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
5643 32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall
5644    give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox
5645    shall be stoned.
5646 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit,
5647    and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
5648 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto
5649    the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
5650 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they
5651    shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the
5652    dead ox also they shall divide.
5653 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,
5654    and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for
5655    ox; and the dead shall be his own.

5656 Exodus 22

5657  1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell
5658    it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a
5659    sheep.
5660  2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
5661    there shall no blood be shed for him.
5662  3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for
5663    him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing,
5664    then he shall be sold for his theft.
5665  4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it
5666    be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
5667  5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and
5668    shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field;
5669    of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own
5670    vineyard, shall he make restitution.
5671  6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of
5672    corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed
5673    therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make
5674    restitution.
5675  7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to
5676    keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be
5677    found, let him pay double.
5678  8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall
5679    be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his
5680    hand unto his neighbour's goods.
5681  9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for
5682    sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which
5683    another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall
5684    come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he
5685    shall pay double unto his neighbour.
5686 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a
5687    sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or
5688    driven away, no man seeing it:
5689 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he
5690    hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the
5691    owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it
5692    good.
5693 12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto
5694    the owner thereof.
5695 13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness,
5696    and he shall not make good that which was torn.
5697 14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or
5698    die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make
5699    it good.
5700 15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it
5701    good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
5702 16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with
5703    her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
5704 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall
5705    pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
5706 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
5707 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
5708 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he
5709    shall be utterly destroyed.
5710 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye
5711    were strangers in the land of Egypt.
5712 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
5713 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me,
5714    I will surely hear their cry;
5715 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the
5716    sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
5717    fatherless.
5718 25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee,
5719    thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay
5720    upon him usury.
5721 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou
5722    shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
5723 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin:
5724    wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he
5725    crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
5726 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy
5727    people.
5728 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits,
5729    and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give
5730    unto me.
5731 30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep:
5732    seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou
5733    shalt give it me.
5734 31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any
5735    flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to
5736    the dogs.

5737 Exodus 23

5738  1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with
5739    the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
5740  2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt
5741    thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
5742  3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
5743  4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou
5744    shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5745  5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his
5746    burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely
5747    help with him.
5748  6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
5749  7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and
5750    righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
5751  8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise,
5752    and perverteth the words of the righteous.
5753  9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart
5754    of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
5755 10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
5756    fruits thereof:
5757 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still;
5758    that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the
5759    beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal
5760    with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
5761 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou
5762    shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son
5763    of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
5764 13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect:
5765    and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it
5766    be heard out of thy mouth.
5767 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
5768 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
5769    unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time
5770    appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from
5771    Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
5772 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours,
5773    which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of
5774    ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast
5775    gathered in thy labours out of the field.
5776 17 Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the
5777    LORD God.
5778 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
5779    bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the
5780    morning.
5781 19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into
5782    the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
5783    his mother's milk.
5784 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
5785    and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
5786 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he
5787    will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
5788 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
5789    speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an
5790    adversary unto thine adversaries.
5791 23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto
5792    the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
5793    Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut
5794    them off.
5795 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
5796    after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and
5797    quite break down their images.
5798 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy
5799    bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the
5800    midst of thee.
5801 26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
5802    land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
5803 27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the
5804    people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine
5805    enemies turn their backs unto thee.
5806 28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
5807    Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
5808 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest
5809    the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply
5810    against thee.
5811 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,
5812    until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
5813 31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea
5814    of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I
5815    will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and
5816    thou shalt drive them out before thee.
5817 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
5818 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin
5819    against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a
5820    snare unto thee.

5821 Exodus 24

5822  1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and
5823    Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel;
5824    and worship ye afar off.
5825  2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
5826    come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
5827  3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD,
5828    and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one
5829    voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will
5830    we do.
5831  4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early
5832    in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and
5833    twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5834  5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered
5835    burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto
5836    the LORD.
5837  6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and
5838    half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
5839  7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience
5840    of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will
5841    we do, and be obedient.
5842  8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and
5843    said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath
5844    made with you concerning all these words.
5845  9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
5846    of the elders of Israel:
5847 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet
5848    as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were
5849    the body of heaven in his clearness.
5850 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his
5851    hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
5852 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount,
5853    and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law,
5854    and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach
5855    them.
5856 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up
5857    into the mount of God.
5858 14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we
5859    come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you:
5860    if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
5861 15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the
5862    mount.
5863 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the
5864    cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto
5865    Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
5866 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire
5867    on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
5868 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up
5869    into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and
5870    forty nights.

5871 Exodus 25

5872  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
5873  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an
5874    offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart
5875    ye shall take my offering.
5876  3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold,
5877    and silver, and brass,
5878  4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
5879    hair,
5880  5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
5881    wood,
5882  6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet
5883    incense,
5884  7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the
5885    breastplate.
5886  8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
5887  9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the
5888    tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof,
5889    even so shall ye make it.
5890 10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a
5891    half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
5892    breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
5893 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without
5894    shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold
5895    round about.
5896 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in
5897    the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one
5898    side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
5899 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them
5900    with gold.
5901 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of
5902    the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
5903 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be
5904    taken from it.
5905 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall
5906    give thee.
5907 17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and
5908    a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
5909    breadth thereof.
5910 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work
5911    shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
5912 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on
5913    the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the
5914    cherubims on the two ends thereof.
5915 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
5916    covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces
5917    shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the
5918    faces of the cherubims be.
5919 21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in
5920    the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
5921 22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee
5922    from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims
5923    which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I
5924    will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
5925 23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall
5926    be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a
5927    cubit and a half the height thereof.
5928 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a
5929    crown of gold round about.
5930 25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round
5931    about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border
5932    thereof round about.
5933 26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the
5934    rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
5935 27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the
5936    staves to bear the table.
5937 28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay
5938    them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
5939 29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof,
5940    and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of
5941    pure gold shalt thou make them.
5942 30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
5943 31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work
5944    shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches,
5945    his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
5946 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three
5947    branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three
5948    branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
5949 33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower
5950    in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other
5951    branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that
5952    come out of the candlestick.
5953 34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto
5954    almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
5955 35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and
5956    a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two
5957    branches of the same, according to the six branches that
5958    proceed out of the candlestick.
5959 36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it
5960    shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
5961 37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall
5962    light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against
5963    it.
5964 38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be
5965    of pure gold.
5966 39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these
5967    vessels.
5968 40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was
5969    shewed thee in the mount.

5970 Exodus 26

5971  1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of
5972    fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with
5973    cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
5974  2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits,
5975    and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of
5976    the curtains shall have one measure.
5977  3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another;
5978    and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
5979  4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one
5980    curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt
5981    thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the
5982    coupling of the second.
5983  5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty
5984    loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in
5985    the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one
5986    of another.
5987  6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the
5988    curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one
5989    tabernacle.
5990  7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering
5991    upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
5992  8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the
5993    breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains
5994    shall be all of one measure.
5995  9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six
5996    curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in
5997    the forefront of the tabernacle.
5998 10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain
5999    that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge
6000    of the curtain which coupleth the second.
6001 11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches
6002    into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be
6003    one.
6004 12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent,
6005    the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside
6006    of the tabernacle.
6007 13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of
6008    that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the
6009    tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this
6010    side and on that side, to cover it.
6011 14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins
6012    dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
6013 15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood
6014    standing up.
6015 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a
6016    half shall be the breadth of one board.
6017 17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one
6018    against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of
6019    the tabernacle.
6020 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty
6021    boards on the south side southward.
6022 19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty
6023    boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and
6024    two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
6025 20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side
6026    there shall be twenty boards:
6027 21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
6028    board, and two sockets under another board.
6029 22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make
6030    six boards.
6031 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the
6032    tabernacle in the two sides.
6033 24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be
6034    coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus
6035    shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
6036 25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver,
6037    sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
6038    under another board.
6039 26 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards
6040    of the one side of the tabernacle,
6041 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the
6042    tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the
6043    tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
6044 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from
6045    end to end.
6046 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their
6047    rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay
6048    the bars with gold.
6049 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion
6050    thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
6051 31 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
6052    and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it
6053    be made:
6054 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood
6055    overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the
6056    four sockets of silver.
6057 33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou
6058    mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the
6059    testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy
6060    place and the most holy.
6061 34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the
6062    testimony in the most holy place.
6063 35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the
6064    candlestick over against the table on the side of the
6065    tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on
6066    the north side.
6067 36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of
6068    blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought
6069    with needlework.
6070 37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim
6071    wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of
6072    gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

6073 Exodus 27

6074  1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits
6075    long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare:
6076    and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
6077  2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners
6078    thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt
6079    overlay it with brass.
6080  3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his
6081    shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans:
6082    all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
6083  4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and
6084    upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four
6085    corners thereof.
6086  5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath,
6087    that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
6088  6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim
6089    wood, and overlay them with brass.
6090  7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves
6091    shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
6092  8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee
6093    in the mount, so shall they make it.
6094  9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south
6095    side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine
6096    twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
6097 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall
6098    be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall
6099    be of silver.
6100 11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be
6101    hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and
6102    their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and
6103    their fillets of silver.
6104 12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be
6105    hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets
6106    ten.
6107 13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall
6108    be fifty cubits.
6109 14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits:
6110    their pillars three, and their sockets three.
6111 15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their
6112    pillars three, and their sockets three.
6113 16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty
6114    cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
6115    linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be
6116    four, and their sockets four.
6117 17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with
6118    silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of
6119    brass.
6120 18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the
6121    breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine
6122    twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
6123 19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof,
6124    and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall
6125    be of brass.
6126 20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring
6127    thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to
6128    burn always.
6129 21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which
6130    is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it
6131    from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute
6132    for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children
6133    of Israel.

6134 Exodus 28

6135  1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with
6136    him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister
6137    unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
6138    Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
6139  2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for
6140    glory and for beauty.
6141  3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I
6142    have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make
6143    Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto
6144    me in the priest's office.
6145  4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a
6146    breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a
6147    mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for
6148    Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me
6149    in the priest's office.
6150  5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,
6151    and fine linen.
6152  6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple,
6153    of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
6154  7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two
6155    edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
6156  8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall
6157    be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold,
6158    of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
6159  9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the
6160    names of the children of Israel:
6161 10 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of
6162    the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
6163 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of
6164    a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of
6165    the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in
6166    ouches of gold.
6167 12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the
6168    ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and
6169    Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two
6170    shoulders for a memorial.
6171 13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
6172 14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work
6173    shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the
6174    ouches.
6175 15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning
6176    work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold,
6177    of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined
6178    linen, shalt thou make it.
6179 16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the
6180    length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
6181 17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of
6182    stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a
6183    carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
6184 18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a
6185    diamond.
6186 19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
6187 20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they
6188    shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
6189 21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of
6190    Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings
6191    of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according
6192    to the twelve tribes.
6193 22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of
6194    wreathen work of pure gold.
6195 23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold,
6196    and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the
6197    breastplate.
6198 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two
6199    rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
6200 25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt
6201    fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces
6202    of the ephod before it.
6203 26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them
6204    upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof,
6205    which is in the side of the ephod inward.
6206 27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put
6207    them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the
6208    forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof,
6209    above the curious girdle of the ephod.
6210 28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto
6211    the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be
6212    above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the
6213    breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
6214 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in
6215    the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in
6216    unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD
6217    continually.
6218 30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and
6219    the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he
6220    goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of
6221    the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD
6222    continually.
6223 31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
6224 32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst
6225    thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the
6226    hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be
6227    not rent.
6228 33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of
6229    blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem
6230    thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
6231 34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
6232    pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
6233 35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be
6234    heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD,
6235    and when he cometh out, that he die not.
6236 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it,
6237    like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
6238 37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the
6239    mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
6240 38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the
6241    iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel
6242    shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always
6243    upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
6244 39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou
6245    shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the
6246    girdle of needlework.
6247 40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt
6248    make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them,
6249    for glory and for beauty.
6250 41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons
6251    with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and
6252    sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
6253    office.
6254 42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their
6255    nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall
6256    reach:
6257 43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they
6258    come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they
6259    come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that
6260    they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for
6261    ever unto him and his seed after him.

6262 Exodus 29

6263  1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow
6264    them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one
6265    young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
6266  2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil,
6267    and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour
6268    shalt thou make them.
6269  3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the
6270    basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
6271  4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the
6272    tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with
6273    water.
6274  5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat,
6275    and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate,
6276    and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
6277  6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy
6278    crown upon the mitre.
6279  7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his
6280    head, and anoint him.
6281  8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
6282  9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and
6283    put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be
6284    theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate
6285    Aaron and his sons.
6286 10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the
6287    tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall
6288    put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
6289 11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door
6290    of the tabernacle of the congregation.
6291 12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it
6292    upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the
6293    blood beside the bottom of the altar.
6294 13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and
6295    the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the
6296    fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
6297 14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung,
6298    shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin
6299    offering.
6300 15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put
6301    their hands upon the head of the ram.
6302 16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood,
6303    and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
6304 17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of
6305    him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his
6306    head.
6307 18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a
6308    burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an
6309    offering made by fire unto the LORD.
6310 19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons
6311    shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
6312 20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put
6313    it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of
6314    the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right
6315    hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle
6316    the blood upon the altar round about.
6317 21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and
6318    of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his
6319    garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons
6320    with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his
6321    sons, and his sons' garments with him.
6322 22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the
6323    fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver,
6324    and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the
6325    right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
6326 23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one
6327    wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before
6328    the LORD:
6329 24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands
6330    of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before
6331    the LORD.
6332 25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon
6333    the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the
6334    LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
6335 26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's
6336    consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD:
6337    and it shall be thy part.
6338 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and
6339    the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which
6340    is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that
6341    which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
6342 28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever
6343    from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and
6344    it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of
6345    the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave
6346    offering unto the LORD.
6347 29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him,
6348    to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
6349 30 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on
6350    seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the
6351    congregation to minister in the holy place.
6352 31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe
6353    his flesh in the holy place.
6354 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the
6355    bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of
6356    the congregation.
6357 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was
6358    made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall
6359    not eat thereof, because they are holy.
6360 34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the
6361    bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the
6362    remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is
6363    holy.
6364 35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according
6365    to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt
6366    thou consecrate them.
6367 36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering
6368    for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou
6369    hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to
6370    sanctify it.
6371 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and
6372    sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever
6373    toucheth the altar shall be holy.
6374 38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two
6375    lambs of the first year day by day continually.
6376 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other
6377    lamb thou shalt offer at even:
6378 40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the
6379    fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an
6380    hin of wine for a drink offering.
6381 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do
6382    thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and
6383    according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour,
6384    an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
6385 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
6386    generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
6387    before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto
6388    thee.
6389 43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the
6390    tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
6391 44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and
6392    the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to
6393    minister to me in the priest's office.
6394 45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be
6395    their God.
6396 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought
6397    them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among
6398    them: I am the LORD their God.

6399 Exodus 30

6400  1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim
6401    wood shalt thou make it.
6402  2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
6403    thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the
6404    height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
6405  3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and
6406    the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou
6407    shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
6408  4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of
6409    it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt
6410    thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to
6411    bear it withal.
6412  5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay
6413    them with gold.
6414  6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of
6415    the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the
6416    testimony, where I will meet with thee.
6417  7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when
6418    he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
6419  8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn
6420    incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD
6421    throughout your generations.
6422  9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt
6423    sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink
6424    offering thereon.
6425 10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in
6426    a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once
6427    in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your
6428    generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
6429 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6430 12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their
6431    number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul
6432    unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no
6433    plague among them, when thou numberest them.
6434 13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that
6435    are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary:
6436    (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the
6437    offering of the LORD.
6438 14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from
6439    twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the
6440    LORD.
6441 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less
6442    than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD,
6443    to make an atonement for your souls.
6444 16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of
6445    Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle
6446    of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the
6447    children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for
6448    your souls.
6449 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6450 18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of
6451    brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the
6452    tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt
6453    put water therein.
6454 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
6455    thereat:
6456 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they
6457    shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come
6458    near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire
6459    unto the LORD:
6460 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die
6461    not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him
6462    and to his seed throughout their generations.
6463 22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6464 23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five
6465    hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two
6466    hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred
6467    and fifty shekels,
6468 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the
6469    sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
6470 25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment
6471    compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy
6472    anointing oil.
6473 26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
6474    therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
6475 27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his
6476    vessels, and the altar of incense,
6477 28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the
6478    laver and his foot.
6479 29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy:
6480    whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
6481 30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them,
6482    that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
6483 31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This
6484    shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your
6485    generations.
6486 32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make
6487    any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy,
6488    and it shall be holy unto you.
6489 33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of
6490    it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
6491 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices,
6492    stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure
6493    frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
6494 35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art
6495    of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
6496 36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it
6497    before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation,
6498    where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
6499 37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not
6500    make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it
6501    shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
6502 38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall
6503    even be cut off from his people.

6504 Exodus 31

6505  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6506  2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
6507    Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
6508  3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and
6509    in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
6510    workmanship,
6511  4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and
6512    in brass,
6513  5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of
6514    timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
6515  6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of
6516    Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that
6517    are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all
6518    that I have commanded thee;
6519  7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the
6520    testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the
6521    furniture of the tabernacle,
6522  8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with
6523    all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
6524  9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and
6525    the laver and his foot,
6526 10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the
6527    priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the
6528    priest's office,
6529 11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place:
6530    according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
6531 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6532 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my
6533    sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you
6534    throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the
6535    LORD that doth sanctify you.
6536 14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you:
6537    every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for
6538    whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off
6539    from among his people.
6540 15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath
6541    of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the
6542    sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
6543 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to
6544    observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a
6545    perpetual covenant.
6546 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
6547    for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the
6548    seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
6549 18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing
6550    with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of
6551    stone, written with the finger of God.

6552 Exodus 32

6553  1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of
6554    the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron,
6555    and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us;
6556    for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
6557    land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
6558  2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which
6559    are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your
6560    daughters, and bring them unto me.
6561  3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in
6562    their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
6563  4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a
6564    graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they
6565    said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out
6566    of the land of Egypt.
6567  5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
6568    made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
6569  6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt
6570    offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat
6571    down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
6572  7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy
6573    people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have
6574    corrupted themselves:
6575  8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
6576    commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
6577    worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These
6578    be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the
6579    land of Egypt.
6580  9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
6581    behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
6582 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against
6583    them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a
6584    great nation.
6585 11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth
6586    thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought
6587    forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a
6588    mighty hand?
6589 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief
6590    did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to
6591    consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce
6592    wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
6593 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom
6594    thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will
6595    multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land
6596    that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they
6597    shall inherit it for ever.
6598 14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto
6599    his people.
6600 15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two
6601    tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were
6602    written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other
6603    were they written.
6604 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the
6605    writing of God, graven upon the tables.
6606 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
6607    he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
6608 18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for
6609    mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being
6610    overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
6611 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,
6612    that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed
6613    hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them
6614    beneath the mount.
6615 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the
6616    fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water,
6617    and made the children of Israel drink of it.
6618 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee,
6619    that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
6620 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou
6621    knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
6622 23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us:
6623    for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
6624    land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
6625 24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break
6626    it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and
6627    there came out this calf.
6628 25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had
6629    made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
6630 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on
6631    the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of
6632    Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
6633 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put
6634    every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate
6635    to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother,
6636    and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
6637 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses:
6638    and there fell of the people that day about three thousand
6639    men.
6640 29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD,
6641    even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may
6642    bestow upon you a blessing this day.
6643 30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the
6644    people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto
6645    the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
6646 31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people
6647    have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
6648 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot
6649    me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
6650 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against
6651    me, him will I blot out of my book.
6652 34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I
6653    have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before
6654    thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their
6655    sin upon them.
6656 35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf,
6657    which Aaron made.

6658 Exodus 33

6659  1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou
6660    and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of
6661    Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and
6662    to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
6663  2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the
6664    Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,
6665    the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
6666  3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up
6667    in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest
6668    I consume thee in the way.
6669  4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned:
6670    and no man did put on him his ornaments.
6671  5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of
6672    Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the
6673    midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put
6674    off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto
6675    thee.
6676  6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
6677    ornaments by the mount Horeb.
6678  7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the
6679    camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of
6680    the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which
6681    sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the
6682    congregation, which was without the camp.
6683  8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle,
6684    that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent
6685    door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the
6686    tabernacle.
6687  9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the
6688    cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the
6689    tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
6690 10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the
6691    tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,
6692    every man in his tent door.
6693 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh
6694    unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his
6695    servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out
6696    of the tabernacle.
6697 12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring
6698    up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt
6699    send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and
6700    thou hast also found grace in my sight.
6701 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy
6702    sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may
6703    find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy
6704    people.
6705 14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give
6706    thee rest.
6707 15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us
6708    not up hence.
6709 16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have
6710    found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with
6711    us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the
6712    people that are upon the face of the earth.
6713 17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that
6714    thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I
6715    know thee by name.
6716 18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
6717 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and
6718    I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be
6719    gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on
6720    whom I will shew mercy.
6721 20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no
6722    man see me, and live.
6723 21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou
6724    shalt stand upon a rock:
6725 22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I
6726    will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with
6727    my hand while I pass by:
6728 23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back
6729    parts: but my face shall not be seen.

6730 Exodus 34

6731  1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone
6732    like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the
6733    words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
6734  2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto
6735    mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the
6736    mount.
6737  3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be
6738    seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor
6739    herds feed before that mount.
6740  4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and
6741    Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount
6742    Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the
6743    two tables of stone.
6744  5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
6745    and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6746  6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD,
6747    The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
6748    abundant in goodness and truth,
6749  7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
6750    transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the
6751    guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
6752    children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and
6753    to the fourth generation.
6754  8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and
6755    worshipped.
6756  9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD,
6757    let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked
6758    people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for
6759    thine inheritance.
6760 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people
6761    I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the
6762    earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou
6763    art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing
6764    that I will do with thee.
6765 11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I
6766    drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the
6767    Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
6768 12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
6769    inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a
6770    snare in the midst of thee:
6771 13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut
6772    down their groves:
6773 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name
6774    is Jealous, is a jealous God:
6775 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
6776    and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto
6777    their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
6778 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their
6779    daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go
6780    a whoring after their gods.
6781 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
6782 18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou
6783    shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time
6784    of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from
6785    Egypt.
6786 19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among
6787    thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
6788 20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and
6789    if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All
6790    the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall
6791    appear before me empty.
6792 21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt
6793    rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
6794 22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits
6795    of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's
6796    end.
6797 23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before
6798    the LORD God, the God of Israel.
6799 24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy
6800    borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou
6801    shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the
6802    year.
6803 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven;
6804    neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be
6805    left unto the morning.
6806 26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto
6807    the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
6808    his mother's milk.
6809 27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for
6810    after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with
6811    thee and with Israel.
6812 28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he
6813    did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the
6814    tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
6815 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai
6816    with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came
6817    down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his
6818    face shone while he talked with him.
6819 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
6820    behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to
6821    come nigh him.
6822 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of
6823    the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with
6824    them.
6825 32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he
6826    gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him
6827    in mount Sinai.
6828 33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on
6829    his face.
6830 34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he
6831    took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and
6832    spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
6833 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the
6834    skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his
6835    face again, until he went in to speak with him.

6836 Exodus 35

6837  1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of
6838    Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which
6839    the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
6840  2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there
6841    shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD:
6842    whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
6843  3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the
6844    sabbath day.
6845  4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of
6846    Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded,
6847    saying,
6848  5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is
6849    of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD;
6850    gold, and silver, and brass,
6851  6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
6852    hair,
6853  7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
6854    wood,
6855  8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for
6856    the sweet incense,
6857  9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for
6858    the breastplate.
6859 10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that
6860    the LORD hath commanded;
6861 11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and
6862    his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
6863 12 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the
6864    vail of the covering,
6865 13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the
6866    shewbread,
6867 14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his
6868    lamps, with the oil for the light,
6869 15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil,
6870    and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the
6871    entering in of the tabernacle,
6872 16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his
6873    staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
6874 17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and
6875    the hanging for the door of the court,
6876 18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and
6877    their cords,
6878 19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the
6879    holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his
6880    sons, to minister in the priest's office.
6881 20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed
6882    from the presence of Moses.
6883 21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every
6884    one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD's
6885    offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation,
6886    and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
6887 22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing
6888    hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and
6889    tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered
6890    offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
6891 23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and
6892    scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of
6893    rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
6894 24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass
6895    brought the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was
6896    found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
6897 25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their
6898    hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and
6899    of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
6900 26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun
6901    goats' hair.
6902 27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for
6903    the ephod, and for the breastplate;
6904 28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil,
6905    and for the sweet incense.
6906 29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the
6907    LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to
6908    bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to
6909    be made by the hand of Moses.
6910 30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath
6911    called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
6912    tribe of Judah;
6913 31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in
6914    understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
6915    workmanship;
6916 32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver,
6917    and in brass,
6918 33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of
6919    wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
6920 34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and
6921    Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
6922 35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner
6923    of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of
6924    the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in
6925    fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work,
6926    and of those that devise cunning work.

6927 Exodus 36

6928  1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man,
6929    in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to
6930    work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary,
6931    according to all that the LORD had commanded.
6932  2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted
6933    man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one
6934    whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
6935  3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the
6936    children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of
6937    the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto
6938    him free offerings every morning.
6939  4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the
6940    sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
6941  5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more
6942    than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD
6943    commanded to make.
6944  6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be
6945    proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor
6946    woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So
6947    the people were restrained from bringing.
6948  7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make
6949    it, and too much.
6950  8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of
6951    the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and
6952    blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work
6953    made he them.
6954  9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the
6955    breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of
6956    one size.
6957 10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the
6958    other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
6959 11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the
6960    selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost
6961    side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
6962 12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in
6963    the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the
6964    second: the loops held one curtain to another.
6965 13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one
6966    unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
6967 14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the
6968    tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
6969 15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits
6970    was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of
6971    one size.
6972 16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains
6973    by themselves.
6974 17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain
6975    in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the
6976    curtain which coupleth the second.
6977 18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together,
6978    that it might be one.
6979 19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red,
6980    and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
6981 20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood,
6982    standing up.
6983 21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a
6984    board one cubit and a half.
6985 22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another:
6986    thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
6987 23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the
6988    south side southward:
6989 24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards;
6990    two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two
6991    sockets under another board for his two tenons.
6992 25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the
6993    north corner, he made twenty boards,
6994 26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
6995    board, and two sockets under another board.
6996 27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six
6997    boards.
6998 28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in
6999    the two sides.
7000 29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the
7001    head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both
7002    the corners.
7003 30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen
7004    sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
7005 31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the
7006    one side of the tabernacle,
7007 32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the
7008    tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for
7009    the sides westward.
7010 33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from
7011    the one end to the other.
7012 34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of
7013    gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with
7014    gold.
7015 35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
7016    twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
7017 36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and
7018    overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast
7019    for them four sockets of silver.
7020 37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and
7021    purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
7022 38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid
7023    their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five
7024    sockets were of brass.

7025 Exodus 37

7026  1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a
7027    half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth
7028    of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
7029  2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made
7030    a crown of gold to it round about.
7031  3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four
7032    corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two
7033    rings upon the other side of it.
7034  4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
7035    gold.
7036  5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark,
7037    to bear the ark.
7038  6 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half
7039    was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth
7040    thereof.
7041  7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece
7042    made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
7043  8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the
7044    other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the
7045    cherubims on the two ends thereof.
7046  9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered
7047    with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to
7048    another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the
7049    cherubims.
7050 10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the
7051    length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit
7052    and a half the height thereof:
7053 11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown
7054    of gold round about.
7055 12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about;
7056    and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
7057 13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon
7058    the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
7059 14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the
7060    staves to bear the table.
7061 15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
7062    gold, to bear the table.
7063 16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes,
7064    and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal,
7065    of pure gold.
7066 17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made
7067    he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his
7068    knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
7069 18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three
7070    branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and
7071    three branches of the candlestick out of the other side
7072    thereof:
7073 19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a
7074    knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in
7075    another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six
7076    branches going out of the candlestick.
7077 20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his
7078    knops, and his flowers:
7079 21 And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under
7080    two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the
7081    same, according to the six branches going out of it.
7082 22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was
7083    one beaten work of pure gold.
7084 23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his
7085    snuffdishes, of pure gold.
7086 24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels
7087    thereof.
7088 25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of
7089    it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was
7090    foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns
7091    thereof were of the same.
7092 26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the
7093    sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made
7094    unto it a crown of gold round about.
7095 27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof,
7096    by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be
7097    places for the staves to bear it withal.
7098 28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
7099    gold.
7100 29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of
7101    sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

7102 Exodus 38

7103  1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five
7104    cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth
7105    thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height
7106    thereof.
7107  2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the
7108    horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
7109  3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the
7110    shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans:
7111    all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
7112  4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the
7113    compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
7114  5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of
7115    brass, to be places for the staves.
7116  6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
7117    brass.
7118  7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the
7119    altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with
7120    boards.
7121  8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass,
7122    of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled
7123    at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7124  9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the
7125    hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred
7126    cubits:
7127 10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty;
7128    the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
7129 11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits,
7130    their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty;
7131    the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
7132 12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their
7133    pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars
7134    and their fillets of silver.
7135 13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
7136 14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits;
7137    their pillars three, and their sockets three.
7138 15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and
7139    that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars
7140    three, and their sockets three.
7141 16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined
7142    linen.
7143 17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of
7144    the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of
7145    their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court
7146    were filleted with silver.
7147 18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of
7148    blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and
7149    twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth
7150    was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
7151 19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four;
7152    their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters
7153    and their fillets of silver.
7154 20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round
7155    about, were of brass.
7156 21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of
7157    testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of
7158    Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar,
7159    son to Aaron the priest.
7160 22 And Bezaleel the son Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
7161    Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
7162 23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of
7163    Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in
7164    blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
7165 24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of
7166    the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and
7167    nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the
7168    shekel of the sanctuary.
7169 25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation
7170    was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and
7171    threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the
7172    sanctuary:
7173 26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the
7174    shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be
7175    numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred
7176    thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
7177 27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of
7178    the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets
7179    of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
7180 28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he
7181    made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and
7182    filleted them.
7183 29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two
7184    thousand and four hundred shekels.
7185 30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the
7186    tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the
7187    brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
7188 31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of
7189    the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all
7190    the pins of the court round about.

7191 Exodus 39

7192  1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of
7193    service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy
7194    garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
7195  2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet,
7196    and fine twined linen.
7197  3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into
7198    wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the
7199    scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
7200  4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the
7201    two edges was it coupled together.
7202  5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of
7203    the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and
7204    purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD
7205    commanded Moses.
7206  6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold,
7207    graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children
7208    of Israel.
7209  7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they
7210    should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as
7211    the LORD commanded Moses.
7212  8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of
7213    the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
7214    twined linen.
7215  9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span
7216    was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being
7217    doubled.
7218 10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a
7219    sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
7220 11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
7221 12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
7222 13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were
7223    inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
7224 14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of
7225    Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings
7226    of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve
7227    tribes.
7228 15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of
7229    wreathen work of pure gold.
7230 16 And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put
7231    the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
7232 17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings
7233    on the ends of the breastplate.
7234 18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in
7235    the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the
7236    ephod, before it.
7237 19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends
7238    of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the
7239    side of the ephod inward.
7240 20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two
7241    sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over
7242    against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle
7243    of the ephod.
7244 21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings
7245    of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the
7246    curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might
7247    not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
7248 22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
7249 23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of
7250    an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should
7251    not rend.
7252 24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue,
7253    and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
7254 25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between
7255    the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between
7256    the pomegranates;
7257 26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round
7258    about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD
7259    commanded Moses.
7260 27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and
7261    for his sons,
7262 28 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen,
7263    and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
7264 29 And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
7265    scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
7266 30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and
7267    wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet,
7268    HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
7269 31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high
7270    upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
7271 32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the
7272    congregation finished: and the children of Israel did
7273    according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
7274 33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all
7275    his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his
7276    pillars, and his sockets,
7277 34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of
7278    badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
7279 35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the
7280    mercy seat,
7281 36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
7282 37 The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the
7283    lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the
7284    oil for light,
7285 38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet
7286    incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
7287 39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all
7288    his vessels, the laver and his foot,
7289 40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and
7290    the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and
7291    all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent
7292    of the congregation,
7293 41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the
7294    holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to
7295    minister in the priest's office.
7296 42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the
7297    children of Israel made all the work.
7298 43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had
7299    done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it:
7300    and Moses blessed them.

7301 Exodus 40

7302  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7303  2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the
7304    tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
7305  3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover
7306    the ark with the vail.
7307  4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things
7308    that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in
7309    the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
7310  5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before
7311    the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to
7312    the tabernacle.
7313  6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the
7314    door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
7315  7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the
7316    congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
7317  8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the
7318    hanging at the court gate.
7319  9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the
7320    tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and
7321    all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
7322 10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all
7323    his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar
7324    most holy.
7325 11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
7326 12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the
7327    tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
7328 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint
7329    him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the
7330    priest's office.
7331 14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
7332 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father,
7333    that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for
7334    their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood
7335    throughout their generations.
7336 16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him,
7337    so did he.
7338 17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on
7339    the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
7340 18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets,
7341    and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof,
7342    and reared up his pillars.
7343 19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
7344    covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded
7345    Moses.
7346 20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the
7347    staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
7348 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the
7349    vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as
7350    the LORD commanded Moses.
7351 22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the
7352    side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
7353 23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the
7354    LORD had commanded Moses.
7355 24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation,
7356    over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle
7357    southward.
7358 25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD
7359    commanded Moses.
7360 26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation
7361    before the vail:
7362 27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded
7363    Moses.
7364 28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
7365 29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the
7366    tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon
7367    it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD
7368    commanded Moses.
7369 30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and
7370    the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
7371 31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their
7372    feet thereat:
7373 32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when
7374    they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD
7375    commanded Moses.
7376 33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the
7377    altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses
7378    finished the work.
7379 34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the
7380    glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
7381 35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
7382    congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory
7383    of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
7384 36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
7385    children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
7386 37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not
7387    till the day that it was taken up.
7388 38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and
7389    fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of
7390    Israel, throughout all their journeys.

7391 Book 3 Leviticus

7392 Leviticus 1

7393  1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the
7394    tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
7395  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
7396    man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring
7397    your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the
7398    flock.
7399  3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him
7400    offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own
7401    voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the
7402    congregation before the LORD.
7403  4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering;
7404    and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
7405  5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the
7406    priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the
7407    blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the
7408    tabernacle of the congregation.
7409  6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his
7410    pieces.
7411  7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the
7412    altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
7413  8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head,
7414    and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which
7415    is upon the altar:
7416  9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the
7417    priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice,
7418    an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
7419 10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or
7420    of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male
7421    without blemish.
7422 11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before
7423    the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his
7424    blood round about upon the altar.
7425 12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his
7426    fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that
7427    is on the fire which is upon the altar:
7428 13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the
7429    priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a
7430    burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour
7431    unto the LORD.
7432 14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of
7433    fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of
7434    young pigeons.
7435 15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off
7436    his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof
7437    shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
7438 16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast
7439    it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the
7440    ashes:
7441 17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not
7442    divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the
7443    altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt
7444    sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
7445    the LORD.

7446 Leviticus 2

7447  1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his
7448    offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon
7449    it, and put frankincense thereon:
7450  2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he
7451    shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of
7452    the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the
7453    priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an
7454    offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
7455  3 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his
7456    sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD
7457    made by fire.
7458  4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the
7459    oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with
7460    oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
7461  5 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it
7462    shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
7463  6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a
7464    meat offering.
7465  7 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan,
7466    it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
7467  8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these
7468    things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the
7469    priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
7470  9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial
7471    thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering
7472    made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
7473 10 And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's
7474    and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the
7475    LORD made by fire.
7476 11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be
7477    made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey,
7478    in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
7479 12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them
7480    unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a
7481    sweet savour.
7482 13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with
7483    salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of
7484    thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine
7485    offerings thou shalt offer salt.
7486 14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the
7487    LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy
7488    firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn
7489    beaten out of full ears.
7490 15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon:
7491    it is a meat offering.
7492 16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the
7493    beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
7494    frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the
7495    LORD.

7496 Leviticus 3

7497  1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he
7498    offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall
7499    offer it without blemish before the LORD.
7500  2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and
7501    kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
7502    Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the
7503    altar round about.
7504  3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
7505    offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the
7506    inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
7507  4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by
7508    the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
7509    shall he take away.
7510  5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt
7511    sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is
7512    an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
7513  6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the
7514    LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it
7515    without blemish.
7516  7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it
7517    before the LORD.
7518  8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and
7519    kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's
7520    sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the
7521    altar.
7522  9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
7523    offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the
7524    whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the
7525    fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon
7526    the inwards,
7527 10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
7528    by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
7529    it shall he take away.
7530 11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of
7531    the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
7532 12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before
7533    the LORD.
7534 13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it
7535    before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of
7536    Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round
7537    about.
7538 14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made
7539    by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and
7540    all the fat that is upon the inwards,
7541 15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
7542    by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
7543    it shall he take away.
7544 16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food
7545    of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat
7546    is the LORD's.
7547 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations
7548    throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor
7549    blood.

7550 Leviticus 4

7551  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7552  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin
7553    through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD
7554    concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do
7555    against any of them:
7556  3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of
7557    the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath
7558    sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a
7559    sin offering.
7560  4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle
7561    of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand
7562    upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
7563  5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's
7564    blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
7565  6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle
7566    of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of
7567    the sanctuary.
7568  7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of
7569    the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the
7570    tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood
7571    of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt
7572    offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the
7573    congregation.
7574  8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for
7575    the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all
7576    the fat that is upon the inwards,
7577  9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
7578    by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
7579    it shall he take away,
7580 10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace
7581    offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of
7582    the burnt offering.
7583 11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head,
7584    and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
7585 12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp
7586    unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn
7587    him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out
7588    shall he be burnt.
7589 13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance,
7590    and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they
7591    have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD
7592    concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
7593 14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known,
7594    then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin,
7595    and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
7596 15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon
7597    the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall
7598    be killed before the LORD.
7599 16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's
7600    blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
7601 17 And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and
7602    sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
7603 18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar
7604    which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the
7605    congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom
7606    of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of
7607    the tabernacle of the congregation.
7608 19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the
7609    altar.
7610 20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock
7611    for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest
7612    shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven
7613    them.
7614 21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and
7615    burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering
7616    for the congregation.
7617 22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance
7618    against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning
7619    things which should not be done, and is guilty;
7620 23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge;
7621    he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male
7622    without blemish:
7623 24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill
7624    it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the
7625    LORD: it is a sin offering.
7626 25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering
7627    with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
7628    burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of
7629    the altar of burnt offering.
7630 26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of
7631    the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an
7632    atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be
7633    forgiven him.
7634 27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance,
7635    while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the
7636    LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be
7637    guilty;
7638 28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge:
7639    then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female
7640    without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
7641 29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
7642    and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
7643 30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his
7644    finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt
7645    offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the
7646    bottom of the altar.
7647 31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is
7648    taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the
7649    priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto
7650    the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and
7651    it shall be forgiven him.
7652 32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a
7653    female without blemish.
7654 33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
7655    and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill
7656    the burnt offering.
7657 34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering
7658    with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
7659    burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at
7660    the bottom of the altar:
7661 35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the
7662    lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
7663    and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to
7664    the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall
7665    make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it
7666    shall be forgiven him.

7667 Leviticus 5

7668  1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a
7669    witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not
7670    utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
7671  2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase
7672    of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the
7673    carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from
7674    him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
7675  3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness
7676    it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from
7677    him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
7678  4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or
7679    to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with
7680    an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then
7681    he shall be guilty in one of these.
7682  5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these
7683    things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that
7684    thing:
7685  6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his
7686    sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a
7687    kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall
7688    make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
7689  7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for
7690    his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two
7691    young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the
7692    other for a burnt offering.
7693  8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that
7694    which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head
7695    from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
7696  9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon
7697    the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be
7698    wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
7699 10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according
7700    to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him
7701    for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven
7702    him.
7703 11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young
7704    pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the
7705    tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he
7706    shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any
7707    frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
7708 12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall
7709    take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it
7710    on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the
7711    LORD: it is a sin offering.
7712 13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his
7713    sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be
7714    forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat
7715    offering.
7716 14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7717 15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the
7718    holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass
7719    unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with
7720    thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the
7721    sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
7722 16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the
7723    holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it
7724    unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for
7725    him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be
7726    forgiven him.
7727 17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are
7728    forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though
7729    he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
7730 18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock,
7731    with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
7732    and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his
7733    ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be
7734    forgiven him.
7735 19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed
7736    against the LORD.

7737 Leviticus 6

7738  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7739  2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie
7740    unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or
7741    in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath
7742    deceived his neighbour;
7743  3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it,
7744    and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth,
7745    sinning therein:
7746  4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that
7747    he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the
7748    thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was
7749    delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
7750  5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even
7751    restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more
7752    thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the
7753    day of his trespass offering.
7754  6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram
7755    without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a
7756    trespass offering, unto the priest:
7757  7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the
7758    LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that
7759    he hath done in trespassing therein.
7760  8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7761  9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the
7762    burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the
7763    burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the
7764    fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
7765 10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
7766    breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes
7767    which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the
7768    altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
7769 11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments,
7770    and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
7771 12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall
7772    not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every
7773    morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he
7774    shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
7775 13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never
7776    go out.
7777 14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron
7778    shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
7779 15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat
7780    offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense
7781    which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the
7782    altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the
7783    LORD.
7784 16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with
7785    unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the
7786    court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
7787 17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them
7788    for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most
7789    holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
7790 18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It
7791    shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the
7792    offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth
7793    them shall be holy.
7794 19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7795 20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they
7796    shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the
7797    tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering
7798    perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at
7799    night.
7800 21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou
7801    shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering
7802    shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
7803 22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall
7804    offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be
7805    wholly burnt.
7806 23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt:
7807    it shall not be eaten.
7808 24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7809 25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of
7810    the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is
7811    killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is
7812    most holy.
7813 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy
7814    place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
7815    congregation.
7816 27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and
7817    when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment,
7818    thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy
7819    place.
7820 28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken:
7821    and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured,
7822    and rinsed in water.
7823 29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most
7824    holy.
7825 30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into
7826    the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the
7827    holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

7828 Leviticus 7

7829  1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most
7830    holy.
7831  2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they
7832    kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he
7833    sprinkle round about upon the altar.
7834  3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and
7835    the fat that covereth the inwards,
7836  4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by
7837    the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the
7838    kidneys, it shall he take away:
7839  5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering
7840    made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
7841  6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be
7842    eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
7843  7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is
7844    one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith
7845    shall have it.
7846  8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even
7847    the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt
7848    offering which he hath offered.
7849  9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all
7850    that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the
7851    priest's that offereth it.
7852 10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all
7853    the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
7854 11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which
7855    he shall offer unto the LORD.
7856 12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with
7857    the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with
7858    oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes
7859    mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
7860 13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened
7861    bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace
7862    offerings.
7863 14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an
7864    heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's
7865    that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
7866 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
7867    thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered;
7868    he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
7869 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary
7870    offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his
7871    sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be
7872    eaten:
7873 17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third
7874    day shall be burnt with fire.
7875 18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
7876    offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be
7877    accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth
7878    it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it
7879    shall bear his iniquity.
7880 19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be
7881    eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all
7882    that be clean shall eat thereof.
7883 20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of
7884    peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his
7885    uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his
7886    people.
7887 21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the
7888    uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable
7889    unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
7890    offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall
7891    be cut off from his people.
7892 22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7893 23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no
7894    manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
7895 24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of
7896    that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use:
7897    but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
7898 25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer
7899    an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that
7900    eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
7901 26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of
7902    fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
7903 27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even
7904    that soul shall be cut off from his people.
7905 28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7906 29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth
7907    the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring
7908    his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace
7909    offerings.
7910 30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by
7911    fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the
7912    breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
7913 31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the
7914    breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
7915 32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an
7916    heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
7917 33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the
7918    peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder
7919    for his part.
7920 34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the
7921    children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace
7922    offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto
7923    his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of
7924    Israel.
7925 35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the
7926    anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made
7927    by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto
7928    the LORD in the priest's office;
7929 36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of
7930    Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for
7931    ever throughout their generations.
7932 37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering,
7933    and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of
7934    the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace
7935    offerings;
7936 38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that
7937    he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations
7938    unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

7939 Leviticus 8

7940  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
7941  2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the
7942    anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two
7943    rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
7944  3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of
7945    the tabernacle of the congregation.
7946  4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was
7947    gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the
7948    congregation.
7949  5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which
7950    the LORD commanded to be done.
7951  6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with
7952    water.
7953  7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle,
7954    and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and
7955    he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound
7956    it unto him therewith.
7957  8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the
7958    breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
7959  9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even
7960    upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy
7961    crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
7962 10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle
7963    and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
7964 11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and
7965    anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his
7966    foot, to sanctify them.
7967 12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and
7968    anointed him, to sanctify him.
7969 13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and
7970    girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the
7971    LORD commanded Moses.
7972 14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and
7973    his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the
7974    sin offering.
7975 15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
7976    horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified
7977    the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar,
7978    and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
7979 16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the
7980    caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and
7981    Moses burned it upon the altar.
7982 17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he
7983    burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
7984 18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and
7985    his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
7986 19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar
7987    round about.
7988 20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and
7989    the pieces, and the fat.
7990 21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses
7991    burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice
7992    for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the
7993    LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
7994 22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and
7995    Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
7996 23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it
7997    upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his
7998    right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
7999 24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon
8000    the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right
8001    hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses
8002    sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
8003 25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was
8004    upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two
8005    kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
8006 26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the
8007    LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread,
8008    and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right
8009    shoulder:
8010 27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands,
8011    and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
8012 28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on
8013    the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for
8014    a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8015 29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering
8016    before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses'
8017    part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
8018 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which
8019    was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his
8020    garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with
8021    him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and
8022    his sons' garments with him.
8023 31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at
8024    the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat
8025    it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I
8026    commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
8027 32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall
8028    ye burn with fire.
8029 33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the
8030    congregation in seven days, until the days of your
8031    consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate
8032    you.
8033 34 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to
8034    make an atonement for you.
8035 35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the
8036    congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of
8037    the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
8038 36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded
8039    by the hand of Moses.

8040 Leviticus 9

8041  1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron
8042    and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
8043  2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin
8044    offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and
8045    offer them before the LORD.
8046  3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take
8047    ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a
8048    lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt
8049    offering;
8050  4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice
8051    before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to
8052    day the LORD will appear unto you.
8053  5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the
8054    tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew
8055    near and stood before the LORD.
8056  6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded
8057    that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto
8058    you.
8059  7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy
8060    sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement
8061    for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the
8062    people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
8063  8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the
8064    sin offering, which was for himself.
8065  9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he
8066    dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of
8067    the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the
8068    altar:
8069 10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of
8070    the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD
8071    commanded Moses.
8072 11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the
8073    camp.
8074 12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented
8075    unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the
8076    altar.
8077 13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the
8078    pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the
8079    altar.
8080 14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon
8081    the burnt offering on the altar.
8082 15 And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which
8083    was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered
8084    it for sin, as the first.
8085 16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to
8086    the manner.
8087 17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof,
8088    and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the
8089    morning.
8090 18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace
8091    offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons
8092    presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the
8093    altar round about,
8094 19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that
8095    which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul
8096    above the liver:
8097 20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat
8098    upon the altar:
8099 21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave
8100    offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
8101 22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed
8102    them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the
8103    burnt offering, and peace offerings.
8104 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the
8105    congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the
8106    glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
8107 24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed
8108    upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all
8109    the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

8110 Leviticus 10

8111  1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them
8112    his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and
8113    offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them
8114    not.
8115  2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and
8116    they died before the LORD.
8117  3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake,
8118    saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and
8119    before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his
8120    peace.
8121  4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the
8122    uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your
8123    brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
8124  5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the
8125    camp; as Moses had said.
8126  6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
8127    his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes;
8128    lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let
8129    your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning
8130    which the LORD hath kindled.
8131  7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the
8132    congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD
8133    is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
8134  8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
8135  9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with
8136    thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
8137    ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
8138    generations:
8139 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and
8140    between unclean and clean;
8141 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes
8142    which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
8143 12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
8144    his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth
8145    of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without
8146    leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
8147 13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due,
8148    and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire:
8149    for so I am commanded.
8150 14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean
8151    place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for
8152    they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the
8153    sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
8154 15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with
8155    the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave
8156    offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons'
8157    with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
8158 16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and,
8159    behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and
8160    Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
8161 17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy
8162    place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to
8163    bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for
8164    them before the LORD?
8165 18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy
8166    place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I
8167    commanded.
8168 19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered
8169    their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD;
8170    and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin
8171    offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of
8172    the LORD?
8173 20 And when Moses heard that, he was content.

8174 Leviticus 11

8175  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
8176  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the
8177    beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the
8178    earth.
8179  3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth
8180    the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
8181  4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud,
8182    or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he
8183    cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto
8184    you.
8185  5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not
8186    the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
8187  6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
8188    hoof; he is unclean unto you.
8189  7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted,
8190    yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
8191  8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye
8192    not touch; they are unclean to you.
8193  9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever
8194    hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
8195    rivers, them shall ye eat.
8196 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the
8197    rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living
8198    thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination
8199    unto you:
8200 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat
8201    of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in
8202    abomination.
8203 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall
8204    be an abomination unto you.
8205 13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among
8206    the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination:
8207    the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
8208 14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
8209 15 Every raven after his kind;
8210 16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
8211    after his kind,
8212 17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
8213 18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
8214 19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
8215    the bat.
8216 20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an
8217    abomination unto you.
8218 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth
8219    upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap
8220    withal upon the earth;
8221 22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and
8222    the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind,
8223    and the grasshopper after his kind.
8224 23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet,
8225    shall be an abomination unto you.
8226 24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the
8227    carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
8228 25 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash
8229    his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
8230 26 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is
8231    not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you:
8232    every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
8233 27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts
8234    that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso
8235    toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
8236 28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his
8237    clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto
8238    you.
8239 29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things
8240    that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the
8241    tortoise after his kind,
8242 30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the
8243    snail, and the mole.
8244 31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth
8245    touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the
8246    even.
8247 32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth
8248    fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood,
8249    or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein
8250    any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be
8251    unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
8252 33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth,
8253    whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
8254 34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water
8255    cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in
8256    every such vessel shall be unclean.
8257 35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth
8258    shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they
8259    shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be
8260    unclean unto you.
8261 36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of
8262    water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase
8263    shall be unclean.
8264 37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed
8265    which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
8266 38 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their
8267    carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
8268 39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth
8269    the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
8270 40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his
8271    clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth
8272    the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
8273    the even.
8274 41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be
8275    an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
8276 42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all
8277    four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things
8278    that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are
8279    an abomination.
8280 43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping
8281    thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean
8282    with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
8283 44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify
8284    yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall
8285    ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that
8286    creepeth upon the earth.
8287 45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of
8288    Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am
8289    holy.
8290 46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every
8291    living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every
8292    creature that creepeth upon the earth:
8293 47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and
8294    between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not
8295    be eaten.

8296 Leviticus 12

8297  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
8298  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have
8299    conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be
8300    unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation
8301    for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
8302  3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
8303    circumcised.
8304  4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying
8305    three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor
8306    come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
8307    fulfilled.
8308  5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two
8309    weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the
8310    blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
8311  6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son,
8312    or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year
8313    for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for
8314    a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
8315    congregation, unto the priest:
8316  7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for
8317    her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood.
8318    This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
8319  8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring
8320    two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt
8321    offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest
8322    shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

8323 Leviticus 13

8324  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
8325  2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a
8326    scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like
8327    the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the
8328    priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
8329  3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the
8330    flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and
8331    the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it
8332    is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and
8333    pronounce him unclean.
8334  4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in
8335    sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not
8336    turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the
8337    plague seven days:
8338  5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold,
8339    if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread
8340    not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days
8341    more:
8342  6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and,
8343    behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread
8344    not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is
8345    but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
8346  7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he
8347    hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be
8348    seen of the priest again.
8349  8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the
8350    skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a
8351    leprosy.
8352  9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be
8353    brought unto the priest;
8354 10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be
8355    white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and
8356    there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
8357 11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest
8358    shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he
8359    is unclean.
8360 12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy
8361    cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head
8362    even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
8363 13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy
8364    have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that
8365    hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
8366 14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
8367 15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to
8368    be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
8369 16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he
8370    shall come unto the priest;
8371 17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be
8372    turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean
8373    that hath the plague: he is clean.
8374 18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a
8375    boil, and is healed,
8376 19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a
8377    bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to
8378    the priest;
8379 20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower
8380    than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the
8381    priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy
8382    broken out of the boil.
8383 21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
8384    hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be
8385    somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
8386 22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest
8387    shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
8388 23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it
8389    is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
8390 24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot
8391    burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright
8392    spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
8393 25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair
8394    in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper
8395    than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning:
8396    wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the
8397    plague of leprosy.
8398 26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
8399    hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other
8400    skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up
8401    seven days:
8402 27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it
8403    be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall
8404    pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
8405 28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in
8406    the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the
8407    burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is
8408    an inflammation of the burning.
8409 29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
8410 30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in
8411    sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin
8412    hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry
8413    scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
8414 31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and,
8415    behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that
8416    there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up
8417    him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:
8418 32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague:
8419    and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no
8420    yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the
8421    skin;
8422 33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the
8423    priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
8424 34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall:
8425    and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in
8426    sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce
8427    him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
8428 35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
8429 36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall
8430    be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow
8431    hair; he is unclean.
8432 37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is
8433    black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean:
8434    and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
8435 38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh
8436    bright spots, even white bright spots;
8437 39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots
8438    in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled
8439    spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
8440 40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet
8441    is he clean.
8442 41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head
8443    toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
8444 42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white
8445    reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or
8446    his bald forehead.
8447 43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising
8448    of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald
8449    forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
8450 44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce
8451    him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
8452 45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be
8453    rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his
8454    upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
8455 46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be
8456    defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp
8457    shall his habitation be.
8458 47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it
8459    be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
8460 48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen;
8461    whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
8462 49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in
8463    the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing
8464    of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto
8465    the priest:
8466 50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that
8467    hath the plague seven days:
8468 51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the
8469    plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
8470    woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the
8471    plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
8472 52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in
8473    woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague
8474    is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the
8475    fire.
8476 53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not
8477    spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or
8478    in any thing of skin;
8479 54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein
8480    the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
8481 55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is
8482    washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his
8483    colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou
8484    shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be
8485    bare within or without.
8486 56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat
8487    dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the
8488    garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the
8489    woof:
8490 57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or
8491    in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading
8492    plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
8493 58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of
8494    skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed
8495    from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall
8496    be clean.
8497 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of
8498    woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of
8499    skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

8500 Leviticus 14

8501  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
8502  2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
8503    cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
8504  3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest
8505    shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in
8506    the leper;
8507  4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be
8508    cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and
8509    scarlet, and hyssop:
8510  5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed
8511    in an earthen vessel over running water:
8512  6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood,
8513    and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the
8514    living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the
8515    running water:
8516  7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the
8517    leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall
8518    let the living bird loose into the open field.
8519  8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
8520    shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may
8521    be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and
8522    shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
8523  9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
8524    his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all
8525    his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes,
8526    also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
8527 10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without
8528    blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish,
8529    and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering,
8530    mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
8531 11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man
8532    that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD,
8533    at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
8534 12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a
8535    trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a
8536    wave offering before the LORD:
8537 13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill
8538    the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place:
8539    for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass
8540    offering: it is most holy:
8541 14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass
8542    offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the
8543    right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of
8544    his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
8545 15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it
8546    into the palm of his own left hand:
8547 16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is
8548    in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his
8549    finger seven times before the LORD:
8550 17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the
8551    priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
8552    cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
8553    great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass
8554    offering:
8555 18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he
8556    shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and
8557    the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
8558 19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an
8559    atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness;
8560    and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
8561 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat
8562    offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an
8563    atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
8564 21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take
8565    one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an
8566    atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled
8567    with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
8568 22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able
8569    to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a
8570    burnt offering.
8571 23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing
8572    unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
8573    congregation, before the LORD.
8574 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering,
8575    and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave
8576    offering before the LORD:
8577 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the
8578    priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering,
8579    and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
8580    cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
8581    great toe of his right foot:
8582 26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own
8583    left hand:
8584 27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of
8585    the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
8586 28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon
8587    the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and
8588    upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of
8589    his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass
8590    offering:
8591 29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall
8592    put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an
8593    atonement for him before the LORD.
8594 30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young
8595    pigeons, such as he can get;
8596 31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering,
8597    and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering:
8598    and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be
8599    cleansed before the LORD.
8600 32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose
8601    hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his
8602    cleansing.
8603 33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
8604 34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you
8605    for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house
8606    of the land of your possession;
8607 35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest,
8608    saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the
8609    house:
8610 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house,
8611    before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that
8612    is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest
8613    shall go in to see the house:
8614 37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be
8615    in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or
8616    reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
8617 38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the
8618    house, and shut up the house seven days:
8619 39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall
8620    look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the
8621    house;
8622 40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones
8623    in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an
8624    unclean place without the city:
8625 41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about,
8626    and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without
8627    the city into an unclean place:
8628 42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of
8629    those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall
8630    plaister the house.
8631 43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house,
8632    after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath
8633    scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
8634 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the
8635    plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the
8636    house; it is unclean.
8637 45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the
8638    timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall
8639    carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
8640 46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is
8641    shut up shall be unclean until the even.
8642 47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he
8643    that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
8644 48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and,
8645    behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the
8646    house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the
8647    house clean, because the plague is healed.
8648 49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar
8649    wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
8650 50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel
8651    over running water:
8652 51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the
8653    scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the
8654    slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house
8655    seven times:
8656 52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and
8657    with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the
8658    cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
8659 53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the
8660    open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall
8661    be clean.
8662 54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and
8663    scall,
8664 55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
8665 56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
8666 57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the
8667    law of leprosy.

8668 Leviticus 15

8669  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
8670  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any
8671    man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his
8672    issue he is unclean.
8673  3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his
8674    flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his
8675    issue, it is his uncleanness.
8676  4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean:
8677    and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
8678  5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and
8679    bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
8680  6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the
8681    issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
8682    be unclean until the even.
8683  7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue
8684    shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
8685    unclean until the even.
8686  8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean;
8687    then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
8688    and be unclean until the even.
8689  9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue
8690    shall be unclean.
8691 10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be
8692    unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those
8693    things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
8694    be unclean until the even.
8695 11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not
8696    rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and
8697    bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
8698 12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the
8699    issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be
8700    rinsed in water.
8701 13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then
8702    he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and
8703    wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and
8704    shall be clean.
8705 14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or
8706    two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of
8707    the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the
8708    priest:
8709 15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering,
8710    and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make
8711    an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
8712 16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he
8713    shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the
8714    even.
8715 17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of
8716    copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until
8717    the even.
8718 18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of
8719    copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be
8720    unclean until the even.
8721 19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be
8722    blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever
8723    toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
8724 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be
8725    unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be
8726    unclean.
8727 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and
8728    bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
8729 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash
8730    his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
8731    the even.
8732 23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth,
8733    when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
8734 24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon
8735    him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon
8736    he lieth shall be unclean.
8737 25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the
8738    time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
8739    separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall
8740    be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
8741 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be
8742    unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she
8743    sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
8744    separation.
8745 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and
8746    shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
8747    unclean until the even.
8748 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to
8749    herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
8750 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or
8751    two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door
8752    of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8753 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the
8754    other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an
8755    atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her
8756    uncleanness.
8757 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their
8758    uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they
8759    defile my tabernacle that is among them.
8760 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose
8761    seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
8762 33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath
8763    an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth
8764    with her that is unclean.

8765 Leviticus 16

8766  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons
8767    of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
8768  2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother,
8769    that he come not at all times into the holy place within the
8770    vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die
8771    not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
8772  3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young
8773    bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
8774  4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the
8775    linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a
8776    linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired:
8777    these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in
8778    water, and so put them on.
8779  5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of
8780    Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram
8781    for a burnt offering.
8782  6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which
8783    is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his
8784    house.
8785  7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the
8786    LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8787  8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the
8788    LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
8789  9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell,
8790    and offer him for a sin offering.
8791 10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall
8792    be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with
8793    him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
8794 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which
8795    is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and
8796    for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering
8797    which is for himself:
8798 12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from
8799    off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet
8800    incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
8801 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD,
8802    that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is
8803    upon the testimony, that he die not:
8804 14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it
8805    with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the
8806    mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger
8807    seven times.
8808 15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for
8809    the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with
8810    that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
8811    sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
8812 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of
8813    the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of
8814    their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for
8815    the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them
8816    in the midst of their uncleanness.
8817 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the
8818    congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy
8819    place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for
8820    himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation
8821    of Israel.
8822 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD,
8823    and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of
8824    the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the
8825    horns of the altar round about.
8826 19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger
8827    seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
8828    uncleanness of the children of Israel.
8829 20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place,
8830    and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he
8831    shall bring the live goat:
8832 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live
8833    goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children
8834    of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins,
8835    putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him
8836    away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
8837 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a
8838    land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the
8839    wilderness.
8840 23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation,
8841    and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he
8842    went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
8843 24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and
8844    put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt
8845    offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an
8846    atonement for himself, and for the people.
8847 25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
8848 26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his
8849    clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into
8850    the camp.
8851 27 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin
8852    offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the
8853    holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they
8854    shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their
8855    dung.
8856 28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his
8857    flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
8858 29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the
8859    seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict
8860    your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your
8861    own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
8862 30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to
8863    cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before
8864    the LORD.
8865 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict
8866    your souls, by a statute for ever.
8867 32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall
8868    consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's
8869    stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen
8870    clothes, even the holy garments:
8871 33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he
8872    shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the
8873    congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an
8874    atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the
8875    congregation.
8876 34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an
8877    atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a
8878    year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

8879 Leviticus 17

8880  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
8881  2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children
8882    of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD
8883    hath commanded, saying,
8884  3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth
8885    an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out
8886    of the camp,
8887  4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
8888    congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the
8889    tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man;
8890    he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among
8891    his people:
8892  5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their
8893    sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they
8894    may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle
8895    of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace
8896    offerings unto the LORD.
8897  6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the
8898    LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
8899    burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
8900  7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils,
8901    after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute
8902    for ever unto them throughout their generations.
8903  8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the
8904    house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you,
8905    that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
8906  9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
8907    congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall
8908    be cut off from among his people.
8909 10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
8910    strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of
8911    blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth
8912    blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
8913 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it
8914    to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for
8915    it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
8916 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you
8917    shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth
8918    among you eat blood.
8919 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of
8920    the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and
8921    catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even
8922    pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
8923 14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the
8924    life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye
8925    shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all
8926    flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut
8927    off.
8928 15 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that
8929    which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own
8930    country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and
8931    bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then
8932    shall he be clean.
8933 16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall
8934    bear his iniquity.

8935 Leviticus 18

8936  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
8937  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the
8938    LORD your God.
8939  3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall
8940    ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither
8941    I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their
8942    ordinances.
8943  4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk
8944    therein: I am the LORD your God.
8945  5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which
8946    if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
8947  6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him,
8948    to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
8949  7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother,
8950    shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not
8951    uncover her nakedness.
8952  8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it
8953    is thy father's nakedness.
8954  9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or
8955    daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born
8956    abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
8957 10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's
8958    daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for
8959    theirs is thine own nakedness.
8960 11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy
8961    father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her
8962    nakedness.
8963 12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister:
8964    she is thy father's near kinswoman.
8965 13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister:
8966    for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
8967 14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother,
8968    thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
8969 15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law:
8970    she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8971 16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it
8972    is thy brother's nakedness.
8973 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her
8974    daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her
8975    daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are
8976    her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
8977 18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to
8978    uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
8979 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her
8980    nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
8981 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's
8982    wife, to defile thyself with her.
8983 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire
8984    to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I
8985    am the LORD.
8986 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
8987    abomination.
8988 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
8989    therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie
8990    down thereto: it is confusion.
8991 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all
8992    these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
8993 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity
8994    thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her
8995    inhabitants.
8996 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and
8997    shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of
8998    your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
8999 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done,
9000    which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
9001 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it
9002    spued out the nations that were before you.
9003 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the
9004    souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their
9005    people.
9006 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any
9007    one of these abominable customs, which were committed before
9008    you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD
9009    your God.

9010 Leviticus 19

9011  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9012  2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and
9013    say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am
9014    holy.
9015  3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep
9016    my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
9017  4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I
9018    am the LORD your God.
9019  5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD,
9020    ye shall offer it at your own will.
9021  6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow:
9022    and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in
9023    the fire.
9024  7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable;
9025    it shall not be accepted.
9026  8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity,
9027    because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and
9028    that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
9029  9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not
9030    wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
9031    gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
9032 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou
9033    gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for
9034    the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
9035 11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to
9036    another.
9037 12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou
9038    profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
9039 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the
9040    wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night
9041    until the morning.
9042 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before
9043    the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
9044 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not
9045    respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the
9046    mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
9047 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy
9048    people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy
9049    neighbour; I am the LORD.
9050 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in
9051    any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
9052 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the
9053    children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as
9054    thyself: I am the LORD.
9055 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle
9056    gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with
9057    mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and
9058    woollen come upon thee.
9059 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid,
9060    betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom
9061    given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to
9062    death, because she was not free.
9063 21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto
9064    the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for
9065    a trespass offering.
9066 22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of
9067    the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he
9068    hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven
9069    him.
9070 23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted
9071    all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit
9072    thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as
9073    uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
9074 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to
9075    praise the LORD withal.
9076 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that
9077    it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your
9078    God.
9079 26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye
9080    use enchantment, nor observe times.
9081 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt
9082    thou mar the corners of thy beard.
9083 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor
9084    print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
9085 29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore;
9086    lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of
9087    wickedness.
9088 30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am
9089    the LORD.
9090 31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after
9091    wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
9092 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face
9093    of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
9094 33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not
9095    vex him.
9096 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as
9097    one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye
9098    were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
9099 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in
9100    weight, or in measure.
9101 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin,
9102    shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out
9103    of the land of Egypt.
9104 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my
9105    judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

9106 Leviticus 20

9107  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9108  2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he
9109    be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn
9110    in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall
9111    surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him
9112    with stones.
9113  3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
9114    from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
9115    Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
9116  4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from
9117    the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him
9118    not:
9119  5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
9120    family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
9121    him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
9122  6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits,
9123    and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set
9124    my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his
9125    people.
9126  7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the
9127    LORD your God.
9128  8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD
9129    which sanctify you.
9130  9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be
9131    surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother;
9132    his blood shall be upon him.
9133 10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife,
9134    even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife,
9135    the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
9136 11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered
9137    his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to
9138    death; their blood shall be upon them.
9139 12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall
9140    surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their
9141    blood shall be upon them.
9142 13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both
9143    of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be
9144    put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
9145 14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness:
9146    they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be
9147    no wickedness among you.
9148 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to
9149    death: and ye shall slay the beast.
9150 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto,
9151    thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be
9152    put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
9153 17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or
9154    his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his
9155    nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in
9156    the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's
9157    nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
9158 18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and
9159    shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain,
9160    and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of
9161    them shall be cut off from among their people.
9162 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
9163    sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near
9164    kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
9165 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath
9166    uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin;
9167    they shall die childless.
9168 21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean
9169    thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall
9170    be childless.
9171 22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments,
9172    and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
9173    therein, spue you not out.
9174 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I
9175    cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and
9176    therefore I abhorred them.
9177 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I
9178    will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with
9179    milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated
9180    you from other people.
9181 25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and
9182    unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not
9183    make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any
9184    manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I
9185    have separated from you as unclean.
9186 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have
9187    severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
9188 27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a
9189    wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them
9190    with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

9191 Leviticus 21

9192  1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons
9193    of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for
9194    the dead among his people:
9195  2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his
9196    mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his
9197    daughter, and for his brother.
9198  3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath
9199    had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
9200  4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his
9201    people, to profane himself.
9202  5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall
9203    they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any
9204    cuttings in their flesh.
9205  6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of
9206    their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the
9207    bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be
9208    holy.
9209  7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane;
9210    neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for
9211    he is holy unto his God.
9212  8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread
9213    of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which
9214    sanctify you, am holy.
9215  9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by
9216    playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be
9217    burnt with fire.
9218 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose
9219    head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to
9220    put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his
9221    clothes;
9222 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself
9223    for his father, or for his mother;
9224 12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the
9225    sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of
9226    his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
9227 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
9228 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these
9229    shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own
9230    people to wife.
9231 15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the
9232    LORD do sanctify him.
9233 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9234 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their
9235    generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to
9236    offer the bread of his God.
9237 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not
9238    approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose,
9239    or any thing superfluous,
9240 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
9241 20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye,
9242    or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
9243 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest
9244    shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by
9245    fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the
9246    bread of his God.
9247 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and
9248    of the holy.
9249 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the
9250    altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
9251    sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
9252 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all
9253    the children of Israel.

9254 Leviticus 22

9255  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9256  2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate
9257    themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and
9258    that they profane not my holy name in those things which they
9259    hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
9260  3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your
9261    generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the
9262    children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his
9263    uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my
9264    presence: I am the LORD.
9265  4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a
9266    running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he
9267    be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the
9268    dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
9269  5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be
9270    made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness,
9271    whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
9272  6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until
9273    even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his
9274    flesh with water.
9275  7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall
9276    afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
9277  8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall
9278    not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the LORD.
9279  9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin
9280    for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do
9281    sanctify them.
9282 10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of
9283    the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy
9284    thing.
9285 11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of
9286    it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his
9287    meat.
9288 12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she
9289    may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
9290 13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have
9291    no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her
9292    youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be
9293    no stranger eat thereof.
9294 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall
9295    put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the
9296    priest with the holy thing.
9297 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of
9298    Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
9299 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat
9300    their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
9301 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9302 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children
9303    of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of
9304    Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his
9305    oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings,
9306    which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
9307 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the
9308    beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
9309 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it
9310    shall not be acceptable for you.
9311 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the
9312    LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves
9313    or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be
9314    no blemish therein.
9315 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or
9316    scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an
9317    offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
9318 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or
9319    lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill
9320    offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
9321 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or
9322    crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering
9323    thereof in your land.
9324 25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of
9325    your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them,
9326    and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
9327 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9328 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then
9329    it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day
9330    and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by
9331    fire unto the LORD.
9332 28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her
9333    young both in one day.
9334 29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the
9335    LORD, offer it at your own will.
9336 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of
9337    it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
9338 31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the
9339    LORD.
9340 32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed
9341    among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
9342 33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I
9343    am the LORD.

9344 Leviticus 23

9345  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9346  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
9347    Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to
9348    be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
9349  3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the
9350    sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work
9351    therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
9352  4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations,
9353    which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
9354  5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's
9355    passover.
9356  6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
9357    unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat
9358    unleavened bread.
9359  7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall
9360    do no servile work therein.
9361  8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD
9362    seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye
9363    shall do no servile work therein.
9364  9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9365 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
9366    be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap
9367    the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the
9368    firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
9369 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted
9370    for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave
9371    it.
9372 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb
9373    without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto
9374    the LORD.
9375 13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine
9376    flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD
9377    for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of
9378    wine, the fourth part of an hin.
9379 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green
9380    ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering
9381    unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
9382    generations in all your dwellings.
9383 15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath,
9384    from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering;
9385    seven sabbaths shall be complete:
9386 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number
9387    fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the
9388    LORD.
9389 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two
9390    tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken
9391    with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
9392 18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish
9393    of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they
9394    shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat
9395    offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by
9396    fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
9397 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin
9398    offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of
9399    peace offerings.
9400 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
9401    firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two
9402    lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
9403 21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an
9404    holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work
9405    therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings
9406    throughout your generations.
9407 22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make
9408    clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest,
9409    neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou
9410    shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the
9411    LORD your God.
9412 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9413 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh
9414    month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath,
9415    a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
9416 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an
9417    offering made by fire unto the LORD.
9418 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9419 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a
9420    day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you;
9421    and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by
9422    fire unto the LORD.
9423 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of
9424    atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your
9425    God.
9426 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that
9427    same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
9428 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same
9429    day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
9430 31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever
9431    throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
9432 32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict
9433    your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even
9434    unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
9435 33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9436 34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day
9437    of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for
9438    seven days unto the LORD.
9439 35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no
9440    servile work therein.
9441 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
9442    LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you;
9443    and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it
9444    is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
9445 37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to
9446    be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto
9447    the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice,
9448    and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
9449 38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and
9450    beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings,
9451    which ye give unto the LORD.
9452 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have
9453    gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto
9454    the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and
9455    on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
9456 40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly
9457    trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees,
9458    and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD
9459    your God seven days.
9460 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the
9461    year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye
9462    shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
9463 42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites
9464    born shall dwell in booths:
9465 43 That your generations may know that I made the children of
9466    Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land
9467    of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
9468 44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of
9469    the LORD.

9470 Leviticus 24

9471  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9472  2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure
9473    oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn
9474    continually.
9475  3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the
9476    congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the
9477    morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for
9478    ever in your generations.
9479  4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the
9480    LORD continually.
9481  5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof:
9482    two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
9483  6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the
9484    pure table before the LORD.
9485  7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it
9486    may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by
9487    fire unto the LORD.
9488  8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD
9489    continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an
9490    everlasting covenant.
9491  9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it
9492    in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the
9493    offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
9494 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an
9495    Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son
9496    of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together
9497    in the camp;
9498 11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the
9499    Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his
9500    mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the
9501    tribe of Dan:)
9502 12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be
9503    shewed them.
9504 13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9505 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all
9506    that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the
9507    congregation stone him.
9508 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
9509    Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
9510 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely
9511    be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly
9512    stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the
9513    land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put
9514    to death.
9515 17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
9516 18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for
9517    beast.
9518 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath
9519    done, so shall it be done to him;
9520 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath
9521    caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
9522 21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that
9523    killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
9524 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as
9525    for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
9526 23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should
9527    bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him
9528    with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD
9529    commanded Moses.

9530 Leviticus 25

9531  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
9532  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
9533    come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep
9534    a sabbath unto the LORD.
9535  3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt
9536    prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
9537  4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the
9538    land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy
9539    field, nor prune thy vineyard.
9540  5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt
9541    not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for
9542    it is a year of rest unto the land.
9543  6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee,
9544    and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired
9545    servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
9546  7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land,
9547    shall all the increase thereof be meat.
9548  8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven
9549    times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of
9550    years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9551  9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on
9552    the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement
9553    shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
9554 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
9555    throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it
9556    shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto
9557    his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
9558 11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not
9559    sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor
9560    gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
9561 12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat
9562    the increase thereof out of the field.
9563 13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his
9564    possession.
9565 14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of
9566    thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
9567 15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt
9568    buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years
9569    of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
9570 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the
9571    price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou
9572    shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of
9573    the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
9574 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt
9575    fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
9576 18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and
9577    do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
9578 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your
9579    fill, and dwell therein in safety.
9580 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year?
9581    behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
9582 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year,
9583    and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
9584 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit
9585    until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of
9586    the old store.
9587 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for
9588    ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
9589 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a
9590    redemption for the land.
9591 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his
9592    possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then
9593    shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
9594 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to
9595    redeem it;
9596 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore
9597    the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may
9598    return unto his possession.
9599 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is
9600    sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until
9601    the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he
9602    shall return unto his possession.
9603 29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he
9604    may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a
9605    full year may he redeem it.
9606 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year,
9607    then the house that is in the walled city shall be established
9608    for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it
9609    shall not go out in the jubile.
9610 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about
9611    them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may
9612    be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
9613 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of
9614    the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any
9615    time.
9616 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was
9617    sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year
9618    of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are
9619    their possession among the children of Israel.
9620 34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold;
9621    for it is their perpetual possession.
9622 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with
9623    thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a
9624    stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
9625 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that
9626    thy brother may live with thee.
9627 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy
9628    victuals for increase.
9629 38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the
9630    land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your
9631    God.
9632 39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be
9633    sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
9634    bondservant:
9635 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with
9636    thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
9637 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children
9638    with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the
9639    possession of his fathers shall he return.
9640 42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the
9641    land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
9642 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy
9643    God.
9644 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,
9645    shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them
9646    shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
9647 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn
9648    among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that
9649    are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be
9650    your possession.
9651 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children
9652    after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be
9653    your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of
9654    Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
9655 47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy
9656    brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto
9657    the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the
9658    stranger's family:
9659 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his
9660    brethren may redeem him:
9661 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any
9662    that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or
9663    if he be able, he may redeem himself.
9664 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year
9665    that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price
9666    of his sale shall be according unto the number of years,
9667    according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with
9668    him.
9669 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he
9670    shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money
9671    that he was bought for.
9672 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile,
9673    then he shall count with him, and according unto his years
9674    shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
9675 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the
9676    other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
9677 54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out
9678    in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
9679 55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
9680    servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am
9681    the LORD your God.

9682 Leviticus 26

9683  1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you
9684    up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of
9685    stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD
9686    your God.
9687  2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am
9688    the LORD.
9689  3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do
9690    them;
9691  4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall
9692    yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
9693    their fruit.
9694  5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the
9695    vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat
9696    your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
9697  6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and
9698    none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of
9699    the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
9700  7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before
9701    you by the sword.
9702  8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you
9703    shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall
9704    before you by the sword.
9705  9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
9706    multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
9707 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of
9708    the new.
9709 11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
9710    you.
9711 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall
9712    be my people.
9713 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the
9714    land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have
9715    broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
9716 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
9717    commandments;
9718 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
9719    judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but
9720    that ye break my covenant:
9721 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you
9722    terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume
9723    the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your
9724    seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
9725 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain
9726    before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you;
9727    and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
9728 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I
9729    will punish you seven times more for your sins.
9730 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your
9731    heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
9732 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall
9733    not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land
9734    yield their fruits.
9735 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me;
9736    I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to
9737    your sins.
9738 22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of
9739    your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in
9740    number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
9741 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will
9742    walk contrary unto me;
9743 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you
9744    yet seven times for your sins.
9745 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the
9746    quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together
9747    within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and
9748    ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
9749 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women
9750    shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you
9751    your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be
9752    satisfied.
9753 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
9754    contrary unto me;
9755 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even
9756    I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
9757 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
9758    daughters shall ye eat.
9759 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images,
9760    and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my
9761    soul shall abhor you.
9762 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
9763    unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet
9764    odours.
9765 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies
9766    which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
9767 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a
9768    sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your
9769    cities waste.
9770 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth
9771    desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the
9772    land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
9773 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not
9774    rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
9775 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a
9776    faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and
9777    the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall
9778    flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none
9779    pursueth.
9780 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a
9781    sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand
9782    before your enemies.
9783 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your
9784    enemies shall eat you up.
9785 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their
9786    iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of
9787    their fathers shall they pine away with them.
9788 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of
9789    their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed
9790    against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
9791 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have
9792    brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
9793    uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
9794    punishment of their iniquity:
9795 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my
9796    covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I
9797    remember; and I will remember the land.
9798 43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her
9799    sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they
9800    shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because,
9801    even because they despised my judgments, and because their
9802    soul abhorred my statutes.
9803 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their
9804    enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them,
9805    to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them:
9806    for I am the LORD their God.
9807 45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their
9808    ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in
9809    the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the
9810    LORD.
9811 46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD
9812    made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by
9813    the hand of Moses.

9814 Leviticus 27

9815  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9816  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a
9817    man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the
9818    LORD by thy estimation.
9819  3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old
9820    even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty
9821    shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
9822  4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty
9823    shekels.
9824  5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old,
9825    then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and
9826    for the female ten shekels.
9827  6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then
9828    thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver,
9829    and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of
9830    silver.
9831  7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male,
9832    then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the
9833    female ten shekels.
9834  8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present
9835    himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him;
9836    according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value
9837    him.
9838  9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the
9839    LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be
9840    holy.
9841 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a
9842    bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast,
9843    then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
9844 11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a
9845    sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast
9846    before the priest:
9847 12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as
9848    thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
9849 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth
9850    part thereof unto thy estimation.
9851 14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the
9852    LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or
9853    bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
9854 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he
9855    shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto
9856    it, and it shall be his.
9857 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field
9858    of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to
9859    the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at
9860    fifty shekels of silver.
9861 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to
9862    thy estimation it shall stand.
9863 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest
9864    shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that
9865    remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be
9866    abated from thy estimation.
9867 19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem
9868    it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy
9869    estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
9870 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the
9871    field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
9872 21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy
9873    unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof
9874    shall be the priest's.
9875 22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath
9876    bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
9877 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
9878    estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall
9879    give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the
9880    LORD.
9881 24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of
9882    whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the
9883    land did belong.
9884 25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of
9885    the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
9886 26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's
9887    firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or
9888    sheep: it is the LORD's.
9889 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it
9890    according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of
9891    it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold
9892    according to thy estimation.
9893 28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto
9894    the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of
9895    the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every
9896    devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
9897 29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be
9898    redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
9899 30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the
9900    land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy
9901    unto the LORD.
9902 31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall
9903    add thereto the fifth part thereof.
9904 32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of
9905    whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto
9906    the LORD.
9907 33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall
9908    he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the
9909    change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
9910 34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for
9911    the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

9912 Book 4 Numbers

9913 Numbers 1

9914  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
9915    the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the
9916    second month, in the second year after they were come out of
9917    the land of Egypt, saying,
9918  2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
9919    Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
9920    with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
9921  3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go
9922    forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by
9923    their armies.
9924  4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one
9925    head of the house of his fathers.
9926  5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you:
9927    of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
9928  6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
9929  7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
9930  8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
9931  9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
9932 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of
9933    Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
9934 11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
9935 12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
9936 13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
9937 14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
9938 15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
9939 16 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the
9940    tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
9941 17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by
9942    their names:
9943 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first
9944    day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees
9945    after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
9946    to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
9947    by their polls.
9948 19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
9949    wilderness of Sinai.
9950 20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their
9951    generations, after their families, by the house of their
9952    fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls,
9953    every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were
9954    able to go forth to war;
9955 21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben,
9956    were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
9957 22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their
9958    families, by the house of their fathers, those that were
9959    numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by
9960    their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all
9961    that were able to go forth to war;
9962 23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon,
9963    were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
9964 24 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their
9965    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
9966    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
9967    that were able to go forth to war;
9968 25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad,
9969    were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
9970 26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their
9971    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
9972    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
9973    that were able to go forth to war;
9974 27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah,
9975    were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
9976 28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their
9977    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
9978    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
9979    that were able to go forth to war;
9980 29 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
9981    Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
9982 30 Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their
9983    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
9984    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
9985    that were able to go forth to war;
9986 31 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
9987    Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
9988 32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim,
9989    by their generations, after their families, by the house of
9990    their fathers, according to the number of the names, from
9991    twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
9992    war;
9993 33 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
9994    Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
9995 34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their
9996    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
9997    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
9998    that were able to go forth to war;
9999 35 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
10000    Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
10001 36 Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their
10002    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
10003    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
10004    that were able to go forth to war;
10005 37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
10006    Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
10007 38 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their
10008    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
10009    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
10010    that were able to go forth to war;
10011 39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan,
10012    were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
10013 40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their
10014    families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
10015    number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
10016    that were able to go forth to war;
10017 41 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher,
10018    were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
10019 42 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations,
10020    after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
10021    to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
10022    all that were able to go forth to war;
10023 43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
10024    Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
10025 44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron
10026    numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each
10027    one was for the house of his fathers.
10028 45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of
10029    Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old
10030    and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
10031 46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and
10032    three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
10033 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
10034    numbered among them.
10035 48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
10036 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the
10037    sum of them among the children of Israel:
10038 50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of
10039    testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all
10040    things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and
10041    all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and
10042    shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
10043 51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall
10044    take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the
10045    Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh
10046    shall be put to death.
10047 52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man
10048    by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout
10049    their hosts.
10050 53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of
10051    testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the
10052    children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of
10053    the tabernacle of testimony.
10054 54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
10055    commanded Moses, so did they.

10056 Numbers 2

10057  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
10058  2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own
10059    standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off
10060    about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
10061  3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they
10062    of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their
10063    armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of
10064    the children of Judah.
10065  4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
10066    threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
10067  5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of
10068    Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of
10069    the children of Issachar.
10070  6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty
10071    and four thousand and four hundred.
10072  7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be
10073    captain of the children of Zebulun.
10074  8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty
10075    and seven thousand and four hundred.
10076  9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred
10077    thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four
10078    hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
10079 10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben
10080    according to their armies: and the captain of the children of
10081    Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
10082 11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty
10083    and six thousand and five hundred.
10084 12 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and
10085    the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the
10086    son of Zurishaddai.
10087 13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
10088    and nine thousand and three hundred.
10089 14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad
10090    shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
10091 15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
10092    and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
10093 16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred
10094    thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and
10095    fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in
10096    the second rank.
10097 17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with
10098    the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they
10099    encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by
10100    their standards.
10101 18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
10102    according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of
10103    Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
10104 19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
10105    thousand and five hundred.
10106 20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of
10107    the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of
10108    Pedahzur.
10109 21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
10110    thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
10111 22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of
10112    Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
10113 23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
10114    thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
10115 24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred
10116    thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their
10117    armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
10118 25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by
10119    their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be
10120    Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
10121 26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
10122    threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
10123 27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and
10124    the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son
10125    of Ocran.
10126 28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
10127    and one thousand and five hundred.
10128 29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of
10129    Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
10130 30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
10131    and three thousand and four hundred.
10132 31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred
10133    thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They
10134    shall go hindmost with their standards.
10135 32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel
10136    by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of
10137    the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and
10138    three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
10139 33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of
10140    Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
10141 34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
10142    commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so
10143    they set forward, every one after their families, according to
10144    the house of their fathers.

10145 Numbers 3

10146  1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day
10147    that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
10148  2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the
10149    firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
10150  3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which
10151    were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's
10152    office.
10153  4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered
10154    strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and
10155    they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in
10156    the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
10157  5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10158  6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron
10159    the priest, that they may minister unto him.
10160  7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole
10161    congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do
10162    the service of the tabernacle.
10163  8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of
10164    the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to
10165    do the service of the tabernacle.
10166  9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons:
10167    they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
10168 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait
10169    on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh
10170    shall be put to death.
10171 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10172 12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the
10173    children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth
10174    the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites
10175    shall be mine;
10176 13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I
10177    smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto
10178    me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall
10179    they be: I am the LORD.
10180 14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
10181    saying,
10182 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers,
10183    by their families: every male from a month old and upward
10184    shalt thou number them.
10185 16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as
10186    he was commanded.
10187 17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and
10188    Kohath, and Merari.
10189 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their
10190    families; Libni, and Shimei.
10191 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar,
10192    Hebron, and Uzziel.
10193 20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi.
10194    These are the families of the Levites according to the house
10195    of their fathers.
10196 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of
10197    the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
10198 22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of
10199    all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that
10200    were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
10201 23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the
10202    tabernacle westward.
10203 24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites
10204    shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
10205 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the
10206    congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the
10207    covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
10208    tabernacle of the congregation,
10209 26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of
10210    the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round
10211    about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
10212 27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family
10213    of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the
10214    family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the
10215    Kohathites.
10216 28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
10217    were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the
10218    sanctuary.
10219 29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of
10220    the tabernacle southward.
10221 30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
10222    the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
10223 31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the
10224    candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary
10225    wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service
10226    thereof.
10227 32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over
10228    the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that
10229    keep the charge of the sanctuary.
10230 33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of
10231    the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
10232 34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number
10233    of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six
10234    thousand and two hundred.
10235 35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
10236    Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the
10237    side of the tabernacle northward.
10238 36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall
10239    be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the
10240    pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels
10241    thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
10242 37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets,
10243    and their pins, and their cords.
10244 38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east,
10245    even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall
10246    be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the
10247    sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the
10248    stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
10249 39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron
10250    numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their
10251    families, all the males from a month old and upward, were
10252    twenty and two thousand.
10253 40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the
10254    males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward,
10255    and take the number of their names.
10256 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead
10257    of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the
10258    cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the
10259    cattle of the children of Israel.
10260 42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the
10261    firstborn among the children of Israel.
10262 43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a
10263    month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them,
10264    were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and
10265    thirteen.
10266 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10267 45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the
10268    children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of
10269    their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
10270 46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and
10271    threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of
10272    Israel, which are more than the Levites;
10273 47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after
10274    the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel
10275    is twenty gerahs:)
10276 48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of
10277    them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
10278 49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and
10279    above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
10280 50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money;
10281    a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels,
10282    after the shekel of the sanctuary:
10283 51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron
10284    and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the
10285    LORD commanded Moses.

10286 Numbers 4

10287  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
10288  2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of
10289    Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
10290  3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old,
10291    all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle
10292    of the congregation.
10293  4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the
10294    tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
10295  5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his
10296    sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover
10297    the ark of testimony with it:
10298  6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and
10299    shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in
10300    the staves thereof.
10301  7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of
10302    blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the
10303    bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread
10304    shall be thereon:
10305  8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover
10306    the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in
10307    the staves thereof.
10308  9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick
10309    of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his
10310    snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they
10311    minister unto it:
10312 10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a
10313    covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
10314 11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue,
10315    and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put
10316    to the staves thereof:
10317 12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith
10318    they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of
10319    blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and
10320    shall put them on a bar:
10321 13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread
10322    a purple cloth thereon:
10323 14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith
10324    they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and
10325    the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and
10326    they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and
10327    put to the staves of it.
10328 15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the
10329    sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp
10330    is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come
10331    to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they
10332    die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the
10333    tabernacle of the congregation.
10334 16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
10335    pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and
10336    the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the
10337    oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is,
10338    in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
10339 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying,
10340 18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites
10341    from among the Levites:
10342 19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when
10343    they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons
10344    shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to
10345    his burden:
10346 20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are
10347    covered, lest they die.
10348 21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10349 22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the
10350    houses of their fathers, by their families;
10351 23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt
10352    thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to
10353    do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
10354 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to
10355    serve, and for burdens:
10356 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the
10357    tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering
10358    of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging
10359    for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
10360 26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of
10361    the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the
10362    altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of
10363    their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they
10364    serve.
10365 27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the
10366    service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens,
10367    and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in
10368    charge all their burdens.
10369 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in
10370    the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be
10371    under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
10372 29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their
10373    families, by the house of their fathers;
10374 30 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old
10375    shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the
10376    service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
10377 31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their
10378    service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of
10379    the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof,
10380    and sockets thereof,
10381 32 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets,
10382    and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments,
10383    and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the
10384    instruments of the charge of their burden.
10385 33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari,
10386    according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the
10387    congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
10388    priest.
10389 34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered
10390    the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the
10391    house of their fathers,
10392 35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
10393    every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
10394    tabernacle of the congregation:
10395 36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were
10396    two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
10397 37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the
10398    Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
10399    congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to
10400    the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
10401 38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon,
10402    throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
10403 39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
10404    every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
10405    tabernacle of the congregation,
10406 40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their
10407    families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and
10408    six hundred and thirty.
10409 41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons
10410    of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of
10411    the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to
10412    the commandment of the LORD.
10413 42 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
10414    Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their
10415    fathers,
10416 43 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
10417    every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
10418    tabernacle of the congregation,
10419 44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families,
10420    were three thousand and two hundred.
10421 45 These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons
10422    of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word
10423    of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
10424 46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and
10425    Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families,
10426    and after the house of their fathers,
10427 47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
10428    every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the
10429    service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation.
10430 48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and
10431    five hundred and fourscore,
10432 49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by
10433    the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and
10434    according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as
10435    the LORD commanded Moses.

10436 Numbers 5

10437  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10438  2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp
10439    every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever
10440    is defiled by the dead:
10441  3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall
10442    ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst
10443    whereof I dwell.
10444  4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without
10445    the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of
10446    Israel.
10447  5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10448  6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall
10449    commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the
10450    LORD, and that person be guilty;
10451  7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he
10452    shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and
10453    add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him
10454    against whom he hath trespassed.
10455  8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass
10456    unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to
10457    the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an
10458    atonement shall be made for him.
10459  9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of
10460    Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
10461 10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any
10462    man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
10463 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10464 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
10465    man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
10466 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes
10467    of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and
10468    there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the
10469    manner;
10470 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of
10471    his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
10472    come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
10473    defiled:
10474 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he
10475    shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah
10476    of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
10477    frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an
10478    offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
10479 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the
10480    LORD:
10481 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and
10482    of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest
10483    shall take, and put it into the water:
10484 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and
10485    uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in
10486    her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest
10487    shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the
10488    curse:
10489 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the
10490    woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not
10491    gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband,
10492    be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
10493 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband,
10494    and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee
10495    beside thine husband:
10496 21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of
10497    cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD
10498    make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD
10499    doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
10500 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy
10501    bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And
10502    the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
10503 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he
10504    shall blot them out with the bitter water:
10505 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that
10506    causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall
10507    enter into her, and become bitter.
10508 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the
10509    woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and
10510    offer it upon the altar:
10511 26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the
10512    memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward
10513    shall cause the woman to drink the water.
10514 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall
10515    come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass
10516    against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse
10517    shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall
10518    swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse
10519    among her people.
10520 28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall
10521    be free, and shall conceive seed.
10522 29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to
10523    another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
10524 30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be
10525    jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the
10526    LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
10527 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman
10528    shall bear her iniquity.

10529 Numbers 6

10530  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10531  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
10532    either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of
10533    a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
10534  3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and
10535    shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink,
10536    neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist
10537    grapes, or dried.
10538  4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is
10539    made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
10540  5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor
10541    come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which
10542    he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and
10543    shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
10544  6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall
10545    come at no dead body.
10546  7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his
10547    mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die:
10548    because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
10549  8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
10550  9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled
10551    the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in
10552    the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave
10553    it.
10554 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young
10555    pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the
10556    congregation:
10557 11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the
10558    other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for
10559    that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that
10560    same day.
10561 12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his
10562    separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
10563    trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be
10564    lost, because his separation was defiled.
10565 13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
10566    separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of
10567    the tabernacle of the congregation:
10568 14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of
10569    the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one
10570    ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering,
10571    and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
10572 15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled
10573    with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil,
10574    and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
10575 16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall
10576    offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
10577 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings
10578    unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest
10579    shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
10580 18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the
10581    door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the
10582    hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire
10583    which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
10584 19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and
10585    one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened
10586    wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite,
10587    after the hair of his separation is shaven:
10588 20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the
10589    LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and
10590    heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
10591 21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his
10592    offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that
10593    his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he
10594    must do after the law of his separation.
10595 22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10596 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye
10597    shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
10598 24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
10599 25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto
10600    thee:
10601 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
10602    peace.
10603 27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I
10604    will bless them.

10605 Numbers 7

10606  1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the
10607    tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all
10608    the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels
10609    thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
10610  2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their
10611    fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over
10612    them that were numbered, offered:
10613  3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered
10614    wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and
10615    for each one an ox: and they brought them before the
10616    tabernacle.
10617  4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10618  5 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the
10619    tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto
10620    the Levites, to every man according to his service.
10621  6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the
10622    Levites.
10623  7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon,
10624    according to their service:
10625  8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of
10626    Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of
10627    Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
10628  9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service
10629    of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear
10630    upon their shoulders.
10631 10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day
10632    that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering
10633    before the altar.
10634 11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering,
10635    each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
10636 12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the
10637    son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
10638 13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof
10639    was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10640    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were
10641    full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10642 14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
10643 15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10644    burnt offering:
10645 16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10646 17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10647    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10648    offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
10649 18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of
10650    Issachar, did offer:
10651 19 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight
10652    whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
10653    seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
10654    them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10655 20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
10656 21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10657    burnt offering:
10658 22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10659 23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10660    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10661    offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
10662 24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
10663    children of Zebulun, did offer:
10664 25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
10665    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10666    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10667    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10668 26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10669 27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10670    burnt offering:
10671 28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10672 29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10673    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10674    offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
10675 30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
10676    children of Reuben, did offer:
10677 31 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
10678    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10679    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10680    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10681 32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10682 33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10683    burnt offering:
10684 34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10685 35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10686    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10687    offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
10688 36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of
10689    the children of Simeon, did offer:
10690 37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
10691    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10692    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10693    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10694 38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10695 39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10696    burnt offering:
10697 40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10698 41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10699    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10700    offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
10701 42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
10702    children of Gad, offered:
10703 43 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
10704    hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels,
10705    after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
10706    flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10707 44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10708 45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10709    burnt offering:
10710 46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10711 47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10712    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10713    offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
10714 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
10715    children of Ephraim, offered:
10716 49 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
10717    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10718    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10719    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10720 50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10721 51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10722    burnt offering:
10723 52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10724 53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10725    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10726    offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
10727 54 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince
10728    of the children of Manasseh:
10729 55 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
10730    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10731    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10732    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10733 56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10734 57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10735    burnt offering:
10736 58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10737 59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10738    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10739    offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
10740 60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
10741    children of Benjamin, offered:
10742 61 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
10743    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10744    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10745    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10746 62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10747 63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10748    burnt offering:
10749 64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10750 65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10751    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10752    offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
10753 66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the
10754    children of Dan, offered:
10755 67 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
10756    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10757    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10758    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10759 68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10760 69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10761    burnt offering:
10762 70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10763 71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10764    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10765    offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
10766 72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the
10767    children of Asher, offered:
10768 73 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
10769    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10770    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10771    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10772 74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10773 75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10774    burnt offering:
10775 76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10776 77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10777    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10778    offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
10779 78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the
10780    children of Naphtali, offered:
10781 79 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
10782    hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
10783    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
10784    of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
10785 80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
10786 81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
10787    burnt offering:
10788 82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
10789 83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
10790    five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
10791    offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
10792 84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was
10793    anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver,
10794    twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
10795 85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels,
10796    each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand
10797    and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
10798 86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten
10799    shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the
10800    gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
10801 87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the
10802    rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their
10803    meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering
10804    twelve.
10805 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were
10806    twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty,
10807    the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of
10808    the altar, after that it was anointed.
10809 89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the
10810    congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one
10811    speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the
10812    ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake
10813    unto him.

10814 Numbers 8

10815  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10816  2 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the
10817    lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the
10818    candlestick.
10819  3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against
10820    the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
10821  4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the
10822    shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work:
10823    according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so
10824    he made the candlestick.
10825  5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10826  6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and
10827    cleanse them.
10828  7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle
10829    water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their
10830    flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves
10831    clean.
10832  8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering,
10833    even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock
10834    shalt thou take for a sin offering.
10835  9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the
10836    congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the
10837    children of Israel together:
10838 10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the
10839    children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
10840 11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an
10841    offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the
10842    service of the LORD.
10843 12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the
10844    bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and
10845    the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an
10846    atonement for the Levites.
10847 13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his
10848    sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
10849 14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children
10850    of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
10851 15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of
10852    the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse
10853    them, and offer them for an offering.
10854 16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of
10855    Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of
10856    the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them
10857    unto me.
10858 17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both
10859    man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the
10860    land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
10861 18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the
10862    children of Israel.
10863 19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his
10864    sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of
10865    the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation,
10866    and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that
10867    there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the
10868    children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
10869 20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children
10870    of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD
10871    commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of
10872    Israel unto them.
10873 21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes;
10874    and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and
10875    Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
10876 22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the
10877    tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his
10878    sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
10879    so did they unto them.
10880 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10881 24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and
10882    five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the
10883    service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
10884 25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon
10885    the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
10886 26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of
10887    the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service.
10888    Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

10889 Numbers 9

10890  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
10891    the first month of the second year after they were come out of
10892    the land of Egypt, saying,
10893  2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his
10894    appointed season.
10895  3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it
10896    in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and
10897    according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
10898  4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should
10899    keep the passover.
10900  5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first
10901    month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all
10902    that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
10903  6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body
10904    of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day:
10905    and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
10906  7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body
10907    of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an
10908    offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
10909    children of Israel?
10910  8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what
10911    the LORD will command concerning you.
10912  9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10913 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you
10914    or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead
10915    body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the
10916    passover unto the LORD.
10917 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep
10918    it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
10919 12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any
10920    bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover
10921    they shall keep it.
10922 13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and
10923    forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be
10924    cut off from among his people: because he brought not the
10925    offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall
10926    bear his sin.
10927 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the
10928    passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the
10929    passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do:
10930    ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for
10931    him that was born in the land.
10932 15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud
10933    covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and
10934    at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the
10935    appearance of fire, until the morning.
10936 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the
10937    appearance of fire by night.
10938 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then
10939    after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place
10940    where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched
10941    their tents.
10942 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel
10943    journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as
10944    long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in
10945    their tents.
10946 19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days,
10947    then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and
10948    journeyed not.
10949 20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the
10950    tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they
10951    abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the
10952    LORD they journeyed.
10953 21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the
10954    morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then
10955    they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the
10956    cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
10957 22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the
10958    cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the
10959    children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not:
10960    but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
10961 23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and
10962    at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the
10963    charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand
10964    of Moses.

10965 Numbers 10

10966  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10967  2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou
10968    make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the
10969    assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
10970  3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall
10971    assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of
10972    the congregation.
10973  4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which
10974    are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves
10975    unto thee.
10976  5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east
10977    parts shall go forward.
10978  6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie
10979    on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an
10980    alarm for their journeys.
10981  7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall
10982    blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
10983  8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the
10984    trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever
10985    throughout your generations.
10986  9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that
10987    oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets;
10988    and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye
10989    shall be saved from your enemies.
10990 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and
10991    in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the
10992    trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of
10993    your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial
10994    before your God: I am the LORD your God.
10995 11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month,
10996    in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the
10997    tabernacle of the testimony.
10998 12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the
10999    wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of
11000    Paran.
11001 13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment
11002    of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
11003 14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the
11004    children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host
11005    was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
11006 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was
11007    Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
11008 16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was
11009    Eliab the son of Helon.
11010 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and
11011    the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
11012 18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according
11013    to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of
11014    Shedeur.
11015 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was
11016    Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
11017 20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was
11018    Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
11019 21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the
11020    other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
11021 22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
11022    forward according to their armies: and over his host was
11023    Elishama the son of Ammihud.
11024 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was
11025    Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
11026 24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was
11027    Abidan the son of Gideoni.
11028 25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set
11029    forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout
11030    their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of
11031    Ammishaddai.
11032 26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was
11033    Pagiel the son of Ocran.
11034 27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was
11035    Ahira the son of Enan.
11036 28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according
11037    to their armies, when they set forward.
11038 29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite,
11039    Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of
11040    which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us,
11041    and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good
11042    concerning Israel.
11043 30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine
11044    own land, and to my kindred.
11045 31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou
11046    knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou
11047    mayest be to us instead of eyes.
11048 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that
11049    what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do
11050    unto thee.
11051 33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days'
11052    journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before
11053    them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place
11054    for them.
11055 34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went
11056    out of the camp.
11057 35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses
11058    said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and
11059    let them that hate thee flee before thee.
11060 36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many
11061    thousands of Israel.

11062 Numbers 11

11063  1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and
11064    the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of
11065    the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the
11066    uttermost parts of the camp.
11067  2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto
11068    the LORD, the fire was quenched.
11069  3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire
11070    of the LORD burnt among them.
11071  4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and
11072    the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall
11073    give us flesh to eat?
11074  5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the
11075    cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and
11076    the garlick:
11077  6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all,
11078    beside this manna, before our eyes.
11079  7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as
11080    the colour of bdellium.
11081  8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in
11082    mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made
11083    cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh
11084    oil.
11085  9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna
11086    fell upon it.
11087 10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families,
11088    every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD
11089    was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
11090 11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted
11091    thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy
11092    sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
11093 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that
11094    thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a
11095    nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which
11096    thou swarest unto their fathers?
11097 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for
11098    they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
11099 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too
11100    heavy for me.
11101 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of
11102    hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see
11103    my wretchedness.
11104 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of
11105    the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of
11106    the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the
11107    tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with
11108    thee.
11109 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take
11110    of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them;
11111    and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that
11112    thou bear it not thyself alone.
11113 18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to
11114    morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears
11115    of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it
11116    was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you
11117    flesh, and ye shall eat.
11118 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
11119    ten days, nor twenty days;
11120 20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
11121    and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised
11122    the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying,
11123    Why came we forth out of Egypt?
11124 21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred
11125    thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh,
11126    that they may eat a whole month.
11127 22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice
11128    them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together
11129    for them, to suffice them?
11130 23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short?
11131    thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto
11132    thee or not.
11133 24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD,
11134    and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and
11135    set them round about the tabernacle.
11136 25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and
11137    took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the
11138    seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit
11139    rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
11140 26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the
11141    one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit
11142    rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but
11143    went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the
11144    camp.
11145 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and
11146    Medad do prophesy in the camp.
11147 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his
11148    young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
11149 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God
11150    that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD
11151    would put his spirit upon them!
11152 30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
11153 31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails
11154    from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a
11155    day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on
11156    the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two
11157    cubits high upon the face of the earth.
11158 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and
11159    all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that
11160    gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all
11161    abroad for themselves round about the camp.
11162 33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was
11163    chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people,
11164    and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
11165 34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because
11166    there they buried the people that lusted.
11167 35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth;
11168    and abode at Hazeroth.

11169 Numbers 12

11170  1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the
11171    Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an
11172    Ethiopian woman.
11173  2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath
11174    he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
11175  3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were
11176    upon the face of the earth.)
11177  4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and
11178    unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the
11179    congregation. And they three came out.
11180  5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood
11181    in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam:
11182    and they both came forth.
11183  6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among
11184    you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision,
11185    and will speak unto him in a dream.
11186  7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
11187  8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not
11188    in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he
11189    behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my
11190    servant Moses?
11191  9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he
11192    departed.
11193 10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold,
11194    Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon
11195    Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
11196 11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay
11197    not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and
11198    wherein we have sinned.
11199 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed
11200    when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
11201 13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I
11202    beseech thee.
11203 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in
11204    her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be
11205    shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be
11206    received in again.
11207 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the
11208    people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
11209 16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in
11210    the wilderness of Paran.

11211 Numbers 13

11212  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11213  2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which
11214    I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their
11215    fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
11216  3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the
11217    wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children
11218    of Israel.
11219  4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua
11220    the son of Zaccur.
11221  5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
11222  6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
11223  7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
11224  8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
11225  9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
11226 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11227 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh,
11228    Gaddi the son of Susi.
11229 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
11230 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
11231 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
11232 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
11233 16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the
11234    land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
11235 17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said
11236    unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the
11237    mountain:
11238 18 And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth
11239    therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
11240 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or
11241    bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in
11242    tents, or in strong holds;
11243 20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there
11244    be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring
11245    of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the
11246    firstripe grapes.
11247 21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of
11248    Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
11249 22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where
11250    Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now
11251    Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
11252 23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from
11253    thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it
11254    between two upon a staff; and they brought of the
11255    pomegranates, and of the figs.
11256 24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster
11257    of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
11258 25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
11259 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
11260    congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of
11261    Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto
11262    all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
11263 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither
11264    thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey;
11265    and this is the fruit of it.
11266 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and
11267    the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the
11268    children of Anak there.
11269 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the
11270    Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the
11271    mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the
11272    coast of Jordan.
11273 30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go
11274    up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome
11275    it.
11276 31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go
11277    up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
11278 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had
11279    searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land,
11280    through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth
11281    up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in
11282    it are men of a great stature.
11283 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of
11284    the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and
11285    so we were in their sight.

11286 Numbers 14

11287  1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
11288    the people wept that night.
11289  2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
11290    against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them,
11291    Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God
11292    we had died in this wilderness!
11293  3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall
11294    by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a
11295    prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
11296  4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let
11297    us return into Egypt.
11298  5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
11299    assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
11300  6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
11301    which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
11302  7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,
11303    saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an
11304    exceeding good land.
11305  8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this
11306    land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and
11307    honey.
11308  9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people
11309    of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is
11310    departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
11311 10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the
11312    glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the
11313    congregation before all the children of Israel.
11314 11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people
11315    provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for
11316    all the signs which I have shewed among them?
11317 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,
11318    and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
11319 13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear
11320    it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from
11321    among them;)
11322 14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for
11323    they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that
11324    thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth
11325    over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a
11326    pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
11327 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the
11328    nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
11329 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the
11330    land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in
11331    the wilderness.
11332 17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great,
11333    according as thou hast spoken, saying,
11334 18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving
11335    iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the
11336    guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
11337    unto the third and fourth generation.
11338 19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according
11339    unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven
11340    this people, from Egypt even until now.
11341 20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
11342 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the
11343    glory of the LORD.
11344 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
11345    miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have
11346    tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my
11347    voice;
11348 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their
11349    fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
11350 24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him,
11351    and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land
11352    whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
11353 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)
11354    Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way
11355    of the Red sea.
11356 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
11357 27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which
11358    murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children
11359    of Israel, which they murmur against me.
11360 28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have
11361    spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
11362 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were
11363    numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
11364    years old and upward which have murmured against me.
11365 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I
11366    sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
11367    Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
11368 31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them
11369    will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have
11370    despised.
11371 32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
11372    wilderness.
11373 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
11374    and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
11375    wilderness.
11376 34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
11377    even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your
11378    iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of
11379    promise.
11380 35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
11381    congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
11382    wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
11383 36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
11384    returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
11385    by bringing up a slander upon the land,
11386 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
11387    land, died by the plague before the LORD.
11388 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
11389    which were of the men that went to search the land, lived
11390    still.
11391 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel:
11392    and the people mourned greatly.
11393 40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into
11394    the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go
11395    up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have
11396    sinned.
11397 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment
11398    of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
11399 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not
11400    smitten before your enemies.
11401 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you,
11402    and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away
11403    from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
11404 44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the
11405    ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out
11406    of the camp.
11407 45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt
11408    in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto
11409    Hormah.

11410 Numbers 15

11411  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11412  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
11413    be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto
11414    you,
11415  3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
11416    offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill
11417    offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour
11418    unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
11419  4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a
11420    meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
11421    part of an hin of oil.
11422  5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering
11423    shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for
11424    one lamb.
11425  6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth
11426    deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
11427  7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an
11428    hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
11429  8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for
11430    a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the
11431    LORD:
11432  9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three
11433    tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
11434 10 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine,
11435    for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
11436 11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for
11437    a lamb, or a kid.
11438 12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do
11439    to every one according to their number.
11440 13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after
11441    this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet
11442    savour unto the LORD.
11443 14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you
11444    in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire,
11445    of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
11446 15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and
11447    also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance
11448    for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger
11449    be before the LORD.
11450 16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger
11451    that sojourneth with you.
11452 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11453 18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
11454    come into the land whither I bring you,
11455 19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land,
11456    ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
11457 20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an
11458    heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the
11459    threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
11460 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an
11461    heave offering in your generations.
11462 22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments,
11463    which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
11464 23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of
11465    Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and
11466    henceforward among your generations;
11467 24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without
11468    the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation
11469    shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a
11470    sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his
11471    drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the
11472    goats for a sin offering.
11473 25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the
11474    congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be
11475    forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their
11476    offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their
11477    sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
11478 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children
11479    of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing
11480    all the people were in ignorance.
11481 27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a
11482    she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
11483 28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that
11484    sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the
11485    LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven
11486    him.
11487 29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance,
11488    both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and
11489    for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
11490 30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be
11491    born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the
11492    LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
11493 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken
11494    his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his
11495    iniquity shall be upon him.
11496 32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
11497    found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
11498 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto
11499    Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
11500 34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what
11501    should be done to him.
11502 35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to
11503    death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones
11504    without the camp.
11505 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
11506    stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded
11507    Moses.
11508 37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11509 38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make
11510    them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their
11511    generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders
11512    a ribband of blue:
11513 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon
11514    it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do
11515    them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own
11516    eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
11517 40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy
11518    unto your God.
11519 41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
11520    Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

11521 Numbers 16

11522  1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
11523    Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the
11524    son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
11525  2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of
11526    Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous
11527    in the congregation, men of renown:
11528  3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and
11529    against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you,
11530    seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and
11531    the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves
11532    above the congregation of the LORD?
11533  4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
11534  5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even
11535    to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and
11536    will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath
11537    chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
11538  6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
11539  7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD
11540    to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth
11541    choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons
11542    of Levi.
11543  8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
11544  9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel
11545    hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring
11546    you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the
11547    LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto
11548    them?
11549 10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the
11550    sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
11551 11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered
11552    together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur
11553    against him?
11554 12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab:
11555    which said, We will not come up:
11556 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land
11557    that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the
11558    wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over
11559    us?
11560 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth
11561    with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and
11562    vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will
11563    not come up.
11564 15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not
11565    thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them,
11566    neither have I hurt one of them.
11567 16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before
11568    the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
11569 17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and
11570    bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and
11571    fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
11572 18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and
11573    laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle
11574    of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
11575 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the
11576    door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of
11577    the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
11578 20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
11579 21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may
11580    consume them in a moment.
11581 22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of
11582    the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be
11583    wroth with all the congregation?
11584 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11585 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the
11586    tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
11587 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the
11588    elders of Israel followed him.
11589 26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray
11590    you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of
11591    their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
11592 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and
11593    Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and
11594    stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their
11595    sons, and their little children.
11596 28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent
11597    me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own
11598    mind.
11599 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be
11600    visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath
11601    not sent me.
11602 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her
11603    mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them,
11604    and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand
11605    that these men have provoked the LORD.
11606 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all
11607    these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under
11608    them:
11609 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and
11610    their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and
11611    all their goods.
11612 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into
11613    the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished
11614    from among the congregation.
11615 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of
11616    them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
11617 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two
11618    hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
11619 36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11620 37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take
11621    up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire
11622    yonder; for they are hallowed.
11623 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them
11624    make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they
11625    offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and
11626    they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
11627 39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they
11628    that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates
11629    for a covering of the altar:
11630 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no
11631    stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to
11632    offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as
11633    his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
11634 41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of
11635    Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye
11636    have killed the people of the LORD.
11637 42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered
11638    against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the
11639    tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered
11640    it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
11641 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
11642    congregation.
11643 44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11644 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume
11645    them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
11646 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein
11647    from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto
11648    the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is
11649    wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
11650 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of
11651    the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the
11652    people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the
11653    people.
11654 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague
11655    was stayed.
11656 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and
11657    seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of
11658    Korah.
11659 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle
11660    of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

11661 Numbers 17

11662  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11663  2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of
11664    them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all
11665    their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve
11666    rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
11667  3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for
11668    one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
11669  4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the
11670    congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
11671  5 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall
11672    choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the
11673    murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur
11674    against you.
11675  6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of
11676    their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one,
11677    according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the
11678    rod of Aaron was among their rods.
11679  7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle
11680    of witness.
11681  8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the
11682    tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the
11683    house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed
11684    blossoms, and yielded almonds.
11685  9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto
11686    all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every
11687    man his rod.
11688 10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before
11689    the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and
11690    thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they
11691    die not.
11692 11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
11693 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold,
11694    we die, we perish, we all perish.
11695 13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the
11696    LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

11697 Numbers 18

11698  1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy
11699    father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the
11700    sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the
11701    iniquity of your priesthood.
11702  2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy
11703    father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto
11704    thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee
11705    shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
11706  3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
11707    tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the
11708    sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
11709  4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the
11710    tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the
11711    tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
11712  5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge
11713    of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the
11714    children of Israel.
11715  6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from
11716    among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift
11717    for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the
11718    congregation.
11719  7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's
11720    office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and
11721    ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as
11722    a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be
11723    put to death.
11724  8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee
11725    the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things
11726    of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by
11727    reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for
11728    ever.
11729  9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the
11730    fire: every oblation of their's, every meat offering of
11731    their's, and every sin offering of their's, and every trespass
11732    offering of their's which they shall render unto me, shall be
11733    most holy for thee and for thy sons.
11734 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat
11735    it: it shall be holy unto thee.
11736 11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all
11737    the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given
11738    them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with
11739    thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy
11740    house shall eat of it.
11741 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of
11742    the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto
11743    the LORD, them have I given thee.
11744 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall
11745    bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean
11746    in thine house shall eat of it.
11747 14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
11748 15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they
11749    bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be
11750    thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely
11751    redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
11752 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou
11753    redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five
11754    shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty
11755    gerahs.
11756 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or
11757    the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy:
11758    thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn
11759    their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour
11760    unto the LORD.
11761 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and
11762    as the right shoulder are thine.
11763 19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children
11764    of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons
11765    and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a
11766    covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy
11767    seed with thee.
11768 20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance
11769    in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I
11770    am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of
11771    Israel.
11772 21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth
11773    in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they
11774    serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
11775 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the
11776    tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
11777 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the
11778    congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be
11779    a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the
11780    children of Israel they have no inheritance.
11781 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as
11782    an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites
11783    to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the
11784    children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
11785 25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11786 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take
11787    of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you
11788    from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an
11789    heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the
11790    tithe.
11791 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as
11792    though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the
11793    fulness of the winepress.
11794 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of
11795    all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel;
11796    and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron
11797    the priest.
11798 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of
11799    the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part
11800    thereof out of it.
11801 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the
11802    best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the
11803    Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the
11804    increase of the winepress.
11805 31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households:
11806    for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of
11807    the congregation.
11808 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved
11809    from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy
11810    things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

11811 Numbers 19

11812  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
11813  2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath
11814    commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that
11815    they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no
11816    blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
11817  3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may
11818    bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her
11819    before his face:
11820  4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his
11821    finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the
11822    tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
11823  5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her
11824    flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
11825  6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet,
11826    and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
11827  7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his
11828    flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and
11829    the priest shall be unclean until the even.
11830  8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and
11831    bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
11832  9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the
11833    heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and
11834    it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of
11835    Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for
11836    sin.
11837 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
11838    clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto
11839    the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth
11840    among them, for a statute for ever.
11841 11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
11842    seven days.
11843 12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the
11844    seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself
11845    the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
11846 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and
11847    purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD;
11848    and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water
11849    of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean;
11850    his uncleanness is yet upon him.
11851 14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come
11852    into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean
11853    seven days.
11854 15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it,
11855    is unclean.
11856 16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the
11857    open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave,
11858    shall be unclean seven days.
11859 17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the
11860    burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall
11861    be put thereto in a vessel:
11862 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water,
11863    and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and
11864    upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a
11865    bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
11866 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the
11867    third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he
11868    shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself
11869    in water, and shall be clean at even.
11870 20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify
11871    himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the
11872    congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the
11873    LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon
11874    him; he is unclean.
11875 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that
11876    sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and
11877    he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean
11878    until even.
11879 22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean;
11880    and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

11881 Numbers 20

11882  1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
11883    into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people
11884    abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
11885  2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered
11886    themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
11887  3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God
11888    that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
11889  4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into
11890    this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
11891  5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to
11892    bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or
11893    of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any
11894    water to drink.
11895  6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly
11896    unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they
11897    fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto
11898    them.
11899  7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11900  8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and
11901    Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their
11902    eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring
11903    forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the
11904    congregation and their beasts drink.
11905  9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded
11906    him.
11907 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before
11908    the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we
11909    fetch you water out of this rock?
11910 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the
11911    rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the
11912    congregation drank, and their beasts also.
11913 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed
11914    me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
11915    therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land
11916    which I have given them.
11917 13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel
11918    strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
11919 14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom,
11920    Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail
11921    that hath befallen us:
11922 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in
11923    Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our
11924    fathers:
11925 16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent
11926    an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold,
11927    we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
11928 17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not
11929    pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither
11930    will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the
11931    king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the
11932    left, until we have passed thy borders.
11933 18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come
11934    out against thee with the sword.
11935 19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the
11936    high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I
11937    will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go
11938    through on my feet.
11939 20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out
11940    against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
11941 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
11942    wherefore Israel turned away from him.
11943 22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
11944    journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
11945 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the
11946    coast of the land of Edom, saying,
11947 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not
11948    enter into the land which I have given unto the children of
11949    Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of
11950    Meribah.
11951 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount
11952    Hor:
11953 26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his
11954    son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall
11955    die there.
11956 27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into
11957    mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
11958 28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon
11959    Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount:
11960    and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
11961 29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they
11962    mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

11963 Numbers 21

11964  1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south,
11965    heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he
11966    fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
11967  2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt
11968    indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly
11969    destroy their cities.
11970  3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered
11971    up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their
11972    cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
11973  4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea,
11974    to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was
11975    much discouraged because of the way.
11976  5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore
11977    have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
11978    for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our
11979    soul loatheth this light bread.
11980  6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
11981    bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
11982  7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned,
11983    for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray
11984    unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And
11985    Moses prayed for the people.
11986  8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and
11987    set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one
11988    that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
11989  9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and
11990    it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he
11991    beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
11992 10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
11993 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in
11994    the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
11995 12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
11996 13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of
11997    Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the
11998    coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab,
11999    between Moab and the Amorites.
12000 14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What
12001    he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
12002 15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the
12003    dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
12004 16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof
12005    the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I
12006    will give them water.
12007 17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto
12008    it:
12009 18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged
12010    it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And
12011    from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
12012 19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
12013 20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab,
12014    to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
12015 21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
12016    saying,
12017 22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the
12018    fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters
12019    of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way,
12020    until we be past thy borders.
12021 23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border:
12022    but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out
12023    against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and
12024    fought against Israel.
12025 24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed
12026    his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of
12027    Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
12028 25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the
12029    cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages
12030    thereof.
12031 26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites,
12032    who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all
12033    his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
12034 27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon,
12035    let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
12036 28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city
12037    of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the
12038    high places of Arnon.
12039 29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he
12040    hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into
12041    captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
12042 30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and
12043    we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto
12044    Medeba.
12045 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
12046 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages
12047    thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
12048 33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the
12049    king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people,
12050    to the battle at Edrei.
12051 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have
12052    delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land;
12053    and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
12054    Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
12055 35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until
12056    there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

12057 Numbers 22

12058  1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the
12059    plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
12060  2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to
12061    the Amorites.
12062  3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were
12063    many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of
12064    Israel.
12065  4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this
12066    company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh
12067    up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was
12068    king of the Moabites at that time.
12069  5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to
12070    Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of
12071    his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people
12072    come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth,
12073    and they abide over against me:
12074  6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for
12075    they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that
12076    we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land:
12077    for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom
12078    thou cursest is cursed.
12079  7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with
12080    the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto
12081    Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
12082  8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring
12083    you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the
12084    princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
12085  9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with
12086    thee?
12087 10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of
12088    Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
12089 11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth
12090    the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I
12091    shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
12092 12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou
12093    shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
12094 13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes
12095    of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to
12096    give me leave to go with you.
12097 14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and
12098    said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
12099 15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable
12100    than they.
12101 16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the
12102    son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from
12103    coming unto me:
12104 17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do
12105    whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee,
12106    curse me this people.
12107 18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If
12108    Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
12109    cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or
12110    more.
12111 19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that
12112    I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
12113 20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the
12114    men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the
12115    word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
12116 21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
12117    went with the princes of Moab.
12118 22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of
12119    the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he
12120    was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
12121 23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and
12122    his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of
12123    the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to
12124    turn her into the way.
12125 24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a
12126    wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
12127 25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself
12128    unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and
12129    he smote her again.
12130 26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow
12131    place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to
12132    the left.
12133 27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down
12134    under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the
12135    ass with a staff.
12136 28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto
12137    Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me
12138    these three times?
12139 29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I
12140    would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill
12141    thee.
12142 30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which
12143    thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I
12144    ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
12145 31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel
12146    of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his
12147    hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
12148 32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou
12149    smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to
12150    withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
12151 33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times:
12152    unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain
12153    thee, and saved her alive.
12154 34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for
12155    I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now
12156    therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
12157 35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men:
12158    but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou
12159    shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
12160 36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet
12161    him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon,
12162    which is in the utmost coast.
12163 37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee
12164    to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able
12165    indeed to promote thee to honour?
12166 38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I
12167    now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God
12168    putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
12169 39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
12170 40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to
12171    the princes that were with him.
12172 41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and
12173    brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he
12174    might see the utmost part of the people.

12175 Numbers 23

12176  1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
12177    prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
12178  2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam
12179    offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
12180  3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I
12181    will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and
12182    whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an
12183    high place.
12184  4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared
12185    seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock
12186    and a ram.
12187  5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return
12188    unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
12189  6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt
12190    sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
12191  7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab
12192    hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east,
12193    saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
12194  8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I
12195    defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
12196  9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I
12197    behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be
12198    reckoned among the nations.
12199 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth
12200    part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let
12201    my last end be like his!
12202 11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I
12203    took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
12204    blessed them altogether.
12205 12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that
12206    which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
12207 13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto
12208    another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt
12209    see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all:
12210    and curse me them from thence.
12211 14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
12212    Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a
12213    ram on every altar.
12214 15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering,
12215    while I meet the LORD yonder.
12216 16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and
12217    said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
12218 17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt
12219    offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said
12220    unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
12221 18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and
12222    hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
12223 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man,
12224    that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it?
12225    or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
12226 20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath
12227    blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
12228 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen
12229    perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the
12230    shout of a king is among them.
12231 22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength
12232    of an unicorn.
12233 23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there
12234    any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall
12235    be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
12236 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up
12237    himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of
12238    the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
12239 25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor
12240    bless them at all.
12241 26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee,
12242    saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
12243 27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring
12244    thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that
12245    thou mayest curse me them from thence.
12246 28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh
12247    toward Jeshimon.
12248 29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
12249    prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
12250 30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a
12251    ram on every altar.

12252 Numbers 24

12253  1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel,
12254    he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but
12255    he set his face toward the wilderness.
12256  2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in
12257    his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God
12258    came upon him.
12259  3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
12260    hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
12261  4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the
12262    vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his
12263    eyes open:
12264  5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O
12265    Israel!
12266  6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the
12267    river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath
12268    planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
12269  7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall
12270    be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and
12271    his kingdom shall be exalted.
12272  8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
12273    strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his
12274    enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through
12275    with his arrows.
12276  9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who
12277    shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and
12278    cursed is he that curseth thee.
12279 10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his
12280    hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to
12281    curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed
12282    them these three times.
12283 11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote
12284    thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back
12285    from honour.
12286 12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers
12287    which thou sentest unto me, saying,
12288 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
12289    cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either
12290    good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that
12291    will I speak?
12292 14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I
12293    will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in
12294    the latter days.
12295 15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
12296    hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
12297 16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the
12298    knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the
12299    Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
12300 17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not
12301    nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre
12302    shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
12303    and destroy all the children of Sheth.
12304 18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a
12305    possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
12306 19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall
12307    destroy him that remaineth of the city.
12308 20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
12309    said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end
12310    shall be that he perish for ever.
12311 21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and
12312    said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest
12313    in a rock.
12314 22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall
12315    carry thee away captive.
12316 23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live
12317    when God doeth this!
12318 24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall
12319    afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall
12320    perish for ever.
12321 25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and
12322    Balak also went his way.

12323 Numbers 25

12324  1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit
12325    whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
12326  2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods:
12327    and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
12328  3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the
12329    LORD was kindled against Israel.
12330  4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the
12331    people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that
12332    the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
12333  5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one
12334    his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
12335  6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought
12336    unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses,
12337    and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of
12338    Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of
12339    the congregation.
12340  7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
12341    priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and
12342    took a javelin in his hand;
12343  8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust
12344    both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through
12345    her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of
12346    Israel.
12347  9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four
12348    thousand.
12349 10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12350 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
12351    hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while
12352    he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the
12353    children of Israel in my jealousy.
12354 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
12355 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the
12356    covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous
12357    for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
12358 14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was
12359    slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu,
12360    a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
12361 15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was
12362    Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of
12363    a chief house in Midian.
12364 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12365 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
12366 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have
12367    beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of
12368    Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which
12369    was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

12370 Numbers 26

12371  1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto
12372    Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
12373  2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of
12374    Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their
12375    fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
12376  3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains
12377    of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
12378  4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward;
12379    as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which
12380    went forth out of the land of Egypt.
12381  5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben;
12382    Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu,
12383    the family of the Palluites:
12384  6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family
12385    of the Carmites.
12386  7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were
12387    numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven
12388    hundred and thirty.
12389  8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
12390  9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is
12391    that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation,
12392    who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of
12393    Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
12394 10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together
12395    with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire
12396    devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
12397 11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
12398 12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family
12399    of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of
12400    Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
12401 13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of
12402    the Shaulites.
12403 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two
12404    thousand and two hundred.
12405 15 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the
12406    family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the
12407    Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:
12408 16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the
12409    Erites:
12410 17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of
12411    the Arelites.
12412 18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to
12413    those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five
12414    hundred.
12415 19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in
12416    the land of Canaan.
12417 20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah,
12418    the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the
12419    Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
12420 21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the
12421    Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
12422 22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were
12423    numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five
12424    hundred.
12425 23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the
12426    family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
12427 24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the
12428    family of the Shimronites.
12429 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that
12430    were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three
12431    hundred.
12432 26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the
12433    family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites:
12434    of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
12435 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those
12436    that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five
12437    hundred.
12438 28 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and
12439    Ephraim.
12440 29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
12441    Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family
12442    of the Gileadites.
12443 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the
12444    Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
12445 31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem,
12446    the family of the Shechemites:
12447 32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher,
12448    the family of the Hepherites.
12449 33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters:
12450    and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and
12451    Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
12452 34 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were
12453    numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
12454 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
12455    Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the
12456    family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the
12457    Tahanites.
12458 36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of
12459    the Eranites.
12460 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to
12461    those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and
12462    five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their
12463    families.
12464 38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family
12465    of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of
12466    Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
12467 39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the
12468    family of the Huphamites.
12469 40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family
12470    of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
12471 41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they
12472    that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and
12473    six hundred.
12474 42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the
12475    family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after
12476    their families.
12477 43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that
12478    were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and
12479    four hundred.
12480 44 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the
12481    family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites:
12482    of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
12483 45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites:
12484    of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
12485 46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
12486 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those
12487    that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand
12488    and four hundred.
12489 48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the
12490    family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
12491 49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family
12492    of the Shillemites.
12493 50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their
12494    families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and
12495    five thousand and four hundred.
12496 51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred
12497    thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
12498 52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12499 53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance
12500    according to the number of names.
12501 54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou
12502    shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his
12503    inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of
12504    him.
12505 55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to
12506    the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
12507 56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided
12508    between many and few.
12509 57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after
12510    their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of
12511    Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of
12512    the Merarites.
12513 58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the
12514    Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the
12515    Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the
12516    Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
12517 59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of
12518    Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto
12519    Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
12520 60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
12521    Ithamar.
12522 61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire
12523    before the LORD.
12524 62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three
12525    thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were
12526    not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was
12527    no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
12528 63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
12529    priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of
12530    Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
12531 64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and
12532    Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of
12533    Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
12534 65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the
12535    wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb
12536    the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

12537 Numbers 27

12538  1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the
12539    son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
12540    families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the
12541    names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah,
12542    and Tirzah.
12543  2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest,
12544    and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door
12545    of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
12546  3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the
12547    company of them that gathered themselves together against the
12548    LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had
12549    no sons.
12550  4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his
12551    family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a
12552    possession among the brethren of our father.
12553  5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
12554  6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12555  7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely
12556    give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's
12557    brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father
12558    to pass unto them.
12559  8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a
12560    man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance
12561    to pass unto his daughter.
12562  9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance
12563    unto his brethren.
12564 10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance
12565    unto his father's brethren.
12566 11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his
12567    inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his
12568    family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the
12569    children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD
12570    commanded Moses.
12571 12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount
12572    Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children
12573    of Israel.
12574 13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto
12575    thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
12576 14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin,
12577    in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water
12578    before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in
12579    the wilderness of Zin.
12580 15 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
12581 16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man
12582    over the congregation,
12583 17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them,
12584    and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that
12585    the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no
12586    shepherd.
12587 18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun,
12588    a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
12589 19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
12590    congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
12591 20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the
12592    congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
12593 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask
12594    counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at
12595    his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come
12596    in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all
12597    the congregation.
12598 22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua,
12599    and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
12600    congregation:
12601 23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the
12602    LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

12603 Numbers 28

12604  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12605  2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My
12606    offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a
12607    sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in
12608    their due season.
12609  3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by
12610    fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the
12611    first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt
12612    offering.
12613  4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other
12614    lamb shalt thou offer at even;
12615  5 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering,
12616    mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
12617  6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount
12618    Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the
12619    LORD.
12620  7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an
12621    hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the
12622    strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
12623  8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat
12624    offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof,
12625    thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
12626    savour unto the LORD.
12627  9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without
12628    spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering,
12629    mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
12630 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the
12631    continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
12632 11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt
12633    offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven
12634    lambs of the first year without spot;
12635 12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled
12636    with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a
12637    meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
12638 13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat
12639    offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet
12640    savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
12641 14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a
12642    bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth
12643    part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of
12644    every month throughout the months of the year.
12645 15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD
12646    shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his
12647    drink offering.
12648 16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover
12649    of the LORD.
12650 17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven
12651    days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
12652 18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no
12653    manner of servile work therein:
12654 19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt
12655    offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and
12656    seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without
12657    blemish:
12658 20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil:
12659    three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth
12660    deals for a ram;
12661 21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb,
12662    throughout the seven lambs:
12663 22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
12664 23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning,
12665    which is for a continual burnt offering.
12666 24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven
12667    days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet
12668    savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual
12669    burnt offering, and his drink offering.
12670 25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye
12671    shall do no servile work.
12672 26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat
12673    offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have
12674    an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
12675 27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto
12676    the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the
12677    first year;
12678 28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth
12679    deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
12680 29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven
12681    lambs;
12682 30 And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
12683 31 Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and
12684    his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish)
12685    and their drink offerings.

12686 Numbers 29

12687  1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye
12688    shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
12689    it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
12690  2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto
12691    the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the
12692    first year without blemish:
12693  3 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil,
12694    three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a
12695    ram,
12696  4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
12697  5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an
12698    atonement for you:
12699  6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering,
12700    and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their
12701    drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet
12702    savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
12703  7 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an
12704    holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall
12705    not do any work therein:
12706  8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet
12707    savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the
12708    first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
12709  9 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil,
12710    three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one
12711    ram,
12712 10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
12713 11 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin
12714    offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and
12715    the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
12716 12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an
12717    holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall
12718    keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
12719 13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire,
12720    of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two
12721    rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be
12722    without blemish:
12723 14 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil,
12724    three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks,
12725    two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
12726 15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
12727 16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
12728    continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
12729    offering.
12730 17 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks,
12731    two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
12732 18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
12733    bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
12734    to their number, after the manner:
12735 19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
12736    continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and
12737    their drink offerings.
12738 20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs
12739    of the first year without blemish;
12740 21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
12741    bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
12742    to their number, after the manner:
12743 22 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
12744    offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
12745 23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
12746    lambs of the first year without blemish:
12747 24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
12748    bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
12749    to their number, after the manner:
12750 25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the
12751    continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
12752    offering.
12753 26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
12754    lambs of the first year without spot:
12755 27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
12756    bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
12757    to their number, after the manner:
12758 28 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
12759    offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
12760 29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
12761    lambs of the first year without blemish:
12762 30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
12763    bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
12764    to their number, after the manner:
12765 31 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
12766    offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
12767 32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
12768    lambs of the first year without blemish:
12769 33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
12770    bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according
12771    to their number, after the manner:
12772 34 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
12773    offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
12774 35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do
12775    no servile work therein:
12776 36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire,
12777    of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven
12778    lambs of the first year without blemish:
12779 37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock,
12780    for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their
12781    number, after the manner:
12782 38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
12783    offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
12784 39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts,
12785    beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt
12786    offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink
12787    offerings, and for your peace offerings.
12788 40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that
12789    the LORD commanded Moses.

12790 Numbers 30

12791  1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the
12792    children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD
12793    hath commanded.
12794  2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his
12795    soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do
12796    according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
12797  3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a
12798    bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
12799  4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath
12800    bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her;
12801    then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she
12802    hath bound her soul shall stand.
12803  5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not
12804    any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her
12805    soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her
12806    father disallowed her.
12807  6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered
12808    ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
12809  7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day
12810    that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds
12811    wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
12812  8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it;
12813    then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she
12814    uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none
12815    effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
12816  9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced,
12817    wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against
12818    her.
12819 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by
12820    a bond with an oath;
12821 11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and
12822    disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every
12823    bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
12824 12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he
12825    heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips
12826    concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall
12827    not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall
12828    forgive her.
12829 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
12830    husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
12831 14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day
12832    to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds,
12833    which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his
12834    peace at her in the day that he heard them.
12835 15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath
12836    heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
12837 16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses,
12838    between a man and his wife, between the father and his
12839    daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.

12840 Numbers 31

12841  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12842  2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward
12843    shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
12844  3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of
12845    yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
12846    Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
12847  4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of
12848    Israel, shall ye send to the war.
12849  5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a
12850    thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
12851  6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe,
12852    them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war,
12853    with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his
12854    hand.
12855  7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded
12856    Moses; and they slew all the males.
12857  8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them
12858    that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and
12859    Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they
12860    slew with the sword.
12861  9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian
12862    captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all
12863    their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
12864 10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all
12865    their goodly castles, with fire.
12866 11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and
12867    of beasts.
12868 12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil,
12869    unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation
12870    of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of
12871    Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
12872 13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
12873    congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
12874 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the
12875    captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which
12876    came from the battle.
12877 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
12878 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
12879    counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the
12880    matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation
12881    of the LORD.
12882 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
12883    every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
12884 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying
12885    with him, keep alive for yourselves.
12886 19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath
12887    killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain,
12888    purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and
12889    on the seventh day.
12890 20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins,
12891    and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
12892 21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to
12893    the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD
12894    commanded Moses;
12895 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin,
12896    and the lead,
12897 23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go
12898    through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall
12899    be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth
12900    not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
12901 24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye
12902    shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
12903 25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12904 26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of
12905    beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of
12906    the congregation:
12907 27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the
12908    war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the
12909    congregation:
12910 28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went
12911    out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons,
12912    and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
12913 29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest,
12914    for an heave offering of the LORD.
12915 30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one
12916    portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses,
12917    and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto
12918    the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
12919    LORD.
12920 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded
12921    Moses.
12922 32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war
12923    had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and
12924    five thousand sheep,
12925 33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
12926 34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
12927 35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had
12928    not known man by lying with him.
12929 36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to
12930    war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty
12931    thousand and five hundred sheep:
12932 37 And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and
12933    threescore and fifteen.
12934 38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the
12935    LORD's tribute was threescore and twelve.
12936 39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which
12937    the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.
12938 40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD's
12939    tribute was thirty and two persons.
12940 41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave
12941    offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded
12942    Moses.
12943 42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from
12944    the men that warred,
12945 43 (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three
12946    hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and
12947    five hundred sheep,
12948 44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
12949 45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
12950 46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
12951 47 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion
12952    of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the
12953    Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD;
12954    as the LORD commanded Moses.
12955 48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the
12956    captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near
12957    unto Moses:
12958 49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of
12959    the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh
12960    not one man of us.
12961 50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every
12962    man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets,
12963    rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our
12964    souls before the LORD.
12965 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even
12966    all wrought jewels.
12967 52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the
12968    LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of
12969    hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
12970    shekels.
12971 53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
12972 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains
12973    of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the
12974    tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the
12975    children of Israel before the LORD.

12976 Numbers 32

12977  1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
12978    great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of
12979    Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a
12980    place for cattle;
12981  2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake
12982    unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of
12983    the congregation, saying,
12984  3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
12985    Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
12986  4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation
12987    of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
12988  5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let
12989    this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and
12990    bring us not over Jordan.
12991  6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of
12992    Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
12993  7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of
12994    Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given
12995    them?
12996  8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to
12997    see the land.
12998  9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
12999    land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel,
13000    that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given
13001    them.
13002 10 And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware,
13003    saying,
13004 11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty
13005    years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto
13006    Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not
13007    wholly followed me:
13008 12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the
13009    son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
13010 13 And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made
13011    them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the
13012    generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was
13013    consumed.
13014 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an
13015    increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the
13016    LORD toward Israel.
13017 15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave
13018    them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
13019 16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build
13020    sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little
13021    ones:
13022 17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of
13023    Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our
13024    little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the
13025    inhabitants of the land.
13026 18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of
13027    Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
13028 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or
13029    forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side
13030    Jordan eastward.
13031 20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will
13032    go armed before the LORD to war,
13033 21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD,
13034    until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
13035 22 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye
13036    shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before
13037    Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the
13038    LORD.
13039 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the
13040    LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
13041 24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your
13042    sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
13043 25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto
13044    Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
13045 26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle,
13046    shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
13047 27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war,
13048    before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
13049 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and
13050    Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of
13051    the children of Israel:
13052 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the
13053    children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man
13054    armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be
13055    subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead
13056    for a possession:
13057 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
13058    possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
13059 31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
13060    saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we
13061    do.
13062 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of
13063    Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side
13064    Jordan may be our's.
13065 33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to
13066    the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh
13067    the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,
13068    and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the
13069    cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country
13070    round about.
13071 34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
13072 35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
13073 36 And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for
13074    sheep.
13075 37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
13076    Kirjathaim,
13077 38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and
13078    Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they
13079    builded.
13080 39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead,
13081    and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
13082 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he
13083    dwelt therein.
13084 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns
13085    thereof, and called them Havothjair.
13086 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and
13087    called it Nobah, after his own name.

13088 Numbers 33

13089  1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went
13090    forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the
13091    hand of Moses and Aaron.
13092  2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys
13093    by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys
13094    according to their goings out.
13095  3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the
13096    fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the
13097    passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in
13098    the sight of all the Egyptians.
13099  4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD
13100    had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed
13101    judgments.
13102  5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched
13103    in Succoth.
13104  6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is
13105    in the edge of the wilderness.
13106  7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth,
13107    which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
13108  8 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through
13109    the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days'
13110    journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
13111  9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim
13112    were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm
13113    trees; and they pitched there.
13114 10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
13115 11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the
13116    wilderness of Sin.
13117 12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and
13118    encamped in Dophkah.
13119 13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
13120 14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where
13121    was no water for the people to drink.
13122 15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness
13123    of Sinai.
13124 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at
13125    Kibrothhattaavah.
13126 17 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at
13127    Hazeroth.
13128 18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
13129 19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.
13130 20 And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah.
13131 21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
13132 22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
13133 23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
13134 24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
13135 25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
13136 26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
13137 27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
13138 28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
13139 29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
13140 30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
13141 31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Benejaakan.
13142 32 And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhagidgad.
13143 33 And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
13144 34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
13145 35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.
13146 36 And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the
13147    wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
13148 37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the
13149    edge of the land of Edom.
13150 38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment
13151    of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the
13152    children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
13153    first day of the fifth month.
13154 39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when
13155    he died in mount Hor.
13156 40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the
13157    land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
13158 41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
13159 42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
13160 43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
13161 44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ijeabarim, in the
13162    border of Moab.
13163 45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibongad.
13164 46 And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in
13165    Almondiblathaim.
13166 47 And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the
13167    mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
13168 48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in
13169    the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
13170 49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto
13171    Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
13172 50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan
13173    near Jericho, saying,
13174 51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
13175    are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
13176 52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
13177    before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all
13178    their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high
13179    places:
13180 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell
13181    therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
13182 54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among
13183    your families: and to the more ye shall give the more
13184    inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less
13185    inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place
13186    where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers
13187    ye shall inherit.
13188 55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
13189    before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye
13190    let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in
13191    your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
13192 56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I
13193    thought to do unto them.

13194 Numbers 34

13195  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
13196  2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
13197    come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall
13198    fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with
13199    the coasts thereof:)
13200  3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin
13201    along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the
13202    outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
13203  4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of
13204    Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof
13205    shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to
13206    Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
13207  5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river
13208    of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
13209  6 And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great
13210    sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
13211  7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye
13212    shall point out for you mount Hor:
13213  8 From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the
13214    entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall
13215    be to Zedad:
13216  9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of
13217    it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
13218 10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to
13219    Shepham:
13220 11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the
13221    east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall
13222    reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
13223 12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of
13224    it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the
13225    coasts thereof round about.
13226 13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is
13227    the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD
13228    commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
13229 14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house
13230    of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad
13231    according to the house of their fathers, have received their
13232    inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received
13233    their inheritance:
13234 15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their
13235    inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward
13236    the sunrising.
13237 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
13238 17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land
13239    unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
13240 18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the
13241    land by inheritance.
13242 19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah,
13243    Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
13244 20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of
13245    Ammihud.
13246 21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
13247 22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the
13248    son of Jogli.
13249 23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the
13250    children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
13251 24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel
13252    the son of Shiphtan.
13253 25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun,
13254    Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
13255 26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar,
13256    Paltiel the son of Azzan.
13257 27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud
13258    the son of Shelomi.
13259 28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali,
13260    Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
13261 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the
13262    inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

13263 Numbers 35

13264  1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan
13265    near Jericho, saying,
13266  2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the
13267    Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell
13268    in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the
13269    cities round about them.
13270  3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of
13271    them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for
13272    all their beasts.
13273  4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the
13274    Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a
13275    thousand cubits round about.
13276  5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side
13277    two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand
13278    cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the
13279    north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the
13280    midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
13281  6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites
13282    there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint
13283    for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye
13284    shall add forty and two cities.
13285  7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be
13286    forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
13287  8 And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession
13288    of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall
13289    give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few:
13290    every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according
13291    to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
13292  9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
13293 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
13294    be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
13295 11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for
13296    you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any
13297    person at unawares.
13298 12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger;
13299    that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the
13300    congregation in judgment.
13301 13 And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye
13302    have for refuge.
13303 14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three
13304    cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be
13305    cities of refuge.
13306 15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of
13307    Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among
13308    them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee
13309    thither.
13310 16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he
13311    die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
13312    death.
13313 17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may
13314    die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely
13315    be put to death.
13316 18 Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he
13317    may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall
13318    surely be put to death.
13319 19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he
13320    meeteth him, he shall slay him.
13321 20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of
13322    wait, that he die;
13323 21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that
13324    smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer:
13325    the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth
13326    him.
13327 22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast
13328    upon him any thing without laying of wait,
13329 23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not,
13330    and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy,
13331    neither sought his harm:
13332 24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the
13333    revenger of blood according to these judgments:
13334 25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand
13335    of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore
13336    him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he
13337    shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was
13338    anointed with the holy oil.
13339 26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of
13340    the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
13341 27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the
13342    city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer;
13343    he shall not be guilty of blood:
13344 28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge
13345    until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the
13346    high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his
13347    possession.
13348 29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you
13349    throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
13350 30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death
13351    by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify
13352    against any person to cause him to die.
13353 31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
13354    murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put
13355    to death.
13356 32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the
13357    city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the
13358    land, until the death of the priest.
13359 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it
13360    defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the
13361    blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed
13362    it.
13363 34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein
13364    I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

13365 Numbers 36

13366  1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of
13367    Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
13368    families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before
13369    Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the
13370    children of Israel:
13371  2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for
13372    an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord
13373    was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of
13374    Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
13375  3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes
13376    of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be
13377    taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to
13378    the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so
13379    shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
13380  4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then
13381    shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the
13382    tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance
13383    be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our
13384    fathers.
13385  5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the
13386    word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath
13387    said well.
13388  6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the
13389    daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they
13390    think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father
13391    shall they marry.
13392  7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove
13393    from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel
13394    shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his
13395    fathers.
13396  8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any
13397    tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the
13398    family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel
13399    may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
13400  9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another
13401    tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel
13402    shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
13403 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
13404    Zelophehad:
13405 11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
13406    daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's
13407    brothers' sons:
13408 12 And they were married into the families of the sons of
13409    Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in
13410    the tribe of the family of their father.
13411 13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD
13412    commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in
13413    the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

13414 Book 5 Deuteronomy

13415 Deuteronomy 1

13416  1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this
13417    side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the
13418    Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth,
13419    and Dizahab.
13420  2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount
13421    Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
13422  3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
13423    month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto
13424    the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had
13425    given him in commandment unto them;
13426  4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt
13427    in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth
13428    in Edrei:
13429  5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
13430    declare this law, saying,
13431  6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt
13432    long enough in this mount:
13433  7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the
13434    Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the
13435    plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by
13436    the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon,
13437    unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
13438  8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the
13439    land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac,
13440    and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
13441  9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to
13442    bear you myself alone:
13443 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are
13444    this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
13445 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so
13446    many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
13447 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden,
13448    and your strife?
13449 13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your
13450    tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
13451 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken
13452    is good for us to do.
13453 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and
13454    made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and
13455    captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and
13456    captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
13457 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the
13458    causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between
13459    every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
13460 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear
13461    the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the
13462    face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is
13463    too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
13464 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye
13465    should do.
13466 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that
13467    great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the
13468    mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us;
13469    and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
13470 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
13471    Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
13472 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up
13473    and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto
13474    thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
13475 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will
13476    send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and
13477    bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what
13478    cities we shall come.
13479 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you,
13480    one of a tribe:
13481 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto
13482    the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
13483 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and
13484    brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said,
13485    It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
13486 26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
13487    commandment of the LORD your God:
13488 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD
13489    hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt,
13490    to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
13491 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our
13492    heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the
13493    cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have
13494    seen the sons of the Anakims there.
13495 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
13496 30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for
13497    you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your
13498    eyes;
13499 31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD
13500    thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way
13501    that ye went, until ye came into this place.
13502 32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
13503 33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to
13504    pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way
13505    ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
13506 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and
13507    sware, saying,
13508 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil
13509    generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your
13510    fathers.
13511 36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him
13512    will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his
13513    children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
13514 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou
13515    also shalt not go in thither.
13516 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he
13517    shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel
13518    to inherit it.
13519 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and
13520    your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good
13521    and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give
13522    it, and they shall possess it.
13523 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
13524    wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
13525 41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the
13526    LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD
13527    our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his
13528    weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
13529 42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither
13530    fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your
13531    enemies.
13532 43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled
13533    against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously
13534    up into the hill.
13535 44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out
13536    against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in
13537    Seir, even unto Hormah.
13538 45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would
13539    not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
13540 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that
13541    ye abode there.

13542 Deuteronomy 2

13543  1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by
13544    the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we
13545    compassed mount Seir many days.
13546  2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
13547  3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you
13548    northward.
13549  4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through
13550    the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell
13551    in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed
13552    unto yourselves therefore:
13553  5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land,
13554    no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount
13555    Seir unto Esau for a possession.
13556  6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye
13557    shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
13558  7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy
13559    hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness:
13560    these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou
13561    hast lacked nothing.
13562  8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau,
13563    which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath,
13564    and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the
13565    wilderness of Moab.
13566  9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither
13567    contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their
13568    land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the
13569    children of Lot for a possession.
13570 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and
13571    many, and tall, as the Anakims;
13572 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the
13573    Moabites called them Emims.
13574 12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of
13575    Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before
13576    them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of
13577    his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
13578 13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we
13579    went over the brook Zered.
13580 14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we
13581    were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years;
13582    until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out
13583    from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
13584 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy
13585    them from among the host, until they were consumed.
13586 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and
13587    dead from among the people,
13588 17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
13589 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
13590 19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,
13591    distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give
13592    thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession;
13593    because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a
13594    possession.
13595 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt
13596    therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
13597 21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the
13598    LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and
13599    dwelt in their stead:
13600 22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when
13601    he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded
13602    them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
13603 23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the
13604    Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them,
13605    and dwelt in their stead.)
13606 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon:
13607    behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king
13608    of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend
13609    with him in battle.
13610 25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of
13611    thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who
13612    shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in
13613    anguish because of thee.
13614 26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto
13615    Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
13616 27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way,
13617    I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
13618 28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me
13619    water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on
13620    my feet;
13621 29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites
13622    which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over
13623    Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
13624 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for
13625    the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart
13626    obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as
13627    appeareth this day.
13628 31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon
13629    and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest
13630    inherit his land.
13631 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to
13632    fight at Jahaz.
13633 33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote
13634    him, and his sons, and all his people.
13635 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed
13636    the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we
13637    left none to remain:
13638 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the
13639    spoil of the cities which we took.
13640 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and
13641    from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there
13642    was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered
13643    all unto us:
13644 37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not,
13645    nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in
13646    the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

13647 Deuteronomy 3

13648  1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king
13649    of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to
13650    battle at Edrei.
13651  2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver
13652    him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou
13653    shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
13654    Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
13655  3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king
13656    of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was
13657    left to him remaining.
13658  4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city
13659    which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region
13660    of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
13661  5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars;
13662    beside unwalled towns a great many.
13663  6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of
13664    Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of
13665    every city.
13666  7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a
13667    prey to ourselves.
13668  8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of
13669    the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the
13670    river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
13671  9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call
13672    it Shenir;)
13673 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan,
13674    unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
13675 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
13676    behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in
13677    Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length
13678    thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of
13679    a man.
13680 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer,
13681    which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the
13682    cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
13683 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of
13684    Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of
13685    Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
13686 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto
13687    the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his
13688    own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
13689 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
13690 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from
13691    Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the
13692    border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the
13693    children of Ammon;
13694 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from
13695    Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea,
13696    under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
13697 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God
13698    hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over
13699    armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that
13700    are meet for the war.
13701 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I
13702    know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities
13703    which I have given you;
13704 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as
13705    unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD
13706    your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye
13707    return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
13708 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have
13709    seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two
13710    kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou
13711    passest.
13712 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight
13713    for you.
13714 23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
13715 24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness,
13716    and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in
13717    earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to
13718    thy might?
13719 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is
13720    beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
13721 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not
13722    hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak
13723    no more unto me of this matter.
13724 27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
13725    westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and
13726    behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this
13727    Jordan.
13728 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for
13729    he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them
13730    to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
13731 29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.

13732 Deuteronomy 4

13733  1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto
13734    the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may
13735    live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of
13736    your fathers giveth you.
13737  2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
13738    shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the
13739    commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
13740  3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for
13741    all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath
13742    destroyed them from among you.
13743  4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every
13744    one of you this day.
13745  5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
13746    LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land
13747    whither ye go to possess it.
13748  6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
13749    understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear
13750    all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a
13751    wise and understanding people.
13752  7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto
13753    them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon
13754    him for?
13755  8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and
13756    judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you
13757    this day?
13758  9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest
13759    thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest
13760    they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach
13761    them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
13762 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God
13763    in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people
13764    together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may
13765    learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the
13766    earth, and that they may teach their children.
13767 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the
13768    mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with
13769    darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
13770 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye
13771    heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye
13772    heard a voice.
13773 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you
13774    to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two
13775    tables of stone.
13776 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes
13777    and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go
13778    over to possess it.
13779 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no
13780    manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you
13781    in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
13782 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
13783    similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
13784 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness
13785    of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
13786 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the
13787    likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
13788 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou
13789    seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host
13790    of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve
13791    them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations
13792    under the whole heaven.
13793 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the
13794    iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of
13795    inheritance, as ye are this day.
13796 21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and
13797    sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not
13798    go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee
13799    for an inheritance:
13800 22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye
13801    shall go over, and possess that good land.
13802 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the
13803    LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven
13804    image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God
13805    hath forbidden thee.
13806 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
13807 25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and
13808    ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt
13809    yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any
13810    thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to
13811    provoke him to anger:
13812 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
13813    ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go
13814    over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon
13815    it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
13816 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall
13817    be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD
13818    shall lead you.
13819 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood
13820    and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
13821 29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou
13822    shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with
13823    all thy soul.
13824 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come
13825    upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD
13826    thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
13827 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake
13828    thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy
13829    fathers which he sware unto them.
13830 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,
13831    since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask
13832    from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath
13833    been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard
13834    like it?
13835 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the
13836    midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
13837 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst
13838    of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders,
13839    and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm,
13840    and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God
13841    did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
13842 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD
13843    he is God; there is none else beside him.
13844 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might
13845    instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire;
13846    and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
13847 37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their
13848    seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his
13849    mighty power out of Egypt;
13850 38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier
13851    than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for
13852    an inheritance, as it is this day.
13853 39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that
13854    the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth
13855    beneath: there is none else.
13856 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments,
13857    which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee,
13858    and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong
13859    thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
13860    for ever.
13861 41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
13862    sunrising;
13863 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his
13864    neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that
13865    fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
13866 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the
13867    Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in
13868    Bashan, of the Manassites.
13869 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of
13870    Israel:
13871 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
13872    judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
13873    after they came forth out of Egypt.
13874 46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in
13875    the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon,
13876    whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were
13877    come forth out of Egypt:
13878 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of
13879    Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side
13880    Jordan toward the sunrising;
13881 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto
13882    mount Sion, which is Hermon,
13883 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the
13884    sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

13885 Deuteronomy 5

13886  1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O
13887    Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears
13888    this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
13889  2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
13890  3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us,
13891    even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
13892  4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the
13893    midst of the fire,
13894  5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you
13895    the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the
13896    fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
13897  6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
13898    Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13899  7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
13900  8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of
13901    any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
13902    beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
13903  9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for
13904    I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
13905    the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
13906    generation of them that hate me,
13907 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep
13908    my commandments.
13909 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for
13910    the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in
13911    vain.
13912 12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath
13913    commanded thee.
13914 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
13915 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it
13916    thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
13917    daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine
13918    ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger
13919    that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy
13920    maidservant may rest as well as thou.
13921 15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt,
13922    and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a
13923    mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy
13924    God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
13925 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath
13926    commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it
13927    may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God
13928    giveth thee.
13929 17 Thou shalt not kill.
13930 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
13931 19 Neither shalt thou steal.
13932 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
13933 21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt
13934    thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his
13935    manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any
13936    thing that is thy neighbour's.
13937 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount
13938    out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick
13939    darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he
13940    wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
13941 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst
13942    of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that
13943    ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and
13944    your elders;
13945 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory
13946    and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the
13947    midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk
13948    with man, and he liveth.
13949 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will
13950    consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more,
13951    then we shall die.
13952 26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of
13953    the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we
13954    have, and lived?
13955 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say:
13956    and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak
13957    unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
13958 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto
13959    me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the
13960    words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they
13961    have well said all that they have spoken.
13962 29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear
13963    me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well
13964    with them, and with their children for ever!
13965 30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
13966 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto
13967    thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the
13968    judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them
13969    in the land which I give them to possess it.
13970 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath
13971    commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to
13972    the left.
13973 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath
13974    commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with
13975    you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye
13976    shall possess.

13977 Deuteronomy 6

13978  1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the
13979    judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you,
13980    that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
13981  2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his
13982    statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and
13983    thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that
13984    thy days may be prolonged.
13985  3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be
13986    well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD
13987    God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that
13988    floweth with milk and honey.
13989  4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
13990  5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
13991    with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
13992  6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in
13993    thine heart:
13994  7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and
13995    shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when
13996    thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when
13997    thou risest up.
13998  8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
13999    shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
14000  9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on
14001    thy gates.
14002 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee
14003    into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to
14004    Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities,
14005    which thou buildedst not,
14006 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not,
14007    and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive
14008    trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten
14009    and be full;
14010 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee
14011    forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
14012 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt
14013    swear by his name.
14014 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people
14015    which are round about you;
14016 15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the
14017    anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy
14018    thee from off the face of the earth.
14019 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in
14020    Massah.
14021 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your
14022    God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath
14023    commanded thee.
14024 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of
14025    the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest
14026    go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy
14027    fathers.
14028 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD
14029    hath spoken.
14030 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What
14031    mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments,
14032    which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
14033 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in
14034    Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty
14035    hand:
14036 22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon
14037    Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our
14038    eyes:
14039 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in,
14040    to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
14041 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear
14042    the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve
14043    us alive, as it is at this day.
14044 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all
14045    these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath
14046    commanded us.

14047 Deuteronomy 7

14048  1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither
14049    thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations
14050    before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the
14051    Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the
14052    Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier
14053    than thou;
14054  2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou
14055    shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no
14056    covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
14057  3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
14058    shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take
14059    unto thy son.
14060  4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they
14061    may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled
14062    against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
14063  5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their
14064    altars, and break down their images, and cut down their
14065    groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
14066  6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD
14067    thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself,
14068    above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
14069  7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
14070    because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were
14071    the fewest of all people:
14072  8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the
14073    oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD
14074    brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of
14075    the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
14076  9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful
14077    God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him
14078    and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
14079 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy
14080    them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will
14081    repay him to his face.
14082 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes,
14083    and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
14084 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
14085    judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall
14086    keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto
14087    thy fathers:
14088 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he
14089    will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy
14090    land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of
14091    thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he
14092    sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14093 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be
14094    male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
14095 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will
14096    put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest,
14097    upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
14098 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God
14099    shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them:
14100    neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare
14101    unto thee.
14102 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than
14103    I; how can I dispossess them?
14104 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what
14105    the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
14106 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and
14107    the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm,
14108    whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD
14109    thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
14110 20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,
14111    until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be
14112    destroyed.
14113 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is
14114    among you, a mighty God and terrible.
14115 22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by
14116    little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest
14117    the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
14118 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall
14119    destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be
14120    destroyed.
14121 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou
14122    shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man
14123    be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
14124 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
14125    shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take
14126    it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an
14127    abomination to the LORD thy God.
14128 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest
14129    thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest
14130    it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

14131 Deuteronomy 8

14132  1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye
14133    observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and
14134    possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
14135  2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led
14136    thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and
14137    to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou
14138    wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
14139  3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee
14140    with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers
14141    know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by
14142    bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
14143    of the LORD doth man live.
14144  4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot
14145    swell, these forty years.
14146  5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man
14147    chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
14148  6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy
14149    God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
14150  7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of
14151    brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of
14152    valleys and hills;
14153  8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and
14154    pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
14155  9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou
14156    shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron,
14157    and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
14158 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the
14159    LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
14160 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping
14161    his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I
14162    command thee this day:
14163 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly
14164    houses, and dwelt therein;
14165 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and
14166    thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
14167 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy
14168    God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from
14169    the house of bondage;
14170 15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness,
14171    wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where
14172    there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the
14173    rock of flint;
14174 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers
14175    knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove
14176    thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
14177 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine
14178    hand hath gotten me this wealth.
14179 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that
14180    giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his
14181    covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
14182 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God,
14183    and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I
14184    testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
14185 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so
14186    shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the
14187    voice of the LORD your God.

14188 Deuteronomy 9

14189  1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go
14190    in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself,
14191    cities great and fenced up to heaven,
14192  2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom
14193    thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand
14194    before the children of Anak!
14195  3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he
14196    which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall
14197    destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so
14198    shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the
14199    LORD hath said unto thee.
14200  4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God
14201    hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my
14202    righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this
14203    land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth
14204    drive them out from before thee.
14205  5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine
14206    heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the
14207    wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them
14208    out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which
14209    the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14210  6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not
14211    this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou
14212    art a stiffnecked people.
14213  7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God
14214    to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst
14215    depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this
14216    place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
14217  8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD
14218    was angry with you to have destroyed you.
14219  9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of
14220    stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made
14221    with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty
14222    nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
14223 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written
14224    with the finger of God; and on them was written according to
14225    all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out
14226    of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
14227 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,
14228    that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables
14229    of the covenant.
14230 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
14231    hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of
14232    Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside
14233    out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a
14234    molten image.
14235 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
14236    people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
14237 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name
14238    from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier
14239    and greater than they.
14240 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned
14241    with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two
14242    hands.
14243 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
14244    God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside
14245    quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
14246 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
14247    and brake them before your eyes.
14248 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days
14249    and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water,
14250    because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in
14251    the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
14252 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith
14253    the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD
14254    hearkened unto me at that time also.
14255 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him:
14256    and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
14257 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it
14258    with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even
14259    until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof
14260    into the brook that descended out of the mount.
14261 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye
14262    provoked the LORD to wrath.
14263 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go
14264    up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye
14265    rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye
14266    believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
14267 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I
14268    knew you.
14269 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights,
14270    as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he
14271    would destroy you.
14272 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,
14273    destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast
14274    redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth
14275    out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
14276 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not
14277    unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness,
14278    nor to their sin:
14279 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the
14280    LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he
14281    promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them
14282    out to slay them in the wilderness.
14283 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
14284    broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out
14285    arm.

14286 Deuteronomy 10

14287  1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of
14288    stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount,
14289    and make thee an ark of wood.
14290  2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the
14291    first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in
14292    the ark.
14293  3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of
14294    stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having
14295    the two tables in mine hand.
14296  4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing,
14297    the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the
14298    mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly:
14299    and the LORD gave them unto me.
14300  5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the
14301    tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the
14302    LORD commanded me.
14303  6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of
14304    the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there
14305    he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's
14306    office in his stead.
14307  7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
14308    Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
14309  8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the
14310    ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to
14311    minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
14312  9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren;
14313    the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God
14314    promised him.
14315 10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty
14316    days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that
14317    time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
14318 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
14319    people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I
14320    sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
14321 12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee,
14322    but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to
14323    love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and
14324    with all thy soul,
14325 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which
14326    I command thee this day for thy good?
14327 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy
14328    God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
14329 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and
14330    he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as
14331    it is this day.
14332 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no
14333    more stiffnecked.
14334 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a
14335    great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not
14336    persons, nor taketh reward:
14337 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and
14338    loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
14339 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the
14340    land of Egypt.
14341 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to
14342    him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
14343 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee
14344    these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
14345 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten
14346    persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars
14347    of heaven for multitude.

14348 Deuteronomy 11

14349  1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his
14350    charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
14351    commandments, alway.
14352  2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which
14353    have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of
14354    the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his
14355    stretched out arm,
14356  3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of
14357    Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
14358  4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and
14359    to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to
14360    overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath
14361    destroyed them unto this day;
14362  5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into
14363    this place;
14364  6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the
14365    son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed
14366    them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the
14367    substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all
14368    Israel:
14369  7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which
14370    he did.
14371  8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command
14372    you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the
14373    land, whither ye go to possess it;
14374  9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD
14375    sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a
14376    land that floweth with milk and honey.
14377 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as
14378    the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst
14379    thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of
14380    herbs:
14381 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills
14382    and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
14383 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD
14384    thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year
14385    even unto the end of the year.
14386 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto
14387    my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD
14388    your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all
14389    your soul,
14390 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season,
14391    the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in
14392    thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
14393 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou
14394    mayest eat and be full.
14395 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and
14396    ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
14397 17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut
14398    up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield
14399    not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good
14400    land which the LORD giveth you.
14401 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in
14402    your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they
14403    may be as frontlets between your eyes.
14404 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when
14405    thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
14406    when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
14407 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,
14408    and upon thy gates:
14409 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
14410    children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers
14411    to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
14412 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I
14413    command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in
14414    all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
14415 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before
14416    you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than
14417    yourselves.
14418 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall
14419    be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the
14420    river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast
14421    be.
14422 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD
14423    your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon
14424    all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto
14425    you.
14426 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
14427 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
14428    which I command you this day:
14429 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD
14430    your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you
14431    this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
14432 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought
14433    thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that
14434    thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse
14435    upon mount Ebal.
14436 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the
14437    sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in
14438    the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
14439 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land
14440    which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it,
14441    and dwell therein.
14442 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments
14443    which I set before you this day.

14444 Deuteronomy 12

14445  1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe
14446    to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth
14447    thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
14448  2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations
14449    which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high
14450    mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
14451  3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars,
14452    and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the
14453    graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out
14454    of that place.
14455  4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
14456  5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of
14457    all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his
14458    habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
14459  6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
14460    sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand,
14461    and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings
14462    of your herds and of your flocks:
14463  7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall
14464    rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your
14465    households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
14466  8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
14467    every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
14468  9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
14469    which the LORD your God giveth you.
14470 10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the
14471    LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you
14472    rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in
14473    safety;
14474 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall
14475    choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye
14476    bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your
14477    sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand,
14478    and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
14479 12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your
14480    sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your
14481    maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates;
14482    forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
14483 13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings
14484    in every place that thou seest:
14485 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy
14486    tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there
14487    thou shalt do all that I command thee.
14488 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy
14489    gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the
14490    blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the
14491    unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and
14492    as of the hart.
14493 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the
14494    earth as water.
14495 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or
14496    of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or
14497    of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy
14498    freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
14499 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place
14500    which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and
14501    thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
14502    Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before
14503    the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
14504 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long
14505    as thou livest upon the earth.
14506 20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath
14507    promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because
14508    thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,
14509    whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
14510 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his
14511    name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy
14512    herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I
14513    have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates
14514    whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
14515 22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat
14516    them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
14517 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the
14518    life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
14519 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as
14520    water.
14521 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with
14522    thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is
14523    right in the sight of the LORD.
14524 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt
14525    take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
14526 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the
14527    blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of
14528    thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD
14529    thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
14530 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it
14531    may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for
14532    ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the
14533    sight of the LORD thy God.
14534 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before
14535    thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest
14536    them, and dwellest in their land;
14537 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following
14538    them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that
14539    thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these
14540    nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
14541 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
14542    abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto
14543    their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have
14544    burnt in the fire to their gods.
14545 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt
14546    not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

14547 Deuteronomy 13

14548  1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
14549    and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
14550  2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto
14551    thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not
14552    known, and let us serve them;
14553  3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
14554    dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know
14555    whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with
14556    all your soul.
14557  4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep
14558    his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him,
14559    and cleave unto him.
14560  5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
14561    death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD
14562    your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and
14563    redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out
14564    of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in.
14565    So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
14566  6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
14567    daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as
14568    thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and
14569    serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy
14570    fathers;
14571  7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,
14572    nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the
14573    earth even unto the other end of the earth;
14574  8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
14575    shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither
14576    shalt thou conceal him:
14577  9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
14578    him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
14579    people.
14580 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he
14581    hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which
14582    brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
14583    bondage.
14584 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any
14585    such wickedness as this is among you.
14586 12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD
14587    thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
14588 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among
14589    you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying,
14590    Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
14591 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
14592    and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such
14593    abomination is wrought among you;
14594 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the
14595    edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is
14596    therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
14597 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of
14598    the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all
14599    the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it
14600    shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
14601 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine
14602    hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger,
14603    and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and
14604    multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
14605 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to
14606    keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do
14607    that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

14608 Deuteronomy 14

14609  1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
14610    yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the
14611    dead.
14612  2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the
14613    LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,
14614    above all the nations that are upon the earth.
14615  3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
14616  4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep,
14617    and the goat,
14618  5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
14619    goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
14620  6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft
14621    into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye
14622    shall eat.
14623  7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
14624    or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the
14625    hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the
14626    hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
14627  8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not
14628    the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their
14629    flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
14630  9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that
14631    have fins and scales shall ye eat:
14632 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is
14633    unclean unto you.
14634 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
14635 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and
14636    the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14637 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14638 14 And every raven after his kind,
14639 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
14640    after his kind,
14641 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
14642 17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
14643 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,
14644    and the bat.
14645 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they
14646    shall not be eaten.
14647 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
14648 21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt
14649    give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may
14650    eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an
14651    holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid
14652    in his mother's milk.
14653 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the
14654    field bringeth forth year by year.
14655 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which
14656    he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy
14657    corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy
14658    herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the
14659    LORD thy God always.
14660 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able
14661    to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the
14662    LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD
14663    thy God hath blessed thee:
14664 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in
14665    thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God
14666    shall choose:
14667 26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul
14668    lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for
14669    strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou
14670    shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt
14671    rejoice, thou, and thine household,
14672 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not
14673    forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
14674 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe
14675    of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within
14676    thy gates:
14677 29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with
14678    thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,
14679    which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
14680    satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the
14681    work of thine hand which thou doest.

14682 Deuteronomy 15

14683  1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
14684  2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that
14685    lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall
14686    not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it
14687    is called the LORD's release.
14688  3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is
14689    thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
14690  4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall
14691    greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
14692    thee for an inheritance to possess it:
14693  5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
14694    God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command
14695    thee this day.
14696  6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and
14697    thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow;
14698    and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not
14699    reign over thee.
14700  7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within
14701    any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth
14702    thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand
14703    from thy poor brother:
14704  8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely
14705    lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
14706  9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,
14707    saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and
14708    thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest
14709    him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be
14710    sin unto thee.
14711 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be
14712    grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing
14713    the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all
14714    that thou puttest thine hand unto.
14715 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
14716    command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
14717    brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
14718 12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold
14719    unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year
14720    thou shalt let him go free from thee.
14721 13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not
14722    let him go away empty:
14723 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of
14724    thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the
14725    LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
14726 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land
14727    of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I
14728    command thee this thing to day.
14729 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from
14730    thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is
14731    well with thee;
14732 17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear
14733    unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also
14734    unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
14735 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away
14736    free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant
14737    to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall
14738    bless thee in all that thou doest.
14739 19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock
14740    thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no
14741    work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the
14742    firstling of thy sheep.
14743 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the
14744    place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
14745 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or
14746    blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it
14747    unto the LORD thy God.
14748 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean
14749    person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
14750 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it
14751    upon the ground as water.

14752 Deuteronomy 16

14753  1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD
14754    thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought
14755    thee forth out of Egypt by night.
14756  2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy
14757    God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD
14758    shall choose to place his name there.
14759  3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt
14760    thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of
14761    affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in
14762    haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest
14763    forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
14764  4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy
14765    coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh,
14766    which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all
14767    night until the morning.
14768  5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy
14769    gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
14770  6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place
14771    his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even,
14772    at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest
14773    forth out of Egypt.
14774  7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD
14775    thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and
14776    go unto thy tents.
14777  8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh
14778    day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt
14779    do no work therein.
14780  9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the
14781    seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle
14782    to the corn.
14783 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God
14784    with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which
14785    thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD
14786    thy God hath blessed thee:
14787 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy
14788    son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
14789    maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the
14790    stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among
14791    you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place
14792    his name there.
14793 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and
14794    thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
14795 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
14796    that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14797 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and
14798    thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
14799    Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that
14800    are within thy gates.
14801 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy
14802    God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD
14803    thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the
14804    works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
14805 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the
14806    LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast
14807    of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the
14808    feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the
14809    LORD empty:
14810 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
14811    of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
14812 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,
14813    which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and
14814    they shall judge the people with just judgment.
14815 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
14816    neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the
14817    wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
14818 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou
14819    mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God
14820    giveth thee.
14821 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
14822    altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
14823 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy
14824    God hateth.

14825 Deuteronomy 17

14826  1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or
14827    sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that
14828    is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
14829  2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the
14830    LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
14831    wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing
14832    his covenant,
14833  3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,
14834    either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I
14835    have not commanded;
14836  4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
14837    diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain,
14838    that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
14839  5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
14840    committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or
14841    that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
14842  6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he
14843    that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of
14844    one witness he shall not be put to death.
14845  7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him
14846    to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou
14847    shalt put the evil away from among you.
14848  8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
14849    blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and
14850    stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then
14851    shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the
14852    LORD thy God shall choose;
14853  9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
14854    judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall
14855    shew thee the sentence of judgment:
14856 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of
14857    that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and
14858    thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform
14859    thee:
14860 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach
14861    thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell
14862    thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence
14863    which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the
14864    left.
14865 12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken
14866    unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the
14867    LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and
14868    thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
14869 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
14870    presumptuously.
14871 14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
14872    thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt
14873    say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that
14874    are about me;
14875 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD
14876    thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou
14877    set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee,
14878    which is not thy brother.
14879 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
14880    people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply
14881    horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall
14882    henceforth return no more that way.
14883 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
14884    turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
14885    silver and gold.
14886 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his
14887    kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book
14888    out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
14889 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the
14890    days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God,
14891    to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do
14892    them:
14893 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that
14894    he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or
14895    to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his
14896    kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

14897 Deuteronomy 18

14898  1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have
14899    no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
14900    offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
14901  2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren:
14902    the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
14903  3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them
14904    that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they
14905    shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,
14906    and the maw.
14907  4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
14908    oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give
14909    him.
14910  5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to
14911    stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons
14912    for ever.
14913  6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
14914    where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind
14915    unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
14916  7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all
14917    his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the
14918    LORD.
14919  8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh
14920    of the sale of his patrimony.
14921  9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
14922    thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of
14923    those nations.
14924 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son
14925    or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
14926    divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
14927    witch.
14928 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a
14929    wizard, or a necromancer.
14930 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:
14931    and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive
14932    them out from before thee.
14933 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
14934 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
14935    observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the
14936    LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
14937 15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
14938    midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye
14939    shall hearken;
14940 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in
14941    Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear
14942    again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this
14943    great fire any more, that I die not.
14944 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which
14945    they have spoken.
14946 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like
14947    unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
14948    speak unto them all that I shall command him.
14949 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken
14950    unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require
14951    it of him.
14952 20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my
14953    name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall
14954    speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
14955 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word
14956    which the LORD hath not spoken?
14957 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
14958    follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD
14959    hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
14960    presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

14961 Deuteronomy 19

14962  1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the
14963    LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and
14964    dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
14965  2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy
14966    land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
14967  3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy
14968    land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into
14969    three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
14970  4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither,
14971    that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom
14972    he hated not in time past;
14973  5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew
14974    wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down
14975    the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth
14976    upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of
14977    those cities, and live:
14978  6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his
14979    heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and
14980    slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he
14981    hated him not in time past.
14982  7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three
14983    cities for thee.
14984  8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn
14985    unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised
14986    to give unto thy fathers;
14987  9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I
14988    command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk
14989    ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for
14990    thee, beside these three:
14991 10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD
14992    thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon
14993    thee.
14994 11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him,
14995    and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die,
14996    and fleeth into one of these cities:
14997 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence,
14998    and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he
14999    may die.
15000 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the
15001    guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with
15002    thee.
15003 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of
15004    old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt
15005    inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to
15006    possess it.
15007 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
15008    or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of
15009    two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the
15010    matter be established.
15011 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against
15012    him that which is wrong;
15013 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall
15014    stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges,
15015    which shall be in those days;
15016 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
15017    if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely
15018    against his brother;
15019 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto
15020    his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
15021 20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
15022    henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
15023 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye
15024    for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

15025 Deuteronomy 20

15026  1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
15027    horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not
15028    afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which
15029    brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
15030  2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that
15031    the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
15032  3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day
15033    unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint,
15034    fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because
15035    of them;
15036  4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for
15037    you against your enemies, to save you.
15038  5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man
15039    is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated
15040    it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
15041    battle, and another man dedicate it.
15042  6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not
15043    yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house,
15044    lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
15045  7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not
15046    taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die
15047    in the battle, and another man take her.
15048  8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they
15049    shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?
15050    let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's
15051    heart faint as well as his heart.
15052  9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of
15053    speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the
15054    armies to lead the people.
15055 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then
15056    proclaim peace unto it.
15057 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open
15058    unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found
15059    therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve
15060    thee.
15061 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
15062    against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
15063 13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,
15064    thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the
15065    sword:
15066 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all
15067    that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou
15068    take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine
15069    enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
15070 15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off
15071    from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
15072 16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth
15073    give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing
15074    that breatheth:
15075 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and
15076    the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,
15077    and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
15078 18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations,
15079    which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against
15080    the LORD your God.
15081 19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war
15082    against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees
15083    thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of
15084    them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
15085    field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
15086 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for
15087    meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt
15088    build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
15089    until it be subdued.

15090 Deuteronomy 21

15091  1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God
15092    giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not
15093    known who hath slain him:
15094  2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they
15095    shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that
15096    is slain:
15097  3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain
15098    man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which
15099    hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the
15100    yoke;
15101  4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a
15102    rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall
15103    strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
15104  5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
15105    LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in
15106    the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every
15107    controversy and every stroke be tried:
15108  6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain
15109    man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded
15110    in the valley:
15111  7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
15112    blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
15113  8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
15114    redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of
15115    Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
15116  9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among
15117    you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of
15118    the LORD.
15119 10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the
15120    LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou
15121    hast taken them captive,
15122 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a
15123    desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
15124 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall
15125    shave her head, and pare her nails;
15126 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her,
15127    and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her
15128    mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her,
15129    and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
15130 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou
15131    shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her
15132    at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her,
15133    because thou hast humbled her.
15134 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and
15135    they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated;
15136    and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
15137 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that
15138    which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved
15139    firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the
15140    firstborn:
15141 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the
15142    firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath:
15143    for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
15144    firstborn is his.
15145 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not
15146    obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and
15147    that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto
15148    them:
15149 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
15150    bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate
15151    of his place;
15152 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son
15153    is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is
15154    a glutton, and a drunkard.
15155 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that
15156    he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all
15157    Israel shall hear, and fear.
15158 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be
15159    to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
15160 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou
15161    shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is
15162    accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD
15163    thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

15164 Deuteronomy 22

15165  1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
15166    and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them
15167    again unto thy brother.
15168  2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him
15169    not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it
15170    shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou
15171    shalt restore it to him again.
15172  3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou
15173    do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's,
15174    which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do
15175    likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
15176  4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by
15177    the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help
15178    him to lift them up again.
15179  5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,
15180    neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do
15181    so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
15182  6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any
15183    tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs,
15184    and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou
15185    shalt not take the dam with the young:
15186  7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young
15187    to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest
15188    prolong thy days.
15189  8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a
15190    battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine
15191    house, if any man fall from thence.
15192  9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the
15193    fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy
15194    vineyard, be defiled.
15195 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
15196 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen
15197    and linen together.
15198 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
15199    vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
15200 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
15201 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil
15202    name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to
15203    her, I found her not a maid:
15204 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and
15205    bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the
15206    elders of the city in the gate:
15207 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
15208    daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
15209 17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her,
15210    saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the
15211    tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the
15212    cloth before the elders of the city.
15213 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise
15214    him;
15215 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and
15216    give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath
15217    brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall
15218    be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
15219 20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not
15220    found for the damsel:
15221 21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her
15222    father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with
15223    stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel,
15224    to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put
15225    evil away from among you.
15226 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband,
15227    then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with
15228    the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from
15229    Israel.
15230 23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and
15231    a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
15232 24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city,
15233    and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel,
15234    because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because
15235    he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away
15236    evil from among you.
15237 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man
15238    force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with
15239    her shall die.
15240 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the
15241    damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth
15242    against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this
15243    matter:
15244 27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried,
15245    and there was none to save her.
15246 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not
15247    betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be
15248    found;
15249 29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's
15250    father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife;
15251    because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his
15252    days.
15253 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his
15254    father's skirt.

15255 Deuteronomy 23

15256  1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut
15257    off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
15258  2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD;
15259    even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the
15260    congregation of the LORD.
15261  3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation
15262    of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not
15263    enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
15264  4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way,
15265    when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired
15266    against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia,
15267    to curse thee.
15268  5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam;
15269    but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto
15270    thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
15271  6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy
15272    days for ever.
15273  7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou
15274    shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in
15275    his land.
15276  8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the
15277    congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
15278  9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep
15279    thee from every wicked thing.
15280 10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of
15281    uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go
15282    abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
15283 11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself
15284    with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the
15285    camp again.
15286 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou
15287    shalt go forth abroad:
15288 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be,
15289    when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith,
15290    and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
15291 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to
15292    deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee;
15293    therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing
15294    in thee, and turn away from thee.
15295 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is
15296    escaped from his master unto thee:
15297 16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which
15298    he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best:
15299    thou shalt not oppress him.
15300 17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a
15301    sodomite of the sons of Israel.
15302 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a
15303    dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even
15304    both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
15305 19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money,
15306    usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
15307 20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy
15308    brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God
15309    may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the
15310    land whither thou goest to possess it.
15311 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt
15312    not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require
15313    it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
15314 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
15315 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and
15316    perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast
15317    vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy
15318    mouth.
15319 24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou
15320    mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou
15321    shalt not put any in thy vessel.
15322 25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then
15323    thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not
15324    move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

15325 Deuteronomy 24

15326  1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to
15327    pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath
15328    found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill
15329    of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of
15330    his house.
15331  2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
15332    another man's wife.
15333  3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
15334    divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of
15335    his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be
15336    his wife;
15337  4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her
15338    again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is
15339    abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land
15340    to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
15341  5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,
15342    neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be
15343    free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he
15344    hath taken.
15345  6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge:
15346    for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
15347  7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children
15348    of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then
15349    that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among
15350    you.
15351  8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe
15352    diligently, and do according to all that the priests the
15353    Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall
15354    observe to do.
15355  9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way,
15356    after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
15357 10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go
15358    into his house to fetch his pledge.
15359 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend
15360    shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
15361 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
15362 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the
15363    sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and
15364    bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the
15365    LORD thy God.
15366 14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and
15367    needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that
15368    are in thy land within thy gates:
15369 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun
15370    go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon
15371    it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto
15372    thee.
15373 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
15374    neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers:
15375    every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
15376 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of
15377    the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
15378 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and
15379    the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command
15380    thee to do this thing.
15381 19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast
15382    forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch
15383    it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for
15384    the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the
15385    work of thine hands.
15386 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the
15387    boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the
15388    fatherless, and for the widow.
15389 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
15390    glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the
15391    fatherless, and for the widow.
15392 22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land
15393    of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

15394 Deuteronomy 25

15395  1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto
15396    judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall
15397    justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
15398  2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten,
15399    that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten
15400    before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
15401  3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he
15402    should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes,
15403    then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
15404  4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
15405  5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
15406    child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a
15407    stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take
15408    her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's
15409    brother unto her.
15410  6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall
15411    succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his
15412    name be not put out of Israel.
15413  7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let
15414    his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say,
15415    My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a
15416    name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's
15417    brother.
15418  8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto
15419    him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
15420  9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of
15421    the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in
15422    his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto
15423    that man that will not build up his brother's house.
15424 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that
15425    hath his shoe loosed.
15426 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the
15427    one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of
15428    him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh
15429    him by the secrets:
15430 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity
15431    her.
15432 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
15433    small.
15434 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great
15435    and a small.
15436 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and
15437    just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened
15438    in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
15439 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously,
15440    are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
15441 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were
15442    come forth out of Egypt;
15443 18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee,
15444    even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint
15445    and weary; and he feared not God.
15446 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee
15447    rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the
15448    LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it,
15449    that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under
15450    heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

15451 Deuteronomy 26

15452  1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the
15453    LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest
15454    it, and dwellest therein;
15455  2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the
15456    earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy
15457    God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go
15458    unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place
15459    his name there.
15460  3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days,
15461    and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God,
15462    that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our
15463    fathers for to give us.
15464  4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and
15465    set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
15466  5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian
15467    ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt,
15468    and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation,
15469    great, mighty, and populous:
15470  6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and
15471    laid upon us hard bondage:
15472  7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD
15473    heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour,
15474    and our oppression:
15475  8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
15476    and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and
15477    with signs, and with wonders:
15478  9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this
15479    land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
15480 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land,
15481    which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it
15482    before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
15483 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy
15484    God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the
15485    Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
15486 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
15487    increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and
15488    hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless,
15489    and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be
15490    filled;
15491 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought
15492    away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have
15493    given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the
15494    fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy
15495    commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not
15496    transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
15497 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken
15498    away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought
15499    thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the
15500    LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast
15501    commanded me.
15502 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy
15503    people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou
15504    swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and
15505    honey.
15506 16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these
15507    statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them
15508    with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
15509 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to
15510    walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his
15511    commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his
15512    voice:
15513 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar
15514    people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep
15515    all his commandments;
15516 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in
15517    praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an
15518    holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

15519 Deuteronomy 27

15520  1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people,
15521    saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this
15522    day.
15523  2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto
15524    the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt
15525    set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
15526  3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when
15527    thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land
15528    which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with
15529    milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised
15530    thee.
15531  4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye
15532    shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in
15533    mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
15534  5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an
15535    altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon
15536    them.
15537  6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole
15538    stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the
15539    LORD thy God:
15540  7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and
15541    rejoice before the LORD thy God.
15542  8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
15543    very plainly.
15544  9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
15545    saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art
15546    become the people of the LORD thy God.
15547 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and
15548    do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee
15549    this day.
15550 11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
15551 12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when
15552    ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
15553    Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
15554 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad,
15555    and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
15556 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of
15557    Israel with a loud voice,
15558 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an
15559    abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the
15560    craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the
15561    people shall answer and say, Amen.
15562 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother.
15563    And all the people shall say, Amen.
15564 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all
15565    the people shall say, Amen.
15566 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way.
15567    And all the people shall say, Amen.
15568 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,
15569    fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
15570 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he
15571    uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say,
15572    Amen.
15573 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the
15574    people shall say, Amen.
15575 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his
15576    father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people
15577    shall say, Amen.
15578 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the
15579    people shall say, Amen.
15580 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the
15581    people shall say, Amen.
15582 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person.
15583    And all the people shall say, Amen.
15584 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to
15585    do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

15586 Deuteronomy 28

15587  1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
15588    unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all
15589    his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD
15590    thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
15591  2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee,
15592    if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
15593  3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be
15594    in the field.
15595  4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
15596    ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine,
15597    and the flocks of thy sheep.
15598  5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
15599  6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt
15600    thou be when thou goest out.
15601  7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee
15602    to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against
15603    thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
15604  8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy
15605    storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and
15606    he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
15607    thee.
15608  9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as
15609    he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments
15610    of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
15611 10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by
15612    the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
15613 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit
15614    of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit
15615    of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy
15616    fathers to give thee.
15617 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to
15618    give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all
15619    the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations,
15620    and thou shalt not borrow.
15621 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and
15622    thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if
15623    that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God,
15624    which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
15625 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I
15626    command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to
15627    go after other gods to serve them.
15628 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the
15629    voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his
15630    commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day;
15631    that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
15632 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in
15633    the field.
15634 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
15635 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
15636    land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
15637 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt
15638    thou be when thou goest out.
15639 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke,
15640    in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou
15641    be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the
15642    wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
15643 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he
15644    have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to
15645    possess it.
15646 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a
15647    fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning,
15648    and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and
15649    they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
15650 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the
15651    earth that is under thee shall be iron.
15652 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from
15653    heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
15654 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:
15655    thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways
15656    before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the
15657    earth.
15658 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and
15659    unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
15660 27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
15661    emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou
15662    canst not be healed.
15663 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
15664    astonishment of heart:
15665 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in
15666    darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou
15667    shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall
15668    save thee.
15669 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
15670    thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein:
15671    thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes
15672    thereof.
15673 31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not
15674    eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from
15675    before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep
15676    shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to
15677    rescue them.
15678 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people,
15679    and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all
15680    the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
15681 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation
15682    which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only
15683    oppressed and crushed alway:
15684 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which
15685    thou shalt see.
15686 35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with
15687    a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot
15688    unto the top of thy head.
15689 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set
15690    over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers
15691    have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and
15692    stone.
15693 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
15694    byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
15695 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt
15696    gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
15697 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither
15698    drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall
15699    eat them.
15700 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but
15701    thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive
15702    shall cast his fruit.
15703 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
15704    them; for they shall go into captivity.
15705 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
15706 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
15707    high; and thou shalt come down very low.
15708 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he
15709    shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
15710 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall
15711    pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;
15712    because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy
15713    God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he
15714    commanded thee:
15715 46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and
15716    upon thy seed for ever.
15717 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness,
15718    and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
15719 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall
15720    send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness,
15721    and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron
15722    upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
15723 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the
15724    end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose
15725    tongue thou shalt not understand;
15726 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the
15727    person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
15728 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy
15729    land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee
15730    either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or
15731    flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
15732 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
15733    fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all
15734    thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates
15735    throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given
15736    thee.
15737 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of
15738    thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath
15739    given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith
15740    thine enemies shall distress thee:
15741 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate,
15742    his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife
15743    of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he
15744    shall leave:
15745 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
15746    children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him
15747    in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies
15748    shall distress thee in all thy gates.
15749 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not
15750    adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for
15751    delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the
15752    husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
15753    daughter,
15754 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her
15755    feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she
15756    shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege
15757    and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in
15758    thy gates.
15759 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that
15760    are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious
15761    and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
15762 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues
15763    of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and
15764    sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
15765 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt,
15766    which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
15767 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in
15768    the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee,
15769    until thou be destroyed.
15770 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the
15771    stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey
15772    the voice of the LORD thy God.
15773 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you
15774    to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice
15775    over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye
15776    shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to
15777    possess it.
15778 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one
15779    end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt
15780    serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have
15781    known, even wood and stone.
15782 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall
15783    the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee
15784    there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of
15785    mind:
15786 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt
15787    fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
15788 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at
15789    even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear
15790    of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of
15791    thine eyes which thou shalt see.
15792 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by
15793    the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more
15794    again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for
15795    bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

15796 Deuteronomy 29

15797  1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
15798    Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
15799    beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
15800  2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have
15801    seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of
15802    Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all
15803    his land;
15804  3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs,
15805    and those great miracles:
15806  4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes
15807    to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
15808  5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes
15809    are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon
15810    thy foot.
15811  6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong
15812    drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
15813  7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon,
15814    and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle,
15815    and we smote them:
15816  8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto
15817    the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of
15818    Manasseh.
15819  9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that
15820    ye may prosper in all that ye do.
15821 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your
15822    captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with
15823    all the men of Israel,
15824 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy
15825    camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
15826 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God,
15827    and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee
15828    this day:
15829 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself,
15830    and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee,
15831    and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
15832    and to Jacob.
15833 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15834 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the
15835    LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this
15836    day:
15837 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how
15838    we came through the nations which ye passed by;
15839 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
15840    stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
15841 18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or
15842    tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our
15843    God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there
15844    should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
15845 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,
15846    that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have
15847    peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add
15848    drunkenness to thirst:
15849 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD
15850    and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the
15851    curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and
15852    the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
15853 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the
15854    tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant
15855    that are written in this book of the law:
15856 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall
15857    rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far
15858    land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and
15859    the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
15860 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
15861    burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass
15862    groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah,
15863    Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and
15864    in his wrath:
15865 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus
15866    unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
15867 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of
15868    the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
15869    brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
15870 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods
15871    whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
15872 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to
15873    bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
15874 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
15875    wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another
15876    land, as it is this day.
15877 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those
15878    things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children
15879    for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

15880 Deuteronomy 30

15881  1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
15882    thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before
15883    thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
15884    whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
15885  2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his
15886    voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and
15887    thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
15888  3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have
15889    compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all
15890    the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
15891  4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of
15892    heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and
15893    from thence will he fetch thee:
15894  5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy
15895    fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do
15896    thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
15897  6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the
15898    heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine
15899    heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
15900  7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine
15901    enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
15902  8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do
15903    all his commandments which I command thee this day.
15904  9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of
15905    thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy
15906    cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD
15907    will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy
15908    fathers:
15909 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
15910    keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in
15911    this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God
15912    with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
15913 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not
15914    hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
15915 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up
15916    for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it,
15917    and do it?
15918 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who
15919    shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we
15920    may hear it, and do it?
15921 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy
15922    heart, that thou mayest do it.
15923 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death
15924    and evil;
15925 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to
15926    walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
15927    statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and
15928    multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land
15929    whither thou goest to possess it.
15930 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but
15931    shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
15932 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and
15933    that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither
15934    thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
15935 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I
15936    have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
15937    therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
15938 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest
15939    obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he
15940    is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest
15941    dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to
15942    Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

15943 Deuteronomy 31

15944  1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
15945  2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old
15946    this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath
15947    said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
15948  3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will
15949    destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess
15950    them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD
15951    hath said.
15952  4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
15953    kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he
15954    destroyed.
15955  5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may
15956    do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have
15957    commanded you.
15958  6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of
15959    them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee;
15960    he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
15961  7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight
15962    of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must
15963    go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn
15964    unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to
15965    inherit it.
15966  8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be
15967    with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear
15968    not, neither be dismayed.
15969  9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests
15970    the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the
15971    LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
15972 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven
15973    years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast
15974    of tabernacles,
15975 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in
15976    the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law
15977    before all Israel in their hearing.
15978 12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and
15979    thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and
15980    that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe
15981    to do all the words of this law:
15982 13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may
15983    hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live
15984    in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
15985 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that
15986    thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the
15987    tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge.
15988    And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the
15989    tabernacle of the congregation.
15990 15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a
15991    cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the
15992    tabernacle.
15993 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with
15994    thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring
15995    after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go
15996    to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant
15997    which I have made with them.
15998 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
15999    will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they
16000    shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall
16001    them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils
16002    come upon us, because our God is not among us?
16003 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils
16004    which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto
16005    other gods.
16006 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the
16007    children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may
16008    be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
16009 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware
16010    unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they
16011    shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then
16012    will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke
16013    me, and break my covenant.
16014 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are
16015    befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a
16016    witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of
16017    their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about,
16018    even now, before I have brought them into the land which I
16019    sware.
16020 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it
16021    the children of Israel.
16022 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be
16023    strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the
16024    children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and
16025    I will be with thee.
16026 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the
16027    words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
16028 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the
16029    covenant of the LORD, saying,
16030 26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark
16031    of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for
16032    a witness against thee.
16033 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I
16034    am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious
16035    against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
16036 28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your
16037    officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call
16038    heaven and earth to record against them.
16039 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt
16040    yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded
16041    you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye
16042    will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger
16043    through the work of your hands.
16044 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel
16045    the words of this song, until they were ended.

16046 Deuteronomy 32

16047  1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth,
16048    the words of my mouth.
16049  2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as
16050    the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the
16051    showers upon the grass:
16052  3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye
16053    greatness unto our God.
16054  4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are
16055    judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right
16056    is he.
16057  5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of
16058    his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
16059  6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is
16060    not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made
16061    thee, and established thee?
16062  7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
16063    generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy
16064    elders, and they will tell thee.
16065  8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
16066    when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the
16067    people according to the number of the children of Israel.
16068  9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
16069    inheritance.
16070 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
16071    wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him
16072    as the apple of his eye.
16073 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
16074    spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
16075    wings:
16076 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god
16077    with him.
16078 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he
16079    might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck
16080    honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
16081 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams
16082    of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of
16083    wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
16084 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou
16085    art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he
16086    forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of
16087    his salvation.
16088 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
16089    abominations provoked they him to anger.
16090 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they
16091    knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers
16092    feared not.
16093 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast
16094    forgotten God that formed thee.
16095 19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the
16096    provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
16097 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what
16098    their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation,
16099    children in whom is no faith.
16100 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
16101    they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will
16102    move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I
16103    will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
16104 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
16105    lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,
16106    and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
16107 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
16108    them.
16109 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning
16110    heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth
16111    of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
16112 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the
16113    young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of
16114    gray hairs.
16115 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
16116    remembrance of them to cease from among men:
16117 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
16118    adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they
16119    should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all
16120    this.
16121 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
16122    understanding in them.
16123 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
16124    would consider their latter end!
16125 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to
16126    flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut
16127    them up?
16128 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
16129    being judges.
16130 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
16131    Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are
16132    bitter:
16133 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of
16134    asps.
16135 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
16136    treasures?
16137 35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall
16138    slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand,
16139    and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
16140 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for
16141    his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and
16142    there is none shut up, or left.
16143 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom
16144    they trusted,
16145 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine
16146    of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and
16147    be your protection.
16148 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I
16149    kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there
16150    any that can deliver out of my hand.
16151 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
16152 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
16153    judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will
16154    reward them that hate me.
16155 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall
16156    devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the
16157    captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
16158 43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the
16159    blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his
16160    adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his
16161    people.
16162 44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the
16163    ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
16164 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all
16165    Israel:
16166 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words
16167    which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command
16168    your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
16169 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life:
16170    and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land,
16171    whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
16172 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
16173 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which
16174    is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and
16175    behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of
16176    Israel for a possession:
16177 50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered
16178    unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and
16179    was gathered unto his people:
16180 51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel
16181    at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin;
16182    because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of
16183    Israel.
16184 52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
16185    thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

16186 Deuteronomy 33

16187  1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God
16188    blessed the children of Israel before his death.
16189  2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir
16190    unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with
16191    ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law
16192    for them.
16193  3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and
16194    they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy
16195    words.
16196  4 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the
16197    congregation of Jacob.
16198  5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and
16199    the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
16200  6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
16201  7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD,
16202    the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his
16203    hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from
16204    his enemies.
16205  8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy
16206    holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou
16207    didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
16208  9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen
16209    him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own
16210    children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy
16211    covenant.
16212 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they
16213    shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon
16214    thine altar.
16215 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands;
16216    smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of
16217    them that hate him, that they rise not again.
16218 12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell
16219    in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day
16220    long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
16221 13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for
16222    the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep
16223    that coucheth beneath,
16224 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for
16225    the precious things put forth by the moon,
16226 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the
16227    precious things of the lasting hills,
16228 16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof,
16229    and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the
16230    blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the
16231    head of him that was separated from his brethren.
16232 17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns
16233    are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the
16234    people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten
16235    thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
16236 18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out;
16237    and, Issachar, in thy tents.
16238 19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall
16239    offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the
16240    abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
16241 20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he
16242    dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the
16243    head.
16244 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in
16245    a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the
16246    heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and
16247    his judgments with Israel.
16248 22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
16249    Bashan.
16250 23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour,
16251    and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west
16252    and the south.
16253 24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let
16254    him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in
16255    oil.
16256 25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall
16257    thy strength be.
16258 26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon
16259    the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
16260 27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the
16261    everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from
16262    before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
16263 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob
16264    shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall
16265    drop down dew.
16266 29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people
16267    saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the
16268    sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found
16269    liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

16270 Deuteronomy 34

16271  1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of
16272    Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And
16273    the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
16274  2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and
16275    all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
16276  3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the
16277    city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
16278  4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware
16279    unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give
16280    it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine
16281    eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
16282  5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of
16283    Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
16284  6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over
16285    against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto
16286    this day.
16287  7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died:
16288    his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
16289  8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of
16290    Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for
16291    Moses were ended.
16292  9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom;
16293    for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of
16294    Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded
16295    Moses.
16296 10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,
16297    whom the LORD knew face to face,
16298 11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to
16299    do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants,
16300    and to all his land,
16301 12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which
16302    Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

16303 Book 6 Joshua

16304 Joshua 1

16305  1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came
16306    to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun,
16307    Moses' minister, saying,
16308  2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this
16309    Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do
16310    give to them, even to the children of Israel.
16311  3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that
16312    have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
16313  4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great
16314    river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and
16315    unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be
16316    your coast.
16317  5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the
16318    days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee:
16319    I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
16320  6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt
16321    thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto
16322    their fathers to give them.
16323  7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest
16324    observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant
16325    commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the
16326    left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
16327  8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but
16328    thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest
16329    observe to do according to all that is written therein: for
16330    then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt
16331    have good success.
16332  9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be
16333    not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is
16334    with thee whithersoever thou goest.
16335 10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
16336 11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare
16337    you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this
16338    Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God
16339    giveth you to possess it.
16340 12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the
16341    tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
16342 13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD
16343    commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest,
16344    and hath given you this land.
16345 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in
16346    the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye
16347    shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of
16348    valour, and help them;
16349 15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given
16350    you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your
16351    God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your
16352    possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave
16353    you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
16354 16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us
16355    we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
16356 17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we
16357    hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he
16358    was with Moses.
16359 18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and
16360    will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest
16361    him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good
16362    courage.

16363 Joshua 2

16364  1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy
16365    secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they
16366    went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged
16367    there.
16368  2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there
16369    came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to
16370    search out the country.
16371  3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth
16372    the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine
16373    house: for they be come to search out all the country.
16374  4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus,
16375    There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
16376  5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate,
16377    when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went
16378    I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake
16379    them.
16380  6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid
16381    them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon
16382    the roof.
16383  7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the
16384    fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone
16385    out, they shut the gate.
16386  8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the
16387    roof;
16388  9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you
16389    the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all
16390    the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
16391 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red
16392    sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto
16393    the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side
16394    Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
16395 11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt,
16396    neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because
16397    of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and
16398    in earth beneath.
16399 12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I
16400    have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto
16401    my father's house, and give me a true token:
16402 13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my
16403    brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver
16404    our lives from death.
16405 14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not
16406    this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given
16407    us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
16408 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her
16409    house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
16410 16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the
16411    pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until
16412    the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
16413 17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine
16414    oath which thou hast made us swear.
16415 18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line
16416    of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down
16417    by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy
16418    brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
16419 19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of
16420    thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head,
16421    and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in
16422    the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon
16423    him.
16424 20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of
16425    thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
16426 21 And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she
16427    sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet
16428    line in the window.
16429 22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there
16430    three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers
16431    sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
16432 23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and
16433    passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him
16434    all things that befell them:
16435 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into
16436    our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the
16437    country do faint because of us.

16438 Joshua 3

16439  1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from
16440    Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of
16441    Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
16442  2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went
16443    through the host;
16444  3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of
16445    the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites
16446    bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after
16447    it.
16448  4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
16449    thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may
16450    know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this
16451    way heretofore.
16452  5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to
16453    morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
16454  6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of
16455    the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took
16456    up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
16457  7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to
16458    magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know
16459    that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
16460  8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the
16461    covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water
16462    of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
16463  9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and
16464    hear the words of the LORD your God.
16465 10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is
16466    among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before
16467    you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the
16468    Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
16469    Jebusites.
16470 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth
16471    passeth over before you into Jordan.
16472 12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel,
16473    out of every tribe a man.
16474 13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of
16475    the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the
16476    earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of
16477    Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from
16478    above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
16479 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents,
16480    to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the
16481    covenant before the people;
16482 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the
16483    feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim
16484    of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the
16485    time of harvest,)
16486 16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up
16487    upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside
16488    Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain,
16489    even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people
16490    passed over right against Jericho.
16491 17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD
16492    stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the
16493    Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people
16494    were passed clean over Jordan.

16495 Joshua 4

16496  1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
16497    over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
16498  2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a
16499    man,
16500  3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst
16501    of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood
16502    firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you,
16503    and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this
16504    night.
16505  4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the
16506    children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
16507  5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the
16508    LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every
16509    man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the
16510    number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
16511  6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask
16512    their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these
16513    stones?
16514  7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut
16515    off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed
16516    over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these
16517    stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for
16518    ever.
16519  8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and
16520    took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD
16521    spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of
16522    the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto
16523    the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
16524  9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
16525    place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the
16526    covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
16527 10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of
16528    Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded
16529    Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses
16530    commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
16531 11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
16532    over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests,
16533    in the presence of the people.
16534 12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half
16535    the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children
16536    of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
16537 13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the
16538    LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
16539 14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all
16540    Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the
16541    days of his life.
16542 15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
16543 16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that
16544    they come up out of Jordan.
16545 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out
16546    of Jordan.
16547 18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the
16548    covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan,
16549    and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry
16550    land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and
16551    flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
16552 19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the
16553    first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of
16554    Jericho.
16555 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did
16556    Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
16557 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your
16558    children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What
16559    mean these stones?
16560 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over
16561    this Jordan on dry land.
16562 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from
16563    before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God
16564    did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we
16565    were gone over:
16566 24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the
16567    LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God
16568    for ever.

16569 Joshua 5

16570  1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which
16571    were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
16572    Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had
16573    dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of
16574    Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted,
16575    neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the
16576    children of Israel.
16577  2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp
16578    knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second
16579    time.
16580  3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children
16581    of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
16582  4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the
16583    people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the
16584    men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came
16585    out of Egypt.
16586  5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the
16587    people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they
16588    came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
16589  6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
16590    wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which
16591    came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the
16592    voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not
16593    shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers
16594    that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and
16595    honey.
16596  7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them
16597    Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they
16598    had not circumcised them by the way.
16599  8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the
16600    people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they
16601    were whole.
16602  9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
16603    reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the
16604    place is called Gilgal unto this day.
16605 10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
16606    passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the
16607    plains of Jericho.
16608 11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow
16609    after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the
16610    selfsame day.
16611 12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the
16612    old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna
16613    any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan
16614    that year.
16615 13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
16616    lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man
16617    over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua
16618    went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our
16619    adversaries?
16620 14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I
16621    now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did
16622    worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his
16623    servant?
16624 15 And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy
16625    shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is
16626    holy. And Joshua did so.

16627 Joshua 6

16628  1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of
16629    Israel: none went out, and none came in.
16630  2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine
16631    hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of
16632    valour.
16633  3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round
16634    about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
16635  4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of
16636    rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city
16637    seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
16638  5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast
16639    with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the
16640    trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and
16641    the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people
16642    shall ascend up every man straight before him.
16643  6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto
16644    them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests
16645    bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
16646  7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city,
16647    and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
16648  8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people,
16649    that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams'
16650    horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets:
16651    and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
16652  9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the
16653    trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests
16654    going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
16655 10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not
16656    shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any
16657    word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout;
16658    then shall ye shout.
16659 11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it
16660    once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
16661 12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up
16662    the ark of the LORD.
16663 13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before
16664    the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the
16665    trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward
16666    came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and
16667    blowing with the trumpets.
16668 14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned
16669    into the camp: so they did six days.
16670 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early
16671    about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the
16672    same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the
16673    city seven times.
16674 16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew
16675    with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the
16676    LORD hath given you the city.
16677 17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are
16678    therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she
16679    and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the
16680    messengers that we sent.
16681 18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing,
16682    lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed
16683    thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
16684 19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron,
16685    are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the
16686    treasury of the LORD.
16687 20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets:
16688    and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the
16689    trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the
16690    wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city,
16691    every man straight before him, and they took the city.
16692 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man
16693    and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the
16694    edge of the sword.
16695 22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the
16696    country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the
16697    woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
16698 23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out
16699    Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and
16700    all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and
16701    left them without the camp of Israel.
16702 24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein:
16703    only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of
16704    iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
16705 25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's
16706    household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel
16707    even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which
16708    Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
16709 26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the
16710    man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city
16711    Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn,
16712    and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
16713 27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised
16714    throughout all the country.

16715 Joshua 7

16716  1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the
16717    accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,
16718    the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed
16719    thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the
16720    children of Israel.
16721  2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside
16722    Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying,
16723    Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
16724  3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all
16725    the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go
16726    up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour
16727    thither; for they are but few.
16728  4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand
16729    men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
16730  5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for
16731    they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and
16732    smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the
16733    people melted, and became as water.
16734  6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his
16735    face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the
16736    elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
16737  7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all
16738    brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand
16739    of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been
16740    content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
16741  8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs
16742    before their enemies!
16743  9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall
16744    hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name
16745    from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
16746 10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest
16747    thou thus upon thy face?
16748 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
16749    covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of
16750    the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also,
16751    and they have put it even among their own stuff.
16752 12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their
16753    enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because
16754    they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more,
16755    except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
16756 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against
16757    to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an
16758    accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not
16759    stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed
16760    thing from among you.
16761 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your
16762    tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh
16763    shall come according to the families thereof; and the family
16764    which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the
16765    household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
16766 15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing
16767    shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he
16768    hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he
16769    hath wrought folly in Israel.
16770 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by
16771    their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
16772 17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of
16773    the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by
16774    man; and Zabdi was taken:
16775 18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of
16776    Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of
16777    Judah, was taken.
16778 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory
16779    to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and
16780    tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
16781 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned
16782    against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
16783 21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and
16784    two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty
16785    shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and,
16786    behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and
16787    the silver under it.
16788 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,
16789    behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
16790 23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought
16791    them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and
16792    laid them out before the LORD.
16793 24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of
16794    Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold,
16795    and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses,
16796    and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they
16797    brought them unto the valley of Achor.
16798 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall
16799    trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones,
16800    and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with
16801    stones.
16802 26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day.
16803    So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore
16804    the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto
16805    this day.

16806 Joshua 8

16807  1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou
16808    dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go
16809    up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and
16810    his people, and his city, and his land:
16811  2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto
16812    Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle
16813    thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an
16814    ambush for the city behind it.
16815  3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against
16816    Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour,
16817    and sent them away by night.
16818  4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait
16819    against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from
16820    the city, but be ye all ready:
16821  5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto
16822    the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out
16823    against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
16824  6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from
16825    the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the
16826    first: therefore we will flee before them.
16827  7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the
16828    city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
16829  8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall
16830    set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD
16831    shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
16832  9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in
16833    ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of
16834    Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
16835 10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the
16836    people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the
16837    people to Ai.
16838 11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him,
16839    went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched
16840    on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them
16841    and Ai.
16842 12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in
16843    ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
16844 13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was
16845    on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west
16846    of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the
16847    valley.
16848 14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they
16849    hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out
16850    against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time
16851    appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were
16852    liers in ambush against him behind the city.
16853 15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before
16854    them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16855 16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to
16856    pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were
16857    drawn away from the city.
16858 17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not
16859    out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued
16860    after Israel.
16861 18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is
16862    in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And
16863    Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward
16864    the city.
16865 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran
16866    as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered
16867    into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on
16868    fire.
16869 20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and,
16870    behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they
16871    had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that
16872    fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
16873 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken
16874    the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they
16875    turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
16876 22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they
16877    were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on
16878    that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them
16879    remain or escape.
16880 23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
16881 24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying
16882    all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness
16883    wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the
16884    edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the
16885    Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the
16886    sword.
16887 25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and
16888    women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
16889 26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out
16890    the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants
16891    of Ai.
16892 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a
16893    prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD
16894    which he commanded Joshua.
16895 28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a
16896    desolation unto this day.
16897 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as
16898    soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should
16899    take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the
16900    entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great
16901    heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
16902 30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in
16903    mount Ebal,
16904 31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of
16905    Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an
16906    altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any
16907    iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD,
16908    and sacrificed peace offerings.
16909 32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses,
16910    which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
16911 33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their
16912    judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the
16913    priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the
16914    LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them;
16915    half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over
16916    against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had
16917    commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
16918 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings
16919    and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of
16920    the law.
16921 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua
16922    read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the
16923    women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were
16924    conversant among them.

16925 Joshua 9

16926  1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this
16927    side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the
16928    coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and
16929    the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
16930    Jebusite, heard thereof;
16931  2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua
16932    and with Israel, with one accord.
16933  3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done
16934    unto Jericho and to Ai,
16935  4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been
16936    ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine
16937    bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
16938  5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments
16939    upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and
16940    mouldy.
16941  6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto
16942    him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country:
16943    now therefore make ye a league with us.
16944  7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye
16945    dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
16946  8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua
16947    said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
16948  9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants
16949    are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have
16950    heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
16951 10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that
16952    were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king
16953    of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
16954 11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country
16955    spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey,
16956    and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants:
16957    therefore now make ye a league with us.
16958 12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses
16959    on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it
16960    is dry, and it is mouldy:
16961 13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and,
16962    behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are
16963    become old by reason of the very long journey.
16964 14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at
16965    the mouth of the LORD.
16966 15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them,
16967    to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware
16968    unto them.
16969 16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had
16970    made a league with them, that they heard that they were their
16971    neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
16972 17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their
16973    cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and
16974    Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
16975 18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes
16976    of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of
16977    Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
16978 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have
16979    sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we
16980    may not touch them.
16981 20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest
16982    wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto
16983    them.
16984 21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be
16985    hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation;
16986    as the princes had promised them.
16987 22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying,
16988    Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from
16989    you; when ye dwell among us?
16990 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be
16991    freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of
16992    water for the house of my God.
16993 24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly
16994    told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his
16995    servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the
16996    inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were
16997    sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this
16998    thing.
16999 25 And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and
17000    right unto thee to do unto us, do.
17001 26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of
17002    the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
17003 27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of
17004    water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD,
17005    even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

17006 Joshua 10

17007  1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had
17008    heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it;
17009    as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai
17010    and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace
17011    with Israel, and were among them;
17012  2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as
17013    one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai,
17014    and all the men thereof were mighty.
17015  3 Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent unto Hoham king
17016    of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia
17017    king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
17018  4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it
17019    hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
17020  5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
17021    Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king
17022    of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together,
17023    and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before
17024    Gibeon, and made war against it.
17025  6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal,
17026    saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us
17027    quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the
17028    Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together
17029    against us.
17030  7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
17031    with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
17032  8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have
17033    delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them
17034    stand before thee.
17035  9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from
17036    Gilgal all night.
17037 10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them
17038    with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the
17039    way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and
17040    unto Makkedah.
17041 11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were
17042    in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great
17043    stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they
17044    were more which died with hailstones than they whom the
17045    children of Israel slew with the sword.
17046 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD
17047    delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and
17048    he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon
17049    Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
17050 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people
17051    had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written
17052    in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of
17053    heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
17054 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the
17055    LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought
17056    for Israel.
17057 15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
17058    Gilgal.
17059 16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at
17060    Makkedah.
17061 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid
17062    in a cave at Makkedah.
17063 18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave,
17064    and set men by it for to keep them:
17065 19 And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the
17066    hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities:
17067    for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
17068 20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel
17069    had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter,
17070    till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them
17071    entered into fenced cities.
17072 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah
17073    in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of
17074    Israel.
17075 22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out
17076    those five kings unto me out of the cave.
17077 23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him
17078    out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron,
17079    the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of
17080    Eglon.
17081 24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto
17082    Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said
17083    unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come
17084    near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they
17085    came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
17086 25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be
17087    strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all
17088    your enemies against whom ye fight.
17089 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged
17090    them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until
17091    the evening.
17092 27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun,
17093    that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees,
17094    and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and
17095    laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this
17096    very day.
17097 28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge
17098    of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them,
17099    and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and
17100    he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of
17101    Jericho.
17102 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him,
17103    unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
17104 30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the
17105    hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword,
17106    and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it;
17107    but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of
17108    Jericho.
17109 31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto
17110    Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
17111 32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which
17112    took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the
17113    sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all
17114    that he had done to Libnah.
17115 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua
17116    smote him and his people, until he had left him none
17117    remaining.
17118 34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with
17119    him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
17120 35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of
17121    the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly
17122    destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to
17123    Lachish.
17124 36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto
17125    Hebron; and they fought against it:
17126 37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and
17127    the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the
17128    souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to
17129    all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and
17130    all the souls that were therein.
17131 38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and
17132    fought against it:
17133 39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities
17134    thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and
17135    utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left
17136    none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir,
17137    and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to
17138    her king.
17139 40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the
17140    south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their
17141    kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that
17142    breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
17143 41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and
17144    all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
17145 42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one
17146    time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
17147 43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
17148    Gilgal.

17149 Joshua 11

17150  1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those
17151    things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king
17152    of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
17153  2 And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and
17154    of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in
17155    the borders of Dor on the west,
17156  3 And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the
17157    Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite
17158    in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land
17159    of Mizpeh.
17160  4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much
17161    people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in
17162    multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
17163  5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and
17164    pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against
17165    Israel.
17166  6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them:
17167    for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain
17168    before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their
17169    chariots with fire.
17170  7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against
17171    them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
17172  8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote
17173    them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto
17174    Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and
17175    they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
17176  9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed
17177    their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
17178 10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote
17179    the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the
17180    head of all those kingdoms.
17181 11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge
17182    of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left
17183    to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
17184 12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them,
17185    did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword,
17186    and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the
17187    LORD commanded.
17188 13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength,
17189    Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua
17190    burn.
17191 14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the
17192    children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every
17193    man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had
17194    destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
17195 15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command
17196    Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that
17197    the LORD commanded Moses.
17198 16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south
17199    country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the
17200    plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
17201 17 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto
17202    Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all
17203    their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
17204 18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
17205 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of
17206    Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other
17207    they took in battle.
17208 20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they
17209    should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy
17210    them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he
17211    might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
17212 21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the
17213    mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all
17214    the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel:
17215    Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
17216 22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children
17217    of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there
17218    remained.
17219 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD
17220    said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto
17221    Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the
17222    land rested from war.

17223 Joshua 12

17224  1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of
17225    Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side
17226    Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto
17227    mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
17228  2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled
17229    from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and
17230    from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto
17231    the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of
17232    Ammon;
17233  3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and
17234    unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the
17235    way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:
17236  4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant
17237    of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
17238  5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan,
17239    unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and
17240    half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
17241  6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of
17242    Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a
17243    possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half
17244    tribe of Manasseh.
17245  7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the
17246    children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from
17247    Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak,
17248    that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of
17249    Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
17250  8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and
17251    in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south
17252    country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the
17253    Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
17254  9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside
17255    Bethel, one;
17256 10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
17257 11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
17258 12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
17259 13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
17260 14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
17261 15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
17262 16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
17263 17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
17264 18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
17265 19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
17266 20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
17267 21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
17268 22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
17269 23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the
17270    nations of Gilgal, one;
17271 24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

17272 Joshua 13

17273  1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said
17274    unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there
17275    remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
17276  2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the
17277    Philistines, and all Geshuri,
17278  3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of
17279    Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords
17280    of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the
17281    Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the
17282    Avites:
17283  4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah
17284    that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the
17285    Amorites:
17286  5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the
17287    sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering
17288    into Hamath.
17289  6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto
17290    Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out
17291    from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot
17292    unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded
17293    thee.
17294  7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the
17295    nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
17296  8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their
17297    inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward,
17298    even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
17299  9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the
17300    city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of
17301    Medeba unto Dibon;
17302 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which
17303    reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
17304 11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites,
17305    and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
17306 12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth
17307    and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for
17308    these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
17309 13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the
17310    Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the
17311    Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
17312 14 Only unto the tribes of Levi he gave none inheritance; the
17313    sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their
17314    inheritance, as he said unto them.
17315 15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
17316    inheritance according to their families.
17317 16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the
17318    river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river,
17319    and all the plain by Medeba;
17320 17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and
17321    Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
17322 18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
17323 19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of
17324    the valley,
17325 20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
17326 21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon
17327    king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses
17328    smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
17329    Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the
17330    country.
17331 22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children
17332    of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by
17333    them.
17334 23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the
17335    border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of
17336    Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages
17337    thereof.
17338 24 And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto
17339    the children of Gad according to their families.
17340 25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and
17341    half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is
17342    before Rabbah;
17343 26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from
17344    Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
17345 27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and
17346    Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon,
17347    Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of
17348    Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
17349 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their
17350    families, the cities, and their villages.
17351 29 And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh:
17352    and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children
17353    of Manasseh by their families.
17354 30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom
17355    of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in
17356    Bashan, threescore cities:
17357 31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the
17358    kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of
17359    Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the
17360    children of Machir by their families.
17361 32 These are the countries which Moses did distribute for
17362    inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan,
17363    by Jericho, eastward.
17364 33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the
17365    LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto
17366    them.

17367 Joshua 14

17368  1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel
17369    inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and
17370    Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the
17371    tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance
17372    to them.
17373  2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the
17374    hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
17375  3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half
17376    tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave
17377    none inheritance among them.
17378  4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
17379    Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the
17380    land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their
17381    cattle and for their substance.
17382  5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,
17383    and they divided the land.
17384  6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and
17385    Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou
17386    knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God
17387    concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
17388  7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent
17389    me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him
17390    word again as it was in mine heart.
17391  8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart
17392    of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
17393  9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon
17394    thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy
17395    children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the
17396    LORD my God.
17397 10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said,
17398    these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this
17399    word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the
17400    wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five
17401    years old.
17402 11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses
17403    sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now,
17404    for war, both to go out, and to come in.
17405 12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in
17406    that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were
17407    there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the
17408    LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out,
17409    as the LORD said.
17410 13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of
17411    Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
17412 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
17413    Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly
17414    followed the LORD God of Israel.
17415 15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was
17416    a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

17417 Joshua 15

17418  1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by
17419    their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of
17420    Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
17421  2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea,
17422    from the bay that looketh southward:
17423  3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and
17424    passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto
17425    Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar,
17426    and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
17427  4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the
17428    river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the
17429    sea: this shall be your south coast.
17430  5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of
17431    Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay
17432    of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
17433  6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the
17434    north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of
17435    Bohan the son of Reuben:
17436  7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor,
17437    and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the
17438    going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river:
17439    and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the
17440    goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
17441  8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto
17442    the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the
17443    border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before
17444    the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the
17445    valley of the giants northward:
17446  9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the
17447    fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities
17448    of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is
17449    Kirjathjearim:
17450 10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir,
17451    and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is
17452    Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and
17453    passed on to Timnah:
17454 11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and
17455    the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount
17456    Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the
17457    border were at the sea.
17458 12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast
17459    thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round
17460    about according to their families.
17461 13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the
17462    children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to
17463    Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city
17464    is Hebron.
17465 14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and
17466    Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
17467 15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the
17468    name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.
17469 16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it,
17470    to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
17471 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it:
17472    and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
17473 18 And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him
17474    to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and
17475    Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
17476 19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a
17477    south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the
17478    upper springs, and the nether springs.
17479 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
17480    according to their families.
17481 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah
17482    toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and
17483    Jagur,
17484 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
17485 23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
17486 24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
17487 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
17488 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
17489 27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
17490 28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
17491 29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
17492 30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
17493 31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
17494 32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities
17495    are twenty and nine, with their villages:
17496 33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
17497 34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
17498 35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
17499 36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim;
17500    fourteen cities with their villages:
17501 37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
17502 38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
17503 39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
17504 40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
17505 41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen
17506    cities with their villages:
17507 42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
17508 43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
17509 44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their
17510    villages:
17511 45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
17512 46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with
17513    their villages:
17514 47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns
17515    and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea,
17516    and the border thereof:
17517 48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
17518 49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,
17519 50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
17520 51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their
17521    villages:
17522 52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
17523 53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
17524 54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine
17525    cities with their villages:
17526 55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
17527 56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
17528 57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
17529 58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
17530 59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
17531    villages:
17532 60 Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities
17533    with their villages:
17534 61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
17535 62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with
17536    their villages.
17537 63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
17538    children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites
17539    dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

17540 Joshua 16

17541  1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by
17542    Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the
17543    wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,
17544  2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the
17545    borders of Archi to Ataroth,
17546  3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the
17547    coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings
17548    out thereof are at the sea.
17549  4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
17550    inheritance.
17551  5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their
17552    families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the
17553    east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
17554  6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the
17555    north side; and the border went about eastward unto
17556    Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
17557  7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and
17558    came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
17559  8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river
17560    Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the
17561    inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their
17562    families.
17563  9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among
17564    the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities
17565    with their villages.
17566 10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but
17567    the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and
17568    serve under tribute.

17569 Joshua 17

17570  1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the
17571    firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of
17572    Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war,
17573    therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
17574  2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh
17575    by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the
17576    children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the
17577    children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for
17578    the children of Shemida: these were the male children of
17579    Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
17580  3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son
17581    of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters:
17582    and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah,
17583    Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
17584  4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before
17585    Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The
17586    LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our
17587    brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD
17588    he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their
17589    father.
17590  5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of
17591    Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
17592  6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his
17593    sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
17594  7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that
17595    lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right
17596    hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
17597  8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the
17598    border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;
17599  9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the
17600    river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of
17601    Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of
17602    the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:
17603 10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's,
17604    and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on
17605    the north, and in Issachar on the east.
17606 11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her
17607    towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor
17608    and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and
17609    the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants
17610    of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
17611 12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the
17612    inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in
17613    that land.
17614 13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen
17615    strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not
17616    utterly drive them out.
17617 14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast
17618    thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I
17619    am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me
17620    hitherto?
17621 15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get
17622    thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in
17623    the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim
17624    be too narrow for thee.
17625 16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for
17626    us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the
17627    valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean
17628    and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
17629 17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and
17630    to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great
17631    power: thou shalt not have one lot only:
17632 18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou
17633    shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for
17634    thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron
17635    chariots, and though they be strong.

17636 Joshua 18

17637  1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
17638    together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the
17639    congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
17640  2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes,
17641    which had not yet received their inheritance.
17642  3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye
17643    slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your
17644    fathers hath given you?
17645  4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will
17646    send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and
17647    describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they
17648    shall come again to me.
17649  5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide
17650    in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall
17651    abide in their coasts on the north.
17652  6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and
17653    bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for
17654    you here before the LORD our God.
17655  7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of
17656    the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half
17657    the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond
17658    Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave
17659    them.
17660  8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that
17661    went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the
17662    land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here
17663    cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
17664  9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it
17665    by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua
17666    to the host at Shiloh.
17667 10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and
17668    there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel
17669    according to their divisions.
17670 11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
17671    according to their families: and the coast of their lot came
17672    forth between the children of Judah and the children of
17673    Joseph.
17674 12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the
17675    border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and
17676    went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out
17677    thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
17678 13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side
17679    of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended
17680    to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of
17681    the nether Bethhoron.
17682 14 And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of
17683    the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron
17684    southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal,
17685    which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this
17686    was the west quarter.
17687 15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and
17688    the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of
17689    waters of Nephtoah:
17690 16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth
17691    before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the
17692    valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley
17693    of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended
17694    to Enrogel,
17695 17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and
17696    went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up
17697    of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of
17698    Reuben,
17699 18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah
17700    northward, and went down unto Arabah:
17701 19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah
17702    northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north
17703    bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the
17704    south coast.
17705 20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the
17706    inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof
17707    round about, according to their families.
17708 21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
17709    according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and
17710    the valley of Keziz,
17711 22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
17712 23 And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,
17713 24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with
17714    their villages:
17715 25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
17716 26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
17717 27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
17718 28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and
17719    Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the
17720    inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their
17721    families.

17722 Joshua 19

17723  1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of
17724    the children of Simeon according to their families: and their
17725    inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of
17726    Judah.
17727  2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and
17728    Moladah,
17729  3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
17730  4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
17731  5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,
17732  6 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their
17733    villages:
17734  7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their
17735    villages:
17736  8 And all the villages that were round about these cities to
17737    Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of
17738    the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
17739    families.
17740  9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the
17741    inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the
17742    children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the
17743    children of Simeon had their inheritance within the
17744    inheritance of them.
17745 10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
17746    according to their families: and the border of their
17747    inheritance was unto Sarid:
17748 11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and
17749    reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before
17750    Jokneam;
17751 12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the
17752    border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and
17753    goeth up to Japhia,
17754 13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher,
17755    to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
17756 14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon:
17757    and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:
17758 15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and
17759    Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
17760 16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according
17761    to their families, these cities with their villages.
17762 17 And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of
17763    Issachar according to their families.
17764 18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and
17765    Shunem,
17766 19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
17767 20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
17768 21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;
17769 22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and
17770    Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan:
17771    sixteen cities with their villages.
17772 23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
17773    Issachar according to their families, the cities and their
17774    villages.
17775 24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of
17776    Asher according to their families.
17777 25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and
17778    Achshaph,
17779 26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel
17780    westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
17781 27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to
17782    Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side
17783    of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left
17784    hand,
17785 28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great
17786    Zidon;
17787 29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city
17788    Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings
17789    thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
17790 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with
17791    their villages.
17792 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
17793    according to their families, these cities with their villages.
17794 32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for
17795    the children of Naphtali according to their families.
17796 33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and
17797    Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings
17798    thereof were at Jordan:
17799 34 And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth
17800    out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the
17801    south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to
17802    Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
17803 35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath,
17804    and Chinnereth,
17805 36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
17806 37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,
17807 38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh;
17808    nineteen cities with their villages.
17809 39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
17810    Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their
17811    villages.
17812 40 And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of
17813    Dan according to their families.
17814 41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and
17815    Irshemesh,
17816 42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
17817 43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
17818 44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
17819 45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
17820 46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
17821 47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for
17822    them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against
17823    Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword,
17824    and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan,
17825    after the name of Dan their father.
17826 48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
17827    according to their families, these cities with their villages.
17828 49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance
17829    by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to
17830    Joshua the son of Nun among them:
17831 50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which
17832    he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the
17833    city, and dwelt therein.
17834 51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and
17835    Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the
17836    tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance
17837    by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the
17838    tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of
17839    dividing the country.

17840 Joshua 20

17841  1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
17842  2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you
17843    cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of
17844    Moses:
17845  3 That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and
17846    unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge
17847    from the avenger of blood.
17848  4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall
17849    stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall
17850    declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they
17851    shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place,
17852    that he may dwell among them.
17853  5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall
17854    not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his
17855    neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
17856  6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
17857    congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high
17858    priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer
17859    return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house,
17860    unto the city from whence he fled.
17861  7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and
17862    Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in
17863    the mountain of Judah.
17864  8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they
17865    assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the
17866    tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad,
17867    and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
17868  9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of
17869    Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that
17870    whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither,
17871    and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he
17872    stood before the congregation.

17873 Joshua 21

17874  1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto
17875    Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto
17876    the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of
17877    Israel;
17878  2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
17879    saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us
17880    cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
17881  3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their
17882    inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and
17883    their suburbs.
17884  4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and
17885    the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites,
17886    had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of
17887    Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
17888  5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the
17889    families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan,
17890    and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
17891  6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of
17892    the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out
17893    of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of
17894    Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
17895  7 The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe
17896    of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe
17897    of Zebulun, twelve cities.
17898  8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these
17899    cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand
17900    of Moses.
17901  9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and
17902    out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which
17903    are here mentioned by name.
17904 10 Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the
17905    Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs
17906    was the first lot.
17907 11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which
17908    city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs
17909    thereof round about it.
17910 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave
17911    they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
17912 13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with
17913    her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah
17914    with her suburbs,
17915 14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
17916 15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
17917 16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and
17918    Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two
17919    tribes.
17920 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs,
17921    Geba with her suburbs,
17922 18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four
17923    cities.
17924 19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were
17925    thirteen cities with their suburbs.
17926 20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which
17927    remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities
17928    of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
17929 21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim,
17930    to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her
17931    suburbs,
17932 22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs;
17933    four cities.
17934 23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs,
17935    Gibbethon with her suburbs,
17936 24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four
17937    cities.
17938 25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her
17939    suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
17940 26 All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of
17941    the children of Kohath that remained.
17942 27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the
17943    Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave
17944    Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for
17945    the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
17946 28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs,
17947    Dabareh with her suburbs,
17948 29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four
17949    cities.
17950 30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon
17951    with her suburbs,
17952 31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four
17953    cities.
17954 32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her
17955    suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor
17956    with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
17957 33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families
17958    were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
17959 34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of
17960    the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her
17961    suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
17962 35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four
17963    cities.
17964 36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and
17965    Jahazah with her suburbs,
17966 37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four
17967    cities.
17968 38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her
17969    suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim
17970    with her suburbs,
17971 39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities
17972    in all.
17973 40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their
17974    families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites,
17975    were by their lot twelve cities.
17976 41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the
17977    children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their
17978    suburbs.
17979 42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about
17980    them: thus were all these cities.
17981 43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to
17982    give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt
17983    therein.
17984 44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that
17985    he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all
17986    their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their
17987    enemies into their hand.
17988 45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
17989    spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

17990 Joshua 22

17991  1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
17992    half tribe of Manasseh,
17993  2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of
17994    the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I
17995    commanded you:
17996  3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day,
17997    but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your
17998    God.
17999  4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren,
18000    as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto
18001    your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses
18002    the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
18003  5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law,
18004    which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the
18005    LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
18006    commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with
18007    all your heart and with all your soul.
18008  6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto
18009    their tents.
18010  7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
18011    possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave
18012    Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And
18013    when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he
18014    blessed them,
18015  8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto
18016    your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with
18017    gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much
18018    raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
18019  9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
18020    half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the
18021    children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of
18022    Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their
18023    possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word
18024    of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
18025 10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the
18026    land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
18027    and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan,
18028    a great altar to see to.
18029 11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of
18030    Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh
18031    have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the
18032    borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
18033 12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole
18034    congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves
18035    together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
18036 13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben,
18037    and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh,
18038    into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
18039    priest,
18040 14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince
18041    throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head
18042    of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
18043 15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children
18044    of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of
18045    Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
18046 16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass
18047    is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to
18048    turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have
18049    builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the
18050    LORD?
18051 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are
18052    not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in
18053    the congregation of the LORD,
18054 18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD?
18055    and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that
18056    to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of
18057    Israel.
18058 19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean,
18059    then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD,
18060    wherein the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession
18061    among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against
18062    us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our
18063    God.
18064 20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the
18065    accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of
18066    Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
18067 21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
18068    half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of
18069    the thousands of Israel,
18070 22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and
18071    Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in
18072    transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
18073 23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the
18074    LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering,
18075    or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself
18076    require it;
18077 24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing,
18078    saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our
18079    children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of
18080    Israel?
18081 25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye
18082    children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the
18083    LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from
18084    fearing the LORD.
18085 26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar,
18086    not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
18087 27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our
18088    generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD
18089    before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices,
18090    and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say
18091    to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
18092 28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say
18093    to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say
18094    again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our
18095    fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but
18096    it is a witness between us and you.
18097 29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn
18098    this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt
18099    offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the
18100    altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
18101 30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
18102    congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were
18103    with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the
18104    children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased
18105    them.
18106 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the
18107    children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the
18108    children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is
18109    among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against
18110    the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of
18111    the hand of the LORD.
18112 32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,
18113    returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of
18114    Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to
18115    the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
18116 33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children
18117    of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against
18118    them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of
18119    Reuben and Gad dwelt.
18120 34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the
18121    altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD
18122    is God.

18123 Joshua 23

18124  1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given
18125    rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that
18126    Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
18127  2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and
18128    for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers,
18129    and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
18130  3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all
18131    these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that
18132    hath fought for you.
18133  4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that
18134    remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan,
18135    with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great
18136    sea westward.
18137  5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you,
18138    and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess
18139    their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
18140  6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is
18141    written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not
18142    aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
18143  7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among
18144    you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause
18145    to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto
18146    them:
18147  8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this
18148    day.
18149  9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and
18150    strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before
18151    you unto this day.
18152 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God,
18153    he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
18154 11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the
18155    LORD your God.
18156 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant
18157    of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall
18158    make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to
18159    you:
18160 13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive
18161    out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be
18162    snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and
18163    thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land
18164    which the LORD your God hath given you.
18165 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and
18166    ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one
18167    thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your
18168    God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and
18169    not one thing hath failed thereof.
18170 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are
18171    come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall
18172    the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have
18173    destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God
18174    hath given you.
18175 16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God,
18176    which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods,
18177    and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD
18178    be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off
18179    the good land which he hath given unto you.

18180 Joshua 24

18181  1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and
18182    called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for
18183    their judges, and for their officers; and they presented
18184    themselves before God.
18185  2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God
18186    of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood
18187    in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father
18188    of Nachor: and they served other gods.
18189  3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the
18190    flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and
18191    multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
18192  4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau
18193    mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went
18194    down into Egypt.
18195  5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to
18196    that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
18197  6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the
18198    sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with
18199    chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
18200  7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you
18201    and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered
18202    them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and
18203    ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
18204  8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt
18205    on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave
18206    them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I
18207    destroyed them from before you.
18208  9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred
18209    against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to
18210    curse you:
18211 10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you
18212    still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
18213 11 And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men
18214    of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the
18215    Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
18216    Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered
18217    them into your hand.
18218 12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from
18219    before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with
18220    thy sword, nor with thy bow.
18221 13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and
18222    cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the
18223    vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
18224 14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in
18225    truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the
18226    other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
18227 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you
18228    this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
18229    fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or
18230    the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for
18231    me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
18232 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should
18233    forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
18234 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our
18235    fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,
18236    and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us
18237    in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people
18238    through whom we passed:
18239 18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the
18240    Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve
18241    the LORD; for he is our God.
18242 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for
18243    he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive
18244    your transgressions nor your sins.
18245 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will
18246    turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done
18247    you good.
18248 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the
18249    LORD.
18250 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against
18251    yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And
18252    they said, We are witnesses.
18253 23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are
18254    among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
18255 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we
18256    serve, and his voice will we obey.
18257 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set
18258    them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
18259 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God,
18260    and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that
18261    was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
18262 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall
18263    be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the
18264    LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness
18265    unto you, lest ye deny your God.
18266 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his
18267    inheritance.
18268 29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of
18269    Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten
18270    years old.
18271 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
18272    Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of
18273    the hill of Gaash.
18274 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the
18275    days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known
18276    all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
18277 32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought
18278    up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground
18279    which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem
18280    for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance
18281    of the children of Joseph.
18282 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a
18283    hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him
18284    in mount Ephraim.

18285 Book 7 Judges

18286 Judges 1

18287  1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the
18288    children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for
18289    us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
18290  2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered
18291    the land into his hand.
18292  3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into
18293    my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I
18294    likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with
18295    him.
18296  4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and
18297    the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek
18298    ten thousand men.
18299  5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against
18300    him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
18301  6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught
18302    him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
18303  7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their
18304    thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under
18305    my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they
18306    brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
18307  8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and
18308    had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and
18309    set the city on fire.
18310  9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against
18311    the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south,
18312    and in the valley.
18313 10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron:
18314    (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew
18315    Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
18316 11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and
18317    the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:
18318 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it,
18319    to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
18320 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took
18321    it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
18322 14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him
18323    to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her
18324    ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
18325 15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given
18326    me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave
18327    her the upper springs and the nether springs.
18328 16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up
18329    out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into
18330    the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and
18331    they went and dwelt among the people.
18332 17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the
18333    Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.
18334    And the name of the city was called Hormah.
18335 18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with
18336    the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
18337 19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants
18338    of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of
18339    the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
18340 20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he
18341    expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
18342 21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites
18343    that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the
18344    children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
18345 22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and
18346    the LORD was with them.
18347 23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name
18348    of the city before was Luz.)
18349 24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they
18350    said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the
18351    city, and we will shew thee mercy.
18352 25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote
18353    the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man
18354    and all his family.
18355 26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a
18356    city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name
18357    thereof unto this day.
18358 27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean
18359    and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants
18360    of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her
18361    towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the
18362    Canaanites would dwell in that land.
18363 28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the
18364    Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
18365 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in
18366    Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
18367 30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor
18368    the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among
18369    them, and became tributaries.
18370 31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the
18371    inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of
18372    Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
18373 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants
18374    of the land: for they did not drive them out.
18375 33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh,
18376    nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the
18377    Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the
18378    inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries
18379    unto them.
18380 34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain:
18381    for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
18382 35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in
18383    Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so
18384    that they became tributaries.
18385 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to
18386    Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

18387 Judges 2

18388  1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and
18389    said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you
18390    unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I
18391    will never break my covenant with you.
18392  2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land;
18393    ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my
18394    voice: why have ye done this?
18395  3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before
18396    you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods
18397    shall be a snare unto you.
18398  4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these
18399    words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted
18400    up their voice, and wept.
18401  5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
18402    sacrificed there unto the LORD.
18403  6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel
18404    went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
18405  7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all
18406    the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all
18407    the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
18408  8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died,
18409    being an hundred and ten years old.
18410  9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
18411    Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of
18412    the hill Gaash.
18413 10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers:
18414    and there arose another generation after them, which knew not
18415    the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
18416 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD,
18417    and served Baalim:
18418 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought
18419    them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the
18420    gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed
18421    themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
18422 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
18423 14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
18424    delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them,
18425    and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about,
18426    so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
18427 15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against
18428    them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn
18429    unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
18430 16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them
18431    out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
18432 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they
18433    went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto
18434    them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers
18435    walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did
18436    not so.
18437 18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was
18438    with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their
18439    enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD
18440    because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed
18441    them and vexed them.
18442 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they
18443    returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in
18444    following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them;
18445    they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn
18446    way.
18447 20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said,
18448    Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I
18449    commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
18450 21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of
18451    the nations which Joshua left when he died:
18452 22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep
18453    the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep
18454    it, or not.
18455 23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them
18456    out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of
18457    Joshua.

18458 Judges 3

18459  1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel
18460    by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars
18461    of Canaan;
18462  2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might
18463    know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew
18464    nothing thereof;
18465  3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites,
18466    and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount
18467    Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
18468  4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they
18469    would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he
18470    commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
18471  5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
18472    Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and
18473    Jebusites:
18474  6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave
18475    their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
18476  7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD,
18477    and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the
18478    groves.
18479  8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
18480    sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of
18481    Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served
18482    Chushanrishathaim eight years.
18483  9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD
18484    raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered
18485    them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
18486 10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged
18487    Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered
18488    Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his
18489    hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
18490 11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of
18491    Kenaz died.
18492 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the
18493    LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against
18494    Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
18495 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and
18496    went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
18497 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab
18498    eighteen years.
18499 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD
18500    raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite,
18501    a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a
18502    present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
18503 16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit
18504    length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right
18505    thigh.
18506 17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon
18507    was a very fat man.
18508 18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away
18509    the people that bare the present.
18510 19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by
18511    Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king:
18512    who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out
18513    from him.
18514 20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer
18515    parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have
18516    a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
18517 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his
18518    right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
18519 22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed
18520    upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of
18521    his belly; and the dirt came out.
18522 23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of
18523    the parlour upon him, and locked them.
18524 24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw
18525    that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said,
18526    Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
18527 25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he
18528    opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a
18529    key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down
18530    dead on the earth.
18531 26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the
18532    quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
18533 27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet
18534    in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went
18535    down with him from the mount, and he before them.
18536 28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath
18537    delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they
18538    went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab,
18539    and suffered not a man to pass over.
18540 29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all
18541    lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
18542 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the
18543    land had rest fourscore years.
18544 31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the
18545    Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also
18546    delivered Israel.

18547 Judges 4

18548  1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the
18549    LORD, when Ehud was dead.
18550  2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan,
18551    that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera,
18552    which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
18553  3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had
18554    nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily
18555    oppressed the children of Israel.
18556  4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged
18557    Israel at that time.
18558  5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and
18559    Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to
18560    her for judgment.
18561  6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
18562    Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of
18563    Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and
18564    take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali
18565    and of the children of Zebulun?
18566  7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the
18567    captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude;
18568    and I will deliver him into thine hand.
18569  8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will
18570    go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
18571  9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the
18572    journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for
18573    the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And
18574    Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
18575 10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went
18576    up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with
18577    him.
18578 11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the
18579    father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites,
18580    and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by
18581    Kedesh.
18582 12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone
18583    up to mount Tabor.
18584 13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine
18585    hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with
18586    him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
18587 14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which
18588    the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the
18589    LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount
18590    Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
18591 15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all
18592    his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that
18593    Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his
18594    feet.
18595 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto
18596    Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell
18597    upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
18598 17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the
18599    wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin
18600    the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
18601 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in,
18602    my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in
18603    unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
18604 19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to
18605    drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and
18606    gave him drink, and covered him.
18607 20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it
18608    shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say,
18609    Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
18610 21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an
18611    hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the
18612    nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he
18613    was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
18614 22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet
18615    him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man
18616    whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold,
18617    Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
18618 23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the
18619    children of Israel.
18620 24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and
18621    prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had
18622    destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

18623 Judges 5

18624  1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day,
18625    saying,
18626  2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people
18627    willingly offered themselves.
18628  3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing
18629    unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
18630  4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out
18631    of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens
18632    dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
18633  5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai
18634    from before the LORD God of Israel.
18635  6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael,
18636    the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked
18637    through byways.
18638  7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel,
18639    until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
18640  8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a
18641    shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
18642  9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered
18643    themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
18644 10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment,
18645    and walk by the way.
18646 11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the
18647    places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the
18648    righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the
18649    inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people
18650    of the LORD go down to the gates.
18651 12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise,
18652    Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
18653 13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles
18654    among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the
18655    mighty.
18656 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after
18657    thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down
18658    governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the
18659    writer.
18660 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar,
18661    and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the
18662    divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
18663 16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings
18664    of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great
18665    searchings of heart.
18666 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships?
18667    Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
18668 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives
18669    unto the death in the high places of the field.
18670 19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in
18671    Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
18672 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought
18673    against Sisera.
18674 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the
18675    river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
18676 22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings,
18677    the pransings of their mighty ones.
18678 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly
18679    the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of
18680    the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
18681 24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite
18682    be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
18683 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth
18684    butter in a lordly dish.
18685 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the
18686    workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she
18687    smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through
18688    his temples.
18689 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he
18690    bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
18691 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through
18692    the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry
18693    the wheels of his chariots?
18694 29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to
18695    herself,
18696 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every
18697    man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a
18698    prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of
18699    needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take
18700    the spoil?
18701 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that
18702    love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And
18703    the land had rest forty years.

18704 Judges 6

18705  1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD:
18706    and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven
18707    years.
18708  2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because
18709    of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens
18710    which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
18711  3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came
18712    up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even
18713    they came up against them;
18714  4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of
18715    the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance
18716    for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
18717  5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they
18718    came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their
18719    camels were without number: and they entered into the land to
18720    destroy it.
18721  6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites;
18722    and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
18723  7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto
18724    the LORD because of the Midianites,
18725  8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel,
18726    which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I
18727    brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the
18728    house of bondage;
18729  9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out
18730    of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from
18731    before you, and gave you their land;
18732 10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods
18733    of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not
18734    obeyed my voice.
18735 11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak
18736    which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite:
18737    and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it
18738    from the Midianites.
18739 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto
18740    him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
18741 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us,
18742    why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his
18743    miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the
18744    LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken
18745    us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
18746 14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might,
18747    and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites:
18748    have not I sent thee?
18749 15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save
18750    Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the
18751    least in my father's house.
18752 16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and
18753    thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
18754 17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight,
18755    then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
18756 18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and
18757    bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I
18758    will tarry until thou come again.
18759 19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes
18760    of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put
18761    the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak,
18762    and presented it.
18763 20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the
18764    unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out
18765    the broth. And he did so.
18766 21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that
18767    was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened
18768    cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed
18769    the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD
18770    departed out of his sight.
18771 22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD,
18772    Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an
18773    angel of the LORD face to face.
18774 23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou
18775    shalt not die.
18776 24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it
18777    Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the
18778    Abiezrites.
18779 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
18780    him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock
18781    of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy
18782    father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
18783 26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this
18784    rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and
18785    offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou
18786    shalt cut down.
18787 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD
18788    had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his
18789    father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not
18790    do it by day, that he did it by night.
18791 28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning,
18792    behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut
18793    down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon
18794    the altar that was built.
18795 29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And
18796    when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of
18797    Joash hath done this thing.
18798 30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son,
18799    that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal,
18800    and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
18801 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead
18802    for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let
18803    him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god,
18804    let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his
18805    altar.
18806 32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let
18807    Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
18808 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of
18809    the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in
18810    the valley of Jezreel.
18811 34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a
18812    trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
18813 35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was
18814    gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and
18815    unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet
18816    them.
18817 36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine
18818    hand, as thou hast said,
18819 37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the
18820    dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth
18821    beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine
18822    hand, as thou hast said.
18823 38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust
18824    the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a
18825    bowl full of water.
18826 39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against
18827    me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee,
18828    but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the
18829    fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
18830 40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece
18831    only, and there was dew on all the ground.

18832 Judges 7

18833  1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were
18834    with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod:
18835    so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of
18836    them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
18837  2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee
18838    are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands,
18839    lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand
18840    hath saved me.
18841  3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people,
18842    saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and
18843    depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the
18844    people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten
18845    thousand.
18846  4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many;
18847    bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee
18848    there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This
18849    shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of
18850    whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the
18851    same shall not go.
18852  5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD
18853    said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his
18854    tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself;
18855    likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
18856  6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to
18857    their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the
18858    people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
18859  7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that
18860    lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine
18861    hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his
18862    place.
18863  8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets:
18864    and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent,
18865    and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian
18866    was beneath him in the valley.
18867  9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
18868    him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered
18869    it into thine hand.
18870 10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant
18871    down to the host:
18872 11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine
18873    hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he
18874    down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men
18875    that were in the host.
18876 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of
18877    the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for
18878    multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand
18879    by the sea side for multitude.
18880 13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a
18881    dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream,
18882    and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of
18883    Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and
18884    overturned it, that the tent lay along.
18885 14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save
18886    the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for
18887    into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
18888 15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and
18889    the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned
18890    into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath
18891    delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
18892 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and
18893    he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and
18894    lamps within the pitchers.
18895 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and,
18896    behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be
18897    that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18898 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then
18899    blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and
18900    say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
18901 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto
18902    the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch;
18903    and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the
18904    trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
18905 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the
18906    pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the
18907    trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried,
18908    The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
18909 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp;
18910    and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
18911 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set
18912    every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the
18913    host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the
18914    border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
18915 23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of
18916    Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and
18917    pursued after the Midianites.
18918 24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim,
18919    saying, come down against the Midianites, and take before them
18920    the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of
18921    Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto
18922    Bethbarah and Jordan.
18923 25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb;
18924    and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at
18925    the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the
18926    heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

18927 Judges 8

18928  1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us
18929    thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight
18930    with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
18931  2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of
18932    you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than
18933    the vintage of Abiezer?
18934  3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb
18935    and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then
18936    their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
18937  4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three
18938    hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
18939  5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves
18940    of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint,
18941    and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
18942  6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and
18943    Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto
18944    thine army?
18945  7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah
18946    and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with
18947    the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
18948  8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise:
18949    and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had
18950    answered him.
18951  9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come
18952    again in peace, I will break down this tower.
18953 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with
18954    them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all
18955    the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an
18956    hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
18957 11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on
18958    the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the
18959    host was secure.
18960 12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and
18961    took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and
18962    discomfited all the host.
18963 13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the
18964    sun was up,
18965 14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of
18966    him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the
18967    elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
18968 15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah
18969    and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the
18970    hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should
18971    give bread unto thy men that are weary?
18972 16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the
18973    wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of
18974    Succoth.
18975 17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the
18976    city.
18977 18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were
18978    they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so
18979    were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
18980 19 And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my
18981    mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I
18982    would not slay you.
18983 20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But
18984    the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was
18985    yet a youth.
18986 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for
18987    as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew
18988    Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on
18989    their camels' necks.
18990 22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us,
18991    both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast
18992    delivered us from the hand of Midian.
18993 23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither
18994    shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
18995 24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you,
18996    that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For
18997    they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
18998 25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they
18999    spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings
19000    of his prey.
19001 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a
19002    thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments,
19003    and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of
19004    Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels'
19005    necks.
19006 27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even
19007    in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it:
19008    which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
19009 28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that
19010    they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in
19011    quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
19012 29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
19013    house.
19014 30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten:
19015    for he had many wives.
19016 31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a
19017    son, whose name he called Abimelech.
19018 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was
19019    buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the
19020    Abiezrites.
19021 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
19022    children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after
19023    Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
19024 34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God,
19025    who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies
19026    on every side:
19027 35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
19028    namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had
19029    shewed unto Israel.

19030 Judges 9

19031  1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his
19032    mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the
19033    family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
19034  2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem,
19035    Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of
19036    Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over
19037    you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your
19038    bone and your flesh.
19039  3 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the
19040    men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to
19041    follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
19042  4 And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of
19043    the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and
19044    light persons, which followed him.
19045  5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his
19046    brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten
19047    persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the
19048    youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
19049  6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the
19050    house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the
19051    plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
19052  7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top
19053    of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said
19054    unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may
19055    hearken unto you.
19056  8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and
19057    they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
19058  9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness,
19059    wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted
19060    over the trees?
19061 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over
19062    us.
19063 11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my
19064    sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the
19065    trees?
19066 12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over
19067    us.
19068 13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which
19069    cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
19070 14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign
19071    over us.
19072 15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me
19073    king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and
19074    if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the
19075    cedars of Lebanon.
19076 16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye
19077    have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with
19078    Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to
19079    the deserving of his hands;
19080 17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far,
19081    and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
19082 18 And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and
19083    have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one
19084    stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant,
19085    king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
19086 19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and
19087    with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let
19088    him also rejoice in you:
19089 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the
19090    men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out
19091    from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and
19092    devour Abimelech.
19093 21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt
19094    there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
19095 22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,
19096 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of
19097    Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with
19098    Abimelech:
19099 24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of
19100    Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech
19101    their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem,
19102    which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
19103 25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of
19104    the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by
19105    them: and it was told Abimelech.
19106 26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over
19107    to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in
19108    him.
19109 27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their
19110    vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into
19111    the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed
19112    Abimelech.
19113 28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is
19114    Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of
19115    Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the
19116    father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?
19117 29 And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I
19118    remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine
19119    army, and come out.
19120 30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal
19121    the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
19122 31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold,
19123    Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and,
19124    behold, they fortify the city against thee.
19125 32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with
19126    thee, and lie in wait in the field:
19127 33 And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is
19128    up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold,
19129    when he and the people that is with him come out against thee,
19130    then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
19131 34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him,
19132    by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four
19133    companies.
19134 35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering
19135    of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people
19136    that were with him, from lying in wait.
19137 36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there
19138    come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said
19139    unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they
19140    were men.
19141 37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See there come people down by
19142    the middle of the land, and another company come along by the
19143    plain of Meonenim.
19144 38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith
19145    thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is
19146    not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray
19147    now, and fight with them.
19148 39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with
19149    Abimelech.
19150 40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many
19151    were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the
19152    gate.
19153 41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and
19154    his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
19155 42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out
19156    into the field; and they told Abimelech.
19157 43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies,
19158    and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the
19159    people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against
19160    them, and smote them.
19161 44 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed
19162    forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city:
19163    and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were
19164    in the fields, and slew them.
19165 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he
19166    took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat
19167    down the city, and sowed it with salt.
19168 46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they
19169    entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
19170 47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of
19171    Shechem were gathered together.
19172 48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the
19173    people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his
19174    hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and
19175    laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were
19176    with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I
19177    have done.
19178 49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and
19179    followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold
19180    on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem
19181    died also, about a thousand men and women.
19182 50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez,
19183    and took it.
19184 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled
19185    all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it
19186    to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
19187 52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and
19188    went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
19189 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon
19190    Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
19191 54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer,
19192    and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say
19193    not of me, A women slew him. And his young man thrust him
19194    through, and he died.
19195 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they
19196    departed every man unto his place.
19197 56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did
19198    unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
19199 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon
19200    their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of
19201    Jerubbaal.

19202 Judges 10

19203  1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son
19204    of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in
19205    Shamir in mount Ephraim.
19206  2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was
19207    buried in Shamir.
19208  3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel
19209    twenty and two years.
19210  4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they
19211    had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day,
19212    which are in the land of Gilead.
19213  5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
19214  6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the
19215    LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria,
19216    and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of
19217    the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and
19218    forsook the LORD, and served not him.
19219  7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold
19220    them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of
19221    the children of Ammon.
19222  8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel:
19223    eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the
19224    other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in
19225    Gilead.
19226  9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight
19227    also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the
19228    house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
19229 10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We
19230    have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our
19231    God, and also served Baalim.
19232 11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I
19233    deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from
19234    the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
19235 12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did
19236    oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of
19237    their hand.
19238 13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I
19239    will deliver you no more.
19240 14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them
19241    deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
19242 15 And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned:
19243    do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us
19244    only, we pray thee, this day.
19245 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served
19246    the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
19247 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and
19248    encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled
19249    themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
19250 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What
19251    man is he that will begin to fight against the children of
19252    Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

19253 Judges 11

19254  1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he
19255    was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
19256  2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up,
19257    and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt
19258    not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a
19259    strange woman.
19260  3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of
19261    Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went
19262    out with him.
19263  4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of
19264    Ammon made war against Israel.
19265  5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war
19266    against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah
19267    out of the land of Tob:
19268  6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we
19269    may fight with the children of Ammon.
19270  7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate
19271    me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come
19272    unto me now when ye are in distress?
19273  8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn
19274    again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight
19275    against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the
19276    inhabitants of Gilead.
19277  9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me
19278    home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the
19279    LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
19280 10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be
19281    witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
19282 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people
19283    made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all
19284    his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
19285 12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of
19286    Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art
19287    come against me to fight in my land?
19288 13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the
19289    messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when
19290    they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and
19291    unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again
19292    peaceably.
19293 14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the
19294    children of Ammon:
19295 15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away
19296    the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
19297 16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the
19298    wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
19299 17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let
19300    me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom
19301    would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto
19302    the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode
19303    in Kadesh.
19304 18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the
19305    land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side
19306    of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon,
19307    but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the
19308    border of Moab.
19309 19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
19310    the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we
19311    pray thee, through thy land into my place.
19312 20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but
19313    Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz,
19314    and fought against Israel.
19315 21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people
19316    into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel
19317    possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of
19318    that country.
19319 22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon
19320    even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
19321 23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites
19322    from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
19323 24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee
19324    to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out
19325    from before us, them will we possess.
19326 25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of
19327    Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or
19328    did he ever fight against them,
19329 26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and
19330    her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts
19331    of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not
19332    recover them within that time?
19333 27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me
19334    wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day
19335    between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
19336 28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto
19337    the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
19338 29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed
19339    over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead,
19340    and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of
19341    Ammon.
19342 30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou
19343    shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine
19344    hands,
19345 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of
19346    my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children
19347    of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up
19348    for a burnt offering.
19349 32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight
19350    against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
19351 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith,
19352    even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with
19353    a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were
19354    subdued before the children of Israel.
19355 34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his
19356    daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances:
19357    and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor
19358    daughter.
19359 35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his
19360    clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me
19361    very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have
19362    opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
19363 36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy
19364    mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath
19365    proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken
19366    vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of
19367    Ammon.
19368 37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me:
19369    let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the
19370    mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
19371 38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she
19372    went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the
19373    mountains.
19374 39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she
19375    returned unto her father, who did with her according to his
19376    vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a
19377    custom in Israel,
19378 40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the
19379    daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

19380 Judges 12

19381  1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went
19382    northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou
19383    over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not
19384    call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee
19385    with fire.
19386  2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great
19387    strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye
19388    delivered me not out of their hands.
19389  3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my
19390    hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the
19391    LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come
19392    up unto me this day, to fight against me?
19393  4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and
19394    fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim,
19395    because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim
19396    among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
19397  5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the
19398    Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which
19399    were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said
19400    unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
19401  6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said
19402    Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then
19403    they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and
19404    there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two
19405    thousand.
19406  7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
19407    Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
19408  8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
19409  9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent
19410    abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons.
19411    And he judged Israel seven years.
19412 10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
19413 11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged
19414    Israel ten years.
19415 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the
19416    country of Zebulun.
19417 13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged
19418    Israel.
19419 14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on
19420    threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight
19421    years.
19422 15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was
19423    buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the
19424    Amalekites.

19425 Judges 13

19426  1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the
19427    LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the
19428    Philistines forty years.
19429  2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the
19430    Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and
19431    bare not.
19432  3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said
19433    unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but
19434    thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
19435  4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor
19436    strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
19437  5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
19438    shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto
19439    God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of
19440    the hand of the Philistines.
19441  6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God
19442    came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of
19443    an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he
19444    was, neither told he me his name:
19445  7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a
19446    son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any
19447    unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from
19448    the womb to the day of his death.
19449  8 Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the
19450    man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach
19451    us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
19452  9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God
19453    came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah
19454    her husband was not with her.
19455 10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and
19456    said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that
19457    came unto me the other day.
19458 11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the
19459    man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the
19460    woman? And he said, I am.
19461 12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we
19462    order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
19463 13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said
19464    unto the woman let her beware.
19465 14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither
19466    let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing:
19467    all that I commanded her let her observe.
19468 15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let
19469    us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
19470 16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain
19471    me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a
19472    burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah
19473    knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
19474 17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name,
19475    that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
19476 18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus
19477    after my name, seeing it is secret?
19478 19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon
19479    a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and
19480    Manoah and his wife looked on.
19481 20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from
19482    off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the
19483    flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and
19484    fell on their faces to the ground.
19485 21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to
19486    his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
19487 22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we
19488    have seen God.
19489 23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill
19490    us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat
19491    offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all
19492    these things, nor would as at this time have told us such
19493    things as these.
19494 24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the
19495    child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
19496 25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the
19497    camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

19498 Judges 14

19499  1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of
19500    the daughters of the Philistines.
19501  2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said,
19502    I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the
19503    Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
19504  3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a
19505    woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my
19506    people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised
19507    Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me;
19508    for she pleaseth me well.
19509  4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the
19510    LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for
19511    at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
19512  5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to
19513    Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a
19514    young lion roared against him.
19515  6 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent
19516    him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his
19517    hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had
19518    done.
19519  7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased
19520    Samson well.
19521  8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside
19522    to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm
19523    of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
19524  9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came
19525    to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat:
19526    but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the
19527    carcase of the lion.
19528 10 So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there
19529    a feast; for so used the young men to do.
19530 11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought
19531    thirty companions to be with him.
19532 12 And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto
19533    you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days
19534    of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty
19535    sheets and thirty change of garments:
19536 13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty
19537    sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him,
19538    Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
19539 14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and
19540    out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in
19541    three days expound the riddle.
19542 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto
19543    Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us
19544    the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with
19545    fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?
19546 16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but
19547    hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto
19548    the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he
19549    said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my
19550    mother, and shall I tell it thee?
19551 17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast
19552    lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told
19553    her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to
19554    the children of her people.
19555 18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day
19556    before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what
19557    is stronger than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye had not
19558    plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
19559 19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to
19560    Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil,
19561    and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the
19562    riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his
19563    father's house.
19564 20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used
19565    as his friend.

19566 Judges 15

19567  1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat
19568    harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said,
19569    I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would
19570    not suffer him to go in.
19571  2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly
19572    hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her
19573    younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead
19574    of her.
19575  3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless
19576    than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
19577  4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took
19578    firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in
19579    the midst between two tails.
19580  5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into
19581    the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the
19582    shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and
19583    olives.
19584  6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
19585    answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he
19586    had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the
19587    Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
19588  7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will
19589    I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
19590  8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he
19591    went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
19592  9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
19593    themselves in Lehi.
19594 10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And
19595    they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as
19596    he hath done to us.
19597 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock
19598    Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the
19599    Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast
19600    done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so
19601    have I done unto them.
19602 12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we
19603    may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson
19604    said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me
19605    yourselves.
19606 13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee
19607    fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not
19608    kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought
19609    him up from the rock.
19610 14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against
19611    him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and
19612    the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was
19613    burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
19614 15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand,
19615    and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
19616 16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,
19617    with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
19618 17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that
19619    he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that
19620    place Ramathlehi.
19621 18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said,
19622    Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy
19623    servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the
19624    hand of the uncircumcised?
19625 19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there
19626    came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came
19627    again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof
19628    Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
19629 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty
19630    years.

19631 Judges 16

19632  1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in
19633    unto her.
19634  2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither.
19635    And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in
19636    the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In
19637    the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
19638  3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took
19639    the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went
19640    away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders,
19641    and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before
19642    Hebron.
19643  4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the
19644    valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
19645  5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said
19646    unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength
19647    lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we
19648    may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one
19649    of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
19650  6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy
19651    great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to
19652    afflict thee.
19653  7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green
19654    withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as
19655    another man.
19656  8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven
19657    green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with
19658    them.
19659  9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the
19660    chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee,
19661    Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken
19662    when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
19663 10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and
19664    told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou
19665    mightest be bound.
19666 11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that
19667    never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another
19668    man.
19669 12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and
19670    said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there
19671    were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them
19672    from off his arms like a thread.
19673 13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me,
19674    and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound.
19675    And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my
19676    head with the web.
19677 14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The
19678    Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his
19679    sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the
19680    web.
19681 15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when
19682    thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three
19683    times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
19684 16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her
19685    words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
19686 17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath
19687    not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite
19688    unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my
19689    strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like
19690    any other man.
19691 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she
19692    sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come
19693    up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the
19694    lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money
19695    in their hand.
19696 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a
19697    man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his
19698    head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from
19699    him.
19700 20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he
19701    awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other
19702    times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD
19703    was departed from him.
19704 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and
19705    brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass;
19706    and he did grind in the prison house.
19707 22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was
19708    shaven.
19709 23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for
19710    to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to
19711    rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our
19712    enemy into our hand.
19713 24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they
19714    said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the
19715    destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
19716 25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they
19717    said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they
19718    called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them
19719    sport: and they set him between the pillars.
19720 26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer
19721    me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth,
19722    that I may lean upon them.
19723 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of
19724    the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about
19725    three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made
19726    sport.
19727 28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God,
19728    remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only
19729    this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the
19730    Philistines for my two eyes.
19731 29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the
19732    house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his
19733    right hand, and of the other with his left.
19734 30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed
19735    himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords,
19736    and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which
19737    he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his
19738    life.
19739 31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down,
19740    and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah
19741    and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he
19742    judged Israel twenty years.

19743 Judges 17

19744  1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
19745  2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of
19746    silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst,
19747    and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with
19748    me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the
19749    LORD, my son.
19750  3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver
19751    to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the
19752    silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven
19753    image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto
19754    thee.
19755  4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took
19756    two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder,
19757    who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they
19758    were in the house of Micah.
19759  5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and
19760    teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his
19761    priest.
19762  6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did
19763    that which was right in his own eyes.
19764  7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family
19765    of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
19766  8 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to
19767    sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount
19768    Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
19769  9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto
19770    him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn
19771    where I may find a place.
19772 10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a
19773    father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of
19774    silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals.
19775    So the Levite went in.
19776 11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the
19777    young man was unto him as one of his sons.
19778 12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his
19779    priest, and was in the house of Micah.
19780 13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good,
19781    seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

19782 Judges 18

19783  1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days
19784    the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell
19785    in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen
19786    unto them among the tribes of Israel.
19787  2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from
19788    their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to
19789    spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them,
19790    Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to
19791    the house of Micah, they lodged there.
19792  3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of
19793    the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said
19794    unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in
19795    this place? and what hast thou here?
19796  4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me,
19797    and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
19798  5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God,
19799    that we may know whether our way which we go shall be
19800    prosperous.
19801  6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is
19802    your way wherein ye go.
19803  7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the
19804    people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the
19805    manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no
19806    magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any
19807    thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no
19808    business with any man.
19809  8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and
19810    their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
19811  9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we
19812    have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye
19813    still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the
19814    land.
19815 10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large
19816    land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where
19817    there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
19818 11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out
19819    of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with
19820    weapons of war.
19821 12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah:
19822    wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day:
19823    behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
19824 13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the
19825    house of Micah.
19826 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of
19827    Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is
19828    in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image,
19829    and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
19830 15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the
19831    young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and
19832    saluted him.
19833 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war,
19834    which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of
19835    the gate.
19836 17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and
19837    came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and
19838    the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in
19839    the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were
19840    appointed with weapons of war.
19841 18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved
19842    image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then
19843    said the priest unto them, What do ye?
19844 19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon
19845    thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest:
19846    is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one
19847    man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in
19848    Israel?
19849 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and
19850    the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of
19851    the people.
19852 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the
19853    cattle and the carriage before them.
19854 22 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men
19855    that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered
19856    together, and overtook the children of Dan.
19857 23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their
19858    faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest
19859    with such a company?
19860 24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the
19861    priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what
19862    is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
19863 25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be
19864    heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou
19865    lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
19866 26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw
19867    that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back
19868    unto his house.
19869 27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest
19870    which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at
19871    quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the
19872    sword, and burnt the city with fire.
19873 28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and
19874    they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley
19875    that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt
19876    therein.
19877 29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of
19878    Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name
19879    of the city was Laish at the first.
19880 30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan,
19881    the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were
19882    priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of
19883    the land.
19884 31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all
19885    the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

19886 Judges 19

19887  1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in
19888    Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side
19889    of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of
19890    Bethlehemjudah.
19891  2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away
19892    from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was
19893    there four whole months.
19894  3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly
19895    unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him,
19896    and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's
19897    house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced
19898    to meet him.
19899  4 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and
19900    he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and
19901    lodged there.
19902  5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early
19903    in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's
19904    father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a
19905    morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.
19906  6 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them
19907    together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be
19908    content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart
19909    be merry.
19910  7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged
19911    him: therefore he lodged there again.
19912  8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart;
19913    and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray
19914    thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both
19915    of them.
19916  9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and
19917    his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto
19918    him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you
19919    tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge
19920    here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you
19921    early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
19922 10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and
19923    departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and
19924    there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was
19925    with him.
19926 11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the
19927    servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us
19928    turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
19929 12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither
19930    into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of
19931    Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
19932 13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to
19933    one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in
19934    Ramah.
19935 14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down
19936    upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to
19937    Benjamin.
19938 15 And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in
19939    Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of
19940    the city: for there was no man that took them into his house
19941    to lodging.
19942 16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the
19943    field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he
19944    sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
19945 17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in
19946    the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest
19947    thou? and whence comest thou?
19948 18 And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah
19949    toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went
19950    to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house of the
19951    LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
19952 19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there
19953    is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for
19954    the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of
19955    any thing.
19956 20 And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all
19957    thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
19958 21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the
19959    asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
19960 22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of
19961    the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about,
19962    and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house,
19963    the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine
19964    house, that we may know him.
19965 23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and
19966    said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so
19967    wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not
19968    this folly.
19969 24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them
19970    I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them
19971    what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a
19972    thing.
19973 25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his
19974    concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her,
19975    and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the
19976    day began to spring, they let her go.
19977 26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down
19978    at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was
19979    light.
19980 27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of
19981    the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman
19982    his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and
19983    her hands were upon the threshold.
19984 28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none
19985    answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man
19986    rose up, and gat him unto his place.
19987 29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid
19988    hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her
19989    bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of
19990    Israel.
19991 30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such
19992    deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel
19993    came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of
19994    it, take advice, and speak your minds.

19995 Judges 20

19996  1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation
19997    was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba,
19998    with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
19999  2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of
20000    Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of
20001    God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
20002  3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of
20003    Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of
20004    Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
20005  4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain,
20006    answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to
20007    Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
20008  5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house
20009    round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me:
20010    and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
20011  6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her
20012    throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for
20013    they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
20014  7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice
20015    and counsel.
20016  8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any
20017    of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his
20018    house.
20019  9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we
20020    will go up by lot against it;
20021 10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the
20022    tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand
20023    out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that
20024    they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according
20025    to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
20026 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit
20027    together as one man.
20028 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of
20029    Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among
20030    you?
20031 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial,
20032    which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put
20033    away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not
20034    hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
20035 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out
20036    of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the
20037    children of Israel.
20038 15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of
20039    the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside
20040    the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred
20041    chosen men.
20042 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men
20043    lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth,
20044    and not miss.
20045 17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four
20046    hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of
20047    war.
20048 18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of
20049    God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go
20050    up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And
20051    the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
20052 19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and
20053    encamped against Gibeah.
20054 20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and
20055    the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against
20056    them at Gibeah.
20057 21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and
20058    destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty
20059    and two thousand men.
20060 22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and
20061    set their battle again in array in the place where they put
20062    themselves in array the first day.
20063 23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD
20064    until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go
20065    up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my
20066    brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
20067 24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of
20068    Benjamin the second day.
20069 25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second
20070    day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of
20071    Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
20072 26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up,
20073    and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before
20074    the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt
20075    offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
20076 27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark
20077    of the covenant of God was there in those days,
20078 28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood
20079    before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to
20080    battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I
20081    cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver
20082    them into thine hand.
20083 29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
20084 30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of
20085    Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against
20086    Gibeah, as at other times.
20087 31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and
20088    were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the
20089    people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which
20090    one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in
20091    the field, about thirty men of Israel.
20092 32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down
20093    before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said,
20094    Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
20095 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put
20096    themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of
20097    Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows
20098    of Gibeah.
20099 34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of
20100    all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that
20101    evil was near them.
20102 35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of
20103    Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five
20104    thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
20105 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for
20106    the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they
20107    trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside
20108    Gibeah.
20109 37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the
20110    liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city
20111    with the edge of the sword.
20112 38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and
20113    the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with
20114    smoke rise up out of the city.
20115 39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin
20116    began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty
20117    persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before
20118    us, as in the first battle.
20119 40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a
20120    pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and,
20121    behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
20122 41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin
20123    were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
20124 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel
20125    unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them;
20126    and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the
20127    midst of them.
20128 43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased
20129    them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward
20130    the sunrising.
20131 44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these
20132    were men of valour.
20133 45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock
20134    of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five
20135    thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew
20136    two thousand men of them.
20137 46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and
20138    five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of
20139    valour.
20140 47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the
20141    rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
20142 48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of
20143    Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well
20144    the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to
20145    hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

20146 Judges 21

20147  1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall
20148    not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
20149  2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till
20150    even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
20151  3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in
20152    Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in
20153    Israel?
20154  4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early,
20155    and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and
20156    peace offerings.
20157  5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the
20158    tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto
20159    the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that
20160    came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be
20161    put to death.
20162  6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their
20163    brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this
20164    day.
20165  7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have
20166    sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters
20167    to wives?
20168  8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that
20169    came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came
20170    none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
20171  9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of
20172    the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
20173 10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the
20174    valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the
20175    inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with
20176    the women and the children.
20177 11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly
20178    destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
20179 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four
20180    hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any
20181    male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is
20182    in the land of Canaan.
20183 13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children
20184    of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call
20185    peaceably unto them.
20186 14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives
20187    which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and
20188    yet so they sufficed them not.
20189 15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
20190    LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
20191 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for
20192    wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out
20193    of Benjamin?
20194 17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be
20195    escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of
20196    Israel.
20197 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the
20198    children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that
20199    giveth a wife to Benjamin.
20200 19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh
20201    yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the
20202    east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem,
20203    and on the south of Lebonah.
20204 20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go
20205    and lie in wait in the vineyards;
20206 21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to
20207    dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch
20208    you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to
20209    the land of Benjamin.
20210 22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come
20211    unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable
20212    unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man
20213    his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this
20214    time, that ye should be guilty.
20215 23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives,
20216    according to their number, of them that danced, whom they
20217    caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and
20218    repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
20219 24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every
20220    man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from
20221    thence every man to his inheritance.
20222 25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that
20223    which was right in his own eyes.

20224 Book 8 Ruth

20225 Ruth 1

20226  1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that
20227    there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of
20228    Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and
20229    his wife, and his two sons.
20230  2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his
20231    wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
20232    Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country
20233    of Moab, and continued there.
20234  3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her
20235    two sons.
20236  4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the
20237    one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they
20238    dwelled there about ten years.
20239  5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman
20240    was left of her two sons and her husband.
20241  6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might
20242    return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the
20243    country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in
20244    giving them bread.
20245  7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and
20246    her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to
20247    return unto the land of Judah.
20248  8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each
20249    to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye
20250    have dealt with the dead, and with me.
20251  9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the
20252    house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up
20253    their voice, and wept.
20254 10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto
20255    thy people.
20256 11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with
20257    me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be
20258    your husbands?
20259 12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to
20260    have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should
20261    have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
20262 13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay
20263    for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it
20264    grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is
20265    gone out against me.
20266 14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah
20267    kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
20268 15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her
20269    people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in
20270    law.
20271 16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
20272    following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and
20273    where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my
20274    people, and thy God my God:
20275 17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the
20276    LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee
20277    and me.
20278 18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her,
20279    then she left speaking unto her.
20280 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to
20281    pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was
20282    moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
20283 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for
20284    the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
20285 21 I went out full and the LORD hath brought me home again empty:
20286    why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified
20287    against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
20288 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in
20289    law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and
20290    they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

20291 Ruth 2

20292  1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of
20293    wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
20294  2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the
20295    field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall
20296    find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
20297  3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the
20298    reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field
20299    belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
20300  4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the
20301    reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD
20302    bless thee.
20303  5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers,
20304    Whose damsel is this?
20305  6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and
20306    said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out
20307    of the country of Moab:
20308  7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the
20309    reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued
20310    even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in
20311    the house.
20312  8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go
20313    not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but
20314    abide here fast by my maidens:
20315  9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou
20316    after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall
20317    not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the
20318    vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
20319 10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
20320    and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that
20321    thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
20322 11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed
20323    me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the
20324    death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and
20325    thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a
20326    people which thou knewest not heretofore.
20327 12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee
20328    of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to
20329    trust.
20330 13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for
20331    that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken
20332    friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of
20333    thine handmaidens.
20334 14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat
20335    of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat
20336    beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she
20337    did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
20338 15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young
20339    men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and
20340    reproach her not:
20341 16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and
20342    leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
20343 17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she
20344    had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
20345 18 And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in
20346    law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave
20347    to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
20348 19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned
20349    to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take
20350    knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom
20351    she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought
20352    to day is Boaz.
20353 20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the
20354    LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to
20355    the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto
20356    us, one of our next kinsmen.
20357 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt
20358    keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my
20359    harvest.
20360 22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my
20361    daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet
20362    thee not in any other field.
20363 23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end
20364    of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her
20365    mother in law.

20366 Ruth 3

20367  1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall
20368    I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
20369  2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou
20370    wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the
20371    threshingfloor.
20372  3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment
20373    upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not
20374    thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating
20375    and drinking.
20376  4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the
20377    place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover
20378    his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou
20379    shalt do.
20380  5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
20381  6 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all
20382    that her mother in law bade her.
20383  7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he
20384    went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came
20385    softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
20386  8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and
20387    turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
20388  9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine
20389    handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for
20390    thou art a near kinsman.
20391 10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for
20392    thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the
20393    beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether
20394    poor or rich.
20395 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that
20396    thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that
20397    thou art a virtuous woman.
20398 12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there
20399    is a kinsman nearer than I.
20400 13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he
20401    will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do
20402    the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a
20403    kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee,
20404    as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.
20405 14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up
20406    before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be
20407    known that a woman came into the floor.
20408 15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and
20409    hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of
20410    barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
20411 16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art
20412    thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done
20413    to her.
20414 17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he
20415    said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
20416 18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the
20417    matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he
20418    have finished the thing this day.

20419 Ruth 4

20420  1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and,
20421    behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he
20422    said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned
20423    aside, and sat down.
20424  2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit
20425    ye down here. And they sat down.
20426  3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of
20427    the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our
20428    brother Elimelech's:
20429  4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the
20430    inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt
20431    redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then
20432    tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it
20433    beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem
20434    it.
20435  5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of
20436    Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife
20437    of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his
20438    inheritance.
20439  6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I
20440    mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for
20441    I cannot redeem it.
20442  7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning
20443    redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things;
20444    a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and
20445    this was a testimony in Israel.
20446  8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he
20447    drew off his shoe.
20448  9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are
20449    witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was
20450    Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the
20451    hand of Naomi.
20452 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I
20453    purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon
20454    his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from
20455    among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are
20456    witnesses this day.
20457 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders,
20458    said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come
20459    into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did
20460    build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah,
20461    and be famous in Bethlehem:
20462 12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare
20463    unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this
20464    young woman.
20465 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in
20466    unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
20467 14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath
20468    not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be
20469    famous in Israel.
20470 15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a
20471    nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which
20472    loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath
20473    born him.
20474 16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became
20475    nurse unto it.
20476 17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is
20477    a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the
20478    father of Jesse, the father of David.
20479 18 Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
20480 19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
20481 20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
20482 21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
20483 22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

20484 Book 9 1 Samuel

20485 1 Samuel 1

20486  1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount
20487    Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son
20488    of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
20489  2 And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the
20490    name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but
20491    Hannah had no children.
20492  3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to
20493    sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons
20494    of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were
20495    there.
20496  4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to
20497    Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters,
20498    portions:
20499  5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah:
20500    but the LORD had shut up her womb.
20501  6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her
20502    fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
20503  7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house
20504    of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did
20505    not eat.
20506  8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest
20507    thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved?
20508    am not I better to thee than ten sons?
20509  9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after
20510    they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post
20511    of the temple of the LORD.
20512 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD,
20513    and wept sore.
20514 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt
20515    indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember
20516    me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine
20517    handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all
20518    the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his
20519    head.
20520 12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD,
20521    that Eli marked her mouth.
20522 13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but
20523    her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been
20524    drunken.
20525 14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away
20526    thy wine from thee.
20527 15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
20528    sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink,
20529    but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
20530 16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of
20531    the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken
20532    hitherto.
20533 17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel
20534    grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
20535 18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So
20536    the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was
20537    no more sad.
20538 19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before
20539    the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and
20540    Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
20541 20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after
20542    Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name
20543    Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
20544 21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto
20545    the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
20546 22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will
20547    not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring
20548    him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for
20549    ever.
20550 23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee
20551    good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD
20552    establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck
20553    until she weaned him.
20554 24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with
20555    three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine,
20556    and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the
20557    child was young.
20558 25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
20559 26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am
20560    the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
20561 27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my
20562    petition which I asked of him:
20563 28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he
20564    liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the
20565    LORD there.

20566 1 Samuel 2

20567  1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD,
20568    mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over
20569    mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
20570  2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee:
20571    neither is there any rock like our God.
20572  3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out
20573    of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him
20574    actions are weighed.
20575  4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled
20576    are girded with strength.
20577  5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and
20578    they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born
20579    seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
20580  6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the
20581    grave, and bringeth up.
20582  7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and
20583    lifteth up.
20584  8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the
20585    beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to
20586    make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the
20587    earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
20588  9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be
20589    silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
20590 10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of
20591    heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the
20592    ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king,
20593    and exalt the horn of his anointed.
20594 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did
20595    minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
20596 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the
20597    LORD.
20598 13 And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any
20599    man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the
20600    flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his
20601    hand;
20602 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot;
20603    all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself.
20604    So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came
20605    thither.
20606 15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and
20607    said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the
20608    priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
20609 16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the
20610    fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth;
20611    then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now:
20612    and if not, I will take it by force.
20613 17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the
20614    LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
20615 18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded
20616    with a linen ephod.
20617 19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to
20618    him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to
20619    offer the yearly sacrifice.
20620 20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give
20621    thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the
20622    LORD. And they went unto their own home.
20623 21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare
20624    three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before
20625    the LORD.
20626 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
20627    Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the
20628    door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
20629 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of
20630    your evil dealings by all this people.
20631 24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make
20632    the LORD's people to transgress.
20633 25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but
20634    if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him?
20635    Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their
20636    father, because the LORD would slay them.
20637 26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the
20638    LORD, and also with men.
20639 27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus
20640    saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy
20641    father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
20642 28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my
20643    priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an
20644    ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father
20645    all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
20646 29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which
20647    I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons
20648    above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the
20649    offerings of Israel my people?
20650 30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy
20651    house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for
20652    ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that
20653    honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be
20654    lightly esteemed.
20655 31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the
20656    arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man
20657    in thine house.
20658 32 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the
20659    wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an
20660    old man in thine house for ever.
20661 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine
20662    altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine
20663    heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the
20664    flower of their age.
20665 34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy
20666    two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die
20667    both of them.
20668 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do
20669    according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I
20670    will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine
20671    anointed for ever.
20672 36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in
20673    thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver
20674    and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee,
20675    into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of
20676    bread.

20677 1 Samuel 3

20678  1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And
20679    the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no
20680    open vision.
20681  2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in
20682    his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not
20683    see;
20684  3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD,
20685    where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
20686  4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
20687  5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst
20688    me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and
20689    lay down.
20690  6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and
20691    went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And
20692    he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
20693  7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of
20694    the LORD yet revealed unto him.
20695  8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose
20696    and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me.
20697    And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
20698  9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be,
20699    if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy
20700    servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
20701 10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times,
20702    Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant
20703    heareth.
20704 11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in
20705    Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it
20706    shall tingle.
20707 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have
20708    spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an
20709    end.
20710 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for
20711    the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made
20712    themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
20713 14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
20714    iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor
20715    offering for ever.
20716 15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
20717    house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
20718 16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he
20719    answered, Here am I.
20720 17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto
20721    thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and
20722    more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things
20723    that he said unto thee.
20724 18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And
20725    he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
20726 19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none
20727    of his words fall to the ground.
20728 20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
20729    established to be a prophet of the LORD.
20730 21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed
20731    himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

20732 1 Samuel 4

20733  1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
20734    against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside
20735    Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
20736  2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel:
20737    and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the
20738    Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four
20739    thousand men.
20740  3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of
20741    Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before
20742    the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the
20743    LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it
20744    may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
20745  4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from
20746    thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which
20747    dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli,
20748    Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant
20749    of God.
20750  5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the
20751    camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth
20752    rang again.
20753  6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they
20754    said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp
20755    of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD
20756    was come into the camp.
20757  7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come
20758    into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not
20759    been such a thing heretofore.
20760  8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these
20761    mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with
20762    all the plagues in the wilderness.
20763  9 Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that
20764    ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you:
20765    quit yourselves like men, and fight.
20766 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they
20767    fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great
20768    slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
20769 11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni
20770    and Phinehas, were slain.
20771 12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to
20772    Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon
20773    his head.
20774 13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside
20775    watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when
20776    the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried
20777    out.
20778 14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What
20779    meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily,
20780    and told Eli.
20781 15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim,
20782    that he could not see.
20783 16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army,
20784    and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there
20785    done, my son?
20786 17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
20787    Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among
20788    the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are
20789    dead, and the ark of God is taken.
20790 18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God,
20791    that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the
20792    gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man,
20793    and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
20794 19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near
20795    to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark
20796    of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband
20797    were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came
20798    upon her.
20799 20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her
20800    said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she
20801    answered not, neither did she regard it.
20802 21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed
20803    from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of
20804    her father in law and her husband.
20805 22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark
20806    of God is taken.

20807 1 Samuel 5

20808  1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from
20809    Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
20810  2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into
20811    the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
20812  3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold,
20813    Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of
20814    the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
20815  4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon
20816    was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the
20817    LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands
20818    were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was
20819    left to him.
20820  5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into
20821    Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto
20822    this day.
20823  6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he
20824    destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and
20825    the coasts thereof.
20826  7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The
20827    ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand
20828    is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
20829  8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the
20830    Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark
20831    of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the
20832    God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the
20833    ark of the God of Israel about thither.
20834  9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand
20835    of the LORD was against the city with a very great
20836    destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and
20837    great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
20838 10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to
20839    pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites
20840    cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God
20841    of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
20842 11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the
20843    Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel,
20844    and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and
20845    our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all
20846    the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
20847 12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and
20848    the cry of the city went up to heaven.

20849 1 Samuel 6

20850  1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines
20851    seven months.
20852  2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,
20853    saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us
20854    wherewith we shall send it to his place.
20855  3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel,
20856    send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass
20857    offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to
20858    you why his hand is not removed from you.
20859  4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we
20860    shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and
20861    five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the
20862    Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
20863  5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of
20864    your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the
20865    God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off
20866    you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
20867  6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and
20868    Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully
20869    among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
20870  7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on
20871    which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart,
20872    and bring their calves home from them:
20873  8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and
20874    put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass
20875    offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away,
20876    that it may go.
20877  9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to
20878    Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not,
20879    then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it
20880    was a chance that happened to us.
20881 10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to
20882    the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
20883 11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the
20884    coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
20885 12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh,
20886    and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned
20887    not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of
20888    the Philistines went after them unto the border of
20889    Bethshemesh.
20890 13 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in
20891    the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark,
20892    and rejoiced to see it.
20893 14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and
20894    stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the
20895    wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto
20896    the LORD.
20897 15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer
20898    that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put
20899    them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered
20900    burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto
20901    the LORD.
20902 16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they
20903    returned to Ekron the same day.
20904 17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines
20905    returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod
20906    one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron
20907    one;
20908 18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities
20909    of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced
20910    cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of
20911    Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone
20912    remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the
20913    Bethshemite.
20914 19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked
20915    into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty
20916    thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented,
20917    because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great
20918    slaughter.
20919 20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before
20920    this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
20921 21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim,
20922    saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the
20923    LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.

20924 1 Samuel 7

20925  1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of
20926    the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the
20927    hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the
20928    LORD.
20929  2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim,
20930    that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the
20931    house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
20932  3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye
20933    do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away
20934    the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare
20935    your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will
20936    deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
20937  4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth,
20938    and served the LORD only.
20939  5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray
20940    for you unto the LORD.
20941  6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and
20942    poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and
20943    said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged
20944    the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
20945  7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel
20946    were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines
20947    went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard
20948    it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
20949  8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry
20950    unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the
20951    hand of the Philistines.
20952  9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt
20953    offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD
20954    for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
20955 10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the
20956    Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD
20957    thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the
20958    Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten
20959    before Israel.
20960 11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
20961    Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.
20962 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen,
20963    and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the
20964    LORD helped us.
20965 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into
20966    the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the
20967    Philistines all the days of Samuel.
20968 14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel
20969    were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the
20970    coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the
20971    Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the
20972    Amorites.
20973 15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
20974 16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and
20975    Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
20976 17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and
20977    there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the
20978    LORD.

20979 1 Samuel 8

20980  1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his
20981    sons judges over Israel.
20982  2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
20983    second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
20984  3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after
20985    lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
20986  4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together,
20987    and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
20988  5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not
20989    in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the
20990    nations.
20991  6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a
20992    king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
20993  7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
20994    people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not
20995    rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not
20996    reign over them.
20997  8 According to all the works which they have done since the day
20998    that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day,
20999    wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do
21000    they also unto thee.
21001  9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
21002    solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that
21003    shall reign over them.
21004 10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that
21005    asked of him a king.
21006 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall
21007    reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for
21008    himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some
21009    shall run before his chariots.
21010 12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains
21011    over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap
21012    his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and
21013    instruments of his chariots.
21014 13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to
21015    be cooks, and to be bakers.
21016 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your
21017    oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his
21018    servants.
21019 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
21020    vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
21021 16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and
21022    your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his
21023    work.
21024 17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his
21025    servants.
21026 18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye
21027    shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that
21028    day.
21029 19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel;
21030    and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
21031 20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king
21032    may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
21033 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed
21034    them in the ears of the LORD.
21035 22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and
21036    make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go
21037    ye every man unto his city.

21038 1 Samuel 9

21039  1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son
21040    of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of
21041    Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
21042  2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and
21043    a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a
21044    goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was
21045    higher than any of the people.
21046  3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said
21047    to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and
21048    arise, go seek the asses.
21049  4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the
21050    land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed
21051    through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he
21052    passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them
21053    not.
21054  5 And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his
21055    servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my
21056    father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
21057  6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man
21058    of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh
21059    surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can
21060    shew us our way that we should go.
21061  7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what
21062    shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels,
21063    and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what
21064    have we?
21065  8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have
21066    here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will
21067    I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
21068  9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus
21069    he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now
21070    called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
21071 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
21072    they went unto the city where the man of God was.
21073 11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young
21074    maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the
21075    seer here?
21076 12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before
21077    you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there
21078    is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
21079 13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find
21080    him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people
21081    will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the
21082    sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now
21083    therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
21084 14 And they went up into the city: and when they were come into
21085    the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up
21086    to the high place.
21087 15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul
21088    came, saying,
21089 16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the
21090    land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over
21091    my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand
21092    of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because
21093    their cry is come unto me.
21094 17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the
21095    man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my
21096    people.
21097 18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me,
21098    I pray thee, where the seer's house is.
21099 19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up
21100    before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to
21101    day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all
21102    that is in thine heart.
21103 20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not
21104    thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the
21105    desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's
21106    house?
21107 21 And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the
21108    smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of
21109    all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then
21110    speakest thou so to me?
21111 22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into
21112    the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among
21113    them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
21114 23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave
21115    thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
21116 24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it,
21117    and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is
21118    left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it
21119    been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So
21120    Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
21121 25 And when they were come down from the high place into the
21122    city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
21123 26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of
21124    the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house,
21125    saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and
21126    they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
21127 27 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel
21128    said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he
21129    passed on), but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee
21130    the word of God.

21131 1 Samuel 10

21132  1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head,
21133    and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath
21134    anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?
21135  2 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find
21136    two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at
21137    Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou
21138    wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the
21139    care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I
21140    do for my son?
21141  3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come
21142    to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men
21143    going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and
21144    another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a
21145    bottle of wine:
21146  4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread;
21147    which thou shalt receive of their hands.
21148  5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the
21149    garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when
21150    thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a
21151    company of prophets coming down from the high place with a
21152    psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them;
21153    and they shall prophesy:
21154  6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt
21155    prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
21156  7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou
21157    do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
21158  8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I
21159    will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to
21160    sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou
21161    tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
21162  9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from
21163    Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came
21164    to pass that day.
21165 10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of
21166    prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he
21167    prophesied among them.
21168 11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw
21169    that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the
21170    people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the
21171    son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
21172 12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their
21173    father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the
21174    prophets?
21175 13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the
21176    high place.
21177 14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither
21178    went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that
21179    they were no where, we came to Samuel.
21180 15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said
21181    unto you.
21182 16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the
21183    asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof
21184    Samuel spake, he told him not.
21185 17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
21186 18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God
21187    of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you
21188    out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all
21189    kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
21190 19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you
21191    out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have
21192    said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore
21193    present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your
21194    thousands.
21195 20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come
21196    near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
21197 21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their
21198    families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of
21199    Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be
21200    found.
21201 22 Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should
21202    yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold he hath hid
21203    himself among the stuff.
21204 23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among
21205    the people, he was higher than any of the people from his
21206    shoulders and upward.
21207 24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD
21208    hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?
21209    And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
21210 25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and
21211    wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel
21212    sent all the people away, every man to his house.
21213 26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a
21214    band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
21215 27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us?
21216    And they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held
21217    his peace.

21218 1 Samuel 11

21219  1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against
21220    Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make
21221    a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
21222  2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will
21223    I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your
21224    right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
21225  3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days'
21226    respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of
21227    Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come
21228    out to thee.
21229  4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the
21230    tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted
21231    up their voices, and wept.
21232  5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and
21233    Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they
21234    told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
21235  6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those
21236    tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
21237  7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent
21238    them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of
21239    messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and
21240    after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear
21241    of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one
21242    consent.
21243  8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel
21244    were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty
21245    thousand.
21246  9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say
21247    unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun
21248    be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed
21249    it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
21250 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out
21251    unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto
21252    you.
21253 11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three
21254    companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the
21255    morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the
21256    day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were
21257    scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
21258 12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall
21259    Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to
21260    death.
21261 13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day:
21262    for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
21263 14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal,
21264    and renew the kingdom there.
21265 15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul
21266    king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed
21267    sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul
21268    and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

21269 1 Samuel 12

21270  1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto
21271    your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king
21272    over you.
21273  2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and
21274    grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have
21275    walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
21276  3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and
21277    before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have
21278    I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or
21279    of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes
21280    therewith? and I will restore it you.
21281  4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,
21282    neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
21283  5 And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and
21284    his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought
21285    in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
21286  6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced
21287    Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the
21288    land of Egypt.
21289  7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before
21290    the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did
21291    to you and to your fathers.
21292  8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto
21293    the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought
21294    forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this
21295    place.
21296  9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the
21297    hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the
21298    hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of
21299    Moab, and they fought against them.
21300 10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned,
21301    because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and
21302    Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies,
21303    and we will serve thee.
21304 11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and
21305    Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on
21306    every side, and ye dwelled safe.
21307 12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon
21308    came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign
21309    over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
21310 13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye
21311    have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
21312 14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice,
21313    and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall
21314    both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue
21315    following the LORD your God:
21316 15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel
21317    against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of
21318    the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
21319 16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD
21320    will do before your eyes.
21321 17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and
21322    he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see
21323    that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight
21324    of the LORD, in asking you a king.
21325 18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and
21326    rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and
21327    Samuel.
21328 19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants
21329    unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto
21330    all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
21331 20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all
21332    this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD,
21333    but serve the LORD with all your heart;
21334 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain
21335    things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
21336 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's
21337    sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
21338 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the
21339    LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good
21340    and the right way:
21341 24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your
21342    heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
21343 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both
21344    ye and your king.

21345 1 Samuel 13

21346  1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over
21347    Israel,
21348  2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two
21349    thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a
21350    thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the
21351    rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
21352  3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in
21353    Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the
21354    trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
21355  4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of
21356    the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination
21357    with the Philistines. And the people were called together
21358    after Saul to Gilgal.
21359  5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with
21360    Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen,
21361    and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude:
21362    and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from
21363    Bethaven.
21364  6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for
21365    the people were distressed,) then the people did hide
21366    themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in
21367    high places, and in pits.
21368  7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad
21369    and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the
21370    people followed him trembling.
21371  8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that
21372    Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the
21373    people were scattered from him.
21374  9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
21375    offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
21376 10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of
21377    offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul
21378    went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
21379 11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I
21380    saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou
21381    camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines
21382    gathered themselves together at Michmash;
21383 12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me
21384    to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I
21385    forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
21386 13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast
21387    not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he
21388    commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy
21389    kingdom upon Israel for ever.
21390 14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought
21391    him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him
21392    to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that
21393    which the LORD commanded thee.
21394 15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of
21395    Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with
21396    him, about six hundred men.
21397 16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were
21398    present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the
21399    Philistines encamped in Michmash.
21400 17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in
21401    three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth
21402    to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
21403 18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another
21404    company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the
21405    valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
21406 19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
21407    Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them
21408    swords or spears:
21409 20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
21410    sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and
21411    his mattock.
21412 21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters,
21413    and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
21414 22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
21415    neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people
21416    that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with
21417    Jonathan his son was there found.
21418 23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of
21419    Michmash.

21420 1 Samuel 14

21421  1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul
21422    said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us
21423    go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other
21424    side. But he told not his father.
21425  2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a
21426    pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were
21427    with him were about six hundred men;
21428  3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
21429    Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing
21430    an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
21431  4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over
21432    unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the
21433    one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of
21434    the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
21435  5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against
21436    Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
21437  6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come,
21438    and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised:
21439    it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no
21440    restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
21441  7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine
21442    heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy
21443    heart.
21444  8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men,
21445    and we will discover ourselves unto them.
21446  9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we
21447    will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
21448 10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for
21449    the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be
21450    a sign unto us.
21451 11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of
21452    the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews
21453    come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
21454 12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his
21455    armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a
21456    thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after
21457    me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
21458 13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and
21459    his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and
21460    his armourbearer slew after him.
21461 14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer
21462    made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of
21463    land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
21464 15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among
21465    all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also
21466    trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great
21467    trembling.
21468 16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,
21469    behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating
21470    down one another.
21471 17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now,
21472    and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered,
21473    behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
21474 18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the
21475    ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
21476 19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that
21477    the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and
21478    increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
21479 20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled
21480    themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every
21481    man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great
21482    discomfiture.
21483 21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before
21484    that time, which went up with them into the camp from the
21485    country round about, even they also turned to be with the
21486    Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
21487 22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in
21488    mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even
21489    they also followed hard after them in the battle.
21490 23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over
21491    unto Bethaven.
21492 24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
21493    adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any
21494    food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So
21495    none of the people tasted any food.
21496 25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey
21497    upon the ground.
21498 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey
21499    dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people
21500    feared the oath.
21501 27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with
21502    the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was
21503    in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand
21504    to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
21505 28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly
21506    charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man
21507    that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
21508 29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I
21509    pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I
21510    tasted a little of this honey.
21511 30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of
21512    the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not
21513    been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
21514 31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to
21515    Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
21516 32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen,
21517    and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did
21518    eat them with the blood.
21519 33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against
21520    the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye
21521    have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
21522 34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say
21523    unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his
21524    sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the
21525    LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought
21526    every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.
21527 35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first
21528    altar that he built unto the LORD.
21529 36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night,
21530    and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a
21531    man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto
21532    thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
21533 37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
21534    Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?
21535    But he answered him not that day.
21536 38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the
21537    people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
21538 39 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in
21539    Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man
21540    among all the people that answered him.
21541 40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and
21542    Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said
21543    unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
21544 41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a
21545    perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people
21546    escaped.
21547 42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And
21548    Jonathan was taken.
21549 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And
21550    Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey
21551    with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must
21552    die.
21553 44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt
21554    surely die, Jonathan.
21555 45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath
21556    wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the
21557    LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the
21558    ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people
21559    rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
21560 46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the
21561    Philistines went to their own place.
21562 47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all
21563    his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the
21564    children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of
21565    Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he
21566    turned himself, he vexed them.
21567 48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and
21568    delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
21569 49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua:
21570    and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the
21571    firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
21572 50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of
21573    Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner,
21574    the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
21575 51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner
21576    was the son of Abiel.
21577 52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of
21578    Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he
21579    took him unto him.

21580 1 Samuel 15

21581  1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to
21582    be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken
21583    thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
21584  2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did
21585    to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came
21586    up from Egypt.
21587  3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
21588    have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant
21589    and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
21590  4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in
21591    Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of
21592    Judah.
21593  5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the
21594    valley.
21595  6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from
21596    among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye
21597    shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came
21598    up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the
21599    Amalekites.
21600  7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest
21601    to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
21602  8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
21603    destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
21604  9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the
21605    sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs,
21606    and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but
21607    every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed
21608    utterly.
21609 10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
21610 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is
21611    turned back from following me, and hath not performed my
21612    commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the
21613    LORD all night.
21614 12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was
21615    told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set
21616    him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone
21617    down to Gilgal.
21618 13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be
21619    thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the
21620    LORD.
21621 14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep
21622    in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
21623 15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for
21624    the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to
21625    sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly
21626    destroyed.
21627 16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what
21628    the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say
21629    on.
21630 17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight,
21631    wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the
21632    LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
21633 18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly
21634    destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them
21635    until they be consumed.
21636 19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but
21637    didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the
21638    LORD?
21639 20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
21640    LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have
21641    brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed
21642    the Amalekites.
21643 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of
21644    the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to
21645    sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
21646 22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt
21647    offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
21648    Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than
21649    the fat of rams.
21650 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
21651    as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word
21652    of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
21653 24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have
21654    transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words:
21655    because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
21656 25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with
21657    me, that I may worship the LORD.
21658 26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for
21659    thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath
21660    rejected thee from being king over Israel.
21661 27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the
21662    skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
21663 28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of
21664    Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of
21665    thine, that is better than thou.
21666 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for
21667    he is not a man, that he should repent.
21668 30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee,
21669    before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn
21670    again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
21671 31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the
21672    LORD.
21673 32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the
21674    Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said,
21675    Surely the bitterness of death is past.
21676 33 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so
21677    shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed
21678    Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
21679 34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
21680    Gibeah of Saul.
21681 35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his
21682    death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD
21683    repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

21684 1 Samuel 16

21685  1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for
21686    Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?
21687    fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse
21688    the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his
21689    sons.
21690  2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill
21691    me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am
21692    come to sacrifice to the LORD.
21693  3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what
21694    thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name
21695    unto thee.
21696  4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to
21697    Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming,
21698    and said, Comest thou peaceably?
21699  5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD:
21700    sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he
21701    sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the
21702    sacrifice.
21703  6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on
21704    Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.
21705  7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or
21706    on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for
21707    the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the
21708    outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
21709  8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.
21710    And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
21711  9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath
21712    the LORD chosen this.
21713 10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And
21714    Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
21715 11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he
21716    said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he
21717    keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch
21718    him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
21719 12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal
21720    of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the
21721    LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
21722 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
21723    midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon
21724    David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to
21725    Ramah.
21726 14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil
21727    spirit from the LORD troubled him.
21728 15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit
21729    from God troubleth thee.
21730 16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee,
21731    to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it
21732    shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon
21733    thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be
21734    well.
21735 17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can
21736    play well, and bring him to me.
21737 18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have
21738    seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in
21739    playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and
21740    prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with
21741    him.
21742 19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me
21743    David thy son, which is with the sheep.
21744 20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine,
21745    and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
21746 21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him
21747    greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
21748 22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand
21749    before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
21750 23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon
21751    Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so
21752    Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed
21753    from him.

21754 1 Samuel 17

21755  1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle,
21756    and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to
21757    Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
21758  2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and
21759    pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array
21760    against the Philistines.
21761  3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and
21762    Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a
21763    valley between them.
21764  4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the
21765    Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six
21766    cubits and a span.
21767  5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed
21768    with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five
21769    thousand shekels of brass.
21770  6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of
21771    brass between his shoulders.
21772  7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his
21773    spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one
21774    bearing a shield went before him.
21775  8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said
21776    unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am
21777    not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man
21778    for you, and let him come down to me.
21779  9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we
21780    be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him,
21781    then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
21782 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
21783    give me a man, that we may fight together.
21784 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine,
21785    they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
21786 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah,
21787    whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went
21788    among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
21789 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to
21790    the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the
21791    battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab,
21792    and the third Shammah.
21793 14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed
21794    Saul.
21795 15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's
21796    sheep at Bethlehem.
21797 16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and
21798    presented himself forty days.
21799 17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren
21800    an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run
21801    to the camp of thy brethren;
21802 18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their
21803    thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their
21804    pledge.
21805 19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the
21806    valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
21807 20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep
21808    with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him;
21809    and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the
21810    fight, and shouted for the battle.
21811 21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array,
21812    army against army.
21813 22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
21814    carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his
21815    brethren.
21816 23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the
21817    champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the
21818    armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same
21819    words: and David heard them.
21820 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from
21821    him, and were sore afraid.
21822 25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come
21823    up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that
21824    the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great
21825    riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's
21826    house free in Israel.
21827 26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What
21828    shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and
21829    taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this
21830    uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of
21831    the living God?
21832 27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So
21833    shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
21834 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men;
21835    and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why
21836    camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those
21837    few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the
21838    naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou
21839    mightest see the battle.
21840 29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
21841 30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the
21842    same manner: and the people answered him again after the
21843    former manner.
21844 31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they
21845    rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
21846 32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of
21847    him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
21848 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this
21849    Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he
21850    a man of war from his youth.
21851 34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep,
21852    and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the
21853    flock:
21854 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out
21855    of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by
21856    his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
21857 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this
21858    uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he
21859    hath defied the armies of the living God.
21860 37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw
21861    of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver
21862    me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto
21863    David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
21864 38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of
21865    brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
21866 39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to
21867    go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I
21868    cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David
21869    put them off him.
21870 40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth
21871    stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag
21872    which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand:
21873    and he drew near to the Philistine.
21874 41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the
21875    man that bare the shield went before him.
21876 42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he
21877    disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a
21878    fair countenance.
21879 43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou
21880    comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by
21881    his gods.
21882 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give
21883    thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the
21884    field.
21885 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
21886    sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee
21887    in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of
21888    Israel, whom thou hast defied.
21889 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
21890    smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the
21891    carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the
21892    fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that
21893    all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
21894 47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with
21895    sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will
21896    give you into our hands.
21897 48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and
21898    drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward
21899    the army to meet the Philistine.
21900 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone,
21901    and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that
21902    the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to
21903    the earth.
21904 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
21905    stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was
21906    no sword in the hand of David.
21907 51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took
21908    his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew
21909    him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines
21910    saw their champion was dead, they fled.
21911 52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
21912    pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to
21913    the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell
21914    down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
21915 53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the
21916    Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
21917 54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to
21918    Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
21919 55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he
21920    said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is
21921    this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I
21922    cannot tell.
21923 56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
21924 57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
21925    Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of
21926    the Philistine in his hand.
21927 58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And
21928    David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the
21929    Bethlehemite.

21930 1 Samuel 18

21931  1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto
21932    Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of
21933    David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
21934  2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home
21935    to his father's house.
21936  3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him
21937    as his own soul.
21938  4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him,
21939    and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and
21940    to his bow, and to his girdle.
21941  5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved
21942    himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he
21943    was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the
21944    sight of Saul's servants.
21945  6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from
21946    the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of
21947    all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul,
21948    with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
21949  7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said,
21950    Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
21951  8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he
21952    said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me
21953    they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more
21954    but the kingdom?
21955  9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
21956 10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from
21957    God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the
21958    house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and
21959    there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
21960 11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David
21961    even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his
21962    presence twice.
21963 12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him,
21964    and was departed from Saul.
21965 13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain
21966    over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the
21967    people.
21968 14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD
21969    was with him.
21970 15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely,
21971    he was afraid of him.
21972 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and
21973    came in before them.
21974 17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her
21975    will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and
21976    fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be
21977    upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
21978 18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my
21979    father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the
21980    king?
21981 19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter
21982    should have been given to David, that she was given unto
21983    Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
21984 20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul,
21985    and the thing pleased him.
21986 21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to
21987    him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
21988    Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in
21989    law in the one of the twain.
21990 22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David
21991    secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and
21992    all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in
21993    law.
21994 23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David.
21995    And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's
21996    son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
21997 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner
21998    spake David.
21999 25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth
22000    not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to
22001    be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make
22002    David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
22003 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David
22004    well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not
22005    expired.
22006 27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of
22007    the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their
22008    foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that
22009    he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal
22010    his daughter to wife.
22011 28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that
22012    Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
22013 29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became
22014    David's enemy continually.
22015 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to
22016    pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more
22017    wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was
22018    much set by.

22019 1 Samuel 19

22020  1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants,
22021    that they should kill David.
22022  2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan
22023    told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now
22024    therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the
22025    morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
22026  3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field
22027    where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and
22028    what I see, that I will tell thee.
22029  4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and
22030    said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant,
22031    against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and
22032    because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
22033  5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine,
22034    and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou
22035    sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin
22036    against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
22037  6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware,
22038    As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
22039  7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those
22040    things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his
22041    presence, as in times past.
22042  8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with
22043    the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and
22044    they fled from him.
22045  9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in
22046    his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with
22047    his hand.
22048 10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the
22049    javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he
22050    smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped
22051    that night.
22052 11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him,
22053    and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told
22054    him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow
22055    thou shalt be slain.
22056 12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and
22057    fled, and escaped.
22058 13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a
22059    pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a
22060    cloth.
22061 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is
22062    sick.
22063 15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring
22064    him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
22065 16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an
22066    image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his
22067    bolster.
22068 17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and
22069    sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered
22070    Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
22071 18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and
22072    told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went
22073    and dwelt in Naioth.
22074 19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in
22075    Ramah.
22076 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
22077    company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as
22078    appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers
22079    of Saul, and they also prophesied.
22080 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they
22081    prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third
22082    time, and they prophesied also.
22083 22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is
22084    in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David?
22085    And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
22086 23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God
22087    was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he
22088    came to Naioth in Ramah.
22089 24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before
22090    Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all
22091    that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the
22092    prophets?

22093 1 Samuel 20

22094  1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
22095    Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is
22096    my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
22097  2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold,
22098    my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he
22099    will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from
22100    me? it is not so.
22101  3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly
22102    knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith,
22103    Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as
22104    the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step
22105    between me and death.
22106  4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I
22107    will even do it for thee.
22108  5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new
22109    moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but
22110    let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third
22111    day at even.
22112  6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked
22113    leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there
22114    is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
22115  7 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but
22116    if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by
22117    him.
22118  8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou
22119    hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with
22120    thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me
22121    thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
22122  9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew
22123    certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon
22124    thee, then would not I tell it thee?
22125 10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy
22126    father answer thee roughly?
22127 11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the
22128    field. And they went out both of them into the field.
22129 12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I
22130    have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third
22131    day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then
22132    send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
22133 13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my
22134    father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send
22135    thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with
22136    thee, as he hath been with my father.
22137 14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness
22138    of the LORD, that I die not:
22139 15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for
22140    ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David
22141    every one from the face of the earth.
22142 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,
22143    Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
22144 17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved
22145    him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
22146 18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and
22147    thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
22148 19 And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down
22149    quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself
22150    when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone
22151    Ezel.
22152 20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I
22153    shot at a mark.
22154 21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the
22155    arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows
22156    are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there
22157    is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.
22158 22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are
22159    beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
22160 23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of,
22161    behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.
22162 24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
22163    come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
22164 25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a
22165    seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's
22166    side, and David's place was empty.
22167 26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he
22168    thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely
22169    he is not clean.
22170 27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of
22171    the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto
22172    Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to
22173    meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
22174 28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me
22175    to go to Bethlehem:
22176 29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a
22177    sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to
22178    be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let
22179    me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he
22180    cometh not unto the king's table.
22181 30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said
22182    unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I
22183    know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own
22184    confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
22185 31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou
22186    shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send
22187    and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
22188 32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,
22189    Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?
22190 33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan
22191    knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
22192 34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat
22193    no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for
22194    David, because his father had done him shame.
22195 35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out
22196    into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little
22197    lad with him.
22198 36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I
22199    shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
22200 37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which
22201    Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is
22202    not the arrow beyond thee?
22203 38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not.
22204    And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his
22205    master.
22206 39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew
22207    the matter.
22208 40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto
22209    him, Go, carry them to the city.
22210 41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place
22211    toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and
22212    bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and
22213    wept one with another, until David exceeded.
22214 42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have
22215    sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be
22216    between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for
22217    ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the
22218    city.

22219 1 Samuel 21

22220  1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech
22221    was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art
22222    thou alone, and no man with thee?
22223  2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath
22224    commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man
22225    know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and
22226    what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants
22227    to such and such a place.
22228  3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of
22229    bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
22230  4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common
22231    bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the
22232    young men have kept themselves at least from women.
22233  5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth
22234    women have been kept from us about these three days, since I
22235    came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the
22236    bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified
22237    this day in the vessel.
22238  6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread
22239    there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD,
22240    to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
22241  7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
22242    detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite,
22243    the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
22244  8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under
22245    thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword
22246    nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required
22247    haste.
22248  9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom
22249    thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped
22250    in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it:
22251    for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is
22252    none like that; give it me.
22253 10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went
22254    to Achish the king of Gath.
22255 11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David
22256    the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him
22257    in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David
22258    his ten thousands?
22259 12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore
22260    afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
22261 13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself
22262    mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate,
22263    and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
22264 14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad:
22265    wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
22266 15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to
22267    play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into
22268    my house?

22269 1 Samuel 22

22270  1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave
22271    Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house
22272    heard it, they went down thither to him.
22273  2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in
22274    debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves
22275    unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were
22276    with him about four hundred men.
22277  3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the
22278    king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come
22279    forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
22280  4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt
22281    with him all the while that David was in the hold.
22282  5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold;
22283    depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David
22284    departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
22285  6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that
22286    were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in
22287    Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were
22288    standing about him;)
22289  7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear
22290    now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of
22291    you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of
22292    thousands, and captains of hundreds;
22293  8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none
22294    that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of
22295    Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or
22296    sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against
22297    me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
22298  9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the
22299    servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to
22300    Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
22301 10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals,
22302    and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
22303 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of
22304    Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in
22305    Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
22306 12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered,
22307    Here I am, my lord.
22308 13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou
22309    and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a
22310    sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise
22311    against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
22312 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so
22313    faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's
22314    son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in
22315    thine house?
22316 15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me:
22317    let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all
22318    the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all
22319    this, less or more.
22320 16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and
22321    all thy father's house.
22322 17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn,
22323    and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is
22324    with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not
22325    shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put
22326    forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
22327 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the
22328    priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the
22329    priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that
22330    did wear a linen ephod.
22331 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of
22332    the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and
22333    oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
22334 20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named
22335    Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
22336 21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD's
22337    priests.
22338 22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg
22339    the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have
22340    occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.
22341 23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life
22342    seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

22343 1 Samuel 23

22344  1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight
22345    against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
22346  2 Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and
22347    smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and
22348    smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
22349  3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in
22350    Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the
22351    armies of the Philistines?
22352  4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD
22353    answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will
22354    deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
22355  5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the
22356    Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them
22357    with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of
22358    Keilah.
22359  6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled
22360    to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his
22361    hand.
22362  7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul
22363    said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut
22364    in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
22365  8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to
22366    Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
22367  9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against
22368    him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the
22369    ephod.
22370 10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath
22371    certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to
22372    destroy the city for my sake.
22373 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul
22374    come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I
22375    beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will
22376    come down.
22377 12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men
22378    into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver
22379    thee up.
22380 13 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose
22381    and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could
22382    go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah;
22383    and he forbare to go forth.
22384 14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and
22385    remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul
22386    sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
22387 15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and
22388    David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
22389 16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the
22390    wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
22391 17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father
22392    shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I
22393    shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
22394 18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode
22395    in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
22396 19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not
22397    David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the
22398    hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
22399 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire
22400    of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him
22401    into the king's hand.
22402 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have
22403    compassion on me.
22404 22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where
22405    his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me
22406    that he dealeth very subtilly.
22407 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places
22408    where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the
22409    certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass,
22410    if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout
22411    all the thousands of Judah.
22412 24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and
22413    his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the
22414    south of Jeshimon.
22415 25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David;
22416    wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the
22417    wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after
22418    David in the wilderness of Maon.
22419 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his
22420    men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get
22421    away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David
22422    and his men round about to take them.
22423 27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and
22424    come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
22425 28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went
22426    against the Philistines: therefore they called that place
22427    Selahammahlekoth.
22428 29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at
22429    Engedi.

22430 1 Samuel 24

22431  1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the
22432    Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in
22433    the wilderness of Engedi.
22434  2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel,
22435    and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild
22436    goats.
22437  3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave;
22438    and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men
22439    remained in the sides of the cave.
22440  4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which
22441    the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy
22442    into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem
22443    good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of
22444    Saul's robe privily.
22445  5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him,
22446    because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
22447  6 And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do
22448    this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch
22449    forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the
22450    LORD.
22451  7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered
22452    them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the
22453    cave, and went on his way.
22454  8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and
22455    cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul
22456    looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth,
22457    and bowed himself.
22458  9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words,
22459    saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
22460 10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had
22461    delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some
22462    bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I
22463    will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the
22464    LORD's anointed.
22465 11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my
22466    hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed
22467    thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor
22468    transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against
22469    thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
22470 12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of
22471    thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
22472 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth
22473    from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
22474 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost
22475    thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
22476 15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee,
22477    and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
22478 16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking
22479    these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my
22480    son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
22481 17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou
22482    hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
22483 18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well
22484    with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into
22485    thine hand, thou killedst me not.
22486 19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?
22487    wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done
22488    unto me this day.
22489 20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king,
22490    and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine
22491    hand.
22492 21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not
22493    cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my
22494    name out of my father's house.
22495 22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and
22496    his men gat them up unto the hold.

22497 1 Samuel 25

22498  1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered
22499    together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at
22500    Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of
22501    Paran.
22502  2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel;
22503    and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep,
22504    and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
22505  3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife
22506    Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a
22507    beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in
22508    his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
22509  4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his
22510    sheep.
22511  5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the
22512    young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet
22513    him in my name:
22514  6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace
22515    be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be
22516    unto all that thou hast.
22517  7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy
22518    shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was
22519    there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in
22520    Carmel.
22521  8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the
22522    young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good
22523    day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto
22524    thy servants, and to thy son David.
22525  9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according
22526    to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
22527 10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David?
22528    and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days
22529    that break away every man from his master.
22530 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I
22531    have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know
22532    not whence they be?
22533 12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and
22534    came and told him all those sayings.
22535 13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword.
22536    And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded
22537    on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred
22538    men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
22539 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying,
22540    Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute
22541    our master; and he railed on them.
22542 15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt,
22543    neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant
22544    with them, when we were in the fields:
22545 16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while
22546    we were with them keeping the sheep.
22547 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is
22548    determined against our master, and against all his household:
22549    for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to
22550    him.
22551 18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two
22552    bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five
22553    measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins,
22554    and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
22555 19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I
22556    come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
22557 20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by
22558    the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came
22559    down against her; and she met them.
22560 21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this
22561    fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of
22562    all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for
22563    good.
22564 22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave
22565    of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that
22566    pisseth against the wall.
22567 23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the
22568    ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to
22569    the ground,
22570 24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let
22571    this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak
22572    in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
22573 25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even
22574    Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and
22575    folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men
22576    of my lord, whom thou didst send.
22577 26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
22578    liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to
22579    shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now
22580    let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as
22581    Nabal.
22582 27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto
22583    my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow
22584    my lord.
22585 28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the
22586    LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord
22587    fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found
22588    in thee all thy days.
22589 29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but
22590    the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with
22591    the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall
22592    he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
22593 30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my
22594    lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning
22595    thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
22596 31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart
22597    unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or
22598    that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall
22599    have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
22600 32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
22601    which sent thee this day to meet me:
22602 33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast
22603    kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging
22604    myself with mine own hand.
22605 34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath
22606    kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and
22607    come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by
22608    the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
22609 35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him,
22610    and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have
22611    hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
22612 36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his
22613    house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry
22614    within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him
22615    nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
22616 37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out
22617    of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his
22618    heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
22619 38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote
22620    Nabal, that he died.
22621 39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be
22622    the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the
22623    hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the
22624    LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head.
22625    And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him
22626    to wife.
22627 40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel,
22628    they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take
22629    thee to him to wife.
22630 41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and
22631    said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet
22632    of the servants of my lord.
22633 42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five
22634    damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the
22635    messengers of David, and became his wife.
22636 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of
22637    them his wives.
22638 44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to
22639    Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

22640 1 Samuel 26

22641  1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not
22642    David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before
22643    Jeshimon?
22644  2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph,
22645    having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek
22646    David in the wilderness of Ziph.
22647  3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before
22648    Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and
22649    he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
22650  4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was
22651    come in very deed.
22652  5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched:
22653    and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son
22654    of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench,
22655    and the people pitched round about him.
22656  6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
22657    Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will
22658    go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will
22659    go down with thee.
22660  7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold,
22661    Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in
22662    the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round
22663    about him.
22664  8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy
22665    into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I
22666    pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I
22667    will not smite him the second time.
22668  9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can
22669    stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be
22670    guiltless?
22671 10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall
22672    smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend
22673    into battle, and perish.
22674 11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against
22675    the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear
22676    that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
22677 12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's
22678    bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew
22679    it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep
22680    sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
22681 13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top
22682    of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:
22683 14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner,
22684    saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and
22685    said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
22686 15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who
22687    is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept
22688    thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to
22689    destroy the king thy lord.
22690 16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD
22691    liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your
22692    master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's
22693    spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
22694 17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my
22695    son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
22696 18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his
22697    servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
22698 19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the
22699    words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against
22700    me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of
22701    men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me
22702    out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD,
22703    saying, Go, serve other gods.
22704 20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the
22705    face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a
22706    flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
22707 21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I
22708    will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in
22709    thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have
22710    erred exceedingly.
22711 22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let
22712    one of the young men come over and fetch it.
22713 23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his
22714    faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day,
22715    but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's
22716    anointed.
22717 24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine
22718    eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD,
22719    and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
22720 25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou
22721    shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So
22722    David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

22723 1 Samuel 27

22724  1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the
22725    hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I
22726    should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and
22727    Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of
22728    Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
22729  2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men
22730    that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of
22731    Gath.
22732  3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man
22733    with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the
22734    Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
22735  4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he
22736    sought no more again for him.
22737  5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine
22738    eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country,
22739    that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in
22740    the royal city with thee?
22741  6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag
22742    pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
22743  7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the
22744    Philistines was a full year and four months.
22745  8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and
22746    the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of
22747    old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even
22748    unto the land of Egypt.
22749  9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman
22750    alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses,
22751    and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to
22752    Achish.
22753 10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David
22754    said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the
22755    Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
22756 11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings
22757    to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did
22758    David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in
22759    the country of the Philistines.
22760 12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people
22761    Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant
22762    for ever.

22763 1 Samuel 28

22764  1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines
22765    gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with
22766    Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that
22767    thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
22768  2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy
22769    servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I
22770    make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
22771  3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and
22772    buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put
22773    away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of
22774    the land.
22775  4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and
22776    pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and
22777    they pitched in Gilboa.
22778  5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid,
22779    and his heart greatly trembled.
22780  6 And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not,
22781    neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
22782  7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a
22783    familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And
22784    his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a
22785    familiar spirit at Endor.
22786  8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he
22787    went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by
22788    night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the
22789    familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto
22790    thee.
22791  9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul
22792    hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar
22793    spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then
22794    layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
22795 10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth,
22796    there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
22797 11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he
22798    said, Bring me up Samuel.
22799 12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice:
22800    and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived
22801    me? for thou art Saul.
22802 13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest
22803    thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out
22804    of the earth.
22805 14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old
22806    man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul
22807    perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to
22808    the ground, and bowed himself.
22809 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring
22810    me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the
22811    Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me,
22812    and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams:
22813    therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto
22814    me what I shall do.
22815 16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing
22816    the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
22817 17 And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD
22818    hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy
22819    neighbour, even to David:
22820 18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor
22821    executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the
22822    LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
22823 19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the
22824    hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons
22825    be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel
22826    into the hand of the Philistines.
22827 20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was
22828    sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no
22829    strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor
22830    all the night.
22831 21 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore
22832    troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath
22833    obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have
22834    hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
22835 22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice
22836    of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before
22837    thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest
22838    on thy way.
22839 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants,
22840    together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto
22841    their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
22842 24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and
22843    killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake
22844    unleavened bread thereof:
22845 25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and
22846    they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

22847 1 Samuel 29

22848  1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to
22849    Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in
22850    Jezreel.
22851  2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by
22852    thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward
22853    with Achish.
22854  3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these
22855    Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the
22856    Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king
22857    of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years,
22858    and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto
22859    this day?
22860  4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and
22861    the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow
22862    return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast
22863    appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest
22864    in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should
22865    he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with
22866    the heads of these men?
22867  5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances,
22868    saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
22869  6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the
22870    LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy
22871    coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have
22872    not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me
22873    unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
22874  7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not
22875    the lords of the Philistines.
22876  8 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what
22877    hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with
22878    thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the
22879    enemies of my lord the king?
22880  9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art
22881    good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the
22882    princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with
22883    us to the battle.
22884 10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's
22885    servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up
22886    early in the morning, and have light, depart.
22887 11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning,
22888    to return into the land of the Philistines. And the
22889    Philistines went up to Jezreel.

22890 1 Samuel 30

22891  1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to
22892    Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the
22893    south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with
22894    fire;
22895  2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew
22896    not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and
22897    went on their way.
22898  3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was
22899    burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their
22900    daughters, were taken captives.
22901  4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their
22902    voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
22903  5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the
22904    Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
22905  6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of
22906    stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved,
22907    every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David
22908    encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
22909  7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray
22910    thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither
22911    the ephod to David.
22912  8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after
22913    this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him,
22914    Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail
22915    recover all.
22916  9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him,
22917    and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind
22918    stayed.
22919 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred
22920    abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over
22921    the brook Besor.
22922 11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to
22923    David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him
22924    drink water;
22925 12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters
22926    of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to
22927    him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three
22928    days and three nights.
22929 13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence
22930    art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to
22931    an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone
22932    I fell sick.
22933 14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and
22934    upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of
22935    Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
22936 15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this
22937    company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt
22938    neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master,
22939    and I will bring thee down to this company.
22940 16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread
22941    abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing,
22942    because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the
22943    land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
22944 17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening
22945    of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save
22946    four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
22947 18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away:
22948    and David rescued his two wives.
22949 19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor
22950    great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any
22951    thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
22952 20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave
22953    before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
22954 21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint
22955    that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to
22956    abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David,
22957    and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came
22958    near to the people, he saluted them.
22959 22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those
22960    that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us,
22961    we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have
22962    recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that
22963    they may lead them away, and depart.
22964 23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that
22965    which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and
22966    delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
22967 24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part
22968    is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that
22969    tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
22970 25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute
22971    and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
22972 26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the
22973    elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present
22974    for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
22975 27 To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south
22976    Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
22977 28 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in
22978    Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
22979 29 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in
22980    the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the
22981    cities of the Kenites,
22982 30 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in
22983    Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
22984 31 And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where
22985    David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

22986 1 Samuel 31

22987  1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
22988    Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain
22989    in mount Gilboa.
22990  2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons;
22991    and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
22992    Melchishua, Saul's sons.
22993  3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit
22994    him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
22995  4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and
22996    thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and
22997    thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would
22998    not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and
22999    fell upon it.
23000  5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell
23001    likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
23002  6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and
23003    all his men, that same day together.
23004  7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the
23005    valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that
23006    the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead,
23007    they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came
23008    and dwelt in them.
23009  8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came
23010    to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons
23011    fallen in mount Gilboa.
23012  9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and
23013    sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish
23014    it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
23015 10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they
23016    fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
23017 11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which
23018    the Philistines had done to Saul;
23019 12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the
23020    body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of
23021    Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
23022 13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at
23023    Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

23024 Book 10 2 Samuel

23025 2 Samuel 1

23026  1 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was
23027    returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had
23028    abode two days in Ziklag;
23029  2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man
23030    came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and
23031    earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David,
23032    that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
23033  3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said
23034    unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
23035  4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee,
23036    tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the
23037    battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and
23038    Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
23039  5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest
23040    thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
23041  6 And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance
23042    upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and,
23043    lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
23044  7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me.
23045    And I answered, Here am I.
23046  8 And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an
23047    Amalekite.
23048  9 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay
23049    me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole
23050    in me.
23051 10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he
23052    could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown
23053    that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm,
23054    and have brought them hither unto my lord.
23055 11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and
23056    likewise all the men that were with him:
23057 12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul,
23058    and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and
23059    for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the
23060    sword.
23061 13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art
23062    thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an
23063    Amalekite.
23064 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch
23065    forth thine hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?
23066 15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and
23067    fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
23068 16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy
23069    mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the
23070    LORD's anointed.
23071 17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over
23072    Jonathan his son:
23073 18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the
23074    bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
23075 19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are
23076    the mighty fallen!
23077 20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
23078    lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the
23079    daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
23080 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there
23081    be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the
23082    shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul,
23083    as though he had not been anointed with oil.
23084 22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the
23085    bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul
23086    returned not empty.
23087 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and
23088    in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than
23089    eagles, they were stronger than lions.
23090 24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in
23091    scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold
23092    upon your apparel.
23093 25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O
23094    Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
23095 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant
23096    hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing
23097    the love of women.
23098 27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

23099 2 Samuel 2

23100  1 And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the
23101    LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?
23102    And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither
23103    shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
23104  2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the
23105    Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
23106  3 And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man
23107    with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
23108  4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king
23109    over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the
23110    men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.
23111  5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and
23112    said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed
23113    this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried
23114    him.
23115  6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also
23116    will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this
23117    thing.
23118  7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye
23119    valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of
23120    Judah have anointed me king over them.
23121  8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took
23122    Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
23123  9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and
23124    over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over
23125    all Israel.
23126 10 Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to
23127    reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of
23128    Judah followed David.
23129 11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of
23130    Judah was seven years and six months.
23131 12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the
23132    son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
23133 13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went
23134    out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat
23135    down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on
23136    the other side of the pool.
23137 14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play
23138    before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
23139 15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin,
23140    which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of
23141    the servants of David.
23142 16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust
23143    his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together:
23144    wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in
23145    Gibeon.
23146 17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was
23147    beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
23148 18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai,
23149    and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
23150 19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to
23151    the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
23152 20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And
23153    he answered, I am.
23154 21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to
23155    thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take
23156    thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from
23157    following of him.
23158 22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following
23159    me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then
23160    should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
23161 23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the
23162    hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that
23163    the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and
23164    died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as
23165    came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
23166 24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went
23167    down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth
23168    before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
23169 25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together
23170    after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an
23171    hill.
23172 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour
23173    for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the
23174    latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people
23175    return from following their brethren?
23176 27 And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely
23177    then in the morning the people had gone up every one from
23178    following his brother.
23179 28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and
23180    pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
23181 29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain,
23182    and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they
23183    came to Mahanaim.
23184 30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had
23185    gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's
23186    servants nineteen men and Asahel.
23187 31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of
23188    Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
23189 32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of
23190    his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went
23191    all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

23192 2 Samuel 3

23193  1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house
23194    of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house
23195    of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
23196  2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was
23197    Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
23198  3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the
23199    Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the
23200    daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
23201  4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth,
23202    Shephatiah the son of Abital;
23203  5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born
23204    to David in Hebron.
23205  6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of
23206    Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong
23207    for the house of Saul.
23208  7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter
23209    of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou
23210    gone in unto my father's concubine?
23211  8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and
23212    said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness
23213    this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren,
23214    and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand
23215    of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning
23216    this woman?
23217  9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath
23218    sworn to David, even so I do to him;
23219 10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up
23220    the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even
23221    to Beersheba.
23222 11 And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared
23223    him.
23224 12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying,
23225    Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and,
23226    behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel
23227    unto thee.
23228 13 And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one
23229    thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face,
23230    except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou
23231    comest to see my face.
23232 14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying,
23233    Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an
23234    hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
23235 15 And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from
23236    Phaltiel the son of Laish.
23237 16 And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to
23238    Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he
23239    returned.
23240 17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying,
23241    Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
23242 18 Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By
23243    the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out
23244    of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all
23245    their enemies.
23246 19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went
23247    also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed
23248    good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of
23249    Benjamin.
23250 20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And
23251    David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
23252 21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will
23253    gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a
23254    league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that
23255    thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went
23256    in peace.
23257 22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing
23258    a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was
23259    not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was
23260    gone in peace.
23261 23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they
23262    told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and
23263    he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
23264 24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done?
23265    behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent
23266    him away, and he is quite gone?
23267 25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive
23268    thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know
23269    all that thou doest.
23270 26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers
23271    after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah:
23272    but David knew it not.
23273 27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in
23274    the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under
23275    the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his
23276    brother.
23277 28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom
23278    are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner
23279    the son of Ner:
23280 29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's
23281    house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that
23282    hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff,
23283    or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
23284 30 So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had
23285    slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
23286 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with
23287    him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn
23288    before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
23289 32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his
23290    voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people
23291    wept.
23292 33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a
23293    fool dieth?
23294 34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a
23295    man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the
23296    people wept again over him.
23297 35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while
23298    it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more
23299    also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
23300 36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as
23301    whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
23302 37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it
23303    was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
23304 38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is
23305    a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
23306 39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men
23307    the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward
23308    the doer of evil according to his wickedness.

23309 2 Samuel 4

23310  1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his
23311    hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
23312  2 And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the
23313    name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab,
23314    the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin:
23315    (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.
23316  3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there
23317    until this day.)
23318  4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet.
23319    He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and
23320    Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled:
23321    and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell,
23322    and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
23323  5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah,
23324    went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of
23325    Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
23326  6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though
23327    they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the
23328    fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
23329  7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his
23330    bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded
23331    him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain
23332    all night.
23333  8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron,
23334    and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of
23335    Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath
23336    avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
23337  9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of
23338    Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth,
23339    who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
23340 10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to
23341    have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in
23342    Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for
23343    his tidings:
23344 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person
23345    in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now
23346    require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the
23347    earth?
23348 12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut
23349    off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the
23350    pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and
23351    buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

23352 2 Samuel 5

23353  1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and
23354    spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
23355  2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he
23356    that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said
23357    to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a
23358    captain over Israel.
23359  3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and
23360    king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD:
23361    and they anointed David king over Israel.
23362  4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he
23363    reigned forty years.
23364  5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months:
23365    and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all
23366    Israel and Judah.
23367  6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites,
23368    the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying,
23369    Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not
23370    come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
23371  7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is
23372    the city of David.
23373  8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the
23374    gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind
23375    that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain.
23376    Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come
23377    into the house.
23378  9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David.
23379    And David built round about from Millo and inward.
23380 10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts
23381    was with him.
23382 11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar
23383    trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an
23384    house.
23385 12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king
23386    over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his
23387    people Israel's sake.
23388 13 And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem,
23389    after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and
23390    daughters born to David.
23391 14 And these be the names of those that were born unto him in
23392    Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
23393 15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
23394 16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
23395 17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David
23396    king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David;
23397    and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.
23398 18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley
23399    of Rephaim.
23400 19 And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the
23401    Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the
23402    LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the
23403    Philistines into thine hand.
23404 20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and
23405    said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me,
23406    as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that
23407    place Baalperazim.
23408 21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned
23409    them.
23410 22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves
23411    in the valley of Rephaim.
23412 23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not
23413    go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them
23414    over against the mulberry trees.
23415 24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the
23416    tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir
23417    thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite
23418    the host of the Philistines.
23419 25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the
23420    Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.

23421 2 Samuel 6

23422  1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
23423    thirty thousand.
23424  2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with
23425    him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of
23426    God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts
23427    that dwelleth between the cherubims.
23428  3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it
23429    out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and
23430    Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
23431  4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at
23432    Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the
23433    ark.
23434  5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD
23435    on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps,
23436    and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on
23437    cymbals.
23438  6 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth
23439    his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen
23440    shook it.
23441  7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God
23442    smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of
23443    God.
23444  8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach
23445    upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to
23446    this day.
23447  9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall
23448    the ark of the LORD come to me?
23449 10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into
23450    the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house
23451    of Obededom the Gittite.
23452 11 And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the
23453    Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all
23454    his household.
23455 12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the
23456    house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because
23457    of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God
23458    from the house of Obededom into the city of David with
23459    gladness.
23460 13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD
23461    had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
23462 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David
23463    was girded with a linen ephod.
23464 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the
23465    LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
23466 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal
23467    Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David
23468    leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in
23469    her heart.
23470 17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his
23471    place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched
23472    for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
23473    before the LORD.
23474 18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt
23475    offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the
23476    name of the LORD of hosts.
23477 19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole
23478    multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one
23479    a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of
23480    wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
23481 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the
23482    daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How
23483    glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself
23484    to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of
23485    the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
23486 21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which
23487    chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to
23488    appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel:
23489    therefore will I play before the LORD.
23490 22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in
23491    mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken
23492    of, of them shall I be had in honour.
23493 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the
23494    day of her death.

23495 2 Samuel 7

23496  1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the
23497    LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
23498  2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell
23499    in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within
23500    curtains.
23501  3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine
23502    heart; for the LORD is with thee.
23503  4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came
23504    unto Nathan, saying,
23505  5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou
23506    build me an house for me to dwell in?
23507  6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I
23508    brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this
23509    day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
23510  7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children
23511    of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel,
23512    whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build
23513    ye not me an house of cedar?
23514  8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus
23515    saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from
23516    following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
23517  9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut
23518    off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a
23519    great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in
23520    the earth.
23521 10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will
23522    plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and
23523    move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict
23524    them any more, as beforetime,
23525 11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my
23526    people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine
23527    enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an
23528    house.
23529 12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy
23530    fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall
23531    proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
23532 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the
23533    throne of his kingdom for ever.
23534 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit
23535    iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the
23536    stripes of the children of men:
23537 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from
23538    Saul, whom I put away before thee.
23539 16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever
23540    before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
23541 17 According to all these words, and according to all this
23542    vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
23543 18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said,
23544    Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast
23545    brought me hitherto?
23546 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but
23547    thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while
23548    to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
23549 20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD,
23550    knowest thy servant.
23551 21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast
23552    thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know
23553    them.
23554 22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like
23555    thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all
23556    that we have heard with our ears.
23557 23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like
23558    Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and
23559    to make him a name, and to do for you great things and
23560    terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou
23561    redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their
23562    gods?
23563 24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a
23564    people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their
23565    God.
23566 25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning
23567    thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever,
23568    and do as thou hast said.
23569 26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of
23570    hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant
23571    David be established before thee.
23572 27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy
23573    servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath
23574    thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
23575 28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true,
23576    and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
23577 29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy
23578    servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou,
23579    O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the
23580    house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

23581 2 Samuel 8

23582  1 And after this it came to pass that David smote the
23583    Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out
23584    of the hand of the Philistines.
23585  2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them
23586    down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to
23587    death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the
23588    Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
23589  3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah,
23590    as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
23591  4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred
23592    horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all
23593    the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred
23594    chariots.
23595  5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer
23596    king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty
23597    thousand men.
23598  6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians
23599    became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD
23600    preserved David whithersoever he went.
23601  7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants
23602    of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
23603  8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king
23604    David took exceeding much brass.
23605  9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the
23606    host of Hadadezer,
23607 10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him,
23608    and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and
23609    smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram
23610    brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
23611    vessels of brass:
23612 11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the
23613    silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he
23614    subdued;
23615 12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of
23616    the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer,
23617    son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
23618 13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the
23619    Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
23620 14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he
23621    garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And
23622    the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
23623 15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment
23624    and justice unto all his people.
23625 16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat
23626    the son of Ahilud was recorder;
23627 17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of
23628    Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
23629 18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites
23630    and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

23631 2 Samuel 9

23632  1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of
23633    Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
23634  2 And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was
23635    Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said
23636    unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
23637  3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul,
23638    that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said
23639    unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his
23640    feet.
23641  4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto
23642    the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of
23643    Ammiel, in Lodebar.
23644  5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of
23645    Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
23646  6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul,
23647    was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence.
23648    And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy
23649    servant!
23650  7 And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee
23651    kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee
23652    all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at
23653    my table continually.
23654  8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou
23655    shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
23656  9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto
23657    him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to
23658    Saul and to all his house.
23659 10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the
23660    land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy
23661    master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy
23662    master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had
23663    fifteen sons and twenty servants.
23664 11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord
23665    the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do.
23666    As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table,
23667    as one of the king's sons.
23668 12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And
23669    all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto
23670    Mephibosheth.
23671 13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually
23672    at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.

23673 2 Samuel 10

23674  1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children
23675    of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
23676  2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
23677    Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent
23678    to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And
23679    David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
23680  3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their
23681    lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he
23682    hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his
23683    servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and
23684    to overthrow it?
23685  4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one
23686    half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the
23687    middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
23688  5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because
23689    the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at
23690    Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
23691  6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before
23692    David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of
23693    Bethrehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen,
23694    and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve
23695    thousand men.
23696  7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of
23697    the mighty men.
23698  8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
23699    array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba,
23700    and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in
23701    the field.
23702  9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him
23703    before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel,
23704    and put them in array against the Syrians:
23705 10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of
23706    Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against
23707    the children of Ammon.
23708 11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou
23709    shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for
23710    thee, then I will come and help thee.
23711 12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people,
23712    and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which
23713    seemeth him good.
23714 13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto
23715    the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
23716 14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled,
23717    then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city.
23718    So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to
23719    Jerusalem.
23720 15 And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel,
23721    they gathered themselves together.
23722 16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were
23723    beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the
23724    captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
23725 17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together,
23726    and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set
23727    themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
23728 18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of
23729    seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand
23730    horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who
23731    died there.
23732 19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw
23733    that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with
23734    Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the
23735    children of Ammon any more.

23736 2 Samuel 11

23737  1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time
23738    when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his
23739    servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the
23740    children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried
23741    still at Jerusalem.
23742  2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from
23743    off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and
23744    from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman
23745    was very beautiful to look upon.
23746  3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is
23747    not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah
23748    the Hittite?
23749  4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto
23750    him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her
23751    uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
23752  5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I
23753    am with child.
23754  6 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And
23755    Joab sent Uriah to David.
23756  7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how
23757    Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
23758  8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy
23759    feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there
23760    followed him a mess of meat from the king.
23761  9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the
23762    servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
23763 10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto
23764    his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy
23765    journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
23766 11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah,
23767    abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord,
23768    are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine
23769    house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou
23770    livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
23771 12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow
23772    I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day,
23773    and the morrow.
23774 13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before
23775    him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on
23776    his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to
23777    his house.
23778 14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter
23779    to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
23780 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the
23781    forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that
23782    he may be smitten, and die.
23783 16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he
23784    assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men
23785    were.
23786 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and
23787    there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and
23788    Uriah the Hittite died also.
23789 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the
23790    war;
23791 19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end
23792    of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
23793 20 And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto
23794    thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye
23795    did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
23796 21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman
23797    cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he
23798    died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy
23799    servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
23800 22 So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab
23801    had sent him for.
23802 23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed
23803    against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were
23804    upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
23805 24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and
23806    some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the
23807    Hittite is dead also.
23808 25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto
23809    Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword
23810    devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong
23811    against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
23812 26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was
23813    dead, she mourned for her husband.
23814 27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to
23815    his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But
23816    the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

23817 2 Samuel 12

23818  1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and
23819    said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich,
23820    and the other poor.
23821  2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
23822  3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which
23823    he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with
23824    him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and
23825    drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him
23826    as a daughter.
23827  4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to
23828    take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the
23829    wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's
23830    lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
23831  5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he
23832    said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done
23833    this thing shall surely die:
23834  6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this
23835    thing, and because he had no pity.
23836  7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the
23837    LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I
23838    delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
23839  8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives
23840    into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of
23841    Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have
23842    given unto thee such and such things.
23843  9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to
23844    do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with
23845    the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast
23846    slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
23847 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house;
23848    because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of
23849    Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
23850 11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee
23851    out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine
23852    eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with
23853    thy wives in the sight of this sun.
23854 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before
23855    all Israel, and before the sun.
23856 13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD.
23857    And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy
23858    sin; thou shalt not die.
23859 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion
23860    to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that
23861    is born unto thee shall surely die.
23862 15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the
23863    child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
23864 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted,
23865    and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
23866 17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise
23867    him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat
23868    bread with them.
23869 18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died.
23870    And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child
23871    was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet
23872    alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our
23873    voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the
23874    child is dead?
23875 19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David
23876    perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto
23877    his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
23878 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed
23879    himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of
23880    the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and
23881    when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
23882 21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou
23883    hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it
23884    was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and
23885    eat bread.
23886 22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept:
23887    for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me,
23888    that the child may live?
23889 23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him
23890    back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
23891 24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her,
23892    and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name
23893    Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
23894 25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called
23895    his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
23896 26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and
23897    took the royal city.
23898 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought
23899    against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
23900 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and
23901    encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city,
23902    and it be called after my name.
23903 29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to
23904    Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
23905 30 And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight
23906    whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it
23907    was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the
23908    city in great abundance.
23909 31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put
23910    them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of
23911    iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did
23912    he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and
23913    all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

23914 2 Samuel 13

23915  1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David
23916    had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of
23917    David loved her.
23918  2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister
23919    Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him
23920    to do anything to her.
23921  3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of
23922    Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
23923  4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean
23924    from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto
23925    him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
23926  5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make
23927    thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto
23928    him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat,
23929    and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it
23930    at her hand.
23931  6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king
23932    was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee,
23933    let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my
23934    sight, that I may eat at her hand.
23935  7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother
23936    Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
23937  8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid
23938    down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in
23939    his sight, and did bake the cakes.
23940  9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he
23941    refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And
23942    they went out every man from him.
23943 10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber,
23944    that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which
23945    she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her
23946    brother.
23947 11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of
23948    her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
23949 12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no
23950    such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
23951 13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee,
23952    thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I
23953    pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me
23954    from thee.
23955 14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being
23956    stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
23957 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith
23958    he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved
23959    her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
23960 16 And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending
23961    me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But
23962    he would not hearken unto her.
23963 17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said,
23964    Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
23965 18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with
23966    such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins
23967    apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the
23968    door after her.
23969 19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of
23970    divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head,
23971    and went on crying.
23972 20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother
23973    been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy
23974    brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in
23975    her brother Absalom's house.
23976 21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very
23977    wroth.
23978 22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad:
23979    for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister
23980    Tamar.
23981 23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had
23982    sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and
23983    Absalom invited all the king's sons.
23984 24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy
23985    servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and
23986    his servants go with thy servant.
23987 25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now
23988    go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him:
23989    howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
23990 26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon
23991    go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with
23992    thee?
23993 27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's
23994    sons go with him.
23995 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now
23996    when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto
23997    you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I
23998    commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
23999 29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had
24000    commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat
24001    him up upon his mule, and fled.
24002 30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings
24003    came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons,
24004    and there is not one of them left.
24005 31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the
24006    earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
24007 32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and
24008    said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the
24009    young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the
24010    appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day
24011    that he forced his sister Tamar.
24012 33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his
24013    heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon
24014    only is dead.
24015 34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted
24016    up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people
24017    by the way of the hill side behind him.
24018 35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come:
24019    as thy servant said, so it is.
24020 36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
24021    speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up
24022    their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants
24023    wept very sore.
24024 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king
24025    of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
24026 38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three
24027    years.
24028 39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom:
24029    for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

24030 2 Samuel 14

24031  1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart
24032    was toward Absalom.
24033  2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and
24034    said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and
24035    put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil,
24036    but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
24037  3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So
24038    Joab put the words in her mouth.
24039  4 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on
24040    her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O
24041    king.
24042  5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
24043    answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
24044  6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in
24045    the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote
24046    the other, and slew him.
24047  7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid,
24048    and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may
24049    kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we
24050    will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal
24051    which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name
24052    nor remainder upon the earth.
24053  8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I
24054    will give charge concerning thee.
24055  9 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king,
24056    the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king
24057    and his throne be guiltless.
24058 10 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to
24059    me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
24060 11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy
24061    God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to
24062    destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As
24063    the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to
24064    the earth.
24065 12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak
24066    one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
24067 13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a
24068    thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this
24069    thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch
24070    home again his banished.
24071 14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
24072    which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect
24073    any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not
24074    expelled from him.
24075 15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my
24076    lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid:
24077    and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may
24078    be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
24079 16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the
24080    hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out
24081    of the inheritance of God.
24082 17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall
24083    now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the
24084    king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will
24085    be with thee.
24086 18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from
24087    me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the
24088    woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
24089 19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all
24090    this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my
24091    lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left
24092    from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant
24093    Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of
24094    thine handmaid:
24095 20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done
24096    this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an
24097    angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
24098 21 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this
24099    thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
24100 22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself,
24101    and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant
24102    knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king,
24103    in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
24104 23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to
24105    Jerusalem.
24106 24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him
24107    not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw
24108    not the king's face.
24109 25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as
24110    Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the
24111    crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
24112 26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end
24113    that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him,
24114    therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at
24115    two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
24116 27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter,
24117    whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
24118 28 So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the
24119    king's face.
24120 29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king;
24121    but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the
24122    second time, he would not come.
24123 30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near
24124    mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And
24125    Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
24126 31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said
24127    unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
24128 32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying,
24129    Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say,
24130    Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to
24131    have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's
24132    face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
24133 33 So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called
24134    for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his
24135    face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed
24136    Absalom.

24137 2 Samuel 15

24138  1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him
24139    chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
24140  2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the
24141    gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy
24142    came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him,
24143    and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is
24144    of one of the tribes of Israel.
24145  3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and
24146    right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
24147  4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land,
24148    that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto
24149    me, and I would do him justice!
24150  5 And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him
24151    obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed
24152    him.
24153  6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the
24154    king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of
24155    Israel.
24156  7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto
24157    the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have
24158    vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.
24159  8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria,
24160    saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem,
24161    then I will serve the LORD.
24162  9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went
24163    to Hebron.
24164 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel,
24165    saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye
24166    shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
24167 11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that
24168    were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew
24169    not any thing.
24170 12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's
24171    counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered
24172    sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people
24173    increased continually with Absalom.
24174 13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the
24175    men of Israel are after Absalom.
24176 14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at
24177    Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else
24178    escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us
24179    suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the
24180    edge of the sword.
24181 15 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy
24182    servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall
24183    appoint.
24184 16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And
24185    the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the
24186    house.
24187 17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and
24188    tarried in a place that was far off.
24189 18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the
24190    Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six
24191    hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before
24192    the king.
24193 19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou
24194    also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king:
24195    for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
24196 20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee
24197    go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return
24198    thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with
24199    thee.
24200 21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and
24201    as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the
24202    king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will
24203    thy servant be.
24204 22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the
24205    Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones
24206    that were with him.
24207 23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people
24208    passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook
24209    Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the
24210    wilderness.
24211 24 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing
24212    the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of
24213    God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done
24214    passing out of the city.
24215 25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into
24216    the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he
24217    will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
24218 26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am
24219    I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
24220 27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer?
24221    return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you,
24222    Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
24223 28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there
24224    come word from you to certify me.
24225 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to
24226    Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
24227 30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as
24228    he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot:
24229    and all the people that was with him covered every man his
24230    head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
24231 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the
24232    conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray
24233    thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
24234 32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of
24235    the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite
24236    came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
24237 33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou
24238    shalt be a burden unto me:
24239 34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will
24240    be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant
24241    hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou
24242    for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
24243 35 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the
24244    priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou
24245    shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to
24246    Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
24247 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz
24248    Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall
24249    send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
24250 37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came
24251    into Jerusalem.

24252 2 Samuel 16

24253  1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold,
24254    Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of
24255    asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and
24256    an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer
24257    fruits, and a bottle of wine.
24258  2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And
24259    Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on;
24260    and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and
24261    the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
24262  3 And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba
24263    said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he
24264    said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom
24265    of my father.
24266  4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that
24267    pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech
24268    thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
24269  5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a
24270    man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei,
24271    the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
24272  6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king
24273    David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his
24274    right hand and on his left.
24275  7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou
24276    bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
24277  8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of
24278    Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath
24279    delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and,
24280    behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a
24281    bloody man.
24282  9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should
24283    this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray
24284    thee, and take off his head.
24285 10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
24286    Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto
24287    him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done
24288    so?
24289 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my
24290    son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much
24291    more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him
24292    curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
24293 12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that
24294    the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
24295 13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on
24296    the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and
24297    threw stones at him, and cast dust.
24298 14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came
24299    weary, and refreshed themselves there.
24300 15 And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to
24301    Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
24302 16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend,
24303    was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save
24304    the king, God save the king.
24305 17 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy
24306    friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
24307 18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this
24308    people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and
24309    with him will I abide.
24310 19 And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the
24311    presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's
24312    presence, so will I be in thy presence.
24313 20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what
24314    we shall do.
24315 21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's
24316    concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all
24317    Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then
24318    shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
24319 22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and
24320    Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of
24321    all Israel.
24322 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those
24323    days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so
24324    was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with
24325    Absalom.

24326 2 Samuel 17

24327  1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out
24328    twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David
24329    this night:
24330  2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed,
24331    and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him
24332    shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
24333  3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom
24334    thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be
24335    in peace.
24336  4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of
24337    Israel.
24338  5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let
24339    us hear likewise what he saith.
24340  6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him,
24341    saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do
24342    after his saying? if not; speak thou.
24343  7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath
24344    given is not good at this time.
24345  8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that
24346    they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a
24347    bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a
24348    man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
24349  9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and
24350    it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the
24351    first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a
24352    slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
24353 10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a
24354    lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy
24355    father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant
24356    men.
24357 11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto
24358    thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the
24359    sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own
24360    person.
24361 12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be
24362    found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the
24363    ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there
24364    shall not be left so much as one.
24365 13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel
24366    bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river,
24367    until there be not one small stone found there.
24368 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of
24369    Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.
24370    For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of
24371    Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon
24372    Absalom.
24373 15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus
24374    and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of
24375    Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
24376 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not
24377    this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass
24378    over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that
24379    are with him.
24380 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not
24381    be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them;
24382    and they went and told king David.
24383 18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went
24384    both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in
24385    Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went
24386    down.
24387 19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's
24388    mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not
24389    known.
24390 20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house,
24391    they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said
24392    unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they
24393    had sought and could not find them, they returned to
24394    Jerusalem.
24395 21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came
24396    up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said
24397    unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus
24398    hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
24399 22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and
24400    they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not
24401    one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
24402 23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
24403    saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to
24404    his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself,
24405    and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
24406 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan,
24407    he and all the men of Israel with him.
24408 25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab:
24409    which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an
24410    Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash,
24411    sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
24412 26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
24413 27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that
24414    Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
24415    and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the
24416    Gileadite of Rogelim,
24417 28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and
24418    barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles,
24419    and parched pulse,
24420 29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for
24421    David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they
24422    said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the
24423    wilderness.

24424 2 Samuel 18

24425  1 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set
24426    captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.
24427  2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand
24428    of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of
24429    Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of
24430    Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will
24431    surely go forth with you myself also.
24432  3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we
24433    flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us
24434    die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten
24435    thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour
24436    us out of the city.
24437  4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do.
24438    And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came
24439    out by hundreds and by thousands.
24440  5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
24441    Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.
24442    And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains
24443    charge concerning Absalom.
24444  6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the
24445    battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
24446  7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of
24447    David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of
24448    twenty thousand men.
24449  8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the
24450    country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the
24451    sword devoured.
24452  9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a
24453    mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak,
24454    and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up
24455    between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under
24456    him went away.
24457 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I
24458    saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
24459 11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou
24460    sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the
24461    ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and
24462    a girdle.
24463 12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand
24464    shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine
24465    hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king
24466    charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none
24467    touch the young man Absalom.
24468 13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own
24469    life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou
24470    thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
24471 14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took
24472    three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of
24473    Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
24474 15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and
24475    smote Absalom, and slew him.
24476 16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from
24477    pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
24478 17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the
24479    wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all
24480    Israel fled every one to his tent.
24481 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for
24482    himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I
24483    have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the
24484    pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day,
24485    Absalom's place.
24486 19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear
24487    the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his
24488    enemies.
24489 20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day,
24490    but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou
24491    shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.
24492 21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen.
24493    And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
24494 22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But
24495    howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab
24496    said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast
24497    no tidings ready?
24498 23 But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run.
24499    Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
24500 24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up
24501    to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his
24502    eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.
24503 25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said,
24504    If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came
24505    apace, and drew near.
24506 26 And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman
24507    called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running
24508    alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
24509 27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost
24510    is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king
24511    said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
24512 28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And
24513    he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and
24514    said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the
24515    men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
24516 29 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz
24517    answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy
24518    servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
24519 30 And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he
24520    turned aside, and stood still.
24521 31 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the
24522    king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that
24523    rose up against thee.
24524 32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe?
24525    And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all
24526    that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man
24527    is.
24528 33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over
24529    the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son
24530    Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for
24531    thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

24532 2 Samuel 19

24533  1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth
24534    for Absalom.
24535  2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
24536    people: for the people heard say that day how the king was
24537    grieved for his son.
24538  3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as
24539    people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
24540  4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud
24541    voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
24542  5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast
24543    shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day
24544    have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy
24545    daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy
24546    concubines;
24547  6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For
24548    thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither
24549    princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom
24550    had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased
24551    thee well.
24552  7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy
24553    servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there
24554    will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be
24555    worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy
24556    youth until now.
24557  8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto
24558    all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate.
24559    And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled
24560    every man to his tent.
24561  9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of
24562    Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our
24563    enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the
24564    Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
24565 10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now
24566    therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
24567 11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,
24568    saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the
24569    last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of
24570    all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
24571 12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore
24572    then are ye the last to bring back the king?
24573 13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh?
24574    God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the
24575    host before me continually in the room of Joab.
24576 14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the
24577    heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king,
24578    Return thou, and all thy servants.
24579 15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to
24580    Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over
24581    Jordan.
24582 16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim,
24583    hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
24584 17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba
24585    the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his
24586    twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the
24587    king.
24588 18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's
24589    household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son
24590    of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
24591 19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto
24592    me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did
24593    perversely the day that my lord the king went out of
24594    Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
24595 20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore,
24596    behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of
24597    Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
24598 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not
24599    Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's
24600    anointed?
24601 22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
24602    Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall
24603    there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I
24604    know that I am this day king over Israel?
24605 23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And
24606    the king sware unto him.
24607 24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king,
24608    and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor
24609    washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the
24610    day he came again in peace.
24611 25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the
24612    king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou
24613    with me, Mephibosheth?
24614 26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for
24615    thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride
24616    thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
24617 27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but
24618    my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is
24619    good in thine eyes.
24620 28 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord
24621    the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did
24622    eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry
24623    any more unto the king?
24624 29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy
24625    matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
24626 30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all,
24627    forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his
24628    own house.
24629 31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went
24630    over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
24631 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old:
24632    and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at
24633    Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
24634 33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and
24635    I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
24636 34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live,
24637    that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
24638 35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between
24639    good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I
24640    drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and
24641    singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a
24642    burden unto my lord the king?
24643 36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king:
24644    and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
24645 37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die
24646    in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and
24647    of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over
24648    with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto
24649    thee.
24650 38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I
24651    will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and
24652    whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
24653 39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was
24654    come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he
24655    returned unto his own place.
24656 40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him:
24657    and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half
24658    the people of Israel.
24659 41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said
24660    unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen
24661    thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and
24662    all David's men with him, over Jordan?
24663 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because
24664    the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for
24665    this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath
24666    he given us any gift?
24667 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We
24668    have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in
24669    David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice
24670    should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the
24671    words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the
24672    men of Israel.

24673 2 Samuel 20

24674  1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was
24675    Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet,
24676    and said, We have no part in David, neither have we
24677    inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O
24678    Israel.
24679  2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed
24680    Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their
24681    king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
24682  3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took
24683    the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the
24684    house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in
24685    unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death,
24686    living in widowhood.
24687  4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah
24688    within three days, and be thou here present.
24689  5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried
24690    longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
24691  6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri
24692    do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's
24693    servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities,
24694    and escape us.
24695  7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites,
24696    and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out
24697    of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
24698  8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa
24699    went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was
24700    girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened
24701    upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it
24702    fell out.
24703  9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And
24704    Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
24705 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand:
24706    so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his
24707    bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died.
24708    So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of
24709    Bichri.
24710 11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that
24711    favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after
24712    Joab.
24713 12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And
24714    when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed
24715    Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon
24716    him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
24717 13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on
24718    after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
24719 14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to
24720    Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered
24721    together, and went also after him.
24722 15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and
24723    they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the
24724    trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the
24725    wall, to throw it down.
24726 16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I
24727    pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with
24728    thee.
24729 17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou
24730    Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear
24731    the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
24732 18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,
24733    saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they
24734    ended the matter.
24735 19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel:
24736    thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why
24737    wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
24738 20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that
24739    I should swallow up or destroy.
24740 21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the
24741    son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the
24742    king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart
24743    from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head
24744    shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
24745 22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And
24746    they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it
24747    out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the
24748    city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem
24749    unto the king.
24750 23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son
24751    of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
24752 24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of
24753    Ahilud was recorder:
24754 25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
24755 26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.

24756 2 Samuel 21

24757  1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year
24758    after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD
24759    answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he
24760    slew the Gibeonites.
24761  2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now
24762    the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the
24763    remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn
24764    unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the
24765    children of Israel and Judah.)
24766  3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for
24767    you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may
24768    bless the inheritance of the LORD?
24769  4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor
24770    gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill
24771    any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I
24772    do for you.
24773  5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that
24774    devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining
24775    in any of the coasts of Israel,
24776  6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will
24777    hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD
24778    did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
24779  7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son
24780    of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them,
24781    between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
24782  8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
24783    whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five
24784    sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for
24785    Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
24786  9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and
24787    they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell
24788    all seven together, and were put to death in the days of
24789    harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley
24790    harvest.
24791 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it
24792    for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until
24793    water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither
24794    the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of
24795    the field by night.
24796 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
24797    concubine of Saul, had done.
24798 12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
24799    Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had
24800    stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines
24801    had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in
24802    Gilboa:
24803 13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones
24804    of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that
24805    were hanged.
24806 14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the
24807    country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his
24808    father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And
24809    after that God was intreated for the land.
24810 15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and
24811    David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against
24812    the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
24813 16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight
24814    of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in
24815    weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have
24816    slain David.
24817 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the
24818    Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto
24819    him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that
24820    thou quench not the light of Israel.
24821 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle
24822    with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite
24823    slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
24824 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,
24825    where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the
24826    brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was
24827    like a weaver's beam.
24828 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great
24829    stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot
24830    six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to
24831    the giant.
24832 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the
24833    brother of David slew him.
24834 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the
24835    hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

24836 2 Samuel 22

24837  1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the
24838    day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his
24839    enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
24840  2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
24841    deliverer;
24842  3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and
24843    the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my
24844    saviour; thou savest me from violence.
24845  4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall
24846    I be saved from mine enemies.
24847  5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly
24848    men made me afraid;
24849  6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death
24850    prevented me;
24851  7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God:
24852    and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did
24853    enter into his ears.
24854  8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
24855    moved and shook, because he was wroth.
24856  9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
24857    mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
24858 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was
24859    under his feet.
24860 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon
24861    the wings of the wind.
24862 12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,
24863    and thick clouds of the skies.
24864 13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
24865 14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his
24866    voice.
24867 15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
24868    discomfited them.
24869 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the
24870    world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the
24871    blast of the breath of his nostrils.
24872 17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
24873 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated
24874    me: for they were too strong for me.
24875 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
24876    my stay.
24877 20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me,
24878    because he delighted in me.
24879 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according
24880    to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
24881 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
24882    departed from my God.
24883 23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes,
24884    I did not depart from them.
24885 24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine
24886    iniquity.
24887 25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
24888    righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
24889 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with
24890    the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
24891 27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
24892    froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
24893 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are
24894    upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
24895 29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my
24896    darkness.
24897 30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I
24898    leaped over a wall.
24899 31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried:
24900    he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
24901 32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our
24902    God?
24903 33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
24904 34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my
24905    high places.
24906 35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken
24907    by mine arms.
24908 36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
24909    gentleness hath made me great.
24910 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not
24911    slip.
24912 38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned
24913    not again until I had consumed them.
24914 39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could
24915    not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
24916 40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that
24917    rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
24918 41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I
24919    might destroy them that hate me.
24920 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD,
24921    but he answered them not.
24922 43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did
24923    stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them
24924    abroad.
24925 44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people,
24926    thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I
24927    knew not shall serve me.
24928 45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they
24929    hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
24930 46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of
24931    their close places.
24932 47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the
24933    God of the rock of my salvation.
24934 48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people
24935    under me.
24936 49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast
24937    lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou
24938    hast delivered me from the violent man.
24939 50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
24940    heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
24941 51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy
24942    to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

24943 2 Samuel 23

24944  1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
24945    said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of
24946    the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
24947  2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my
24948    tongue.
24949  3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He
24950    that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
24951  4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun
24952    riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass
24953    springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
24954  5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me
24955    an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for
24956    this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make
24957    it not to grow.
24958  6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust
24959    away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
24960  7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and
24961    the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with
24962    fire in the same place.
24963  8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
24964    Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the
24965    same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight
24966    hundred, whom he slew at one time.
24967  9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of
24968    the three mighty men with David, when they defied the
24969    Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and
24970    the men of Israel were gone away:
24971 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary,
24972    and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a
24973    great victory that day; and the people returned after him only
24974    to spoil.
24975 11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And
24976    the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was
24977    a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from
24978    the Philistines.
24979 12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and
24980    slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
24981 13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in
24982    the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of
24983    the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
24984 14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the
24985    Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
24986 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
24987    the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
24988 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the
24989    Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that
24990    was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David:
24991    nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out
24992    unto the LORD.
24993 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this:
24994    is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of
24995    their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did
24996    these three mighty men.
24997 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was
24998    chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three
24999    hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
25000 19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their
25001    captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
25002 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of
25003    Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of
25004    Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit
25005    in time of snow:
25006 21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
25007    spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and
25008    plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him
25009    with his own spear.
25010 22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name
25011    among three mighty men.
25012 23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to
25013    the first three. And David set him over his guard.
25014 24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the
25015    son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
25016 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
25017 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
25018 27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
25019 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
25020 29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of
25021    Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
25022 30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
25023 31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
25024 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
25025 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
25026 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite,
25027    Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
25028 35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
25029 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
25030 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to
25031    Joab the son of Zeruiah,
25032 38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
25033 39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

25034 2 Samuel 24

25035  1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
25036    and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and
25037    Judah.
25038  2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was
25039    with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan
25040    even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know
25041    the number of the people.
25042  3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the
25043    people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the
25044    eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the
25045    king delight in this thing?
25046  4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and
25047    against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of
25048    the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the
25049    people of Israel.
25050  5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the
25051    right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of
25052    Gad, and toward Jazer:
25053  6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and
25054    they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
25055  7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of
25056    the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the
25057    south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
25058  8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
25059    Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
25060  9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the
25061    king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant
25062    men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five
25063    hundred thousand men.
25064 10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the
25065    people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in
25066    that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away
25067    the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
25068 11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD
25069    came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
25070 12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three
25071    things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
25072 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall
25073    seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou
25074    flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue
25075    thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now
25076    advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent
25077    me.
25078 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall
25079    now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and
25080    let me not fall into the hand of man.
25081 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning
25082    even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from
25083    Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
25084 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to
25085    destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the
25086    angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine
25087    hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of
25088    Araunah the Jebusite.
25089 17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote
25090    the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done
25091    wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine
25092    hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's
25093    house.
25094 18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear
25095    an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the
25096    Jebusite.
25097 19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
25098    commanded.
25099 20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming
25100    on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before
25101    the king on his face upon the ground.
25102 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his
25103    servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to
25104    build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed
25105    from the people.
25106 22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and
25107    offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for
25108    burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other
25109    instruments of the oxen for wood.
25110 23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king.
25111    And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
25112 24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it
25113    of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto
25114    the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David
25115    bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of
25116    silver.
25117 25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered
25118    burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated
25119    for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

25120 Book 11 1 Kings

25121 1 Kings 1

25122  1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered
25123    him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
25124  2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for
25125    my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the
25126    king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom,
25127    that my lord the king may get heat.
25128  3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of
25129    Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the
25130    king.
25131  4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and
25132    ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
25133  5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I
25134    will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and
25135    fifty men to run before him.
25136  6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying,
25137    Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and
25138    his mother bare him after Absalom.
25139  7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with
25140    Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
25141  8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
25142    Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men
25143    which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
25144  9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone
25145    of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren
25146    the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
25147 10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and
25148    Solomon his brother, he called not.
25149 11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon,
25150    saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith
25151    doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?
25152 12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel,
25153    that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son
25154    Solomon.
25155 13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst
25156    not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying,
25157    Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall
25158    sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
25159 14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also
25160    will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
25161 15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the
25162    king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto
25163    the king.
25164 16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the
25165    king said, What wouldest thou?
25166 17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy
25167    God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son
25168    shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
25169 18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king,
25170    thou knowest it not:
25171 19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance,
25172    and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the
25173    priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy
25174    servant hath he not called.
25175 20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon
25176    thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the
25177    throne of my lord the king after him.
25178 21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall
25179    sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be
25180    counted offenders.
25181 22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the
25182    prophet also came in.
25183 23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And
25184    when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before
25185    the king with his face to the ground.
25186 24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah
25187    shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
25188 25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat
25189    cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's
25190    sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest;
25191    and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save
25192    king Adonijah.
25193 26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah
25194    the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not
25195    called.
25196 27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not
25197    shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my
25198    lord the king after him?
25199 28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she
25200    came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
25201 29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath
25202    redeemed my soul out of all distress,
25203 30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying,
25204    Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall
25205    sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do
25206    this day.
25207 31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did
25208    reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live
25209    for ever.
25210 32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
25211    prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before
25212    the king.
25213 33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of
25214    your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own
25215    mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
25216 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
25217    there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say,
25218    God save king Solomon.
25219 35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon
25220    my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have
25221    appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
25222 36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said,
25223    Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
25224 37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he
25225    with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of
25226    my lord king David.
25227 38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the
25228    son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went
25229    down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and
25230    brought him to Gihon.
25231 39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the
25232    tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet;
25233    and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
25234 40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped
25235    with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth
25236    rent with the sound of them.
25237 41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as
25238    they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound
25239    of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city
25240    being in an uproar?
25241 42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar
25242    the priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou
25243    art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
25244 43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord
25245    king David hath made Solomon king.
25246 44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan
25247    the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the
25248    Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to
25249    ride upon the king's mule:
25250 45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him
25251    king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so
25252    that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have
25253    heard.
25254 46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
25255 47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king
25256    David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy
25257    name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the
25258    king bowed himself upon the bed.
25259 48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of
25260    Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day,
25261    mine eyes even seeing it.
25262 49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and
25263    rose up, and went every man his way.
25264 50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went,
25265    and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
25266 51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king
25267    Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the
25268    altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he
25269    will not slay his servant with the sword.
25270 52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there
25271    shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness
25272    shall be found in him, he shall die.
25273 53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the
25274    altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and
25275    Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.

25276 1 Kings 2

25277  1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he
25278    charged Solomon his son, saying,
25279  2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and
25280    shew thyself a man;
25281  3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways,
25282    to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments,
25283    and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses,
25284    that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and
25285    whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
25286  4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning
25287    me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk
25288    before me in truth with all their heart and with all their
25289    soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne
25290    of Israel.
25291  5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to
25292    me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of
25293    Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of
25294    Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and
25295    put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins,
25296    and in his shoes that were on his feet.
25297  6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar
25298    head go down to the grave in peace.
25299  7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite,
25300    and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they
25301    came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
25302  8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
25303    Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in
25304    the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me
25305    at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not
25306    put thee to death with the sword.
25307  9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man,
25308    and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar
25309    head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
25310 10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
25311    David.
25312 11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years:
25313    seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years
25314    reigned he in Jerusalem.
25315 12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his
25316    kingdom was established greatly.
25317 13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother
25318    of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said,
25319    Peaceably.
25320 14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she
25321    said, Say on.
25322 15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that
25323    all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit
25324    the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for
25325    it was his from the LORD.
25326 16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said
25327    unto him, Say on.
25328 17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for
25329    he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the
25330    Shunammite to wife.
25331 18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
25332 19 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him
25333    for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed
25334    himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a
25335    seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right
25336    hand.
25337 20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray
25338    thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my
25339    mother: for I will not say thee nay.
25340 21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah
25341    thy brother to wife.
25342 22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why
25343    dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him
25344    the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him,
25345    and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
25346 23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me,
25347    and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against
25348    his own life.
25349 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me,
25350    and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made
25351    me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death
25352    this day.
25353 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of
25354    Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
25355 26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to
25356    Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death:
25357    but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou
25358    barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and
25359    because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was
25360    afflicted.
25361 27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the
25362    LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he
25363    spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
25364 28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah,
25365    though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the
25366    tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the
25367    altar.
25368 29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the
25369    tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then
25370    Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall
25371    upon him.
25372 30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto
25373    him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I
25374    will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again,
25375    saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
25376 31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon
25377    him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent
25378    blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my
25379    father.
25380 32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who
25381    fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew
25382    them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to
25383    wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and
25384    Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
25385 33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and
25386    upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon
25387    his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there
25388    be peace for ever from the LORD.
25389 34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and
25390    slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the
25391    wilderness.
25392 35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over
25393    the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of
25394    Abiathar.
25395 36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him,
25396    Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not
25397    forth thence any whither.
25398 37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest
25399    over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou
25400    shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
25401 38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord
25402    the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt
25403    in Jerusalem many days.
25404 39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the
25405    servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of
25406    Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in
25407    Gath.
25408 40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to
25409    Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his
25410    servants from Gath.
25411 41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to
25412    Gath, and was come again.
25413 42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him,
25414    Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto
25415    thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out,
25416    and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die?
25417    and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
25418 43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the
25419    commandment that I have charged thee with?
25420 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the
25421    wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to
25422    David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy
25423    wickedness upon thine own head;
25424 45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David
25425    shall be established before the LORD for ever.
25426 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went
25427    out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was
25428    established in the hand of Solomon.

25429 1 Kings 3

25430  1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
25431    Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David,
25432    until he had made an end of building his own house, and the
25433    house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
25434  2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was
25435    no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
25436  3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David
25437    his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high
25438    places.
25439  4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was
25440    the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon
25441    offer upon that altar.
25442  5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:
25443    and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
25444  6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my
25445    father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in
25446    truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with
25447    thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that
25448    thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this
25449    day.
25450  7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king
25451    instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I
25452    know not how to go out or come in.
25453  8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast
25454    chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted
25455    for multitude.
25456  9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy
25457    people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is
25458    able to judge this thy so great a people?
25459 10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this
25460    thing.
25461 11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and
25462    hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked
25463    riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies;
25464    but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
25465 12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given
25466    thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none
25467    like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like
25468    unto thee.
25469 13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked,
25470    both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among
25471    the kings like unto thee all thy days.
25472 14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
25473    commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will
25474    lengthen thy days.
25475 15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to
25476    Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the
25477    LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace
25478    offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
25479 16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king,
25480    and stood before him.
25481 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in
25482    one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the
25483    house.
25484 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered,
25485    that this woman was delivered also: and we were together;
25486    there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the
25487    house.
25488 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid
25489    it.
25490 20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
25491    while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid
25492    her dead child in my bosom.
25493 21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold,
25494    it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning,
25495    behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
25496 22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and
25497    the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy
25498    son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the
25499    king.
25500 23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth,
25501    and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son
25502    is the dead, and my son is the living.
25503 24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword
25504    before the king.
25505 25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give
25506    half to the one, and half to the other.
25507 26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king,
25508    for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord,
25509    give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the
25510    other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
25511 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child,
25512    and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
25513 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had
25514    judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom
25515    of God was in him, to do judgment.

25516 1 Kings 4

25517  1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
25518  2 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of
25519    Zadok the priest,
25520  3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat
25521    the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
25522  4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok
25523    and Abiathar were the priests:
25524  5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud
25525    the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's
25526    friend:
25527  6 And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of
25528    Abda was over the tribute.
25529  7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which
25530    provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his
25531    month in a year made provision.
25532  8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
25533  9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh,
25534    and Elonbethhanan:
25535 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all
25536    the land of Hepher:
25537 11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had
25538    Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
25539 12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo,
25540    and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from
25541    Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond
25542    Jokneam:
25543 13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns
25544    of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also
25545    pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore
25546    great cities with walls and brasen bars:
25547 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
25548 15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of
25549    Solomon to wife:
25550 16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
25551 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
25552 18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
25553 19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the
25554    country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of
25555    Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.
25556 20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in
25557    multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
25558 21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the
25559    land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they
25560    brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
25561 22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of
25562    fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
25563 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an
25564    hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and
25565    fatted fowl.
25566 24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the
25567    river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this
25568    side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
25569 25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine
25570    and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the
25571    days of Solomon.
25572 26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
25573    chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
25574 27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for
25575    all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his
25576    month: they lacked nothing.
25577 28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought
25578    they unto the place where the officers were, every man
25579    according to his charge.
25580 29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much,
25581    and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea
25582    shore.
25583 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children
25584    of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
25585 31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
25586    Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame
25587    was in all nations round about.
25588 32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a
25589    thousand and five.
25590 33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon
25591    even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake
25592    also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of
25593    fishes.
25594 34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
25595    from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

25596 1 Kings 5

25597  1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he
25598    had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his
25599    father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
25600  2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
25601  3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house
25602    unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were
25603    about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the
25604    soles of his feet.
25605  4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so
25606    that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
25607  5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the
25608    LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying,
25609    Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall
25610    build an house unto my name.
25611  6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of
25612    Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto
25613    thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that
25614    thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among
25615    us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
25616  7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon,
25617    that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this
25618    day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great
25619    people.
25620  8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the
25621    things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy
25622    desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of
25623    fir.
25624  9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea:
25625    and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that
25626    thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged
25627    there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish
25628    my desire, in giving food for my household.
25629 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to
25630    all his desire.
25631 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for
25632    food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus
25633    gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
25634 12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and
25635    there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a
25636    league together.
25637 13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy
25638    was thirty thousand men.
25639 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses:
25640    a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and
25641    Adoniram was over the levy.
25642 15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens,
25643    and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
25644 16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the
25645    work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the
25646    people that wrought in the work.
25647 17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly
25648    stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
25649 18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and
25650    the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build
25651    the house.

25652 1 Kings 6

25653  1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year
25654    after the children of Israel were come out of the land of
25655    Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in
25656    the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to
25657    build the house of the LORD.
25658  2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the
25659    length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof
25660    twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
25661  3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits
25662    was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house;
25663    and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
25664  4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
25665  5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round
25666    about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the
25667    temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
25668  6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle
25669    was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad:
25670    for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests
25671    round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the
25672    walls of the house.
25673  7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone
25674    made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was
25675    neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the
25676    house, while it was in building.
25677  8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the
25678    house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle
25679    chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
25680  9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house
25681    with beams and boards of cedar.
25682 10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits
25683    high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
25684 11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
25685 12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt
25686    walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my
25687    commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with
25688    thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
25689 13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not
25690    forsake my people Israel.
25691 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
25692 15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of
25693    cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the
25694    ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and
25695    covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
25696 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the
25697    floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them
25698    for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy
25699    place.
25700 17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits
25701    long.
25702 18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and
25703    open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
25704 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there
25705    the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
25706 20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length,
25707    and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height
25708    thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the
25709    altar which was of cedar.
25710 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he
25711    made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and
25712    he overlaid it with gold.
25713 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had
25714    finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the
25715    oracle he overlaid with gold.
25716 23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree,
25717    each ten cubits high.
25718 24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five
25719    cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part
25720    of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten
25721    cubits.
25722 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were
25723    of one measure and one size.
25724 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of
25725    the other cherub.
25726 27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they
25727    stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing
25728    of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other
25729    cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one
25730    another in the midst of the house.
25731 28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
25732 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with
25733    carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers,
25734    within and without.
25735 30 And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and
25736    without.
25737 31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive
25738    tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
25739 32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them
25740    carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and
25741    overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims,
25742    and upon the palm trees.
25743 33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive
25744    tree, a fourth part of the wall.
25745 34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one
25746    door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were
25747    folding.
25748 35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open
25749    flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved
25750    work.
25751 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone,
25752    and a row of cedar beams.
25753 37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD
25754    laid, in the month Zif:
25755 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the
25756    eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts
25757    thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he
25758    seven years in building it.

25759 1 Kings 7

25760  1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
25761    finished all his house.
25762  2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length
25763    thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty
25764    cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows
25765    of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
25766  3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay
25767    on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
25768  4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against
25769    light in three ranks.
25770  5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and
25771    light was against light in three ranks.
25772  6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty
25773    cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch
25774    was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were
25775    before them.
25776  7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even
25777    the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one
25778    side of the floor to the other.
25779  8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the
25780    porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house
25781    for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto
25782    this porch.
25783  9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of
25784    hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from
25785    the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward
25786    the great court.
25787 10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones,
25788    stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
25789 11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed
25790    stones, and cedars.
25791 12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed
25792    stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of
25793    the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
25794 13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
25795 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father
25796    was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with
25797    wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in
25798    brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
25799 15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high
25800    apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them
25801    about.
25802 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the
25803    tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five
25804    cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
25805 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the
25806    chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for
25807    the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
25808 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one
25809    network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with
25810    pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
25811 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were
25812    of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
25813 20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also
25814    above, over against the belly which was by the network: and
25815    the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the
25816    other chapiter.
25817 21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he
25818    set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin:
25819    and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof
25820    Boaz.
25821 22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work
25822    of the pillars finished.
25823 23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the
25824    other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits:
25825    and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
25826 24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops
25827    compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about:
25828    the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25829 25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
25830    three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the
25831    south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set
25832    above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
25833 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was
25834    wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it
25835    contained two thousand baths.
25836 27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of
25837    one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three
25838    cubits the height of it.
25839 28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had
25840    borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
25841 29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions,
25842    oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base
25843    above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions
25844    made of thin work.
25845 30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass:
25846    and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver
25847    were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
25848 31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit:
25849    but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a
25850    cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings
25851    with their borders, foursquare, not round.
25852 32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of
25853    the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel
25854    was a cubit and half a cubit.
25855 33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot
25856    wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes,
25857    and their spokes, were all molten.
25858 34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one
25859    base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
25860 35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a
25861    cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and
25862    the borders thereof were of the same.
25863 36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders
25864    thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according
25865    to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
25866 37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one
25867    casting, one measure, and one size.
25868 38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
25869    baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of
25870    the ten bases one laver.
25871 39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five
25872    on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right
25873    side of the house eastward over against the south.
25874 40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So
25875    Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king
25876    Solomon for the house of the LORD:
25877 41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were
25878    on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover
25879    the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the
25880    pillars;
25881 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two
25882    rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls
25883    of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
25884 43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
25885 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
25886 45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these
25887    vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the
25888    LORD, were of bright brass.
25889 46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
25890    ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
25891 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were
25892    exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
25893 48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house
25894    of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold,
25895    whereupon the shewbread was,
25896 49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and
25897    five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the
25898    lamps, and the tongs of gold,
25899 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the
25900    spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold,
25901    both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place,
25902    and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
25903 51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house
25904    of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his
25905    father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the
25906    vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the
25907    LORD.

25908 1 Kings 8

25909  1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
25910    of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of
25911    Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring
25912    up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of
25913    David, which is Zion.
25914  2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king
25915    Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the
25916    seventh month.
25917  3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the
25918    ark.
25919  4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of
25920    the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the
25921    tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring
25922    up.
25923  5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that
25924    were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark,
25925    sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor
25926    numbered for multitude.
25927  6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
25928    unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy
25929    place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
25930  7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place
25931    of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves
25932    thereof above.
25933  8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were
25934    seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were
25935    not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
25936  9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone,
25937    which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant
25938    with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of
25939    Egypt.
25940 10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the
25941    holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
25942 11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the
25943    cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the
25944    LORD.
25945 12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the
25946    thick darkness.
25947 13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place
25948    for thee to abide in for ever.
25949 14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the
25950    congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel
25951    stood;)
25952 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake
25953    with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand
25954    fulfilled it, saying,
25955 16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of
25956    Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to
25957    build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose
25958    David to be over my people Israel.
25959 17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house
25960    for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
25961 18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in
25962    thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well
25963    that it was in thine heart.
25964 19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that
25965    shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house
25966    unto my name.
25967 20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am
25968    risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne
25969    of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for
25970    the name of the LORD God of Israel.
25971 21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the
25972    covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he
25973    brought them out of the land of Egypt.
25974 22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence
25975    of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands
25976    toward heaven:
25977 23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in
25978    heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and
25979    mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their
25980    heart:
25981 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou
25982    promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast
25983    fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
25984 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David
25985    my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not
25986    fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so
25987    that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk
25988    before me as thou hast walked before me.
25989 26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be
25990    verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
25991 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and
25992    heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this
25993    house that I have builded?
25994 28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to
25995    his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and
25996    to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
25997 29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day,
25998    even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall
25999    be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy
26000    servant shall make toward this place.
26001 30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of
26002    thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and
26003    hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest,
26004    forgive.
26005 31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid
26006    upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine
26007    altar in this house:
26008 32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
26009    condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and
26010    justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
26011    righteousness.
26012 33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy,
26013    because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to
26014    thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication
26015    unto thee in this house:
26016 34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
26017    Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest
26018    unto their fathers.
26019 35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
26020    have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and
26021    confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou
26022    afflictest them:
26023 36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants,
26024    and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way
26025    wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which
26026    thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
26027 37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,
26028    blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their
26029    enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever
26030    plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
26031 38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by
26032    all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague
26033    of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this
26034    house:
26035 39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and
26036    do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart
26037    thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of
26038    all the children of men;)
26039 40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the
26040    land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
26041 41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people
26042    Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
26043 42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong
26044    hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and
26045    pray toward this house;
26046 43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to
26047    all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of
26048    the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people
26049    Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have
26050    builded, is called by thy name.
26051 44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
26052    whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the
26053    LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the
26054    house that I have built for thy name:
26055 45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,
26056    and maintain their cause.
26057 46 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth
26058    not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the
26059    enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of
26060    the enemy, far or near;
26061 47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they
26062    were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto
26063    thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying,
26064    We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed
26065    wickedness;
26066 48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all
26067    their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away
26068    captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou
26069    gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen,
26070    and the house which I have built for thy name:
26071 49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven
26072    thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
26073 50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all
26074    their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against
26075    thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them
26076    captive, that they may have compassion on them:
26077 51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
26078    broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace
26079    of iron:
26080 52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy
26081    servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to
26082    hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
26083 53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the
26084    earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of
26085    Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of
26086    Egypt, O LORD God.
26087 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying
26088    all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from
26089    before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with
26090    his hands spread up to heaven.
26091 55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with
26092    a loud voice, saying,
26093 56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people
26094    Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not
26095    failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by
26096    the hand of Moses his servant.
26097 57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let
26098    him not leave us, nor forsake us:
26099 58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his
26100    ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his
26101    judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
26102 59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication
26103    before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night,
26104    that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of
26105    his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
26106 60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is
26107    God, and that there is none else.
26108 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to
26109    walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this
26110    day.
26111 62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice
26112    before the LORD.
26113 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
26114    offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an
26115    hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the
26116    children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
26117 64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that
26118    was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
26119    offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace
26120    offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD
26121    was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat
26122    offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
26123 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with
26124    him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto
26125    the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and
26126    seven days, even fourteen days.
26127 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed
26128    the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart
26129    for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his
26130    servant, and for Israel his people.

26131 1 Kings 9

26132  1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of
26133    the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's
26134    desire which he was pleased to do,
26135  2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had
26136    appeared unto him at Gibeon.
26137  3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
26138    supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed
26139    this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for
26140    ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
26141  4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked,
26142    in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to
26143    all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and
26144    my judgments:
26145  5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel
26146    for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There
26147    shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
26148  6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
26149    children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes
26150    which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and
26151    worship them:
26152  7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
26153    them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will
26154    I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a
26155    byword among all people:
26156  8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
26157    shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why
26158    hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
26159  9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their
26160    God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt,
26161    and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them,
26162    and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all
26163    this evil.
26164 10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
26165    had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the
26166    king's house,
26167 11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
26168    trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his
26169    desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in
26170    the land of Galilee.
26171 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon
26172    had given him; and they pleased him not.
26173 13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me,
26174    my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this
26175    day.
26176 14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
26177 15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised;
26178    for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and
26179    Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and
26180    Gezer.
26181 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and
26182    burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the
26183    city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's
26184    wife.
26185 17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
26186 18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
26187 19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for
26188    his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which
26189    Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in
26190    all the land of his dominion.
26191 20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
26192    Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the
26193    children of Israel,
26194 21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
26195    children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon
26196    those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
26197 22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but
26198    they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and
26199    his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
26200 23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's
26201    work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people
26202    that wrought in the work.
26203 24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto
26204    her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build
26205    Millo.
26206 25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings
26207    and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the
26208    LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the
26209    LORD. So he finished the house.
26210 26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is
26211    beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of
26212    Edom.
26213 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had
26214    knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
26215 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four
26216    hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

26217 1 Kings 10

26218  1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon
26219    concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with
26220    hard questions.
26221  2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels
26222    that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and
26223    when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all
26224    that was in her heart.
26225  3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any
26226    thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
26227  4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and
26228    the house that he had built,
26229  5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,
26230    and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and
26231    his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the
26232    house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
26233  6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in
26234    mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
26235  7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes
26236    had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom
26237    and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
26238  8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand
26239    continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
26240  9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set
26241    thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel
26242    for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and
26243    justice.
26244 10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,
26245    and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there
26246    came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen
26247    of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
26248 11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir,
26249    brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and
26250    precious stones.
26251 12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of
26252    the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries
26253    for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen
26254    unto this day.
26255 13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
26256    whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of
26257    his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country,
26258    she and her servants.
26259 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
26260    six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
26261 15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of
26262    the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of
26263    the governors of the country.
26264 16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
26265    hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
26266 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound
26267    of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house
26268    of the forest of Lebanon.
26269 18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
26270    it with the best gold.
26271 19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round
26272    behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of
26273    the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
26274 20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
26275    upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any
26276    kingdom.
26277 21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all
26278    the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure
26279    gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the
26280    days of Solomon.
26281 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of
26282    Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish,
26283    bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
26284 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches
26285    and for wisdom.
26286 24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which
26287    God had put in his heart.
26288 25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
26289    vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses,
26290    and mules, a rate year by year.
26291 26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he
26292    had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
26293    horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and
26294    with the king at Jerusalem.
26295 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and
26296    cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the
26297    vale, for abundance.
26298 28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
26299    the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
26300 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
26301    shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and
26302    so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of
26303    Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

26304 1 Kings 11

26305  1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
26306    daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites,
26307    Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
26308  2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the
26309    children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall
26310    they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your
26311    heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
26312  3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
26313    concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
26314  4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives
26315    turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not
26316    perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his
26317    father.
26318  5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians,
26319    and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
26320  6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not
26321    fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
26322  7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the
26323    abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and
26324    for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
26325  8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt
26326    incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
26327  9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was
26328    turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto
26329    him twice,
26330 10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should
26331    not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD
26332    commanded.
26333 11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is
26334    done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my
26335    statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the
26336    kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
26337 12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy
26338    father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
26339 13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give
26340    one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for
26341    Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
26342 14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the
26343    Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
26344 15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the
26345    captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he
26346    had smitten every male in Edom;
26347 16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until
26348    he had cut off every male in Edom:)
26349 17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's
26350    servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little
26351    child.
26352 18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took
26353    men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto
26354    Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed
26355    him victuals, and gave him land.
26356 19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that
26357    he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of
26358    Tahpenes the queen.
26359 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom
26360    Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in
26361    Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
26362 21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his
26363    fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad
26364    said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own
26365    country.
26366 22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me,
26367    that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he
26368    answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
26369 23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of
26370    Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
26371 24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band,
26372    when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and
26373    dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
26374 25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
26375    beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel,
26376    and reigned over Syria.
26377 26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
26378    Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow
26379    woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
26380 27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the
26381    king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the
26382    city of David his father.
26383 28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon
26384    seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him
26385    ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
26386 29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
26387    Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in
26388    the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they
26389    two were alone in the field:
26390 30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it
26391    in twelve pieces:
26392 31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith
26393    the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom
26394    out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
26395 32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and
26396    for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all
26397    the tribes of Israel:)
26398 33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped
26399    Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the
26400    Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and
26401    have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine
26402    eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David
26403    his father.
26404 34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but
26405    I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my
26406    servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments
26407    and my statutes:
26408 35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will
26409    give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
26410 36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant
26411    may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which
26412    I have chosen me to put my name there.
26413 37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all
26414    that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
26415 38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command
26416    thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my
26417    sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my
26418    servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure
26419    house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
26420 39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for
26421    ever.
26422 40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose,
26423    and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in
26424    Egypt until the death of Solomon.
26425 41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and
26426    his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of
26427    Solomon?
26428 42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
26429    was forty years.
26430 43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
26431    of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
26432    stead.

26433 1 Kings 12

26434  1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to
26435    Shechem to make him king.
26436  2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was
26437    yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence
26438    of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
26439  3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the
26440    congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
26441  4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the
26442    grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he
26443    put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
26444  5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come
26445    again to me. And the people departed.
26446  6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood
26447    before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do
26448    ye advise that I may answer this people?
26449  7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant
26450    unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer
26451    them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy
26452    servants for ever.
26453  8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had
26454    given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up
26455    with him, and which stood before him:
26456  9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer
26457    this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke
26458    which thy father did put upon us lighter?
26459 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him,
26460    saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto
26461    thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it
26462    lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little
26463    finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
26464 11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I
26465    will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with
26466    whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
26467 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
26468    as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third
26469    day.
26470 13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old
26471    men's counsel that they gave him;
26472 14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
26473    My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke:
26474    my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
26475    you with scorpions.
26476 15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the
26477    cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying,
26478    which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the
26479    son of Nebat.
26480 16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them,
26481    the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in
26482    David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to
26483    your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So
26484    Israel departed unto their tents.
26485 17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of
26486    Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
26487 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and
26488    all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore
26489    king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee
26490    to Jerusalem.
26491 19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
26492 20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was
26493    come again, that they sent and called him unto the
26494    congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was
26495    none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah
26496    only.
26497 21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the
26498    house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and
26499    fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight
26500    against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to
26501    Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
26502 22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
26503 23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and
26504    unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant
26505    of the people, saying,
26506 24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against
26507    your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his
26508    house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to
26509    the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the
26510    word of the LORD.
26511 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt
26512    therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
26513 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return
26514    to the house of David:
26515 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD
26516    at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again
26517    unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they
26518    shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
26519 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,
26520    and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to
26521    Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up
26522    out of the land of Egypt.
26523 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
26524 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship
26525    before the one, even unto Dan.
26526 31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the
26527    lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
26528 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
26529    fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in
26530    Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel,
26531    sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in
26532    Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
26533 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the
26534    fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he
26535    had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the
26536    children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt
26537    incense.

26538 1 Kings 13

26539  1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word
26540    of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to
26541    burn incense.
26542  2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and
26543    said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child
26544    shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and
26545    upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that
26546    burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon
26547    thee.
26548  3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign
26549    which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent,
26550    and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
26551  4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of
26552    the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel,
26553    that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on
26554    him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up,
26555    so that he could not pull it in again to him.
26556  5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the
26557    altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by
26558    the word of the LORD.
26559  6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat
26560    now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my
26561    hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the
26562    LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became
26563    as it was before.
26564  7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and
26565    refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
26566  8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me
26567    half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I
26568    eat bread nor drink water in this place:
26569  9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat
26570    no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that
26571    thou camest.
26572 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he
26573    came to Bethel.
26574 11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came
26575    and told him all the works that the man of God had done that
26576    day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king,
26577    them they told also to their father.
26578 12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his
26579    sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from
26580    Judah.
26581 13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled
26582    him the ass: and he rode thereon,
26583 14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an
26584    oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest
26585    from Judah? And he said, I am.
26586 15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
26587 16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee:
26588    neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this
26589    place:
26590 17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat
26591    no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the
26592    way that thou camest.
26593 18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an
26594    angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him
26595    back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and
26596    drink water. But he lied unto him.
26597 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and
26598    drank water.
26599 20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word
26600    of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
26601 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying,
26602    Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the
26603    mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the
26604    LORD thy God commanded thee,
26605 22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the
26606    place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread,
26607    and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the
26608    sepulchre of thy fathers.
26609 23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he
26610    had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the
26611    prophet whom he had brought back.
26612 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him:
26613    and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it,
26614    the lion also stood by the carcase.
26615 25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the
26616    way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and
26617    told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26618 26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
26619    thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient
26620    unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered
26621    him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him,
26622    according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
26623 27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they
26624    saddled him.
26625 28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass
26626    and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten
26627    the carcase, nor torn the ass.
26628 29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and
26629    laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet
26630    came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
26631 30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned
26632    over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
26633 31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to
26634    his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the
26635    sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones
26636    beside his bones:
26637 32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against
26638    the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high
26639    places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come
26640    to pass.
26641 33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but
26642    made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high
26643    places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one
26644    of the priests of the high places.
26645 34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to
26646    cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

26647 1 Kings 14

26648  1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
26649  2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and
26650    disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of
26651    Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the
26652    prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
26653  3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of
26654    honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of
26655    the child.
26656  4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and
26657    came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his
26658    eyes were set by reason of his age.
26659  5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
26660    cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick:
26661    thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when
26662    she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another
26663    woman.
26664  6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she
26665    came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of
26666    Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am
26667    sent to thee with heavy tidings.
26668  7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
26669    Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made
26670    thee prince over my people Israel,
26671  8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it
26672    thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept
26673    my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do
26674    that only which was right in mine eyes;
26675  9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou
26676    hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to
26677    provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
26678 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of
26679    Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth
26680    against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
26681    and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a
26682    man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
26683 11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and
26684    him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat:
26685    for the LORD hath spoken it.
26686 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when
26687    thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
26688 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only
26689    of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is
26690    found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the
26691    house of Jeroboam.
26692 14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who
26693    shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even
26694    now.
26695 15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
26696    water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land,
26697    which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond
26698    the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the
26699    LORD to anger.
26700 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam,
26701    who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
26702 17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:
26703    and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child
26704    died;
26705 18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according
26706    to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his
26707    servant Ahijah the prophet.
26708 19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how
26709    he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the
26710    chronicles of the kings of Israel.
26711 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years:
26712    and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in
26713    his stead.
26714 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was
26715    forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
26716    seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did
26717    choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.
26718    And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
26719 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked
26720    him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed,
26721    above all that their fathers had done.
26722 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves,
26723    on every high hill, and under every green tree.
26724 24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did
26725    according to all the abominations of the nations which the
26726    LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
26727 25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that
26728    Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
26729 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and
26730    the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and
26731    he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
26732 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and
26733    committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which
26734    kept the door of the king's house.
26735 28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD,
26736    that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard
26737    chamber.
26738 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are
26739    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
26740    Judah?
26741 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their
26742    days.
26743 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
26744    fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah
26745    an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

26746 1 Kings 15

26747  1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
26748    reigned Abijam over Judah.
26749  2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name was
26750    Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
26751  3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
26752    before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his
26753    God, as the heart of David his father.
26754  4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a
26755    lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to
26756    establish Jerusalem:
26757  5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the
26758    LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded
26759    him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah
26760    the Hittite.
26761  6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days
26762    of his life.
26763  7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are
26764    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
26765    Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
26766  8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the
26767    city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
26768  9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned
26769    Asa over Judah.
26770 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
26771    mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
26772 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as
26773    did David his father.
26774 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed
26775    all the idols that his fathers had made.
26776 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being
26777    queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa
26778    destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
26779 14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart
26780    was perfect with the LORD all his days.
26781 15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated,
26782    and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of
26783    the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
26784 16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all
26785    their days.
26786 17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built
26787    Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to
26788    Asa king of Judah.
26789 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in
26790    the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of
26791    the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his
26792    servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of
26793    Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at
26794    Damascus, saying,
26795 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father
26796    and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of
26797    silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of
26798    Israel, that he may depart from me.
26799 20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
26800    the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote
26801    Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with
26802    all the land of Naphtali.
26803 21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left
26804    off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
26805 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none
26806    was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the
26807    timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa
26808    built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
26809 23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all
26810    that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not
26811    written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
26812    Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his
26813    feet.
26814 24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
26815    fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his
26816    son reigned in his stead.
26817 25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in
26818    the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel
26819    two years.
26820 26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the
26821    way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to
26822    sin.
26823 27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
26824    conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon,
26825    which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel
26826    laid siege to Gibbethon.
26827 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay
26828    him, and reigned in his stead.
26829 29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the
26830    house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed,
26831    until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the
26832    LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
26833 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he
26834    made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the
26835    LORD God of Israel to anger.
26836 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are
26837    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
26838    Israel?
26839 32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all
26840    their days.
26841 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
26842    Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four
26843    years.
26844 34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the
26845    way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to
26846    sin.

26847 1 Kings 16

26848  1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani
26849    against Baasha, saying,
26850  2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee
26851    prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way
26852    of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke
26853    me to anger with their sins;
26854  3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the
26855    posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house
26856    of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
26857  4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and
26858    him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air
26859    eat.
26860  5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his
26861    might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
26862    the kings of Israel?
26863  6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah:
26864    and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
26865  7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani
26866    came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his
26867    house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the
26868    LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in
26869    being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
26870  8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah
26871    the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
26872  9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired
26873    against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in
26874    the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
26875 10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty
26876    and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his
26877    stead.
26878 11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat
26879    on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left
26880    him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his
26881    kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
26882 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to
26883    the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu
26884    the prophet.
26885 13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by
26886    which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in
26887    provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
26888 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are
26889    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
26890    Israel?
26891 15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri
26892    reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped
26893    against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
26894 16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath
26895    conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel
26896    made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day
26897    in the camp.
26898 17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and
26899    they besieged Tirzah.
26900 18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken,
26901    that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt
26902    the king's house over him with fire, and died.
26903 19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the
26904    LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which
26905    he did, to make Israel to sin.
26906 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he
26907    wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
26908    the kings of Israel?
26909 21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of
26910    the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king;
26911    and half followed Omri.
26912 22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people
26913    that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri
26914    reigned.
26915 23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri
26916    to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in
26917    Tirzah.
26918 24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of
26919    silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city
26920    which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill,
26921    Samaria.
26922 25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse
26923    than all that were before him.
26924 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and
26925    in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the
26926    LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
26927 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might
26928    that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the
26929    chronicles of the kings of Israel?
26930 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and
26931    Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
26932 29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began
26933    Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of
26934    Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
26935 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD
26936    above all that were before him.
26937 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him
26938    to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took
26939    to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians,
26940    and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
26941 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which
26942    he had built in Samaria.
26943 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD
26944    God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were
26945    before him.
26946 34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
26947    foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the
26948    gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word
26949    of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

26950 1 Kings 17

26951  1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,
26952    said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom
26953    I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
26954    according to my word.
26955  2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
26956  3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by
26957    the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
26958  4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I
26959    have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
26960  5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he
26961    went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
26962  6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and
26963    bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
26964  7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up,
26965    because there had been no rain in the land.
26966  8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
26967  9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and
26968    dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to
26969    sustain thee.
26970 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the
26971    gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering
26972    of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray
26973    thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
26974 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said,
26975    Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
26976 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake,
26977    but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a
26978    cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go
26979    in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and
26980    die.
26981 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast
26982    said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it
26983    unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
26984 14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal
26985    shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until
26986    the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
26987 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and
26988    she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
26989 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of
26990    oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by
26991    Elijah.
26992 17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the
26993    woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness
26994    was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
26995 18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou
26996    man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to
26997    remembrance, and to slay my son?
26998 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of
26999    her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and
27000    laid him upon his own bed.
27001 20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou
27002    also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by
27003    slaying her son?
27004 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried
27005    unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this
27006    child's soul come into him again.
27007 22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the
27008    child came into him again, and he revived.
27009 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the
27010    chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and
27011    Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
27012 24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art
27013    a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is
27014    truth.

27015 1 Kings 18

27016  1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD
27017    came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself
27018    unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
27019  2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a
27020    sore famine in Samaria.
27021  3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house.
27022    (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
27023  4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD,
27024    that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty
27025    in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
27026  5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all
27027    fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may
27028    find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose
27029    not all the beasts.
27030  6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it:
27031    Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by
27032    himself.
27033  7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he
27034    knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my
27035    lord Elijah?
27036  8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah
27037    is here.
27038  9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver
27039    thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
27040 10 As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom,
27041    whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they
27042    said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and
27043    nation, that they found thee not.
27044 11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is
27045    here.
27046 12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee,
27047    that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know
27048    not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find
27049    thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from
27050    my youth.
27051 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the
27052    prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's
27053    prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and
27054    water?
27055 14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is
27056    here: and he shall slay me.
27057 15 And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
27058    stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
27059 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to
27060    meet Elijah.
27061 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto
27062    him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
27063 18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy
27064    father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of
27065    the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
27066 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount
27067    Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and
27068    the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at
27069    Jezebel's table.
27070 20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
27071    prophets together unto mount Carmel.
27072 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt
27073    ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but
27074    if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a
27075    word.
27076 22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a
27077    prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and
27078    fifty men.
27079 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose
27080    one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it
27081    on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other
27082    bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
27083 24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the
27084    name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him
27085    be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well
27086    spoken.
27087 25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one
27088    bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many;
27089    and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
27090 26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they
27091    dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even
27092    until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice,
27093    nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which
27094    was made.
27095 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and
27096    said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he
27097    is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he
27098    sleepeth, and must be awaked.
27099 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner
27100    with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
27101 29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied
27102    until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that
27103    there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that
27104    regarded.
27105 30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And
27106    all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar
27107    of the LORD that was broken down.
27108 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the
27109    tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD
27110    came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
27111 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD:
27112    and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would
27113    contain two measures of seed.
27114 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces,
27115    and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with
27116    water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
27117 34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second
27118    time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the
27119    third time.
27120 35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the
27121    trench also with water.
27122 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening
27123    sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD
27124    God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day
27125    that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and
27126    that I have done all these things at thy word.
27127 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou
27128    art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back
27129    again.
27130 38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt
27131    sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
27132    licked up the water that was in the trench.
27133 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and
27134    they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
27135 40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not
27136    one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought
27137    them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
27138 41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for
27139    there is a sound of abundance of rain.
27140 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the
27141    top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and
27142    put his face between his knees,
27143 43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And
27144    he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he
27145    said, Go again seven times.
27146 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
27147    there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's
27148    hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot,
27149    and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.
27150 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was
27151    black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And
27152    Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
27153 46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his
27154    loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

27155 1 Kings 19

27156  1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how
27157    he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
27158  2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the
27159    gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the
27160    life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
27161  3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and
27162    came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his
27163    servant there.
27164  4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and
27165    came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for
27166    himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O
27167    LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
27168  5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an
27169    angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
27170  6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the
27171    coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and
27172    drink, and laid him down again.
27173  7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and
27174    touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is
27175    too great for thee.
27176  8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength
27177    of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount
27178    of God.
27179  9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and,
27180    behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto
27181    him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
27182 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
27183    hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
27184    thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the
27185    sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to
27186    take it away.
27187 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the
27188    LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong
27189    wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before
27190    the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind
27191    an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
27192 12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the
27193    fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
27194 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face
27195    in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of
27196    the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said,
27197    What doest thou here, Elijah?
27198 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
27199    hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy
27200    covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets
27201    with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my
27202    life, to take it away.
27203 15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the
27204    wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to
27205    be king over Syria:
27206 16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over
27207    Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt
27208    thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
27209 17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of
27210    Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword
27211    of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
27212 18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees
27213    which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not
27214    kissed him.
27215 19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat,
27216    who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he
27217    with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his
27218    mantle upon him.
27219 20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me,
27220    I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will
27221    follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what
27222    have I done to thee?
27223 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and
27224    slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the
27225    oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he
27226    arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

27227 1 Kings 20

27228  1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together:
27229    and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and
27230    chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred
27231    against it.
27232  2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city,
27233    and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
27234  3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy
27235    children, even the goodliest, are mine.
27236  4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king,
27237    according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
27238  5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh
27239    Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou
27240    shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and
27241    thy children;
27242  6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this
27243    time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy
27244    servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in
27245    thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
27246  7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and
27247    said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief:
27248    for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for
27249    my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
27250  8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken
27251    not unto him, nor consent.
27252  9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my
27253    lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at
27254    the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the
27255    messengers departed, and brought him word again.
27256 10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me,
27257    and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for
27258    handfuls for all the people that follow me.
27259 11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not
27260    him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that
27261    putteth it off.
27262 12 And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he
27263    was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said
27264    unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set
27265    themselves in array against the city.
27266 13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel,
27267    saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great
27268    multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day;
27269    and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
27270 14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even
27271    by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he
27272    said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
27273 15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the
27274    provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after
27275    them he numbered all the people, even all the children of
27276    Israel, being seven thousand.
27277 16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself
27278    drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two
27279    kings that helped him.
27280 17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out
27281    first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There
27282    are men come out of Samaria.
27283 18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them
27284    alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
27285 19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of
27286    the city, and the army which followed them.
27287 20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and
27288    Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on
27289    an horse with the horsemen.
27290 21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and
27291    chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
27292 22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him,
27293    Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for
27294    at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up
27295    against thee.
27296 23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their
27297    gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than
27298    we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we
27299    shall be stronger than they.
27300 24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his
27301    place, and put captains in their rooms:
27302 25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost,
27303    horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight
27304    against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger
27305    than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
27306 26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad
27307    numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against
27308    Israel.
27309 27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all
27310    present, and went against them: and the children of Israel
27311    pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the
27312    Syrians filled the country.
27313 28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of
27314    Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians
27315    have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of
27316    the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude
27317    into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
27318 29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so
27319    it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the
27320    children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand
27321    footmen in one day.
27322 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall
27323    fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left.
27324    And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner
27325    chamber.
27326 31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that
27327    the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I
27328    pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our
27329    heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will
27330    save thy life.
27331 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on
27332    their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy
27333    servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said,
27334    Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
27335 33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would
27336    come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy
27337    brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then
27338    Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into
27339    the chariot.
27340 34 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took
27341    from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets
27342    for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said
27343    Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a
27344    covenant with him, and sent him away.
27345 35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his
27346    neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And
27347    the man refused to smite him.
27348 36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice
27349    of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a
27350    lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him,
27351    a lion found him, and slew him.
27352 37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee.
27353    And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
27354 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way,
27355    and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
27356 39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he
27357    said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and,
27358    behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and
27359    said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall
27360    thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of
27361    silver.
27362 40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And
27363    the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be;
27364    thyself hast decided it.
27365 41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the
27366    king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
27367 42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast
27368    let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter
27369    destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy
27370    people for his people.
27371 43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased,
27372    and came to Samaria.

27373 1 Kings 21

27374  1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the
27375    Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the
27376    palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
27377  2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that
27378    I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto
27379    my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than
27380    it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of
27381    it in money.
27382  3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should
27383    give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
27384  4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of
27385    the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he
27386    had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.
27387    And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face,
27388    and would eat no bread.
27389  5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is
27390    thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
27391  6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the
27392    Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money;
27393    or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard
27394    for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
27395  7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the
27396    kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart
27397    be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the
27398    Jezreelite.
27399  8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his
27400    seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles
27401    that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
27402  9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set
27403    Naboth on high among the people:
27404 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness
27405    against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king.
27406    And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
27407 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who
27408    were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto
27409    them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent
27410    unto them.
27411 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the
27412    people.
27413 13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before
27414    him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against
27415    Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did
27416    blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of
27417    the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
27418 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is
27419    dead.
27420 15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
27421    stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take
27422    possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he
27423    refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but
27424    dead.
27425 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead,
27426    that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the
27427    Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
27428 17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
27429 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in
27430    Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he
27431    is gone down to possess it.
27432 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD,
27433    Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt
27434    speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place
27435    where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy
27436    blood, even thine.
27437 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And
27438    he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself
27439    to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
27440 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
27441    posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against
27442    the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
27443 22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son
27444    of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for
27445    the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and
27446    made Israel to sin.
27447 23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat
27448    Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
27449 24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him
27450    that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
27451 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to
27452    work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his
27453    wife stirred up.
27454 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to
27455    all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before
27456    the children of Israel.
27457 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent
27458    his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and
27459    lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
27460 28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
27461 29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he
27462    humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his
27463    days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his
27464    house.

27465 1 Kings 22

27466  1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and
27467    Israel.
27468  2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the
27469    king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
27470  3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that
27471    Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out
27472    of the hand of the king of Syria?
27473  4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle
27474    to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I
27475    am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy
27476    horses.
27477  5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
27478    thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
27479  6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about
27480    four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against
27481    Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go
27482    up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
27483  7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
27484    besides, that we might enquire of him?
27485  8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one
27486    man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the
27487    LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning
27488    me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
27489  9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten
27490    hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
27491 10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat
27492    each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place
27493    in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets
27494    prophesied before them.
27495 11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and
27496    he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the
27497    Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
27498 12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
27499    Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into
27500    the king's hand.
27501 13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto
27502    him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare
27503    good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee,
27504    be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
27505 14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto
27506    me, that will I speak.
27507 15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah,
27508    shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we
27509    forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD
27510    shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
27511 16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee
27512    that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name
27513    of the LORD?
27514 17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as
27515    sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have
27516    no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
27517 18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
27518    thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
27519 19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw
27520    the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven
27521    standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
27522 20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up
27523    and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and
27524    another said on that manner.
27525 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
27526    said, I will persuade him.
27527 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go
27528    forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
27529    prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persude him, and prevail
27530    also: go forth, and do so.
27531 23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
27532    mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
27533    concerning thee.
27534 24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah
27535    on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD
27536    from me to speak unto thee?
27537 25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when
27538    thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
27539 26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back
27540    unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
27541    son;
27542 27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison,
27543    and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
27544    affliction, until I come in peace.
27545 28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD
27546    hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every
27547    one of you.
27548 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went
27549    up to Ramothgilead.
27550 30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
27551    myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes.
27552    And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the
27553    battle.
27554 31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains
27555    that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with
27556    small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
27557 32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
27558    Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel.
27559    And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat
27560    cried out.
27561 33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots
27562    perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned
27563    back from pursuing him.
27564 34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king
27565    of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said
27566    unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me
27567    out of the host; for I am wounded.
27568 35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up
27569    in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the
27570    blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
27571 36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the
27572    going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and
27573    every man to his own country.
27574 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried
27575    the king in Samaria.
27576 38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the
27577    dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour;
27578    according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
27579 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the
27580    ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built,
27581    are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
27582    kings of Israel?
27583 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in
27584    his stead.
27585 41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in
27586    the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
27587 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to
27588    reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And
27589    his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
27590 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not
27591    aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the
27592    LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for
27593    the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
27594 44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
27595 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
27596    shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of
27597    the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
27598 46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days
27599    of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
27600 47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
27601 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold:
27602    but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
27603 49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my
27604    servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat
27605    would not.
27606 50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with
27607    his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his
27608    son reigned in his stead.
27609 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria
27610    the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned
27611    two years over Israel.
27612 52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the
27613    way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the
27614    way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
27615 53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger
27616    the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had
27617    done.

27618 Book 12 2 Kings

27619 2 Kings 1

27620  1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
27621  2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber
27622    that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and
27623    said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron
27624    whether I shall recover of this disease.
27625  3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise,
27626    go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say
27627    unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel,
27628    that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
27629  4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down
27630    from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
27631    And Elijah departed.
27632  5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto
27633    them, Why are ye now turned back?
27634  6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and
27635    said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and
27636    say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is
27637    not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub
27638    the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that
27639    bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
27640  7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up
27641    to meet you, and told you these words?
27642  8 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a
27643    girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah
27644    the Tishbite.
27645  9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty.
27646    And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an
27647    hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath
27648    said, Come down.
27649 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be
27650    a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume
27651    thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and
27652    consumed him and his fifty.
27653 11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his
27654    fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus
27655    hath the king said, Come down quickly.
27656 12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God,
27657    let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
27658    fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed
27659    him and his fifty.
27660 13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty.
27661    And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on
27662    his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him,
27663    O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these
27664    fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
27665 14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two
27666    captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore
27667    let my life now be precious in thy sight.
27668 15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him:
27669    be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him
27670    unto the king.
27671 16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou
27672    hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron,
27673    is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his
27674    word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which
27675    thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
27676 17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had
27677    spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of
27678    Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had
27679    no son.
27680 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not
27681    written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

27682 2 Kings 2

27683  1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into
27684    heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from
27685    Gilgal.
27686  2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the
27687    LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the
27688    LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So
27689    they went down to Bethel.
27690  3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to
27691    Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will
27692    take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I
27693    know it; hold ye your peace.
27694  4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for
27695    the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD
27696    liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they
27697    came to Jericho.
27698  5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to
27699    Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will
27700    take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered,
27701    Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
27702  6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the
27703    LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth,
27704    and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two
27705    went on.
27706  7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to
27707    view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
27708  8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote
27709    the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that
27710    they two went over on dry ground.
27711  9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah
27712    said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be
27713    taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a
27714    double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
27715 10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if
27716    thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto
27717    thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
27718 11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that,
27719    behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire,
27720    and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a
27721    whirlwind into heaven.
27722 12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the
27723    chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no
27724    more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in
27725    two pieces.
27726 13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
27727    went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
27728 14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote
27729    the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and
27730    when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and
27731    thither: and Elisha went over.
27732 15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at
27733    Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on
27734    Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
27735    ground before him.
27736 16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants
27737    fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy
27738    master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken
27739    him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley.
27740    And he said, Ye shall not send.
27741 17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send.
27742    They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but
27743    found him not.
27744 18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,)
27745    he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
27746 19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee,
27747    the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but
27748    the water is naught, and the ground barren.
27749 20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And
27750    they brought it to him.
27751 21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the
27752    salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed
27753    these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or
27754    barren land.
27755 22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the
27756    saying of Elisha which he spake.
27757 23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up
27758    by the way, there came forth little children out of the city,
27759    and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go
27760    up, thou bald head.
27761 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the
27762    name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of
27763    the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
27764 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
27765    returned to Samaria.

27766 2 Kings 3

27767  1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
27768    Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and
27769    reigned twelve years.
27770  2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his
27771    father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal
27772    that his father had made.
27773  3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of
27774    Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
27775  4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto
27776    the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred
27777    thousand rams, with the wool.
27778  5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab
27779    rebelled against the king of Israel.
27780  6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
27781    numbered all Israel.
27782  7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying,
27783    The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with
27784    me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as
27785    thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy
27786    horses.
27787  8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The
27788    way through the wilderness of Edom.
27789  9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the
27790    king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days'
27791    journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the
27792    cattle that followed them.
27793 10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called
27794    these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of
27795    Moab!
27796 11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD,
27797    that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of
27798    Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of
27799    Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
27800 12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the
27801    king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down
27802    to him.
27803 13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do
27804    with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the
27805    prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him,
27806    Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to
27807    deliver them into the hand of Moab.
27808 14 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
27809    stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of
27810    Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee,
27811    nor see thee.
27812 15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
27813    minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
27814 16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of
27815    ditches.
27816 17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall
27817    ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that
27818    ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
27819 18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he
27820    will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
27821 19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city,
27822    and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water,
27823    and mar every good piece of land with stones.
27824 20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was
27825    offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom,
27826    and the country was filled with water.
27827 21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to
27828    fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on
27829    armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
27830 22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon
27831    the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as
27832    red as blood:
27833 23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and
27834    they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the
27835    spoil.
27836 24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose
27837    up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but
27838    they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
27839 25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land
27840    cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all
27841    the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in
27842    Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers
27843    went about it, and smote it.
27844 26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for
27845    him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to
27846    break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
27847 27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his
27848    stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And
27849    there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed
27850    from him, and returned to their own land.

27851 2 Kings 4

27852  1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of
27853    the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is
27854    dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and
27855    the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be
27856    bondmen.
27857  2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me,
27858    what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath
27859    not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
27860  3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
27861    neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
27862  4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee
27863    and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels,
27864    and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
27865  5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her
27866    sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
27867  6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said
27868    unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her,
27869    There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
27870  7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell
27871    the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of
27872    the rest.
27873  8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was
27874    a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it
27875    was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat
27876    bread.
27877  9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that
27878    this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
27879 10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and
27880    let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and
27881    a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he
27882    shall turn in thither.
27883 11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into
27884    the chamber, and lay there.
27885 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And
27886    when he had called her, she stood before him.
27887 13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been
27888    careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for
27889    thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the
27890    captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own
27891    people.
27892 14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi
27893    answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
27894 15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood
27895    in the door.
27896 16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life,
27897    thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man
27898    of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
27899 17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
27900    Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
27901 18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went
27902    out to his father to the reapers.
27903 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to
27904    a lad, Carry him to his mother.
27905 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he
27906    sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
27907 21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God,
27908    and shut the door upon him, and went out.
27909 22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray
27910    thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may
27911    run to the man of God, and come again.
27912 23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is
27913    neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
27914 24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and
27915    go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
27916 25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And
27917    it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he
27918    said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
27919 26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it
27920    well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with
27921    the child? And she answered, It is well:
27922 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught
27923    him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And
27924    the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed
27925    within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not
27926    told me.
27927 28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say,
27928    Do not deceive me?
27929 29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff
27930    in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute
27931    him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay
27932    my staff upon the face of the child.
27933 30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as
27934    thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and
27935    followed her.
27936 31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the
27937    face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing.
27938    Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The
27939    child is not awaked.
27940 32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was
27941    dead, and laid upon his bed.
27942 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and
27943    prayed unto the LORD.
27944 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon
27945    his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his
27946    hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of
27947    the child waxed warm.
27948 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went
27949    up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed
27950    seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
27951 36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he
27952    called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take
27953    up thy son.
27954 37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to
27955    the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
27956 38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the
27957    land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him:
27958    and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe
27959    pottage for the sons of the prophets.
27960 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a
27961    wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and
27962    came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew
27963    them not.
27964 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as
27965    they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and
27966    said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they
27967    could not eat thereof.
27968 41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and
27969    he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there
27970    was no harm in the pot.
27971 42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of
27972    God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and
27973    full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto
27974    the people, that they may eat.
27975 43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an
27976    hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may
27977    eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave
27978    thereof.
27979 44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof,
27980    according to the word of the LORD.

27981 2 Kings 5

27982  1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a
27983    great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the
27984    LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty
27985    man in valour, but he was a leper.
27986  2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought
27987    away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she
27988    waited on Naaman's wife.
27989  3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with
27990    the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of
27991    his leprosy.
27992  4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said
27993    the maid that is of the land of Israel.
27994  5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a
27995    letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with
27996    him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold,
27997    and ten changes of raiment.
27998  6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now
27999    when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith
28000    sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him
28001    of his leprosy.
28002  7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the
28003    letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill
28004    and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover
28005    a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see
28006    how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
28007  8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the
28008    king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king,
28009    saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now
28010    to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
28011  9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood
28012    at the door of the house of Elisha.
28013 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in
28014    Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee,
28015    and thou shalt be clean.
28016 11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I
28017    thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on
28018    the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the
28019    place, and recover the leper.
28020 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all
28021    the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So
28022    he turned and went away in a rage.
28023 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My
28024    father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing,
28025    wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he
28026    saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
28027 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan,
28028    according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came
28029    again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
28030 15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and
28031    came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know
28032    that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now
28033    therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
28034 16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will
28035    receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
28036 17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given
28037    to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant
28038    will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice
28039    unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
28040 18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master
28041    goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he
28042    leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon:
28043    when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon
28044    thy servant in this thing.
28045 19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a
28046    little way.
28047 20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
28048    Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not
28049    receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD
28050    liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
28051 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him
28052    running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet
28053    him, and said, Is all well?
28054 22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying,
28055    Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two
28056    young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee,
28057    a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
28058 23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged
28059    him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two
28060    changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants;
28061    and they bare them before him.
28062 24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand,
28063    and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and
28064    they departed.
28065 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said
28066    unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant
28067    went no whither.
28068 26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the
28069    man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time
28070    to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and
28071    vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
28072    maidservants?
28073 27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and
28074    unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a
28075    leper as white as snow.

28076 2 Kings 6

28077  1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the
28078    place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
28079  2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every
28080    man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may
28081    dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
28082  3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy
28083    servants. And he answered, I will go.
28084  4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut
28085    down wood.
28086  5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the
28087    water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
28088    borrowed.
28089  6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the
28090    place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and
28091    the iron did swim.
28092  7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his
28093    hand, and took it.
28094  8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel
28095    with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be
28096    my camp.
28097  9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying,
28098    Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the
28099    Syrians are come down.
28100 10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God
28101    told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once
28102    nor twice.
28103 11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for
28104    this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them,
28105    Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
28106 12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but
28107    Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of
28108    Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
28109 13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch
28110    him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
28111 14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great
28112    host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
28113 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and
28114    gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with
28115    horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my
28116    master! how shall we do?
28117 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more
28118    than they that be with them.
28119 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes,
28120    that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young
28121    man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses
28122    and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
28123 18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD,
28124    and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And
28125    he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
28126 19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is
28127    this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom
28128    ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
28129 20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that
28130    Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may
28131    see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and,
28132    behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
28133 21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My
28134    father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
28135 22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou
28136    smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and
28137    with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may
28138    eat and drink, and go to their master.
28139 23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had
28140    eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their
28141    master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of
28142    Israel.
28143 24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria
28144    gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
28145 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they
28146    besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces
28147    of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for
28148    five pieces of silver.
28149 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there
28150    cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
28151 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help
28152    thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
28153 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
28154    answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may
28155    eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
28156 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on
28157    the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath
28158    hid her son.
28159 30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
28160    woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the
28161    wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth
28162    within upon his flesh.
28163 31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
28164    Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
28165 32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and
28166    the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger
28167    came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a
28168    murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the
28169    messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the
28170    door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
28171 33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came
28172    down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD;
28173    what should I wait for the LORD any longer?

28174 2 Kings 7

28175  1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the
28176    LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour
28177    be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,
28178    in the gate of Samaria.
28179  2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of
28180    God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in
28181    heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt
28182    see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
28183  3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the
28184    gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we
28185    die?
28186  4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in
28187    the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we
28188    die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of
28189    the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they
28190    kill us, we shall but die.
28191  5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
28192    Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the
28193    camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
28194  6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise
28195    of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great
28196    host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel
28197    hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings
28198    of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
28199  7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their
28200    tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it
28201    was, and fled for their life.
28202  8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp,
28203    they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried
28204    thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and
28205    came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence
28206    also, and went and hid it.
28207  9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a
28208    day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till
28209    the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now
28210    therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
28211 10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they
28212    told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and,
28213    behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but
28214    horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
28215 11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's
28216    house within.
28217 12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I
28218    will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know
28219    that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to
28220    hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of
28221    the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
28222 13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I
28223    pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in
28224    the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel
28225    that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the
28226    multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us
28227    send and see.
28228 14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent
28229    after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
28230 15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was
28231    full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away
28232    in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the
28233    king.
28234 16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians.
28235    So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two
28236    measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the
28237    LORD.
28238 17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to
28239    have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in
28240    the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake
28241    when the king came down to him.
28242 18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king,
28243    saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of
28244    fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in
28245    the gate of Samaria:
28246 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold,
28247    if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing
28248    be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,
28249    but shalt not eat thereof.
28250 20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in
28251    the gate, and he died.

28252 2 Kings 8

28253  1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to
28254    life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and
28255    sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath
28256    called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land
28257    seven years.
28258  2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of
28259    God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the
28260    land of the Philistines seven years.
28261  3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman
28262    returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went
28263    forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
28264  4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God,
28265    saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha
28266    hath done.
28267  5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
28268    restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose
28269    son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house
28270    and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is
28271    the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
28272  6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
28273    appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
28274    was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that
28275    she left the land, even until now.
28276  7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria
28277    was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come
28278    hither.
28279  8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand,
28280    and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him,
28281    saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
28282  9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even
28283    of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and
28284    came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of
28285    Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this
28286    disease?
28287 10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
28288    certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he
28289    shall surely die.
28290 11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
28291    ashamed: and the man of God wept.
28292 12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because
28293    I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel:
28294    their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men
28295    wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children,
28296    and rip up their women with child.
28297 13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he
28298    should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath
28299    shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
28300 14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said
28301    to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me
28302    that thou shouldest surely recover.
28303 15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth,
28304    and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he
28305    died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
28306 16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
28307    Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Je
28308    hoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
28309 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he
28310    reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
28311 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the
28312    house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he
28313    did evil in the sight of the LORD.
28314 19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's
28315    sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his
28316    children.
28317 20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
28318    made a king over themselves.
28319 21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and
28320    he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him
28321    about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled
28322    into their tents.
28323 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day.
28324    Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
28325 23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are
28326    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
28327    Judah?
28328 24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
28329    fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in
28330    his stead.
28331 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel
28332    did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
28333 26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign;
28334    and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
28335    was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
28336 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in
28337    the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was
28338    the son in law of the house of Ahab.
28339 28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
28340    Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded
28341    Joram.
28342 29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
28343    which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought
28344    against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram
28345    king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in
28346    Jezreel, because he was sick.

28347 2 Kings 9

28348  1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
28349    prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this
28350    box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
28351  2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
28352    Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise
28353    up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
28354  3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say,
28355    Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
28356    Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
28357  4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
28358    Ramothgilead.
28359  5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were
28360    sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And
28361    Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O
28362    captain.
28363  6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil
28364    on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
28365    Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD,
28366    even over Israel.
28367  7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may
28368    avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of
28369    all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
28370  8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off
28371    from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is
28372    shut up and left in Israel:
28373  9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam
28374    the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
28375    Ahijah:
28376 10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and
28377    there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and
28378    fled.
28379 11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said
28380    unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee?
28381    And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
28382 12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and
28383    thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have
28384    anointed thee king over Israel.
28385 13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it
28386    under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets,
28387    saying, Jehu is king.
28388 14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
28389    against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all
28390    Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
28391 15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
28392    wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with
28393    Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds,
28394    then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to
28395    tell it in Jezreel.
28396 16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay
28397    there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
28398 17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
28399    spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
28400    company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet
28401    them, and let him say, Is it peace?
28402 18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus
28403    saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to
28404    do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told,
28405    saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
28406 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them,
28407    and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered,
28408    What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
28409 20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and
28410    cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu
28411    the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
28412 21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready.
28413    And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out,
28414    each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met
28415    him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
28416 22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it
28417    peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the
28418    whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so
28419    many?
28420 23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah,
28421    There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
28422 24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram
28423    between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he
28424    sunk down in his chariot.
28425 25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in
28426    the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for
28427    remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab
28428    his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
28429 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the
28430    blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in
28431    this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him
28432    into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
28433 27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the
28434    way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and
28435    said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the
28436    going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo,
28437    and died there.
28438 28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
28439    buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of
28440    David.
28441 29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
28442    Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
28443 30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and
28444    she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a
28445    window.
28446 31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace,
28447    who slew his master?
28448 32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on
28449    my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three
28450    eunuchs.
28451 33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some
28452    of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and
28453    he trode her under foot.
28454 34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go,
28455    see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's
28456    daughter.
28457 35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than
28458    the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
28459 36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is
28460    the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the
28461    Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the
28462    flesh of Jezebel:
28463 37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of
28464    the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not
28465    say, This is Jezebel.

28466 2 Kings 10

28467  1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters,
28468    and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the
28469    elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
28470  2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's
28471    sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses,
28472    a fenced city also, and armour;
28473  3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and
28474    set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's
28475    house.
28476  4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings
28477    stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
28478  5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city,
28479    the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to
28480    Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou
28481    shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is
28482    good in thine eyes.
28483  6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye
28484    be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the
28485    heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel
28486    by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy
28487    persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought
28488    them up.
28489  7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they
28490    took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their
28491    heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
28492  8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have
28493    brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them
28494    in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
28495  9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and
28496    stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I
28497    conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all
28498    these?
28499 10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the
28500    word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of
28501    Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his
28502    servant Elijah.
28503 11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
28504    Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his
28505    priests, until he left him none remaining.
28506 12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was
28507    at the shearing house in the way,
28508 13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said,
28509    Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah;
28510    and we go down to salute the children of the king and the
28511    children of the queen.
28512 14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and
28513    slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty
28514    men; neither left he any of them.
28515 15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the
28516    son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said
28517    to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart?
28518    And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand.
28519    And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the
28520    chariot.
28521 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So
28522    they made him ride in his chariot.
28523 17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto
28524    Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the
28525    saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
28526 18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them,
28527    Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
28528 19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his
28529    servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have
28530    a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting,
28531    he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent
28532    that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
28533 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they
28534    proclaimed it.
28535 21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of
28536    Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And
28537    they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was
28538    full from one end to another.
28539 22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth
28540    vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them
28541    forth vestments.
28542 23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house
28543    of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and
28544    look that there be here with you none of the servants of the
28545    LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
28546 24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings,
28547    Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the
28548    men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that
28549    letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
28550 25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering
28551    the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the
28552    captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they
28553    smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
28554    captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of
28555    Baal.
28556 26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal,
28557    and burned them.
28558 27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the
28559    house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
28560 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
28561 29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
28562    Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the
28563    golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
28564 30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in
28565    executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto
28566    the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy
28567    children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of
28568    Israel.
28569 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of
28570    Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins
28571    of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
28572 32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael
28573    smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
28574 33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and
28575    the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by
28576    the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
28577 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all
28578    his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
28579    of the kings of Israel?
28580 35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
28581    Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
28582 36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was
28583    twenty and eight years.

28584 2 Kings 11

28585  1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
28586    dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
28587  2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
28588    took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the
28589    king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and
28590    his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not
28591    slain.
28592  3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years.
28593    And Athaliah did reign over the land.
28594  4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over
28595    hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to
28596    him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them,
28597    and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed
28598    them the king's son.
28599  5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall
28600    do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall
28601    even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
28602  6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part
28603    at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of
28604    the house, that it be not broken down.
28605  7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even
28606    they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the
28607    king.
28608  8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his
28609    weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let
28610    him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as
28611    he cometh in.
28612  9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things
28613    that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man
28614    his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that
28615    should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
28616 10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
28617    David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the
28618    LORD.
28619 11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand,
28620    round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to
28621    the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the
28622    temple.
28623 12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon
28624    him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and
28625    anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save
28626    the king.
28627 13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the
28628    people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
28629 14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as
28630    the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the
28631    king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with
28632    trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,
28633    Treason.
28634 15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
28635    hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have
28636    her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill
28637    with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain
28638    in the house of the LORD.
28639 16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the
28640    which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she
28641    slain.
28642 17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and
28643    the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the
28644    king also and the people.
28645 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal,
28646    and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in
28647    pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before
28648    the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house
28649    of the LORD.
28650 19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and
28651    the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought
28652    down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way
28653    of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on
28654    the throne of the kings.
28655 20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in
28656    quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's
28657    house.
28658 21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

28659 2 Kings 12

28660  1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty
28661    years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
28662    Zibiah of Beersheba.
28663  2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
28664    all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
28665  3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still
28666    sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
28667  4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
28668    dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD,
28669    even the money of every one that passeth the account, the
28670    money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh
28671    into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
28672  5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his
28673    acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house,
28674    wheresoever any breach shall be found.
28675  6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king
28676    Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the
28677    house.
28678  7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the
28679    other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the
28680    breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of
28681    your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
28682    house.
28683  8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the
28684    people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
28685  9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the
28686    lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as
28687    one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that
28688    kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into
28689    the house of the LORD.
28690 10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the
28691    chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and
28692    they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the
28693    house of the LORD.
28694 11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them
28695    that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the
28696    LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders,
28697    that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
28698 12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and
28699    hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD,
28700    and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
28701 13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of
28702    silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or
28703    vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the
28704    house of the LORD:
28705 14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the
28706    house of the LORD.
28707 15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they
28708    delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
28709    faithfully.
28710 16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the
28711    house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
28712 17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath,
28713    and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
28714 18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
28715    Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of
28716    Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the
28717    gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD,
28718    and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria:
28719    and he went away from Jerusalem.
28720 19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are
28721    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
28722    Judah?
28723 20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash
28724    in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
28725 21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
28726    Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried
28727    him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son
28728    reigned in his stead.

28729 2 Kings 13

28730  1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah
28731    king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over
28732    Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
28733  2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
28734    followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made
28735    Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
28736  3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
28737    delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into
28738    the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
28739  4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto
28740    him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of
28741    Syria oppressed them.
28742  5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out
28743    from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel
28744    dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
28745  6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of
28746    Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there
28747    remained the grove also in Samaria.)
28748  7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
28749    horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the
28750    king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the
28751    dust by threshing.
28752  8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and
28753    his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
28754    of the kings of Israel?
28755  9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
28756    Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
28757 10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began
28758    Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,
28759    and reigned sixteen years.
28760 11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he
28761    departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
28762    who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
28763 12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and
28764    his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah,
28765    are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
28766    kings of Israel?
28767 13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his
28768    throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of
28769    Israel.
28770 14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died.
28771    And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over
28772    his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of
28773    Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
28774 15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took
28775    unto him bow and arrows.
28776 16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the
28777    bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands
28778    upon the king's hands.
28779 17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then
28780    Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the
28781    LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria:
28782    for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have
28783    consumed them.
28784 18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said
28785    unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote
28786    thrice, and stayed.
28787 19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
28788    shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou
28789    smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou
28790    shalt smite Syria but thrice.
28791 20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
28792    Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
28793 21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold,
28794    they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the
28795    sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and
28796    touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his
28797    feet.
28798 22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
28799    Jehoahaz.
28800 23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on
28801    them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with
28802    Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither
28803    cast he them from his presence as yet.
28804 24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in
28805    his stead.
28806 25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
28807    Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out
28808    of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did
28809    Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

28810 2 Kings 14

28811  1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
28812    reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
28813  2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and
28814    reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
28815    name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
28816  3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet
28817    not like David his father: he did according to all things as
28818    Joash his father did.
28819  4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people
28820    did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
28821  5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in
28822    his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king
28823    his father.
28824  6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto
28825    that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein
28826    the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to
28827    death for the children, nor the children be put to death for
28828    the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own
28829    sin.
28830  7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took
28831    Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this
28832    day.
28833  8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz
28834    son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one
28835    another in the face.
28836  9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
28837    saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
28838    was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife:
28839    and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
28840    trode down the thistle.
28841 10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted
28842    thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest
28843    thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou,
28844    and Judah with thee?
28845 11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel
28846    went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another
28847    in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
28848 12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled
28849    every man to their tents.
28850 13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son
28851    of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to
28852    Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate
28853    of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
28854 14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that
28855    were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of
28856    the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
28857 15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
28858    might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they
28859    not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
28860    Israel?
28861 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria
28862    with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his
28863    stead.
28864 17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
28865    death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
28866 18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in
28867    the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
28868 19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he
28869    fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew
28870    him there.
28871 20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem
28872    with his fathers in the city of David.
28873 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen
28874    years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
28875 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
28876    slept with his fathers.
28877 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
28878    Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign
28879    in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
28880 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
28881    departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
28882    who made Israel to sin.
28883 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath
28884    unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD
28885    God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant
28886    Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of
28887    Gathhepher.
28888 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very
28889    bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any
28890    helper for Israel.
28891 27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of
28892    Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of
28893    Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28894 28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and
28895    his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and
28896    Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not
28897    written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
28898 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of
28899    Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

28900 2 Kings 15

28901  1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
28902    began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
28903  2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he
28904    reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
28905    name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
28906  3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
28907    according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
28908  4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
28909    sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
28910  5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the
28911    day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the
28912    king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
28913  6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are
28914    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
28915    Judah?
28916  7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with
28917    his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned
28918    in his stead.
28919  8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
28920    Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
28921    months.
28922  9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as
28923    his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of
28924    Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
28925 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote
28926    him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
28927 11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are
28928    written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
28929 12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu,
28930    saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the
28931    fourth generation. And so it came to pass.
28932 13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
28933    thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full
28934    month in Samaria.
28935 14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to
28936    Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
28937    slew him, and reigned in his stead.
28938 15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which
28939    he made, behold, they are written in the book of the
28940    chronicles of the kings of Israel.
28941 16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the
28942    coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him,
28943    therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were
28944    with child he ripped up.
28945 17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
28946    Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten
28947    years in Samaria.
28948 18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
28949    departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
28950    Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
28951 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem
28952    gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be
28953    with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
28954 20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the
28955    mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to
28956    give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned
28957    back, and stayed not there in the land.
28958 21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are
28959    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
28960    Israel?
28961 22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
28962    reigned in his stead.
28963 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son
28964    of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned
28965    two years.
28966 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
28967    departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
28968    made Israel to sin.
28969 25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
28970    against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the
28971    king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of
28972    the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
28973 26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
28974    behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
28975    kings of Israel.
28976 27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah
28977    the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
28978    reigned twenty years.
28979 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
28980    departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
28981    made Israel to sin.
28982 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king
28983    of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah,
28984    and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land
28985    of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
28986 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the
28987    son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in
28988    his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
28989 31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
28990    behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
28991    kings of Israel.
28992 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel
28993    began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
28994 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and
28995    he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
28996    was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
28997 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he
28998    did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
28999 35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
29000    sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He
29001    built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
29002 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are
29003    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
29004    Judah?
29005 37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the
29006    king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
29007 38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
29008    fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son
29009    reigned in his stead.

29010 2 Kings 16

29011  1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the
29012    son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
29013  2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned
29014    sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right
29015    in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
29016  3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made
29017    his son to pass through the fire, according to the
29018    abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from
29019    before the children of Israel.
29020  4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on
29021    the hills, and under every green tree.
29022  5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
29023    Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz,
29024    but could not overcome him.
29025  6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and
29026    drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and
29027    dwelt there unto this day.
29028  7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
29029    saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out
29030    of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the
29031    king of Israel, which rise up against me.
29032  8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house
29033    of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and
29034    sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
29035  9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of
29036    Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the
29037    people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
29038 10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of
29039    Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz
29040    sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the
29041    pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
29042 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that
29043    king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it
29044    against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
29045 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
29046    altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered
29047    thereon.
29048 13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and
29049    poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his
29050    peace offerings, upon the altar.
29051 14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the
29052    LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar
29053    and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the
29054    altar.
29055 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the
29056    great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening
29057    meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat
29058    offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the
29059    land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and
29060    sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all
29061    the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for
29062    me to enquire by.
29063 16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz
29064    commanded.
29065 17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed
29066    the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the
29067    brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the pavement
29068    of stones.
29069 18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the
29070    house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house
29071    of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
29072 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not
29073    written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29074 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
29075    fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in
29076    his stead.

29077 2 Kings 17

29078  1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son
29079    of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
29080  2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but
29081    not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
29082  3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
29083    became his servant, and gave him presents.
29084  4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had
29085    sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to
29086    the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore
29087    the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
29088  5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and
29089    went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
29090  6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,
29091    and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah
29092    and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
29093    Medes.
29094  7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against
29095    the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land
29096    of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
29097    had feared other gods,
29098  8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast
29099    out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of
29100    Israel, which they had made.
29101  9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were
29102    not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high
29103    places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to
29104    the fenced city.
29105 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and
29106    under every green tree:
29107 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did
29108    the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and
29109    wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
29110 12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye
29111    shall not do this thing.
29112 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by
29113    all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from
29114    your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes,
29115    according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and
29116    which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
29117 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks,
29118    like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the
29119    LORD their God.
29120 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made
29121    with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified
29122    against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and
29123    went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning
29124    whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like
29125    them.
29126 16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and
29127    made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove,
29128    and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
29129 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through
29130    the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
29131    themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
29132    to anger.
29133 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
29134    them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of
29135    Judah only.
29136 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God,
29137    but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
29138 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted
29139    them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he
29140    had cast them out of his sight.
29141 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
29142    Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from
29143    following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
29144 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam
29145    which he did; they departed not from them;
29146 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said
29147    by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away
29148    out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
29149 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
29150    Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim,
29151    and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the
29152    children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in
29153    the cities thereof.
29154 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that
29155    they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among
29156    them, which slew some of them.
29157 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The
29158    nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
29159    Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore
29160    he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them,
29161    because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
29162 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one
29163    of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go
29164    and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God
29165    of the land.
29166 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
29167    Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they
29168    should fear the LORD.
29169 29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in
29170    the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,
29171    every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
29172 30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth
29173    made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
29174 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites
29175    burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech,
29176    the gods of Sepharvaim.
29177 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the
29178    lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed
29179    for them in the houses of the high places.
29180 33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the
29181    manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
29182 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not
29183    the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
29184    ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD
29185    commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
29186 35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them,
29187    saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to
29188    them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
29189 36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with
29190    great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and
29191    him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
29192 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
29193    commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do
29194    for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
29195 38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not
29196    forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
29197 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you
29198    out of the hand of all your enemies.
29199 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former
29200    manner.
29201 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
29202    images, both their children, and their children's children: as
29203    did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

29204 2 Kings 18

29205  1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah
29206    king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah
29207    began to reign.
29208  2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and
29209    he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's
29210    name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
29211  3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
29212    according to all that David his father did.
29213  4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down
29214    the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses
29215    had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn
29216    incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
29217  5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was
29218    none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were
29219    before him.
29220  6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him,
29221    but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
29222  7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he
29223    went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and
29224    served him not.
29225  8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders
29226    thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
29227  9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which
29228    was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,
29229    that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and
29230    besieged it.
29231 10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth
29232    year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of Hoshea king of
29233    Israel, Samaria was taken.
29234 11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria,
29235    and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and
29236    in the cities of the Medes:
29237 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but
29238    transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of
29239    the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
29240 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib
29241    king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of
29242    Judah, and took them.
29243 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
29244    Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which
29245    thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria
29246    appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of
29247    silver and thirty talents of gold.
29248 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the
29249    house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
29250 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of
29251    the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah
29252    king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
29253    Assyria.
29254 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh
29255    from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against
29256    Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when
29257    they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the
29258    upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
29259 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them
29260    Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and
29261    Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
29262 19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
29263    saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is
29264    this wherein thou trustest?
29265 20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and
29266    strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou
29267    rebellest against me?
29268 21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised
29269    reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into
29270    his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all
29271    that trust on him.
29272 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not
29273    that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
29274    taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
29275    worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
29276 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king
29277    of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if
29278    thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
29279 24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
29280    least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
29281    chariots and for horsemen?
29282 25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to
29283    destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and
29284    destroy it.
29285 26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah,
29286    unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
29287    Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in
29288    the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the
29289    wall.
29290 27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy
29291    master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me
29292    to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own
29293    dung, and drink their own piss with you?
29294 28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
29295    language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king,
29296    the king of Assyria:
29297 29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
29298    shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
29299 30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
29300    LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be
29301    delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
29302 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
29303    Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me,
29304    and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of
29305    his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his
29306    cistern:
29307 32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
29308    land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land
29309    of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and
29310    hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The
29311    LORD will deliver us.
29312 33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land
29313    out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
29314 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods
29315    of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out
29316    of mine hand?
29317 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have
29318    delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should
29319    deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
29320 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word:
29321    for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
29322 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
29323    household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph
29324    the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told
29325    him the words of Rabshakeh.

29326 2 Kings 19

29327  1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent
29328    his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
29329    the house of the LORD.
29330  2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna
29331    the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
29332    sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
29333  3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day
29334    of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are
29335    come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
29336  4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
29337    Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
29338    reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the
29339    LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the
29340    remnant that are left.
29341  5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
29342  6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master,
29343    Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou
29344    hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria
29345    have blasphemed me.
29346  7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
29347    rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him
29348    to fall by the sword in his own land.
29349  8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
29350    against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from
29351    Lachish.
29352  9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he
29353    is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again
29354    unto Hezekiah, saying,
29355 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not
29356    thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem
29357    shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
29358 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
29359    all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
29360    delivered?
29361 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
29362    have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
29363    children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
29364 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the
29365    king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
29366 14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
29367    messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house
29368    of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
29369 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of
29370    Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the
29371    God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou
29372    hast made heaven and earth.
29373 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes,
29374    and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent
29375    him to reproach the living God.
29376 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
29377    nations and their lands,
29378 18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods,
29379    but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they
29380    have destroyed them.
29381 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us
29382    out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know
29383    that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
29384 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
29385    saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to
29386    me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
29387 21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The
29388    virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed
29389    thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head
29390    at thee.
29391 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
29392    hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
29393    even against the Holy One of Israel.
29394 23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast
29395    said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the
29396    height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut
29397    down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees
29398    thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders,
29399    and into the forest of his Carmel.
29400 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of
29401    my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
29402 25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of
29403    ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to
29404    pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
29405    ruinous heaps.
29406 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
29407    dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field,
29408    and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as
29409    corn blasted before it be grown up.
29410 27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
29411    and thy rage against me.
29412 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into
29413    mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my
29414    bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
29415    which thou camest.
29416 29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year
29417    such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that
29418    which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and
29419    reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
29420 30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
29421    yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
29422 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that
29423    escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall
29424    do this.
29425 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
29426    He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
29427    nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
29428 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
29429    shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
29430 34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake,
29431    and for my servant David's sake.
29432 35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD
29433    went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
29434    fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the
29435    morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
29436 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
29437    returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
29438 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
29439    Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
29440    him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia.
29441    And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

29442 2 Kings 20

29443  1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet
29444    Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
29445    saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die,
29446    and not live.
29447  2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
29448    saying,
29449  3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before
29450    thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that
29451    which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
29452  4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle
29453    court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
29454  5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus
29455    saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy
29456    prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on
29457    the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
29458  6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver
29459    thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and
29460    I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant
29461    David's sake.
29462  7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid
29463    it on the boil, and he recovered.
29464  8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the
29465    LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of
29466    the LORD the third day?
29467  9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that
29468    the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the
29469    shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
29470 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to
29471    go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward
29472    ten degrees.
29473 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the
29474    shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the
29475    dial of Ahaz.
29476 12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
29477    Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had
29478    heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
29479 13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the
29480    house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and
29481    the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of
29482    his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was
29483    nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
29484    shewed them not.
29485 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
29486    him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
29487    And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from
29488    Babylon.
29489 15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
29490    answered, All the things that are in mine house have they
29491    seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
29492    shewed them.
29493 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
29494 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and
29495    that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day,
29496    shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith
29497    the LORD.
29498 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
29499    beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
29500    palace of the king of Babylon.
29501 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
29502    which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace
29503    and truth be in my days?
29504 20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and
29505    how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the
29506    city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
29507    the kings of Judah?
29508 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son
29509    reigned in his stead.

29510 2 Kings 21

29511  1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and
29512    reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
29513    name was Hephzibah.
29514  2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after
29515    the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before
29516    the children of Israel.
29517  3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his
29518    father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and
29519    made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all
29520    the host of heaven, and served them.
29521  4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the
29522    LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
29523  5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
29524    courts of the house of the LORD.
29525  6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times,
29526    and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and
29527    wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD,
29528    to provoke him to anger.
29529  7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the
29530    house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his
29531    son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out
29532    of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
29533  8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of
29534    the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe
29535    to do according to all that I have commanded them, and
29536    according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
29537  9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more
29538    evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the
29539    children of Israel.
29540 10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
29541 11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations,
29542    and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which
29543    were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his
29544    idols:
29545 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am
29546    bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever
29547    heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
29548 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the
29549    plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a
29550    man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
29551 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and
29552    deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall
29553    become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
29554 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and
29555    have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came
29556    forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
29557 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had
29558    filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin
29559    wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil
29560    in the sight of the LORD.
29561 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and
29562    his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of
29563    the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29564 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
29565    garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his
29566    son reigned in his stead.
29567 19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and
29568    he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
29569    Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
29570 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as
29571    his father Manasseh did.
29572 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and
29573    served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
29574 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in
29575    the way of the LORD.
29576 23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the
29577    king in his own house.
29578 24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
29579    against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his
29580    son king in his stead.
29581 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not
29582    written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29583 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and
29584    Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

29585 2 Kings 22

29586  1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
29587    reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
29588    name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
29589  2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and
29590    walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not
29591    aside to the right hand or to the left.
29592  3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
29593    that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of
29594    Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
29595  4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver
29596    which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers
29597    of the door have gathered of the people:
29598  5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the
29599    work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and
29600    let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the
29601    house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
29602  6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber
29603    and hewn stone to repair the house.
29604  7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money
29605    that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt
29606    faithfully.
29607  8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I
29608    have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
29609    Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
29610  9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king
29611    word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money
29612    that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the
29613    hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the
29614    house of the LORD.
29615 10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the
29616    priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before
29617    the king.
29618 11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the
29619    book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
29620 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son
29621    of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the
29622    scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
29623 13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for
29624    all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found:
29625    for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us,
29626    because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this
29627    book, to do according unto all that which is written
29628    concerning us.
29629 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
29630    and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
29631    Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
29632    wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and
29633    they communed with her.
29634 15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
29635    Tell the man that sent you to me,
29636 16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
29637    place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of
29638    the book which the king of Judah hath read:
29639 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
29640    other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the
29641    works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled
29642    against this place, and shall not be quenched.
29643 18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the
29644    LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of
29645    Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
29646 19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself
29647    before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this
29648    place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should
29649    become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes,
29650    and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
29651 20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and
29652    thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes
29653    shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.
29654    And they brought the king word again.

29655 2 Kings 23

29656  1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders
29657    of Judah and of Jerusalem.
29658  2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the
29659    men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him,
29660    and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both
29661    small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of
29662    the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the
29663    LORD.
29664  3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the
29665    LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and
29666    his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all
29667    their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were
29668    written in this book. And all the people stood to the
29669    covenant.
29670  4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
29671    priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to
29672    bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that
29673    were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
29674    heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
29675    Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
29676  5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of
29677    Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the
29678    cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them
29679    also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
29680    moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
29681  6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD,
29682    without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the
29683    brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the
29684    powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
29685  7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by
29686    the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the
29687    grove.
29688  8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
29689    defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
29690    from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the
29691    gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the
29692    governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the
29693    gate of the city.
29694  9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the
29695    altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the
29696    unleavened bread among their brethren.
29697 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children
29698    of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to
29699    pass through the fire to Molech.
29700 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given
29701    to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by
29702    the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the
29703    suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
29704 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of
29705    Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which
29706    Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD,
29707    did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and
29708    cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
29709 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on
29710    the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the
29711    king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of
29712    the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the
29713    Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of
29714    Ammon, did the king defile.
29715 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves,
29716    and filled their places with the bones of men.
29717 15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place
29718    which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had
29719    made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and
29720    burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and
29721    burned the grove.
29722 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that
29723    were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of
29724    the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted
29725    it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God
29726    proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
29727 17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of
29728    the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God,
29729    which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
29730    hast done against the altar of Bethel.
29731 18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they
29732    let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came
29733    out of Samaria.
29734 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the
29735    cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
29736    provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
29737    according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
29738 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there
29739    upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and
29740    returned to Jerusalem.
29741 21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the
29742    passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book
29743    of this covenant.
29744 22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of
29745    the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the
29746    kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
29747 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this
29748    passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
29749 24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards,
29750    and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that
29751    were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah
29752    put away, that he might perform the words of the law which
29753    were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the
29754    house of the LORD.
29755 25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to
29756    the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with
29757    all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither
29758    after him arose there any like him.
29759 26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his
29760    great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
29761    because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him
29762    withal.
29763 27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight,
29764    as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city
29765    Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said,
29766    My name shall be there.
29767 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are
29768    they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
29769    Judah?
29770 29 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the
29771    king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went
29772    against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
29773 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo,
29774    and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
29775    sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of
29776    Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's
29777    stead.
29778 31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
29779    reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his
29780    mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
29781 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
29782    according to all that his fathers had done.
29783 33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of
29784    Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land
29785    to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of
29786    gold.
29787 34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the
29788    room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,
29789    and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
29790 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he
29791    taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment
29792    of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people
29793    of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give
29794    it unto Pharaohnechoh.
29795 36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to
29796    reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his
29797    mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
29798 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
29799    according to all that his fathers had done.

29800 2 Kings 24

29801  1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
29802    Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and
29803    rebelled against him.
29804  2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands
29805    of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the
29806    children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it,
29807    according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his
29808    servants the prophets.
29809  3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to
29810    remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh,
29811    according to all that he did;
29812  4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled
29813    Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not
29814    pardon.
29815  5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
29816    are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
29817    kings of Judah?
29818  6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son
29819    reigned in his stead.
29820  7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land:
29821    for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto
29822    the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
29823  8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and
29824    he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name
29825    was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
29826  9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
29827    according to all that his father had done.
29828 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
29829    came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
29830 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and
29831    his servants did besiege it.
29832 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of
29833    Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
29834    princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in
29835    the eighth year of his reign.
29836 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of
29837    the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in
29838    pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel
29839    had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
29840 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and
29841    all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and
29842    all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest
29843    sort of the people of the land.
29844 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
29845    mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty
29846    of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to
29847    Babylon.
29848 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen
29849    and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war,
29850    even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
29851 17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother
29852    king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
29853 18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign,
29854    and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
29855    name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
29856 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
29857    according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
29858 20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem
29859    and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that
29860    Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

29861 2 Kings 25

29862  1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
29863    tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
29864    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host,
29865    against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built
29866    forts against it round about.
29867  2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
29868    Zedekiah.
29869  3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed
29870    in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the
29871    land.
29872  4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by
29873    night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by
29874    the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city
29875    round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
29876  5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and
29877    overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were
29878    scattered from him.
29879  6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of
29880    Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
29881  7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put
29882    out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass,
29883    and carried him to Babylon.
29884  8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which
29885    is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
29886    came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king
29887    of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
29888  9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and
29889    all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt
29890    he with fire.
29891 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain
29892    of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
29893 11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the
29894    fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the
29895    remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the
29896    guard carry away.
29897 12 But the captain of the guard left of the door of the poor of
29898    the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
29899 13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD,
29900    and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the
29901    LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass
29902    of them to Babylon.
29903 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
29904    spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
29905    ministered, took they away.
29906 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of
29907    gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the
29908    guard took away.
29909 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made
29910    for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was
29911    without weight.
29912 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the
29913    chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter
29914    three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the
29915    chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had
29916    the second pillar with wreathen work.
29917 18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
29918    and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
29919    door:
29920 19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the
29921    men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's
29922    presence, which were found in the city, and the principal
29923    scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and
29924    threescore men of the people of the land that were found in
29925    the city:
29926 20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought
29927    them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
29928 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in
29929    the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their
29930    land.
29931 22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
29932    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he
29933    made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
29934 23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men,
29935    heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
29936    there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
29937    Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son
29938    of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a
29939    Maachathite, they and their men.
29940 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto
29941    them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in
29942    the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well
29943    with you.
29944 25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son
29945    of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came,
29946    and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and
29947    the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
29948 26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of
29949    the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of
29950    the Chaldees.
29951 27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
29952    captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
29953    on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
29954    king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up
29955    the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
29956 28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the
29957    throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
29958 29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread
29959    continually before him all the days of his life.
29960 30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the
29961    king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

29962 Book 13 1 Chronicles

29963 1 Chronicles 1

29964  1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
29965  2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
29966  3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
29967  4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
29968  5 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
29969    and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
29970  6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
29971  7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
29972    Dodanim.
29973  8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
29974  9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and
29975    Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and
29976    Dedan.
29977 10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
29978 11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
29979    Naphtuhim,
29980 12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,)
29981    and Caphthorim.
29982 13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
29983 14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
29984 15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
29985 16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
29986 17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
29987    Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
29988 18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
29989 19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was
29990    Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his
29991    brother's name was Joktan.
29992 20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and
29993    Jerah,
29994 21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
29995 22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
29996 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of
29997    Joktan.
29998 24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
29999 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
30000 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
30001 27 Abram; the same is Abraham.
30002 28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
30003 29 These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael,
30004    Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
30005 30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
30006 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
30007 32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran,
30008    and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And
30009    the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
30010 33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and
30011    Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
30012 34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
30013 35 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and
30014    Korah.
30015 36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz,
30016    and Timna, and Amalek.
30017 37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
30018 38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
30019    and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
30020 39 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's
30021    sister.
30022 40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and
30023    Onam. and the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
30024 41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and
30025    Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
30026 42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of
30027    Dishan; Uz, and Aran.
30028 43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom
30029    before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the
30030    son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
30031 44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
30032    reigned in his stead.
30033 45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites
30034    reigned in his stead.
30035 46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote
30036    Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the
30037    name of his city was Avith.
30038 47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his
30039    stead.
30040 48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river
30041    reigned in his stead.
30042 49 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned
30043    in his stead.
30044 50 And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and
30045    the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was
30046    Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
30047 51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke
30048    Aliah, duke Jetheth,
30049 52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
30050 53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
30051 54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.

30052 1 Chronicles 2

30053  1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
30054    Issachar, and Zebulun,
30055  2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
30056  3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were
30057    born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er,
30058    the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and
30059    he slew him.
30060  4 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All
30061    the sons of Judah were five.
30062  5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
30063  6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and
30064    Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
30065  7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who
30066    transgressed in the thing accursed.
30067  8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
30068  9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel,
30069    and Ram, and Chelubai.
30070 10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince
30071    of the children of Judah;
30072 11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
30073 12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,
30074 13 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second,
30075    and Shimma the third,
30076 14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
30077 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
30078 16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of
30079    Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
30080 17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the
30081    Ishmeelite.
30082 18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife,
30083    and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and
30084    Ardon.
30085 19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which
30086    bare him Hur.
30087 20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
30088 21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the
30089    father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years
30090    old; and she bare him Segub.
30091 22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the
30092    land of Gilead.
30093 23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from
30094    them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore
30095    cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of
30096    Gilead.
30097 24 And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah
30098    Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
30099 25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram
30100    the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
30101 26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she
30102    was the mother of Onam.
30103 27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and
30104    Jamin, and Eker.
30105 28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of
30106    Shammai; Nadab and Abishur.
30107 29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare
30108    him Ahban, and Molid.
30109 30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died
30110    without children.
30111 31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan.
30112    And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.
30113 32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and
30114    Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
30115 33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the
30116    sons of Jerahmeel.
30117 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a
30118    servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
30119 35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife;
30120    and she bare him Attai.
30121 36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
30122 37 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
30123 38 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
30124 39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
30125 40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
30126 41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.
30127 42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his
30128    firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of
30129    Mareshah the father of Hebron.
30130 43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and
30131    Shema.
30132 44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat
30133    Shammai.
30134 45 And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of
30135    Bethzur.
30136 46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez:
30137    and Haran begat Gazez.
30138 47 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and
30139    Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
30140 48 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
30141 49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father
30142    of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of
30143    Caleb was Achsa.
30144 50 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of
30145    Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim.
30146 51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.
30147 52 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and
30148    half of the Manahethites.
30149 53 And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the
30150    Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came
30151    the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites,
30152 54 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth,
30153    the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
30154 55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the
30155    Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the
30156    Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of
30157    Rechab.

30158 1 Chronicles 3

30159  1 Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in
30160    Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the
30161    second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:
30162  2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai
30163    king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:
30164  3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah
30165    his wife.
30166  4 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned
30167    seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty
30168    and three years.
30169  5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab,
30170    and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of
30171    Ammiel:
30172  6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
30173  7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
30174  8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
30175  9 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the
30176    concubines, and Tamar their sister.
30177 10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son,
30178    Jehoshaphat his son,
30179 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
30180 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
30181 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
30182 14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
30183 15 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second
30184    Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
30185 16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
30186 17 And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,
30187 18 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama,
30188    and Nedabiah.
30189 19 And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the
30190    sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith
30191    their sister:
30192 20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah,
30193    Jushabhesed, five.
30194 21 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of
30195    Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of
30196    Shechaniah.
30197 22 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of
30198    Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and
30199    Shaphat, six.
30200 23 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam,
30201    three.
30202 24 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and
30203    Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani,
30204    seven.

30205 1 Chronicles 4

30206  1 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and
30207    Shobal.
30208  2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat
30209    Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
30210  3 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and
30211    Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:
30212  4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah.
30213    These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the
30214    father of Bethlehem.
30215  5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
30216  6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and
30217    Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
30218  7 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
30219  8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel
30220    the son of Harum.
30221  9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his
30222    mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with
30223    sorrow.
30224 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou
30225    wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine
30226    hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from
30227    evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that
30228    which he requested.
30229 11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the
30230    father of Eshton.
30231 12 And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the
30232    father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.
30233 13 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of
30234    Othniel; Hathath.
30235 14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father
30236    of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.
30237 15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and
30238    Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
30239 16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and
30240    Asareel.
30241 17 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and
30242    Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father
30243    of Eshtemoa.
30244 18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and
30245    Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.
30246    And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh,
30247    which Mered took.
30248 19 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the
30249    father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
30250 20 And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and
30251    Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
30252 21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of
30253    Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of
30254    the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of
30255    Ashbea,
30256 22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who
30257    had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are
30258    ancient things.
30259 23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and
30260    hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
30261 24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and
30262    Shaul:
30263 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
30264 26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son,
30265    Shimei his son.
30266 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters: but his
30267    brethren had not many children, neither did all their family
30268    multiply, like to the children of Judah.
30269 28 And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
30270 29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
30271 30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
30272 31 And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at
30273    Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
30274 32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen,
30275    and Ashan, five cities:
30276 33 And all their villages that were round about the same cities,
30277    unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
30278 34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,
30279 35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah,
30280    the son of Asiel,
30281 36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and
30282    Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
30283 37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of
30284    Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
30285 38 These mentioned by their names were princes in their families:
30286    and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
30287 39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east
30288    side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
30289 40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide,
30290    and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of
30291    old.
30292 41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of
30293    Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were
30294    found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and
30295    dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for
30296    their flocks.
30297 42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred
30298    men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah,
30299    and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
30300 43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped,
30301    and dwelt there unto this day.

30302 1 Chronicles 5

30303  1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was
30304    the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed,
30305    his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of
30306    Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the
30307    birthright.
30308  2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the
30309    chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
30310  3 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were,
30311    Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
30312  4 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his
30313    son,
30314  5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,
30315  6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried
30316    away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
30317  7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of
30318    their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and
30319    Zechariah,
30320  8 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel,
30321    who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:
30322  9 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the
30323    wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were
30324    multiplied in the land of Gilead.
30325 10 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who
30326    fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout
30327    all the east land of Gilead.
30328 11 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land
30329    of Bashan unto Salcah:
30330 12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat
30331    in Bashan.
30332 13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were,
30333    Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and
30334    Zia, and Heber, seven.
30335 14 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of
30336    Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of
30337    Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
30338 15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of
30339    their fathers.
30340 16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in
30341    all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
30342 17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham
30343    king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
30344 18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of
30345    Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword,
30346    and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty
30347    thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the
30348    war.
30349 19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish,
30350    and Nodab.
30351 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were
30352    delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for
30353    they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them;
30354    because they put their trust in him.
30355 21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty
30356    thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of
30357    asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
30358 22 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God.
30359    And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
30360 23 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the
30361    land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir,
30362    and unto mount Hermon.
30363 24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even
30364    Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and
30365    Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and
30366    heads of the house of their fathers.
30367 25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and
30368    went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom
30369    God destroyed before them.
30370 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of
30371    Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria,
30372    and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the
30373    Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto
30374    Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this
30375    day.

30376 1 Chronicles 6

30377  1 The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
30378  2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
30379  3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The
30380    sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
30381  4 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
30382  5 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
30383  6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
30384  7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
30385  8 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
30386  9 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
30387 10 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the
30388    priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in
30389    Jerusalem:)
30390 11 And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
30391 12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,
30392 13 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
30393 14 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
30394 15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away
30395    Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
30396 16 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
30397 17 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and
30398    Shimei.
30399 18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
30400    Uzziel.
30401 19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the
30402    families of the Levites according to their fathers.
30403 20 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
30404 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
30405 22 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir
30406    his son,
30407 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
30408 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his
30409    son.
30410 25 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
30411 26 As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and
30412    Nahath his son,
30413 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
30414 28 And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
30415 29 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza
30416    his son,
30417 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
30418 31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in
30419    the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
30420 32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the
30421    tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had
30422    built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited
30423    on their office according to their order.
30424 33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the
30425    sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the
30426    son of Shemuel,
30427 34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the
30428    son of Toah,
30429 35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the
30430    son of Amasai,
30431 36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the
30432    son of Zephaniah,
30433 37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the
30434    son of Korah,
30435 38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son
30436    of Israel.
30437 39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph
30438    the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
30439 40 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
30440 41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
30441 42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
30442 43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
30443 44 And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand:
30444    Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
30445 45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
30446 46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,
30447 47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son
30448    of Levi.
30449 48 Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner
30450    of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
30451 49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt
30452    offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for
30453    all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement
30454    for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had
30455    commanded.
30456 50 And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his
30457    son, Abishua his son,
30458 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
30459 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
30460 53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
30461 54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles
30462    in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the
30463    Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
30464 55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the
30465    suburbs thereof round about it.
30466 56 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they
30467    gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
30468 57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah,
30469    namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her
30470    suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
30471 58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
30472 59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:
30473 60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and
30474    Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All
30475    their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
30476 61 And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of
30477    that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely,
30478    out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
30479 62 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of
30480    the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out
30481    of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in
30482    Bashan, thirteen cities.
30483 63 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their
30484    families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of
30485    Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
30486 64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities
30487    with their suburbs.
30488 65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of
30489    Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out
30490    of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which
30491    are called by their names.
30492 66 And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had
30493    cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
30494 67 And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in
30495    mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her
30496    suburbs,
30497 68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs,
30498 69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:
30499 70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs,
30500    and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of
30501    the sons of Kohath.
30502 71 Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the
30503    half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and
30504    Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
30505 72 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs,
30506    Daberath with her suburbs,
30507 73 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
30508 74 And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and
30509    Abdon with her suburbs,
30510 75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:
30511 76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her
30512    suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her
30513    suburbs.
30514 77 Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the
30515    tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her
30516    suburbs:
30517 78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of
30518    Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in
30519    the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
30520 79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:
30521 80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her
30522    suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
30523 81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

30524 1 Chronicles 7

30525  1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and
30526    Shimrom, four.
30527  2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and
30528    Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's
30529    house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in
30530    their generations; whose number was in the days of David two
30531    and twenty thousand and six hundred.
30532  3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah;
30533    Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them
30534    chief men.
30535  4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their
30536    fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty
30537    thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
30538  5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were
30539    valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies
30540    fourscore and seven thousand.
30541  6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
30542  7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and
30543    Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers,
30544    mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies
30545    twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
30546  8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and
30547    Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and
30548    Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
30549  9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their
30550    generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men
30551    of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
30552 10 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan;
30553    Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and
30554    Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
30555 11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers,
30556    mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred
30557    soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
30558 12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the
30559    sons of Aher.
30560 13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
30561    Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
30562 14 The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his
30563    concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
30564 15 And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim,
30565    whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second
30566    was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
30567 16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his
30568    name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his
30569    sons were Ulam and Rakem.
30570 17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead,
30571    the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
30572 18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and
30573    Mahalah.
30574 19 And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi,
30575    and Aniam.
30576 20 And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and
30577    Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
30578 21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead,
30579    whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because
30580    they came down to take away their cattle.
30581 22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren
30582    came to comfort him.
30583 23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a
30584    son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with
30585    his house.
30586 24 (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether,
30587    and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
30588 25 And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and
30589    Tahan his son.
30590 26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son.
30591 27 Non his son, Jehoshuah his son.
30592 28 And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the
30593    towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with
30594    the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto
30595    Gaza and the towns thereof:
30596 29 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and
30597    her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor
30598    and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son
30599    of Israel.
30600 30 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah,
30601    and Serah their sister.
30602 31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father
30603    of Birzavith.
30604 32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua
30605    their sister.
30606 33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath.
30607    These are the children of Japhlet.
30608 34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
30609 35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and
30610    Shelesh, and Amal.
30611 36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri,
30612    and Imrah,
30613 37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and
30614    Beera.
30615 38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
30616 39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
30617 40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's
30618    house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes.
30619    And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt
30620    to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

30621 1 Chronicles 8

30622  1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and
30623    Aharah the third,
30624  2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
30625  3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
30626  4 And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
30627  5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
30628  6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the
30629    fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to
30630    Manahath:
30631  7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat
30632    Uzza, and Ahihud.
30633  8 And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he
30634    had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
30635  9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha,
30636    and Malcham,
30637 10 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads
30638    of the fathers.
30639 11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
30640 12 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built
30641    Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
30642 13 Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the
30643    inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of
30644    Gath:
30645 14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
30646 15 And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,
30647 16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;
30648 17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,
30649 18 Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
30650 19 And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
30651 20 And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
30652 21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
30653 22 And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
30654 23 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
30655 24 And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
30656 25 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;
30657 26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
30658 27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
30659 28 These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief
30660    men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
30661 29 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name
30662    was Maachah:
30663 30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
30664    Nadab,
30665 31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
30666 32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their
30667    brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
30668 33 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat
30669    Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
30670 34 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat
30671    Micah.
30672 35 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and
30673    Ahaz.
30674 36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and
30675    Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,
30676 37 And Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel
30677    his son:
30678 38 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam,
30679    Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan.
30680    All these were the sons of Azel.
30681 39 And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn,
30682    Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
30683 40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and
30684    had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these
30685    are of the sons of Benjamin.

30686 1 Chronicles 9

30687  1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they
30688    were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who
30689    were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
30690  2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in
30691    their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and
30692    the Nethinims.
30693  3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the
30694    children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and
30695    Manasseh;
30696  4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri,
30697    the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
30698  5 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
30699  6 And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six
30700    hundred and ninety.
30701  7 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the
30702    son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,
30703  8 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the
30704    son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son
30705    of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
30706  9 And their brethren, according to their generations, nine
30707    hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the
30708    fathers in the house of their fathers.
30709 10 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
30710 11 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son
30711    of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of
30712    the house of God;
30713 12 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of
30714    Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah,
30715    the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of
30716    Immer;
30717 13 And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a
30718    thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for
30719    the work of the service of the house of God.
30720 14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of
30721    Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
30722 15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of
30723    Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;
30724 16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of
30725    Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah,
30726    that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
30727 17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and
30728    Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
30729 18 Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were
30730    porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
30731 19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of
30732    Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the
30733    Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the
30734    gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the
30735    host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
30736 20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in
30737    time past, and the LORD was with him.
30738 21 And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of
30739    the tabernacle of the congregation.
30740 22 All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were
30741    two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy
30742    in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain
30743    in their set office.
30744 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of
30745    the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by
30746    wards.
30747 24 In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west,
30748    north, and south.
30749 25 And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come
30750    after seven days from time to time with them.
30751 26 For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set
30752    office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house
30753    of God.
30754 27 And they lodged round about the house of God, because the
30755    charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning
30756    pertained to them.
30757 28 And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels,
30758    that they should bring them in and out by tale.
30759 29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and
30760    all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and
30761    the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
30762 30 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the
30763    spices.
30764 31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of
30765    Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that
30766    were made in the pans.
30767 32 And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites,
30768    were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
30769 33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the
30770    Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they
30771    were employed in that work day and night.
30772 34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their
30773    generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
30774 35 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's
30775    name was Maachah:
30776 36 And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
30777    Ner, and Nadab.
30778 37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
30779 38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their
30780    brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
30781 39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat
30782    Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
30783 40 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begat
30784    Micah.
30785 41 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea,
30786    and Ahaz.
30787 42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth,
30788    and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;
30789 43 And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son,
30790    Azel his son.
30791 44 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam,
30792    Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan:
30793    these were the sons of Azel.

30794 1 Chronicles 10

30795  1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of
30796    Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain
30797    in mount Gilboa.
30798  2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his
30799    sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
30800    Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
30801  3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit
30802    him, and he was wounded of the archers.
30803  4 Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust
30804    me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse
30805    me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So
30806    Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
30807  5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell
30808    likewise on the sword, and died.
30809  6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died
30810    together.
30811  7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw
30812    that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then
30813    they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came
30814    and dwelt in them.
30815  8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came
30816    to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen
30817    in mount Gilboa.
30818  9 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his
30819    armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about,
30820    to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
30821 10 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and
30822    fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
30823 11 And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had
30824    done to Saul,
30825 12 They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of
30826    Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh,
30827    and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted
30828    seven days.
30829 13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against
30830    the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept
30831    not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar
30832    spirit, to enquire of it;
30833 14 And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and
30834    turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

30835 1 Chronicles 11

30836  1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron,
30837    saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
30838  2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast
30839    he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy
30840    God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou
30841    shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
30842  3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron;
30843    and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD;
30844    and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the
30845    word of the LORD by Samuel.
30846  4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus;
30847    where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
30848  5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not
30849    come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which
30850    is the city of David.
30851  6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be
30852    chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up,
30853    and was chief.
30854  7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the
30855    city of David.
30856  8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round
30857    about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
30858  9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was
30859    with him.
30860 10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who
30861    strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all
30862    Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD
30863    concerning Israel.
30864 11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had;
30865    Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted
30866    up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
30867 12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who
30868    was one of the three mighties.
30869 13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were
30870    gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full
30871    of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
30872 14 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and
30873    delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved
30874    them by a great deliverance.
30875 15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to
30876    David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the
30877    Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
30878 16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison
30879    was then at Bethlehem.
30880 17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
30881    the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
30882 18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and
30883    drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate,
30884    and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not
30885    drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.
30886 19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing:
30887    shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives
30888    in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought
30889    it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these
30890    three mightiest.
30891 20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three:
30892    for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them,
30893    and had a name among the three.
30894 21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was
30895    their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
30896 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of
30897    Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of
30898    Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy
30899    day.
30900 23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits
30901    high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's
30902    beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the
30903    spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own
30904    spear.
30905 24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name
30906    among the three mighties.
30907 25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not
30908    to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
30909 26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of
30910    Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
30911 27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
30912 28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
30913 29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
30914 30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the
30915    Netophathite,
30916 31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the
30917    children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
30918 32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
30919 33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
30920 34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the
30921    Hararite,
30922 35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
30923 36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
30924 37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
30925 38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
30926 39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of
30927    Joab the son of Zeruiah,
30928 40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
30929 41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
30930 42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the
30931    Reubenites, and thirty with him,
30932 43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
30933 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan
30934    the Aroerite,
30935 45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
30936 46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of
30937    Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
30938 47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.

30939 1 Chronicles 12

30940  1 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet
30941    kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they
30942    were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.
30943  2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand
30944    and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a
30945    bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
30946  3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the
30947    Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and
30948    Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite.
30949  4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and
30950    over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and
30951    Josabad the Gederathite,
30952  5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and
30953    Shephatiah the Haruphite,
30954  6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam,
30955    the Korhites,
30956  7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
30957  8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into
30958    the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit
30959    for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose
30960    faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the
30961    roes upon the mountains;
30962  9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
30963 10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
30964 11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
30965 12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
30966 13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
30967 14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of
30968    the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a
30969    thousand.
30970 15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when
30971    it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all
30972    them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the
30973    west.
30974 16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
30975    hold unto David.
30976 17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto
30977    them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart
30978    shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine
30979    enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of
30980    our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
30981 18 Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the
30982    captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side,
30983    thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to
30984    thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received
30985    them, and made them captains of the band.
30986 19 And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with
30987    the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them
30988    not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him
30989    away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy
30990    of our heads.
30991 20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah,
30992    and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu,
30993    and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
30994 21 And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they
30995    were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
30996 22 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him,
30997    until it was a great host, like the host of God.
30998 23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed
30999    to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom
31000    of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
31001 24 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six
31002    thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
31003 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war,
31004    seven thousand and one hundred.
31005 26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
31006 27 And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him
31007    were three thousand and seven hundred;
31008 28 And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's
31009    house twenty and two captains.
31010 29 And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three
31011    thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the
31012    ward of the house of Saul.
31013 30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight
31014    hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of
31015    their fathers.
31016 31 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which
31017    were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
31018 32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had
31019    understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do;
31020    the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren
31021    were at their commandment.
31022 33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with
31023    all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank:
31024    they were not of double heart.
31025 34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield
31026    and spear thirty and seven thousand.
31027 35 And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and
31028    six hundred.
31029 36 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war,
31030    forty thousand.
31031 37 And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the
31032    Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of
31033    instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty
31034    thousand.
31035 38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a
31036    perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel:
31037    and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make
31038    David king.
31039 39 And there they were with David three days, eating and
31040    drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
31041 40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and
31042    Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels,
31043    and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and
31044    bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep
31045    abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

31046 1 Chronicles 13

31047  1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and
31048    hundreds, and with every leader.
31049  2 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem
31050    good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send
31051    abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the
31052    land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites
31053    which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather
31054    themselves unto us:
31055  3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we
31056    enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
31057  4 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the
31058    thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
31059  5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt
31060    even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from
31061    Kirjathjearim.
31062  6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to
31063    Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the
31064    ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims,
31065    whose name is called on it.
31066  7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house
31067    of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
31068  8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their
31069    might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries,
31070    and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
31071  9 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put
31072    forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
31073 10 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he
31074    smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he
31075    died before God.
31076 11 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach
31077    upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this
31078    day.
31079 12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I
31080    bring the ark of God home to me?
31081 13 So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of
31082    David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the
31083    Gittite.
31084 14 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his
31085    house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of
31086    Obededom, and all that he had.

31087 1 Chronicles 14

31088  1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of
31089    cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
31090  2 And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over
31091    Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his
31092    people Israel.
31093  3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more
31094    sons and daughters.
31095  4 Now these are the names of his children which he had in
31096    Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
31097  5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
31098  6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
31099  7 And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
31100  8 And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king
31101    over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David.
31102    And David heard of it, and went out against them.
31103  9 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley
31104    of Rephaim.
31105 10 And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the
31106    Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And
31107    the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into
31108    thine hand.
31109 11 So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there.
31110    Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine
31111    hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called
31112    the name of that place Baalperazim.
31113 12 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a
31114    commandment, and they were burned with fire.
31115 13 And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the
31116    valley.
31117 14 Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him,
31118    Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them
31119    over against the mulberry trees.
31120 15 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the
31121    tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to
31122    battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of
31123    the Philistines.
31124 16 David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the
31125    host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
31126 17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD
31127    brought the fear of him upon all nations.

31128 1 Chronicles 15

31129  1 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a
31130    place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
31131  2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the
31132    Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of
31133    God, and to minister unto him for ever.
31134  3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring
31135    up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared
31136    for it.
31137  4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
31138  5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an
31139    hundred and twenty:
31140  6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two
31141    hundred and twenty:
31142  7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief and his brethren an
31143    hundred and thirty:
31144  8 Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren
31145    two hundred:
31146  9 Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren
31147    fourscore:
31148 10 Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren
31149    an hundred and twelve.
31150 11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for
31151    the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel,
31152    and Amminadab,
31153 12 And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the
31154    Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that
31155    ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the
31156    place that I have prepared for it.
31157 13 For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made
31158    a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due
31159    order.
31160 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring
31161    up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
31162 15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their
31163    shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded
31164    according to the word of the LORD.
31165 16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their
31166    brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick,
31167    psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the
31168    voice with joy.
31169 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his
31170    brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of
31171    Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
31172 18 And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah,
31173    Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni,
31174    Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and
31175    Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
31176 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to
31177    sound with cymbals of brass;
31178 20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and
31179    Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on
31180    Alamoth;
31181 21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and
31182    Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
31183 22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he
31184    instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
31185 23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
31186 24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and
31187    Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow
31188    with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and
31189    Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
31190 25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over
31191    thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
31192    LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
31193 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the
31194    ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven
31195    bullocks and seven rams.
31196 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the
31197    Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the
31198    master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him
31199    an ephod of linen.
31200 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD
31201    with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with
31202    trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and
31203    harps.
31204 29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD
31205    came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul
31206    looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing:
31207    and she despised him in her heart.

31208 1 Chronicles 16

31209  1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the
31210    tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt
31211    sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
31212  2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings
31213    and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of
31214    the LORD.
31215  3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to
31216    every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a
31217    flagon of wine.
31218  4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the
31219    ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the
31220    LORD God of Israel:
31221  5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and
31222    Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and
31223    Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with
31224    harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
31225  6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets
31226    continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
31227  7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the
31228    LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
31229  8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his
31230    deeds among the people.
31231  9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his
31232    wondrous works.
31233 10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
31234    seek the LORD.
31235 11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
31236 12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders,
31237    and the judgments of his mouth;
31238 13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his
31239    chosen ones.
31240 14 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
31241 15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he
31242    commanded to a thousand generations;
31243 16 Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his
31244    oath unto Isaac;
31245 17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel
31246    for an everlasting covenant,
31247 18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of
31248    your inheritance;
31249 19 When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
31250 20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom
31251    to another people;
31252 21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
31253    for their sakes,
31254 22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
31255 23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day
31256    his salvation.
31257 24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works
31258    among all nations.
31259 25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is
31260    to be feared above all gods.
31261 26 For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made
31262    the heavens.
31263 27 Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness
31264    are in his place.
31265 28 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
31266    LORD glory and strength.
31267 29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an
31268    offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty
31269    of holiness.
31270 30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be
31271    stable, that it be not moved.
31272 31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let
31273    men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
31274 32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields
31275    rejoice, and all that is therein.
31276 33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of
31277    the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
31278 34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy
31279    endureth for ever.
31280 35 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us
31281    together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give
31282    thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
31283 36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all
31284    the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
31285 37 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD
31286    Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark
31287    continually, as every day's work required:
31288 38 And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight;
31289    Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
31290 39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the
31291    tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
31292 40 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the
31293    burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do
31294    according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which
31295    he commanded Israel;
31296 41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were
31297    chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the
31298    LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;
31299 42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for
31300    those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments
31301    of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
31302 43 And all the people departed every man to his house: and David
31303    returned to bless his house.

31304 1 Chronicles 17

31305  1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David
31306    said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars,
31307    but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under
31308    curtains.
31309  2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart;
31310    for God is with thee.
31311  3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came
31312    to Nathan, saying,
31313  4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt
31314    not build me an house to dwell in:
31315  5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought
31316    up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and
31317    from one tabernacle to another.
31318  6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to
31319    any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my
31320    people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
31321  7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus
31322    saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even
31323    from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my
31324    people Israel:
31325  8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and
31326    have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made
31327    thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the
31328    earth.
31329  9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will
31330    plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be
31331    moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste
31332    them any more, as at the beginning,
31333 10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my
31334    people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies.
31335    Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an
31336    house.
31337 11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou
31338    must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed
31339    after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish
31340    his kingdom.
31341 12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for
31342    ever.
31343 13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not
31344    take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was
31345    before thee:
31346 14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for
31347    ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
31348 15 According to all these words, and according to all this
31349    vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
31350 16 And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who
31351    am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast
31352    brought me hitherto?
31353 17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou
31354    hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to
31355    come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of
31356    high degree, O LORD God.
31357 18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy
31358    servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
31359 19 O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own
31360    heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all
31361    these great things.
31362 20 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God
31363    beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our
31364    ears.
31365 21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel,
31366    whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a
31367    name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations
31368    from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
31369 22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for
31370    ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
31371 23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken
31372    concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established
31373    for ever, and do as thou hast said.
31374 24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for
31375    ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a
31376    God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be
31377    established before thee.
31378 25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build
31379    him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to
31380    pray before thee.
31381 26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness
31382    unto thy servant:
31383 27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy
31384    servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou
31385    blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

31386 1 Chronicles 18

31387  1 Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the
31388    Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out
31389    of the hand of the Philistines.
31390  2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants,
31391    and brought gifts.
31392  3 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he
31393    went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
31394  4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven
31395    thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also
31396    houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an
31397    hundred chariots.
31398  5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king
31399    of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand
31400    men.
31401  6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians
31402    became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD
31403    preserved David whithersoever he went.
31404  7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants
31405    of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
31406  8 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer,
31407    brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the
31408    brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
31409  9 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all
31410    the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;
31411 10 He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his
31412    welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought
31413    against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war
31414    with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and
31415    silver and brass.
31416 11 Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver
31417    and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from
31418    Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from
31419    the Philistines, and from Amalek.
31420 12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in
31421    the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
31422 13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became
31423    David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever
31424    he went.
31425 14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and
31426    justice among all his people.
31427 15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat
31428    the son of Ahilud, recorder.
31429 16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of
31430    Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
31431 17 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and
31432    the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the
31433    king.

31434 1 Chronicles 19

31435  1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the
31436    children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
31437  2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
31438    Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David
31439    sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the
31440    servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon
31441    to Hanun, to comfort him.
31442  3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun,
31443    Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath
31444    sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee
31445    for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
31446  4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and
31447    cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks,
31448    and sent them away.
31449  5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were
31450    served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly
31451    ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards
31452    be grown, and then return.
31453  6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
31454    themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon
31455    sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and
31456    horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out
31457    of Zobah.
31458  7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king
31459    of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba.
31460    And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from
31461    their cities, and came to battle.
31462  8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of
31463    the mighty men.
31464  9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
31465    array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were
31466    come were by themselves in the field.
31467 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
31468    and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put
31469    them in array against the Syrians.
31470 11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of
31471    Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against
31472    the children of Ammon.
31473 12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou
31474    shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for
31475    thee, then I will help thee.
31476 13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for
31477    our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do
31478    that which is good in his sight.
31479 14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the
31480    Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.
31481 15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled,
31482    they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered
31483    into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
31484 16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse
31485    before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the
31486    Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain
31487    of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
31488 17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed
31489    over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array
31490    against them. So when David had put the battle in array
31491    against the Syrians, they fought with him.
31492 18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the
31493    Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty
31494    thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
31495 19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to
31496    the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and
31497    became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the
31498    children of Ammon any more.

31499 1 Chronicles 20

31500  1 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the
31501    time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of
31502    the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and
31503    came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And
31504    Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
31505  2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and
31506    found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious
31507    stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought
31508    also exceeding much spoil out of the city.
31509  3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them
31510    with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so
31511    dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And
31512    David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
31513  4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer
31514    with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite
31515    slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they
31516    were subdued.
31517  5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the
31518    son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
31519    whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
31520  6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great
31521    stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on
31522    each hand, and six on each foot and he also was the son of the
31523    giant.
31524  7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
31525    brother slew him.
31526  8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the
31527    hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

31528 1 Chronicles 21

31529  1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to
31530    number Israel.
31531  2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go,
31532    number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number
31533    of them to me, that I may know it.
31534  3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times
31535    so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not
31536    all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this
31537    thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
31538  4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore
31539    Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to
31540    Jerusalem.
31541  5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David.
31542    And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred
31543    thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred
31544    threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
31545  6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the
31546    king's word was abominable to Joab.
31547  7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote
31548    Israel.
31549  8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have
31550    done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity
31551    of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
31552  9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
31553 10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee
31554    three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto
31555    thee.
31556 11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
31557    Choose thee
31558 12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed
31559    before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies
31560    overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD,
31561    even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD
31562    destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore
31563    advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent
31564    me.
31565 13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall
31566    now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies:
31567    but let me not fall into the hand of man.
31568 14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of
31569    Israel seventy thousand men.
31570 15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he
31571    was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the
31572    evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay
31573    now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the
31574    threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
31575 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD
31576    stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword
31577    in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the
31578    elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon
31579    their faces.
31580 17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people
31581    to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil
31582    indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine
31583    hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's
31584    house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
31585 18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that
31586    David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the
31587    threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
31588 19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the
31589    name of the LORD.
31590 20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons
31591    with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
31592 21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and
31593    went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David
31594    with his face to the ground.
31595 22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this
31596    threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the
31597    LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the
31598    plague may be stayed from the people.
31599 23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord
31600    the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee
31601    the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing
31602    instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I
31603    give it all.
31604 24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it
31605    for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine
31606    for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
31607 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of
31608    gold by weight.
31609 26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered
31610    burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD;
31611    and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of
31612    burnt offering.
31613 27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword
31614    again into the sheath thereof.
31615 28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in
31616    the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed
31617    there.
31618 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the
31619    wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that
31620    season in the high place at Gibeon.
31621 30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was
31622    afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

31623 1 Chronicles 22

31624  1 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this
31625    is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
31626  2 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were
31627    in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones
31628    to build the house of God.
31629  3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the
31630    doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in
31631    abundance without weight;
31632  4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of
31633    Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
31634  5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the
31635    house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding
31636    magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I
31637    will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared
31638    abundantly before his death.
31639  6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build
31640    an house for the LORD God of Israel.
31641  7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my
31642    mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
31643  8 But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed
31644    blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not
31645    build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood
31646    upon the earth in my sight.
31647  9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of
31648    rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round
31649    about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace
31650    and quietness unto Israel in his days.
31651 10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son,
31652    and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of
31653    his kingdom over Israel for ever.
31654 11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and
31655    build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.
31656 12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give
31657    thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law
31658    of the LORD thy God.
31659 13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the
31660    statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with
31661    concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not,
31662    nor be dismayed.
31663 14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of
31664    the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand
31665    thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without
31666    weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I
31667    prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
31668 15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and
31669    workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for
31670    every manner of work.
31671 16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is
31672    no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with
31673    thee.
31674 17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon
31675    his son, saying,
31676 18 Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you
31677    rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the
31678    land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD,
31679    and before his people.
31680 19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God;
31681    arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God,
31682    to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy
31683    vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name
31684    of the LORD.

31685 1 Chronicles 23

31686  1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his
31687    son king over Israel.
31688  2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the
31689    priests and the Levites.
31690  3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and
31691    upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was
31692    thirty and eight thousand.
31693  4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the
31694    work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers
31695    and judges:
31696  5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised
31697    the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to
31698    praise therewith.
31699  6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,
31700    namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
31701  7 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
31702  8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and
31703    Joel, three.
31704  9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three.
31705    These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
31706 10 And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and
31707    Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
31708 11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and
31709    Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one
31710    reckoning, according to their father's house.
31711 12 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
31712 13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated,
31713    that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons
31714    for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto
31715    him, and to bless in his name for ever.
31716 14 Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of
31717    the tribe of Levi.
31718 15 The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.
31719 16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
31720 17 And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer
31721    had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
31722 18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
31723 19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
31724    Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
31725 20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first and Jesiah the second.
31726 21 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli;
31727    Eleazar, and Kish.
31728 22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their
31729    brethren the sons of Kish took them.
31730 23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
31731 24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers;
31732    even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number
31733    of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of
31734    the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and
31735    upward.
31736 25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto
31737    his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
31738 26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the
31739    tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
31740 27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from
31741    twenty years old and above:
31742 28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the
31743    service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the
31744    chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the
31745    work of the service of the house of God;
31746 29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat
31747    offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is
31748    baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all
31749    manner of measure and size;
31750 30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and
31751    likewise at even:
31752 31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the
31753    sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number,
31754    according to the order commanded unto them, continually before
31755    the LORD:
31756 32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
31757    congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge
31758    of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the
31759    house of the LORD.

31760 1 Chronicles 24

31761  1 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of
31762    Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
31763  2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no
31764    children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's
31765    office.
31766  3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar,
31767    and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their
31768    offices in their service.
31769  4 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar
31770    than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided. Among
31771    the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house
31772    of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar
31773    according to the house of their fathers.
31774  5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the
31775    governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God,
31776    were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
31777  6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the
31778    Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and
31779    Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and
31780    before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites:
31781    one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken
31782    for Ithamar.
31783  7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to
31784    Jedaiah,
31785  8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
31786  9 The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
31787 10 The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
31788 11 The ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to Shecaniah,
31789 12 The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
31790 13 The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
31791 14 The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
31792 15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
31793 16 The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,
31794 17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to
31795    Gamul,
31796 18 The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to
31797    Maaziah.
31798 19 These were the orderings of them in their service to come into
31799    the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron
31800    their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
31801 20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of
31802    Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.
31803 21 Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was
31804    Isshiah.
31805 22 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.
31806 23 And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
31807    Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
31808 24 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.
31809 25 The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah;
31810    Zechariah.
31811 26 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah;
31812    Beno.
31813 27 The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur,
31814    and Ibri.
31815 28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
31816 29 Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.
31817 30 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These
31818    were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.
31819 31 These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons
31820    of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and
31821    Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and
31822    Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger
31823    brethren.

31824 1 Chronicles 25

31825  1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the
31826    service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun,
31827    who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with
31828    cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their
31829    service was:
31830  2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and
31831    Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which
31832    prophesied according to the order of the king.
31833  3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and
31834    Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of
31835    their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give
31836    thanks and to praise the LORD.
31837  4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel,
31838    Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti,
31839    and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and
31840    Mahazioth:
31841  5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words
31842    of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen
31843    sons and three daughters.
31844  6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the
31845    house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for
31846    the service of the house of God, according to the king's order
31847    to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
31848  7 So the number of them, with their brethren that were
31849    instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were
31850    cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
31851  8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as
31852    the great, the teacher as the scholar.
31853  9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second
31854    to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
31855 10 The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31856    twelve:
31857 11 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31858    twelve:
31859 12 The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31860    twelve:
31861 13 The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31862    twelve:
31863 14 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren,
31864    were twelve:
31865 15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31866    twelve:
31867 16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31868    twelve:
31869 17 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31870    twelve:
31871 18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31872    twelve:
31873 19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31874    twelve:
31875 20 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren,
31876    were twelve:
31877 21 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren,
31878    were twelve:
31879 22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren,
31880    were twelve:
31881 23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren,
31882    were twelve:
31883 24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his
31884    brethren, were twelve:
31885 25 The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
31886    twelve:
31887 26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren,
31888    were twelve:
31889 27 The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren,
31890    were twelve:
31891 28 The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his
31892    brethren, were twelve:
31893 29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his
31894    brethren, were twelve:
31895 30 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his
31896    brethren, were twelve:
31897 31 The four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, he, his sons, and his
31898    brethren, were twelve.

31899 1 Chronicles 26

31900  1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was
31901    Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
31902  2 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn,
31903    Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
31904  3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
31905  4 Moreover the sons of Obededom were, Shemaiah the firstborn,
31906    Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth,
31907    and Nethaneel the fifth.
31908  5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth:
31909    for God blessed him.
31910  6 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled
31911    throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men
31912    of valour.
31913  7 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad,
31914    whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
31915  8 All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and
31916    their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were
31917    threescore and two of Obededom.
31918  9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
31919 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the
31920    chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father
31921    made him the chief;)
31922 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth:
31923    all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
31924 12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the
31925    chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in
31926    the house of the LORD.
31927 13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according
31928    to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
31929 14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his
31930    son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out
31931    northward.
31932 15 To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
31933 16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the
31934    gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward
31935    against ward.
31936 17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward
31937    four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
31938 18 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
31939 19 These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore,
31940    and among the sons of Merari.
31941 20 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house
31942    of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
31943 21 As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite
31944    Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were
31945    Jehieli.
31946 22 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were
31947    over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
31948 23 Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the
31949    Uzzielites:
31950 24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of
31951    the treasures.
31952 25 And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah
31953    his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith
31954    his son.
31955 26 Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures
31956    of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief
31957    fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the
31958    captains of the host, had dedicated.
31959 27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain
31960    the house of the LORD.
31961 28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and
31962    Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had
31963    dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under
31964    the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
31965 29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward
31966    business over Israel, for officers and judges.
31967 30 And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of
31968    valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them
31969    of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of
31970    the LORD, and in the service of the king.
31971 31 Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the
31972    Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In
31973    the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for,
31974    and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer
31975    of Gilead.
31976 32 And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven
31977    hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the
31978    Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for
31979    every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

31980 1 Chronicles 27

31981  1 Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the
31982    chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and
31983    their officers that served the king in any matter of the
31984    courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout
31985    all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and
31986    four thousand.
31987  2 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the
31988    son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four
31989    thousand.
31990  3 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of
31991    the host for the first month.
31992  4 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite,
31993    and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course
31994    likewise were twenty and four thousand.
31995  5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah
31996    the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were
31997    twenty and four thousand.
31998  6 This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and
31999    above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.
32000  7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother
32001    of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course
32002    were twenty and four thousand.
32003  8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the
32004    Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
32005  9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of
32006    Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four
32007    thousand.
32008 10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the
32009    Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were
32010    twenty and four thousand.
32011 11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the
32012    Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and
32013    four thousand.
32014 12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the
32015    Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty
32016    and four thousand.
32017 13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the
32018    Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty
32019    and four thousand.
32020 14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the
32021    Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course
32022    were twenty and four thousand.
32023 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the
32024    Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and
32025    four thousand.
32026 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the
32027    Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites,
32028    Shephatiah the son of Maachah:
32029 17 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites,
32030    Zadok:
32031 18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar,
32032    Omri the son of Michael:
32033 19 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth
32034    the son of Azriel:
32035 20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the
32036    half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
32037 21 Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of
32038    Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
32039 22 Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of
32040    the tribes of Israel.
32041 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old
32042    and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel
32043    like to the stars of the heavens.
32044 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not,
32045    because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was
32046    the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
32047 25 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel:
32048    and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in
32049    the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of
32050    Uzziah:
32051 26 And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of
32052    the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
32053 27 And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the
32054    increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the
32055    Shiphmite:
32056 28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in
32057    the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the
32058    cellars of oil was Joash:
32059 29 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the
32060    Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was
32061    Shaphat the son of Adlai:
32062 30 Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the
32063    asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
32064 31 And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the
32065    rulers of the substance which was king David's.
32066 32 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and
32067    a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's
32068    sons:
32069 33 And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the
32070    Archite was the king's companion:
32071 34 And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and
32072    Abiathar: and the general of the king's army was Joab.

32073 1 Chronicles 28

32074  1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of
32075    the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered
32076    to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands,
32077    and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the
32078    substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with
32079    the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the
32080    valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
32081  2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me,
32082    my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to
32083    build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the
32084    LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for
32085    the building:
32086  3 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my
32087    name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed
32088    blood.
32089  4 Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house
32090    of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath
32091    chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the
32092    house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked
32093    me to make me king over all Israel:
32094  5 And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he
32095    hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the
32096    kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
32097  6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house
32098    and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will
32099    be his father.
32100  7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be
32101    constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this
32102    day.
32103  8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of
32104    the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for
32105    all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess
32106    this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your
32107    children after you for ever.
32108  9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and
32109    serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for
32110    the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the
32111    imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be
32112    found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off
32113    for ever.
32114 10 Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house
32115    for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
32116 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch,
32117    and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and
32118    of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours
32119    thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
32120 12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the
32121    courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round
32122    about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the
32123    treasuries of the dedicated things:
32124 13 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for
32125    all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for
32126    all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.
32127 14 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all
32128    instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all
32129    instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every
32130    kind of service:
32131 15 Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their
32132    lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the
32133    lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight,
32134    both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof,
32135    according to the use of every candlestick.
32136 16 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for
32137    every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:
32138 17 Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the
32139    cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for
32140    every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of
32141    silver:
32142 18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold
32143    for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread
32144    out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the
32145    LORD.
32146 19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing
32147    by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
32148 20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good
32149    courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD
32150    God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee,
32151    nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for
32152    the service of the house of the LORD.
32153 21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even
32154    they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of
32155    God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of
32156    workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of
32157    service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at
32158    thy commandment.

32159 1 Chronicles 29

32160  1 Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation,
32161    Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and
32162    tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man,
32163    but for the LORD God.
32164  2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God
32165    the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for
32166    things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron
32167    for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones,
32168    and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers
32169    colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones
32170    in abundance.
32171  3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my
32172    God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which
32173    I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I
32174    have prepared for the holy house.
32175  4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and
32176    seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls
32177    of the houses withal:
32178  5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of
32179    silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of
32180    artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service
32181    this day unto the LORD?
32182  6 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of
32183    Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the
32184    rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,
32185  7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five
32186    thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten
32187    thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and
32188    one hundred thousand talents of iron.
32189  8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the
32190    treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the
32191    Gershonite.
32192  9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly,
32193    because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD:
32194    and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
32195 10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation:
32196    and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our
32197    father, for ever and ever.
32198 11 Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory,
32199    and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the
32200    heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O
32201    LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
32202 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over
32203    all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand
32204    it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
32205 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious
32206    name.
32207 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to
32208    offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of
32209    thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
32210 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all
32211    our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there
32212    is none abiding.
32213 16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build
32214    thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is
32215    all thine own.
32216 17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast
32217    pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine
32218    heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have
32219    I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer
32220    willingly unto thee.
32221 18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep
32222    this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart
32223    of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
32224 19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy
32225    commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all
32226    these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have
32227    made provision.
32228 20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD
32229    your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of
32230    their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the
32231    LORD, and the king.
32232 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered
32233    burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day,
32234    even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand
32235    lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance
32236    for all Israel:
32237 22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great
32238    gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the
32239    second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief
32240    governor, and Zadok to be priest.
32241 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of
32242    David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
32243 24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons
32244    likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the
32245    king.
32246 25 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all
32247    Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not
32248    been on any king before him in Israel.
32249 26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
32250 27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years;
32251    seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years
32252    reigned he in Jerusalem.
32253 28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and
32254    honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
32255 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they
32256    are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of
32257    Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
32258 30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over
32259    him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the
32260    countries.

32261 Book 14 2 Chronicles

32262 2 Chronicles 1

32263  1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom,
32264    and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him
32265    exceedingly.
32266  2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of
32267    thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every
32268    governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
32269  3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the
32270    high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of
32271    the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD
32272    had made in the wilderness.
32273  4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to
32274    the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched
32275    a tent for it at Jerusalem.
32276  5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
32277    son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the
32278    LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
32279  6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the
32280    LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and
32281    offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
32282  7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him,
32283    Ask what I shall give thee.
32284  8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto
32285    David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
32286  9 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be
32287    established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the
32288    dust of the earth in multitude.
32289 10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come
32290    in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that
32291    is so great?
32292 11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and
32293    thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of
32294    thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast
32295    asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge
32296    my people, over whom I have made thee king:
32297 12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give
32298    thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings
32299    have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any
32300    after thee have the like.
32301 13 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was
32302    at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the
32303    congregation, and reigned over Israel.
32304 14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a
32305    thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
32306    horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the
32307    king at Jerusalem.
32308 15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as
32309    stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are
32310    in the vale for abundance.
32311 16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
32312    the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
32313 17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot
32314    for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred
32315    and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of
32316    the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

32317 2 Chronicles 2

32318  1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the
32319    LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
32320  2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear
32321    burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and
32322    three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
32323  3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou
32324    didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to
32325    build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
32326  4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to
32327    dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and
32328    for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings
32329    morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
32330    and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an
32331    ordinance for ever to Israel.
32332  5 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God
32333    above all gods.
32334  6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and
32335    heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I
32336    should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before
32337    him?
32338  7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in
32339    silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson,
32340    and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men
32341    that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
32342    father did provide.
32343  8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of
32344    Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber
32345    in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy
32346    servants,
32347  9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I
32348    am about to build shall be wonderful great.
32349 10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut
32350    timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty
32351    thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of
32352    wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
32353 11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent
32354    to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath
32355    made thee king over them.
32356 12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that
32357    made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise
32358    son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build
32359    an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
32360 13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding,
32361    of Huram my father's,
32362 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was
32363    a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in
32364    brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue,
32365    and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of
32366    graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to
32367    him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord
32368    David thy father.
32369 15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the
32370    wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his
32371    servants:
32372 16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt
32373    need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa;
32374    and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
32375 17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land
32376    of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had
32377    numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty
32378    thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
32379 18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers
32380    of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the
32381    mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set
32382    the people a work.

32383 2 Chronicles 3

32384  1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem
32385    in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his
32386    father, in the place that David had prepared in the
32387    threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
32388  2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month,
32389    in the fourth year of his reign.
32390  3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for
32391    the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after
32392    the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth
32393    twenty cubits.
32394  4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length
32395    of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty
32396    cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he
32397    overlaid it within with pure gold.
32398  5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he
32399    overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and
32400    chains.
32401  6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:
32402    and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
32403  7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the
32404    walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved
32405    cherubims on the walls.
32406  8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was
32407    according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
32408    breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine
32409    gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
32410  9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he
32411    overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
32412 10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image
32413    work, and overlaid them with gold.
32414 11 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one
32415    wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall
32416    of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits,
32417    reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
32418 12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to
32419    the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits
32420    also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
32421 13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
32422    cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were
32423    inward.
32424 14 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and
32425    fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
32426 15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five
32427    cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of
32428    them was five cubits.
32429 16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the
32430    heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and
32431    put them on the chains.
32432 17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the
32433    right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of
32434    that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the
32435    left Boaz.

32436 2 Chronicles 4

32437  1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length
32438    thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits
32439    the height thereof.
32440  2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,
32441    round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a
32442    line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
32443  3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it
32444    round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about.
32445    Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
32446  4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
32447    three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the
32448    south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set
32449    above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
32450  5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it
32451    like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies;
32452    and it received and held three thousand baths.
32453  6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and
32454    five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered
32455    for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was
32456    for the priests to wash in.
32457  7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form,
32458    and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five
32459    on the left.
32460  8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five
32461    on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an
32462    hundred basons of gold.
32463  9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great
32464    court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them
32465    with brass.
32466 10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over
32467    against the south.
32468 11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And
32469    Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon
32470    for the house of God;
32471 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters
32472    which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths
32473    to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the
32474    top of the pillars;
32475 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of
32476    pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the
32477    chapiters which were upon the pillars.
32478 14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
32479 15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
32480 16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all
32481    their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon
32482    for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
32483 17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
32484    ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
32485 18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for
32486    the weight of the brass could not be found out.
32487 19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of
32488    God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the
32489    shewbread was set;
32490 20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should
32491    burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
32492 21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of
32493    gold, and that perfect gold;
32494 22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the
32495    censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner
32496    doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the
32497    house of the temple, were of gold.

32498 2 Chronicles 5

32499  1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD
32500    was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David
32501    his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and
32502    all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house
32503    of God.
32504  2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
32505    of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of
32506    Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
32507    the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
32508  3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the
32509    king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
32510  4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the
32511    ark.
32512  5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the
32513    congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the
32514    tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
32515  6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that
32516    were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and
32517    oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
32518  7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
32519    unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy
32520    place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
32521  8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of
32522    the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves
32523    thereof above.
32524  9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the
32525    staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were
32526    not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
32527 10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses
32528    put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the
32529    children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
32530 11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the
32531    holy place: (for all the priests that were present were
32532    sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
32533 12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph,
32534    of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren,
32535    being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries
32536    and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them
32537    an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
32538 13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as
32539    one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking
32540    the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the
32541    trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised
32542    the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for
32543    ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the
32544    house of the LORD;
32545 14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of
32546    the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of
32547    God.

32548 2 Chronicles 6

32549  1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in
32550    the thick darkness.
32551  2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place
32552    for thy dwelling for ever.
32553  3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
32554    congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel
32555    stood.
32556  4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with
32557    his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my
32558    father David, saying,
32559  5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land
32560    of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to
32561    build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose
32562    I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
32563  6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and
32564    have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
32565  7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house
32566    for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
32567  8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in
32568    thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in
32569    that it was in thine heart:
32570  9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
32571    which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
32572    house for my name.
32573 10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
32574    spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and
32575    am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have
32576    built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
32577 11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the
32578    LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
32579 12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of
32580    all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
32581 13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long,
32582    and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it
32583    in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled
32584    down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and
32585    spread forth his hands toward heaven.
32586 14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in
32587    the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and
32588    shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with
32589    all their hearts:
32590 15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that
32591    which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and
32592    hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
32593 16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant
32594    David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying,
32595    There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the
32596    throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their
32597    way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
32598 17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,
32599    which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
32600 18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold,
32601    heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much
32602    less this house which I have built!
32603 19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to
32604    his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and
32605    the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
32606 20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night,
32607    upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put
32608    thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant
32609    prayeth toward this place.
32610 21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and
32611    of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place:
32612    hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when
32613    thou hearest, forgive.
32614 22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon
32615    him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in
32616    this house;
32617 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by
32618    requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own
32619    head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according
32620    to his righteousness.
32621 24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy,
32622    because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and
32623    confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee
32624    in this house;
32625 25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
32626    people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou
32627    gavest to them and to their fathers.
32628 26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
32629    have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place,
32630    and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost
32631    afflict them;
32632 27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
32633    servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them
32634    the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy
32635    land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an
32636    inheritance.
32637 28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if
32638    there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if
32639    their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land;
32640    whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
32641 29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of
32642    any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall
32643    know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth
32644    his hands in this house:
32645 30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive,
32646    and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose
32647    heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the
32648    children of men:)
32649 31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they
32650    live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
32651 32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people
32652    Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's
32653    sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they
32654    come and pray in this house;
32655 33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
32656    and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for;
32657    that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee,
32658    as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which
32659    I have built is called by thy name.
32660 34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way
32661    that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this
32662    city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built
32663    for thy name;
32664 35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
32665    supplication, and maintain their cause.
32666 36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth
32667    not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over
32668    before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a
32669    land far off or near;
32670 37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are
32671    carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of
32672    their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss,
32673    and have dealt wickedly;
32674 38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their
32675    soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried
32676    them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest
32677    unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast
32678    chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
32679 39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
32680    their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their
32681    cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
32682 40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let
32683    thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this
32684    place.
32685 41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou,
32686    and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be
32687    clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
32688    goodness.
32689 42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember
32690    the mercies of David thy servant.

32691 2 Chronicles 7

32692  1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came
32693    down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the
32694    sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
32695  2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD,
32696    because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.
32697  3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came
32698    down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed
32699    themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement,
32700    and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good;
32701    for his mercy endureth for ever.
32702  4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the
32703    LORD.
32704  5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
32705    thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so
32706    the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
32707  6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with
32708    instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had
32709    made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever,
32710    when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded
32711    trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
32712  7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was
32713    before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt
32714    offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the
32715    brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive
32716    the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
32717  8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and
32718    all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
32719    entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
32720  9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they
32721    kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast
32722    seven days.
32723 10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
32724    sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart
32725    for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to
32726    Solomon, and to Israel his people.
32727 11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's
32728    house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the
32729    house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously
32730    effected.
32731 12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him,
32732    I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself
32733    for an house of sacrifice.
32734 13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the
32735    locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my
32736    people;
32737 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
32738    themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
32739    wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
32740    their sin, and will heal their land.
32741 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the
32742    prayer that is made in this place.
32743 16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name
32744    may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be
32745    there perpetually.
32746 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
32747    father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded
32748    thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
32749 18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I
32750    have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not
32751    fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
32752 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
32753    commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and
32754    serve other gods, and worship them;
32755 20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I
32756    have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for
32757    my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a
32758    proverb and a byword among all nations.
32759 21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to
32760    every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath
32761    the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
32762 22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of
32763    their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of
32764    Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and
32765    served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon
32766    them.

32767 2 Chronicles 8

32768  1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
32769    Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
32770  2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon
32771    built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
32772  3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
32773  4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store
32774    cities, which he built in Hamath.
32775  5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,
32776    fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
32777  6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and
32778    all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and
32779    all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in
32780    Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
32781  7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the
32782    Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
32783    Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
32784  8 But of their children, who were left after them in the land,
32785    whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon
32786    make to pay tribute until this day.
32787  9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for
32788    his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains,
32789    and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
32790 10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two
32791    hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
32792 11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city
32793    of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he
32794    said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of
32795    Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the
32796    LORD hath come.
32797 12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
32798    altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
32799 13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the
32800    commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
32801    and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the
32802    feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in
32803    the feast of tabernacles.
32804 14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father,
32805    the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites
32806    to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests,
32807    as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their
32808    courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God
32809    commanded.
32810 15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto
32811    the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning
32812    the treasures.
32813 16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the
32814    foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was
32815    finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
32816 17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side
32817    in the land of Edom.
32818 18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and
32819    servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the
32820    servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and
32821    fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

32822 2 Chronicles 9

32823  1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she
32824    came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a
32825    very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in
32826    abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to
32827    Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
32828  2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing
32829    hid from Solomon which he told her not.
32830  3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,
32831    and the house that he had built,
32832  4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,
32833    and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his
32834    cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he
32835    went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit
32836    in her.
32837  5 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard
32838    in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
32839  6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine
32840    eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness
32841    of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame
32842    that I heard.
32843  7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which
32844    stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
32845  8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set
32846    thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because
32847    thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore
32848    made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
32849  9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,
32850    and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither
32851    was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king
32852    Solomon.
32853 10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon,
32854    which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and
32855    precious stones.
32856 11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of
32857    the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries
32858    for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land
32859    of Judah.
32860 12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
32861    whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto
32862    the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she
32863    and her servants.
32864 13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
32865    six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
32866 14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the
32867    kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and
32868    silver to Solomon.
32869 15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
32870    hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
32871 16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three
32872    hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put
32873    them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
32874 17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
32875    it with pure gold.
32876 18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of
32877    gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each
32878    side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the
32879    stays:
32880 19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
32881    upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any
32882    kingdom.
32883 20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
32884    all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of
32885    pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted
32886    of in the days of Solomon.
32887 21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
32888    Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish
32889    bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
32890 22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches
32891    and wisdom.
32892 23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon,
32893    to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
32894 24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
32895    vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and
32896    mules, a rate year by year.
32897 25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,
32898    and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot
32899    cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
32900 26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the
32901    land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
32902 27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
32903    trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains
32904    in abundance.
32905 28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
32906    all lands.
32907 29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they
32908    not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the
32909    prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo
32910    the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
32911 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
32912 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the
32913    city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
32914    stead.

32915 2 Chronicles 10

32916  1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel
32917    come to make him king.
32918  2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was
32919    in Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the
32920    king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
32921  3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came
32922    and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
32923  4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou
32924    somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy
32925    yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
32926  5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days.
32927    And the people departed.
32928  6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood
32929    before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What
32930    counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?
32931  7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this
32932    people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they
32933    will be thy servants for ever.
32934  8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and
32935    took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him,
32936    that stood before him.
32937  9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return
32938    answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease
32939    somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
32940 10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto
32941    him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto
32942    thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it
32943    somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My
32944    little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
32945 11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put
32946    more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I
32947    will chastise you with scorpions.
32948 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third
32949    day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third
32950    day.
32951 13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook
32952    the counsel of the old men,
32953 14 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying,
32954    My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my
32955    father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
32956    scorpions.
32957 15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was
32958    of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake
32959    by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of
32960    Nebat.
32961 16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto
32962    them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have
32963    we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse:
32964    every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to
32965    thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
32966 17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of
32967    Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
32968 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and
32969    the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.
32970    But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to
32971    flee to Jerusalem.
32972 19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

32973 2 Chronicles 11

32974  1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the
32975    house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand
32976    chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that
32977    he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
32978  2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God,
32979    saying,
32980  3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
32981    all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
32982  4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against
32983    your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing
32984    is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and
32985    returned from going against Jeroboam.
32986  5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence
32987    in Judah.
32988  6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
32989  7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
32990  8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
32991  9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
32992 10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
32993    Benjamin fenced cities.
32994 11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them,
32995    and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
32996 12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made
32997    them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
32998 13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel
32999    resorted to him out of all their coasts.
33000 14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and
33001    came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had
33002    cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the
33003    LORD:
33004 15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the
33005    devils, and for the calves which he had made.
33006 16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set
33007    their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem,
33008    to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.
33009 17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam
33010    the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they
33011    walked in the way of David and Solomon.
33012 18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the
33013    son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the
33014    son of Jesse;
33015 19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
33016 20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which
33017    bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
33018 21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all
33019    his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and
33020    threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and
33021    threescore daughters.)
33022 22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be
33023    ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
33024 23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children
33025    throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every
33026    fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he
33027    desired many wives.

33028 2 Chronicles 12

33029  1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the
33030    kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of
33031    the LORD, and all Israel with him.
33032  2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam
33033    Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they
33034    had transgressed against the LORD,
33035  3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand
33036    horsemen: and the people were without number that came with
33037    him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the
33038    Ethiopians.
33039  4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and
33040    came to Jerusalem.
33041  5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes
33042    of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of
33043    Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have
33044    forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of
33045    Shishak.
33046  6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled
33047    themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
33048  7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word
33049    of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled
33050    themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will
33051    grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured
33052    out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
33053  8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my
33054    service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
33055  9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took
33056    away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures
33057    of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the
33058    shields of gold which Solomon had made.
33059 10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and
33060    committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that
33061    kept the entrance of the king's house.
33062 11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the
33063    guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the
33064    guard chamber.
33065 12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from
33066    him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in
33067    Judah things went well.
33068 13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
33069    reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he
33070    began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
33071    the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of
33072    Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was
33073    Naamah an Ammonitess.
33074 14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the
33075    LORD.
33076 15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written
33077    in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer
33078    concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam
33079    and Jeroboam continually.
33080 16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
33081    city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

33082 2 Chronicles 13

33083  1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to
33084    reign over Judah.
33085  2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
33086    was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was
33087    war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
33088  3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men
33089    of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also
33090    set the battle in array against him with eight hundred
33091    thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
33092  4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount
33093    Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
33094  5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the
33095    kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his
33096    sons by a covenant of salt?
33097  6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son
33098    of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
33099  7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of
33100    Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the
33101    son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and
33102    could not withstand them.
33103  8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the
33104    hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and
33105    there are with your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for
33106    gods.
33107  9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of
33108    Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the
33109    manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh
33110    to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the
33111    same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
33112 10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken
33113    him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the
33114    sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
33115 11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening
33116    burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set
33117    they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold
33118    with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the
33119    charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
33120 12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his
33121    priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O
33122    children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your
33123    fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
33124 13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them:
33125    so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
33126 14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and
33127    behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded
33128    with the trumpets.
33129 15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah
33130    shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all
33131    Israel before Abijah and Judah.
33132 16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God
33133    delivered them into their hand.
33134 17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so
33135    there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen
33136    men.
33137 18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time,
33138    and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon
33139    the LORD God of their fathers.
33140 19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
33141    Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns
33142    thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
33143 20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of
33144    Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
33145 21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat
33146    twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
33147 22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his
33148    sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

33149 2 Chronicles 14

33150  1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
33151    city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his
33152    days the land was quiet ten years.
33153  2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the
33154    LORD his God:
33155  3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high
33156    places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
33157  4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and
33158    to do the law and the commandment.
33159  5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high
33160    places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
33161  6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest,
33162    and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given
33163    him rest.
33164  7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and
33165    make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the
33166    land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our
33167    God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every
33168    side. So they built and prospered.
33169  8 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out
33170    of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that
33171    bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore
33172    thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
33173  9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an
33174    host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and
33175    came unto Mareshah.
33176 10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in
33177    array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
33178 11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is
33179    nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them
33180    that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on
33181    thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD,
33182    thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.
33183 12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah;
33184    and the Ethiopians fled.
33185 13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto
33186    Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not
33187    recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD,
33188    and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.
33189 14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear
33190    of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities;
33191    for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
33192 15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep
33193    and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

33194 2 Chronicles 15

33195  1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
33196  2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me,
33197    Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while
33198    ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you;
33199    but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
33200  3 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God,
33201    and without a teaching priest, and without law.
33202  4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of
33203    Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
33204  5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out,
33205    nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the
33206    inhabitants of the countries.
33207  6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God
33208    did vex them with all adversity.
33209  7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for
33210    your work shall be rewarded.
33211  8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the
33212    prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols
33213    out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the
33214    cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the
33215    altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
33216  9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with
33217    them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they
33218    fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the
33219    LORD his God was with him.
33220 10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third
33221    month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
33222 11 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil
33223    which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand
33224    sheep.
33225 12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their
33226    fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
33227 13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be
33228    put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
33229 14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with
33230    shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
33231 15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with
33232    all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and
33233    he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
33234 16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he
33235    removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in
33236    a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt
33237    it at the brook Kidron.
33238 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:
33239    nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
33240 18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his
33241    father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated,
33242    silver, and gold, and vessels.
33243 19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of
33244    the reign of Asa.

33245 2 Chronicles 16

33246  1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king
33247    of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the
33248    intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of
33249    Judah.
33250  2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of
33251    the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to
33252    Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
33253  3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my
33254    father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and
33255    gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he
33256    may depart from me.
33257  4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
33258    his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon,
33259    and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
33260  5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off
33261    building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
33262  6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the
33263    stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was
33264    building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
33265  7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah,
33266    and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of
33267    Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the
33268    host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
33269  8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very
33270    many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on
33271    the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
33272  9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole
33273    earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose
33274    heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
33275    therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
33276 10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison
33277    house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing.
33278    And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
33279 11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are
33280    written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
33281 12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased
33282    in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his
33283    disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
33284 13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
33285    fortieth year of his reign.
33286 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made
33287    for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed
33288    which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices
33289    prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great
33290    burning for him.

33291 2 Chronicles 17

33292  1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened
33293    himself against Israel.
33294  2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and
33295    set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
33296    Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
33297  3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the
33298    first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
33299  4 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his
33300    commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
33301  5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all
33302    Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and
33303    honour in abundance.
33304  6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover
33305    he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
33306  7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes,
33307    even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to
33308    Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
33309  8 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah,
33310    and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and
33311    Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them
33312    Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
33313  9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the
33314    LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of
33315    Judah, and taught the people.
33316 10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the
33317    lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war
33318    against Jehoshaphat.
33319 11 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and
33320    tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven
33321    thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven
33322    hundred he goats.
33323 12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah
33324    castles, and cities of store.
33325 13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men
33326    of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
33327 14 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of
33328    their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the
33329    chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred
33330    thousand.
33331 15 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
33332    hundred and fourscore thousand.
33333 16 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly
33334    offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred
33335    thousand mighty men of valour.
33336 17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him
33337    armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
33338 18 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and
33339    fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
33340 19 These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in
33341    the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

33342 2 Chronicles 18

33343  1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined
33344    affinity with Ahab.
33345  2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And
33346    Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the
33347    people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with
33348    him to Ramothgilead.
33349  3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
33350    Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I
33351    am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be
33352    with thee in the war.
33353  4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
33354    thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
33355  5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets
33356    four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to
33357    Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go
33358    up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.
33359  6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
33360    besides, that we might enquire of him?
33361  7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one
33362    man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for
33363    he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is
33364    Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
33365    king say so.
33366  8 And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and
33367    said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
33368  9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat
33369    either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they
33370    sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria;
33371    and all the prophets prophesied before them.
33372 10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron,
33373    and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push
33374    Syria until they be consumed.
33375 11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
33376    Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into
33377    the hand of the king.
33378 12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him,
33379    saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the
33380    king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be
33381    like one of their's, and speak thou good.
33382 13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith,
33383    that will I speak.
33384 14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him,
33385    Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I
33386    forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be
33387    delivered into your hand.
33388 15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee
33389    that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the
33390    LORD?
33391 16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the
33392    mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said,
33393    These have no master; let them return therefore every man to
33394    his house in peace.
33395 17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
33396    thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
33397 18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the
33398    LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven
33399    standing on his right hand and on his left.
33400 19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that
33401    he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying
33402    after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
33403 20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
33404    said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him,
33405    Wherewith?
33406 21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth
33407    of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him,
33408    and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
33409 22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
33410    mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
33411    against thee.
33412 23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote
33413    Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of
33414    the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
33415 24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou
33416    shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
33417 25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him
33418    back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
33419    son;
33420 26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison,
33421    and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of
33422    affliction, until I return in peace.
33423 27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath
33424    not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye
33425    people.
33426 28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went
33427    up to Ramothgilead.
33428 29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
33429    myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy
33430    robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went
33431    to the battle.
33432 30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the
33433    chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small
33434    or great, save only with the king of Israel.
33435 31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
33436    Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel.
33437    Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat
33438    cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to
33439    depart from him.
33440 32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots
33441    perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back
33442    again from pursuing him.
33443 33 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king
33444    of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said
33445    to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me
33446    out of the host; for I am wounded.
33447 34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel
33448    stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the
33449    even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

33450 2 Chronicles 19

33451  1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in
33452    peace to Jerusalem.
33453  2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and
33454    said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and
33455    love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee
33456    from before the LORD.
33457  3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou
33458    hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared
33459    thine heart to seek God.
33460  4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again
33461    through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and
33462    brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
33463  5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities
33464    of Judah, city by city,
33465  6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not
33466    for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
33467  7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed
33468    and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor
33469    respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
33470  8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and
33471    of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for
33472    the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they
33473    returned to Jerusalem.
33474  9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of
33475    the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
33476 10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that
33477    dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and
33478    commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them
33479    that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come
33480    upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not
33481    trespass.
33482 11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all
33483    matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the
33484    ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also
33485    the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously,
33486    and the LORD shall be with the good.

33487 2 Chronicles 20

33488  1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab,
33489    and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the
33490    Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
33491  2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There
33492    cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on
33493    this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which
33494    is Engedi.
33495  3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and
33496    proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
33497  4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the
33498    LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek
33499    the LORD.
33500  5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
33501    Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
33502  6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in
33503    heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the
33504    heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so
33505    that none is able to withstand thee?
33506  7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of
33507    this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed
33508    of Abraham thy friend for ever?
33509  8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary
33510    therein for thy name, saying,
33511  9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or
33512    pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy
33513    presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee
33514    in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
33515 10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount
33516    Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came
33517    out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and
33518    destroyed them not;
33519 11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of
33520    thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
33521 12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
33522    against this great company that cometh against us; neither
33523    know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
33524 13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones,
33525    their wives, and their children.
33526 14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah,
33527    the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons
33528    of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the
33529    congregation;
33530 15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of
33531    Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto
33532    you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great
33533    multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
33534 16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the
33535    cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook,
33536    before the wilderness of Jeruel.
33537 17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves,
33538    stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O
33539    Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go
33540    out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
33541 18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground:
33542    and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the
33543    LORD, worshipping the LORD.
33544 19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the
33545    children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of
33546    Israel with a loud voice on high.
33547 20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the
33548    wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood
33549    and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem;
33550    Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established;
33551    believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
33552 21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed
33553    singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of
33554    holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise
33555    the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.
33556 22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set
33557    ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount
33558    Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
33559 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
33560    inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them:
33561    and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,
33562    every one helped to destroy another.
33563 24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness,
33564    they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead
33565    bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
33566 25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the
33567    spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches
33568    with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped
33569    off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they
33570    were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
33571 26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley
33572    of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the
33573    name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah,
33574    unto this day.
33575 27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
33576    Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem
33577    with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their
33578    enemies.
33579 28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
33580    trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
33581 29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those
33582    countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against
33583    the enemies of Israel.
33584 30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him
33585    rest round about.
33586 31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five
33587    years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and
33588    five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the
33589    daughter of Shilhi.
33590 32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not
33591    from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
33592 33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the
33593    people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their
33594    fathers.
33595 34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,
33596    behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of
33597    Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
33598 35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
33599    Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
33600 36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to
33601    Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
33602 37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against
33603    Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with
33604    Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were
33605    broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

33606 2 Chronicles 21

33607  1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with
33608    his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned
33609    in his stead.
33610  2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and
33611    Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and
33612    Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of
33613    Israel.
33614  3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold,
33615    and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the
33616    kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
33617  4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he
33618    strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the
33619    sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
33620  5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign,
33621    and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
33622  6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did
33623    the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife:
33624    and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
33625  7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because
33626    of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he
33627    promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
33628  8 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of
33629    Judah, and made themselves a king.
33630  9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots
33631    with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites
33632    which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
33633 10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto
33634    this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his
33635    hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
33636 11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and
33637    caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and
33638    compelled Judah thereto.
33639 12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet,
33640    saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because
33641    thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father,
33642    nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
33643 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast
33644    made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring,
33645    like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast
33646    slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better
33647    than thyself:
33648 14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people,
33649    and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
33650 15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,
33651    until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by
33652    day.
33653 16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
33654    Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the
33655    Ethiopians:
33656 17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried
33657    away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and
33658    his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son
33659    left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
33660 18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
33661    incurable disease.
33662 19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of
33663    two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so
33664    he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for
33665    him, like the burning of his fathers.
33666 20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
33667    reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being
33668    desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not
33669    in the sepulchres of the kings.

33670 2 Chronicles 22

33671  1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son
33672    king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the
33673    Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the
33674    son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
33675  2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign,
33676    and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
33677    was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
33678  3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his
33679    mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
33680  4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house
33681    of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his
33682    father to his destruction.
33683  5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the
33684    son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria
33685    at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
33686  6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds
33687    which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king
33688    of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
33689    down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was
33690    sick.
33691  7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram:
33692    for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
33693    the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the
33694    house of Ahab.
33695  8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment
33696    upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and
33697    the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to
33698    Ahaziah, he slew them.
33699  9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in
33700    Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain
33701    him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of
33702    Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the
33703    house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
33704 10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
33705    dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house
33706    of Judah.
33707 11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son
33708    of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were
33709    slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So
33710    Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of
33711    Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid
33712    him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
33713 12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and
33714    Athaliah reigned over the land.

33715 2 Chronicles 23

33716  1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and
33717    took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and
33718    Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and
33719    Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri,
33720    into covenant with him.
33721  2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of
33722    all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of
33723    Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
33724  3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the
33725    house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son
33726    shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
33727  4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you
33728    entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites,
33729    shall be porters of the doors;
33730  5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third
33731    part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall
33732    be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
33733  6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the
33734    priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go
33735    in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch
33736    of the LORD.
33737  7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man
33738    with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into
33739    the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king
33740    when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
33741  8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that
33742    Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men
33743    that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go
33744    out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the
33745    courses.
33746  9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of
33747    hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king
33748    David's, which were in the house of God.
33749 10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his
33750    hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of
33751    the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king
33752    round about.
33753 11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the
33754    crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And
33755    Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the
33756    king.
33757 12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
33758    praising the king, she came to the people into the house of
33759    the LORD:
33760 13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at
33761    the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king:
33762    and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with
33763    trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and
33764    such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes,
33765    and said, Treason, Treason.
33766 14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds
33767    that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her
33768    forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain
33769    with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house
33770    of the LORD.
33771 15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the
33772    entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her
33773    there.
33774 16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the
33775    people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's
33776    people.
33777 17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it
33778    down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew
33779    Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
33780 18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD
33781    by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had
33782    distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt
33783    offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses,
33784    with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
33785 19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD,
33786    that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
33787 20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
33788    governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and
33789    brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they
33790    came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the
33791    king upon the throne of the kingdom.
33792 21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was
33793    quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

33794 2 Chronicles 24

33795  1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he
33796    reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
33797    Zibiah of Beersheba.
33798  2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD
33799    all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
33800  3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and
33801    daughters.
33802  4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to
33803    repair the house of the LORD.
33804  5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said
33805    to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all
33806    Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to
33807    year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites
33808    hastened it not.
33809  6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him,
33810    Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of
33811    Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the
33812    commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the
33813    congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
33814  7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the
33815    house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house
33816    of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
33817  8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it
33818    without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
33819  9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to
33820    bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of
33821    God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
33822 10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought
33823    in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
33824 11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought
33825    unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when
33826    they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the
33827    high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it,
33828    and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day,
33829    and gathered money in abundance.
33830 12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of
33831    the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and
33832    carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as
33833    wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
33834 13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them,
33835    and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened
33836    it.
33837 14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the
33838    money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels
33839    for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to
33840    offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And
33841    they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD
33842    continually all the days of Jehoiada.
33843 15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an
33844    hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
33845 16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,
33846    because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and
33847    toward his house.
33848 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
33849    made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
33850 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and
33851    served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and
33852    Jerusalem for this their trespass.
33853 19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the
33854    LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give
33855    ear.
33856 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
33857    the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them,
33858    Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the
33859    LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the
33860    LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
33861 21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at
33862    the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the
33863    LORD.
33864 22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada
33865    his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he
33866    died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
33867 23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of
33868    Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and
33869    Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from
33870    among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king
33871    of Damascus.
33872 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men,
33873    and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand,
33874    because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So
33875    they executed judgment against Joash.
33876 25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in
33877    great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for
33878    the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on
33879    his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of
33880    David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
33881 26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son
33882    of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a
33883    Moabitess.
33884 27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid
33885    upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they
33886    are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah
33887    his son reigned in his stead.

33888 2 Chronicles 25

33889  1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
33890    and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his
33891    mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
33892  2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but
33893    not with a perfect heart.
33894  3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him,
33895    that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
33896  4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in
33897    the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded,
33898    saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither
33899    shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall
33900    die for his own sin.
33901  5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them
33902    captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according
33903    to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and
33904    Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and
33905    above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able
33906    to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
33907  6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of
33908    Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
33909  7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not
33910    the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with
33911    Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
33912  8 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God
33913    shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to
33914    help, and to cast down.
33915  9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for
33916    the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?
33917    And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee
33918    much more than this.
33919 10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to
33920    him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger
33921    was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in
33922    great anger.
33923 11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people,
33924    and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of
33925    Seir ten thousand.
33926 12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah
33927    carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock,
33928    and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all
33929    were broken in pieces.
33930 13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that
33931    they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of
33932    Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three
33933    thousand of them, and took much spoil.
33934 14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the
33935    slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the
33936    children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed
33937    down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
33938 15 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah,
33939    and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast
33940    thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not
33941    deliver their own people out of thine hand?
33942 16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said
33943    unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why
33944    shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said,
33945    I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou
33946    hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
33947 17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the
33948    son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,
33949    Come, let us see one another in the face.
33950 18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
33951    saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
33952    was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife:
33953    and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and
33954    trode down the thistle.
33955 19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine
33956    heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why
33957    shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall,
33958    even thou, and Judah with thee?
33959 20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might
33960    deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they
33961    sought after the gods of Edom.
33962 21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another
33963    in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at
33964    Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
33965 22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled
33966    every man to his tent.
33967 23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the
33968    son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought
33969    him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from
33970    the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
33971 24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels
33972    that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the
33973    treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned
33974    to Samaria.
33975 25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
33976    death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
33977 26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,
33978    are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and
33979    Israel?
33980 27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following
33981    the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and
33982    he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and
33983    slew him there.
33984 28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his
33985    fathers in the city of Judah.

33986 2 Chronicles 26

33987  1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen
33988    years old, and made him king in the room of his father
33989    Amaziah.
33990  2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
33991    slept with his fathers.
33992  3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he
33993    reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
33994    also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
33995  4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
33996    according to all that his father Amaziah did.
33997  5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had
33998    understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought
33999    the LORD, God made him to prosper.
34000  6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and
34001    brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the
34002    wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the
34003    Philistines.
34004  7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
34005    Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
34006  8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread
34007    abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened
34008    himself exceedingly.
34009  9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate,
34010    and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and
34011    fortified them.
34012 10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for
34013    he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the
34014    plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains,
34015    and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
34016 11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
34017    war by bands, according to the number of their account by the
34018    hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the
34019    hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
34020 12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men
34021    of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
34022 13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and
34023    seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty
34024    power, to help the king against the enemy.
34025 14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields,
34026    and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings
34027    to cast stones.
34028 15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to
34029    be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and
34030    great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he
34031    was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
34032 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his
34033    destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and
34034    went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the
34035    altar of incense.
34036 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him
34037    fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
34038 18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It
34039    appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the
34040    LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are
34041    consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou
34042    hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the
34043    LORD God.
34044 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn
34045    incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy
34046    even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house
34047    of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
34048 20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon
34049    him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they
34050    thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go
34051    out, because the LORD had smitten him.
34052 21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and
34053    dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off
34054    from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the
34055    king's house, judging the people of the land.
34056 22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
34057    the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
34058 23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his
34059    fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the
34060    kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son
34061    reigned in his stead.

34062 2 Chronicles 27

34063  1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
34064    and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
34065    also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
34066  2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
34067    according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he
34068    entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did
34069    yet corruptly.
34070  3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the
34071    wall of Ophel he built much.
34072  4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the
34073    forests he built castles and towers.
34074  5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed
34075    against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year
34076    an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of
34077    wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of
34078    Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
34079  6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before
34080    the LORD his God.
34081  7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his
34082    ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
34083    and Judah.
34084  8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
34085    reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
34086  9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
34087    city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

34088 2 Chronicles 28

34089  1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
34090    reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which
34091    was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
34092  2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
34093    also molten images for Baalim.
34094  3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
34095    and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of
34096    the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
34097    Israel.
34098  4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and
34099    on the hills, and under every green tree.
34100  5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the
34101    king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great
34102    multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And
34103    he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who
34104    smote him with a great slaughter.
34105  6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and
34106    twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men;
34107    because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
34108  7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's
34109    son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that
34110    was next to the king.
34111  8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their
34112    brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and
34113    took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to
34114    Samaria.
34115  9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and
34116    he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said
34117    unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was
34118    wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and
34119    ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
34120 10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and
34121    Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there
34122    not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
34123 11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which
34124    ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath
34125    of the LORD is upon you.
34126 12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah
34127    the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and
34128    Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai,
34129    stood up against them that came from the war,
34130 13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither:
34131    for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye
34132    intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our
34133    trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
34134 14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the
34135    princes and all the congregation.
34136 15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the
34137    captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among
34138    them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat
34139    and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of
34140    them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
34141    trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
34142 16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to
34143    help him.
34144 17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried
34145    away captives.
34146 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low
34147    country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh,
34148    and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages
34149    thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and
34150    the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
34151 19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel;
34152    for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the
34153    LORD.
34154 20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and
34155    distressed him, but strengthened him not.
34156 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and
34157    out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it
34158    unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
34159 22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more
34160    against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
34161 23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him:
34162    and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,
34163    therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But
34164    they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
34165 24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God,
34166    and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up
34167    the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in
34168    every corner of Jerusalem.
34169 25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn
34170    incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of
34171    his fathers.
34172 26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last,
34173    behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and
34174    Israel.
34175 27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
34176    city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the
34177    sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
34178    reigned in his stead.

34179 2 Chronicles 29

34180  1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old,
34181    and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his
34182    mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
34183  2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
34184    according to all that David his father had done.
34185  3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened
34186    the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
34187  4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered
34188    them together into the east street,
34189  5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now
34190    yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your
34191    fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
34192  6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil
34193    in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and
34194    have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD,
34195    and turned their backs.
34196  7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the
34197    lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings
34198    in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
34199  8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem,
34200    and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to
34201    hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
34202  9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons
34203    and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
34204 10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God
34205    of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
34206 11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to
34207    stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister
34208    unto him, and burn incense.
34209 12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the
34210    son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons
34211    of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of
34212    Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and
34213    Eden the son of Joah:
34214 13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the
34215    sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
34216 14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons
34217    of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
34218 15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves,
34219    and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the
34220    words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
34221 16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the
34222    LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that
34223    they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the
34224    house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out
34225    abroad into the brook Kidron.
34226 17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to
34227    sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
34228    porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
34229    eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they
34230    made an end.
34231 18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have
34232    cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt
34233    offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread
34234    table, with all the vessels thereof.
34235 19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did
34236    cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and
34237    sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the
34238    LORD.
34239 20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of
34240    the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
34241 21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven
34242    lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom,
34243    and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the
34244    priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the
34245    LORD.
34246 22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the
34247    blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had
34248    killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they
34249    killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the
34250    altar.
34251 23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering
34252    before the king and the congregation; and they laid their
34253    hands upon them:
34254 24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with
34255    their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all
34256    Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the
34257    sin offering should be made for all Israel.
34258 25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals,
34259    with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment
34260    of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet:
34261    for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
34262 26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the
34263    priests with the trumpets.
34264 27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the
34265    altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD
34266    began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments
34267    ordained by David king of Israel.
34268 28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and
34269    the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt
34270    offering was finished.
34271 29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all
34272    that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
34273 30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the
34274    Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David,
34275    and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness,
34276    and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
34277 31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated
34278    yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and
34279    thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the
34280    congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as
34281    many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
34282 32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation
34283    brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and
34284    two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the
34285    LORD.
34286 33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three
34287    thousand sheep.
34288 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all
34289    the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did
34290    help them, till the work was ended, and until the other
34291    priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more
34292    upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
34293 35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat
34294    of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every
34295    burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was
34296    set in order.
34297 36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had
34298    prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

34299 2 Chronicles 30

34300  1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters
34301    also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the
34302    house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the
34303    LORD God of Israel.
34304  2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the
34305    congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second
34306    month.
34307  3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests
34308    had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the
34309    people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
34310  4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
34311  5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout
34312    all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come
34313    to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem:
34314    for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was
34315    written.
34316  6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his
34317    princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the
34318    commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn
34319    again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he
34320    will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the
34321    hand of the kings of Assyria.
34322  7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which
34323    trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who
34324    therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
34325  8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield
34326    yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which
34327    he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that
34328    the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
34329  9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your
34330    children shall find compassion before them that lead them
34331    captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the
34332    LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away
34333    his face from you, if ye return unto him.
34334 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of
34335    Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them
34336    to scorn, and mocked them.
34337 11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
34338    humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
34339 12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do
34340    the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of
34341    the LORD.
34342 13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast
34343    of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
34344    congregation.
34345 14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in
34346    Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and
34347    cast them into the brook Kidron.
34348 15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
34349    second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed,
34350    and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings
34351    into the house of the LORD.
34352 16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to
34353    the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the
34354    blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
34355 17 For there were many in the congregation that were not
34356    sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the
34357    killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to
34358    sanctify them unto the LORD.
34359 18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and
34360    Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,
34361    yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written.
34362    But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon
34363    every one
34364 19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his
34365    fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the
34366    purification of the sanctuary.
34367 20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
34368 21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept
34369    the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness:
34370    and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day,
34371    singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
34372 22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that
34373    taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat
34374    throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and
34375    making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
34376 23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days:
34377    and they kept other seven days with gladness.
34378 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a
34379    thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes
34380    gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand
34381    sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
34382 25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the
34383    Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and
34384    the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that
34385    dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
34386 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of
34387    Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like
34388    in Jerusalem.
34389 27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and
34390    their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy
34391    dwelling place, even unto heaven.

34392 2 Chronicles 31

34393  1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present
34394    went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in
34395    pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high
34396    places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in
34397    Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed
34398    them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man
34399    to his possession, into their own cities.
34400  2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the
34401    Levites after their courses, every man according to his
34402    service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for
34403    peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to
34404    praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
34405  3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the
34406    burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt
34407    offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for
34408    the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the
34409    law of the LORD.
34410  4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to
34411    give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they
34412    might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
34413  5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of
34414    Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and
34415    oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the
34416    tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
34417  6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in
34418    the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen
34419    and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated
34420    unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
34421  7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the
34422    heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
34423  8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they
34424    blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
34425  9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites
34426    concerning the heaps.
34427 10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered
34428    him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings
34429    into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and
34430    have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and
34431    that which is left is this great store.
34432 11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of
34433    the LORD; and they prepared them,
34434 12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated
34435    things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler,
34436    and Shimei his brother was the next.
34437 13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth,
34438    and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and
34439    Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei
34440    his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and
34441    Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
34442 14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the
34443    east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute
34444    the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
34445 15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and
34446    Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the
34447    priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by
34448    courses, as well to the great as to the small:
34449 16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and
34450    upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of
34451    the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges
34452    according to their courses;
34453 17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their
34454    fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in
34455    their charges by their courses;
34456 18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives,
34457    and their sons, and their daughters, through all the
34458    congregation: for in their set office they sanctified
34459    themselves in holiness:
34460 19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the
34461    fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city,
34462    the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all
34463    the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by
34464    genealogies among the Levites.
34465 20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that
34466    which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
34467 21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of
34468    God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God,
34469    he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

34470 2 Chronicles 32

34471  1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib
34472    king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped
34473    against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for
34474    himself.
34475  2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he
34476    was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
34477  3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop
34478    the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and
34479    they did help him.
34480  4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all
34481    the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the
34482    land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find
34483    much water?
34484  5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that
34485    was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall
34486    without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made
34487    darts and shields in abundance.
34488  6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them
34489    together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and
34490    spake comfortably to them, saying,
34491  7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the
34492    king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him:
34493    for there be more with us than with him:
34494  8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God
34495    to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested
34496    themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
34497  9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants
34498    to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and
34499    all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto
34500    all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
34501 10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust,
34502    that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
34503 11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die
34504    by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall
34505    deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34506 12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his
34507    altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall
34508    worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
34509 13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the
34510    people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those
34511    lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
34512 14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my
34513    fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out
34514    of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out
34515    of mine hand?
34516 15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you
34517    on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any
34518    nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine
34519    hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall
34520    your God deliver you out of mine hand?
34521 16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and
34522    against his servant Hezekiah.
34523 17 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and
34524    to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of
34525    other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand,
34526    so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of
34527    mine hand.
34528 18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the
34529    people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them,
34530    and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
34531 19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the
34532    gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the
34533    hands of man.
34534 20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah
34535    the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
34536 21 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men
34537    of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the
34538    king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own
34539    land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they
34540    that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the
34541    sword.
34542 22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
34543    from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the
34544    hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
34545 23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and
34546    presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified
34547    in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
34548 24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto
34549    the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
34550 25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done
34551    unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was
34552    wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
34553 26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his
34554    heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the
34555    wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
34556 27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made
34557    himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious
34558    stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of
34559    pleasant jewels;
34560 28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil;
34561    and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
34562 29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and
34563    herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
34564 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of
34565    Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the
34566    city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
34567 31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of
34568    Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was
34569    done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know
34570    all that was in his heart.
34571 32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness,
34572    behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet,
34573    the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and
34574    Israel.
34575 33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
34576    the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all
34577    Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his
34578    death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

34579 2 Chronicles 33

34580  1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he
34581    reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
34582  2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like
34583    unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast
34584    out before the children of Israel.
34585  3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father
34586    had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made
34587    groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
34588    them.
34589  4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the
34590    LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
34591  5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
34592    courts of the house of the LORD.
34593  6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the
34594    valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used
34595    enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar
34596    spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of
34597    the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
34598  7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the
34599    house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon
34600    his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen
34601    before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
34602  8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of
34603    the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they
34604    will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according
34605    to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the
34606    hand of Moses.
34607  9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
34608    err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had
34609    destroyed before the children of Israel.
34610 10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they
34611    would not hearken.
34612 11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host
34613    of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns,
34614    and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
34615 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God,
34616    and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
34617 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard
34618    his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his
34619    kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
34620 14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on
34621    the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in
34622    at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up
34623    a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced
34624    cities of Judah.
34625 15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the
34626    house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the
34627    mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast
34628    them out of the city.
34629 16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon
34630    peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to
34631    serve the LORD God of Israel.
34632 17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high
34633    places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
34634 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his
34635    God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name
34636    of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the
34637    book of the kings of Israel.
34638 19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his
34639    sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high
34640    places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was
34641    humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the
34642    seers.
34643 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
34644    own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
34645 21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
34646    reigned two years in Jerusalem.
34647 22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as
34648    did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the
34649    carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served
34650    them;
34651 23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his
34652    father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
34653 24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his
34654    own house.
34655 25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
34656    against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his
34657    son king in his stead.

34658 2 Chronicles 34

34659  1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
34660    reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
34661  2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and
34662    walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither
34663    to the right hand, nor to the left.
34664  3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young,
34665    he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the
34666    twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the
34667    high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the
34668    molten images.
34669  4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and
34670    the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the
34671    groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake
34672    in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the
34673    graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
34674  5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and
34675    cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
34676  6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and
34677    Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
34678  7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had
34679    beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the
34680    idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to
34681    Jerusalem.
34682  8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged
34683    the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,
34684    and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of
34685    Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
34686  9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered
34687    the money that was brought into the house of God, which the
34688    Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of
34689    Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of
34690    all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
34691 10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the
34692    oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the
34693    workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and
34694    amend the house:
34695 11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn
34696    stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which
34697    the kings of Judah had destroyed.
34698 12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them
34699    were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari;
34700    and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to
34701    set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill
34702    of instruments of musick.
34703 13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers
34704    of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of
34705    the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
34706 14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the
34707    house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law
34708    of the LORD given by Moses.
34709 15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have
34710    found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And
34711    Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
34712 16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king
34713    word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy
34714    servants, they do it.
34715 17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in
34716    the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of
34717    the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
34718 18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the
34719    priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the
34720    king.
34721 19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the
34722    law, that he rent his clothes.
34723 20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
34724    and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah
34725    a servant of the king's, saying,
34726 21 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in
34727    Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is
34728    found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out
34729    upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the
34730    LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
34731 22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to
34732    Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath,
34733    the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in
34734    Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that
34735    effect.
34736 23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell
34737    ye the man that sent you to me,
34738 24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this
34739    place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses
34740    that are written in the book which they have read before the
34741    king of Judah:
34742 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
34743    other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the
34744    works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out
34745    upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
34746 26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the
34747    LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of
34748    Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
34749 27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself
34750    before God, when thou heardest his words against this place,
34751    and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself
34752    before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I
34753    have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
34754 28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be
34755    gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see
34756    all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the
34757    inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
34758 29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of
34759    Judah and Jerusalem.
34760 30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the
34761    men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the
34762    priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small:
34763    and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the
34764    covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
34765 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before
34766    the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his
34767    commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all
34768    his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the
34769    covenant which are written in this book.
34770 32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin
34771    to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according
34772    to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
34773 33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the
34774    countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made
34775    all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the
34776    LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from
34777    following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

34778 2 Chronicles 35

34779  1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem:
34780    and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
34781    first month.
34782  2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them
34783    to the service of the house of the LORD,
34784  3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were
34785    holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which
34786    Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall
34787    not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your
34788    God, and his people Israel,
34789  4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after
34790    your courses, according to the writing of David king of
34791    Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
34792  5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the
34793    families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after
34794    the division of the families of the Levites.
34795  6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare
34796    your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the
34797    LORD by the hand of Moses.
34798  7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids,
34799    all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to
34800    the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks:
34801    these were of the king's substance.
34802  8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the
34803    priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel,
34804    rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the
34805    passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle
34806    and three hundred oxen.
34807  9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and
34808    Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave
34809    unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small
34810    cattle, and five hundred oxen.
34811 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their
34812    place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the
34813    king's commandment.
34814 11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the
34815    blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
34816 12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give
34817    according to the divisions of the families of the people, to
34818    offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses.
34819    And so did they with the oxen.
34820 13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the
34821    ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and
34822    in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all
34823    the people.
34824 14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the
34825    priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in
34826    offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore
34827    the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the
34828    sons of Aaron.
34829 15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place,
34830    according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman,
34831    and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every
34832    gate; they might not depart from their service; for their
34833    brethren the Levites prepared for them.
34834 16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to
34835    keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar
34836    of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
34837 17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover
34838    at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
34839 18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the
34840    days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of
34841    Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests,
34842    and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present,
34843    and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
34844 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this
34845    passover kept.
34846 20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho
34847    king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by
34848    Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
34849 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with
34850    thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day,
34851    but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded
34852    me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is
34853    with me, that he destroy thee not.
34854 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but
34855    disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened
34856    not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to
34857    fight in the valley of Megiddo.
34858 23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his
34859    servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
34860 24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put
34861    him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to
34862    Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the
34863    sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned
34864    for Josiah.
34865 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and
34866    the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to
34867    this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold,
34868    they are written in the lamentations.
34869 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,
34870    according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
34871 27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the
34872    book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

34873 2 Chronicles 36

34874  1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
34875    and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
34876  2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
34877    reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
34878  3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned
34879    the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
34880  4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah
34881    and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho
34882    took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
34883  5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to
34884    reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did
34885    that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
34886  6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound
34887    him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
34888  7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the
34889    LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
34890  8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations
34891    which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they
34892    are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and
34893    Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
34894  9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
34895    reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did
34896    that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
34897 10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and
34898    brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house
34899    of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and
34900    Jerusalem.
34901 11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
34902    and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
34903 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his
34904    God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet
34905    speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
34906 13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made
34907    him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his
34908    heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
34909 14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,
34910    transgressed very much after all the abominations of the
34911    heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had
34912    hallowed in Jerusalem.
34913 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
34914    messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had
34915    compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
34916 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,
34917    and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
34918    against his people, till there was no remedy.
34919 17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who
34920    slew their young men with the sword in the house of their
34921    sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old
34922    man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his
34923    hand.
34924 18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and
34925    the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of
34926    the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
34927 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of
34928    Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and
34929    destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
34930 20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to
34931    Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until
34932    the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
34933 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until
34934    the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay
34935    desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
34936 22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
34937    of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
34938    accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
34939    Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
34940    kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
34941 23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth
34942    hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me
34943    to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is
34944    there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with
34945    him, and let him go up.

34946 Book 15 Ezra

34947 Ezra 1

34948  1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
34949    of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the
34950    LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he
34951    made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it
34952    also in writing, saying,
34953  2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath
34954    given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me
34955    to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
34956  3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him,
34957    and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build
34958    the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is
34959    in Jerusalem.
34960  4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let
34961    the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and
34962    with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for
34963    the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
34964  5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin,
34965    and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit
34966    God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which
34967    is in Jerusalem.
34968  6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands
34969    with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with
34970    beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was
34971    willingly offered.
34972  7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of
34973    the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of
34974    Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
34975  8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of
34976    Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar,
34977    the prince of Judah.
34978  9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a
34979    thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
34980 10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four
34981    hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
34982 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and
34983    four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of
34984    the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto
34985    Jerusalem.

34986 Ezra 2

34987  1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of
34988    the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom
34989    Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto
34990    Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one
34991    unto his city;
34992  2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah,
34993    Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah.
34994    The number of the men of the people of Israel:
34995  3 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and
34996    two.
34997  4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
34998  5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
34999  6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and
35000    Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
35001  7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
35002  8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
35003  9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
35004 10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
35005 11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.
35006 12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
35007 13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
35008 14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
35009 15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
35010 16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
35011 17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
35012 18 The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
35013 19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
35014 20 The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
35015 21 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.
35016 22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
35017 23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
35018 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
35019 25 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
35020    hundred and forty and three.
35021 26 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
35022 27 The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
35023 28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
35024 29 The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
35025 30 The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
35026 31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty
35027    and four.
35028 32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
35029 33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and
35030    five.
35031 34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
35032 35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and
35033    thirty.
35034 36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
35035    nine hundred seventy and three.
35036 37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
35037 38 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and
35038    seven.
35039 39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
35040 40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the
35041    children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
35042 41 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and
35043    eight.
35044 42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the
35045    children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of
35046    Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all
35047    an hundred thirty and nine.
35048 43 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha,
35049    the children of Tabbaoth,
35050 44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of
35051    Padon,
35052 45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children
35053    of Akkub,
35054 46 The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children
35055    of Hanan,
35056 47 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of
35057    Reaiah,
35058 48 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of
35059    Gazzam,
35060 49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of
35061    Besai,
35062 50 The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children
35063    of Nephusim,
35064 51 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children
35065    of Harhur,
35066 52 The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children
35067    of Harsha,
35068 53 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children
35069    of Thamah,
35070 54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
35071 55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the
35072    children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
35073 56 The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children
35074    of Giddel,
35075 57 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
35076    children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
35077 58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants,
35078    were three hundred ninety and two.
35079 59 And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa,
35080    Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their
35081    father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
35082 60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children
35083    of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
35084 61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah,
35085    the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a
35086    wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was
35087    called after their name:
35088 62 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by
35089    genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as
35090    polluted, put from the priesthood.
35091 63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of
35092    the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim
35093    and with Thummim.
35094 64 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand
35095    three hundred and threescore,
35096 65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were
35097    seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were
35098    among them two hundred singing men and singing women.
35099 66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules,
35100    two hundred forty and five;
35101 67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six
35102    thousand seven hundred and twenty.
35103 68 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the
35104    house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for
35105    the house of God to set it up in his place:
35106 69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work
35107    threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand
35108    pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
35109 70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and
35110    the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in
35111    their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

35112 Ezra 3

35113  1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of
35114    Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves
35115    together as one man to Jerusalem.
35116  2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the
35117    priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his
35118    brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer
35119    burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses
35120    the man of God.
35121  3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them
35122    because of the people of those countries: and they offered
35123    burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings
35124    morning and evening.
35125  4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and
35126    offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the
35127    custom, as the duty of every day required;
35128  5 And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of
35129    the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were
35130    consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a
35131    freewill offering unto the LORD.
35132  6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer
35133    burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the
35134    temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
35135  7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters;
35136    and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them
35137    of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of
35138    Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of
35139    Persia.
35140  8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God
35141    at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of
35142    Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of
35143    their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that
35144    were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed
35145    the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward
35146    the work of the house of the LORD.
35147  9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and
35148    his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the
35149    workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their
35150    sons and their brethren the Levites.
35151 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the
35152    LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and
35153    the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the
35154    LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
35155 11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks
35156    unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for
35157    ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great
35158    shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of
35159    the house of the LORD was laid.
35160 12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers,
35161    who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the
35162    foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with
35163    a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
35164 13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of
35165    joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the
35166    people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar
35167    off.

35168 Ezra 4

35169  1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the
35170    children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God
35171    of Israel;
35172  2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers,
35173    and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your
35174    God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of
35175    Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
35176  3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the
35177    fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with
35178    us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together
35179    will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king
35180    of Persia hath commanded us.
35181  4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people
35182    of Judah, and troubled them in building,
35183  5 And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their
35184    purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the
35185    reign of Darius king of Persia.
35186  6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign,
35187    wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of
35188    Judah and Jerusalem.
35189  7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath,
35190    Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king
35191    of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the
35192    Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
35193  8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter
35194    against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
35195  9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and
35196    the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the
35197    Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the
35198    Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites,
35199    and the Elamites,
35200 10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper
35201    brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest
35202    that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
35203 11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even
35204    unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side
35205    the river, and at such a time.
35206 12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from
35207    thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious
35208    and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and
35209    joined the foundations.
35210 13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded,
35211    and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll,
35212    tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of
35213    the kings.
35214 14 Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it
35215    was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore
35216    have we sent and certified the king;
35217 15 That search may be made in the book of the records of thy
35218    fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and
35219    know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto
35220    kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within
35221    the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
35222 16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and
35223    the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no
35224    portion on this side the river.
35225 17 Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to
35226    Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that
35227    dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace,
35228    and at such a time.
35229 18 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before
35230    me.
35231 19 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found
35232    that this city of old time hath made insurrection against
35233    kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
35234 20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have
35235    ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute,
35236    and custom, was paid unto them.
35237 21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that
35238    this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be
35239    given from me.
35240 22 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage
35241    grow to the hurt of the kings?
35242 23 Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before
35243    Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they
35244    went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to
35245    cease by force and power.
35246 24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at
35247    Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of
35248    Darius king of Persia.

35249 Ezra 5

35250  1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son
35251    of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and
35252    Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
35253  2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the
35254    son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is
35255    at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping
35256    them.
35257  3 At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side
35258    the river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said
35259    thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house,
35260    and to make up this wall?
35261  4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names
35262    of the men that make this building?
35263  5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that
35264    they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to
35265    Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning
35266    this matter.
35267  6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the
35268    river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the Apharsachites,
35269    which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:
35270  7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto
35271    Darius the king, all peace.
35272  8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of
35273    Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with
35274    great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work
35275    goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
35276  9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who
35277    commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
35278 10 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might
35279    write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
35280 11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants
35281    of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was
35282    builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel
35283    builded and set up.
35284 12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto
35285    wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king
35286    of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and
35287    carried the people away into Babylon.
35288 13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same
35289    king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
35290 14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God,
35291    which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in
35292    Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those
35293    did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they
35294    were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he
35295    had made governor;
35296 15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the
35297    temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be
35298    builded in his place.
35299 16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the
35300    house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even
35301    until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not
35302    finished.
35303 17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be
35304    search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at
35305    Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the
35306    king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king
35307    send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

35308 Ezra 6

35309  1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the
35310    house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in
35311    Babylon.
35312  2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the
35313    province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus
35314    written:
35315  3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king
35316    made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let
35317    the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices,
35318    and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height
35319    thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore
35320    cubits;
35321  4 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and
35322    let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
35323  5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of
35324    God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which
35325    is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and
35326    brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one
35327    to his place, and place them in the house of God.
35328  6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river,
35329    Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which
35330    are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
35331  7 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of
35332    the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in
35333    his place.
35334  8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of
35335    these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the
35336    king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith
35337    expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
35338  9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and
35339    rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven,
35340    wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of
35341    the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day
35342    by day without fail:
35343 10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God
35344    of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
35345 11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this
35346    word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set
35347    up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a
35348    dunghill for this.
35349 12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy
35350    all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter
35351    and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I
35352    Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.
35353 13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai,
35354    and their companions, according to that which Darius the king
35355    had sent, so they did speedily.
35356 14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through
35357    the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of
35358    Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the
35359    commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the
35360    commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of
35361    Persia.
35362 15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month
35363    Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the
35364    king.
35365 16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and
35366    the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication
35367    of this house of God with joy.
35368 17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred
35369    bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin
35370    offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the
35371    number of the tribes of Israel.
35372 18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites
35373    in their courses, for the service of God, which is at
35374    Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
35375 19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the
35376    fourteenth day of the first month.
35377 20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of
35378    them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children
35379    of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for
35380    themselves.
35381 21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of
35382    captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them
35383    from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the
35384    LORD God of Israel, did eat,
35385 22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy:
35386    for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the
35387    king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the
35388    work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

35389 Ezra 7

35390  1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of
35391    Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son
35392    of Hilkiah,
35393  2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
35394  3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
35395  4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
35396  5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
35397    the son of Aaron the chief priest:
35398  6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in
35399    the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and
35400    the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of
35401    the LORD his God upon him.
35402  7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
35403    priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters,
35404    and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of
35405    Artaxerxes the king.
35406  8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the
35407    seventh year of the king.
35408  9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up
35409    from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he
35410    to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
35411 10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD,
35412    and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
35413 11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes
35414    gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the
35415    words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to
35416    Israel.
35417 12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of
35418    the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a
35419    time.
35420 13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of
35421    his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of
35422    their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
35423 14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven
35424    counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
35425    according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
35426 15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
35427    counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose
35428    habitation is in Jerusalem,
35429 16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the
35430    province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people,
35431    and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their
35432    God which is in Jerusalem:
35433 17 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams,
35434    lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings,
35435    and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which
35436    is in Jerusalem.
35437 18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren,
35438    to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after
35439    the will of your God.
35440 19 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the
35441    house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of
35442    Jerusalem.
35443 20 And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God,
35444    which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the
35445    king's treasure house.
35446 21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the
35447    treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra
35448    the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall
35449    require of you, it be done speedily,
35450 22 Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures
35451    of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred
35452    baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
35453 23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be
35454    diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why
35455    should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his
35456    sons?
35457 24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and
35458    Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this
35459    house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute,
35460    or custom, upon them.
35461 25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine
35462    hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the
35463    people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of
35464    thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
35465 26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of
35466    the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether
35467    it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of
35468    goods, or to imprisonment.
35469 27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a
35470    thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of
35471    the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
35472 28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his
35473    counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I
35474    was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me,
35475    and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with
35476    me.

35477 Ezra 8

35478  1 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the
35479    genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the
35480    reign of Artaxerxes the king.
35481  2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar;
35482    Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
35483  3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah:
35484    and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an
35485    hundred and fifty.
35486  4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and
35487    with him two hundred males.
35488  5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him
35489    three hundred males.
35490  6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with
35491    him fifty males.
35492  7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and
35493    with him seventy males.
35494  8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael,
35495    and with him fourscore males.
35496  9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him
35497    two hundred and eighteen males.
35498 10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with
35499    him an hundred and threescore males.
35500 11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with
35501    him twenty and eight males.
35502 12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and
35503    with him an hundred and ten males.
35504 13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these,
35505    Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore
35506    males.
35507 14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them
35508    seventy males.
35509 15 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to
35510    Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed
35511    the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons
35512    of Levi.
35513 16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for
35514    Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and
35515    for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib,
35516    and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
35517 17 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the
35518    place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto
35519    Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place
35520    Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the
35521    house of our God.
35522 18 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man
35523    of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the
35524    son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren,
35525    eighteen;
35526 19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari,
35527    his brethren and their sons, twenty;
35528 20 Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had
35529    appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and
35530    twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
35531 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we
35532    might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right
35533    way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our
35534    substance.
35535 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers
35536    and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because
35537    we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is
35538    upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his
35539    wrath is against all them that forsake him.
35540 23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was
35541    intreated of us.
35542 24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
35543    Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
35544 25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the
35545    vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the
35546    king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there
35547    present, had offered:
35548 26 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents
35549    of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold
35550    an hundred talents;
35551 27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two
35552    vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
35553 28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels
35554    are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill
35555    offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
35556 29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief
35557    of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of
35558    Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the
35559    LORD.
35560 30 So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver,
35561    and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto
35562    the house of our God.
35563 31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of
35564    the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God
35565    was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy,
35566    and of such as lay in wait by the way.
35567 32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
35568 33 Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the
35569    vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of
35570    Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar
35571    the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of
35572    Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
35573 34 By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was
35574    written at that time.
35575 35 Also the children of those that had been carried away, which
35576    were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto
35577    the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and
35578    six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin
35579    offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
35580 36 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's
35581    lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and
35582    they furthered the people, and the house of God.

35583 Ezra 9

35584  1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me,
35585    saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the
35586    Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the
35587    lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the
35588    Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the
35589    Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
35590  2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for
35591    their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with
35592    the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and
35593    rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
35594  3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle,
35595    and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat
35596    down astonied.
35597  4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the
35598    words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of
35599    those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the
35600    evening sacrifice.
35601  5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and
35602    having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees,
35603    and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
35604  6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face
35605    to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our
35606    head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
35607  7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass
35608    unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and
35609    our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the
35610    lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to
35611    confusion of face, as it is this day.
35612  8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the
35613    LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us
35614    a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes,
35615    and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
35616  9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our
35617    bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the
35618    kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of
35619    our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us
35620    a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
35621 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
35622    forsaken thy commandments,
35623 11 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets,
35624    saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an
35625    unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands,
35626    with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to
35627    another with their uncleanness.
35628 12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither
35629    take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or
35630    their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good
35631    of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children
35632    for ever.
35633 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for
35634    our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us
35635    less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such
35636    deliverance as this;
35637 14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity
35638    with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be
35639    angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there
35640    should be no remnant nor escaping?
35641 15 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet
35642    escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our
35643    trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

35644 Ezra 10

35645  1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping
35646    and casting himself down before the house of God, there
35647    assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of
35648    men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
35649  2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
35650    answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our
35651    God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land:
35652    yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
35653  3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away
35654    all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the
35655    counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the
35656    commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the
35657    law.
35658  4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be
35659    with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
35660  5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and
35661    all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this
35662    word. And they sware.
35663  6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into
35664    the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came
35665    thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned
35666    because of the transgression of them that had been carried
35667    away.
35668  7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto
35669    all the children of the captivity, that they should gather
35670    themselves together unto Jerusalem;
35671  8 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according
35672    to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his
35673    substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the
35674    congregation of those that had been carried away.
35675  9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
35676    together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth
35677    month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people
35678    sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of
35679    this matter, and for the great rain.
35680 10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have
35681    transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the
35682    trespass of Israel.
35683 11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your
35684    fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the
35685    people of the land, and from the strange wives.
35686 12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice,
35687    As thou hast said, so must we do.
35688 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we
35689    are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one
35690    day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this
35691    thing.
35692 14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all
35693    them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at
35694    appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and
35695    the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this
35696    matter be turned from us.
35697 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah
35698    were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai
35699    the Levite helped them.
35700 16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest,
35701    with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their
35702    fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and
35703    sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the
35704    matter.
35705 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
35706    wives by the first day of the first month.
35707 18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had
35708    taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of
35709    Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib,
35710    and Gedaliah.
35711 19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their
35712    wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for
35713    their trespass.
35714 20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
35715 21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah,
35716    and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
35717 22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael,
35718    Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
35719 23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the
35720    same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
35721 24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum,
35722    and Telem, and Uri.
35723 25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah,
35724    and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and
35725    Benaiah.
35726 26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and
35727    Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
35728 27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and
35729    Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
35730 28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and
35731    Athlai.
35732 29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah,
35733    Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
35734 30 And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah,
35735    Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
35736 31 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah,
35737    Shemaiah, Shimeon,
35738 32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
35739 33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet,
35740    Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
35741 34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
35742 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
35743 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
35744 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
35745 38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
35746 39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
35747 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
35748 41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
35749 42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
35750 43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau,
35751    and Joel, Benaiah.
35752 44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives
35753    by whom they had children.

35754 Book 16 Nehemiah

35755 Nehemiah 1

35756  1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to
35757    pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in
35758    Shushan the palace,
35759  2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of
35760    Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped,
35761    which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
35762  3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the
35763    captivity there in the province are in great affliction and
35764    reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the
35765    gates thereof are burned with fire.
35766  4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down
35767    and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed
35768    before the God of heaven,
35769  5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and
35770    terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that
35771    love him and observe his commandments:
35772  6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou
35773    mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before
35774    thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy
35775    servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel,
35776    which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's
35777    house have sinned.
35778  7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept
35779    the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which
35780    thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
35781  8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy
35782    servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you
35783    abroad among the nations:
35784  9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them;
35785    though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of
35786    the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring
35787    them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
35788 10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast
35789    redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
35790 11 O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the
35791    prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who
35792    desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant
35793    this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I
35794    was the king's cupbearer.

35795 Nehemiah 2

35796  1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year
35797    of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took
35798    up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been
35799    beforetime sad in his presence.
35800  2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad,
35801    seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of
35802    heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
35803  3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should
35804    not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my
35805    fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are
35806    consumed with fire?
35807  4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request?
35808    So I prayed to the God of heaven.
35809  5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy
35810    servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest
35811    send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres,
35812    that I may build it.
35813  6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,)
35814    For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?
35815    So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
35816  7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let
35817    letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that
35818    they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
35819  8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that
35820    he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the
35821    palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the
35822    city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king
35823    granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
35824  9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them
35825    the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army
35826    and horsemen with me.
35827 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
35828    Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there
35829    was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
35830 11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
35831 12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither
35832    told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at
35833    Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast
35834    that I rode upon.
35835 13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before
35836    the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of
35837    Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were
35838    consumed with fire.
35839 14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's
35840    pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me
35841    to pass.
35842 15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall,
35843    and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so
35844    returned.
35845 16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither
35846    had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to
35847    the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the
35848    work.
35849 17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how
35850    Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with
35851    fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we
35852    be no more a reproach.
35853 18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me;
35854    as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they
35855    said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their
35856    hands for this good work.
35857 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
35858    Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to
35859    scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye
35860    do? will ye rebel against the king?
35861 20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven,
35862    he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and
35863    build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in
35864    Jerusalem.

35865 Nehemiah 3

35866  1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the
35867    priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it,
35868    and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they
35869    sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
35870  2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them
35871    builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
35872  3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also
35873    laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the
35874    locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
35875  4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the
35876    son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of
35877    Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired
35878    Zadok the son of Baana.
35879  5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put
35880    not their necks to the work of their LORD.
35881  6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and
35882    Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof,
35883    and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the
35884    bars thereof.
35885  7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon
35886    the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the
35887    throne of the governor on this side the river.
35888  8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the
35889    goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of
35890    one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the
35891    broad wall.
35892  9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler
35893    of the half part of Jerusalem.
35894 10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even
35895    over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the
35896    son of Hashabniah.
35897 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab,
35898    repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
35899 12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the
35900    ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
35901 13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah;
35902    they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks
35903    thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the
35904    wall unto the dung gate.
35905 14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the
35906    ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the
35907    doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
35908 15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of
35909    Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and
35910    covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof,
35911    and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by
35912    the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the
35913    city of David.
35914 16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the
35915    half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the
35916    sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto
35917    the house of the mighty.
35918 17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next
35919    unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of
35920    Keilah, in his part.
35921 18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad,
35922    the ruler of the half part of Keilah.
35923 19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of
35924    Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury
35925    at the turning of the wall.
35926 20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the
35927    other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the
35928    house of Eliashib the high priest.
35929 21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz
35930    another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to
35931    the end of the house of Eliashib.
35932 22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
35933 23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their
35934    house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son
35935    of Ananiah by his house.
35936 24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece,
35937    from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even
35938    unto the corner.
35939 25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall,
35940    and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that
35941    was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of
35942    Parosh.
35943 26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over
35944    against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that
35945    lieth out.
35946 27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against
35947    the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
35948 28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over
35949    against his house.
35950 29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his
35951    house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah,
35952    the keeper of the east gate.
35953 30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun
35954    the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired
35955    Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
35956 31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place
35957    of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate
35958    Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
35959 32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate
35960    repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

35961 Nehemiah 4

35962  1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded
35963    the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked
35964    the Jews.
35965  2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and
35966    said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves?
35967    will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they
35968    revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are
35969    burned?
35970  3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that
35971    which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down
35972    their stone wall.
35973  4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach
35974    upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of
35975    captivity:
35976  5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted
35977    out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger
35978    before the builders.
35979  6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together
35980    unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
35981  7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the
35982    Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that
35983    the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches
35984    began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
35985  8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight
35986    against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
35987  9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch
35988    against them day and night, because of them.
35989 10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is
35990    decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to
35991    build the wall.
35992 11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see,
35993    till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause
35994    the work to cease.
35995 12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them
35996    came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye
35997    shall return unto us they will be upon you.
35998 13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on
35999    the higher places, I even set the people after their families
36000    with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
36001 14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to
36002    the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of
36003    them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and
36004    fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your
36005    wives, and your houses.
36006 15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known
36007    unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we
36008    returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
36009 16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my
36010    servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held
36011    both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the
36012    habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
36013 17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens,
36014    with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought
36015    in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
36016 18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side,
36017    and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
36018 19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest
36019    of the people, The work is great and large, and we are
36020    separated upon the wall, one far from another.
36021 20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet,
36022    resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
36023 21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears
36024    from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
36025 22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every
36026    one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night
36027    they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
36028 23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of
36029    the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes,
36030    saving that every one put them off for washing.

36031 Nehemiah 5

36032  1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives
36033    against their brethren the Jews.
36034  2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are
36035    many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and
36036    live.
36037  3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands,
36038    vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the
36039    dearth.
36040  4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the
36041    king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
36042  5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our
36043    children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our
36044    sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our
36045    daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in
36046    our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and
36047    vineyards.
36048  6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
36049  7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and
36050    the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of
36051    his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
36052  8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our
36053    brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will
36054    ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us?
36055    Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
36056  9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk
36057    in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen
36058    our enemies?
36059 10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of
36060    them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
36061 11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands,
36062    their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the
36063    hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and
36064    the oil, that ye exact of them.
36065 12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing
36066    of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the
36067    priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do
36068    according to this promise.
36069 13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from
36070    his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this
36071    promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the
36072    congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people
36073    did according to this promise.
36074 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their
36075    governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even
36076    unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that
36077    is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread
36078    of the governor.
36079 15 But the former governors that had been before me were
36080    chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and
36081    wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants
36082    bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the
36083    fear of God.
36084 16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought
36085    we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto
36086    the work.
36087 17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the
36088    Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the
36089    heathen that are about us.
36090 18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six
36091    choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten
36092    days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not
36093    I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy
36094    upon this people.
36095 19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have
36096    done for this people.

36097 Nehemiah 6

36098  1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the
36099    Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded
36100    the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though
36101    at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
36102  2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us
36103    meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono.
36104    But they thought to do me mischief.
36105  3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great
36106    work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease,
36107    whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
36108  4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I
36109    answered them after the same manner.
36110  5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the
36111    fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
36112  6 Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and
36113    Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for
36114    which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their
36115    king, according to these words.
36116  7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at
36117    Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it
36118    be reported to the king according to these words. Come now
36119    therefore, and let us take counsel together.
36120  8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as
36121    thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
36122  9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be
36123    weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O
36124    God, strengthen my hands.
36125 10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah
36126    the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us
36127    meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let
36128    us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay
36129    thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.
36130 11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there,
36131    that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his
36132    life? I will not go in.
36133 12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he
36134    pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat
36135    had hired him.
36136 13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so,
36137    and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report,
36138    that they might reproach me.
36139 14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to
36140    these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest
36141    of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
36142 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the
36143    month Elul, in fifty and two days.
36144 16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof,
36145    and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they
36146    were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that
36147    this work was wrought of our God.
36148 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters
36149    unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
36150 18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was
36151    the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son
36152    Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of
36153    Berechiah.
36154 19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my
36155    words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

36156 Nehemiah 7

36157  1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up
36158    the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites
36159    were appointed,
36160  2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the
36161    palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and
36162    feared God above many.
36163  3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened
36164    until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut
36165    the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the
36166    inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every
36167    one to be over against his house.
36168  4 Now the city was large and great: but the people were few
36169    therein, and the houses were not builded.
36170  5 And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles,
36171    and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by
36172    genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them
36173    which came up at the first, and found written therein,
36174  6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of
36175    the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom
36176    Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came
36177    again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
36178  7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah,
36179    Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.
36180    The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was
36181    this;
36182  8 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and
36183    two.
36184  9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
36185 10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.
36186 11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and
36187    Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.
36188 12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
36189 13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
36190 14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
36191 15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
36192 16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
36193 17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and
36194    two.
36195 18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
36196 19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
36197 20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.
36198 21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
36199 22 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.
36200 23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.
36201 24 The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
36202 25 The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.
36203 26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and
36204    eight.
36205 27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
36206 28 The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
36207 29 The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven
36208    hundred forty and three.
36209 30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
36210 31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
36211 32 The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
36212 33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.
36213 34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty
36214    and four.
36215 35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
36216 36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
36217 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and
36218    one.
36219 38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and
36220    thirty.
36221 39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
36222    nine hundred seventy and three.
36223 40 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
36224 41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and
36225    seven.
36226 42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
36227 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the
36228    children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
36229 44 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and
36230    eight.
36231 45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater,
36232    the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of
36233    Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
36234 46 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha,
36235    the children of Tabbaoth,
36236 47 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of
36237    Padon,
36238 48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children
36239    of Shalmai,
36240 49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of
36241    Gahar,
36242 50 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of
36243    Nekoda,
36244 51 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of
36245    Phaseah,
36246 52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of
36247    Nephishesim,
36248 53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children
36249    of Harhur,
36250 54 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children
36251    of Harsha,
36252 55 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children
36253    of Tamah,
36254 56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
36255 57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the
36256    children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
36257 58 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of
36258    Giddel,
36259 59 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the
36260    children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
36261 60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants,
36262    were three hundred ninety and two.
36263 61 And these were they which went up also from Telmelah,
36264    Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew
36265    their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of
36266    Israel.
36267 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children
36268    of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
36269 63 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of
36270    Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the
36271    daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called
36272    after their name.
36273 64 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by
36274    genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as
36275    polluted, put from the priesthood.
36276 65 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of
36277    the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim
36278    and Thummim.
36279 66 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand
36280    three hundred and threescore,
36281 67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there
36282    were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they
36283    had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
36284 68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two
36285    hundred forty and five:
36286 69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven
36287    hundred and twenty asses.
36288 70 And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The
36289    Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty
36290    basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
36291 71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of
36292    the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and
36293    two hundred pound of silver.
36294 72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand
36295    drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and
36296    threescore and seven priests' garments.
36297 73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the
36298    singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all
36299    Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month
36300    came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

36301 Nehemiah 8

36302  1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man
36303    into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake
36304    unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses,
36305    which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
36306  2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation
36307    both of men and women, and all that could hear with
36308    understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
36309  3 And he read therein before the street that was before the
36310    water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and
36311    the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of
36312    all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
36313  4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they
36314    had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and
36315    Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on
36316    his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael,
36317    and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and
36318    Meshullam.
36319  5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for
36320    he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the
36321    people stood up:
36322  6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people
36323    answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they
36324    bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to
36325    the ground.
36326  7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub,
36327    Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
36328    Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to
36329    understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
36330  8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and
36331    gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
36332  9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the
36333    scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all
36334    the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn
36335    not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the
36336    words of the law.
36337 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink
36338    the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is
36339    prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye
36340    sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
36341 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your
36342    peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
36343 12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to
36344    send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had
36345    understood the words that were declared unto them.
36346 13 And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the
36347    fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto
36348    Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
36349 14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded
36350    by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths
36351    in the feast of the seventh month:
36352 15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities,
36353    and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch
36354    olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and
36355    palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as
36356    it is written.
36357 16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made
36358    themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and
36359    in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in
36360    the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of
36361    Ephraim.
36362 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of
36363    the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since
36364    the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the
36365    children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
36366 18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read
36367    in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven
36368    days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according
36369    unto the manner.

36370 Nehemiah 9

36371  1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of
36372    Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and
36373    earth upon them.
36374  2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all
36375    strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the
36376    iniquities of their fathers.
36377  3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the
36378    law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and
36379    another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD
36380    their God.
36381  4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and
36382    Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani,
36383    and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
36384  5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah,
36385    Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up
36386    and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be
36387    thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and
36388    praise.
36389  6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the
36390    heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all
36391    things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein,
36392    and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven
36393    worshippeth thee.
36394  7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and
36395    broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him
36396    the name of Abraham;
36397  8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a
36398    covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the
36399    Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites,
36400    and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast
36401    performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
36402  9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and
36403    heardest their cry by the Red sea;
36404 10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his
36405    servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest
36406    that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a
36407    name, as it is this day.
36408 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went
36409    through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their
36410    persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the
36411    mighty waters.
36412 12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and
36413    in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the
36414    way wherein they should go.
36415 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them
36416    from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws,
36417    good statutes and commandments:
36418 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst
36419    them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy
36420    servant:
36421 15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and
36422    broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their
36423    thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess
36424    the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
36425 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their
36426    necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
36427 17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that
36428    thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their
36429    rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but
36430    thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to
36431    anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
36432 18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is
36433    thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought
36434    great provocations;
36435 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the
36436    wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by
36437    day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by
36438    night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
36439 20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and
36440    withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them
36441    water for their thirst.
36442 21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so
36443    that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and
36444    their feet swelled not.
36445 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst
36446    divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon,
36447    and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king
36448    of Bashan.
36449 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven,
36450    and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst
36451    promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess
36452    it.
36453 24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou
36454    subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the
36455    Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their
36456    kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with
36457    them as they would.
36458 25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed
36459    houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and
36460    oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and
36461    were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy
36462    great goodness.
36463 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
36464    and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets
36465    which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they
36466    wrought great provocations.
36467 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
36468    enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble,
36469    when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and
36470    according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours,
36471    who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
36472 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee:
36473    therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so
36474    that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned,
36475    and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many
36476    times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
36477 29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them
36478    again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not
36479    unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments,
36480    (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the
36481    shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
36482 30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst
36483    against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not
36484    give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the
36485    people of the lands.
36486 31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not
36487    utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a
36488    gracious and merciful God.
36489 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the
36490    terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the
36491    trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on
36492    our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our
36493    prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the
36494    time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
36495 33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou
36496    hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
36497 34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our
36498    fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and
36499    thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
36500 35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy
36501    great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat
36502    land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from
36503    their wicked works.
36504 36 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou
36505    gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good
36506    thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
36507 37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast
36508    set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over
36509    our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are
36510    in great distress.
36511 38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it;
36512    and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

36513 Nehemiah 10

36514  1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son
36515    of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
36516  2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
36517  3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,
36518  4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
36519  5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
36520  6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
36521  7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
36522  8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
36523  9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the
36524    sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
36525 10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah,
36526    Hanan,
36527 11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
36528 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
36529 13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.
36530 14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu,
36531    Bani,
36532 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
36533 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
36534 17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,
36535 18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
36536 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
36537 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
36538 21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,
36539 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
36540 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,
36541 24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,
36542 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
36543 26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
36544 27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
36545 28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the
36546    porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had
36547    separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law
36548    of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every
36549    one having knowledge, and having understanding;
36550 29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a
36551    curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given
36552    by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the
36553    commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his
36554    statutes;
36555 30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of
36556    the land, not take their daughters for our sons:
36557 31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on
36558    the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on
36559    the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the
36560    seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
36561 32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly
36562    with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house
36563    of our God;
36564 33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and
36565    for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new
36566    moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for
36567    the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all
36568    the work of the house of our God.
36569 34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the
36570    people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of
36571    our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed
36572    year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as
36573    it is written in the law:
36574 35 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the
36575    firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the
36576    house of the LORD:
36577 36 Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is
36578    written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our
36579    flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests
36580    that minister in the house of our God:
36581 37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our
36582    offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and
36583    of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our
36584    God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the
36585    same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our
36586    tillage.
36587 38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites,
36588    when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up
36589    the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the
36590    chambers, into the treasure house.
36591 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall
36592    bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil,
36593    unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and
36594    the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers:
36595    and we will not forsake the house of our God.

36596 Nehemiah 11

36597  1 And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of
36598    the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in
36599    Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other
36600    cities.
36601  2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered
36602    themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.
36603  3 Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in
36604    Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his
36605    possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and
36606    the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's
36607    servants.
36608  4 And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and
36609    of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah
36610    the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah,
36611    the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children
36612    of Perez;
36613  5 And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son
36614    of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of
36615    Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.
36616  6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four
36617    hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
36618  7 And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of
36619    Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of
36620    Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of
36621    Jesaiah.
36622  8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
36623  9 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the
36624    son of Senuah was second over the city.
36625 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.
36626 11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
36627    Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler
36628    of the house of God.
36629 12 And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight
36630    hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son
36631    of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of
36632    Pashur, the son of Malchiah.
36633 13 And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and
36634    two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the
36635    son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
36636 14 And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty
36637    and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of
36638    the great men.
36639 15 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of
36640    Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
36641 16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had
36642    the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.
36643 17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of
36644    Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer:
36645    and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son
36646    of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
36647 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore
36648    and four.
36649 19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that
36650    kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
36651 20 And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites,
36652    were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
36653 21 But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over
36654    the Nethinims.
36655 22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son
36656    of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son
36657    of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the
36658    business of the house of God.
36659 23 For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a
36660    certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
36661 24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah
36662    the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters
36663    concerning the people.
36664 25 And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children
36665    of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof,
36666    and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel,
36667    and in the villages thereof,
36668 26 And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet,
36669 27 And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages
36670    thereof,
36671 28 And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
36672 29 And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
36673 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the
36674    fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And
36675    they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
36676 31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and
36677    Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.
36678 32 And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
36679 33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
36680 34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
36681 35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
36682 36 And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.

36683 Nehemiah 12

36684  1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with
36685    Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah,
36686    Jeremiah, Ezra,
36687  2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
36688  3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
36689  4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
36690  5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
36691  6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
36692  7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the
36693    priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
36694  8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah,
36695    Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and
36696    his brethren.
36697  9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against
36698    them in the watches.
36699 10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
36700    Eliashib begat Joiada,
36701 11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
36702 12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the
36703    fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
36704 13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
36705 14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
36706 15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
36707 16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
36708 17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:
36709 18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
36710 19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
36711 20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
36712 21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
36713 22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and
36714    Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests,
36715    to the reign of Darius the Persian.
36716 23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in
36717    the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the
36718    son of Eliashib.
36719 24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua
36720    the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to
36721    praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of
36722    David the man of God, ward over against ward.
36723 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub,
36724    were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
36725 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son
36726    of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of
36727    Ezra the priest, the scribe.
36728 27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the
36729    Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem,
36730    to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings,
36731    and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
36732 28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both
36733    out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the
36734    villages of Netophathi;
36735 29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba
36736    and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round
36737    about Jerusalem.
36738 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and
36739    purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
36740 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and
36741    appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks,
36742    whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the
36743    dung gate:
36744 32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of
36745    Judah,
36746 33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
36747 34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
36748 35 And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely,
36749    Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of
36750    Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of
36751    Asaph:
36752 36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai,
36753    Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical
36754    instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe
36755    before them.
36756 37 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they
36757    went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of
36758    the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate
36759    eastward.
36760 38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over
36761    against them, and I after them, and the half of the people
36762    upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto
36763    the broad wall;
36764 39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate,
36765    and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the
36766    tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still
36767    in the prison gate.
36768 40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the
36769    house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
36770 41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah,
36771    Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
36772 42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and
36773    Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers
36774    sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
36775 43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for
36776    God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and
36777    the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard
36778    even afar off.
36779 44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the
36780    treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the
36781    tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities
36782    the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah
36783    rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
36784 45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their
36785    God, and the ward of the purification, according to the
36786    commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
36787 46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of
36788    the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
36789 47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of
36790    Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters,
36791    every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto
36792    the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children
36793    of Aaron.

36794 Nehemiah 13

36795  1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of
36796    the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite
36797    and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God
36798    for ever;
36799  2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and
36800    with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should
36801    curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
36802  3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they
36803    separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
36804  4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of
36805    the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
36806  5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime
36807    they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the
36808    vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the
36809    oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the
36810    singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
36811  6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two
36812    and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto
36813    the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:
36814  7 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that
36815    Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the
36816    courts of the house of God.
36817  8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the
36818    household stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.
36819  9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither
36820    brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat
36821    offering and the frankincense.
36822 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been
36823    given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the
36824    work, were fled every one to his field.
36825 11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house
36826    of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in
36827    their place.
36828 12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine
36829    and the oil unto the treasuries.
36830 13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the
36831    priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and
36832    next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of
36833    Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office
36834    was to distribute unto their brethren.
36835 14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my
36836    good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for
36837    the offices thereof.
36838 15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the
36839    sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also
36840    wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they
36841    brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified
36842    against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
36843 16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and
36844    all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children
36845    of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
36846 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them,
36847    What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath
36848    day?
36849 18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this
36850    evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon
36851    Israel by profaning the sabbath.
36852 19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to
36853    be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should
36854    be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after
36855    the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that
36856    there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
36857 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged
36858    without Jerusalem once or twice.
36859 21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge
36860    ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you.
36861    From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
36862 22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse
36863    themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to
36864    sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning
36865    this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy
36866    mercy.
36867 23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of
36868    Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
36869 24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and
36870    could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the
36871    language of each people.
36872 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain
36873    of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by
36874    God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons,
36875    nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
36876 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among
36877    many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of
36878    his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless
36879    even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
36880 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to
36881    transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
36882 28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high
36883    priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I
36884    chased him from me.
36885 29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the
36886    priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the
36887    Levites.
36888 30 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the
36889    wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his
36890    business;
36891 31 And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the
36892    firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

36893 Book 17 Esther

36894 Esther 1

36895  1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is
36896    Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over
36897    an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
36898  2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne
36899    of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
36900  3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his
36901    princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the
36902    nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
36903  4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the
36904    honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and
36905    fourscore days.
36906  5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto
36907    all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both
36908    unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden
36909    of the king's palace;
36910  6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with
36911    cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of
36912    marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of
36913    red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
36914  7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels
36915    being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance,
36916    according to the state of the king.
36917  8 And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel:
36918    for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his
36919    house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
36920  9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal
36921    house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
36922 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with
36923    wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and
36924    Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that
36925    served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
36926 11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown
36927    royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she
36928    was fair to look on.
36929 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment
36930    by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and
36931    his anger burned in him.
36932 13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for
36933    so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and
36934    judgment:
36935 14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,
36936    Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of
36937    Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the
36938    first in the kingdom;)
36939 15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law,
36940    because she hath not performed the commandment of the king
36941    Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
36942 16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti
36943    the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to
36944    all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the
36945    provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
36946 17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women,
36947    so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when
36948    it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the
36949    queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
36950 18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day
36951    unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of
36952    the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
36953 19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from
36954    him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and
36955    the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more
36956    before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate
36957    unto another that is better than she.
36958 20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be
36959    published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all
36960    the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great
36961    and small.
36962 21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king
36963    did according to the word of Memucan:
36964 22 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every
36965    province according to the writing thereof, and to every people
36966    after their language, that every man should bear rule in his
36967    own house, and that it should be published according to the
36968    language of every people.

36969 Esther 2

36970  1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was
36971    appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and
36972    what was decreed against her.
36973  2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let
36974    there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
36975  3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his
36976    kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young
36977    virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women,
36978    unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the
36979    women; and let their things for purification be given them:
36980  4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of
36981    Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
36982  5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name
36983    was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of
36984    Kish, a Benjamite;
36985  6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity
36986    which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom
36987    Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
36988  7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's
36989    daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid
36990    was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and
36991    mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
36992  8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree
36993    was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto
36994    Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was
36995    brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai,
36996    keeper of the women.
36997  9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him;
36998    and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with
36999    such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were
37000    meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he
37001    preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house
37002    of the women.
37003 10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai
37004    had charged her that she should not shew it.
37005 11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's
37006    house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
37007 12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king
37008    Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to
37009    the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their
37010    purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of
37011    myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things
37012    for the purifying of the women;)
37013 13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she
37014    desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the
37015    women unto the king's house.
37016 14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into
37017    the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz,
37018    the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in
37019    unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and
37020    that she were called by name.
37021 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle
37022    of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to
37023    go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the
37024    king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And
37025    Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked
37026    upon her.
37027 16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal
37028    in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh
37029    year of his reign.
37030 17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she
37031    obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the
37032    virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and
37033    made her queen instead of Vashti.
37034 18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his
37035    servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the
37036    provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
37037 19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time,
37038    then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
37039 20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as
37040    Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of
37041    Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
37042 21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of
37043    the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which
37044    kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king
37045    Ahasuerus.
37046 22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther
37047    the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's
37048    name.
37049 23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out;
37050    therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written
37051    in the book of the chronicles before the king.

37052 Esther 3

37053  1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of
37054    Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat
37055    above all the princes that were with him.
37056  2 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate,
37057    bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded
37058    concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
37059  3 Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said
37060    unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?
37061  4 Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he
37062    hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether
37063    Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he
37064    was a Jew.
37065  5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him
37066    reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
37067  6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they
37068    had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought
37069    to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom
37070    of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
37071  7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth
37072    year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot,
37073    before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the
37074    twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
37075  8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people
37076    scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the
37077    provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all
37078    people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not
37079    for the king's profit to suffer them.
37080  9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be
37081    destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to
37082    the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to
37083    bring it into the king's treasuries.
37084 10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto
37085    Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
37086 11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the
37087    people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
37088 12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of
37089    the first month, and there was written according to all that
37090    Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the
37091    governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of
37092    every people of every province according to the writing
37093    thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name
37094    of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's
37095    ring.
37096 13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's
37097    provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all
37098    Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one
37099    day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which
37100    is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
37101 14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every
37102    province was published unto all people, that they should be
37103    ready against that day.
37104 15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment,
37105    and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king
37106    and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was
37107    perplexed.

37108 Esther 4

37109  1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his
37110    clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into
37111    the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
37112  2 And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter
37113    into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
37114  3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment
37115    and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews,
37116    and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in
37117    sackcloth and ashes.
37118  4 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her.
37119    Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment
37120    to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him:
37121    but he received it not.
37122  5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains,
37123    whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a
37124    commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
37125  6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city,
37126    which was before the king's gate.
37127  7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and
37128    of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the
37129    king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
37130  8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that
37131    was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther,
37132    and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should
37133    go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to
37134    make request before him for her people.
37135  9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
37136 10 Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto
37137    Mordecai;
37138 11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's
37139    provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women,
37140    shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not
37141    called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except
37142    such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that
37143    he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the
37144    king these thirty days.
37145 12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
37146 13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with
37147    thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than
37148    all the Jews.
37149 14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then
37150    shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from
37151    another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be
37152    destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the
37153    kingdom for such a time as this?
37154 15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
37155 16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan,
37156    and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days,
37157    night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so
37158    will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law:
37159    and if I perish, I perish.
37160 17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther
37161    had commanded him.

37162 Esther 5

37163  1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her
37164    royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's
37165    house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon
37166    his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of
37167    the house.
37168  2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in
37169    the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king
37170    held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So
37171    Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
37172  3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and
37173    what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half
37174    of the kingdom.
37175  4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the
37176    king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have
37177    prepared for him.
37178  5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do
37179    as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet
37180    that Esther had prepared.
37181  6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is
37182    thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy
37183    request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be
37184    performed.
37185  7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;
37186  8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it
37187    please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my
37188    request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I
37189    shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king
37190    hath said.
37191  9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart:
37192    but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood
37193    not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against
37194    Mordecai.
37195 10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home,
37196    he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
37197 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the
37198    multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king
37199    had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the
37200    princes and servants of the king.
37201 12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come
37202    in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but
37203    myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the
37204    king.
37205 13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai
37206    the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
37207 14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a
37208    gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou
37209    unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go
37210    thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing
37211    pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

37212 Esther 6

37213  1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to
37214    bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were
37215    read before the king.
37216  2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana
37217    and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the
37218    door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
37219  3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to
37220    Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that
37221    ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
37222  4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come
37223    into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the
37224    king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for
37225    him.
37226  5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth
37227    in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
37228  6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be
37229    done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now
37230    Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to
37231    do honour more than to myself?
37232  7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king
37233    delighteth to honour,
37234  8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear,
37235    and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal
37236    which is set upon his head:
37237  9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one
37238    of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man
37239    withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on
37240    horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before
37241    him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth
37242    to honour.
37243 10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel
37244    and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai
37245    the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of
37246    all that thou hast spoken.
37247 11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed
37248    Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of
37249    the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done
37250    unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
37251 12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted
37252    to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
37253 13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing
37254    that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his
37255    wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before
37256    whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against
37257    him, but shalt surely fall before him.
37258 14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's
37259    chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that
37260    Esther had prepared.

37261 Esther 7

37262  1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
37263  2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the
37264    banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it
37265    shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall
37266    be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
37267  3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found
37268    favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my
37269    life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
37270  4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be
37271    slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and
37272    bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not
37273    countervail the king's damage.
37274  5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the
37275    queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his
37276    heart to do so?
37277  6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman.
37278    Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
37279  7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath
37280    went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make
37281    request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that
37282    there was evil determined against him by the king.
37283  8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place
37284    of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed
37285    whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the
37286    queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of
37287    king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
37288  9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king,
37289    Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had
37290    made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in
37291    the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
37292 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for
37293    Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

37294 Esther 8

37295  1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the
37296    Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before
37297    the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
37298  2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman,
37299    and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the
37300    house of Haman.
37301  3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at
37302    his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief
37303    of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised
37304    against the Jews.
37305  4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So
37306    Esther arose, and stood before the king,
37307  5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have favour in his
37308    sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be
37309    pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters
37310    devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he
37311    wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's
37312    provinces:
37313  6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my
37314    people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my
37315    kindred?
37316  7 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to
37317    Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of
37318    Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he
37319    laid his hand upon the Jews.
37320  8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's
37321    name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which
37322    is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's
37323    ring, may no man reverse.
37324  9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third
37325    month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth
37326    day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai
37327    commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the
37328    deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto
37329    Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every
37330    province according to the writing thereof, and unto every
37331    people after their language, and to the Jews according to
37332    their writing, and according to their language.
37333 10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with
37334    the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and
37335    riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
37336 11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to
37337    gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to
37338    destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the
37339    people and province that would assault them, both little ones
37340    and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
37341 12 Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely,
37342    upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the
37343    month Adar.
37344 13 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every
37345    province was published unto all people, and that the Jews
37346    should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their
37347    enemies.
37348 14 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being
37349    hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the
37350    decree was given at Shushan the palace.
37351 15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal
37352    apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and
37353    with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of
37354    Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
37355 16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
37356 17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the
37357    king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and
37358    gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of
37359    the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

37360 Esther 9

37361  1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the
37362    thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and
37363    his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that
37364    the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though
37365    it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over
37366    them that hated them;)
37367  2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities
37368    throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay
37369    hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand
37370    them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
37371  3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and
37372    the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews;
37373    because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
37374  4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went
37375    out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed
37376    greater and greater.
37377  5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the
37378    sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would
37379    unto those that hated them.
37380  6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five
37381    hundred men.
37382  7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
37383  8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
37384  9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
37385 10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the
37386    Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
37387 11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the
37388    palace was brought before the king.
37389 12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain
37390    and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the
37391    ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the
37392    king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be
37393    granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be
37394    done.
37395 13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to
37396    the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according
37397    unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged
37398    upon the gallows.
37399 14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was
37400    given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
37401 15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together
37402    on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three
37403    hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their
37404    hand.
37405 16 But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered
37406    themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest
37407    from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five
37408    thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
37409 17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
37410    day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and
37411    gladness.
37412 18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the
37413    thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on
37414    the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day
37415    of feasting and gladness.
37416 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled
37417    towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of
37418    gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions
37419    one to another.
37420 20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the
37421    Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus,
37422    both nigh and far,
37423 21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the
37424    fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the
37425    same, yearly,
37426 22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and
37427    the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and
37428    from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days
37429    of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another,
37430    and gifts to the poor.
37431 23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as
37432    Mordecai had written unto them;
37433 24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of
37434    all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them,
37435    and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to
37436    destroy them;
37437 25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters
37438    that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews,
37439    should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons
37440    should be hanged on the gallows.
37441 26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.
37442    Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which
37443    they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto
37444    them,
37445 27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed,
37446    and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it
37447    should not fail, that they would keep these two days according
37448    to their writing, and according to their appointed time every
37449    year;
37450 28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout
37451    every generation, every family, every province, and every
37452    city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among
37453    the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
37454 29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai
37455    the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second
37456    letter of Purim.
37457 30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred
37458    twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with
37459    words of peace and truth,
37460 31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed,
37461    according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had
37462    enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for
37463    their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
37464 32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and
37465    it was written in the book.

37466 Esther 10

37467  1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon
37468    the isles of the sea.
37469  2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the
37470    declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king
37471    advanced him, are they not written in the book of the
37472    chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
37473  3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great
37474    among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren,
37475    seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all
37476    his seed.

37477 Book 18 Job

37478 Job 1

37479  1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and
37480    that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and
37481    eschewed evil.
37482  2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
37483  3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three
37484    thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five
37485    hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this
37486    man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
37487  4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his
37488    day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to
37489    drink with them.
37490  5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone
37491    about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in
37492    the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the
37493    number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have
37494    sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job
37495    continually.
37496  6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
37497    themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
37498  7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
37499    answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the
37500    earth, and from walking up and down in it.
37501  8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
37502    Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and
37503    an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
37504  9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for
37505    nought?
37506 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house,
37507    and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed
37508    the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the
37509    land.
37510 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and
37511    he will curse thee to thy face.
37512 12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in
37513    thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So
37514    Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
37515 13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were
37516    eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
37517 14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were
37518    plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
37519 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they
37520    have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only
37521    am escaped alone to tell thee.
37522 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
37523    The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the
37524    sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am
37525    escaped alone to tell thee.
37526 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
37527    The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels,
37528    and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with
37529    the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell
37530    thee.
37531 18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
37532    Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in
37533    their eldest brother's house:
37534 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and
37535    smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the
37536    young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to
37537    tell thee.
37538 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and
37539    fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
37540 21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked
37541    shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken
37542    away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
37543 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

37544 Job 2

37545  1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present
37546    themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to
37547    present himself before the LORD.
37548  2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And
37549    Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in
37550    the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
37551  3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
37552    Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and
37553    an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and
37554    still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me
37555    against him, to destroy him without cause.
37556  4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all
37557    that a man hath will he give for his life.
37558  5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his
37559    flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
37560  6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but
37561    save his life.
37562  7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote
37563    Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
37564  8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he
37565    sat down among the ashes.
37566  9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine
37567    integrity? curse God, and die.
37568 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish
37569    women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of
37570    God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job
37571    sin with his lips.
37572 11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was
37573    come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz
37574    the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
37575    Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come
37576    to mourn with him and to comfort him.
37577 12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not,
37578    they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one
37579    his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
37580 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven
37581    nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his
37582    grief was very great.

37583 Job 3

37584  1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
37585  2 And Job spake, and said,
37586  3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which
37587    it was said, There is a man child conceived.
37588  4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above,
37589    neither let the light shine upon it.
37590  5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud
37591    dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
37592  6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be
37593    joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the
37594    number of the months.
37595  7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come
37596    therein.
37597  8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise
37598    up their mourning.
37599  9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for
37600    light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the
37601    day:
37602 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid
37603    sorrow from mine eyes.
37604 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost
37605    when I came out of the belly?
37606 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should
37607    suck?
37608 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have
37609    slept: then had I been at rest,
37610 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate
37611    places for themselves;
37612 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with
37613    silver:
37614 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
37615    which never saw light.
37616 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be
37617    at rest.
37618 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of
37619    the oppressor.
37620 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from
37621    his master.
37622 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
37623    unto the bitter in soul;
37624 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more
37625    than for hid treasures;
37626 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find
37627    the grave?
37628 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God
37629    hath hedged in?
37630 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured
37631    out like the waters.
37632 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that
37633    which I was afraid of is come unto me.
37634 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;
37635    yet trouble came.

37636 Job 4

37637  1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
37638  2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but
37639    who can withhold himself from speaking?
37640  3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened
37641    the weak hands.
37642  4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast
37643    strengthened the feeble knees.
37644  5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth
37645    thee, and thou art troubled.
37646  6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the
37647    uprightness of thy ways?
37648  7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or
37649    where were the righteous cut off?
37650  8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
37651    wickedness, reap the same.
37652  9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his
37653    nostrils are they consumed.
37654 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and
37655    the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
37656 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's
37657    whelps are scattered abroad.
37658 12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received
37659    a little thereof.
37660 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep
37661    falleth on men,
37662 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to
37663    shake.
37664 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh
37665    stood up:
37666 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an
37667    image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a
37668    voice, saying,
37669 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more
37670    pure than his maker?
37671 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he
37672    charged with folly:
37673 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose
37674    foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
37675 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for
37676    ever without any regarding it.
37677 21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die,
37678    even without wisdom.

37679 Job 5

37680  1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which
37681    of the saints wilt thou turn?
37682  2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly
37683    one.
37684  3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his
37685    habitation.
37686  4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the
37687    gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
37688  5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of
37689    the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
37690  6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
37691    trouble spring out of the ground;
37692  7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
37693  8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
37694  9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things
37695    without number:
37696 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the
37697    fields:
37698 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn
37699    may be exalted to safety.
37700 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their
37701    hands cannot perform their enterprise.
37702 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of
37703    the froward is carried headlong.
37704 14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the
37705    noonday as in the night.
37706 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and
37707    from the hand of the mighty.
37708 16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
37709 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore
37710    despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
37711 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands
37712    make whole.
37713 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there
37714    shall no evil touch thee.
37715 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the
37716    power of the sword.
37717 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither
37718    shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
37719 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou
37720    be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
37721 23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and
37722    the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
37723 24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and
37724    thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
37725 25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine
37726    offspring as the grass of the earth.
37727 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
37728    corn cometh in in his season.
37729 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou
37730    it for thy good.

37731 Job 6

37732  1 But Job answered and said,
37733  2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid
37734    in the balances together!
37735  3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:
37736    therefore my words are swallowed up.
37737  4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison
37738    whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set
37739    themselves in array against me.
37740  5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox
37741    over his fodder?
37742  6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there
37743    any taste in the white of an egg?
37744  7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful
37745    meat.
37746  8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me
37747    the thing that I long for!
37748  9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let
37749    loose his hand, and cut me off!
37750 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in
37751    sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words
37752    of the Holy One.
37753 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end,
37754    that I should prolong my life?
37755 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of
37756    brass?
37757 13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
37758 14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his
37759    friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
37760 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the
37761    stream of brooks they pass away;
37762 16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow
37763    is hid:
37764 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are
37765    consumed out of their place.
37766 18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing,
37767    and perish.
37768 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
37769    them.
37770 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came
37771    thither, and were ashamed.
37772 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are
37773    afraid.
37774 22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your
37775    substance?
37776 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the
37777    hand of the mighty?
37778 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to
37779    understand wherein I have erred.
37780 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
37781    reprove?
37782 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that
37783    is desperate, which are as wind?
37784 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your
37785    friend.
37786 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto
37787    you if I lie.
37788 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again,
37789    my righteousness is in it.
37790 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern
37791    perverse things?

37792 Job 7

37793  1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his
37794    days also like the days of an hireling?
37795  2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling
37796    looketh for the reward of his work:
37797  3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights
37798    are appointed to me.
37799  4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be
37800    gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of
37801    the day.
37802  5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is
37803    broken, and become loathsome.
37804  6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent
37805    without hope.
37806  7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see
37807    good.
37808  8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine
37809    eyes are upon me, and I am not.
37810  9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth
37811    down to the grave shall come up no more.
37812 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place
37813    know him any more.
37814 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the
37815    anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my
37816    soul.
37817 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
37818 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
37819    complaints;
37820 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through
37821    visions:
37822 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my
37823    life.
37824 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days
37825    are vanity.
37826 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou
37827    shouldest set thine heart upon him?
37828 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him
37829    every moment?
37830 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I
37831    swallow down my spittle?
37832 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of
37833    men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am
37834    a burden to myself?
37835 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away
37836    my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt
37837    seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

37838 Job 8

37839  1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
37840  2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the
37841    words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
37842  3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert
37843    justice?
37844  4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them
37845    away for their transgression;
37846  5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy
37847    supplication to the Almighty;
37848  6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for
37849    thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
37850  7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should
37851    greatly increase.
37852  8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare
37853    thyself to the search of their fathers:
37854  9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our
37855    days upon earth are a shadow:)
37856 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out
37857    of their heart?
37858 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without
37859    water?
37860 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it
37861    withereth before any other herb.
37862 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's
37863    hope shall perish:
37864 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a
37865    spider's web.
37866 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall
37867    hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
37868 16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in
37869    his garden.
37870 17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of
37871    stones.
37872 18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him,
37873    saying, I have not seen thee.
37874 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall
37875    others grow.
37876 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he
37877    help the evil doers:
37878 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with
37879    rejoicing.
37880 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the
37881    dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

37882 Job 9

37883  1 Then Job answered and said,
37884  2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with
37885    God?
37886  3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a
37887    thousand.
37888  4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
37889    himself against him, and hath prospered?
37890  5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which
37891    overturneth them in his anger.
37892  6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars
37893    thereof tremble.
37894  7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up
37895    the stars.
37896  8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the
37897    waves of the sea.
37898  9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers
37899    of the south.
37900 10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
37901    without number.
37902 11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but
37903    I perceive him not.
37904 12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto
37905    him, What doest thou?
37906 13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop
37907    under him.
37908 14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to
37909    reason with him?
37910 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I
37911    would make supplication to my judge.
37912 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not
37913    believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
37914 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds
37915    without cause.
37916 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
37917    bitterness.
37918 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment,
37919    who shall set me a time to plead?
37920 20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I
37921    say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
37922 21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would
37923    despise my life.
37924 22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the
37925    perfect and the wicked.
37926 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of
37927    the innocent.
37928 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth
37929    the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
37930 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see
37931    no good.
37932 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
37933    hasteth to the prey.
37934 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my
37935    heaviness, and comfort myself:
37936 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold
37937    me innocent.
37938 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
37939 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so
37940    clean;
37941 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes
37942    shall abhor me.
37943 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
37944    should come together in judgment.
37945 33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his
37946    hand upon us both.
37947 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear
37948    terrify me:
37949 35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with
37950    me.

37951 Job 10

37952  1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon
37953    myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
37954  2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou
37955    contendest with me.
37956  3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou
37957    shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the
37958    counsel of the wicked?
37959  4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
37960  5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
37961  6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after
37962    my sin?
37963  7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can
37964    deliver out of thine hand.
37965  8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round
37966    about; yet thou dost destroy me.
37967  9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay;
37968    and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
37969 10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like
37970    cheese?
37971 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me
37972    with bones and sinews.
37973 12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath
37974    preserved my spirit.
37975 13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that
37976    this is with thee.
37977 14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me
37978    from mine iniquity.
37979 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I
37980    not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see
37981    thou mine affliction;
37982 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again
37983    thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
37984 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
37985    indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
37986 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
37987    that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
37988 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
37989    been carried from the womb to the grave.
37990 20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
37991    take comfort a little,
37992 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of
37993    darkness and the shadow of death;
37994 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of
37995    death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

37996 Job 11

37997  1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
37998  2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a
37999    man full of talk be justified?
38000  3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou
38001    mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
38002  4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in
38003    thine eyes.
38004  5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
38005  6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they
38006    are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth
38007    of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
38008  7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the
38009    Almighty unto perfection?
38010  8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell;
38011    what canst thou know?
38012  9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than
38013    the sea.
38014 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can
38015    hinder him?
38016 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not
38017    then consider it?
38018 12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild
38019    ass's colt.
38020 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands
38021    toward him;
38022 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
38023    wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
38024 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
38025    shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
38026 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as
38027    waters that pass away:
38028 17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt
38029    shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
38030 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou
38031    shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
38032 19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid;
38033    yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
38034 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not
38035    escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

38036 Job 12

38037  1 And Job answered and said,
38038  2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
38039  3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
38040    you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
38041  4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and
38042    he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
38043  5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised
38044    in the thought of him that is at ease.
38045  6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God
38046    are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
38047  7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the
38048    fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
38049  8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
38050    of the sea shall declare unto thee.
38051  9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath
38052    wrought this?
38053 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the
38054    breath of all mankind.
38055 11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
38056 12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days
38057    understanding.
38058 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
38059    understanding.
38060 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he
38061    shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
38062 15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he
38063    sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
38064 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver
38065    are his.
38066 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges
38067    fools.
38068 18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a
38069    girdle.
38070 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
38071 20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
38072    understanding of the aged.
38073 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength
38074    of the mighty.
38075 22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out
38076    to light the shadow of death.
38077 23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth
38078    the nations, and straiteneth them again.
38079 24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the
38080    earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there
38081    is no way.
38082 25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to
38083    stagger like a drunken man.

38084 Job 13

38085  1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
38086    understood it.
38087  2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto
38088    you.
38089  3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason
38090    with God.
38091  4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
38092  5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be
38093    your wisdom.
38094  6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my
38095    lips.
38096  7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
38097  8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
38098  9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man
38099    mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
38100 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
38101 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
38102    upon you?
38103 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies
38104    of clay.
38105 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come
38106    on me what will.
38107 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in
38108    mine hand?
38109 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will
38110    maintain mine own ways before him.
38111 16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
38112    before him.
38113 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
38114 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be
38115    justified.
38116 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my
38117    tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
38118 20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself
38119    from thee.
38120 21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
38121    afraid.
38122 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer
38123    thou me.
38124 23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
38125    transgression and my sin.
38126 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine
38127    enemy?
38128 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue
38129    the dry stubble?
38130 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to
38131    possess the iniquities of my youth.
38132 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly
38133    unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my
38134    feet.
38135 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is
38136    moth eaten.

38137 Job 14

38138  1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of
38139    trouble.
38140  2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also
38141    as a shadow, and continueth not.
38142  3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest
38143    me into judgment with thee?
38144  4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
38145  5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are
38146    with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
38147  6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as
38148    an hireling, his day.
38149  7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will
38150    sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not
38151    cease.
38152  8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock
38153    thereof die in the ground;
38154  9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth
38155    boughs like a plant.
38156 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,
38157    and where is he?
38158 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and
38159    drieth up:
38160 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no
38161    more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
38162 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest
38163    keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest
38164    appoint me a set time, and remember me!
38165 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my
38166    appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
38167 15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a
38168    desire to the work of thine hands.
38169 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my
38170    sin?
38171 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
38172    mine iniquity.
38173 18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the
38174    rock is removed out of his place.
38175 19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which
38176    grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the
38177    hope of man.
38178 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou
38179    changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
38180 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are
38181    brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
38182 22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within
38183    him shall mourn.

38184 Job 15

38185  1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
38186  2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly
38187    with the east wind?
38188  3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches
38189    wherewith he can do no good?
38190  4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
38191  5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
38192    tongue of the crafty.
38193  6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own
38194    lips testify against thee.
38195  7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before
38196    the hills?
38197  8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain
38198    wisdom to thyself?
38199  9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou,
38200    which is not in us?
38201 10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder
38202    than thy father.
38203 11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any
38204    secret thing with thee?
38205 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes
38206    wink at,
38207 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such
38208    words go out of thy mouth?
38209 14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of
38210    a woman, that he should be righteous?
38211 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens
38212    are not clean in his sight.
38213 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
38214    iniquity like water?
38215 17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will
38216    declare;
38217 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
38218    it:
38219 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed
38220    among them.
38221 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the
38222    number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
38223 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer
38224    shall come upon him.
38225 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he
38226    is waited for of the sword.
38227 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth
38228    that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
38229 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail
38230    against him, as a king ready to the battle.
38231 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth
38232    himself against the Almighty.
38233 26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses
38234    of his bucklers:
38235 27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh
38236    collops of fat on his flanks.
38237 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
38238    inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
38239 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
38240    neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the
38241    earth.
38242 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up
38243    his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
38244 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall
38245    be his recompence.
38246 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall
38247    not be green.
38248 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall
38249    cast off his flower as the olive.
38250 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
38251    shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
38252 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their
38253    belly prepareth deceit.

38254 Job 16

38255  1 Then Job answered and said,
38256  2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye
38257    all.
38258  3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that
38259    thou answerest?
38260  4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's
38261    stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head
38262    at you.
38263  5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my
38264    lips should asswage your grief.
38265  6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I
38266    forbear, what am I eased?
38267  7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my
38268    company.
38269  8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness
38270    against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to
38271    my face.
38272  9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me
38273    with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
38274 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me
38275    upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves
38276    together against me.
38277 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into
38278    the hands of the wicked.
38279 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also
38280    taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up
38281    for his mark.
38282 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins
38283    asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the
38284    ground.
38285 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me
38286    like a giant.
38287 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in
38288    the dust.
38289 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow
38290    of death;
38291 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
38292 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no
38293    place.
38294 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on
38295    high.
38296 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
38297 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth
38298    for his neighbour!
38299 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I
38300    shall not return.

38301 Job 17

38302  1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are
38303    ready for me.
38304  2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue
38305    in their provocation?
38306  3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that
38307    will strike hands with me?
38308  4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore
38309    shalt thou not exalt them.
38310  5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his
38311    children shall fail.
38312  6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I
38313    was as a tabret.
38314  7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members
38315    are as a shadow.
38316  8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall
38317    stir up himself against the hypocrite.
38318  9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath
38319    clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
38320 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot
38321    find one wise man among you.
38322 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the
38323    thoughts of my heart.
38324 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of
38325    darkness.
38326 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
38327    darkness.
38328 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm,
38329    Thou art my mother, and my sister.
38330 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
38331 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest
38332    together is in the dust.

38333 Job 18

38334  1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
38335  2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and
38336    afterwards we will speak.
38337  3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your
38338    sight?
38339  4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken
38340    for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
38341  5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark
38342    of his fire shall not shine.
38343  6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle
38344    shall be put out with him.
38345  7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own
38346    counsel shall cast him down.
38347  8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon
38348    a snare.
38349  9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall
38350    prevail against him.
38351 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in
38352    the way.
38353 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive
38354    him to his feet.
38355 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be
38356    ready at his side.
38357 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn
38358    of death shall devour his strength.
38359 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it
38360    shall bring him to the king of terrors.
38361 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his:
38362    brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
38363 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his
38364    branch be cut off.
38365 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have
38366    no name in the street.
38367 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of
38368    the world.
38369 19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any
38370    remaining in his dwellings.
38371 20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they
38372    that went before were affrighted.
38373 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the
38374    place of him that knoweth not God.

38375 Job 19

38376  1 Then Job answered and said,
38377  2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with
38378    words?
38379  3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that
38380    ye make yourselves strange to me.
38381  4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with
38382    myself.
38383  5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
38384    against me my reproach:
38385  6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me
38386    with his net.
38387  7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud,
38388    but there is no judgment.
38389  8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set
38390    darkness in my paths.
38391  9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my
38392    head.
38393 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine
38394    hope hath he removed like a tree.
38395 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me
38396    unto him as one of his enemies.
38397 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me,
38398    and encamp round about my tabernacle.
38399 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are
38400    verily estranged from me.
38401 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have
38402    forgotten me.
38403 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a
38404    stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
38405 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him
38406    with my mouth.
38407 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the
38408    children's sake of mine own body.
38409 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake
38410    against me.
38411 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are
38412    turned against me.
38413 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped
38414    with the skin of my teeth.
38415 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the
38416    hand of God hath touched me.
38417 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my
38418    flesh?
38419 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed
38420    in a book!
38421 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock
38422    for ever!
38423 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at
38424    the latter day upon the earth:
38425 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
38426    flesh shall I see God:
38427 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and
38428    not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
38429 28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of
38430    the matter is found in me?
38431 29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments
38432    of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

38433 Job 20

38434  1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
38435  2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I
38436    make haste.
38437  3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my
38438    understanding causeth me to answer.
38439  4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
38440  5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
38441    hypocrite but for a moment?
38442  6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head
38443    reach unto the clouds;
38444  7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which
38445    have seen him shall say, Where is he?
38446  8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he
38447    shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
38448  9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither
38449    shall his place any more behold him.
38450 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
38451    shall restore their goods.
38452 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie
38453    down with him in the dust.
38454 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it
38455    under his tongue;
38456 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still
38457    within his mouth:
38458 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
38459    within him.
38460 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up
38461    again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
38462 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall
38463    slay him.
38464 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
38465    and butter.
38466 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not
38467    swallow it down: according to his substance shall the
38468    restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
38469 19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because
38470    he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
38471 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not
38472    save of that which he desired.
38473 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man
38474    look for his goods.
38475 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
38476    every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
38477 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of
38478    his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is
38479    eating.
38480 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
38481    strike him through.
38482 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering
38483    sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
38484 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not
38485    blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left
38486    in his tabernacle.
38487 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise
38488    up against him.
38489 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall
38490    flow away in the day of his wrath.
38491 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage
38492    appointed unto him by God.

38493 Job 21

38494  1 But Job answered and said,
38495  2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
38496  3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
38497    on.
38498  4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why
38499    should not my spirit be troubled?
38500  5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
38501  6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on
38502    my flesh.
38503  7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
38504    power?
38505  8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
38506    offspring before their eyes.
38507  9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God
38508    upon them.
38509 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
38510    casteth not her calf.
38511 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their
38512    children dance.
38513 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of
38514    the organ.
38515 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to
38516    the grave.
38517 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
38518    the knowledge of thy ways.
38519 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what
38520    profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
38521 16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked
38522    is far from me.
38523 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft
38524    cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows
38525    in his anger.
38526 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the
38527    storm carrieth away.
38528 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him,
38529    and he shall know it.
38530 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
38531    wrath of the Almighty.
38532 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the
38533    number of his months is cut off in the midst?
38534 22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that
38535    are high.
38536 23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and
38537    quiet.
38538 24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with
38539    marrow.
38540 25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
38541    eateth with pleasure.
38542 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall
38543    cover them.
38544 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
38545    wrongfully imagine against me.
38546 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are
38547    the dwelling places of the wicked?
38548 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know
38549    their tokens,
38550 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they
38551    shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
38552 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him
38553    what he hath done?
38554 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the
38555    tomb.
38556 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man
38557    shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
38558 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
38559    remaineth falsehood?

38560 Job 22

38561  1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
38562  2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be
38563    profitable unto himself?
38564  3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?
38565    or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
38566  4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee
38567    into judgment?
38568  5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
38569  6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and
38570    stripped the naked of their clothing.
38571  7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast
38572    withholden bread from the hungry.
38573  8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the
38574    honourable man dwelt in it.
38575  9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
38576    fatherless have been broken.
38577 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear
38578    troubleth thee;
38579 11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters
38580    cover thee.
38581 12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of
38582    the stars, how high they are!
38583 13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the
38584    dark cloud?
38585 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he
38586    walketh in the circuit of heaven.
38587 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
38588 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was
38589    overflown with a flood:
38590 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty
38591    do for them?
38592 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel
38593    of the wicked is far from me.
38594 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh
38595    them to scorn.
38596 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them
38597    the fire consumeth.
38598 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good
38599    shall come unto thee.
38600 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his
38601    words in thine heart.
38602 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou
38603    shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
38604 24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as
38605    the stones of the brooks.
38606 25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have
38607    plenty of silver.
38608 26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and
38609    shalt lift up thy face unto God.
38610 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee,
38611    and thou shalt pay thy vows.
38612 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established
38613    unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
38614 29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting
38615    up; and he shall save the humble person.
38616 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is
38617    delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

38618 Job 23

38619  1 Then Job answered and said,
38620  2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than
38621    my groaning.
38622  3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even
38623    to his seat!
38624  4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with
38625    arguments.
38626  5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and
38627    understand what he would say unto me.
38628  6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he
38629    would put strength in me.
38630  7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be
38631    delivered for ever from my judge.
38632  8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I
38633    cannot perceive him:
38634  9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him:
38635    he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
38636 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I
38637    shall come forth as gold.
38638 11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
38639    declined.
38640 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I
38641    have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary
38642    food.
38643 13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul
38644    desireth, even that he doeth.
38645 14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many
38646    such things are with him.
38647 15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am
38648    afraid of him.
38649 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
38650 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he
38651    covered the darkness from my face.

38652 Job 24

38653  1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
38654    that know him not see his days?
38655  2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks,
38656    and feed thereof.
38657  3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the
38658    widow's ox for a pledge.
38659  4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
38660    themselves together.
38661  5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their
38662    work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food
38663    for them and for their children.
38664  6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the
38665    vintage of the wicked.
38666  7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have
38667    no covering in the cold.
38668  8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace
38669    the rock for want of a shelter.
38670  9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge
38671    of the poor.
38672 10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take
38673    away the sheaf from the hungry;
38674 11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their
38675    winepresses, and suffer thirst.
38676 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded
38677    crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
38678 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not
38679    the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
38680 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,
38681    and in the night is as a thief.
38682 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
38683    saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
38684 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for
38685    themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
38686 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one
38687    know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
38688 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the
38689    earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
38690 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave
38691    those which have sinned.
38692 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him;
38693    he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken
38694    as a tree.
38695 21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not
38696    good to the widow.
38697 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and
38698    no man is sure of life.
38699 23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth;
38700    yet his eyes are upon their ways.
38701 24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought
38702    low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off
38703    as the tops of the ears of corn.
38704 25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my
38705    speech nothing worth?

38706 Job 25

38707  1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
38708  2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high
38709    places.
38710  3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his
38711    light arise?
38712  4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean
38713    that is born of a woman?
38714  5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars
38715    are not pure in his sight.
38716  6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which
38717    is a worm?

38718 Job 26

38719  1 But Job answered and said,
38720  2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest
38721    thou the arm that hath no strength?
38722  3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast
38723    thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
38724  4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from
38725    thee?
38726  5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the
38727    inhabitants thereof.
38728  6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
38729  7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth
38730    the earth upon nothing.
38731  8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is
38732    not rent under them.
38733  9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his
38734    cloud upon it.
38735 10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and
38736    night come to an end.
38737 11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
38738    reproof.
38739 12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding
38740    he smiteth through the proud.
38741 13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath
38742    formed the crooked serpent.
38743 14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is
38744    heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

38745 Job 27

38746  1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
38747  2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the
38748    Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
38749  3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in
38750    my nostrils;
38751  4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter
38752    deceit.
38753  5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not
38754    remove mine integrity from me.
38755  6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart
38756    shall not reproach me so long as I live.
38757  7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against
38758    me as the unrighteous.
38759  8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
38760    when God taketh away his soul?
38761  9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
38762 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call
38763    upon God?
38764 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
38765    Almighty will I not conceal.
38766 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus
38767    altogether vain?
38768 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage
38769    of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
38770 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his
38771    offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
38772 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his
38773    widows shall not weep.
38774 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as
38775    the clay;
38776 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
38777    innocent shall divide the silver.
38778 18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the
38779    keeper maketh.
38780 19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he
38781    openeth his eyes, and he is not.
38782 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him
38783    away in the night.
38784 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a
38785    storm hurleth him out of his place.
38786 22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee
38787    out of his hand.
38788 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of
38789    his place.

38790 Job 28

38791  1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold
38792    where they fine it.
38793  2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the
38794    stone.
38795  3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all
38796    perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
38797  4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters
38798    forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away
38799    from men.
38800  5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is
38801    turned up as it were fire.
38802  6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust
38803    of gold.
38804  7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's
38805    eye hath not seen:
38806  8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion
38807    passed by it.
38808  9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the
38809    mountains by the roots.
38810 10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
38811    precious thing.
38812 11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is
38813    hid bringeth he forth to light.
38814 12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
38815    understanding?
38816 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the
38817    land of the living.
38818 14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not
38819    with me.
38820 15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
38821    for the price thereof.
38822 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious
38823    onyx, or the sapphire.
38824 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of
38825    it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
38826 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price
38827    of wisdom is above rubies.
38828 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
38829    valued with pure gold.
38830 20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
38831    understanding?
38832 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close
38833    from the fowls of the air.
38834 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with
38835    our ears.
38836 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
38837    thereof.
38838 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the
38839    whole heaven;
38840 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters
38841    by measure.
38842 26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the
38843    lightning of the thunder:
38844 27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and
38845    searched it out.
38846 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is
38847    wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

38848 Job 29

38849  1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
38850  2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God
38851    preserved me;
38852  3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I
38853    walked through darkness;
38854  4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was
38855    upon my tabernacle;
38856  5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about
38857    me;
38858  6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out
38859    rivers of oil;
38860  7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared
38861    my seat in the street!
38862  8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose,
38863    and stood up.
38864  9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their
38865    mouth.
38866 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the
38867    roof of their mouth.
38868 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye
38869    saw me, it gave witness to me:
38870 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless,
38871    and him that had none to help him.
38872 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and
38873    I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
38874 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as
38875    a robe and a diadem.
38876 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
38877 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I
38878    searched out.
38879 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out
38880    of his teeth.
38881 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my
38882    days as the sand.
38883 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all
38884    night upon my branch.
38885 20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
38886 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my
38887    counsel.
38888 22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped
38889    upon them.
38890 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their
38891    mouth wide as for the latter rain.
38892 24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of
38893    my countenance they cast not down.
38894 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in
38895    the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

38896 Job 30

38897  1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
38898    whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs
38899    of my flock.
38900  2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in
38901    whom old age was perished?
38902  3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the
38903    wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
38904  4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their
38905    meat.
38906  5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them
38907    as after a thief;)
38908  6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth,
38909    and in the rocks.
38910  7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were
38911    gathered together.
38912  8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they
38913    were viler than the earth.
38914  9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
38915 10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in
38916    my face.
38917 11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have
38918    also let loose the bridle before me.
38919 12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and
38920    they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
38921 13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no
38922    helper.
38923 14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the
38924    desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
38925 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind:
38926    and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
38927 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction
38928    have taken hold upon me.
38929 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews
38930    take no rest.
38931 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it
38932    bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
38933 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and
38934    ashes.
38935 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and
38936    thou regardest me not.
38937 21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou
38938    opposest thyself against me.
38939 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon
38940    it, and dissolvest my substance.
38941 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
38942    appointed for all living.
38943 24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though
38944    they cry in his destruction.
38945 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul
38946    grieved for the poor?
38947 26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I
38948    waited for light, there came darkness.
38949 27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction
38950    prevented me.
38951 28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in
38952    the congregation.
38953 29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
38954 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
38955 31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the
38956    voice of them that weep.

38957 Job 31

38958  1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon
38959    a maid?
38960  2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what
38961    inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
38962  3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to
38963    the workers of iniquity?
38964  4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
38965  5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to
38966    deceit;
38967  6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine
38968    integrity.
38969  7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked
38970    after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
38971  8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be
38972    rooted out.
38973  9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid
38974    wait at my neighbour's door;
38975 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down
38976    upon her.
38977 11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be
38978    punished by the judges.
38979 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root
38980    out all mine increase.
38981 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
38982    maidservant, when they contended with me;
38983 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth,
38984    what shall I answer him?
38985 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one
38986    fashion us in the womb?
38987 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused
38988    the eyes of the widow to fail;
38989 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath
38990    not eaten thereof;
38991 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a
38992    father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
38993 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor
38994    without covering;
38995 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed
38996    with the fleece of my sheep;
38997 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw
38998    my help in the gate:
38999 22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be
39000    broken from the bone.
39001 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of
39002    his highness I could not endure.
39003 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold,
39004    Thou art my confidence;
39005 25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine
39006    hand had gotten much;
39007 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in
39008    brightness;
39009 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath
39010    kissed my hand:
39011 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I
39012    should have denied the God that is above.
39013 29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or
39014    lifted up myself when evil found him:
39015 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to
39016    his soul.
39017 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his
39018    flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
39019 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my
39020    doors to the traveller.
39021 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine
39022    iniquity in my bosom:
39023 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families
39024    terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
39025 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
39026    Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written
39027    a book.
39028 36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a
39029    crown to me.
39030 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince
39031    would I go near unto him.
39032 38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise
39033    thereof complain;
39034 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have
39035    caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
39036 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of
39037    barley. The words of Job are ended.

39038 Job 32

39039  1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was
39040    righteous in his own eyes.
39041  2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the
39042    Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath
39043    kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
39044  3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because
39045    they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
39046  4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were
39047    elder than he.
39048  5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these
39049    three men, then his wrath was kindled.
39050  6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I
39051    am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and
39052    durst not shew you mine opinion.
39053  7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach
39054    wisdom.
39055  8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the
39056    Almighty giveth them understanding.
39057  9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
39058    judgment.
39059 10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine
39060    opinion.
39061 11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons,
39062    whilst ye searched out what to say.
39063 12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you
39064    that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
39065 13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth
39066    him down, not man.
39067 14 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I
39068    answer him with your speeches.
39069 15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off
39070    speaking.
39071 16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and
39072    answered no more;)
39073 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine
39074    opinion.
39075 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
39076 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to
39077    burst like new bottles.
39078 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and
39079    answer.
39080 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let
39081    me give flattering titles unto man.
39082 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker
39083    would soon take me away.

39084 Job 33

39085  1 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to
39086    all my words.
39087  2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in
39088    my mouth.
39089  3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips
39090    shall utter knowledge clearly.
39091  4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty
39092    hath given me life.
39093  5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me,
39094    stand up.
39095  6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am
39096    formed out of the clay.
39097  7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my
39098    hand be heavy upon thee.
39099  8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the
39100    voice of thy words, saying,
39101  9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is
39102    there iniquity in me.
39103 10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for
39104    his enemy,
39105 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
39106 12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that
39107    God is greater than man.
39108 13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of
39109    any of his matters.
39110 14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
39111 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth
39112    upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
39113 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their
39114    instruction,
39115 17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from
39116    man.
39117 18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from
39118    perishing by the sword.
39119 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude
39120    of his bones with strong pain:
39121 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
39122 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his
39123    bones that were not seen stick out.
39124 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the
39125    destroyers.
39126 23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a
39127    thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
39128 24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from
39129    going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
39130 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to
39131    the days of his youth:
39132 26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him:
39133    and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto
39134    man his righteousness.
39135 27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and
39136    perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
39137 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life
39138    shall see the light.
39139 29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
39140 30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with
39141    the light of the living.
39142 31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will
39143    speak.
39144 32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire
39145    to justify thee.
39146 33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach
39147    thee wisdom.

39148 Job 34

39149  1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
39150  2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that
39151    have knowledge.
39152  3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
39153  4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what
39154    is good.
39155  5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my
39156    judgment.
39157  6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without
39158    transgression.
39159  7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
39160  8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and
39161    walketh with wicked men.
39162  9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should
39163    delight himself with God.
39164 10 Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it
39165    from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty,
39166    that he should commit iniquity.
39167 11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause
39168    every man to find according to his ways.
39169 12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the
39170    Almighty pervert judgment.
39171 13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath
39172    disposed the whole world?
39173 14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his
39174    spirit and his breath;
39175 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto
39176    dust.
39177 16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the
39178    voice of my words.
39179 17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn
39180    him that is most just?
39181 18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes,
39182    Ye are ungodly?
39183 19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of
39184    princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they
39185    all are the work of his hands.
39186 20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled
39187    at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away
39188    without hand.
39189 21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his
39190    goings.
39191 22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers
39192    of iniquity may hide themselves.
39193 23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should
39194    enter into judgment with God.
39195 24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set
39196    others in their stead.
39197 25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in
39198    the night, so that they are destroyed.
39199 26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
39200 27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any
39201    of his ways:
39202 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and
39203    he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
39204 29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when
39205    he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be
39206    done against a nation, or against a man only:
39207 30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
39208 31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne
39209    chastisement, I will not offend any more:
39210 32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I
39211    will do no more.
39212 33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it,
39213    whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I:
39214    therefore speak what thou knowest.
39215 34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken
39216    unto me.
39217 35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without
39218    wisdom.
39219 36 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his
39220    answers for wicked men.
39221 37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands
39222    among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

39223 Job 35

39224  1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
39225  2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My
39226    righteousness is more than God's?
39227  3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and,
39228    What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
39229  4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
39230  5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which
39231    are higher than thou.
39232  6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy
39233    transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
39234  7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth
39235    he of thine hand?
39236  8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy
39237    righteousness may profit the son of man.
39238  9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the
39239    oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the
39240    mighty.
39241 10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the
39242    night;
39243 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh
39244    us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
39245 12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride
39246    of evil men.
39247 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
39248    regard it.
39249 14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is
39250    before him; therefore trust thou in him.
39251 15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger;
39252    yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
39253 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth
39254    words without knowledge.

39255 Job 36

39256  1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
39257  2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to
39258    speak on God's behalf.
39259  3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
39260    righteousness to my Maker.
39261  4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
39262    knowledge is with thee.
39263  5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in
39264    strength and wisdom.
39265  6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to
39266    the poor.
39267  7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings
39268    are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever,
39269    and they are exalted.
39270  8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of
39271    affliction;
39272  9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that
39273    they have exceeded.
39274 10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that
39275    they return from iniquity.
39276 11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in
39277    prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
39278 12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they
39279    shall die without knowledge.
39280 13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when
39281    he bindeth them.
39282 14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
39283 15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their
39284    ears in oppression.
39285 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a
39286    broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which
39287    should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
39288 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment
39289    and justice take hold on thee.
39290 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his
39291    stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
39292 19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of
39293    strength.
39294 20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
39295 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen
39296    rather than affliction.
39297 22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
39298 23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast
39299    wrought iniquity?
39300 24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
39301 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
39302 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the
39303    number of his years be searched out.
39304 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain
39305    according to the vapour thereof:
39306 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
39307 29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the
39308    noise of his tabernacle?
39309 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the
39310    bottom of the sea.
39311 31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in
39312    abundance.
39313 32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to
39314    shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
39315 33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also
39316    concerning the vapour.

39317 Job 37

39318  1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his
39319    place.
39320  2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that
39321    goeth out of his mouth.
39322  3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto
39323    the ends of the earth.
39324  4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his
39325    excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
39326  5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth
39327    he, which we cannot comprehend.
39328  6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to
39329    the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
39330  7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his
39331    work.
39332  8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
39333  9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the
39334    north.
39335 10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the
39336    waters is straitened.
39337 11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth
39338    his bright cloud:
39339 12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do
39340    whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in
39341    the earth.
39342 13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his
39343    land, or for mercy.
39344 14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the
39345    wondrous works of God.
39346 15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of
39347    his cloud to shine?
39348 16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous
39349    works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
39350 17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the
39351    south wind?
39352 18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as
39353    a molten looking glass?
39354 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our
39355    speech by reason of darkness.
39356 20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he
39357    shall be swallowed up.
39358 21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds:
39359    but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
39360 22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible
39361    majesty.
39362 23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent
39363    in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will
39364    not afflict.
39365 24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise
39366    of heart.

39367 Job 38

39368  1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
39369  2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
39370  3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee,
39371    and answer thou me.
39372  4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
39373    declare, if thou hast understanding.
39374  5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who
39375    hath stretched the line upon it?
39376  6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid
39377    the corner stone thereof;
39378  7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
39379    shouted for joy?
39380  8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if
39381    it had issued out of the womb?
39382  9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness
39383    a swaddlingband for it,
39384 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
39385 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here
39386    shall thy proud waves be stayed?
39387 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the
39388    dayspring to know his place;
39389 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the
39390    wicked might be shaken out of it?
39391 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
39392 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high
39393    arm shall be broken.
39394 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou
39395    walked in the search of the depth?
39396 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou
39397    seen the doors of the shadow of death?
39398 18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou
39399    knowest it all.
39400 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness,
39401    where is the place thereof,
39402 20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that
39403    thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
39404 21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the
39405    number of thy days is great?
39406 22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou
39407    seen the treasures of the hail,
39408 23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the
39409    day of battle and war?
39410 24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east
39411    wind upon the earth?
39412 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters,
39413    or a way for the lightning of thunder;
39414 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the
39415    wilderness, wherein there is no man;
39416 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud
39417    of the tender herb to spring forth?
39418 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
39419 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven,
39420    who hath gendered it?
39421 30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep
39422    is frozen.
39423 31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the
39424    bands of Orion?
39425 32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou
39426    guide Arcturus with his sons?
39427 33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the
39428    dominion thereof in the earth?
39429 34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of
39430    waters may cover thee?
39431 35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto
39432    thee, Here we are?
39433 36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given
39434    understanding to the heart?
39435 37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the
39436    bottles of heaven,
39437 38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast
39438    together?
39439 39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of
39440    the young lions,
39441 40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie
39442    in wait?
39443 41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry
39444    unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

39445 Job 39

39446  1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring
39447    forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
39448  2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou
39449    the time when they bring forth?
39450  3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they
39451    cast out their sorrows.
39452  4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn;
39453    they go forth, and return not unto them.
39454  5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the
39455    bands of the wild ass?
39456  6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land
39457    his dwellings.
39458  7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he
39459    the crying of the driver.
39460  8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth
39461    after every green thing.
39462  9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy
39463    crib?
39464 10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or
39465    will he harrow the valleys after thee?
39466 11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt
39467    thou leave thy labour to him?
39468 12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and
39469    gather it into thy barn?
39470 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and
39471    feathers unto the ostrich?
39472 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
39473 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild
39474    beast may break them.
39475 16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were
39476    not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;
39477 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he
39478    imparted to her understanding.
39479 18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the
39480    horse and his rider.
39481 19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck
39482    with thunder?
39483 20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his
39484    nostrils is terrible.
39485 21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he
39486    goeth on to meet the armed men.
39487 22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he
39488    back from the sword.
39489 23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the
39490    shield.
39491 24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither
39492    believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
39493 25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the
39494    battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the
39495    shouting.
39496 26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward
39497    the south?
39498 27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on
39499    high?
39500 28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the
39501    rock, and the strong place.
39502 29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar
39503    off.
39504 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are,
39505    there is she.

39506 Job 40

39507  1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
39508  2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he
39509    that reproveth God, let him answer it.
39510  3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
39511  4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine
39512    hand upon my mouth.
39513  5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I
39514    will proceed no further.
39515  6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and
39516    said,
39517  7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and
39518    declare thou unto me.
39519  8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me,
39520    that thou mayest be righteous?
39521  9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice
39522    like him?
39523 10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array
39524    thyself with glory and beauty.
39525 11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that
39526    is proud, and abase him.
39527 12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread
39528    down the wicked in their place.
39529 13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in
39530    secret.
39531 14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand
39532    can save thee.
39533 15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass
39534    as an ox.
39535 16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the
39536    navel of his belly.
39537 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are
39538    wrapped together.
39539 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like
39540    bars of iron.
39541 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make
39542    his sword to approach unto him.
39543 20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the
39544    beasts of the field play.
39545 21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and
39546    fens.
39547 22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of
39548    the brook compass him about.
39549 23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth
39550    that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
39551 24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

39552 Job 41

39553  1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with
39554    a cord which thou lettest down?
39555  2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through
39556    with a thorn?
39557  3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft
39558    words unto thee?
39559  4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a
39560    servant for ever?
39561  5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him
39562    for thy maidens?
39563  6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part
39564    him among the merchants?
39565  7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with
39566    fish spears?
39567  8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
39568  9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down
39569    even at the sight of him?
39570 10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to
39571    stand before me?
39572 11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is
39573    under the whole heaven is mine.
39574 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely
39575    proportion.
39576 13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to
39577    him with his double bridle?
39578 14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible
39579    round about.
39580 15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close
39581    seal.
39582 16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
39583 17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they
39584    cannot be sundered.
39585 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the
39586    eyelids of the morning.
39587 19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap
39588    out.
39589 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or
39590    caldron.
39591 21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
39592 22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy
39593    before him.
39594 23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in
39595    themselves; they cannot be moved.
39596 24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of
39597    the nether millstone.
39598 25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason
39599    of breakings they purify themselves.
39600 26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear,
39601    the dart, nor the habergeon.
39602 27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
39603 28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with
39604    him into stubble.
39605 29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a
39606    spear.
39607 30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things
39608    upon the mire.
39609 31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like
39610    a pot of ointment.
39611 32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep
39612    to be hoary.
39613 33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
39614 34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the
39615    children of pride.

39616 Job 42

39617  1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
39618  2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can
39619    be withholden from thee.
39620  3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore
39621    have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for
39622    me, which I knew not.
39623  4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee,
39624    and declare thou unto me.
39625  5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine
39626    eye seeth thee.
39627  6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
39628  7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto
39629    Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is
39630    kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have
39631    not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job
39632    hath.
39633  8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and
39634    go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt
39635    offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will
39636    I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye
39637    have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my
39638    servant Job.
39639  9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the
39640    Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them:
39641    the LORD also accepted Job.
39642 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for
39643    his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had
39644    before.
39645 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his
39646    sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance
39647    before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they
39648    bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the
39649    LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of
39650    money, and every one an earring of gold.
39651 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his
39652    beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six
39653    thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand
39654    she asses.
39655 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
39656 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of
39657    the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
39658 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the
39659    daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among
39660    their brethren.
39661 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his
39662    sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
39663 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

39664 Book 19 Psalms

39665 Psalms 1

39666  1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
39667    ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
39668    the seat of the scornful.
39669  2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth
39670    he meditate day and night.
39671  3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
39672    that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
39673    shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
39674  4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind
39675    driveth away.
39676  5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
39677    sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
39678  6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of
39679    the ungodly shall perish.

39680 Psalms 2

39681  1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
39682  2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take
39683    counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
39684    saying,
39685  3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords
39686    from us.
39687  4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall
39688    have them in derision.
39689  5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in
39690    his sore displeasure.
39691  6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
39692  7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou
39693    art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
39694  8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
39695    inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy
39696    possession.
39697  9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them
39698    in pieces like a potter's vessel.
39699 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of
39700    the earth.
39701 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
39702 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way,
39703    when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they
39704    that put their trust in him.

39705 Psalms 3

39706  1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they
39707    that rise up against me.
39708  2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him
39709    in God. Selah.
39710  3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the
39711    lifter up of mine head.
39712  4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of
39713    his holy hill. Selah.
39714  5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
39715  6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set
39716    themselves against me round about.
39717  7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all
39718    mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth
39719    of the ungodly.
39720  8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy
39721    people. Selah.

39722 Psalms 4

39723  1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast
39724    enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and
39725    hear my prayer.
39726  2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?
39727    how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
39728  3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for
39729    himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
39730  4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon
39731    your bed, and be still. Selah.
39732  5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in
39733    the LORD.
39734  6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift
39735    thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
39736  7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that
39737    their corn and their wine increased.
39738  8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD,
39739    only makest me dwell in safety.

39740 Psalms 5

39741  1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
39742  2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for
39743    unto thee will I pray.
39744  3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the
39745    morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
39746  4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:
39747    neither shall evil dwell with thee.
39748  5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all
39749    workers of iniquity.
39750  6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will
39751    abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
39752  7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of
39753    thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy
39754    temple.
39755  8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;
39756    make thy way straight before my face.
39757  9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
39758    is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they
39759    flatter with their tongue.
39760 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
39761    cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for
39762    they have rebelled against thee.
39763 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let
39764    them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them
39765    also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
39766 12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt
39767    thou compass him as with a shield.

39768 Psalms 6

39769  1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in
39770    thy hot displeasure.
39771  2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me;
39772    for my bones are vexed.
39773  3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
39774  4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies'
39775    sake.
39776  5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who
39777    shall give thee thanks?
39778  6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to
39779    swim; I water my couch with my tears.
39780  7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because
39781    of all mine enemies.
39782  8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath
39783    heard the voice of my weeping.
39784  9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my
39785    prayer.
39786 10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them
39787    return and be ashamed suddenly.

39788 Psalms 7

39789  1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all
39790    them that persecute me, and deliver me:
39791  2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while
39792    there is none to deliver.
39793  3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my
39794    hands;
39795  4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me;
39796    (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
39797  5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him
39798    tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the
39799    dust. Selah.
39800  6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the
39801    rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that
39802    thou hast commanded.
39803  7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about:
39804    for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
39805  8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according
39806    to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is
39807    in me.
39808  9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but
39809    establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts
39810    and reins.
39811 10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
39812 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked
39813    every day.
39814 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow,
39815    and made it ready.
39816 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he
39817    ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
39818 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived
39819    mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
39820 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch
39821    which he made.
39822 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent
39823    dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
39824 17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and
39825    will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

39826 Psalms 8

39827  1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
39828    who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
39829  2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
39830    strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still
39831    the enemy and the avenger.
39832  3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon
39833    and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
39834  4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man,
39835    that thou visitest him?
39836  5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and
39837    hast crowned him with glory and honour.
39838  6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
39839    thou hast put all things under his feet:
39840  7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
39841  8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever
39842    passeth through the paths of the seas.
39843  9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

39844 Psalms 9

39845  1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew
39846    forth all thy marvellous works.
39847  2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy
39848    name, O thou most High.
39849  3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish
39850    at thy presence.
39851  4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in
39852    the throne judging right.
39853  5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked,
39854    thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
39855  6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and
39856    thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with
39857    them.
39858  7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his
39859    throne for judgment.
39860  8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall
39861    minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
39862  9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in
39863    times of trouble.
39864 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for
39865    thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
39866 11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare
39867    among the people his doings.
39868 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he
39869    forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
39870 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer
39871    of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates
39872    of death:
39873 14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the
39874    daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
39875 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the
39876    net which they hid is their own foot taken.
39877 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the
39878    wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion.
39879    Selah.
39880 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that
39881    forget God.
39882 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of
39883    the poor shall not perish for ever.
39884 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged
39885    in thy sight.
39886 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves
39887    to be but men. Selah.

39888 Psalms 10

39889  1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in
39890    times of trouble?
39891  2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
39892    taken in the devices that they have imagined.
39893  3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth
39894    the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
39895  4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
39896    seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
39897  5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out
39898    of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
39899  6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall
39900    never be in adversity.
39901  7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
39902    tongue is mischief and vanity.
39903  8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the
39904    secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are
39905    privily set against the poor.
39906  9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in
39907    wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he
39908    draweth him into his net.
39909 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
39910    his strong ones.
39911 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
39912    face; he will never see it.
39913 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the
39914    humble.
39915 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
39916    heart, Thou wilt not require it.
39917 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to
39918    requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto
39919    thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
39920 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out
39921    his wickedness till thou find none.
39922 16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished
39923    out of his land.
39924 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
39925    prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
39926 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
39927    earth may no more oppress.

39928 Psalms 11

39929  1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a
39930    bird to your mountain?
39931  2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their
39932    arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the
39933    upright in heart.
39934  3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
39935  4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in
39936    heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
39937  5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that
39938    loveth violence his soul hateth.
39939  6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and
39940    an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
39941  7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance
39942    doth behold the upright.

39943 Psalms 12

39944  1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail
39945    from among the children of men.
39946  2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with
39947    flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
39948  3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue
39949    that speaketh proud things:
39950  4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are
39951    our own: who is lord over us?
39952  5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
39953    now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety
39954    from him that puffeth at him.
39955  6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a
39956    furnace of earth, purified seven times.
39957  7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from
39958    this generation for ever.
39959  8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are
39960    exalted.

39961 Psalms 13

39962  1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt
39963    thou hide thy face from me?
39964  2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my
39965    heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
39966  3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I
39967    sleep the sleep of death;
39968  4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those
39969    that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
39970  5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy
39971    salvation.
39972  6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully
39973    with me.

39974 Psalms 14

39975  1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are
39976    corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that
39977    doeth good.
39978  2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
39979    see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
39980  3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy:
39981    there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
39982  4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
39983    people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
39984  5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of
39985    the righteous.
39986  6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is
39987    his refuge.
39988  7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when
39989    the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob
39990    shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

39991 Psalms 15

39992  1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in
39993    thy holy hill?
39994  2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
39995    speaketh the truth in his heart.
39996  3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his
39997    neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
39998  4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth
39999    them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and
40000    changeth not.
40001  5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward
40002    against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never
40003    be moved.

40004 Psalms 16

40005  1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
40006  2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my
40007    goodness extendeth not to thee;
40008  3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent,
40009    in whom is all my delight.
40010  4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another
40011    god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take
40012    up their names into my lips.
40013  5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
40014    thou maintainest my lot.
40015  6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a
40016    goodly heritage.
40017  7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins
40018    also instruct me in the night seasons.
40019  8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my
40020    right hand, I shall not be moved.
40021  9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh
40022    also shall rest in hope.
40023 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
40024    suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
40025 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness
40026    of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

40027 Psalms 17

40028  1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my
40029    prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
40030  2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes
40031    behold the things that are equal.
40032  3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the
40033    night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am
40034    purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
40035  4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have
40036    kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
40037  5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
40038  6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
40039    thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
40040  7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy
40041    right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that
40042    rise up against them.
40043  8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of
40044    thy wings,
40045  9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who
40046    compass me about.
40047 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they
40048    speak proudly.
40049 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
40050    eyes bowing down to the earth;
40051 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a
40052    young lion lurking in secret places.
40053 13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
40054    from the wicked, which is thy sword:
40055 14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,
40056    which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou
40057    fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and
40058    leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
40059 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
40060    satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

40061 Psalms 18

40062  1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
40063  2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my
40064    God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the
40065    horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
40066  3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so
40067    shall I be saved from mine enemies.
40068  4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly
40069    men made me afraid.
40070  5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
40071    prevented me.
40072  6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God:
40073    he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before
40074    him, even into his ears.
40075  7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
40076    hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
40077  8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
40078    mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
40079  9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was
40080    under his feet.
40081 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon
40082    the wings of the wind.
40083 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about
40084    him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
40085 12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,
40086    hail stones and coals of fire.
40087 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave
40088    his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
40089 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot
40090    out lightnings, and discomfited them.
40091 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of
40092    the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast
40093    of the breath of thy nostrils.
40094 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
40095 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which
40096    hated me: for they were too strong for me.
40097 18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
40098    my stay.
40099 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
40100    because he delighted in me.
40101 20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according
40102    to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
40103 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
40104    departed from my God.
40105 22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away
40106    his statutes from me.
40107 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
40108    iniquity.
40109 24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
40110    righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
40111    eyesight.
40112 25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
40113    upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
40114 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
40115    froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
40116 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
40117    high looks.
40118 28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten
40119    my darkness.
40120 29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
40121    leaped over a wall.
40122 30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried:
40123    he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
40124 31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
40125 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
40126    perfect.
40127 33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my
40128    high places.
40129 34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken
40130    by mine arms.
40131 35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
40132    right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me
40133    great.
40134 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not
40135    slip.
40136 37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I
40137    turn again till they were consumed.
40138 38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are
40139    fallen under my feet.
40140 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou
40141    hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40142 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I
40143    might destroy them that hate me.
40144 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the
40145    LORD, but he answered them not.
40146 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did
40147    cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
40148 43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and
40149    thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I
40150    have not known shall serve me.
40151 44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
40152    shall submit themselves unto me.
40153 45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their
40154    close places.
40155 46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my
40156    salvation be exalted.
40157 47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
40158 48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up
40159    above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me
40160    from the violent man.
40161 49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
40162    heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
40163 50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to
40164    his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

40165 Psalms 19

40166  1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
40167    sheweth his handywork.
40168  2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
40169    knowledge.
40170  3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not
40171    heard.
40172  4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words
40173    to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for
40174    the sun,
40175  5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and
40176    rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
40177  6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit
40178    unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat
40179    thereof.
40180  7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the
40181    testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
40182  8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the
40183    commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
40184  9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the
40185    judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
40186 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine
40187    gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
40188 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them
40189    there is great reward.
40190 12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret
40191    faults.
40192 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them
40193    not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I
40194    shall be innocent from the great transgression.
40195 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
40196    acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

40197 Psalms 20

40198  1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God
40199    of Jacob defend thee;
40200  2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of
40201    Zion;
40202  3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice;
40203    Selah.
40204  4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy
40205    counsel.
40206  5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God
40207    we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
40208  6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him
40209    from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right
40210    hand.
40211  7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will
40212    remember the name of the LORD our God.
40213  8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand
40214    upright.
40215  9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

40216 Psalms 21

40217  1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy
40218    salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
40219  2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not
40220    withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
40221  3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou
40222    settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
40223  4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of
40224    days for ever and ever.
40225  5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast
40226    thou laid upon him.
40227  6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made
40228    him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
40229  7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of
40230    the most High he shall not be moved.
40231  8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand
40232    shall find out those that hate thee.
40233  9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine
40234    anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the
40235    fire shall devour them.
40236 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed
40237    from among the children of men.
40238 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a
40239    mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
40240 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou
40241    shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the
40242    face of them.
40243 13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing
40244    and praise thy power.

40245 Psalms 22

40246  1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far
40247    from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
40248  2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in
40249    the night season, and am not silent.
40250  3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of
40251    Israel.
40252  4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
40253    deliver them.
40254  5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in
40255    thee, and were not confounded.
40256  6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
40257    of the people.
40258  7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the
40259    lip, they shake the head, saying,
40260  8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him
40261    deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
40262  9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make
40263    me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
40264 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my
40265    mother's belly.
40266 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to
40267    help.
40268 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have
40269    beset me round.
40270 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a
40271    roaring lion.
40272 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
40273    my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
40274 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue
40275    cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of
40276    death.
40277 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
40278    inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
40279 17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
40280 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
40281    vesture.
40282 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee
40283    to help me.
40284 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of
40285    the dog.
40286 21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the
40287    horns of the unicorns.
40288 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
40289    congregation will I praise thee.
40290 23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
40291    glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
40292 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
40293    afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he
40294    cried unto him, he heard.
40295 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will
40296    pay my vows before them that fear him.
40297 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the
40298    LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
40299 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
40300    LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
40301    thee.
40302 28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among
40303    the nations.
40304 29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all
40305    they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none
40306    can keep alive his own soul.
40307 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for
40308    a generation.
40309 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
40310    people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

40311 Psalms 23

40312  1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
40313  2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me
40314    beside the still waters.
40315  3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
40316    righteousness for his name's sake.
40317  4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
40318    I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
40319    staff they comfort me.
40320  5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
40321    enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
40322  6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
40323    life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

40324 Psalms 24

40325  1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world,
40326    and they that dwell therein.
40327  2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon
40328    the floods.
40329  3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand
40330    in his holy place?
40331  4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not
40332    lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
40333  5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness
40334    from the God of his salvation.
40335  6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy
40336    face, O Jacob. Selah.
40337  7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
40338    everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
40339  8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the
40340    LORD mighty in battle.
40341  9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye
40342    everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
40343 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King
40344    of glory. Selah.

40345 Psalms 25

40346  1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
40347  2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine
40348    enemies triumph over me.
40349  3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be
40350    ashamed which transgress without cause.
40351  4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
40352  5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my
40353    salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
40354  6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;
40355    for they have been ever of old.
40356  7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
40357    according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness'
40358    sake, O LORD.
40359  8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners
40360    in the way.
40361  9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
40362    his way.
40363 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as
40364    keep his covenant and his testimonies.
40365 11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is
40366    great.
40367 12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in
40368    the way that he shall choose.
40369 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the
40370    earth.
40371 14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will
40372    shew them his covenant.
40373 15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet
40374    out of the net.
40375 16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate
40376    and afflicted.
40377 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of
40378    my distresses.
40379 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my
40380    sins.
40381 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me
40382    with cruel hatred.
40383 20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I
40384    put my trust in thee.
40385 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
40386 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

40387 Psalms 26

40388  1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have
40389    trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
40390  2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
40391  3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked
40392    in thy truth.
40393  4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
40394    dissemblers.
40395  5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit
40396    with the wicked.
40397  6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
40398    altar, O LORD:
40399  7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of
40400    all thy wondrous works.
40401  8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place
40402    where thine honour dwelleth.
40403  9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
40404 10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of
40405    bribes.
40406 11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and
40407    be merciful unto me.
40408 12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I
40409    bless the LORD.

40410 Psalms 27

40411  1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the
40412    LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
40413  2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me
40414    to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
40415  3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not
40416    fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be
40417    confident.
40418  4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;
40419    that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my
40420    life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his
40421    temple.
40422  5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:
40423    in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set
40424    me up upon a rock.
40425  6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round
40426    about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices
40427    of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
40428  7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon
40429    me, and answer me.
40430  8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,
40431    Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
40432  9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in
40433    anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake
40434    me, O God of my salvation.
40435 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will
40436    take me up.
40437 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because
40438    of mine enemies.
40439 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
40440    witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out
40441    cruelty.
40442 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of
40443    the LORD in the land of the living.
40444 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
40445    thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

40446 Psalms 28

40447  1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me:
40448    lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down
40449    into the pit.
40450  2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when
40451    I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
40452  3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
40453    iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief
40454    is in their hearts.
40455  4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
40456    wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of
40457    their hands; render to them their desert.
40458  5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the
40459    operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build
40460    them up.
40461  6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
40462    supplications.
40463  7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
40464    him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;
40465    and with my song will I praise him.
40466  8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of
40467    his anointed.
40468  9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also,
40469    and lift them up for ever.

40470 Psalms 29

40471  1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
40472    strength.
40473  2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the
40474    LORD in the beauty of holiness.
40475  3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory
40476    thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
40477  4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is
40478    full of majesty.
40479  5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD
40480    breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
40481  6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion
40482    like a young unicorn.
40483  7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
40484  8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh
40485    the wilderness of Kadesh.
40486  9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and
40487    discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one
40488    speak of his glory.
40489 10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King
40490    for ever.
40491 11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
40492    bless his people with peace.

40493 Psalms 30

40494  1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and
40495    hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
40496  2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
40497  3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast
40498    kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
40499  4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the
40500    remembrance of his holiness.
40501  5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life:
40502    weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
40503  6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
40504  7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand
40505    strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
40506  8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made
40507    supplication.
40508  9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
40509    Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
40510 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
40511 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast
40512    put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
40513 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be
40514    silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

40515 Psalms 31

40516  1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
40517    deliver me in thy righteousness.
40518  2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my
40519    strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
40520  3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's
40521    sake lead me, and guide me.
40522  4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for
40523    thou art my strength.
40524  5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O
40525    LORD God of truth.
40526  6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in
40527    the LORD.
40528  7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast
40529    considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
40530  8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast
40531    set my feet in a large room.
40532  9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
40533    consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
40534 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
40535    strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are
40536    consumed.
40537 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among
40538    my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did
40539    see me without fled from me.
40540 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken
40541    vessel.
40542 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side:
40543    while they took counsel together against me, they devised to
40544    take away my life.
40545 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
40546 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
40547    enemies, and from them that persecute me.
40548 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
40549    mercies' sake.
40550 17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee:
40551    let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the
40552    grave.
40553 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
40554    things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
40555 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them
40556    that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in
40557    thee before the sons of men!
40558 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the
40559    pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from
40560    the strife of tongues.
40561 21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
40562    kindness in a strong city.
40563 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
40564    nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when
40565    I cried unto thee.
40566 23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth
40567    the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
40568 24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye
40569    that hope in the LORD.

40570 Psalms 32

40571  1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is
40572    covered.
40573  2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,
40574    and in whose spirit there is no guile.
40575  3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all
40576    the day long.
40577  4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is
40578    turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
40579  5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not
40580    hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD;
40581    and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
40582  6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a
40583    time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great
40584    waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
40585  7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
40586    thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
40587  8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
40588    shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
40589  9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no
40590    understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and
40591    bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
40592 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in
40593    the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
40594 11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for
40595    joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

40596 Psalms 33

40597  1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for
40598    the upright.
40599  2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and
40600    an instrument of ten strings.
40601  3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
40602  4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done
40603    in truth.
40604  5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the
40605    goodness of the LORD.
40606  6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the
40607    host of them by the breath of his mouth.
40608  7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he
40609    layeth up the depth in storehouses.
40610  8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of
40611    the world stand in awe of him.
40612  9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood
40613    fast.
40614 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he
40615    maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
40616 11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his
40617    heart to all generations.
40618 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people
40619    whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
40620 13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of
40621    men.
40622 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
40623    inhabitants of the earth.
40624 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their
40625    works.
40626 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty
40627    man is not delivered by much strength.
40628 17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
40629    any by his great strength.
40630 18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon
40631    them that hope in his mercy;
40632 19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in
40633    famine.
40634 20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
40635 21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in
40636    his holy name.
40637 22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in
40638    thee.

40639 Psalms 34

40640  1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall
40641    continually be in my mouth.
40642  2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall
40643    hear thereof, and be glad.
40644  3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name
40645    together.
40646  4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all
40647    my fears.
40648  5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were
40649    not ashamed.
40650  6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out
40651    of all his troubles.
40652  7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear
40653    him, and delivereth them.
40654  8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that
40655    trusteth in him.
40656  9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them
40657    that fear him.
40658 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek
40659    the LORD shall not want any good thing.
40660 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear
40661    of the LORD.
40662 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that
40663    he may see good?
40664 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
40665 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
40666 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are
40667    open unto their cry.
40668 16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off
40669    the remembrance of them from the earth.
40670 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them
40671    out of all their troubles.
40672 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and
40673    saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
40674 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
40675    delivereth him out of them all.
40676 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
40677 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
40678    shall be desolate.
40679 22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
40680    that trust in him shall be desolate.

40681 Psalms 35

40682  1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight
40683    against them that fight against me.
40684  2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
40685  3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
40686    persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
40687  4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my
40688    soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that
40689    devise my hurt.
40690  5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
40691    LORD chase them.
40692  6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the
40693    LORD persecute them.
40694  7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
40695    which without cause they have digged for my soul.
40696  8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net
40697    that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let
40698    him fall.
40699  9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in
40700    his salvation.
40701 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which
40702    deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea,
40703    the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
40704 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things
40705    that I knew not.
40706 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
40707 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth:
40708    I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into
40709    mine own bosom.
40710 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I
40711    bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
40712 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
40713    together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together
40714    against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased
40715    not:
40716 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
40717    their teeth.
40718 17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
40719    destructions, my darling from the lions.
40720 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
40721    praise thee among much people.
40722 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
40723    neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a
40724    cause.
40725 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
40726    against them that are quiet in the land.
40727 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha,
40728    aha, our eye hath seen it.
40729 22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not
40730    far from me.
40731 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause,
40732    my God and my Lord.
40733 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
40734    let them not rejoice over me.
40735 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
40736    them not say, We have swallowed him up.
40737 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
40738    rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
40739    dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
40740 27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
40741    cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be
40742    magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his
40743    servant.
40744 28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
40745    praise all the day long.

40746 Psalms 36

40747  1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that
40748    there is no fear of God before his eyes.
40749  2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity
40750    be found to be hateful.
40751  3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left
40752    off to be wise, and to do good.
40753  4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way
40754    that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
40755  5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness
40756    reacheth unto the clouds.
40757  6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments
40758    are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
40759  7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
40760    children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
40761  8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
40762    house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
40763    pleasures.
40764  9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we
40765    see light.
40766 10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and
40767    thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
40768 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the
40769    hand of the wicked remove me.
40770 12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down,
40771    and shall not be able to rise.

40772 Psalms 37

40773  1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious
40774    against the workers of iniquity.
40775  2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as
40776    the green herb.
40777  3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the
40778    land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
40779  4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the
40780    desires of thine heart.
40781  5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
40782    bring it to pass.
40783  6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and
40784    thy judgment as the noonday.
40785  7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
40786    because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man
40787    who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
40788  8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any
40789    wise to do evil.
40790  9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the
40791    LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
40792 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou
40793    shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
40794 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
40795    themselves in the abundance of peace.
40796 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him
40797    with his teeth.
40798 13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
40799    coming.
40800 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
40801    to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of
40802    upright conversation.
40803 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows
40804    shall be broken.
40805 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches
40806    of many wicked.
40807 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
40808    upholdeth the righteous.
40809 18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their
40810    inheritance shall be for ever.
40811 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
40812    famine they shall be satisfied.
40813 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall
40814    be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall
40815    they consume away.
40816 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
40817    sheweth mercy, and giveth.
40818 22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and
40819    they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
40820 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
40821    delighteth in his way.
40822 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the
40823    LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
40824 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the
40825    righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
40826 26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
40827 27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
40828 28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints;
40829    they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall
40830    be cut off.
40831 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for
40832    ever.
40833 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
40834    talketh of judgment.
40835 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall
40836    slide.
40837 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
40838 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when
40839    he is judged.
40840 34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to
40841    inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see
40842    it.
40843 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
40844    like a green bay tree.
40845 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him,
40846    but he could not be found.
40847 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
40848    that man is peace.
40849 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of
40850    the wicked shall be cut off.
40851 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their
40852    strength in the time of trouble.
40853 40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall
40854    deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they
40855    trust in him.

40856 Psalms 38

40857  1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy
40858    hot displeasure.
40859  2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me
40860    sore.
40861  3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;
40862    neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
40863  4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy
40864    burden they are too heavy for me.
40865  5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
40866  6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the
40867    day long.
40868  7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is
40869    no soundness in my flesh.
40870  8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
40871    disquietness of my heart.
40872  9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid
40873    from thee.
40874 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of
40875    mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
40876 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my
40877    kinsmen stand afar off.
40878 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they
40879    that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine
40880    deceits all the day long.
40881 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that
40882    openeth not his mouth.
40883 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are
40884    no reproofs.
40885 15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
40886 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over
40887    me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
40888 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before
40889    me.
40890 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
40891 19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they
40892    that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
40893 20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
40894    because I follow the thing that good is.
40895 21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
40896 22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

40897 Psalms 39

40898  1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
40899    tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked
40900    is before me.
40901  2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and
40902    my sorrow was stirred.
40903  3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
40904    burned: then spake I with my tongue,
40905  4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
40906    what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
40907  5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age
40908    is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state
40909    is altogether vanity. Selah.
40910  6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
40911    disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who
40912    shall gather them.
40913  7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
40914  8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the
40915    reproach of the foolish.
40916  9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
40917 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
40918    thine hand.
40919 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou
40920    makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every
40921    man is vanity. Selah.
40922 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy
40923    peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a
40924    sojourner, as all my fathers were.
40925 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence,
40926    and be no more.

40927 Psalms 40

40928  1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
40929    heard my cry.
40930  2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
40931    clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
40932  3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our
40933    God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
40934  4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
40935    respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
40936  5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast
40937    done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be
40938    reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak
40939    of them, they are more than can be numbered.
40940  6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
40941    thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
40942    required.
40943  7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is
40944    written of me,
40945  8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
40946    heart.
40947  9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I
40948    have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
40949 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
40950    declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not
40951    concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great
40952    congregation.
40953 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
40954    lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
40955 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities
40956    have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;
40957    they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart
40958    faileth me.
40959 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
40960    me.
40961 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my
40962    soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to
40963    shame that wish me evil.
40964 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
40965    me, Aha, aha.
40966 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
40967    such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be
40968    magnified.
40969 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou
40970    art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

40971 Psalms 41

40972  1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver
40973    him in time of trouble.
40974  2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall
40975    be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto
40976    the will of his enemies.
40977  3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou
40978    wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
40979  4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have
40980    sinned against thee.
40981  5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name
40982    perish?
40983  6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart
40984    gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth
40985    it.
40986  7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do
40987    they devise my hurt.
40988  8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now
40989    that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
40990  9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did
40991    eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
40992 10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I
40993    may requite them.
40994 11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth
40995    not triumph over me.
40996 12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and
40997    settest me before thy face for ever.
40998 13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
40999    everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

41000 Psalms 42

41001  1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
41002    after thee, O God.
41003  2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I
41004    come and appear before God?
41005  3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they
41006    continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
41007  4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I
41008    had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of
41009    God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that
41010    kept holyday.
41011  5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
41012    in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the
41013    help of his countenance.
41014  6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
41015    remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites,
41016    from the hill Mizar.
41017  7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all
41018    thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
41019  8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time,
41020    and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto
41021    the God of my life.
41022  9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why
41023    go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
41024 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while
41025    they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
41026 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
41027    within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who
41028    is the health of my countenance, and my God.

41029 Psalms 43

41030  1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:
41031    O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
41032  2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me
41033    off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
41034  3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them
41035    bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
41036  4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding
41037    joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
41038  5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
41039    within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
41040    health of my countenance, and my God.

41041 Psalms 44

41042  1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
41043    what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
41044  2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
41045    plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast
41046    them out.
41047  3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
41048    neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and
41049    thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
41050    hadst a favour unto them.
41051  4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
41052  5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name
41053    will we tread them under that rise up against us.
41054  6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save
41055    me.
41056  7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
41057    shame that hated us.
41058  8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for
41059    ever. Selah.
41060  9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not
41061    forth with our armies.
41062 10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which
41063    hate us spoil for themselves.
41064 11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast
41065    scattered us among the heathen.
41066 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy
41067    wealth by their price.
41068 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
41069    derision to them that are round about us.
41070 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the
41071    head among the people.
41072 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my
41073    face hath covered me,
41074 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by
41075    reason of the enemy and avenger.
41076 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
41077    neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
41078 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
41079    from thy way;
41080 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
41081    covered us with the shadow of death.
41082 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
41083    hands to a strange god;
41084 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of
41085    the heart.
41086 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
41087    counted as sheep for the slaughter.
41088 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for
41089    ever.
41090 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction
41091    and our oppression?
41092 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth
41093    unto the earth.
41094 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

41095 Psalms 45

41096  1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things
41097    which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a
41098    ready writer.
41099  2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into
41100    thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
41101  3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory
41102    and thy majesty.
41103  4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
41104    meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach
41105    thee terrible things.
41106  5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
41107    whereby the people fall under thee.
41108  6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy
41109    kingdom is a right sceptre.
41110  7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore
41111    God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness
41112    above thy fellows.
41113  8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of
41114    the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
41115  9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy
41116    right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
41117 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
41118    forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
41119 11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy
41120    Lord; and worship thou him.
41121 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the
41122    rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
41123 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of
41124    wrought gold.
41125 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework:
41126    the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought
41127    unto thee.
41128 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall
41129    enter into the king's palace.
41130 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest
41131    make princes in all the earth.
41132 17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
41133    therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

41134 Psalms 46

41135  1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
41136    trouble.
41137  2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and
41138    though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
41139  3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
41140    mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
41141  4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city
41142    of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
41143  5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall
41144    help her, and that right early.
41145  6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his
41146    voice, the earth melted.
41147  7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
41148    Selah.
41149  8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath
41150    made in the earth.
41151  9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh
41152    the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the
41153    chariot in the fire.
41154 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the
41155    heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
41156 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
41157    Selah.

41158 Psalms 47

41159  1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the
41160    voice of triumph.
41161  2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over
41162    all the earth.
41163  3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
41164    feet.
41165  4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of
41166    Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
41167  5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
41168    trumpet.
41169  6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
41170    sing praises.
41171  7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
41172    understanding.
41173  8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of
41174    his holiness.
41175  9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the
41176    people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth
41177    belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

41178 Psalms 48

41179  1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of
41180    our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
41181  2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount
41182    Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
41183  3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
41184  4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
41185  5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and
41186    hasted away.
41187  6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in
41188    travail.
41189  7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
41190  8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
41191    hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever.
41192    Selah.
41193  9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of
41194    thy temple.
41195 10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends
41196    of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
41197 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
41198    because of thy judgments.
41199 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
41200    thereof.
41201 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may
41202    tell it to the generation following.
41203 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our
41204    guide even unto death.

41205 Psalms 49

41206  1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
41207    world:
41208  2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
41209  3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
41210    shall be of understanding.
41211  4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark
41212    saying upon the harp.
41213  5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity
41214    of my heels shall compass me about?
41215  6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
41216    multitude of their riches;
41217  7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to
41218    God a ransom for him:
41219  8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth
41220    for ever:)
41221  9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
41222 10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
41223    brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
41224 11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for
41225    ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call
41226    their lands after their own names.
41227 12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the
41228    beasts that perish.
41229 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve
41230    their sayings. Selah.
41231 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on
41232    them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the
41233    morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from
41234    their dwelling.
41235 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for
41236    he shall receive me. Selah.
41237 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of
41238    his house is increased;
41239 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
41240    not descend after him.
41241 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise
41242    thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
41243 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
41244    see light.
41245 20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
41246    beasts that perish.

41247 Psalms 50

41248  1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the
41249    earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
41250  2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
41251  3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
41252    devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round
41253    about him.
41254  4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,
41255    that he may judge his people.
41256  5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
41257    covenant with me by sacrifice.
41258  6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is
41259    judge himself. Selah.
41260  7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
41261    testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
41262  8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
41263    offerings, to have been continually before me.
41264  9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of
41265    thy folds.
41266 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a
41267    thousand hills.
41268 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
41269    the field are mine.
41270 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is
41271    mine, and the fulness thereof.
41272 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
41273 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
41274    High:
41275 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee,
41276    and thou shalt glorify me.
41277 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
41278    my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy
41279    mouth?
41280 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind
41281    thee.
41282 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
41283    hast been partaker with adulterers.
41284 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
41285 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
41286    thine own mother's son.
41287 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
41288    thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I
41289    will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
41290 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in
41291    pieces, and there be none to deliver.
41292 23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
41293    his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

41294 Psalms 51

41295  1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
41296    according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
41297    transgressions.
41298  2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my
41299    sin.
41300  3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before
41301    me.
41302  4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in
41303    thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
41304    and be clear when thou judgest.
41305  5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
41306    conceive me.
41307  6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
41308    hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
41309  7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I
41310    shall be whiter than snow.
41311  8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou
41312    hast broken may rejoice.
41313  9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
41314 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
41315    within me.
41316 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
41317    spirit from me.
41318 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with
41319    thy free spirit.
41320 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be
41321    converted unto thee.
41322 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
41323    salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
41324    righteousness.
41325 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
41326    praise.
41327 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou
41328    delightest not in burnt offering.
41329 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a
41330    contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
41331 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls
41332    of Jerusalem.
41333 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of
41334    righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:
41335    then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

41336 Psalms 52

41337  1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the
41338    goodness of God endureth continually.
41339  2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working
41340    deceitfully.
41341  3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to
41342    speak righteousness. Selah.
41343  4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
41344  5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee
41345    away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee
41346    out of the land of the living. Selah.
41347  6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at
41348    him:
41349  7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but
41350    trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened
41351    himself in his wickedness.
41352  8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust
41353    in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
41354  9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I
41355    will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

41356 Psalms 53

41357  1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are
41358    they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that
41359    doeth good.
41360  2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see
41361    if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
41362  3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
41363    filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
41364  4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
41365    people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
41366  5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath
41367    scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou
41368    hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
41369  6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When
41370    God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
41371    rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

41372 Psalms 54

41373  1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
41374  2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
41375  3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek
41376    after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
41377  4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold
41378    my soul.
41379  5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy
41380    truth.
41381  6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O
41382    LORD; for it is good.
41383  7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath
41384    seen his desire upon mine enemies.

41385 Psalms 55

41386  1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
41387    supplication.
41388  2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make
41389    a noise;
41390  3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression
41391    of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath
41392    they hate me.
41393  4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death
41394    are fallen upon me.
41395  5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
41396    overwhelmed me.
41397  6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I
41398    fly away, and be at rest.
41399  7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.
41400    Selah.
41401  8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
41402  9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen
41403    violence and strife in the city.
41404 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
41405    mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
41406 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart
41407    not from her streets.
41408 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have
41409    borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify
41410    himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
41411 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
41412    acquaintance.
41413 14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of
41414    God in company.
41415 15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into
41416    hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
41417 16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
41418 17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
41419    and he shall hear my voice.
41420 18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was
41421    against me: for there were many with me.
41422 19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old.
41423    Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not
41424    God.
41425 20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
41426    him: he hath broken his covenant.
41427 21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was
41428    in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they
41429    drawn swords.
41430 22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
41431    shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
41432 23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
41433    destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
41434    their days; but I will trust in thee.

41435 Psalms 56

41436  1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he
41437    fighting daily oppresseth me.
41438  2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that
41439    fight against me, O thou most High.
41440  3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
41441  4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I
41442    will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
41443  5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against
41444    me for evil.
41445  6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they
41446    mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
41447  7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the
41448    people, O God.
41449  8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
41450    are they not in thy book?
41451  9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this
41452    I know; for God is for me.
41453 10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his
41454    word.
41455 11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can
41456    do unto me.
41457 12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
41458 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou
41459    deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in
41460    the light of the living?

41461 Psalms 57

41462  1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul
41463    trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make
41464    my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
41465  2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all
41466    things for me.
41467  3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of
41468    him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his
41469    mercy and his truth.
41470  4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set
41471    on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and
41472    arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
41473  5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be
41474    above all the earth.
41475  6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down:
41476    they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they
41477    are fallen themselves. Selah.
41478  7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and
41479    give praise.
41480  8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will
41481    awake early.
41482  9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto
41483    thee among the nations.
41484 10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto
41485    the clouds.
41486 11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be
41487    above all the earth.

41488 Psalms 58

41489  1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge
41490    uprightly, O ye sons of men?
41491  2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
41492    your hands in the earth.
41493  3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon
41494    as they be born, speaking lies.
41495  4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like
41496    the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
41497  5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming
41498    never so wisely.
41499  6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great
41500    teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
41501  7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he
41502    bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in
41503    pieces.
41504  8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away:
41505    like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the
41506    sun.
41507  9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away
41508    as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
41509 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
41510    shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
41511 11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
41512    righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

41513 Psalms 59

41514  1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them
41515    that rise up against me.
41516  2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from
41517    bloody men.
41518  3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered
41519    against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
41520  4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to
41521    help me, and behold.
41522  5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake
41523    to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked
41524    transgressors. Selah.
41525  6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go
41526    round about the city.
41527  7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their
41528    lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
41529  8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the
41530    heathen in derision.
41531  9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my
41532    defence.
41533 10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my
41534    desire upon mine enemies.
41535 11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy
41536    power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
41537 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let
41538    them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying
41539    which they speak.
41540 13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and
41541    let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the
41542    earth. Selah.
41543 14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like
41544    a dog, and go round about the city.
41545 15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be
41546    not satisfied.
41547 16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy
41548    mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge
41549    in the day of my trouble.
41550 17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence,
41551    and the God of my mercy.

41552 Psalms 60

41553  1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou
41554    hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
41555  2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal
41556    the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
41557  3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to
41558    drink the wine of astonishment.
41559  4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may
41560    be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
41561  5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand,
41562    and hear me.
41563  6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
41564    Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
41565  7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the
41566    strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
41567  8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:
41568    Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
41569  9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
41570    Edom?
41571 10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O
41572    God, which didst not go out with our armies?
41573 11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
41574 12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall
41575    tread down our enemies.

41576 Psalms 61

41577  1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
41578  2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart
41579    is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
41580  3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from
41581    the enemy.
41582  4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the
41583    covert of thy wings. Selah.
41584  5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the
41585    heritage of those that fear thy name.
41586  6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many
41587    generations.
41588  7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth,
41589    which may preserve him.
41590  8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily
41591    perform my vows.

41592 Psalms 62

41593  1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
41594  2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall
41595    not be greatly moved.
41596  3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be
41597    slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a
41598    tottering fence.
41599  4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they
41600    delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse
41601    inwardly. Selah.
41602  5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from
41603    him.
41604  6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall
41605    not be moved.
41606  7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength,
41607    and my refuge, is in God.
41608  8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart
41609    before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
41610  9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree
41611    are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether
41612    lighter than vanity.
41613 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if
41614    riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
41615 11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
41616    belongeth unto God.
41617 12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to
41618    every man according to his work.

41619 Psalms 63

41620  1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
41621    thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
41622    thirsty land, where no water is;
41623  2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the
41624    sanctuary.
41625  3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall
41626    praise thee.
41627  4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands
41628    in thy name.
41629  5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my
41630    mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
41631  6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the
41632    night watches.
41633  7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
41634    wings will I rejoice.
41635  8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth
41636    me.
41637  9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the
41638    lower parts of the earth.
41639 10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for
41640    foxes.
41641 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by
41642    him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall
41643    be stopped.

41644 Psalms 64

41645  1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear
41646    of the enemy.
41647  2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the
41648    insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
41649  3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to
41650    shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
41651  4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they
41652    shoot at him, and fear not.
41653  5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of
41654    laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
41655  6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search:
41656    both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart,
41657    is deep.
41658  7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they
41659    be wounded.
41660  8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves:
41661    all that see them shall flee away.
41662  9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for
41663    they shall wisely consider of his doing.
41664 10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in
41665    him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

41666 Psalms 65

41667  1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall
41668    the vow be performed.
41669  2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
41670  3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou
41671    shalt purge them away.
41672  4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach
41673    unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be
41674    satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy
41675    temple.
41676  5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God
41677    of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of
41678    the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
41679  6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded
41680    with power:
41681  7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their
41682    waves, and the tumult of the people.
41683  8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy
41684    tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening
41685    to rejoice.
41686  9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly
41687    enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water:
41688    thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
41689 10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the
41690    furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou
41691    blessest the springing thereof.
41692 11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop
41693    fatness.
41694 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little
41695    hills rejoice on every side.
41696 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
41697    covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

41698 Psalms 66

41699  1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
41700  2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
41701  3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the
41702    greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves
41703    unto thee.
41704  4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee;
41705    they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
41706  5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing
41707    toward the children of men.
41708  6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood
41709    on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
41710  7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations:
41711    let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
41712  8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise
41713    to be heard:
41714  9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to
41715    be moved.
41716 10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver
41717    is tried.
41718 11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon
41719    our loins.
41720 12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through
41721    fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a
41722    wealthy place.
41723 13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee
41724    my vows,
41725 14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I
41726    was in trouble.
41727 15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the
41728    incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
41729 16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what
41730    he hath done for my soul.
41731 17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my
41732    tongue.
41733 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
41734 19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of
41735    my prayer.
41736 20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his
41737    mercy from me.

41738 Psalms 67

41739  1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to
41740    shine upon us; Selah.
41741  2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among
41742    all nations.
41743  3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
41744    thee.
41745  4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt
41746    judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon
41747    earth. Selah.
41748  5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
41749    thee.
41750  6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own
41751    God, shall bless us.
41752  7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear
41753    him.

41754 Psalms 68

41755  1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also
41756    that hate him flee before him.
41757  2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth
41758    before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of
41759    God.
41760  3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:
41761    yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
41762  4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth
41763    upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
41764  5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God
41765    in his holy habitation.
41766  6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those
41767    which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry
41768    land.
41769  7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
41770    didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
41771  8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of
41772    God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the
41773    God of Israel.
41774  9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst
41775    confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
41776 10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast
41777    prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
41778 11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that
41779    published it.
41780 12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
41781    divided the spoil.
41782 13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the
41783    wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with
41784    yellow gold.
41785 14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow
41786    in Salmon.
41787 15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the
41788    hill of Bashan.
41789 16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God
41790    desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
41791 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of
41792    angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy
41793    place.
41794 18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:
41795    thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious
41796    also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
41797 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even
41798    the God of our salvation. Selah.
41799 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the
41800    Lord belong the issues from death.
41801 21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy
41802    scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
41803 22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my
41804    people again from the depths of the sea:
41805 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and
41806    the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
41807 24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God,
41808    my King, in the sanctuary.
41809 25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed
41810    after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
41811 26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the
41812    fountain of Israel.
41813 27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of
41814    Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the
41815    princes of Naphtali.
41816 28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that
41817    which thou hast wrought for us.
41818 29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents
41819    unto thee.
41820 30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
41821    with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself
41822    with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in
41823    war.
41824 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch
41825    out her hands unto God.
41826 32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto
41827    the Lord; Selah:
41828 33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of
41829    old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
41830 34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel,
41831    and his strength is in the clouds.
41832 35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of
41833    Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people.
41834    Blessed be God.

41835 Psalms 69

41836  1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
41837  2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come
41838    into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
41839  3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail
41840    while I wait for my God.
41841  4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of
41842    mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies
41843    wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not
41844    away.
41845  5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid
41846    from thee.
41847  6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be
41848    ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be
41849    confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
41850  7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered
41851    my face.
41852  8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
41853    mother's children.
41854  9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the
41855    reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
41856 10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to
41857    my reproach.
41858 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
41859    them.
41860 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song
41861    of the drunkards.
41862 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an
41863    acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,
41864    in the truth of thy salvation.
41865 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be
41866    delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
41867 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep
41868    swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
41869 16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
41870    according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
41871 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
41872    hear me speedily.
41873 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of
41874    mine enemies.
41875 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
41876    mine adversaries are all before thee.
41877 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and
41878    I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for
41879    comforters, but I found none.
41880 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
41881    me vinegar to drink.
41882 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
41883    should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
41884 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
41885    loins continually to shake.
41886 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful
41887    anger take hold of them.
41888 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their
41889    tents.
41890 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk
41891    to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
41892 27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into
41893    thy righteousness.
41894 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
41895    written with the righteous.
41896 29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me
41897    up on high.
41898 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
41899    him with thanksgiving.
41900 31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock
41901    that hath horns and hoofs.
41902 32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall
41903    live that seek God.
41904 33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his
41905    prisoners.
41906 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing
41907    that moveth therein.
41908 35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah:
41909    that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
41910 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that
41911    love his name shall dwell therein.

41912 Psalms 70

41913  1 MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME, O
41914    LORD.
41915  2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul:
41916    let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire
41917    my hurt.
41918  3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say,
41919    Aha, aha.
41920  4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and
41921    let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be
41922    magnified.
41923  5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art
41924    my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

41925 Psalms 71

41926  1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
41927    confusion.
41928  2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape:
41929    incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
41930  3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually
41931    resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art
41932    my rock and my fortress.
41933  4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of
41934    the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
41935  5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my
41936    youth.
41937  6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that
41938    took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be
41939    continually of thee.
41940  7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
41941  8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all
41942    the day.
41943  9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my
41944    strength faileth.
41945 10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for
41946    my soul take counsel together,
41947 11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for
41948    there is none to deliver him.
41949 12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
41950 13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my
41951    soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that
41952    seek my hurt.
41953 14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and
41954    more.
41955 15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation
41956    all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
41957 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
41958    of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
41959 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I
41960    declared thy wondrous works.
41961 18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not;
41962    until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy
41963    power to every one that is to come.
41964 19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done
41965    great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
41966 20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt
41967    quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths
41968    of the earth.
41969 21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every
41970    side.
41971 22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O
41972    my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One
41973    of Israel.
41974 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my
41975    soul, which thou hast redeemed.
41976 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day
41977    long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto
41978    shame, that seek my hurt.

41979 Psalms 72

41980  1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto
41981    the king's son.
41982  2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor
41983    with judgment.
41984  3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
41985    hills, by righteousness.
41986  4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the
41987    children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the
41988    oppressor.
41989  5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
41990    throughout all generations.
41991  6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
41992    that water the earth.
41993  7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of
41994    peace so long as the moon endureth.
41995  8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the
41996    river unto the ends of the earth.
41997  9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and
41998    his enemies shall lick the dust.
41999 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:
42000    the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
42001 11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
42002    serve him.
42003 12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also,
42004    and him that hath no helper.
42005 13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
42006    the needy.
42007 14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
42008    precious shall their blood be in his sight.
42009 15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
42010    Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and
42011    daily shall he be praised.
42012 16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of
42013    the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and
42014    they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
42015 17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as
42016    long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations
42017    shall call him blessed.
42018 18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
42019    wondrous things.
42020 19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
42021    earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
42022 20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

42023 Psalms 73

42024  1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean
42025    heart.
42026  2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well
42027    nigh slipped.
42028  3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of
42029    the wicked.
42030  4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is
42031    firm.
42032  5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued
42033    like other men.
42034  6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence
42035    covereth them as a garment.
42036  7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart
42037    could wish.
42038  8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:
42039    they speak loftily.
42040  9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue
42041    walketh through the earth.
42042 10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup
42043    are wrung out to them.
42044 11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the
42045    most High?
42046 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
42047    increase in riches.
42048 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands
42049    in innocency.
42050 14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every
42051    morning.
42052 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against
42053    the generation of thy children.
42054 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
42055 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I
42056    their end.
42057 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst
42058    them down into destruction.
42059 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are
42060    utterly consumed with terrors.
42061 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest,
42062    thou shalt despise their image.
42063 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
42064 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
42065 23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me
42066    by my right hand.
42067 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me
42068    to glory.
42069 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth
42070    that I desire beside thee.
42071 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my
42072    heart, and my portion for ever.
42073 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast
42074    destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
42075 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust
42076    in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

42077 Psalms 74

42078  1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine
42079    anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
42080  2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old;
42081    the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this
42082    mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
42083  3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that
42084    the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
42085  4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set
42086    up their ensigns for signs.
42087  5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the
42088    thick trees.
42089  6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
42090    axes and hammers.
42091  7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by
42092    casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
42093  8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they
42094    have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
42095  9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is
42096    there among us any that knoweth how long.
42097 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
42098    blaspheme thy name for ever?
42099 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it
42100    out of thy bosom.
42101 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
42102    the earth.
42103 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
42104    heads of the dragons in the waters.
42105 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him
42106    to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
42107 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up
42108    mighty rivers.
42109 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared
42110    the light and the sun.
42111 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
42112    summer and winter.
42113 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and
42114    that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
42115 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of
42116    the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
42117 20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
42118    earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
42119 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy
42120    praise thy name.
42121 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish
42122    man reproacheth thee daily.
42123 23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those
42124    that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

42125 Psalms 75

42126  1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give
42127    thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
42128  2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
42129  3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I
42130    bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
42131  4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked,
42132    Lift not up the horn:
42133  5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
42134  6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
42135    nor from the south.
42136  7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
42137    another.
42138  8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is
42139    red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same:
42140    but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring
42141    them out, and drink them.
42142  9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of
42143    Jacob.
42144 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns
42145    of the righteous shall be exalted.

42146 Psalms 76

42147  1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
42148  2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in
42149    Zion.
42150  3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the
42151    sword, and the battle. Selah.
42152  4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of
42153    prey.
42154  5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and
42155    none of the men of might have found their hands.
42156  6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are
42157    cast into a dead sleep.
42158  7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy
42159    sight when once thou art angry?
42160  8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth
42161    feared, and was still,
42162  9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
42163    Selah.
42164 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
42165    wrath shalt thou restrain.
42166 11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round
42167    about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
42168 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the
42169    kings of the earth.

42170 Psalms 77

42171  1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice;
42172    and he gave ear unto me.
42173  2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the
42174    night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
42175  3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my
42176    spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
42177  4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot
42178    speak.
42179  5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
42180  6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with
42181    mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
42182  7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
42183    more?
42184  8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for
42185    evermore?
42186  9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up
42187    his tender mercies? Selah.
42188 10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the
42189    years of the right hand of the most High.
42190 11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember
42191    thy wonders of old.
42192 12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
42193 13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as
42194    our God?
42195 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy
42196    strength among the people.
42197 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of
42198    Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
42199 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were
42200    afraid: the depths also were troubled.
42201 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine
42202    arrows also went abroad.
42203 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings
42204    lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
42205 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and
42206    thy footsteps are not known.
42207 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and
42208    Aaron.

42209 Psalms 78

42210  1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the
42211    words of my mouth.
42212  2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings
42213    of old:
42214  3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
42215  4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the
42216    generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength,
42217    and his wonderful works that he hath done.
42218  5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law
42219    in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should
42220    make them known to their children:
42221  6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children
42222    which should be born; who should arise and declare them to
42223    their children:
42224  7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the
42225    works of God, but keep his commandments:
42226  8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
42227    generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and
42228    whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
42229  9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows,
42230    turned back in the day of battle.
42231 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
42232    law;
42233 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
42234 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the
42235    land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
42236 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he
42237    made the waters to stand as an heap.
42238 14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the
42239    night with a light of fire.
42240 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as
42241    out of the great depths.
42242 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
42243    run down like rivers.
42244 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most
42245    High in the wilderness.
42246 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their
42247    lust.
42248 19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a
42249    table in the wilderness?
42250 20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
42251    streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide
42252    flesh for his people?
42253 21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was
42254    kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
42255 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
42256    salvation:
42257 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
42258    doors of heaven,
42259 24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
42260    of the corn of heaven.
42261 25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
42262 26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
42263    he brought in the south wind.
42264 27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
42265    like as the sand of the sea:
42266 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about
42267    their habitations.
42268 29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
42269    own desire;
42270 30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
42271    was yet in their mouths,
42272 31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
42273    and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
42274 32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
42275    wondrous works.
42276 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
42277    in trouble.
42278 34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
42279    enquired early after God.
42280 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God
42281    their redeemer.
42282 36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
42283    lied unto him with their tongues.
42284 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
42285    stedfast in his covenant.
42286 38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
42287    destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
42288    and did not stir up all his wrath.
42289 39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that
42290    passeth away, and cometh not again.
42291 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him
42292    in the desert!
42293 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy
42294    One of Israel.
42295 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered
42296    them from the enemy.
42297 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
42298    field of Zoan.
42299 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
42300    they could not drink.
42301 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
42302    and frogs, which destroyed them.
42303 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
42304    labour unto the locust.
42305 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
42306    with frost.
42307 48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
42308    hot thunderbolts.
42309 49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
42310    indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
42311 50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from
42312    death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
42313 51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
42314    strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
42315 52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided
42316    them in the wilderness like a flock.
42317 53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the
42318    sea overwhelmed their enemies.
42319 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to
42320    this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
42321 55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
42322    inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
42323    their tents.
42324 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
42325    his testimonies:
42326 57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:
42327    they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
42328 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
42329    moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
42330 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred
42331    Israel:
42332 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he
42333    placed among men;
42334 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
42335    the enemy's hand.
42336 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth
42337    with his inheritance.
42338 63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
42339    given to marriage.
42340 64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
42341    lamentation.
42342 65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty
42343    man that shouteth by reason of wine.
42344 66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a
42345    perpetual reproach.
42346 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not
42347    the tribe of Ephraim:
42348 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
42349 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth
42350    which he hath established for ever.
42351 70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
42352    sheepfolds:
42353 71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to
42354    feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
42355 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and
42356    guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

42357 Psalms 79

42358  1 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
42359    temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
42360  2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat
42361    unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the
42362    beasts of the earth.
42363  3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem;
42364    and there was none to bury them.
42365  4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and
42366    derision to them that are round about us.
42367  5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy
42368    jealousy burn like fire?
42369  6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee,
42370    and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
42371  7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling
42372    place.
42373  8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
42374    mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
42375  9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name:
42376    and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
42377 10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him
42378    be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of
42379    the blood of thy servants which is shed.
42380 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
42381    the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are
42382    appointed to die;
42383 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom
42384    their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
42385 13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee
42386    thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all
42387    generations.

42388 Psalms 80

42389  1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like
42390    a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine
42391    forth.
42392  2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
42393    and come and save us.
42394  3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we
42395    shall be saved.
42396  4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
42397    prayer of thy people?
42398  5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them
42399    tears to drink in great measure.
42400  6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
42401    laugh among themselves.
42402  7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine;
42403    and we shall be saved.
42404  8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
42405    heathen, and planted it.
42406  9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take
42407    deep root, and it filled the land.
42408 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
42409    thereof were like the goodly cedars.
42410 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto
42411    the river.
42412 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they
42413    which pass by the way do pluck her?
42414 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of
42415    the field doth devour it.
42416 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from
42417    heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
42418 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
42419    branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
42420 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the
42421    rebuke of thy countenance.
42422 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son
42423    of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
42424 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call
42425    upon thy name.
42426 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine;
42427    and we shall be saved.

42428 Psalms 81

42429  1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the
42430    God of Jacob.
42431  2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp
42432    with the psaltery.
42433  3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on
42434    our solemn feast day.
42435  4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of
42436    Jacob.
42437  5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out
42438    through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I
42439    understood not.
42440  6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were
42441    delivered from the pots.
42442  7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered
42443    thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the
42444    waters of Meribah. Selah.
42445  8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if
42446    thou wilt hearken unto me;
42447  9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou
42448    worship any strange god.
42449 10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
42450    Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
42451 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would
42452    none of me.
42453 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked
42454    in their own counsels.
42455 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked
42456    in my ways!
42457 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand
42458    against their adversaries.
42459 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto
42460    him: but their time should have endured for ever.
42461 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and
42462    with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

42463 Psalms 82

42464  1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth
42465    among the gods.
42466  2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the
42467    wicked? Selah.
42468  3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted
42469    and needy.
42470  4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the
42471    wicked.
42472  5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
42473    darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
42474  6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the
42475    most High.
42476  7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
42477  8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all
42478    nations.

42479 Psalms 83

42480  1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
42481    still, O God.
42482  2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
42483    have lifted up the head.
42484  3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and
42485    consulted against thy hidden ones.
42486  4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a
42487    nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
42488  5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
42489    confederate against thee:
42490  6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
42491    Hagarenes;
42492  7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the
42493    inhabitants of Tyre;
42494  8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children
42495    of Lot. Selah.
42496  9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to
42497    Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
42498 10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
42499 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
42500    princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
42501 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
42502    possession.
42503 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
42504    wind.
42505 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
42506    mountains on fire;
42507 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
42508    thy storm.
42509 16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
42510    LORD.
42511 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
42512    put to shame, and perish:
42513 18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art
42514    the most high over all the earth.

42515 Psalms 84

42516  1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
42517  2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the
42518    LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
42519  3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest
42520    for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O
42521    LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
42522  4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
42523    praising thee. Selah.
42524  5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart
42525    are the ways of them.
42526  6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
42527    rain also filleth the pools.
42528  7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion
42529    appeareth before God.
42530  8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
42531    Selah.
42532  9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
42533    anointed.
42534 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had
42535    rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell
42536    in the tents of wickedness.
42537 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace
42538    and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
42539    uprightly.
42540 12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

42541 Psalms 85

42542  1 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast
42543    brought back the captivity of Jacob.
42544  2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast
42545    covered all their sin. Selah.
42546  3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself
42547    from the fierceness of thine anger.
42548  4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward
42549    us to cease.
42550  5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine
42551    anger to all generations?
42552  6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in
42553    thee?
42554  7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
42555  8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak
42556    peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not
42557    turn again to folly.
42558  9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory
42559    may dwell in our land.
42560 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
42561    kissed each other.
42562 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall
42563    look down from heaven.
42564 12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land
42565    shall yield her increase.
42566 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way
42567    of his steps.

42568 Psalms 86

42569  1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
42570  2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy
42571    servant that trusteth in thee.
42572  3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
42573  4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I
42574    lift up my soul.
42575  5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous
42576    in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
42577  6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of
42578    my supplications.
42579  7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt
42580    answer me.
42581  8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither
42582    are there any works like unto thy works.
42583  9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
42584    thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
42585 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God
42586    alone.
42587 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
42588    heart to fear thy name.
42589 12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I
42590    will glorify thy name for evermore.
42591 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my
42592    soul from the lowest hell.
42593 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of
42594    violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee
42595    before them.
42596 15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,
42597    longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
42598 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto
42599    thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
42600 17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it,
42601    and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and
42602    comforted me.

42603 Psalms 87

42604  1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
42605  2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings
42606    of Jacob.
42607  3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
42608  4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me:
42609    behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born
42610    there.
42611  5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in
42612    her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
42613  6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this
42614    man was born there. Selah.
42615  7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be
42616    there: all my springs are in thee.

42617 Psalms 88

42618  1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before
42619    thee:
42620  2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
42621  3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
42622    the grave.
42623  4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a
42624    man that hath no strength:
42625  5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave,
42626    whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy
42627    hand.
42628  6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the
42629    deeps.
42630  7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with
42631    all thy waves. Selah.
42632  8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast
42633    made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot
42634    come forth.
42635  9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
42636    daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
42637 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and
42638    praise thee? Selah.
42639 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy
42640    faithfulness in destruction?
42641 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
42642    in the land of forgetfulness?
42643 13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall
42644    my prayer prevent thee.
42645 14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face
42646    from me?
42647 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I
42648    suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
42649 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
42650 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
42651    about together.
42652 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine
42653    acquaintance into darkness.

42654 Psalms 89

42655  1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth
42656    will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
42657  2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy
42658    faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
42659  3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David
42660    my servant,
42661  4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to
42662    all generations. Selah.
42663  5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy
42664    faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
42665  6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among
42666    the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
42667  7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and
42668    to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
42669  8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or
42670    to thy faithfulness round about thee?
42671  9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof
42672    arise, thou stillest them.
42673 10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou
42674    hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
42675 11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the
42676    world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
42677 12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and
42678    Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
42679 13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy
42680    right hand.
42681 14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy
42682    and truth shall go before thy face.
42683 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
42684    walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
42685 16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy
42686    righteousness shall they be exalted.
42687 17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour
42688    our horn shall be exalted.
42689 18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our
42690    king.
42691 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I
42692    have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one
42693    chosen out of the people.
42694 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I
42695    anointed him:
42696 21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall
42697    strengthen him.
42698 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness
42699    afflict him.
42700 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
42701    that hate him.
42702 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my
42703    name shall his horn be exalted.
42704 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the
42705    rivers.
42706 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock
42707    of my salvation.
42708 27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of
42709    the earth.
42710 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant
42711    shall stand fast with him.
42712 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne
42713    as the days of heaven.
42714 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
42715 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
42716 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their
42717    iniquity with stripes.
42718 33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from
42719    him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
42720 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
42721    out of my lips.
42722 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto
42723    David.
42724 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun
42725    before me.
42726 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a
42727    faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
42728 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with
42729    thine anointed.
42730 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
42731    profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
42732 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his
42733    strong holds to ruin.
42734 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his
42735    neighbours.
42736 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast
42737    made all his enemies to rejoice.
42738 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made
42739    him to stand in the battle.
42740 44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to
42741    the ground.
42742 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered
42743    him with shame. Selah.
42744 46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy
42745    wrath burn like fire?
42746 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all
42747    men in vain?
42748 48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
42749    deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
42750 49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou
42751    swarest unto David in thy truth?
42752 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in
42753    my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
42754 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith
42755    they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
42756 52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

42757 Psalms 90

42758  1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
42759  2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
42760    formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
42761    everlasting, thou art God.
42762  3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye
42763    children of men.
42764  4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it
42765    is past, and as a watch in the night.
42766  5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
42767    in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
42768  6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening
42769    it is cut down, and withereth.
42770  7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we
42771    troubled.
42772  8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in
42773    the light of thy countenance.
42774  9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our
42775    years as a tale that is told.
42776 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
42777    reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
42778    strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
42779    away.
42780 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy
42781    fear, so is thy wrath.
42782 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts
42783    unto wisdom.
42784 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning
42785    thy servants.
42786 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be
42787    glad all our days.
42788 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted
42789    us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
42790 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto
42791    their children.
42792 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and
42793    establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of
42794    our hands establish thou it.

42795 Psalms 91

42796  1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
42797    abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
42798  2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my
42799    God; in him will I trust.
42800  3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and
42801    from the noisome pestilence.
42802  4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings
42803    shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
42804  5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the
42805    arrow that flieth by day;
42806  6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the
42807    destruction that wasteth at noonday.
42808  7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy
42809    right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
42810  8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of
42811    the wicked.
42812  9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the
42813    most High, thy habitation;
42814 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come
42815    nigh thy dwelling.
42816 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
42817    all thy ways.
42818 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy
42819    foot against a stone.
42820 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and
42821    the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
42822 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver
42823    him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
42824 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with
42825    him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
42826 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

42827 Psalms 92

42828  1 IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING
42829    PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
42830  2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy
42831    faithfulness every night,
42832  3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon
42833    the harp with a solemn sound.
42834  4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will
42835    triumph in the works of thy hands.
42836  5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very
42837    deep.
42838  6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand
42839    this.
42840  7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers
42841    of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed
42842    for ever:
42843  8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
42844  9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
42845    perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
42846 10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I
42847    shall be anointed with fresh oil.
42848 11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine
42849    ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against
42850    me.
42851 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow
42852    like a cedar in Lebanon.
42853 13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish
42854    in the courts of our God.
42855 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be
42856    fat and flourishing;
42857 15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is
42858    no unrighteousness in him.

42859 Psalms 93

42860  1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is
42861    clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the
42862    world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
42863  2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
42864  3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
42865    their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
42866  4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters,
42867    yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
42868  5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house,
42869    O LORD, for ever.

42870 Psalms 94

42871  1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom
42872    vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
42873  2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to
42874    the proud.
42875  3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
42876    triumph?
42877  4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the
42878    workers of iniquity boast themselves?
42879  5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine
42880    heritage.
42881  6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the
42882    fatherless.
42883  7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of
42884    Jacob regard it.
42885  8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when
42886    will ye be wise?
42887  9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the
42888    eye, shall he not see?
42889 10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that
42890    teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
42891 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
42892 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest
42893    him out of thy law;
42894 13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
42895    until the pit be digged for the wicked.
42896 14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he
42897    forsake his inheritance.
42898 15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the
42899    upright in heart shall follow it.
42900 16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will
42901    stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
42902 17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in
42903    silence.
42904 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
42905 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight
42906    my soul.
42907 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which
42908    frameth mischief by a law?
42909 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the
42910    righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
42911 22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my
42912    refuge.
42913 23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut
42914    them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall
42915    cut them off.

42916 Psalms 95

42917  1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise
42918    to the rock of our salvation.
42919  2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
42920    joyful noise unto him with psalms.
42921  3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
42922  4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of
42923    the hills is his also.
42924  5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
42925    land.
42926  6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the
42927    LORD our maker.
42928  7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and
42929    the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
42930  8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the
42931    day of temptation in the wilderness:
42932  9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
42933 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said,
42934    It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not
42935    known my ways:
42936 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into
42937    my rest.

42938 Psalms 96

42939  1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the
42940    earth.
42941  2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation
42942    from day to day.
42943  3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all
42944    people.
42945  4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be
42946    feared above all gods.
42947  5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made
42948    the heavens.
42949  6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in
42950    his sanctuary.
42951  7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
42952    LORD glory and strength.
42953  8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an
42954    offering, and come into his courts.
42955  9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
42956    all the earth.
42957 10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also
42958    shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall
42959    judge the people righteously.
42960 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the
42961    sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
42962 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall
42963    all the trees of the wood rejoice
42964 13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the
42965    earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the
42966    people with his truth.

42967 Psalms 97

42968  1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of
42969    isles be glad thereof.
42970  2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and
42971    judgment are the habitation of his throne.
42972  3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round
42973    about.
42974  4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and
42975    trembled.
42976  5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
42977    presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
42978  6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see
42979    his glory.
42980  7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
42981    themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
42982  8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
42983    because of thy judgments, O LORD.
42984  9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted
42985    far above all gods.
42986 10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of
42987    his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
42988 11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright
42989    in heart.
42990 12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
42991    remembrance of his holiness.

42992 Psalms 98

42993  1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
42994    things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the
42995    victory.
42996  2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath
42997    he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
42998  3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
42999    Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of
43000    our God.
43001  4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
43002    noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
43003  5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice
43004    of a psalm.
43005  6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before
43006    the LORD, the King.
43007  7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
43008    that dwell therein.
43009  8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful
43010    together
43011  9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
43012    righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with
43013    equity.

43014 Psalms 99

43015  1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between
43016    the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
43017  2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the
43018    people.
43019  3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
43020  4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
43021    equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
43022  5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for
43023    he is holy.
43024  6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that
43025    call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered
43026    them.
43027  7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his
43028    testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
43029  8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
43030    forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their
43031    inventions.
43032  9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the
43033    LORD our God is holy.

43034 Psalms 100

43035  1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
43036  2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
43037    singing.
43038  3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us,
43039    and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his
43040    pasture.
43041  4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts
43042    with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
43043  5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth
43044    endureth to all generations.

43045 Psalms 101

43046  1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I
43047    sing.
43048  2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou
43049    come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect
43050    heart.
43051  3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work
43052    of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
43053  4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
43054    person.
43055  5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off:
43056    him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I
43057    suffer.
43058  6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they
43059    may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall
43060    serve me.
43061  7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he
43062    that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
43063  8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may
43064    cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

43065 Psalms 102

43066  1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
43067  2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble;
43068    incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me
43069    speedily.
43070  3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned
43071    as an hearth.
43072  4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget
43073    to eat my bread.
43074  5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
43075    skin.
43076  6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
43077    desert.
43078  7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
43079  8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad
43080    against me are sworn against me.
43081  9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
43082    weeping.
43083 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast
43084    lifted me up, and cast me down.
43085 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered
43086    like grass.
43087 12 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance
43088    unto all generations.
43089 13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to
43090    favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
43091 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the
43092    dust thereof.
43093 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
43094    kings of the earth thy glory.
43095 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
43096    glory.
43097 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
43098    their prayer.
43099 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
43100    people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
43101 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
43102    heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
43103 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are
43104    appointed to death;
43105 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
43106    Jerusalem;
43107 22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
43108    serve the LORD.
43109 23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
43110 24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
43111    thy years are throughout all generations.
43112 25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the
43113    heavens are the work of thy hands.
43114 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them
43115    shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change
43116    them, and they shall be changed:
43117 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
43118 28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
43119    shall be established before thee.

43120 Psalms 103

43121  1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless
43122    his holy name.
43123  2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
43124  3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
43125    diseases;
43126  4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee
43127    with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
43128  5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth
43129    is renewed like the eagle's.
43130  6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
43131    oppressed.
43132  7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children
43133    of Israel.
43134  8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
43135    plenteous in mercy.
43136  9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for
43137    ever.
43138 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us
43139    according to our iniquities.
43140 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his
43141    mercy toward them that fear him.
43142 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed
43143    our transgressions from us.
43144 13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth
43145    them that fear him.
43146 14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
43147 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field,
43148    so he flourisheth.
43149 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
43150    thereof shall know it no more.
43151 17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting
43152    upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's
43153    children;
43154 18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
43155    commandments to do them.
43156 19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
43157    kingdom ruleth over all.
43158 20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do
43159    his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
43160 21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that
43161    do his pleasure.
43162 22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion:
43163    bless the LORD, O my soul.

43164 Psalms 104

43165  1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great;
43166    thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
43167  2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who
43168    stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
43169  3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
43170    the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the
43171    wind:
43172  4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
43173  5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be
43174    removed for ever.
43175  6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters
43176    stood above the mountains.
43177  7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they
43178    hasted away.
43179  8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
43180    the place which thou hast founded for them.
43181  9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they
43182    turn not again to cover the earth.
43183 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the
43184    hills.
43185 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses
43186    quench their thirst.
43187 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
43188    which sing among the branches.
43189 13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is
43190    satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
43191 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
43192    service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
43193 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make
43194    his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
43195 16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon,
43196    which he hath planted;
43197 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir
43198    trees are her house.
43199 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks
43200    for the conies.
43201 19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
43202    down.
43203 20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts
43204    of the forest do creep forth.
43205 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat
43206    from God.
43207 22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them
43208    down in their dens.
43209 23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
43210    evening.
43211 24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
43212    them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
43213 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping
43214    innumerable, both small and great beasts.
43215 26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast
43216    made to play therein.
43217 27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their
43218    meat in due season.
43219 28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand,
43220    they are filled with good.
43221 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away
43222    their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
43223 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
43224    renewest the face of the earth.
43225 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall
43226    rejoice in his works.
43227 32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the
43228    hills, and they smoke.
43229 33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing
43230    praise to my God while I have my being.
43231 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the
43232    LORD.
43233 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the
43234    wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye
43235    the LORD.

43236 Psalms 105

43237  1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known
43238    his deeds among the people.
43239  2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his
43240    wondrous works.
43241  3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
43242    seek the LORD.
43243  4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
43244  5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders,
43245    and the judgments of his mouth;
43246  6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his
43247    chosen.
43248  7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
43249  8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he
43250    commanded to a thousand generations.
43251  9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
43252 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for
43253    an everlasting covenant:
43254 11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of
43255    your inheritance:
43256 12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and
43257    strangers in it.
43258 13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to
43259    another people;
43260 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
43261    for their sakes;
43262 15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
43263 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the
43264    whole staff of bread.
43265 17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a
43266    servant:
43267 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
43268 19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried
43269    him.
43270 20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people,
43271    and let him go free.
43272 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
43273 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
43274    wisdom.
43275 23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land
43276    of Ham.
43277 24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
43278    than their enemies.
43279 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly
43280    with his servants.
43281 26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
43282 27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of
43283    Ham.
43284 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
43285    against his word.
43286 29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
43287 30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers
43288    of their kings.
43289 31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in
43290    all their coasts.
43291 32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
43292 33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the
43293    trees of their coasts.
43294 34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that
43295    without number,
43296 35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the
43297    fruit of their ground.
43298 36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of
43299    all their strength.
43300 37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was
43301    not one feeble person among their tribes.
43302 38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell
43303    upon them.
43304 39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in
43305    the night.
43306 40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
43307    with the bread of heaven.
43308 41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the
43309    dry places like a river.
43310 42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
43311 43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
43312    gladness:
43313 44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the
43314    labour of the people;
43315 45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws.
43316    Praise ye the LORD.

43317 Psalms 106

43318  1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is
43319    good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
43320  2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth
43321    all his praise?
43322  3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth
43323    righteousness at all times.
43324  4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto
43325    thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
43326  5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in
43327    the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine
43328    inheritance.
43329  6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity,
43330    we have done wickedly.
43331  7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they
43332    remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him
43333    at the sea, even at the Red sea.
43334  8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might
43335    make his mighty power to be known.
43336  9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led
43337    them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
43338 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and
43339    redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
43340 11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of
43341    them left.
43342 12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
43343 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
43344 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in
43345    the desert.
43346 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
43347    soul.
43348 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the
43349    LORD.
43350 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the
43351    company of Abiram.
43352 18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up
43353    the wicked.
43354 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
43355 20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox
43356    that eateth grass.
43357 21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in
43358    Egypt;
43359 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the
43360    Red sea.
43361 23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses
43362    his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his
43363    wrath, lest he should destroy them.
43364 24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
43365    word:
43366 25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice
43367    of the LORD.
43368 26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow
43369    them in the wilderness:
43370 27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
43371    them in the lands.
43372 28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the
43373    sacrifices of the dead.
43374 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the
43375    plague brake in upon them.
43376 30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the
43377    plague was stayed.
43378 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all
43379    generations for evermore.
43380 32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went
43381    ill with Moses for their sakes:
43382 33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly
43383    with his lips.
43384 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
43385    commanded them:
43386 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
43387 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
43388 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
43389    devils,
43390 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of
43391    their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of
43392    Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
43393 39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a
43394    whoring with their own inventions.
43395 40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his
43396    people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
43397 41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that
43398    hated them ruled over them.
43399 42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
43400    subjection under their hand.
43401 43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with
43402    their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
43403 44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their
43404    cry:
43405 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented
43406    according to the multitude of his mercies.
43407 46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
43408    captives.
43409 47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen,
43410    to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy
43411    praise.
43412 48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to
43413    everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the
43414    LORD.

43415 Psalms 107

43416  1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy
43417    endureth for ever.
43418  2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed
43419    from the hand of the enemy;
43420  3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from
43421    the west, from the north, and from the south.
43422  4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found
43423    no city to dwell in.
43424  5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
43425  6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he
43426    delivered them out of their distresses.
43427  7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to
43428    a city of habitation.
43429  8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
43430    his wonderful works to the children of men!
43431  9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry
43432    soul with goodness.
43433 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being
43434    bound in affliction and iron;
43435 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned
43436    the counsel of the most High:
43437 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell
43438    down, and there was none to help.
43439 13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved
43440    them out of their distresses.
43441 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
43442    brake their bands in sunder.
43443 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
43444    his wonderful works to the children of men!
43445 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of
43446    iron in sunder.
43447 17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
43448    iniquities, are afflicted.
43449 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near
43450    unto the gates of death.
43451 19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth
43452    them out of their distresses.
43453 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from
43454    their destructions.
43455 21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
43456    his wonderful works to the children of men!
43457 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
43458    declare his works with rejoicing.
43459 23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in
43460    great waters;
43461 24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
43462 25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth
43463    up the waves thereof.
43464 26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths:
43465    their soul is melted because of trouble.
43466 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are
43467    at their wit's end.
43468 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth
43469    them out of their distresses.
43470 29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
43471    still.
43472 30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them
43473    unto their desired haven.
43474 31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
43475    his wonderful works to the children of men!
43476 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and
43477    praise him in the assembly of the elders.
43478 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into
43479    dry ground;
43480 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them
43481    that dwell therein.
43482 35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry
43483    ground into watersprings.
43484 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare
43485    a city for habitation;
43486 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield
43487    fruits of increase.
43488 38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;
43489    and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
43490 39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression,
43491    affliction, and sorrow.
43492 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander
43493    in the wilderness, where there is no way.
43494 41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
43495    him families like a flock.
43496 42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity
43497    shall stop her mouth.
43498 43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall
43499    understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

43500 Psalms 108

43501  1 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even
43502    with my glory.
43503  2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
43504  3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing
43505    praises unto thee among the nations.
43506  4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth
43507    reacheth unto the clouds.
43508  5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above
43509    all the earth;
43510  6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand,
43511    and answer me.
43512  7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
43513    Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
43514  8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength
43515    of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
43516  9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over
43517    Philistia will I triumph.
43518 10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
43519    Edom?
43520 11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou,
43521    O God, go forth with our hosts?
43522 12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
43523 13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall
43524    tread down our enemies.

43525 Psalms 109

43526  1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
43527  2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are
43528    opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying
43529    tongue.
43530  3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
43531    against me without a cause.
43532  4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto
43533    prayer.
43534  5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my
43535    love.
43536  6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his
43537    right hand.
43538  7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
43539    prayer become sin.
43540  8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
43541  9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
43542 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them
43543    seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
43544 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the
43545    strangers spoil his labour.
43546 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there
43547    be any to favour his fatherless children.
43548 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following
43549    let their name be blotted out.
43550 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;
43551    and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
43552 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off
43553    the memory of them from the earth.
43554 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted
43555    the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in
43556    heart.
43557 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted
43558    not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
43559 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,
43560    so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into
43561    his bones.
43562 19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for
43563    a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
43564 20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and
43565    of them that speak evil against my soul.
43566 21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake:
43567    because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
43568 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
43569 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up
43570    and down as the locust.
43571 24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
43572    fatness.
43573 25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me
43574    they shaked their heads.
43575 26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
43576 27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD,
43577    hast done it.
43578 28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
43579    ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
43580 29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
43581    themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
43582 30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will
43583    praise him among the multitude.
43584 31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him
43585    from those that condemn his soul.

43586 Psalms 110

43587  1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I
43588    make thine enemies thy footstool.
43589  2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule
43590    thou in the midst of thine enemies.
43591  3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the
43592    beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast
43593    the dew of thy youth.
43594  4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest
43595    for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
43596  5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the
43597    day of his wrath.
43598  6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places
43599    with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many
43600    countries.
43601  7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he
43602    lift up the head.

43603 Psalms 111

43604  1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole
43605    heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the
43606    congregation.
43607  2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that
43608    have pleasure therein.
43609  3 His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness
43610    endureth for ever.
43611  4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is
43612    gracious and full of compassion.
43613  5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be
43614    mindful of his covenant.
43615  6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may
43616    give them the heritage of the heathen.
43617  7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his
43618    commandments are sure.
43619  8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and
43620    uprightness.
43621  9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his
43622    covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
43623 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good
43624    understanding have all they that do his commandments: his
43625    praise endureth for ever.

43626 Psalms 112

43627  1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD,
43628    that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
43629  2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
43630    upright shall be blessed.
43631  3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
43632    endureth for ever.
43633  4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is
43634    gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
43635  5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his
43636    affairs with discretion.
43637  6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be
43638    in everlasting remembrance.
43639  7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
43640    trusting in the LORD.
43641  8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see
43642    his desire upon his enemies.
43643  9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his
43644    righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted
43645    with honour.
43646 10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with
43647    his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall
43648    perish.

43649 Psalms 113

43650  1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise
43651    the name of the LORD.
43652  2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for
43653    evermore.
43654  3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the
43655    LORD's name is to be praised.
43656  4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the
43657    heavens.
43658  5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
43659  6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven,
43660    and in the earth!
43661  7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy
43662    out of the dunghill;
43663  8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his
43664    people.
43665  9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful
43666    mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

43667 Psalms 114

43668  1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a
43669    people of strange language;
43670  2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
43671  3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
43672  4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like
43673    lambs.
43674  5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
43675    that thou wast driven back?
43676  6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills,
43677    like lambs?
43678  7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the
43679    presence of the God of Jacob;
43680  8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a
43681    fountain of waters.

43682 Psalms 115

43683  1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give
43684    glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
43685  2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
43686  3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath
43687    pleased.
43688  4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
43689  5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
43690    see not:
43691  6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
43692    smell not:
43693  7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
43694    walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
43695  8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that
43696    trusteth in them.
43697  9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their
43698    shield.
43699 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and
43700    their shield.
43701 11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and
43702    their shield.
43703 12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will
43704    bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
43705 13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
43706 14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your
43707    children.
43708 15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
43709 16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth
43710    hath he given to the children of men.
43711 17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
43712    silence.
43713 18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
43714    evermore. Praise the LORD.

43715 Psalms 116

43716  1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my
43717    supplications.
43718  2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I
43719    call upon him as long as I live.
43720  3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
43721    hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
43722  4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech
43723    thee, deliver my soul.
43724  5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
43725  6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he
43726    helped me.
43727  7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt
43728    bountifully with thee.
43729  8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
43730    tears, and my feet from falling.
43731  9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
43732 10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
43733 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
43734 12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward
43735    me?
43736 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of
43737    the LORD.
43738 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
43739    his people.
43740 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
43741 16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son
43742    of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
43743 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
43744    call upon the name of the LORD.
43745 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
43746    his people.
43747 19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O
43748    Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

43749 Psalms 117

43750  1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
43751  2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of
43752    the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

43753 Psalms 118

43754  1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy
43755    endureth for ever.
43756  2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
43757  3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for
43758    ever.
43759  4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth
43760    for ever.
43761  5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and
43762    set me in a large place.
43763  6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto
43764    me?
43765  7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore
43766    shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
43767  8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
43768    man.
43769  9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
43770    princes.
43771 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD
43772    will I destroy them.
43773 11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in
43774    the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
43775 12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the
43776    fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy
43777    them.
43778 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
43779    helped me.
43780 14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
43781 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of
43782    the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
43783 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the
43784    LORD doeth valiantly.
43785 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
43786 18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over
43787    unto death.
43788 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
43789    and I will praise the LORD:
43790 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
43791 21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my
43792    salvation.
43793 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone
43794    of the corner.
43795 23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
43796 24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and
43797    be glad in it.
43798 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send
43799    now prosperity.
43800 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have
43801    blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
43802 27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the
43803    sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
43804 28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I
43805    will exalt thee.
43806 29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
43807    endureth for ever.

43808 Psalms 119

43809  1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of
43810    the LORD.
43811  2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him
43812    with the whole heart.
43813  3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
43814  4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
43815  5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
43816  6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
43817    commandments.
43818  7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall
43819    have learned thy righteous judgments.
43820  8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
43821  9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
43822    thereto according to thy word.
43823 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander
43824    from thy commandments.
43825 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin
43826    against thee.
43827 12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
43828 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
43829 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in
43830    all riches.
43831 15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy
43832    ways.
43833 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy
43834    word.
43835 17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep
43836    thy word.
43837 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
43838    thy law.
43839 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from
43840    me.
43841 20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy
43842    judgments at all times.
43843 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from
43844    thy commandments.
43845 22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy
43846    testimonies.
43847 23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did
43848    meditate in thy statutes.
43849 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
43850 25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to
43851    thy word.
43852 26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy
43853    statutes.
43854 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk
43855    of thy wondrous works.
43856 28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according
43857    unto thy word.
43858 29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law
43859    graciously.
43860 30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid
43861    before me.
43862 31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to
43863    shame.
43864 32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt
43865    enlarge my heart.
43866 33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
43867    unto the end.
43868 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall
43869    observe it with my whole heart.
43870 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do
43871    I delight.
43872 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to
43873    covetousness.
43874 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me
43875    in thy way.
43876 38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy
43877    fear.
43878 39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are
43879    good.
43880 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
43881    righteousness.
43882 41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation,
43883    according to thy word.
43884 42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me:
43885    for I trust in thy word.
43886 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I
43887    have hoped in thy judgments.
43888 44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
43889 45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
43890 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will
43891    not be ashamed.
43892 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have
43893    loved.
43894 48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I
43895    have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
43896 49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast
43897    caused me to hope.
43898 50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath
43899    quickened me.
43900 51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not
43901    declined from thy law.
43902 52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted
43903    myself.
43904 53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
43905    forsake thy law.
43906 54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
43907 55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have
43908    kept thy law.
43909 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
43910 57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy
43911    words.
43912 58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto
43913    me according to thy word.
43914 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
43915 60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
43916 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not
43917    forgotten thy law.
43918 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of
43919    thy righteous judgments.
43920 63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that
43921    keep thy precepts.
43922 64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy
43923    statutes.
43924 65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto
43925    thy word.
43926 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
43927    commandments.
43928 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
43929    word.
43930 68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
43931 69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy
43932    precepts with my whole heart.
43933 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
43934 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might
43935    learn thy statutes.
43936 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold
43937    and silver.
43938 73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me
43939    understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
43940 74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I
43941    have hoped in thy word.
43942 75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in
43943    faithfulness hast afflicted me.
43944 76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,
43945    according to thy word unto thy servant.
43946 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy
43947    law is my delight.
43948 78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me
43949    without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
43950 79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have
43951    known thy testimonies.
43952 80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
43953 81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
43954 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort
43955    me?
43956 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not
43957    forget thy statutes.
43958 84 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute
43959    judgment on them that persecute me?
43960 85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy
43961    law.
43962 86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me
43963    wrongfully; help thou me.
43964 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy
43965    precepts.
43966 88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the
43967    testimony of thy mouth.
43968 89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
43969 90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast
43970    established the earth, and it abideth.
43971 91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all
43972    are thy servants.
43973 92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have
43974    perished in mine affliction.
43975 93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast
43976    quickened me.
43977 94 I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.
43978 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will
43979    consider thy testimonies.
43980 96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is
43981    exceeding broad.
43982 97 O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
43983 98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine
43984    enemies: for they are ever with me.
43985 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
43986    testimonies are my meditation.
43987 100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy
43988    precepts.
43989 101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might
43990    keep thy word.
43991 102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught
43992    me.
43993 103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey
43994    to my mouth!
43995 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate
43996    every false way.
43997 105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
43998 106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy
43999    righteous judgments.
44000 107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto
44001    thy word.
44002 108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O
44003    LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
44004 109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy
44005    law.
44006 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy
44007    precepts.
44008 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they
44009    are the rejoicing of my heart.
44010 112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even
44011    unto the end.
44012 113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
44013 114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
44014 115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments
44015    of my God.
44016 116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me
44017    not be ashamed of my hope.
44018 117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect
44019    unto thy statutes continually.
44020 118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes:
44021    for their deceit is falsehood.
44022 119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross:
44023    therefore I love thy testimonies.
44024 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy
44025    judgments.
44026 121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine
44027    oppressors.
44028 122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress
44029    me.
44030 123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
44031    righteousness.
44032 124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me
44033    thy statutes.
44034 125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy
44035    testimonies.
44036 126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void
44037    thy law.
44038 127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine
44039    gold.
44040 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to
44041    be right; and I hate every false way.
44042 129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep
44043    them.
44044 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth
44045    understanding unto the simple.
44046 131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy
44047    commandments.
44048 132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to
44049    do unto those that love thy name.
44050 133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have
44051    dominion over me.
44052 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy
44053    precepts.
44054 135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy
44055    statutes.
44056 136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy
44057    law.
44058 137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
44059 138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and
44060    very faithful.
44061 139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten
44062    thy words.
44063 140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
44064 141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
44065 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law
44066    is the truth.
44067 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy
44068    commandments are my delights.
44069 144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me
44070    understanding, and I shall live.
44071 145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy
44072    statutes.
44073 146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
44074 147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in
44075    thy word.
44076 148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in
44077    thy word.
44078 149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
44079    quicken me according to thy judgment.
44080 150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from
44081    thy law.
44082 151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
44083 152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast
44084    founded them for ever.
44085 153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget
44086    thy law.
44087 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
44088    word.
44089 155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy
44090    statutes.
44091 156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to
44092    thy judgments.
44093 157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline
44094    from thy testimonies.
44095 158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept
44096    not thy word.
44097 159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD,
44098    according to thy lovingkindness.
44099 160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy
44100    righteous judgments endureth for ever.
44101 161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
44102    standeth in awe of thy word.
44103 162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
44104 163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
44105 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous
44106    judgments.
44107 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
44108    offend them.
44109 166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy
44110    commandments.
44111 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them
44112    exceedingly.
44113 168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways
44114    are before thee.
44115 169 Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me
44116    understanding according to thy word.
44117 170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to
44118    thy word.
44119 171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy
44120    statutes.
44121 172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
44122    are righteousness.
44123 173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
44124 174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my
44125    delight.
44126 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy
44127    judgments help me.
44128 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I
44129    do not forget thy commandments.

44130 Psalms 120

44131  1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
44132  2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful
44133    tongue.
44134  3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto
44135    thee, thou false tongue?
44136  4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
44137  5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents
44138    of Kedar!
44139  6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
44140  7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

44141 Psalms 121

44142  1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my
44143    help.
44144  2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
44145  3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee
44146    will not slumber.
44147  4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor
44148    sleep.
44149  5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right
44150    hand.
44151  6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
44152  7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
44153    thy soul.
44154  8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from
44155    this time forth, and even for evermore.

44156 Psalms 122

44157  1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of
44158    the LORD.
44159  2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
44160  3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
44161  4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the
44162    testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
44163  5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the
44164    house of David.
44165  6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
44166    thee.
44167  7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
44168  8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace
44169    be within thee.
44170  9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

44171 Psalms 123

44172  1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
44173    heavens.
44174  2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their
44175    masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her
44176    mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that
44177    he have mercy upon us.
44178  3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
44179    exceedingly filled with contempt.
44180  4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that
44181    are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

44182 Psalms 124

44183  1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may
44184    Israel say;
44185  2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose
44186    up against us:
44187  3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was
44188    kindled against us:
44189  4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over
44190    our soul:
44191  5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
44192  6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their
44193    teeth.
44194  7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
44195    the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
44196  8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and
44197    earth.

44198 Psalms 125

44199  1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which
44200    cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
44201  2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is
44202    round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
44203  3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the
44204    righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto
44205    iniquity.
44206  4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are
44207    upright in their hearts.
44208  5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD
44209    shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace
44210    shall be upon Israel.

44211 Psalms 126

44212  1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like
44213    them that dream.
44214  2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with
44215    singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done
44216    great things for them.
44217  3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
44218  4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
44219  5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
44220  6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
44221    doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
44222    him.

44223 Psalms 127

44224  1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that
44225    build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh
44226    but in vain.
44227  2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat
44228    the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
44229  3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the
44230    womb is his reward.
44231  4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of
44232    the youth.
44233  5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall
44234    not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the
44235    gate.

44236 Psalms 128

44237  1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in
44238    his ways.
44239  2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou
44240    be, and it shall be well with thee.
44241  3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
44242    house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
44243  4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
44244    LORD.
44245  5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
44246    good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
44247  6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon
44248    Israel.

44249 Psalms 129

44250  1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel
44251    now say:
44252  2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they
44253    have not prevailed against me.
44254  3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
44255  4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
44256    wicked.
44257  5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
44258  6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth
44259    afore it groweth up:
44260  7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
44261    sheaves his bosom.
44262  8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be
44263    upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

44264 Psalms 130

44265  1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
44266  2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice
44267    of my supplications.
44268  3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
44269    stand?
44270  4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be
44271    feared.
44272  5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
44273    hope.
44274  6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the
44275    morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
44276  7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy,
44277    and with him is plenteous redemption.
44278  8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

44279 Psalms 131

44280  1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do
44281    I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for
44282    me.
44283  2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
44284    weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
44285  3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

44286 Psalms 132

44287  1 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
44288  2 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of
44289    Jacob;
44290  3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go
44291    up into my bed;
44292  4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine
44293    eyelids,
44294  5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the
44295    mighty God of Jacob.
44296  6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of
44297    the wood.
44298  7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his
44299    footstool.
44300  8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy
44301    strength.
44302  9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy
44303    saints shout for joy.
44304 10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine
44305    anointed.
44306 11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from
44307    it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
44308 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I
44309    shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy
44310    throne for evermore.
44311 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his
44312    habitation.
44313 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have
44314    desired it.
44315 15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor
44316    with bread.
44317 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints
44318    shall shout aloud for joy.
44319 17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a
44320    lamp for mine anointed.
44321 18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall
44322    his crown flourish.

44323 Psalms 133

44324  1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
44325    together in unity!
44326  2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down
44327    upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the
44328    skirts of his garments;
44329  3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the
44330    mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing,
44331    even life for evermore.

44332 Psalms 134

44333  1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which
44334    by night stand in the house of the LORD.
44335  2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
44336  3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

44337 Psalms 135

44338  1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise
44339    him, O ye servants of the LORD.
44340  2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the
44341    house of our God.
44342  3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his
44343    name; for it is pleasant.
44344  4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for
44345    his peculiar treasure.
44346  5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above
44347    all gods.
44348  6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in
44349    earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
44350  7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;
44351    he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of
44352    his treasuries.
44353  8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
44354  9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
44355    upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
44356 10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
44357 11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the
44358    kingdoms of Canaan:
44359 12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel
44360    his people.
44361 13 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD,
44362    throughout all generations.
44363 14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
44364    concerning his servants.
44365 15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of
44366    men's hands.
44367 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they
44368    see not;
44369 17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath
44370    in their mouths.
44371 18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that
44372    trusteth in them.
44373 19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of
44374    Aaron:
44375 20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
44376    the LORD.
44377 21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
44378    Praise ye the LORD.

44379 Psalms 136

44380  1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
44381    endureth for ever.
44382  2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for
44383    ever.
44384  3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for
44385    ever.
44386  4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth
44387    for ever.
44388  5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth
44389    for ever.
44390  6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
44391    mercy endureth for ever.
44392  7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for
44393    ever:
44394  8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
44395  9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth
44396    for ever.
44397 10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
44398    endureth for ever:
44399 11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth
44400    for ever:
44401 12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his
44402    mercy endureth for ever.
44403 13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy
44404    endureth for ever:
44405 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
44406    endureth for ever:
44407 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his
44408    mercy endureth for ever.
44409 16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his
44410    mercy endureth for ever.
44411 17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for
44412    ever:
44413 18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
44414 19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
44415 20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:
44416 21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth
44417    for ever:
44418 22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy
44419    endureth for ever.
44420 23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth
44421    for ever:
44422 24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth
44423    for ever.
44424 25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
44425 26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth
44426    for ever.

44427 Psalms 137

44428  1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept,
44429    when we remembered Zion.
44430  2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
44431  3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
44432    song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,
44433    Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
44434  4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
44435  5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
44436    cunning.
44437  6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
44438    my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
44439  7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of
44440    Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation
44441    thereof.
44442  8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he
44443    be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
44444  9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
44445    against the stones.

44446 Psalms 138

44447  1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I
44448    sing praise unto thee.
44449  2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
44450    thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified
44451    thy word above all thy name.
44452  3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst
44453    me with strength in my soul.
44454  4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when
44455    they hear the words of thy mouth.
44456  5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the
44457    glory of the LORD.
44458  6 Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
44459    but the proud he knoweth afar off.
44460  7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
44461    thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine
44462    enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
44463  8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O
44464    LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own
44465    hands.

44466 Psalms 139

44467  1 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
44468  2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou
44469    understandest my thought afar off.
44470  3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted
44471    with all my ways.
44472  4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou
44473    knowest it altogether.
44474  5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
44475    me.
44476  6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot
44477    attain unto it.
44478  7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
44479    from thy presence?
44480  8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed
44481    in hell, behold, thou art there.
44482  9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost
44483    parts of the sea;
44484 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
44485    hold me.
44486 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
44487    shall be light about me.
44488 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth
44489    as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
44490 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my
44491    mother's womb.
44492 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
44493    marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
44494 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
44495    and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
44496 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in
44497    thy book all my members were written, which in continuance
44498    were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
44499 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
44500    is the sum of them!
44501 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
44502    when I awake, I am still with thee.
44503 19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me
44504    therefore, ye bloody men.
44505 20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take
44506    thy name in vain.
44507 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I
44508    grieved with those that rise up against thee?
44509 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
44510 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
44511    thoughts:
44512 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
44513    way everlasting.

44514 Psalms 140

44515  1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the
44516    violent man;
44517  2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they
44518    gathered together for war.
44519  3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders'
44520    poison is under their lips. Selah.
44521  4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me
44522    from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my
44523    goings.
44524  5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread
44525    a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
44526  6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my
44527    supplications, O LORD.
44528  7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast
44529    covered my head in the day of battle.
44530  8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his
44531    wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
44532  9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the
44533    mischief of their own lips cover them.
44534 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the
44535    fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
44536 11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil
44537    shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
44538 12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
44539    and the right of the poor.
44540 13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the
44541    upright shall dwell in thy presence.

44542 Psalms 141

44543  1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my
44544    voice, when I cry unto thee.
44545  2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the
44546    lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
44547  3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my
44548    lips.
44549  4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked
44550    works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their
44551    dainties.
44552  5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let
44553    him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not
44554    break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their
44555    calamities.
44556  6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
44557    hear my words; for they are sweet.
44558  7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one
44559    cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
44560  8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my
44561    trust; leave not my soul destitute.
44562  9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the
44563    gins of the workers of iniquity.
44564 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
44565    escape.

44566 Psalms 142

44567  1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the
44568    LORD did I make my supplication.
44569  2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
44570    trouble.
44571  3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my
44572    path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a
44573    snare for me.
44574  4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man
44575    that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my
44576    soul.
44577  5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my
44578    portion in the land of the living.
44579  6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from
44580    my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
44581  7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the
44582    righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal
44583    bountifully with me.

44584 Psalms 143

44585  1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy
44586    faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
44587  2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight
44588    shall no man living be justified.
44589  3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life
44590    down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as
44591    those that have been long dead.
44592  4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within
44593    me is desolate.
44594  5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I
44595    muse on the work of thy hands.
44596  6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after
44597    thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
44598  7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face
44599    from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
44600  8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in
44601    thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should
44602    walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
44603  9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to
44604    hide me.
44605 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is
44606    good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
44607 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy
44608    righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
44609 12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them
44610    that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

44611 Psalms 144

44612  1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to
44613    war, and my fingers to fight:
44614  2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer;
44615    my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people
44616    under me.
44617  3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the
44618    son of man, that thou makest account of him!
44619  4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth
44620    away.
44621  5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains,
44622    and they shall smoke.
44623  6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine
44624    arrows, and destroy them.
44625  7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of
44626    great waters, from the hand of strange children;
44627  8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right
44628    hand of falsehood.
44629  9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and
44630    an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
44631 10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth
44632    David his servant from the hurtful sword.
44633 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,
44634    whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right
44635    hand of falsehood:
44636 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that
44637    our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the
44638    similitude of a palace:
44639 13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:
44640    that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in
44641    our streets:
44642 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no
44643    breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in
44644    our streets.
44645 15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is
44646    that people, whose God is the LORD.

44647 Psalms 145

44648  1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name
44649    for ever and ever.
44650  2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for
44651    ever and ever.
44652  3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his
44653    greatness is unsearchable.
44654  4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
44655    declare thy mighty acts.
44656  5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy
44657    wondrous works.
44658  6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I
44659    will declare thy greatness.
44660  7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
44661    and shall sing of thy righteousness.
44662  8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger,
44663    and of great mercy.
44664  9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all
44665    his works.
44666 10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
44667    bless thee.
44668 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
44669    power;
44670 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
44671    glorious majesty of his kingdom.
44672 13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion
44673    endureth throughout all generations.
44674 14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those
44675    that be bowed down.
44676 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their
44677    meat in due season.
44678 16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every
44679    living thing.
44680 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his
44681    works.
44682 18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that
44683    call upon him in truth.
44684 19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will
44685    hear their cry, and will save them.
44686 20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked
44687    will he destroy.
44688 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh
44689    bless his holy name for ever and ever.

44690 Psalms 146

44691  1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
44692  2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto
44693    my God while I have any being.
44694  3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom
44695    there is no help.
44696  4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that
44697    very day his thoughts perish.
44698  5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose
44699    hope is in the LORD his God:
44700  6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein
44701    is: which keepeth truth for ever:
44702  7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food
44703    to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
44704  8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them
44705    that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
44706  9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless
44707    and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
44708 10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all
44709    generations. Praise ye the LORD.

44710 Psalms 147

44711  1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our
44712    God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
44713  2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
44714    outcasts of Israel.
44715  3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
44716  4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by
44717    their names.
44718  5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is
44719    infinite.
44720  6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to
44721    the ground.
44722  7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the
44723    harp unto our God:
44724  8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for
44725    the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
44726  9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which
44727    cry.
44728 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not
44729    pleasure in the legs of a man.
44730 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that
44731    hope in his mercy.
44732 12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
44733 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath
44734    blessed thy children within thee.
44735 14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the
44736    finest of the wheat.
44737 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth
44738    very swiftly.
44739 16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like
44740    ashes.
44741 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before
44742    his cold?
44743 18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind
44744    to blow, and the waters flow.
44745 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
44746    unto Israel.
44747 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his
44748    judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

44749 Psalms 148

44750  1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens:
44751    praise him in the heights.
44752  2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
44753  3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of
44754    light.
44755  4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above
44756    the heavens.
44757  5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and
44758    they were created.
44759  6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a
44760    decree which shall not pass.
44761  7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
44762  8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his
44763    word:
44764  9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
44765 10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
44766 11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of
44767    the earth:
44768 12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
44769 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is
44770    excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
44771 14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his
44772    saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto
44773    him. Praise ye the LORD.

44774 Psalms 149

44775  1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his
44776    praise in the congregation of saints.
44777  2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of
44778    Zion be joyful in their King.
44779  3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises
44780    unto him with the timbrel and harp.
44781  4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify
44782    the meek with salvation.
44783  5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
44784    their beds.
44785  6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged
44786    sword in their hand;
44787  7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon
44788    the people;
44789  8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
44790    of iron;
44791  9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have
44792    all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

44793 Psalms 150

44794  1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in
44795    the firmament of his power.
44796  2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his
44797    excellent greatness.
44798  3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
44799    psaltery and harp.
44800  4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with
44801    stringed instruments and organs.
44802  5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
44803    sounding cymbals.
44804  6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye
44805    the LORD.

44806 Book 20 Proverbs

44807 Proverbs 1

44808  1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
44809  2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of
44810    understanding;
44811  3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment,
44812    and equity;
44813  4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and
44814    discretion.
44815  5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of
44816    understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
44817  6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of
44818    the wise, and their dark sayings.
44819  7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools
44820    despise wisdom and instruction.
44821  8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not
44822    the law of thy mother:
44823  9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and
44824    chains about thy neck.
44825 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
44826 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us
44827    lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
44828 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those
44829    that go down into the pit:
44830 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses
44831    with spoil:
44832 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
44833 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot
44834    from their path:
44835 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
44836 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
44837 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for
44838    their own lives.
44839 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which
44840    taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
44841 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
44842 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of
44843    the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
44844 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the
44845    scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
44846 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto
44847    you, I will make known my words unto you.
44848 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my
44849    hand, and no man regarded;
44850 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my
44851    reproof:
44852 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear
44853    cometh;
44854 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction
44855    cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon
44856    you.
44857 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they
44858    shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
44859 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of
44860    the LORD:
44861 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
44862 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be
44863    filled with their own devices.
44864 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
44865    prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
44866 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be
44867    quiet from fear of evil.

44868 Proverbs 2

44869  1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
44870    commandments with thee;
44871  2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine
44872    heart to understanding;
44873  3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice
44874    for understanding;
44875  4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for
44876    hid treasures;
44877  5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the
44878    knowledge of God.
44879  6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge
44880    and understanding.
44881  7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler
44882    to them that walk uprightly.
44883  8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of
44884    his saints.
44885  9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and
44886    equity; yea, every good path.
44887 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is
44888    pleasant unto thy soul;
44889 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
44890 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man
44891    that speaketh froward things;
44892 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of
44893    darkness;
44894 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the
44895    wicked;
44896 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
44897 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger
44898    which flattereth with her words;
44899 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the
44900    covenant of her God.
44901 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the
44902    dead.
44903 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of
44904    the paths of life.
44905 20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the
44906    paths of the righteous.
44907 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall
44908    remain in it.
44909 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
44910    transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

44911 Proverbs 3

44912  1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
44913    commandments:
44914  2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add
44915    to thee.
44916  3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy
44917    neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
44918  4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight
44919    of God and man.
44920  5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto
44921    thine own understanding.
44922  6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
44923    paths.
44924  7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from
44925    evil.
44926  8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
44927  9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits
44928    of all thine increase:
44929 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses
44930    shall burst out with new wine.
44931 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be
44932    weary of his correction:
44933 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the
44934    son in whom he delighteth.
44935 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth
44936    understanding.
44937 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of
44938    silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
44939 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou
44940    canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
44941 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand
44942    riches and honour.
44943 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are
44944    peace.
44945 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and
44946    happy is every one that retaineth her.
44947 19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding
44948    hath he established the heavens.
44949 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop
44950    down the dew.
44951 21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom
44952    and discretion:
44953 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
44954 23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not
44955    stumble.
44956 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou
44957    shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
44958 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the
44959    wicked, when it cometh.
44960 26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot
44961    from being taken.
44962 27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in
44963    the power of thine hand to do it.
44964 28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow
44965    I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
44966 29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth
44967    securely by thee.
44968 30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no
44969    harm.
44970 31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
44971 32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is
44972    with the righteous.
44973 33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he
44974    blesseth the habitation of the just.
44975 34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the
44976    lowly.
44977 35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion
44978    of fools.

44979 Proverbs 4

44980  1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to
44981    know understanding.
44982  2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
44983  3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the
44984    sight of my mother.
44985  4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my
44986    words: keep my commandments, and live.
44987  5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline
44988    from the words of my mouth.
44989  6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and
44990    she shall keep thee.
44991  7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
44992    all thy getting get understanding.
44993  8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to
44994    honour, when thou dost embrace her.
44995  9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of
44996    glory shall she deliver to thee.
44997 10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy
44998    life shall be many.
44999 11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in
45000    right paths.
45001 12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when
45002    thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
45003 13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for
45004    she is thy life.
45005 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way
45006    of evil men.
45007 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
45008 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their
45009    sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
45010 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of
45011    violence.
45012 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth
45013    more and more unto the perfect day.
45014 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what
45015    they stumble.
45016 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
45017 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of
45018    thine heart.
45019 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all
45020    their flesh.
45021 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the
45022    issues of life.
45023 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far
45024    from thee.
45025 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
45026    straight before thee.
45027 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be
45028    established.
45029 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot
45030    from evil.

45031 Proverbs 5

45032  1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my
45033    understanding:
45034  2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep
45035    knowledge.
45036  3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
45037    mouth is smoother than oil:
45038  4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
45039  5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
45040  6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
45041    moveable, that thou canst not know them.
45042  7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the
45043    words of my mouth.
45044  8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her
45045    house:
45046  9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto
45047    the cruel:
45048 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be
45049    in the house of a stranger;
45050 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are
45051    consumed,
45052 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised
45053    reproof;
45054 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined
45055    mine ear to them that instructed me!
45056 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and
45057    assembly.
45058 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out
45059    of thine own well.
45060 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in
45061    the streets.
45062 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
45063 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy
45064    youth.
45065 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her
45066    breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always
45067    with her love.
45068 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
45069    and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
45070 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he
45071    pondereth all his goings.
45072 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall
45073    be holden with the cords of his sins.
45074 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his
45075    folly he shall go astray.

45076 Proverbs 6

45077  1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast
45078    stricken thy hand with a stranger,
45079  2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken
45080    with the words of thy mouth.
45081  3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come
45082    into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure
45083    thy friend.
45084  4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
45085  5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a
45086    bird from the hand of the fowler.
45087  6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
45088  7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
45089  8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in
45090    the harvest.
45091  9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out
45092    of thy sleep?
45093 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
45094    hands to sleep:
45095 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want
45096    as an armed man.
45097 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
45098 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he
45099    teacheth with his fingers;
45100 14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually;
45101    he soweth discord.
45102 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he
45103    be broken without remedy.
45104 16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an
45105    abomination unto him:
45106 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent
45107    blood,
45108 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift
45109    in running to mischief,
45110 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord
45111    among brethren.
45112 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law
45113    of thy mother:
45114 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy
45115    neck.
45116 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it
45117    shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with
45118    thee.
45119 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and
45120    reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
45121 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the
45122    tongue of a strange woman.
45123 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take
45124    thee with her eyelids.
45125 26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of
45126    bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
45127 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be
45128    burned?
45129 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
45130 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever
45131    toucheth her shall not be innocent.
45132 30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul
45133    when he is hungry;
45134 31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give
45135    all the substance of his house.
45136 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh
45137    understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
45138 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not
45139    be wiped away.
45140 34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare
45141    in the day of vengeance.
45142 35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content,
45143    though thou givest many gifts.

45144 Proverbs 7

45145  1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
45146  2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of
45147    thine eye.
45148  3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine
45149    heart.
45150  4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding
45151    thy kinswoman:
45152  5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the
45153    stranger which flattereth with her words.
45154  6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
45155  7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the
45156    youths, a young man void of understanding,
45157  8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the
45158    way to her house,
45159  9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
45160 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an
45161    harlot, and subtil of heart.
45162 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
45163 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at
45164    every corner.)
45165 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face
45166    said unto him,
45167 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
45168 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy
45169    face, and I have found thee.
45170 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved
45171    works, with fine linen of Egypt.
45172 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
45173 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us
45174    solace ourselves with loves.
45175 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
45176 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at
45177    the day appointed.
45178 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the
45179    flattering of her lips she forced him.
45180 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the
45181    slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
45182 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the
45183    snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
45184 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to
45185    the words of my mouth.
45186 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her
45187    paths.
45188 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have
45189    been slain by her.
45190 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of
45191    death.

45192 Proverbs 8

45193  1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
45194  2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the
45195    places of the paths.
45196  3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the
45197    coming in at the doors.
45198  4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
45199  5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an
45200    understanding heart.
45201  6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of
45202    my lips shall be right things.
45203  7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an
45204    abomination to my lips.
45205  8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is
45206    nothing froward or perverse in them.
45207  9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to
45208    them that find knowledge.
45209 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather
45210    than choice gold.
45211 11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may
45212    be desired are not to be compared to it.
45213 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty
45214    inventions.
45215 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy,
45216    and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
45217 14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have
45218    strength.
45219 15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
45220 16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the
45221    earth.
45222 17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall
45223    find me.
45224 18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and
45225    righteousness.
45226 19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my
45227    revenue than choice silver.
45228 20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths
45229    of judgment:
45230 21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and
45231    I will fill their treasures.
45232 22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his
45233    works of old.
45234 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the
45235    earth was.
45236 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there
45237    were no fountains abounding with water.
45238 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I
45239    brought forth:
45240 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor
45241    the highest part of the dust of the world.
45242 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a
45243    compass upon the face of the depth:
45244 28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the
45245    fountains of the deep:
45246 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not
45247    pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the
45248    earth:
45249 30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily
45250    his delight, rejoicing always before him;
45251 31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights
45252    were with the sons of men.
45253 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are
45254    they that keep my ways.
45255 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
45256 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my
45257    gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
45258 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of
45259    the LORD.
45260 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they
45261    that hate me love death.

45262 Proverbs 9

45263  1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
45264    pillars:
45265  2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she
45266    hath also furnished her table.
45267  3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest
45268    places of the city,
45269  4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that
45270    wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
45271  5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have
45272    mingled.
45273  6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of
45274    understanding.
45275  7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he
45276    that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
45277  8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man,
45278    and he will love thee.
45279  9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:
45280    teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
45281 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the
45282    knowledge of the holy is understanding.
45283 11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy
45284    life shall be increased.
45285 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou
45286    scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
45287 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth
45288    nothing.
45289 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the
45290    high places of the city,
45291 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
45292 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that
45293    wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
45294 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is
45295    pleasant.
45296 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her
45297    guests are in the depths of hell.

45298 Proverbs 10

45299  1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but
45300    a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
45301  2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness
45302    delivereth from death.
45303  3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish:
45304    but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
45305  4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand
45306    of the diligent maketh rich.
45307  5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that
45308    sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
45309  6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth
45310    the mouth of the wicked.
45311  7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked
45312    shall rot.
45313  8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating
45314    fool shall fall.
45315  9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that
45316    perverteth his ways shall be known.
45317 10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating
45318    fool shall fall.
45319 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence
45320    covereth the mouth of the wicked.
45321 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
45322 13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found:
45323    but a rod is for the back of him that is void of
45324    understanding.
45325 14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is
45326    near destruction.
45327 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of
45328    the poor is their poverty.
45329 16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the
45330    wicked to sin.
45331 17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that
45332    refuseth reproof erreth.
45333 18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a
45334    slander, is a fool.
45335 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that
45336    refraineth his lips is wise.
45337 20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the
45338    wicked is little worth.
45339 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of
45340    wisdom.
45341 22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
45342    sorrow with it.
45343 23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of
45344    understanding hath wisdom.
45345 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire
45346    of the righteous shall be granted.
45347 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the
45348    righteous is an everlasting foundation.
45349 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the
45350    sluggard to them that send him.
45351 27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the
45352    wicked shall be shortened.
45353 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the
45354    expectation of the wicked shall perish.
45355 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but
45356    destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
45357 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not
45358    inhabit the earth.
45359 31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward
45360    tongue shall be cut out.
45361 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the
45362    mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

45363 Proverbs 11

45364  1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight
45365    is his delight.
45366  2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is
45367    wisdom.
45368  3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the
45369    perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
45370  4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
45371    delivereth from death.
45372  5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the
45373    wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
45374  6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but
45375    transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
45376  7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the
45377    hope of unjust men perisheth.
45378  8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked
45379    cometh in his stead.
45380  9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but
45381    through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
45382 10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and
45383    when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
45384 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is
45385    overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
45386 12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man
45387    of understanding holdeth his peace.
45388 13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful
45389    spirit concealeth the matter.
45390 14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of
45391    counsellors there is safety.
45392 15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he
45393    that hateth suretiship is sure.
45394 16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain
45395    riches.
45396 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is
45397    cruel troubleth his own flesh.
45398 18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth
45399    righteousness shall be a sure reward.
45400 19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil
45401    pursueth it to his own death.
45402 20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD:
45403    but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
45404 21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished:
45405    but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
45406 22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman
45407    which is without discretion.
45408 23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation
45409    of the wicked is wrath.
45410 24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is
45411    that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
45412 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall
45413    be watered also himself.
45414 26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but
45415    blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
45416 27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that
45417    seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
45418 28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous
45419    shall flourish as a branch.
45420 29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and
45421    the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
45422 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that
45423    winneth souls is wise.
45424 31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much
45425    more the wicked and the sinner.

45426 Proverbs 12

45427  1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth
45428    reproof is brutish.
45429  2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked
45430    devices will he condemn.
45431  3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of
45432    the righteous shall not be moved.
45433  4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that
45434    maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
45435  5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of
45436    the wicked are deceit.
45437  6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the
45438    mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
45439  7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the
45440    righteous shall stand.
45441  8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that
45442    is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
45443  9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he
45444    that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
45445 10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the
45446    tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
45447 11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he
45448    that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
45449 12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the
45450    righteous yieldeth fruit.
45451 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the
45452    just shall come out of trouble.
45453 14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth:
45454    and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto
45455    him.
45456 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that
45457    hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
45458 16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth
45459    shame.
45460 17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a
45461    false witness deceit.
45462 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the
45463    tongue of the wise is health.
45464 19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying
45465    tongue is but for a moment.
45466 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the
45467    counsellors of peace is joy.
45468 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall
45469    be filled with mischief.
45470 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal
45471    truly are his delight.
45472 23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools
45473    proclaimeth foolishness.
45474 24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful
45475    shall be under tribute.
45476 25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word
45477    maketh it glad.
45478 26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the
45479    way of the wicked seduceth them.
45480 27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting:
45481    but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
45482 28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway
45483    thereof there is no death.

45484 Proverbs 13

45485  1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner
45486    heareth not rebuke.
45487  2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul
45488    of the transgressors shall eat violence.
45489  3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that
45490    openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
45491  4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the
45492    soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
45493  5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome,
45494    and cometh to shame.
45495  6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but
45496    wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
45497  7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is
45498    that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
45499  8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor
45500    heareth not rebuke.
45501  9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the
45502    wicked shall be put out.
45503 10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is
45504    wisdom.
45505 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that
45506    gathereth by labour shall increase.
45507 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire
45508    cometh, it is a tree of life.
45509 13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that
45510    feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
45511 14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the
45512    snares of death.
45513 15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors
45514    is hard.
45515 16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth
45516    open his folly.
45517 17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful
45518    ambassador is health.
45519 18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction:
45520    but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
45521 19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is
45522    abomination to fools to depart from evil.
45523 20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion
45524    of fools shall be destroyed.
45525 21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be
45526    repayed.
45527 22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children:
45528    and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
45529 23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is
45530    destroyed for want of judgment.
45531 24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
45532    chasteneth him betimes.
45533 25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the
45534    belly of the wicked shall want.

45535 Proverbs 14

45536  1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh
45537    it down with her hands.
45538  2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he
45539    that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
45540  3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of
45541    the wise shall preserve them.
45542  4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by
45543    the strength of the ox.
45544  5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will
45545    utter lies.
45546  6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is
45547    easy unto him that understandeth.
45548  7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest
45549    not in him the lips of knowledge.
45550  8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the
45551    folly of fools is deceit.
45552  9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is
45553    favour.
45554 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not
45555    intermeddle with his joy.
45556 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the
45557    tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
45558 12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end
45559    thereof are the ways of death.
45560 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that
45561    mirth is heaviness.
45562 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and
45563    a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
45564 15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh
45565    well to his going.
45566 16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool
45567    rageth, and is confident.
45568 17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked
45569    devices is hated.
45570 18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with
45571    knowledge.
45572 19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of
45573    the righteous.
45574 20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath
45575    many friends.
45576 21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath
45577    mercy on the poor, happy is he.
45578 22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be
45579    to them that devise good.
45580 23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips
45581    tendeth only to penury.
45582 24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of
45583    fools is folly.
45584 25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness
45585    speaketh lies.
45586 26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children
45587    shall have a place of refuge.
45588 27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the
45589    snares of death.
45590 28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the
45591    want of people is the destruction of the prince.
45592 29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he
45593    that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
45594 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the
45595    rottenness of the bones.
45596 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that
45597    honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
45598 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous
45599    hath hope in his death.
45600 33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding:
45601    but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
45602 34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any
45603    people.
45604 35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is
45605    against him that causeth shame.

45606 Proverbs 15

45607  1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up
45608    anger.
45609  2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth
45610    of fools poureth out foolishness.
45611  3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil
45612    and the good.
45613  4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein
45614    is a breach in the spirit.
45615  5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that
45616    regardeth reproof is prudent.
45617  6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the
45618    revenues of the wicked is trouble.
45619  7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the
45620    foolish doeth not so.
45621  8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but
45622    the prayer of the upright is his delight.
45623  9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he
45624    loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
45625 10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he
45626    that hateth reproof shall die.
45627 11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then
45628    the hearts of the children of men?
45629 12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he
45630    go unto the wise.
45631 13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of
45632    the heart the spirit is broken.
45633 14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge:
45634    but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
45635 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a
45636    merry heart hath a continual feast.
45637 16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure
45638    and trouble therewith.
45639 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox
45640    and hatred therewith.
45641 18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to
45642    anger appeaseth strife.
45643 19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the
45644    way of the righteous is made plain.
45645 20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth
45646    his mother.
45647 21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of
45648    understanding walketh uprightly.
45649 22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the
45650    multitude of counsellors they are established.
45651 23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken
45652    in due season, how good is it!
45653 24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from
45654    hell beneath.
45655 25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will
45656    establish the border of the widow.
45657 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but
45658    the words of the pure are pleasant words.
45659 27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that
45660    hateth gifts shall live.
45661 28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth
45662    of the wicked poureth out evil things.
45663 29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of
45664    the righteous.
45665 30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report
45666    maketh the bones fat.
45667 31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the
45668    wise.
45669 32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he
45670    that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
45671 33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before
45672    honour is humility.

45673 Proverbs 16

45674  1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the
45675    tongue, is from the LORD.
45676  2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD
45677    weigheth the spirits.
45678  3 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be
45679    established.
45680  4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the
45681    wicked for the day of evil.
45682  5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the
45683    LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
45684  6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the
45685    LORD men depart from evil.
45686  7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies
45687    to be at peace with him.
45688  8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues
45689    without right.
45690  9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his
45691    steps.
45692 10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth
45693    transgresseth not in judgment.
45694 11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of
45695    the bag are his work.
45696 12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the
45697    throne is established by righteousness.
45698 13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him
45699    that speaketh right.
45700 14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man
45701    will pacify it.
45702 15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour
45703    is as a cloud of the latter rain.
45704 16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get
45705    understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
45706 17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that
45707    keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
45708 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
45709    fall.
45710 19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to
45711    divide the spoil with the proud.
45712 20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso
45713    trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
45714 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness
45715    of the lips increaseth learning.
45716 22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it:
45717    but the instruction of fools is folly.
45718 23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning
45719    to his lips.
45720 24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and
45721    health to the bones.
45722 25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end
45723    thereof are the ways of death.
45724 26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth
45725    it of him.
45726 27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a
45727    burning fire.
45728 28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief
45729    friends.
45730 29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the
45731    way that is not good.
45732 30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips
45733    he bringeth evil to pass.
45734 31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way
45735    of righteousness.
45736 32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he
45737    that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
45738 33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof
45739    is of the LORD.

45740 Proverbs 17

45741  1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house
45742    full of sacrifices with strife.
45743  2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame,
45744    and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
45745  3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but
45746    the LORD trieth the hearts.
45747  4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear
45748    to a naughty tongue.
45749  5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is
45750    glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
45751  6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of
45752    children are their fathers.
45753  7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips
45754    a prince.
45755  8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it:
45756    whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
45757  9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that
45758    repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
45759 10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred
45760    stripes into a fool.
45761 11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel
45762    messenger shall be sent against him.
45763 12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool
45764    in his folly.
45765 13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his
45766    house.
45767 14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water:
45768    therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
45769 15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the
45770    just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
45771 16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get
45772    wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
45773 17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for
45774    adversity.
45775 18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh
45776    surety in the presence of his friend.
45777 19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that
45778    exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
45779 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath
45780    a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
45781 21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the
45782    father of a fool hath no joy.
45783 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
45784    drieth the bones.
45785 23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the
45786    ways of judgment.
45787 24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of
45788    a fool are in the ends of the earth.
45789 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her
45790    that bare him.
45791 26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for
45792    equity.
45793 27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of
45794    understanding is of an excellent spirit.
45795 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and
45796    he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

45797 Proverbs 18

45798  1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and
45799    intermeddleth with all wisdom.
45800  2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart
45801    may discover itself.
45802  3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with
45803    ignominy reproach.
45804  4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the
45805    wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
45806  5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to
45807    overthrow the righteous in judgment.
45808  6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for
45809    strokes.
45810  7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare
45811    of his soul.
45812  8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into
45813    the innermost parts of the belly.
45814  9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is
45815    a great waster.
45816 10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth
45817    into it, and is safe.
45818 11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall
45819    in his own conceit.
45820 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before
45821    honour is humility.
45822 13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly
45823    and shame unto him.
45824 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded
45825    spirit who can bear?
45826 15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the
45827    wise seeketh knowledge.
45828 16 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before
45829    great men.
45830 17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his
45831    neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
45832 18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the
45833    mighty.
45834 19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and
45835    their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
45836 20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth;
45837    and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
45838 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that
45839    love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
45840 22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth
45841    favour of the LORD.
45842 23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
45843 24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there
45844    is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

45845 Proverbs 19

45846  1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that
45847    is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
45848  2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and
45849    he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
45850  3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart
45851    fretteth against the LORD.
45852  4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his
45853    neighbour.
45854  5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh
45855    lies shall not escape.
45856  6 Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a
45857    friend to him that giveth gifts.
45858  7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his
45859    friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they
45860    are wanting to him.
45861  8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth
45862    understanding shall find good.
45863  9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh
45864    lies shall perish.
45865 10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to
45866    have rule over princes.
45867 11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his
45868    glory to pass over a transgression.
45869 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour
45870    is as dew upon the grass.
45871 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the
45872    contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
45873 14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent
45874    wife is from the LORD.
45875 15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall
45876    suffer hunger.
45877 16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he
45878    that despiseth his ways shall die.
45879 17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and
45880    that which he hath given will he pay him again.
45881 18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul
45882    spare for his crying.
45883 19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou
45884    deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
45885 20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be
45886    wise in thy latter end.
45887 21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the
45888    counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
45889 22 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better
45890    than a liar.
45891 23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it
45892    shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
45893 24 A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so
45894    much as bring it to his mouth again.
45895 25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one
45896    that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
45897 26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a
45898    son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
45899 27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err
45900    from the words of knowledge.
45901 28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the
45902    wicked devoureth iniquity.
45903 29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back
45904    of fools.

45905 Proverbs 20

45906  1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is
45907    deceived thereby is not wise.
45908  2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso
45909    provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
45910  3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
45911    will be meddling.
45912  4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore
45913    shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
45914  5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of
45915    understanding will draw it out.
45916  6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a
45917    faithful man who can find?
45918  7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are
45919    blessed after him.
45920  8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away
45921    all evil with his eyes.
45922  9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my
45923    sin?
45924 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
45925    abomination to the LORD.
45926 11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure,
45927    and whether it be right.
45928 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even
45929    both of them.
45930 13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes,
45931    and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
45932 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is
45933    gone his way, then he boasteth.
45934 15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of
45935    knowledge are a precious jewel.
45936 16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a
45937    pledge of him for a strange woman.
45938 17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth
45939    shall be filled with gravel.
45940 18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice
45941    make war.
45942 19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:
45943    therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
45944 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put
45945    out in obscure darkness.
45946 21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the
45947    end thereof shall not be blessed.
45948 22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD,
45949    and he shall save thee.
45950 23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false
45951    balance is not good.
45952 24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand
45953    his own way?
45954 25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and
45955    after vows to make enquiry.
45956 26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over
45957    them.
45958 27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the
45959    inward parts of the belly.
45960 28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden
45961    by mercy.
45962 29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of
45963    old men is the grey head.
45964 30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the
45965    inward parts of the belly.

45966 Proverbs 21

45967  1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of
45968    water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
45969  2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD
45970    pondereth the hearts.
45971  3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than
45972    sacrifice.
45973  4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the
45974    wicked, is sin.
45975  5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but
45976    of every one that is hasty only to want.
45977  6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed
45978    to and fro of them that seek death.
45979  7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they
45980    refuse to do judgment.
45981  8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure,
45982    his work is right.
45983  9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
45984    brawling woman in a wide house.
45985 10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no
45986    favour in his eyes.
45987 11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and
45988    when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
45989 12 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked:
45990    but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
45991 13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall
45992    cry himself, but shall not be heard.
45993 14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom
45994    strong wrath.
45995 15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be
45996    to the workers of iniquity.
45997 16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall
45998    remain in the congregation of the dead.
45999 17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth
46000    wine and oil shall not be rich.
46001 18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the
46002    transgressor for the upright.
46003 19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a
46004    contentious and an angry woman.
46005 20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the
46006    wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
46007 21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life,
46008    righteousness, and honour.
46009 22 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down
46010    the strength of the confidence thereof.
46011 23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from
46012    troubles.
46013 24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud
46014    wrath.
46015 25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse
46016    to labour.
46017 26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous
46018    giveth and spareth not.
46019 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more,
46020    when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
46021 28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth
46022    speaketh constantly.
46023 29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he
46024    directeth his way.
46025 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the
46026    LORD.
46027 31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is
46028    of the LORD.

46029 Proverbs 22

46030  1 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and
46031    loving favour rather than silver and gold.
46032  2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them
46033    all.
46034  3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the
46035    simple pass on, and are punished.
46036  4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour,
46037    and life.
46038  5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth
46039    keep his soul shall be far from them.
46040  6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
46041    he will not depart from it.
46042  7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to
46043    the lender.
46044  8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his
46045    anger shall fail.
46046  9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth
46047    of his bread to the poor.
46048 10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife
46049    and reproach shall cease.
46050 11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips
46051    the king shall be his friend.
46052 12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth
46053    the words of the transgressor.
46054 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be
46055    slain in the streets.
46056 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred
46057    of the LORD shall fall therein.
46058 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of
46059    correction shall drive it far from him.
46060 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he
46061    that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
46062 17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply
46063    thine heart unto my knowledge.
46064 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they
46065    shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
46066 19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee
46067    this day, even to thee.
46068 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and
46069    knowledge,
46070 21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of
46071    truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them
46072    that send unto thee?
46073 22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the
46074    afflicted in the gate:
46075 23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of
46076    those that spoiled them.
46077 24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man
46078    thou shalt not go:
46079 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
46080 26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are
46081    sureties for debts.
46082 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed
46083    from under thee?
46084 28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
46085 29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand
46086    before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

46087 Proverbs 23

46088  1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently
46089    what is before thee:
46090  2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to
46091    appetite.
46092  3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
46093  4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
46094  5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
46095    certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle
46096    toward heaven.
46097  6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
46098    desire thou his dainty meats:
46099  7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink,
46100    saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
46101  8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose
46102    thy sweet words.
46103  9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the
46104    wisdom of thy words.
46105 10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of
46106    the fatherless:
46107 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with
46108    thee.
46109 12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the
46110    words of knowledge.
46111 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest
46112    him with the rod, he shall not die.
46113 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul
46114    from hell.
46115 15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even
46116    mine.
46117 16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
46118 17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of
46119    the LORD all the day long.
46120 18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be
46121    cut off.
46122 19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the
46123    way.
46124 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
46125 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
46126    drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
46127 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy
46128    mother when she is old.
46129 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction,
46130    and understanding.
46131 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that
46132    begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
46133 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare
46134    thee shall rejoice.
46135 26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my
46136    ways.
46137 27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow
46138    pit.
46139 28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the
46140    transgressors among men.
46141 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath
46142    babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of
46143    eyes?
46144 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed
46145    wine.
46146 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
46147    colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
46148 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an
46149    adder.
46150 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
46151    utter perverse things.
46152 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the
46153    sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
46154 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;
46155    they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I
46156    will seek it yet again.

46157 Proverbs 24

46158  1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be
46159    with them.
46160  2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of
46161    mischief.
46162  3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is
46163    established:
46164  4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all
46165    precious and pleasant riches.
46166  5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth
46167    strength.
46168  6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude
46169    of counsellors there is safety.
46170  7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the
46171    gate.
46172  8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous
46173    person.
46174  9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an
46175    abomination to men.
46176 10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
46177 11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and
46178    those that are ready to be slain;
46179 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that
46180    pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul,
46181    doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man
46182    according to his works?
46183 13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb,
46184    which is sweet to thy taste:
46185 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou
46186    hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy
46187    expectation shall not be cut off.
46188 15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the
46189    righteous; spoil not his resting place:
46190 16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but
46191    the wicked shall fall into mischief.
46192 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart
46193    be glad when he stumbleth:
46194 18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away
46195    his wrath from him.
46196 19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious
46197    at the wicked:
46198 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of
46199    the wicked shall be put out.
46200 21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with
46201    them that are given to change:
46202 22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the
46203    ruin of them both?
46204 23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have
46205    respect of persons in judgment.
46206 24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall
46207    the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
46208 25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good
46209    blessing shall come upon them.
46210 26 Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
46211 27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the
46212    field; and afterwards build thine house.
46213 28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and
46214    deceive not with thy lips.
46215 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will
46216    render to the man according to his work.
46217 30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of
46218    the man void of understanding;
46219 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had
46220    covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was
46221    broken down.
46222 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and
46223    received instruction.
46224 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
46225    hands to sleep:
46226 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want
46227    as an armed man.

46228 Proverbs 25

46229  1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah
46230    king of Judah copied out.
46231  2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of
46232    kings is to search out a matter.
46233  3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart
46234    of kings is unsearchable.
46235  4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come
46236    forth a vessel for the finer.
46237  5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne
46238    shall be established in righteousness.
46239  6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand
46240    not in the place of great men:
46241  7 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither;
46242    than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the
46243    prince whom thine eyes have seen.
46244  8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do
46245    in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
46246  9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not
46247    a secret to another:
46248 10 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy
46249    turn not away.
46250 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of
46251    silver.
46252 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a
46253    wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
46254 13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful
46255    messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of
46256    his masters.
46257 14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind
46258    without rain.
46259 15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue
46260    breaketh the bone.
46261 16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee,
46262    lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
46263 17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary
46264    of thee, and so hate thee.
46265 18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a
46266    maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
46267 19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a
46268    broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
46269 20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as
46270    vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy
46271    heart.
46272 21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be
46273    thirsty, give him water to drink:
46274 22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD
46275    shall reward thee.
46276 23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance
46277    a backbiting tongue.
46278 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with
46279    a brawling woman and in a wide house.
46280 25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
46281    country.
46282 26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a
46283    troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
46284 27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their
46285    own glory is not glory.
46286 28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that
46287    is broken down, and without walls.

46288 Proverbs 26

46289  1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not
46290    seemly for a fool.
46291  2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the
46292    curse causeless shall not come.
46293  3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
46294    fool's back.
46295  4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be
46296    like unto him.
46297  5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his
46298    own conceit.
46299  6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off
46300    the feet, and drinketh damage.
46301  7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the
46302    mouth of fools.
46303  8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth
46304    honour to a fool.
46305  9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a
46306    parable in the mouths of fools.
46307 10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool,
46308    and rewardeth transgressors.
46309 11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his
46310    folly.
46311 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope
46312    of a fool than of him.
46313 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is
46314    in the streets.
46315 14 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon
46316    his bed.
46317 15 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to
46318    bring it again to his mouth.
46319 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that
46320    can render a reason.
46321 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to
46322    him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
46323 18 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
46324 19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not
46325    I in sport?
46326 20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is
46327    no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
46328 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a
46329    contentious man to kindle strife.
46330 22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into
46331    the innermost parts of the belly.
46332 23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered
46333    with silver dross.
46334 24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit
46335    within him;
46336 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven
46337    abominations in his heart.
46338 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be
46339    shewed before the whole congregation.
46340 27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a
46341    stone, it will return upon him.
46342 28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a
46343    flattering mouth worketh ruin.

46344 Proverbs 27

46345  1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a
46346    day may bring forth.
46347  2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a
46348    stranger, and not thine own lips.
46349  3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is
46350    heavier than them both.
46351  4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to
46352    stand before envy?
46353  5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
46354  6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an
46355    enemy are deceitful.
46356  7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul
46357    every bitter thing is sweet.
46358  8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that
46359    wandereth from his place.
46360  9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness
46361    of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
46362 10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;
46363    neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy
46364    calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a
46365    brother far off.
46366 11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him
46367    that reproacheth me.
46368 12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the
46369    simple pass on, and are punished.
46370 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a
46371    pledge of him for a strange woman.
46372 14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in
46373    the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
46374 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious
46375    woman are alike.
46376 16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his
46377    right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
46378 17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of
46379    his friend.
46380 18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he
46381    that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
46382 19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to
46383    man.
46384 20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are
46385    never satisfied.
46386 21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is
46387    a man to his praise.
46388 22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with
46389    a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
46390 23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look
46391    well to thy herds.
46392 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to
46393    every generation?
46394 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and
46395    herbs of the mountains are gathered.
46396 26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of
46397    the field.
46398 27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the
46399    food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy
46400    maidens.

46401 Proverbs 28

46402  1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are
46403    bold as a lion.
46404  2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof:
46405    but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof
46406    shall be prolonged.
46407  3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain
46408    which leaveth no food.
46409  4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep
46410    the law contend with them.
46411  5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD
46412    understand all things.
46413  6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he
46414    that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
46415  7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a
46416    companion of riotous men shameth his father.
46417  8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he
46418    shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
46419  9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his
46420    prayer shall be abomination.
46421 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he
46422    shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall
46423    have good things in possession.
46424 11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that
46425    hath understanding searcheth him out.
46426 12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when
46427    the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
46428 13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso
46429    confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
46430 14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his
46431    heart shall fall into mischief.
46432 15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler
46433    over the poor people.
46434 16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great
46435    oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his
46436    days.
46437 17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall
46438    flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
46439 18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is
46440    perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
46441 19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he
46442    that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
46443 20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh
46444    haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
46445 21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of
46446    bread that man will transgress.
46447 22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth
46448    not that poverty shall come upon him.
46449 23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than
46450    he that flattereth with the tongue.
46451 24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no
46452    transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
46453 25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that
46454    putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
46455 26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh
46456    wisely, he shall be delivered.
46457 27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that
46458    hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
46459 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they
46460    perish, the righteous increase.

46461 Proverbs 29

46462  1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall
46463    suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
46464  2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but
46465    when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
46466  3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth
46467    company with harlots spendeth his substance.
46468  4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that
46469    receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
46470  5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his
46471    feet.
46472  6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the
46473    righteous doth sing and rejoice.
46474  7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the
46475    wicked regardeth not to know it.
46476  8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away
46477    wrath.
46478  9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage
46479    or laugh, there is no rest.
46480 10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
46481 11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in
46482    till afterwards.
46483 12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
46484 13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD
46485    lighteneth both their eyes.
46486 14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be
46487    established for ever.
46488 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself
46489    bringeth his mother to shame.
46490 16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but
46491    the righteous shall see their fall.
46492 17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall
46493    give delight unto thy soul.
46494 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that
46495    keepeth the law, happy is he.
46496 19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he
46497    understand he will not answer.
46498 20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more
46499    hope of a fool than of him.
46500 21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall
46501    have him become his son at the length.
46502 22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth
46503    in transgression.
46504 23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the
46505    humble in spirit.
46506 24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth
46507    cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
46508 25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust
46509    in the LORD shall be safe.
46510 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh
46511    from the LORD.
46512 27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is
46513    upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

46514 Proverbs 30

46515  1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man
46516    spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
46517  2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the
46518    understanding of a man.
46519  3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
46520  4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath
46521    gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a
46522    garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what
46523    is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
46524  5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put
46525    their trust in him.
46526  6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be
46527    found a liar.
46528  7 Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I
46529    die:
46530  8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty
46531    nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
46532  9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or
46533    lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in
46534    vain.
46535 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and
46536    thou be found guilty.
46537 11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not
46538    bless their mother.
46539 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet
46540    is not washed from their filthiness.
46541 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their
46542    eyelids are lifted up.
46543 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their
46544    jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth,
46545    and the needy from among men.
46546 15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There
46547    are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things
46548    say not, It is enough:
46549 16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled
46550    with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
46551 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his
46552    mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the
46553    young eagles shall eat it.
46554 18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea,
46555    four which I know not:
46556 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a
46557    rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way
46558    of a man with a maid.
46559 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth
46560    her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
46561 21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which
46562    it cannot bear:
46563 22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled
46564    with meat;
46565 23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that
46566    is heir to her mistress.
46567 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they
46568    are exceeding wise:
46569 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat
46570    in the summer;
46571 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses
46572    in the rocks;
46573 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by
46574    bands;
46575 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings'
46576    palaces.
46577 29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in
46578    going:
46579 30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away
46580    for any;
46581 31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there
46582    is no rising up.
46583 32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou
46584    hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
46585 33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the
46586    wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of
46587    wrath bringeth forth strife.

46588 Proverbs 31

46589  1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught
46590    him.
46591  2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son
46592    of my vows?
46593  3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which
46594    destroyeth kings.
46595  4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink
46596    wine; nor for princes strong drink:
46597  5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment
46598    of any of the afflicted.
46599  6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine
46600    unto those that be of heavy hearts.
46601  7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery
46602    no more.
46603  8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are
46604    appointed to destruction.
46605  9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the
46606    poor and needy.
46607 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
46608    rubies.
46609 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he
46610    shall have no need of spoil.
46611 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
46612 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her
46613    hands.
46614 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from
46615    afar.
46616 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her
46617    household, and a portion to her maidens.
46618 16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her
46619    hands she planteth a vineyard.
46620 17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her
46621    arms.
46622 18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth
46623    not out by night.
46624 19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the
46625    distaff.
46626 20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth
46627    forth her hands to the needy.
46628 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her
46629    household are clothed with scarlet.
46630 22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk
46631    and purple.
46632 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the
46633    elders of the land.
46634 24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles
46635    unto the merchant.
46636 25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in
46637    time to come.
46638 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the
46639    law of kindness.
46640 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not
46641    the bread of idleness.
46642 28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also,
46643    and he praiseth her.
46644 29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them
46645    all.
46646 30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that
46647    feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
46648 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works
46649    praise her in the gates.

46650 Book 21 Ecclesiastes

46651 Ecclesiastes 1

46652  1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in
46653    Jerusalem.
46654  2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities;
46655    all is vanity.
46656  3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under
46657    the sun?
46658  4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh:
46659    but the earth abideth for ever.
46660  5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to
46661    his place where he arose.
46662  6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the
46663    north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth
46664    again according to his circuits.
46665  7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto
46666    the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return
46667    again.
46668  8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is
46669    not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
46670  9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
46671    which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new
46672    thing under the sun.
46673 10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?
46674    it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
46675 11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there
46676    be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that
46677    shall come after.
46678 12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
46679 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom
46680    concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore
46681    travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised
46682    therewith.
46683 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and,
46684    behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
46685 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which
46686    is wanting cannot be numbered.
46687 16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great
46688    estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have
46689    been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great
46690    experience of wisdom and knowledge.
46691 17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and
46692    folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
46693 18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
46694    knowledge increaseth sorrow.

46695 Ecclesiastes 2

46696  1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,
46697    therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
46698  2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
46699  3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet
46700    acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly,
46701    till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which
46702    they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
46703  4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me
46704    vineyards:
46705  5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of
46706    all kind of fruits:
46707  6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that
46708    bringeth forth trees:
46709  7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my
46710    house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle
46711    above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
46712  8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure
46713    of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women
46714    singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical
46715    instruments, and that of all sorts.
46716  9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before
46717    me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
46718 10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I
46719    withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in
46720    all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
46721 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and
46722    on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was
46723    vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under
46724    the sun.
46725 12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly:
46726    for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that
46727    which hath been already done.
46728 13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light
46729    excelleth darkness.
46730 14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in
46731    darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth
46732    to them all.
46733 15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it
46734    happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I
46735    said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
46736 16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool
46737    for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall
46738    all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
46739 17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under
46740    the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of
46741    spirit.
46742 18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun:
46743    because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
46744 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet
46745    shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured,
46746    and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is
46747    also vanity.
46748 20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the
46749    labour which I took under the sun.
46750 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in
46751    knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured
46752    therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity
46753    and a great evil.
46754 22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of
46755    his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
46756 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his
46757    heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
46758 24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and
46759    drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his
46760    labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
46761 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
46762 26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and
46763    knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to
46764    gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good
46765    before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

46766 Ecclesiastes 3

46767  1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
46768    under the heaven:
46769  2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a
46770    time to pluck up that which is planted;
46771  3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and
46772    a time to build up;
46773  4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a
46774    time to dance;
46775  5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones
46776    together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from
46777    embracing;
46778  6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time
46779    to cast away;
46780  7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and
46781    a time to speak;
46782  8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time
46783    of peace.
46784  9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
46785 10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of
46786    men to be exercised in it.
46787 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath
46788    set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the
46789    work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
46790 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to
46791    rejoice, and to do good in his life.
46792 13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the
46793    good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
46794 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever:
46795    nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God
46796    doeth it, that men should fear before him.
46797 15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath
46798    already been; and God requireth that which is past.
46799 16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that
46800    wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that
46801    iniquity was there.
46802 17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the
46803    wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for
46804    every work.
46805 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men,
46806    that God might manifest them, and that they might see that
46807    they themselves are beasts.
46808 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts;
46809    even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the
46810    other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no
46811    preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
46812 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to
46813    dust again.
46814 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the
46815    spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
46816 22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a
46817    man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion:
46818    for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

46819 Ecclesiastes 4

46820  1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are
46821    done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were
46822    oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their
46823    oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
46824  2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than
46825    the living which are yet alive.
46826  3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who
46827    hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
46828  4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that
46829    for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity
46830    and vexation of spirit.
46831  5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
46832  6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full
46833    with travail and vexation of spirit.
46834  7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
46835  8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath
46836    neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his
46837    labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither
46838    saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good?
46839    This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
46840  9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for
46841    their labour.
46842 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to
46843    him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to
46844    help him up.
46845 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can
46846    one be warm alone?
46847 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
46848    threefold cord is not quickly broken.
46849 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish
46850    king, who will no more be admonished.
46851 14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is
46852    born in his kingdom becometh poor.
46853 15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the
46854    second child that shall stand up in his stead.
46855 16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been
46856    before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in
46857    him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

46858 Ecclesiastes 5

46859  1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more
46860    ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they
46861    consider not that they do evil.
46862  2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty
46863    to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou
46864    upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
46865  3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a
46866    fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
46867  4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he
46868    hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
46869  5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou
46870    shouldest vow and not pay.
46871  6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say
46872    thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should
46873    God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine
46874    hands?
46875  7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also
46876    divers vanities: but fear thou God.
46877  8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent
46878    perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not
46879    at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest
46880    regardeth; and there be higher than they.
46881  9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself
46882    is served by the field.
46883 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor
46884    he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
46885 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and
46886    what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding
46887    of them with their eyes?
46888 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little
46889    or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to
46890    sleep.
46891 13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely,
46892    riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
46893 14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a
46894    son, and there is nothing in his hand.
46895 15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return
46896    to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which
46897    he may carry away in his hand.
46898 16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came,
46899    so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for
46900    the wind?
46901 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much
46902    sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
46903 18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one
46904    to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour
46905    that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which
46906    God giveth him: for it is his portion.
46907 19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and
46908    hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion,
46909    and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
46910 20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because
46911    God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

46912 Ecclesiastes 6

46913  1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is
46914    common among men:
46915  2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so
46916    that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth,
46917    yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger
46918    eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
46919  3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so
46920    that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled
46921    with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an
46922    untimely birth is better than he.
46923  4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and
46924    his name shall be covered with darkness.
46925  5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this
46926    hath more rest than the other.
46927  6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he
46928    seen no good: do not all go to one place?
46929  7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite
46930    is not filled.
46931  8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor,
46932    that knoweth to walk before the living?
46933  9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the
46934    desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
46935 10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it
46936    is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than
46937    he.
46938 11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man
46939    the better?
46940 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the
46941    days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who
46942    can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

46943 Ecclesiastes 7

46944  1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of
46945    death than the day of one's birth.
46946  2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the
46947    house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the
46948    living will lay it to his heart.
46949  3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the
46950    countenance the heart is made better.
46951  4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the
46952    heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
46953  5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to
46954    hear the song of fools.
46955  6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter
46956    of the fool: this also is vanity.
46957  7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth
46958    the heart.
46959  8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and
46960    the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
46961  9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in
46962    the bosom of fools.
46963 10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were
46964    better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning
46965    this.
46966 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit
46967    to them that see the sun.
46968 12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the
46969    excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them
46970    that have it.
46971 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight,
46972    which he hath made crooked?
46973 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of
46974    adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the
46975    other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
46976 15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a
46977    just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a
46978    wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
46979 16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise:
46980    why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
46981 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why
46982    shouldest thou die before thy time?
46983 18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also
46984    from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God
46985    shall come forth of them all.
46986 19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which
46987    are in the city.
46988 20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and
46989    sinneth not.
46990 21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou
46991    hear thy servant curse thee:
46992 22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself
46993    likewise hast cursed others.
46994 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but
46995    it was far from me.
46996 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it
46997    out?
46998 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out
46999    wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness
47000    of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
47001 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is
47002    snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God
47003    shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
47004 27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by
47005    one, to find out the account:
47006 28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a
47007    thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not
47008    found.
47009 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright;
47010    but they have sought out many inventions.

47011 Ecclesiastes 8

47012  1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of
47013    a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the
47014    boldness of his face shall be changed.
47015  2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in
47016    regard of the oath of God.
47017  3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil
47018    thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
47019  4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say
47020    unto him, What doest thou?
47021  5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a
47022    wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
47023  6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore
47024    the misery of man is great upon him.
47025  7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him
47026    when it shall be?
47027  8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the
47028    spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there
47029    is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver
47030    those that are given to it.
47031  9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work
47032    that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man
47033    ruleth over another to his own hurt.
47034 10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the
47035    place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where
47036    they had so done: this is also vanity.
47037 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed
47038    speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set
47039    in them to do evil.
47040 12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be
47041    prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them
47042    that fear God, which fear before him:
47043 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he
47044    prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth
47045    not before God.
47046 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be
47047    just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the
47048    wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth
47049    according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also
47050    is vanity.
47051 15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing
47052    under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for
47053    that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life,
47054    which God giveth him under the sun.
47055 16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the
47056    business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that
47057    neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
47058 17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out
47059    the work that is done under the sun: because though a man
47060    labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther;
47061    though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able
47062    to find it.

47063 Ecclesiastes 9

47064  1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all
47065    this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are
47066    in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by
47067    all that is before them.
47068  2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the
47069    righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean,
47070    and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that
47071    sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that
47072    sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
47073  3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun,
47074    that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the
47075    sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart
47076    while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
47077  4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for
47078    a living dog is better than a dead lion.
47079  5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not
47080    any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory
47081    of them is forgotten.
47082  6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
47083    perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any
47084    thing that is done under the sun.
47085  7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a
47086    merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
47087  8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no
47088    ointment.
47089  9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of
47090    the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the
47091    sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in
47092    this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
47093 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for
47094    there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in
47095    the grave, whither thou goest.
47096 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
47097    swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the
47098    wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour
47099    to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
47100 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are
47101    taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the
47102    snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it
47103    falleth suddenly upon them.
47104 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed
47105    great unto me:
47106 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came
47107    a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great
47108    bulwarks against it:
47109 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his
47110    wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same
47111    poor man.
47112 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the
47113    poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
47114 17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of
47115    him that ruleth among fools.
47116 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner
47117    destroyeth much good.

47118 Ecclesiastes 10

47119  1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth
47120    a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in
47121    reputation for wisdom and honour.
47122  2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at
47123    his left.
47124  3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his
47125    wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a
47126    fool.
47127  4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy
47128    place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
47129  5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error
47130    which proceedeth from the ruler:
47131  6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
47132  7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as
47133    servants upon the earth.
47134  8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh
47135    an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
47136  9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that
47137    cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
47138 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must
47139    he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
47140 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a
47141    babbler is no better.
47142 12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of
47143    a fool will swallow up himself.
47144 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and
47145    the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
47146 14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be;
47147    and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
47148 15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because
47149    he knoweth not how to go to the city.
47150 16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes
47151    eat in the morning!
47152 17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles,
47153    and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for
47154    drunkenness!
47155 18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through
47156    idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
47157 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
47158    answereth all things.
47159 20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the
47160    rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the
47161    voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

47162 Ecclesiastes 11

47163  1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after
47164    many days.
47165  2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest
47166    not what evil shall be upon the earth.
47167  3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the
47168    earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the
47169    north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
47170  4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that
47171    regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
47172  5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the
47173    bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so
47174    thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
47175  6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not
47176    thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either
47177    this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
47178  7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the
47179    eyes to behold the sun:
47180  8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let
47181    him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All
47182    that cometh is vanity.
47183  9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer
47184    thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine
47185    heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for
47186    all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
47187 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from
47188    thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

47189 Ecclesiastes 12

47190  1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the
47191    evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt
47192    say, I have no pleasure in them;
47193  2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not
47194    darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
47195  3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and
47196    the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease
47197    because they are few, and those that look out of the windows
47198    be darkened,
47199  4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of
47200    the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the
47201    bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
47202  5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and
47203    fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish,
47204    and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail:
47205    because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about
47206    the streets:
47207  6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be
47208    broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel
47209    broken at the cistern.
47210  7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the
47211    spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
47212  8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
47213  9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught
47214    the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out,
47215    and set in order many proverbs.
47216 10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that
47217    which was written was upright, even words of truth.
47218 11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by
47219    the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
47220 12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
47221    books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the
47222    flesh.
47223 13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and
47224    keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
47225 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every
47226    secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

47227 Book 22 Song

47228 Song 1

47229  1 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
47230  2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is
47231    better than wine.
47232  3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as
47233    ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
47234  4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into
47235    his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will
47236    remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
47237  5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the
47238    tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
47239  6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath
47240    looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they
47241    made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard
47242    have I not kept.
47243  7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where
47244    thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as
47245    one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
47246  8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth
47247    by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the
47248    shepherds' tents.
47249  9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in
47250    Pharaoh's chariots.
47251 10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with
47252    chains of gold.
47253 11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
47254 12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth
47255    forth the smell thereof.
47256 13 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all
47257    night betwixt my breasts.
47258 14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the
47259    vineyards of Engedi.
47260 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou
47261    hast doves' eyes.
47262 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed
47263    is green.
47264 17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

47265 Song 2

47266  1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
47267  2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
47268  3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my
47269    beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great
47270    delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
47271  4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me
47272    was love.
47273  5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of
47274    love.
47275  6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth
47276    embrace me.
47277  7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by
47278    the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my
47279    love, till he please.
47280  8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the
47281    mountains, skipping upon the hills.
47282  9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth
47283    behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing
47284    himself through the lattice.
47285 10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair
47286    one, and come away.
47287 11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
47288 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of
47289    birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our
47290    land;
47291 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with
47292    the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair
47293    one, and come away.
47294 14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret
47295    places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear
47296    thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is
47297    comely.
47298 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for
47299    our vines have tender grapes.
47300 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
47301 17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my
47302    beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the
47303    mountains of Bether.

47304 Song 3

47305  1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought
47306    him, but I found him not.
47307  2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in
47308    the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought
47309    him, but I found him not.
47310  3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said,
47311    Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
47312  4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him
47313    whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go,
47314    until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the
47315    chamber of her that conceived me.
47316  5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by
47317    the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my
47318    love, till he please.
47319  6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of
47320    smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders
47321    of the merchant?
47322  7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are
47323    about it, of the valiant of Israel.
47324  8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his
47325    sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
47326  9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
47327 10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of
47328    gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being
47329    paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
47330 11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with
47331    the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his
47332    espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

47333 Song 4

47334  1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou
47335    hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of
47336    goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
47337  2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which
47338    came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and
47339    none is barren among them.
47340  3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is
47341    comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within
47342    thy locks.
47343  4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury,
47344    whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty
47345    men.
47346  5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which
47347    feed among the lilies.
47348  6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me
47349    to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
47350  7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
47351  8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon:
47352    look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon,
47353    from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
47354  9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast
47355    ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of
47356    thy neck.
47357 10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is
47358    thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all
47359    spices!
47360 11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk
47361    are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like
47362    the smell of Lebanon.
47363 12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a
47364    fountain sealed.
47365 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant
47366    fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
47367 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
47368    frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
47369 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams
47370    from Lebanon.
47371 16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my
47372    garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved
47373    come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

47374 Song 5

47375  1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have
47376    gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb
47377    with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O
47378    friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
47379  2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved
47380    that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my
47381    dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my
47382    locks with the drops of the night.
47383  3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed
47384    my feet; how shall I defile them?
47385  4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my
47386    bowels were moved for him.
47387  5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with
47388    myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the
47389    handles of the lock.
47390  6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself,
47391    and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but
47392    I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
47393  7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me,
47394    they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil
47395    from me.
47396  8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved,
47397    that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
47398  9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest
47399    among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved,
47400    that thou dost so charge us?
47401 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten
47402    thousand.
47403 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and
47404    black as a raven.
47405 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters,
47406    washed with milk, and fitly set.
47407 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips
47408    like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
47409 14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is
47410    as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
47411 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine
47412    gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
47413 16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is
47414    my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

47415 Song 6

47416  1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women?
47417    whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with
47418    thee.
47419  2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of
47420    spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
47421  3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among
47422    the lilies.
47423  4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem,
47424    terrible as an army with banners.
47425  5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy
47426    hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
47427  6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the
47428    washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one
47429    barren among them.
47430  7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
47431  8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and
47432    virgins without number.
47433  9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her
47434    mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The
47435    daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the
47436    concubines, and they praised her.
47437 10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the
47438    moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
47439 11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the
47440    valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the
47441    pomegranates budded.
47442 12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of
47443    Amminadib.
47444 13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look
47445    upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the
47446    company of two armies.

47447 Song 7

47448  1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter!
47449    the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the
47450    hands of a cunning workman.
47451  2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor:
47452    thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
47453  3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
47454  4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools
47455    in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the
47456    tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
47457  5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine
47458    head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
47459  6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
47460  7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to
47461    clusters of grapes.
47462  8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the
47463    boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of
47464    the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
47465  9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved,
47466    that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are
47467    asleep to speak.
47468 10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
47469 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge
47470    in the villages.
47471 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine
47472    flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the
47473    pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
47474 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of
47475    pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O
47476    my beloved.

47477 Song 8

47478  1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my
47479    mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;
47480    yea, I should not be despised.
47481  2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who
47482    would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine
47483    of the juice of my pomegranate.
47484  3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand
47485    should embrace me.
47486  4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up,
47487    nor awake my love, until he please.
47488  5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon
47489    her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy
47490    mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that
47491    bare thee.
47492  6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
47493    for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave:
47494    the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most
47495    vehement flame.
47496  7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown
47497    it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for
47498    love, it would utterly be contemned.
47499  8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall
47500    we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
47501  9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver:
47502    and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of
47503    cedar.
47504 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his
47505    eyes as one that found favour.
47506 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard
47507    unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a
47508    thousand pieces of silver.
47509 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon,
47510    must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof
47511    two hundred.
47512 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to
47513    thy voice: cause me to hear it.
47514 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a
47515    young hart upon the mountains of spices.

47516 Book 23 Isaiah

47517 Isaiah 1

47518  1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning
47519    Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
47520    Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
47521  2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
47522    spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they
47523    have rebelled against me.
47524  3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but
47525    Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
47526  4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
47527    evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken
47528    the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto
47529    anger, they are gone away backward.
47530  5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
47531    more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
47532  6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
47533    soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
47534    sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
47535    mollified with ointment.
47536  7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:
47537    your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is
47538    desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
47539  8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
47540    as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
47541  9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small
47542    remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been
47543    like unto Gomorrah.
47544 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto
47545    the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
47546 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
47547    saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and
47548    the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of
47549    bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
47550 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
47551    your hand, to tread my courts?
47552 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto
47553    me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I
47554    cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
47555 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they
47556    are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
47557 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
47558    from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear:
47559    your hands are full of blood.
47560 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
47561    from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
47562 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge
47563    the fatherless, plead for the widow.
47564 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
47565    your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
47566    though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
47567 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
47568    land:
47569 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
47570    sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
47571 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
47572    judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
47573 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
47574 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every
47575    one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not
47576    the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto
47577    them.
47578 24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of
47579    Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me
47580    of mine enemies:
47581 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy
47582    dross, and take away all thy tin:
47583 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
47584    counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
47585    called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
47586 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
47587    righteousness.
47588 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
47589    shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be
47590    consumed.
47591 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,
47592    and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have
47593    chosen.
47594 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden
47595    that hath no water.
47596 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
47597    spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall
47598    quench them.

47599 Isaiah 2

47600  1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
47601    Jerusalem.
47602  2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain
47603    of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the
47604    mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
47605    nations shall flow unto it.
47606  3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to
47607    the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
47608    and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
47609    paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
47610    the LORD from Jerusalem.
47611  4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
47612    people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
47613    their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
47614    against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
47615  5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the
47616    LORD.
47617  6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
47618    because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers
47619    like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the
47620    children of strangers.
47621  7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there
47622    any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses,
47623    neither is there any end of their chariots:
47624  8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
47625    their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
47626  9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
47627    himself: therefore forgive them not.
47628 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
47629    the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
47630 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness
47631    of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be
47632    exalted in that day.
47633 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that
47634    is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and
47635    he shall be brought low:
47636 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted
47637    up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
47638 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that
47639    are lifted up,
47640 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
47641 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
47642    pictures.
47643 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
47644    haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall
47645    be exalted in that day.
47646 18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
47647 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the
47648    caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
47649    his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
47650 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his
47651    idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to
47652    worship, to the moles and to the bats;
47653 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
47654    ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
47655    majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
47656 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for
47657    wherein is he to be accounted of ?

47658 Isaiah 3

47659  1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from
47660    Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole
47661    stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
47662  2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
47663    prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
47664  3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
47665    counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent
47666    orator.
47667  4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall
47668    rule over them.
47669  5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
47670    every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself
47671    proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
47672    honourable.
47673  6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his
47674    father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let
47675    this ruin be under thy hand:
47676  7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;
47677    for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a
47678    ruler of the people.
47679  8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
47680    tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the
47681    eyes of his glory.
47682  9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and
47683    they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto
47684    their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
47685 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for
47686    they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
47687 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward
47688    of his hands shall be given him.
47689 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women
47690    rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee
47691    to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
47692 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
47693    people.
47694 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
47695    people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
47696    vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
47697 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
47698    faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
47699 16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
47700    haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
47701    walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with
47702    their feet:
47703 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the
47704    head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover
47705    their secret parts.
47706 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their
47707    tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and
47708    their round tires like the moon,
47709 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
47710 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands,
47711    and the tablets, and the earrings,
47712 21 The rings, and nose jewels,
47713 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
47714    wimples, and the crisping pins,
47715 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
47716 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there
47717    shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of
47718    well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding
47719    of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
47720 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
47721 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
47722    shall sit upon the ground.

47723 Isaiah 4

47724  1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
47725    saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
47726    only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
47727  2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
47728    glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and
47729    comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
47730  3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and
47731    he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even
47732    every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
47733  4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
47734    daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of
47735    Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment,
47736    and by the spirit of burning.
47737  5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount
47738    Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and
47739    the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory
47740    shall be a defence.
47741  6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time
47742    from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert
47743    from storm and from rain.

47744 Isaiah 5

47745  1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
47746    touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a
47747    very fruitful hill:
47748  2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
47749    planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
47750    midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked
47751    that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild
47752    grapes.
47753  3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge,
47754    I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
47755  4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not
47756    done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
47757    forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
47758  5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard:
47759    I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up;
47760    and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
47761  6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;
47762    but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command
47763    the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
47764  7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,
47765    and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for
47766    judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold
47767    a cry.
47768  8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to
47769    field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone
47770    in the midst of the earth!
47771  9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses
47772    shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
47773 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed
47774    of an homer shall yield an ephah.
47775 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
47776    follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine
47777    inflame them!
47778 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,
47779    are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,
47780    neither consider the operation of his hands.
47781 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have
47782    no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their
47783    multitude dried up with thirst.
47784 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
47785    without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and
47786    their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
47787 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man
47788    shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
47789 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God
47790    that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
47791 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste
47792    places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
47793 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin
47794    as it were with a cart rope:
47795 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may
47796    see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
47797    nigh and come, that we may know it!
47798 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
47799    darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
47800    for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
47801 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in
47802    their own sight!
47803 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
47804    strength to mingle strong drink:
47805 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
47806    righteousness of the righteous from him!
47807 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
47808    consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and
47809    their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away
47810    the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
47811    Holy One of Israel.
47812 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people,
47813    and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath
47814    smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases
47815    were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger
47816    is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
47817 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and
47818    will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold,
47819    they shall come with speed swiftly:
47820 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber
47821    nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,
47822    nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
47823 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses'
47824    hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a
47825    whirlwind:
47826 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young
47827    lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and
47828    shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
47829 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring
47830    of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and
47831    sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

47832 Isaiah 6

47833  1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting
47834    upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the
47835    temple.
47836  2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with
47837    twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
47838    and with twain he did fly.
47839  3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the
47840    LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
47841  4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
47842    cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
47843  5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
47844    unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
47845    lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
47846  6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in
47847    his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
47848    altar:
47849  7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched
47850    thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
47851    purged.
47852  8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send,
47853    and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
47854  9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
47855    understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
47856 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy,
47857    and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear
47858    with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert,
47859    and be healed.
47860 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities
47861    be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and
47862    the land be utterly desolate,
47863 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great
47864    forsaking in the midst of the land.
47865 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall
47866    be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in
47867    them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be
47868    the substance thereof.

47869 Isaiah 7

47870  1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the
47871    son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria,
47872    and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward
47873    Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
47874  2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
47875    confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the
47876    heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with
47877    the wind.
47878  3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
47879    thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
47880    the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
47881  4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither
47882    be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,
47883    for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of
47884    Remaliah.
47885  5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken
47886    evil counsel against thee, saying,
47887  6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
47888    breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even
47889    the son of Tabeal:
47890  7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it
47891    come to pass.
47892  8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is
47893    Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be
47894    broken, that it be not a people.
47895  9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
47896    Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
47897    established.
47898 10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
47899 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
47900    depth, or in the height above.
47901 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
47902 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small
47903    thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
47904 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
47905    virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
47906    Immanuel.
47907 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the
47908    evil, and choose the good.
47909 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose
47910    the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of
47911    both her kings.
47912 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon
47913    thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that
47914    Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
47915 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
47916    hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers
47917    of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
47918 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the
47919    desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
47920    thorns, and upon all bushes.
47921 20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
47922    hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of
47923    Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
47924    consume the beard.
47925 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
47926    nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
47927 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they
47928    shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall
47929    every one eat that is left in the land.
47930 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall
47931    be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
47932    silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
47933 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all
47934    the land shall become briers and thorns.
47935 25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there
47936    shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it
47937    shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading
47938    of lesser cattle.

47939 Isaiah 8

47940  1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and
47941    write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
47942  2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the
47943    priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
47944  3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a
47945    son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
47946    Mahershalalhashbaz.
47947  4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,
47948    and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
47949    shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
47950  5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
47951  6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
47952    go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
47953  7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
47954    waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
47955    Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
47956    channels, and go over all his banks:
47957  8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go
47958    over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out
47959    of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
47960  9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
47961    pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
47962    yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves,
47963    and ye shall be broken in pieces.
47964 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the
47965    word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
47966 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
47967    instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this
47968    people, saying,
47969 12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people
47970    shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
47971    afraid.
47972 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear,
47973    and let him be your dread.
47974 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling
47975    and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a
47976    gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
47977 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
47978    and be snared, and be taken.
47979 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
47980 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the
47981    house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
47982 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for
47983    signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which
47984    dwelleth in mount Zion.
47985 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
47986    familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
47987    should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the
47988    dead?
47989 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according
47990    to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
47991 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and
47992    it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they
47993    shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
47994    look upward.
47995 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and
47996    darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to
47997    darkness.

47998 Isaiah 9

47999  1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her
48000    vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of
48001    Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
48002    grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
48003    in Galilee of the nations.
48004  2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:
48005    they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
48006    hath the light shined.
48007  3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:
48008    they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as
48009    men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
48010  4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of
48011    his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of
48012    Midian.
48013  5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and
48014    garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and
48015    fuel of fire.
48016  6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
48017    government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
48018    called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
48019    Father, The Prince of Peace.
48020  7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no
48021    end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order
48022    it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from
48023    henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will
48024    perform this.
48025  8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
48026    Israel.
48027  9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant
48028    of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
48029 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn
48030    stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them
48031    into cedars.
48032 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
48033    against him, and join his enemies together;
48034 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall
48035    devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not
48036    turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
48037 13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither
48038    do they seek the LORD of hosts.
48039 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,
48040    branch and rush, in one day.
48041 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet
48042    that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
48043 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they
48044    that are led of them are destroyed.
48045 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men,
48046    neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
48047    every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
48048    speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
48049    his hand is stretched out still.
48050 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers
48051    and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,
48052    and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
48053 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened,
48054    and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall
48055    spare his brother.
48056 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he
48057    shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:
48058    they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
48059 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together
48060    shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned
48061    away, but his hand is stretched out still.

48062 Isaiah 10

48063  1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
48064    grievousness which they have prescribed;
48065  2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
48066    right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their
48067    prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
48068  3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
48069    desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for
48070    help? and where will ye leave your glory?
48071  4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they
48072    shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not
48073    turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
48074  5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand
48075    is mine indignation.
48076  6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against
48077    the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the
48078    spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
48079    mire of the streets.
48080  7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;
48081    but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a
48082    few.
48083  8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
48084  9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not
48085    Samaria as Damascus?
48086 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose
48087    graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
48088 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do
48089    to Jerusalem and her idols?
48090 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath
48091    performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I
48092    will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
48093    Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
48094 13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and
48095    by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds
48096    of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put
48097    down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
48098 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and
48099    as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the
48100    earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the
48101    mouth, or peeped.
48102 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
48103    or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?
48104    as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it
48105    up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no
48106    wood.
48107 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his
48108    fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a
48109    burning like the burning of a fire.
48110 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One
48111    for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his
48112    briers in one day;
48113 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
48114    field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
48115    standard-bearer fainteth.
48116 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a
48117    child may write them.
48118 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of
48119    Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall
48120    no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay
48121    upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
48122 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the
48123    mighty God.
48124 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a
48125    remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall
48126    overflow with righteousness.
48127 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
48128    determined, in the midst of all the land.
48129 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that
48130    dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall
48131    smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against
48132    thee, after the manner of Egypt.
48133 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease,
48134    and mine anger in their destruction.
48135 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him
48136    according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
48137    as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the
48138    manner of Egypt.
48139 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall
48140    be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy
48141    neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
48142    anointing.
48143 28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he
48144    hath laid up his carriages:
48145 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their
48146    lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
48147 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard
48148    unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
48149 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
48150    themselves to flee.
48151 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his
48152    hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
48153    Jerusalem.
48154 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with
48155    terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and
48156    the haughty shall be humbled.
48157 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,
48158    and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

48159 Isaiah 11

48160  1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and
48161    a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
48162  2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of
48163    wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
48164    spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
48165  3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the
48166    LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
48167    neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
48168  4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
48169    with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the
48170    earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
48171    lips shall he slay the wicked.
48172  5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
48173    faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
48174  6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
48175    lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
48176    fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
48177  7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
48178    lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
48179  8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
48180    the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
48181  9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for
48182    the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the
48183    waters cover the sea.
48184 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
48185    stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
48186    seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
48187 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set
48188    his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
48189    people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and
48190    from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,
48191    and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
48192 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
48193    assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
48194    dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
48195 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of
48196    Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
48197    Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
48198 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
48199    toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
48200    they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children
48201    of Ammon shall obey them.
48202 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
48203    sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the
48204    river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men
48205    go over dryshod.
48206 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,
48207    which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in
48208    the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

48209 Isaiah 12

48210  1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:
48211    though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away,
48212    and thou comfortedst me.
48213  2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid:
48214    for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is
48215    become my salvation.
48216  3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
48217    salvation.
48218  4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his
48219    name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that
48220    his name is exalted.
48221  5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is
48222    known in all the earth.
48223  6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the
48224    Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

48225 Isaiah 13

48226  1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
48227  2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
48228    unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
48229    the nobles.
48230  3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
48231    mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
48232    highness.
48233  4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
48234    people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
48235    together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
48236  5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
48237    LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
48238    land.
48239  6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as
48240    a destruction from the Almighty.
48241  7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart
48242    shall melt:
48243  8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
48244    them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
48245    shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as
48246    flames.
48247  9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and
48248    fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy
48249    the sinners thereof out of it.
48250 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall
48251    not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going
48252    forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
48253 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
48254    their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to
48255    cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
48256 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
48257    than the golden wedge of Ophir.
48258 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove
48259    out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in
48260    the day of his fierce anger.
48261 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man
48262    taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and
48263    flee every one into his own land.
48264 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
48265    that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
48266 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
48267    eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
48268 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not
48269    regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
48270 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
48271    shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall
48272    not spare children.
48273 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
48274    Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
48275    Gomorrah.
48276 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
48277    generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent
48278    there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
48279 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
48280    houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
48281    dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
48282 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
48283    houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
48284    near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

48285 Isaiah 14

48286  1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
48287    Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers
48288    shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house
48289    of Jacob.
48290  2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
48291    and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the
48292    LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them
48293    captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over
48294    their oppressors.
48295  3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give
48296    thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the
48297    hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
48298  4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
48299    Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden
48300    city ceased!
48301  5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre
48302    of the rulers.
48303  6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he
48304    that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none
48305    hindereth.
48306  7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth
48307    into singing.
48308  8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
48309    saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against
48310    us.
48311  9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy
48312    coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
48313    ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all
48314    the kings of the nations.
48315 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become
48316    weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
48317 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy
48318    viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
48319    thee.
48320 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
48321    morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
48322    weaken the nations!
48323 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,
48324    I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also
48325    upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
48326 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like
48327    the most High.
48328 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the
48329    pit.
48330 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider
48331    thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
48332    that did shake kingdoms;
48333 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities
48334    thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
48335 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory,
48336    every one in his own house.
48337 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch,
48338    and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through
48339    with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a
48340    carcase trodden under feet.
48341 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou
48342    hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of
48343    evildoers shall never be renowned.
48344 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their
48345    fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill
48346    the face of the world with cities.
48347 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and
48348    cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and
48349    nephew, saith the LORD.
48350 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of
48351    water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
48352    saith the LORD of hosts.
48353 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
48354    thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so
48355    shall it stand:
48356 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
48357    mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart
48358    from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
48359 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and
48360    this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
48361 27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul
48362    it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
48363 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
48364 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that
48365    smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come
48366    forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
48367    serpent.
48368 30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall
48369    lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and
48370    he shall slay thy remnant.
48371 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art
48372    dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
48373    none shall be alone in his appointed times.
48374 32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That
48375    the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall
48376    trust in it.

48377 Isaiah 15

48378  1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
48379    waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of
48380    Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
48381  2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to
48382    weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their
48383    heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
48384  3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on
48385    the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one
48386    shall howl, weeping abundantly.
48387  4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard
48388    even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall
48389    cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
48390  5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto
48391    Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of
48392    Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
48393    Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
48394  6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
48395    withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
48396  7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
48397    have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
48398    willows.
48399  8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
48400    howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
48401    Beerelim.
48402  9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will
48403    bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
48404    and upon the remnant of the land.

48405 Isaiah 16

48406  1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
48407    wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
48408  2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the
48409    nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
48410  3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night
48411    in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him
48412    that wandereth.
48413  4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to
48414    them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at
48415    an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out
48416    of the land.
48417  5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit
48418    upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and
48419    seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
48420  6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of
48421    his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies
48422    shall not be so.
48423  7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for
48424    the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are
48425    stricken.
48426  8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:
48427    the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants
48428    thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through
48429    the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone
48430    over the sea.
48431  9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of
48432    Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
48433    Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
48434    harvest is fallen.
48435 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
48436    field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
48437    shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine
48438    in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
48439 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and
48440    mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
48441 12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary
48442    on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to
48443    pray; but he shall not prevail.
48444 13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab
48445    since that time.
48446 14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as
48447    the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be
48448    contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
48449    shall be very small and feeble.

48450 Isaiah 17

48451  1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
48452    being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
48453  2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks,
48454    which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
48455  3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom
48456    from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the
48457    glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
48458  4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob
48459    shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax
48460    lean.
48461  5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and
48462    reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that
48463    gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
48464  6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an
48465    olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost
48466    bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof,
48467    saith the LORD God of Israel.
48468  7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall
48469    have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
48470  8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,
48471    neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either
48472    the groves, or the images.
48473  9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,
48474    and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the
48475    children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
48476 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast
48477    not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt
48478    thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
48479    slips:
48480 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the
48481    morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest
48482    shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
48483 12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like
48484    the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that
48485    make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
48486 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but
48487    God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall
48488    be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and
48489    like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
48490 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he
48491    is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot
48492    of them that rob us.

48493 Isaiah 18

48494  1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the
48495    rivers of Ethiopia:
48496  2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
48497    bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to
48498    a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their
48499    beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose
48500    land the rivers have spoiled!
48501  3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
48502    see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and
48503    when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
48504  4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will
48505    consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs,
48506    and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
48507  5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour
48508    grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
48509    sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the
48510    branches.
48511  6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains,
48512    and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer
48513    upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
48514    them.
48515  7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
48516    hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
48517    terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
48518    trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
48519    place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

48520 Isaiah 19

48521  1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift
48522    cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
48523    be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
48524    the midst of it.
48525  2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they
48526    shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
48527    against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against
48528    kingdom.
48529  3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I
48530    will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the
48531    idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
48532    spirits, and to the wizards.
48533  4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel
48534    lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord,
48535    the LORD of hosts.
48536  5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be
48537    wasted and dried up.
48538  6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of
48539    defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
48540    shall wither.
48541  7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and
48542    every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away,
48543    and be no more.
48544  8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle
48545    into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon
48546    the waters shall languish.
48547  9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
48548    networks, shall be confounded.
48549 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
48550    make sluices and ponds for fish.
48551 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise
48552    counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
48553    Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
48554 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee
48555    now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed
48556    upon Egypt.
48557 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are
48558    deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the
48559    stay of the tribes thereof.
48560 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:
48561    and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a
48562    drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
48563 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or
48564    tail, branch or rush, may do.
48565 16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be
48566    afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD
48567    of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
48568 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one
48569    that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
48570    because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
48571    determined against it.
48572 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the
48573    language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall
48574    be called, The city of destruction.
48575 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst
48576    of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to
48577    the LORD.
48578 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of
48579    hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD
48580    because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
48581    and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
48582 21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall
48583    know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and
48584    oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
48585    it.
48586 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it:
48587    and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be
48588    intreated of them, and shall heal them.
48589 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,
48590    and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
48591    Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
48592 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
48593    Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
48594 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt
48595    my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
48596    inheritance.

48597 Isaiah 20

48598  1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the
48599    king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
48600    it;
48601  2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
48602    saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put
48603    off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
48604    barefoot.
48605  3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked
48606    and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
48607    upon Ethiopia;
48608  4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
48609    prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
48610    and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame
48611    of Egypt.
48612  5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
48613    expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
48614  6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold,
48615    such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be
48616    delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

48617 Isaiah 21

48618  1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
48619    south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a
48620    terrible land.
48621  2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer
48622    dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O
48623    Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to
48624    cease.
48625  3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold
48626    upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed
48627    down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
48628  4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
48629    pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
48630  5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,
48631    ye princes, and anoint the shield.
48632  6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let
48633    him declare what he seeth.
48634  7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of
48635    asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently
48636    with much heed:
48637  8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
48638    watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
48639    nights:
48640  9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of
48641    horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
48642    fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
48643    unto the ground.
48644 10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have
48645    heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
48646    unto you.
48647 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
48648    what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
48649 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if
48650    ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
48651 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
48652    lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
48653 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that
48654    was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
48655 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from
48656    the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
48657 16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according
48658    to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall
48659    fail:
48660 17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of
48661    the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
48662    of Israel hath spoken it.

48663 Isaiah 22

48664  1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that
48665    thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
48666  2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city:
48667    thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in
48668    battle.
48669  3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the
48670    archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which
48671    have fled from far.
48672  4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,
48673    labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
48674    daughter of my people.
48675  5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of
48676    perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
48677    breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
48678  6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen,
48679    and Kir uncovered the shield.
48680  7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be
48681    full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in
48682    array at the gate.
48683  8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look
48684    in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
48685  9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they
48686    are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower
48687    pool.
48688 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses
48689    have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
48690 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of
48691    the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,
48692    neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
48693 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and
48694    to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
48695 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep,
48696    eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to
48697    morrow we shall die.
48698 14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely
48699    this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith
48700    the Lord GOD of hosts.
48701 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
48702    treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
48703 16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast
48704    hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a
48705    sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself
48706    in a rock?
48707 17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity,
48708    and will surely cover thee.
48709 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a
48710    large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of
48711    thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
48712 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state
48713    shall he pull thee down.
48714 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
48715    servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
48716 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with
48717    thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand:
48718    and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
48719    to the house of Judah.
48720 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his
48721    shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
48722    shut, and none shall open.
48723 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall
48724    be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
48725 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
48726    house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small
48727    quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of
48728    flagons.
48729 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is
48730    fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and
48731    fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for
48732    the LORD hath spoken it.

48733 Isaiah 23

48734  1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid
48735    waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the
48736    land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
48737  2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants
48738    of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
48739  3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the
48740    river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
48741  4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the
48742    strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth
48743    children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up
48744    virgins.
48745  5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely
48746    pained at the report of Tyre.
48747  6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
48748  7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?
48749    her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
48750  8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
48751    whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
48752    honourable of the earth?
48753  9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all
48754    glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the
48755    earth.
48756 10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
48757    there is no more strength.
48758 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:
48759    the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city,
48760    to destroy the strong holds thereof.
48761 12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed
48762    virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there
48763    also shalt thou have no rest.
48764 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till
48765    the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:
48766    they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces
48767    thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
48768 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
48769 15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be
48770    forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
48771    after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
48772 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
48773    forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
48774    mayest be remembered.
48775 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that
48776    the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and
48777    shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world
48778    upon the face of the earth.
48779 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the
48780    LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her
48781    merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to
48782    eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

48783 Isaiah 24

48784  1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
48785    and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
48786    inhabitants thereof.
48787  2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as
48788    with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so
48789    with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as
48790    with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of
48791    usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
48792  3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for
48793    the LORD hath spoken this word.
48794  4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and
48795    fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
48796  5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
48797    because they have transgressed the laws, changed the
48798    ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
48799  6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that
48800    dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the
48801    earth are burned, and few men left.
48802  7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
48803    merryhearted do sigh.
48804  8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice
48805    endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
48806  9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be
48807    bitter to them that drink it.
48808 10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up,
48809    that no man may come in.
48810 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is
48811    darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
48812 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
48813    destruction.
48814 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the
48815    people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as
48816    the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
48817 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the
48818    majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
48819 15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of
48820    the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
48821 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even
48822    glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness,
48823    woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;
48824    yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
48825 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant
48826    of the earth.
48827 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise
48828    of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out
48829    of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
48830    windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
48831    earth do shake.
48832 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
48833    dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
48834 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be
48835    removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be
48836    heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
48837 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
48838    punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the
48839    kings of the earth upon the earth.
48840 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered
48841    in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many
48842    days shall they be visited.
48843 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when
48844    the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
48845    and before his ancients gloriously.

48846 Isaiah 25

48847  1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy
48848    name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old
48849    are faithfulness and truth.
48850  2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a
48851    ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be
48852    built.
48853  3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of
48854    the terrible nations shall fear thee.
48855  4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the
48856    needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from
48857    the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm
48858    against the wall.
48859  5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a
48860    dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the
48861    branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
48862  6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
48863    people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
48864    fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
48865  7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering
48866    cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
48867    nations.
48868  8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
48869    wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
48870    people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
48871    hath spoken it.
48872  9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
48873    waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have
48874    waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
48875 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab
48876    shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down
48877    for the dunghill.
48878 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as
48879    he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he
48880    shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their
48881    hands.
48882 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring
48883    down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

48884 Isaiah 26

48885  1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We
48886    have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and
48887    bulwarks.
48888  2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the
48889    truth may enter in.
48890  3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
48891    thee: because he trusteth in thee.
48892  4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is
48893    everlasting strength:
48894  5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city,
48895    he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he
48896    bringeth it even to the dust.
48897  6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and
48898    the steps of the needy.
48899  7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost
48900    weigh the path of the just.
48901  8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for
48902    thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the
48903    remembrance of thee.
48904  9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
48905    spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy
48906    judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will
48907    learn righteousness.
48908 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
48909    righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
48910    unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
48911 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they
48912    shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea,
48913    the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
48914 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
48915    wrought all our works in us.
48916 13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over
48917    us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
48918 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they
48919    shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed
48920    them, and made all their memory to perish.
48921 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased
48922    the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto
48923    all the ends of the earth.
48924 16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
48925    prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
48926 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
48927    delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we
48928    been in thy sight, O LORD.
48929 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it
48930    were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance
48931    in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world
48932    fallen.
48933 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
48934    arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is
48935    as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
48936 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
48937    doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
48938    until the indignation be overpast.
48939 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
48940    inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
48941    shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

48942 Isaiah 27

48943  1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword
48944    shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan
48945    that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in
48946    the sea.
48947  2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
48948  3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any
48949    hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
48950  4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against
48951    me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them
48952    together.
48953  5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace
48954    with me; and he shall make peace with me.
48955  6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel
48956    shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with
48957    fruit.
48958  7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is
48959    he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by
48960    him?
48961  8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it:
48962    he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
48963  9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and
48964    this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all
48965    the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in
48966    sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
48967 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation
48968    forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf
48969    feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches
48970    thereof.
48971 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken
48972    off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people
48973    of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
48974    mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no
48975    favour.
48976 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall
48977    beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of
48978    Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
48979    Israel.
48980 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet
48981    shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish
48982    in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,
48983    and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

48984 Isaiah 28

48985  1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose
48986    glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of
48987    the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
48988  2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a
48989    tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty
48990    waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the
48991    hand.
48992  3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
48993    under feet:
48994  4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat
48995    valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit
48996    before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth,
48997    while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
48998  5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory,
48999    and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
49000  6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment,
49001    and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
49002  7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong
49003    drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have
49004    erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,
49005    they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in
49006    vision, they stumble in judgment.
49007  8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there
49008    is no place clean.
49009  9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
49010    understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and
49011    drawn from the breasts.
49012 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
49013    upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
49014 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to
49015    this people.
49016 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
49017    weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not
49018    hear.
49019 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
49020    precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a
49021    little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall
49022    backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
49023 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that
49024    rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
49025 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and
49026    with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
49027    shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have
49028    made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
49029    ourselves:
49030 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
49031    foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a
49032    sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
49033 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the
49034    plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and
49035    the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
49036 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
49037    agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
49038    scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by
49039    it.
49040 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for
49041    morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night:
49042    and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
49043 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on
49044    it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in
49045    it.
49046 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be
49047    wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his
49048    strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
49049 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made
49050    strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
49051    consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
49052 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
49053 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break
49054    the clods of his ground?
49055 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast
49056    abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the
49057    principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
49058    place?
49059 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach
49060    him.
49061 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument,
49062    neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the
49063    fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a
49064    rod.
49065 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing
49066    it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it
49067    with his horsemen.
49068 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is
49069    wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

49070 Isaiah 29

49071  1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye
49072    year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
49073  2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
49074    sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
49075  3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege
49076    against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against
49077    thee.
49078  4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
49079    ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy
49080    voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of
49081    the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
49082  5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small
49083    dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff
49084    that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
49085  6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and
49086    with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and
49087    the flame of devouring fire.
49088  7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
49089    even all that fight against her and her munition, and that
49090    distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
49091  8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,
49092    he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a
49093    thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
49094    awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite:
49095    so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight
49096    against mount Zion.
49097  9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
49098    drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong
49099    drink.
49100 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
49101    sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your
49102    rulers, the seers hath he covered.
49103 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
49104    book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned,
49105    saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it
49106    is sealed:
49107 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,
49108    Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
49109 13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me
49110    with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have
49111    removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is
49112    taught by the precept of men:
49113 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
49114    among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for
49115    the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
49116    understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
49117 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
49118    LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth
49119    us? and who knoweth us?
49120 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as
49121    the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it,
49122    He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that
49123    framed it, He had no understanding?
49124 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned
49125    into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be
49126    esteemed as a forest?
49127 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and
49128    the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
49129    darkness.
49130 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the
49131    poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
49132 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is
49133    consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
49134 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for
49135    him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a
49136    thing of nought.
49137 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
49138    concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
49139    neither shall his face now wax pale.
49140 23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the
49141    midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the
49142    Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
49143 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,
49144    and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

49145 Isaiah 30

49146  1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
49147    counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but
49148    not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
49149  2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
49150    mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
49151    and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
49152  3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the
49153    trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
49154  4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to
49155    Hanes.
49156  5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them,
49157    nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
49158  6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
49159    trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion,
49160    the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
49161    riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
49162    upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit
49163    them.
49164  7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
49165    therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to
49166    sit still.
49167  8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
49168    book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
49169  9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
49170    that will not hear the law of the LORD:
49171 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy
49172    not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
49173    prophesy deceits:
49174 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the
49175    Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
49176 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
49177    despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
49178    and stay thereon:
49179 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
49180    fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
49181    suddenly at an instant.
49182 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel
49183    that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there
49184    shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire
49185    from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
49186 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In
49187    returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
49188    confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
49189 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall
49190    ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall
49191    they that pursue you be swift.
49192 17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of
49193    five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top
49194    of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
49195 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto
49196    you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy
49197    upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all
49198    they that wait for him.
49199 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt
49200    weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice
49201    of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
49202 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
49203    water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
49204    into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
49205 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is
49206    the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and
49207    when ye turn to the left.
49208 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
49209    silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
49210    shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say
49211    unto it, Get thee hence.
49212 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow
49213    the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and
49214    it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
49215    feed in large pastures.
49216 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
49217    shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the
49218    shovel and with the fan.
49219 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
49220    high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the
49221    great slaughter, when the towers fall.
49222 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the
49223    sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
49224    of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach
49225    of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
49226 27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his
49227    anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
49228    indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
49229 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the
49230    midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
49231    vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
49232    causing them to err.
49233 29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is
49234    kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to
49235    come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of
49236    Israel.
49237 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and
49238    shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation
49239    of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
49240    scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
49241 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten
49242    down, which smote with a rod.
49243 32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which
49244    the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and
49245    harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
49246 33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
49247    prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is
49248    fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of
49249    brimstone, doth kindle it.

49250 Isaiah 31

49251  1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on
49252    horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in
49253    horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto
49254    the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
49255  2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call
49256    back his words: but will arise against the house of the
49257    evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
49258  3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses
49259    flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
49260    hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
49261    shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
49262  4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
49263    the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
49264    shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid
49265    of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
49266    shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
49267    for the hill thereof.
49268  5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
49269    defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will
49270    preserve it.
49271  6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
49272    revolted.
49273  7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver,
49274    and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you
49275    for a sin.
49276  8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty
49277    man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but
49278    he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
49279    discomfited.
49280  9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his
49281    princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose
49282    fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

49283 Isaiah 32

49284  1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall
49285    rule in judgment.
49286  2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
49287    covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as
49288    the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
49289  3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears
49290    of them that hear shall hearken.
49291  4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the
49292    tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
49293  5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl
49294    said to be bountiful.
49295  6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
49296    work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
49297    against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he
49298    will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
49299  7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked
49300    devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the
49301    needy speaketh right.
49302  8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things
49303    shall he stand.
49304  9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
49305    daughters; give ear unto my speech.
49306 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:
49307    for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
49308 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless
49309    ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon
49310    your loins.
49311 12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for
49312    the fruitful vine.
49313 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers;
49314    yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
49315 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the
49316    city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for
49317    ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
49318 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
49319    wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
49320    counted for a forest.
49321 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness
49322    remain in the fruitful field.
49323 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect
49324    of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
49325 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in
49326    sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
49327 19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city
49328    shall be low in a low place.
49329 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
49330    thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

49331 Isaiah 33

49332  1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and
49333    dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with
49334    thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;
49335    and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they
49336    shall deal treacherously with thee.
49337  2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou
49338    their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
49339    trouble.
49340  3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up
49341    of thyself the nations were scattered.
49342  4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
49343    caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run
49344    upon them.
49345  5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled
49346    Zion with judgment and righteousness.
49347  6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times,
49348    and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his
49349    treasure.
49350  7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors
49351    of peace shall weep bitterly.
49352  8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath
49353    broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
49354    no man.
49355  9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and
49356    hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel
49357    shake off their fruits.
49358 10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now
49359    will I lift up myself.
49360 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your
49361    breath, as fire, shall devour you.
49362 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut
49363    up shall they be burned in the fire.
49364 13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are
49365    near, acknowledge my might.
49366 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
49367    hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
49368    who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
49369 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that
49370    despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from
49371    holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
49372    blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
49373 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the
49374    munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall
49375    be sure.
49376 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold
49377    the land that is very far off.
49378 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where
49379    is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
49380 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
49381    speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that
49382    thou canst not understand.
49383 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall
49384    see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not
49385    be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be
49386    removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
49387 21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad
49388    rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars,
49389    neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
49390 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD
49391    is our king; he will save us.
49392 23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their
49393    mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a
49394    great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
49395 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
49396    dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

49397 Isaiah 34

49398  1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let
49399    the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all
49400    things that come forth of it.
49401  2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his
49402    fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he
49403    hath delivered them to the slaughter.
49404  3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come
49405    up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted
49406    with their blood.
49407  4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens
49408    shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall
49409    fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
49410    falling fig from the fig tree.
49411  5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come
49412    down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
49413    judgment.
49414  6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat
49415    with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
49416    fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
49417    Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
49418  7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks
49419    with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and
49420    their dust made fat with fatness.
49421  8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
49422    recompences for the controversy of Zion.
49423  9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
49424    dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
49425    burning pitch.
49426 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
49427    shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall
49428    lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
49429 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl
49430    also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out
49431    upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
49432 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
49433    shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
49434 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
49435    in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
49436    dragons, and a court for owls.
49437 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild
49438    beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
49439    the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a
49440    place of rest.
49441 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch,
49442    and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be
49443    gathered, every one with her mate.
49444 16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these
49445    shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath
49446    commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
49447 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided
49448    it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from
49449    generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

49450 Isaiah 35

49451  1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
49452    and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
49453  2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
49454    singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
49455    excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
49456    the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
49457  3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
49458  4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
49459    behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a
49460    recompence; he will come and save you.
49461  5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
49462    the deaf shall be unstopped.
49463  6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
49464    dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
49465    streams in the desert.
49466  7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
49467    land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where
49468    each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
49469  8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
49470    called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over
49471    it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though
49472    fools, shall not err therein.
49473  9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up
49474    thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
49475    walk there:
49476 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion
49477    with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall
49478    obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
49479    away.

49480 Isaiah 36

49481  1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,
49482    that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the
49483    defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
49484  2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
49485    Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood
49486    by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the
49487    fuller's field.
49488  3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was
49489    over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,
49490    the recorder.
49491  4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
49492    saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is
49493    this wherein thou trustest?
49494  5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have
49495    counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust,
49496    that thou rebellest against me?
49497  6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt;
49498    whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce
49499    it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
49500  7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not
49501    he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
49502    away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
49503    before this altar?
49504  8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king
49505    of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou
49506    be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
49507  9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
49508    least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
49509    chariots and for horsemen?
49510 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
49511    destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land,
49512    and destroy it.
49513 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I
49514    pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
49515    understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in
49516    the ears of the people that are on the wall.
49517 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and
49518    to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men
49519    that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and
49520    drink their own piss with you?
49521 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
49522    language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the
49523    king of Assyria.
49524 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
49525    shall not be able to deliver you.
49526 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
49527    LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered
49528    into the hand of the king of Assyria.
49529 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
49530    Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me:
49531    and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig
49532    tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
49533 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
49534    land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
49535 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will
49536    deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his
49537    land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
49538 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
49539    Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
49540 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have
49541    delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should
49542    deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
49543 21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for
49544    the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
49545 22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
49546    household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
49547    the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told
49548    him the words of Rabshakeh.

49549 Isaiah 37

49550  1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent
49551    his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
49552    the house of the LORD.
49553  2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna
49554    the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
49555    sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
49556  3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day
49557    of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children
49558    are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
49559    forth.
49560  4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
49561    whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
49562    living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God
49563    hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that
49564    is left.
49565  5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
49566  6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master,
49567    Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
49568    heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
49569    blasphemed me.
49570  7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
49571    rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to
49572    fall by the sword in his own land.
49573  8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
49574    against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from
49575    Lachish.
49576  9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is
49577    come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he
49578    sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
49579 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not
49580    thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying,
49581    Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
49582    Assyria.
49583 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
49584    all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be
49585    delivered?
49586 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
49587    have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
49588    children of Eden which were in Telassar?
49589 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the
49590    king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
49591 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
49592    messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house
49593    of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
49594 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
49595 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the
49596    cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the
49597    kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
49598 17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD,
49599    and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath
49600    sent to reproach the living God.
49601 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
49602    nations, and their countries,
49603 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods,
49604    but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they
49605    have destroyed them.
49606 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all
49607    the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD,
49608    even thou only.
49609 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus
49610    saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me
49611    against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
49612 22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him;
49613    The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and
49614    laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
49615    her head at thee.
49616 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
49617    hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
49618    even against the Holy One of Israel.
49619 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,
49620    By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
49621    the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down
49622    the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and
49623    I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of
49624    his Carmel.
49625 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet
49626    have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
49627 26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of
49628    ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to
49629    pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into
49630    ruinous heaps.
49631 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
49632    dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field,
49633    and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as
49634    corn blasted before it be grown up.
49635 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
49636    and thy rage against me.
49637 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into
49638    mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my
49639    bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
49640    which thou camest.
49641 30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year
49642    such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which
49643    springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap,
49644    and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
49645 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
49646    again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
49647 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that
49648    escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall
49649    do this.
49650 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
49651    He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
49652    nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
49653 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
49654    shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
49655 35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and
49656    for my servant David's sake.
49657 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp
49658    of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand:
49659    and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were
49660    all dead corpses.
49661 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
49662    returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
49663 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
49664    Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
49665    him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia:
49666    and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

49667 Isaiah 38

49668  1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
49669    prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus
49670    saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die,
49671    and not live.
49672  2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto
49673    the LORD,
49674  3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have
49675    walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
49676    done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
49677  4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
49678  5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David
49679    thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:
49680    behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
49681  6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the
49682    king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
49683  7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the
49684    LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
49685  8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is
49686    gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So
49687    the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone
49688    down.
49689  9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
49690    and was recovered of his sickness:
49691 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates
49692    of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
49693 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land
49694    of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants
49695    of the world.
49696 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's
49697    tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off
49698    with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an
49699    end of me.
49700 13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all
49701    my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
49702 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a
49703    dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am
49704    oppressed; undertake for me.
49705 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself
49706    hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness
49707    of my soul.
49708 16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is
49709    the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to
49710    live.
49711 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in
49712    love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for
49713    thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
49714 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate
49715    thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy
49716    truth.
49717 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this
49718    day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
49719 20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs
49720    to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the
49721    house of the LORD.
49722 21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it
49723    for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
49724 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to
49725    the house of the LORD?

49726 Isaiah 39

49727  1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
49728    Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had
49729    heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
49730  2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of
49731    his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
49732    and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour,
49733    and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in
49734    his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them
49735    not.
49736  3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
49737    him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
49738    And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me,
49739    even from Babylon.
49740  4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
49741    answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is
49742    nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
49743  5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of
49744    hosts:
49745  6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and
49746    that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
49747    shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
49748    LORD.
49749  7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
49750    beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
49751    palace of the king of Babylon.
49752  8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
49753    which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be
49754    peace and truth in my days.

49755 Isaiah 40

49756  1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
49757  2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
49758    warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for
49759    she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
49760  3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the
49761    way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our
49762    God.
49763  4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
49764    shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and
49765    the rough places plain:
49766  5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
49767    shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
49768    it.
49769  6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh
49770    is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of
49771    the field:
49772  7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of
49773    the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
49774  8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
49775    God shall stand for ever.
49776  9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high
49777    mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy
49778    voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the
49779    cities of Judah, Behold your God!
49780 10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm
49781    shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his
49782    work before him.
49783 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the
49784    lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall
49785    gently lead those that are with young.
49786 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and
49787    meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of
49788    the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
49789    and the hills in a balance?
49790 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
49791    counsellor hath taught him?
49792 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught
49793    him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and
49794    shewed to him the way of understanding?
49795 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted
49796    as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the
49797    isles as a very little thing.
49798 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
49799    sufficient for a burnt offering.
49800 17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to
49801    him less than nothing, and vanity.
49802 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
49803    compare unto him?
49804 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
49805    spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
49806 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a
49807    tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman
49808    to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
49809 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told
49810    you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the
49811    foundations of the earth?
49812 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
49813    inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out
49814    the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
49815    dwell in:
49816 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of
49817    the earth as vanity.
49818 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:
49819    yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he
49820    shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
49821    whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
49822 25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the
49823    Holy One.
49824 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
49825    things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth
49826    them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he
49827    is strong in power; not one faileth.
49828 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is
49829    hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
49830 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting
49831    God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth
49832    not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
49833    understanding.
49834 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might
49835    he increaseth strength.
49836 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
49837    shall utterly fall:
49838 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;
49839    they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and
49840    not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

49841 Isaiah 41

49842  1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew
49843    their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let
49844    us come near together to judgment.
49845  2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to
49846    his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over
49847    kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven
49848    stubble to his bow.
49849  3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he
49850    had not gone with his feet.
49851  4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
49852    beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
49853  5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were
49854    afraid, drew near, and came.
49855  6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his
49856    brother, Be of good courage.
49857  7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that
49858    smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It
49859    is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that
49860    it should not be moved.
49861  8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
49862    the seed of Abraham my friend.
49863  9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called
49864    thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art
49865    my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
49866 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am
49867    thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I
49868    will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
49869 11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
49870    ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they
49871    that strive with thee shall perish.
49872 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
49873    contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as
49874    nothing, and as a thing of nought.
49875 13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto
49876    thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
49877 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help
49878    thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of
49879    Israel.
49880 15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument
49881    having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them
49882    small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
49883 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and
49884    the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in
49885    the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
49886 17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and
49887    their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I
49888    the God of Israel will not forsake them.
49889 18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst
49890    of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
49891    and the dry land springs of water.
49892 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree,
49893    and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the
49894    fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
49895 20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
49896    together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the
49897    Holy One of Israel hath created it.
49898 21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong
49899    reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
49900 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let
49901    them shew the former things, what they be, that we may
49902    consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us
49903    things for to come.
49904 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know
49905    that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be
49906    dismayed, and behold it together.
49907 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an
49908    abomination is he that chooseth you.
49909 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from
49910    the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall
49911    come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth
49912    clay.
49913 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
49914    beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is
49915    none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea,
49916    there is none that heareth your words.
49917 27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will
49918    give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
49919 28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there
49920    was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a
49921    word.
49922 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their
49923    molten images are wind and confusion.

49924 Isaiah 42

49925  1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul
49926    delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring
49927    forth judgment to the Gentiles.
49928  2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard
49929    in the street.
49930  3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall
49931    he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
49932  4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
49933    judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
49934  5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
49935    stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that
49936    which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people
49937    upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
49938  6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
49939    thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant
49940    of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
49941  7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
49942    prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
49943  8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give
49944    to another, neither my praise to graven images.
49945  9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do
49946    I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
49947 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of
49948    the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is
49949    therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
49950 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice,
49951    the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of
49952    the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
49953 12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in
49954    the islands.
49955 13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up
49956    jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall
49957    prevail against his enemies.
49958 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and
49959    refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I
49960    will destroy and devour at once.
49961 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
49962    herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up
49963    the pools.
49964 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will
49965    lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make
49966    darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These
49967    things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
49968 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that
49969    trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are
49970    our gods.
49971 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
49972 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I
49973    sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the
49974    LORD's servant?
49975 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears,
49976    but he heareth not.
49977 21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will
49978    magnify the law, and make it honourable.
49979 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them
49980    snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are
49981    for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith,
49982    Restore.
49983 23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear
49984    for the time to come?
49985 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not
49986    the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not
49987    walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
49988 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and
49989    the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round
49990    about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not
49991    to heart.

49992 Isaiah 43

49993  1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he
49994    that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed
49995    thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
49996  2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and
49997    through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou
49998    walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither
49999    shall the flame kindle upon thee.
50000  3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
50001    Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
50002    thee.
50003  4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been
50004    honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men
50005    for thee, and people for thy life.
50006  5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the
50007    east, and gather thee from the west;
50008  6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not
50009    back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends
50010    of the earth;
50011  7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created
50012    him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
50013  8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that
50014    have ears.
50015  9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people
50016    be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us
50017    former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they
50018    may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
50019 10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I
50020    have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
50021    that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall
50022    there be after me.
50023 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
50024 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there
50025    was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses,
50026    saith the LORD, that I am God.
50027 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can
50028    deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
50029 14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
50030    For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down
50031    all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
50032    ships.
50033 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your
50034    King.
50035 16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path
50036    in the mighty waters;
50037 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the
50038    power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they
50039    are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
50040 18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things
50041    of old.
50042 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
50043    shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
50044    wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
50045 20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
50046    owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in
50047    the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
50048 21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my
50049    praise.
50050 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been
50051    weary of me, O Israel.
50052 23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt
50053    offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices.
50054    I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied
50055    thee with incense.
50056 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
50057    thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast
50058    made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with
50059    thine iniquities.
50060 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine
50061    own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
50062 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,
50063    that thou mayest be justified.
50064 27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have
50065    transgressed against me.
50066 28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and
50067    have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

50068 Isaiah 44

50069  1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
50070    chosen:
50071  2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the
50072    womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and
50073    thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
50074  3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
50075    upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and
50076    my blessing upon thine offspring:
50077  4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the
50078    water courses.
50079  5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself
50080    by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his
50081    hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
50082  6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the
50083    LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside
50084    me there is no God.
50085  7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in
50086    order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the
50087    things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
50088    them.
50089  8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that
50090    time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there
50091    a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
50092  9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and
50093    their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their
50094    own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
50095    ashamed.
50096 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is
50097    profitable for nothing?
50098 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen,
50099    they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
50100    stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed
50101    together.
50102 12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
50103    fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength
50104    of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he
50105    drinketh no water, and is faint.
50106 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with
50107    a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with
50108    the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
50109    according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
50110    house.
50111 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak,
50112    which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the
50113    forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
50114 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof,
50115    and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea,
50116    he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven
50117    image, and falleth down thereto.
50118 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he
50119    eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he
50120    warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
50121    fire:
50122 17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven
50123    image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
50124    prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
50125 18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their
50126    eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot
50127    understand.
50128 19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge
50129    nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the
50130    fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I
50131    have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue
50132    thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a
50133    tree?
50134 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside,
50135    that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie
50136    in my right hand?
50137 21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I
50138    have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt
50139    not be forgotten of me.
50140 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and,
50141    as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed
50142    thee.
50143 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower
50144    parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O
50145    forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed
50146    Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
50147 24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee
50148    from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that
50149    stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the
50150    earth by myself;
50151 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners
50152    mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their
50153    knowledge foolish;
50154 26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the
50155    counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
50156    be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built,
50157    and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
50158 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
50159 28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all
50160    my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built;
50161    and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

50162 Isaiah 45

50163  1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right
50164    hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will
50165    loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved
50166    gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
50167  2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I
50168    will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the
50169    bars of iron:
50170  3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
50171    riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
50172    LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
50173  4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
50174    even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though
50175    thou hast not known me.
50176  5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside
50177    me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
50178  6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the
50179    west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there
50180    is none else.
50181  7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
50182    create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
50183  8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
50184    righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth
50185    salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the
50186    LORD have created it.
50187  9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd
50188    strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to
50189    him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath
50190    no hands?
50191 10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou?
50192    or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
50193 11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,
50194    Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning
50195    the work of my hands command ye me.
50196 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my
50197    hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have
50198    I commanded.
50199 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all
50200    his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my
50201    captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
50202 14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of
50203    Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
50204    unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after
50205    thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down
50206    unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying,
50207    Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no
50208    God.
50209 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel,
50210    the Saviour.
50211 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they
50212    shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
50213 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting
50214    salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world
50215    without end.
50216 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself
50217    that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he
50218    created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the
50219    LORD; and there is none else.
50220 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I
50221    said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the
50222    LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
50223 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are
50224    escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the
50225    wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot
50226    save.
50227 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel
50228    together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath
50229    told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no
50230    God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
50231    beside me.
50232 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for
50233    I am God, and there is none else.
50234 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
50235    righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee
50236    shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
50237 24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and
50238    strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are
50239    incensed against him shall be ashamed.
50240 25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
50241    shall glory.

50242 Isaiah 46

50243  1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the
50244    beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden;
50245    they are a burden to the weary beast.
50246  2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the
50247    burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
50248  3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the
50249    house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which
50250    are carried from the womb:
50251  4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will
50252    I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry,
50253    and will deliver you.
50254  5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me,
50255    that we may be like?
50256  6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the
50257    balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they
50258    fall down, yea, they worship.
50259  7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him
50260    in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not
50261    remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer,
50262    nor save him out of his trouble.
50263  8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to
50264    mind, O ye transgressors.
50265  9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is
50266    none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
50267 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
50268    the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall
50269    stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
50270 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth
50271    my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will
50272    also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
50273 12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
50274    righteousness:
50275 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my
50276    salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion
50277    for Israel my glory.

50278 Isaiah 47

50279  1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon,
50280    sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the
50281    Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and
50282    delicate.
50283  2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make
50284    bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
50285  3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
50286    seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a
50287    man.
50288  4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy
50289    One of Israel.
50290  5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
50291    Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
50292    kingdoms.
50293  6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance,
50294    and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy;
50295    upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
50296  7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou
50297    didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst
50298    remember the latter end of it.
50299  8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures,
50300    that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am,
50301    and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither
50302    shall I know the loss of children:
50303  9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one
50304    day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon
50305    thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
50306    and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
50307 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None
50308    seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
50309    thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
50310    beside me.
50311 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from
50312    whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou
50313    shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come
50314    upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
50315 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of
50316    thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if
50317    so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest
50318    prevail.
50319 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
50320    astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
50321    stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon
50322    thee.
50323 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
50324    they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
50325    there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before
50326    it.
50327 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
50328    even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every
50329    one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

50330 Isaiah 48

50331  1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name
50332    of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah,
50333    which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the
50334    God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
50335  2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
50336    upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
50337  3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they
50338    went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them
50339    suddenly, and they came to pass.
50340  4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
50341    iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
50342  5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it
50343    came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine
50344    idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image,
50345    hath commanded them.
50346  6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I
50347    have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden
50348    things, and thou didst not know them.
50349  7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before
50350    the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say,
50351    Behold, I knew them.
50352  8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that
50353    time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou
50354    wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a
50355    transgressor from the womb.
50356  9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise
50357    will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
50358 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
50359    chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
50360 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for
50361    how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory
50362    unto another.
50363 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am
50364    the first, I also am the last.
50365 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
50366    right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them,
50367    they stand up together.
50368 14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath
50369    declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his
50370    pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
50371 15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought
50372    him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
50373 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
50374    secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am
50375    I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
50376 17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I
50377    am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
50378    leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
50379 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy
50380    peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of
50381    the sea:
50382 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy
50383    bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been
50384    cut off nor destroyed from before me.
50385 20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a
50386    voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the
50387    end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant
50388    Jacob.
50389 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he
50390    caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave
50391    the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
50392 22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

50393 Isaiah 49

50394  1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;
50395    The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
50396    mother hath he made mention of my name.
50397  2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of
50398    his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his
50399    quiver hath he hid me;
50400  3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I
50401    will be glorified.
50402  4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength
50403    for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the
50404    LORD, and my work with my God.
50405  5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his
50406    servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not
50407    gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and
50408    my God shall be my strength.
50409  6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my
50410    servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
50411    preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
50412    Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
50413    earth.
50414  7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
50415    to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth,
50416    to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes
50417    also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and
50418    the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
50419  8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee,
50420    and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will
50421    preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to
50422    establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
50423    heritages;
50424  9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that
50425    are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways,
50426    and their pastures shall be in all high places.
50427 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor
50428    sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead
50429    them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
50430 11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall
50431    be exalted.
50432 12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the
50433    north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
50434 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
50435    singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people,
50436    and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
50437 14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
50438    forgotten me.
50439 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
50440    compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet
50441    will I not forget thee.
50442 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy
50443    walls are continually before me.
50444 17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that
50445    made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
50446 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
50447    themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the
50448    LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an
50449    ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
50450 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
50451    destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
50452    inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far
50453    away.
50454 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the
50455    other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait
50456    for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
50457 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me
50458    these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a
50459    captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up
50460    these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
50461 22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to
50462    the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they
50463    shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be
50464    carried upon their shoulders.
50465 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy
50466    nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face
50467    toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou
50468    shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed
50469    that wait for me.
50470 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
50471    delivered?
50472 25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall
50473    be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
50474    delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with
50475    thee, and I will save thy children.
50476 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;
50477    and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet
50478    wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour
50479    and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

50480 Isaiah 50

50481  1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's
50482    divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is
50483    it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have
50484    ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
50485    put away.
50486  2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was
50487    there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it
50488    cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my
50489    rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their
50490    fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for
50491    thirst.
50492  3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
50493    their covering.
50494  4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
50495    should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
50496    weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
50497    hear as the learned.
50498  5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
50499    neither turned away back.
50500  6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
50501    plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
50502    spitting.
50503  7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
50504    confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
50505    know that I shall not be ashamed.
50506  8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let
50507    us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to
50508    me.
50509  9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
50510    condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
50511    shall eat them up.
50512 10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice
50513    of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
50514    let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
50515 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves
50516    about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the
50517    sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand;
50518    ye shall lie down in sorrow.

50519 Isaiah 51

50520  1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
50521    seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to
50522    the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
50523  2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you:
50524    for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
50525  3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste
50526    places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her
50527    desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be
50528    found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
50529  4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:
50530    for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment
50531    to rest for a light of the people.
50532  5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine
50533    arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and
50534    on mine arm shall they trust.
50535  6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
50536    beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the
50537    earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
50538    therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be
50539    for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
50540  7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
50541    whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
50542    neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
50543  8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
50544    shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
50545    ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
50546  9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in
50547    the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it
50548    that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
50549 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the
50550    great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the
50551    ransomed to pass over?
50552 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with
50553    singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their
50554    head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
50555    mourning shall flee away.
50556 12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
50557    shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of
50558    man which shall be made as grass;
50559 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth
50560    the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast
50561    feared continually every day because of the fury of the
50562    oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the
50563    fury of the oppressor?
50564 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he
50565    should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
50566 15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves
50567    roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
50568 16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee
50569    in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and
50570    lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art
50571    my people.
50572 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the
50573    hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the
50574    dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
50575 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
50576    brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the
50577    hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
50578 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for
50579    thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the
50580    sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
50581 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
50582    streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of
50583    the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
50584 21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not
50585    with wine:
50586 22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
50587    cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand
50588    the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury;
50589    thou shalt no more drink it again:
50590 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
50591    which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over:
50592    and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street,
50593    to them that went over.

50594 Isaiah 52

50595  1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
50596    beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth
50597    there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
50598    unclean.
50599  2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
50600    loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter
50601    of Zion.
50602  3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
50603    and ye shall be redeemed without money.
50604  4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime
50605    into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them
50606    without cause.
50607  5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my
50608    people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make
50609    them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every
50610    day is blasphemed.
50611  6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
50612    know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is
50613    I.
50614  7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
50615    bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth
50616    good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith
50617    unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
50618  8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together
50619    shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD
50620    shall bring again Zion.
50621  9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
50622    Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath
50623    redeemed Jerusalem.
50624 10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
50625    nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation
50626    of our God.
50627 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
50628    thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear
50629    the vessels of the LORD.
50630 12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the
50631    LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your
50632    rereward.
50633 13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted
50634    and extolled, and be very high.
50635 14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more
50636    than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
50637 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their
50638    mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall
50639    they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
50640    consider.

50641 Isaiah 53

50642  1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
50643    LORD revealed?
50644  2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
50645    root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
50646    when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should
50647    desire him.
50648  3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
50649    acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from
50650    him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
50651  4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet
50652    we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
50653  5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for
50654    our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
50655    and with his stripes we are healed.
50656  6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
50657    to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
50658    us all.
50659  7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his
50660    mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
50661    sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
50662    mouth.
50663  8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
50664    declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of
50665    the living: for the transgression of my people was he
50666    stricken.
50667  9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in
50668    his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any
50669    deceit in his mouth.
50670 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to
50671    grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
50672    shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
50673    pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
50674 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be
50675    satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
50676    many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
50677 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
50678    shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured
50679    out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
50680    transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made
50681    intercession for the transgressors.

50682 Isaiah 54

50683  1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into
50684    singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with
50685    child: for more are the children of the desolate than the
50686    children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
50687  2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
50688    curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords,
50689    and strengthen thy stakes;
50690  3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left;
50691    and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate
50692    cities to be inhabited.
50693  4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
50694    confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt
50695    forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
50696    reproach of thy widowhood any more.
50697  5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name;
50698    and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole
50699    earth shall he be called.
50700  6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved
50701    in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith
50702    thy God.
50703  7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
50704    mercies will I gather thee.
50705  8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but
50706    with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the
50707    LORD thy Redeemer.
50708  9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn
50709    that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so
50710    have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke
50711    thee.
50712 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but
50713    my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the
50714    covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath
50715    mercy on thee.
50716 11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
50717    behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
50718    foundations with sapphires.
50719 12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
50720    carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
50721 13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great
50722    shall be the peace of thy children.
50723 14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far
50724    from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for
50725    it shall not come near thee.
50726 15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
50727    whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for
50728    thy sake.
50729 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the
50730    fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and
50731    I have created the waster to destroy.
50732 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every
50733    tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt
50734    condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and
50735    their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

50736 Isaiah 55

50737  1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he
50738    that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine
50739    and milk without money and without price.
50740  2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and
50741    your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
50742    unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul
50743    delight itself in fatness.
50744  3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall
50745    live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even
50746    the sure mercies of David.
50747  4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader
50748    and commander to the people.
50749  5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and
50750    nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the
50751    LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
50752    glorified thee.
50753  6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while
50754    he is near:
50755  7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
50756    thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have
50757    mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
50758  8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
50759    my ways, saith the LORD.
50760  9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
50761    higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
50762 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and
50763    returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it
50764    bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
50765    bread to the eater:
50766 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall
50767    not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
50768    please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
50769 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
50770    mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into
50771    singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their
50772    hands.
50773 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead
50774    of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to
50775    the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be
50776    cut off.

50777 Isaiah 56

50778  1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
50779    salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be
50780    revealed.
50781  2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that
50782    layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,
50783    and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
50784  3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself
50785    to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me
50786    from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a
50787    dry tree.
50788  4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my
50789    sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold
50790    of my covenant;
50791  5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a
50792    place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will
50793    give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
50794  6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the
50795    LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be
50796    his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from
50797    polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
50798  7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
50799    joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
50800    sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house
50801    shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
50802  8 The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith,
50803    Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are
50804    gathered unto him.
50805  9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts
50806    in the forest.
50807 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all
50808    dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to
50809    slumber.
50810 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and
50811    they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to
50812    their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
50813 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill
50814    ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this
50815    day, and much more abundant.

50816 Isaiah 57

50817  1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and
50818    merciful men are taken away, none considering that the
50819    righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
50820  2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each
50821    one walking in his uprightness.
50822  3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
50823    the adulterer and the whore.
50824  4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a
50825    wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of
50826    transgression, a seed of falsehood.
50827  5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
50828    slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the
50829    rocks?
50830  6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they,
50831    they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink
50832    offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive
50833    comfort in these?
50834  7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
50835    thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
50836  8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
50837    remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than
50838    me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee
50839    a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest
50840    it.
50841  9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase
50842    thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst
50843    debase thyself even unto hell.
50844 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou
50845    not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand;
50846    therefore thou wast not grieved.
50847 11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast
50848    lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?
50849    have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
50850 12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they
50851    shall not profit thee.
50852 13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind
50853    shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that
50854    putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall
50855    inherit my holy mountain;
50856 14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take
50857    up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
50858 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
50859    eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
50860    place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
50861    to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of
50862    the contrite ones.
50863 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always
50864    wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
50865    which I have made.
50866 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote
50867    him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the
50868    way of his heart.
50869 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
50870    and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
50871 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is
50872    far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will
50873    heal him.
50874 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
50875    whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
50876 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

50877 Isaiah 58

50878  1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
50879    shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob
50880    their sins.
50881  2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a
50882    nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance
50883    of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they
50884    take delight in approaching to God.
50885  3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
50886    wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
50887    knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
50888    and exact all your labours.
50889  4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the
50890    fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to
50891    make your voice to be heard on high.
50892  5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
50893    afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and
50894    to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a
50895    fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
50896  6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
50897    wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
50898    oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
50899  7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring
50900    the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
50901    naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
50902    from thine own flesh?
50903  8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine
50904    health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness
50905    shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy
50906    rereward.
50907  9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt
50908    cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the
50909    midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
50910    speaking vanity;
50911 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
50912    afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and
50913    thy darkness be as the noon day:
50914 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
50915    soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be
50916    like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose
50917    waters fail not.
50918 12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste
50919    places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
50920    generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
50921    breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
50922 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
50923    pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
50924    holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing
50925    thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
50926    thine own words:
50927 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause
50928    thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
50929    with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the
50930    LORD hath spoken it.

50931 Isaiah 59

50932  1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
50933    neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
50934  2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
50935    and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
50936    hear.
50937  3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
50938    iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
50939    muttered perverseness.
50940  4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they
50941    trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
50942    bring forth iniquity.
50943  5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
50944    that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
50945    breaketh out into a viper.
50946  6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
50947    themselves with their works: their works are works of
50948    iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
50949  7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
50950    blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
50951    destruction are in their paths.
50952  8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in
50953    their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever
50954    goeth therein shall not know peace.
50955  9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
50956    overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
50957    brightness, but we walk in darkness.
50958 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we
50959    had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in
50960    desolate places as dead men.
50961 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
50962    judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off
50963    from us.
50964 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
50965    sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us;
50966    and as for our iniquities, we know them;
50967 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
50968    away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
50969    and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
50970 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth
50971    afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot
50972    enter.
50973 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
50974    himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him
50975    that there was no judgment.
50976 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was
50977    no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him;
50978    and his righteousness, it sustained him.
50979 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of
50980    salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of
50981    vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
50982 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to
50983    his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he
50984    will repay recompence.
50985 19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his
50986    glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in
50987    like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard
50988    against him.
50989 20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn
50990    from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
50991 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My
50992    spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
50993    mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth
50994    of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith
50995    the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

50996 Isaiah 60

50997  1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD
50998    is risen upon thee.
50999  2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
51000    darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and
51001    his glory shall be seen upon thee.
51002  3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
51003    brightness of thy rising.
51004  4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
51005    themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come
51006    from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
51007  5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall
51008    fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall
51009    be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come
51010    unto thee.
51011  6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of
51012    Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall
51013    bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises
51014    of the LORD.
51015  7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee,
51016    the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come
51017    up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house
51018    of my glory.
51019  8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
51020    windows?
51021  9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish
51022    first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold
51023    with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy
51024    One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
51025 10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their
51026    kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee,
51027    but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
51028 11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not
51029    be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces
51030    of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
51031 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall
51032    perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
51033 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the
51034    pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my
51035    sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
51036 14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending
51037    unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
51038    themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
51039    thee; The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of
51040    Israel.
51041 15 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went
51042    through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of
51043    many generations.
51044 16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck
51045    the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am
51046    thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
51047 17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver,
51048    and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy
51049    officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
51050 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
51051    destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
51052    Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
51053 19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
51054    brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD
51055    shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy
51056    glory.
51057 20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw
51058    itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the
51059    days of thy mourning shall be ended.
51060 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the
51061    land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my
51062    hands, that I may be glorified.
51063 22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong
51064    nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

51065 Isaiah 61

51066  1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
51067    anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent
51068    me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
51069    captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
51070    bound;
51071  2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of
51072    vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
51073  3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
51074    beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
51075    praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called
51076    trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he
51077    might be glorified.
51078  4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the
51079    former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
51080    the desolations of many generations.
51081  5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons
51082    of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
51083  6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call
51084    you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the
51085    Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
51086  7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they
51087    shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they
51088    shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
51089  8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt
51090    offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will
51091    make an everlasting covenant with them.
51092  9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
51093    offspring among the people: all that see them shall
51094    acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath
51095    blessed.
51096 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in
51097    my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,
51098    he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a
51099    bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride
51100    adorneth herself with her jewels.
51101 11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
51102    causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the
51103    Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth
51104    before all the nations.

51105 Isaiah 62

51106  1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's
51107    sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth
51108    as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that
51109    burneth.
51110  2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
51111    thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the
51112    mouth of the LORD shall name.
51113  3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,
51114    and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
51115  4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land
51116    any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called
51117    Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
51118    thee, and thy land shall be married.
51119  5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry
51120    thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall
51121    thy God rejoice over thee.
51122  6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall
51123    never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of
51124    the LORD, keep not silence,
51125  7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
51126    Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
51127  8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
51128    strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for
51129    thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink
51130    thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
51131  9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
51132    LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in
51133    the courts of my holiness.
51134 10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the
51135    people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
51136    lift up a standard for the people.
51137 11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,
51138    Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh;
51139    behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
51140 12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the
51141    LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not
51142    forsaken.

51143 Isaiah 63

51144  1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
51145    Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in
51146    the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
51147    mighty to save.
51148  2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like
51149    him that treadeth in the winefat?
51150  3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there
51151    was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and
51152    trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled
51153    upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
51154  4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my
51155    redeemed is come.
51156  5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that
51157    there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought
51158    salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
51159  6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them
51160    drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the
51161    earth.
51162  7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the
51163    praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
51164    bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
51165    Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his
51166    mercies, and according to the multitude of his
51167    lovingkindnesses.
51168  8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not
51169    lie: so he was their Saviour.
51170  9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
51171    presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed
51172    them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
51173 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was
51174    turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
51175 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people,
51176    saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
51177    the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy
51178    Spirit within him?
51179 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious
51180    arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an
51181    everlasting name?
51182 13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness,
51183    that they should not stumble?
51184 14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD
51185    caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make
51186    thyself a glorious name.
51187 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
51188    holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength,
51189    the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are
51190    they restrained?
51191 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of
51192    us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our
51193    father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
51194 17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and
51195    hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
51196    sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
51197 18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little
51198    while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
51199 19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not
51200    called by thy name.

51201 Isaiah 64

51202  1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
51203    come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
51204  2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters
51205    to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the
51206    nations may tremble at thy presence!
51207  3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou
51208    camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
51209  4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
51210    perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
51211    thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
51212  5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
51213    those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth;
51214    for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be
51215    saved.
51216  6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
51217    righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
51218    leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
51219  7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up
51220    himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from
51221    us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
51222  8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and
51223    thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
51224  9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for
51225    ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
51226 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,
51227    Jerusalem a desolation.
51228 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised
51229    thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are
51230    laid waste.
51231 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou
51232    hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

51233 Isaiah 65

51234  1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them
51235    that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a
51236    nation that was not called by my name.
51237  2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
51238    people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their
51239    own thoughts;
51240  3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face;
51241    that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars
51242    of brick;
51243  4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
51244    which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in
51245    their vessels;
51246  5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am
51247    holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
51248    burneth all the day.
51249  6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but
51250    will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
51251  7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,
51252    saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains,
51253    and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure
51254    their former work into their bosom.
51255  8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster,
51256    and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so
51257    will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them
51258    all.
51259  9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
51260    an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it,
51261    and my servants shall dwell there.
51262 10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor
51263    a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have
51264    sought me.
51265 11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy
51266    mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that
51267    furnish the drink offering unto that number.
51268 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow
51269    down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not
51270    answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before
51271    mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
51272 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall
51273    eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink,
51274    but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice,
51275    but ye shall be ashamed:
51276 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall
51277    cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of
51278    spirit.
51279 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for
51280    the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another
51281    name:
51282 16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself
51283    in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall
51284    swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are
51285    forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
51286 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
51287    former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
51288 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create:
51289    for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
51290    joy.
51291 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the
51292    voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice
51293    of crying.
51294 20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old
51295    man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an
51296    hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old
51297    shall be accursed.
51298 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
51299    plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
51300 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
51301    plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days
51302    of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
51303    their hands.
51304 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;
51305    for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their
51306    offspring with them.
51307 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
51308    answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
51309 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
51310    eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's
51311    meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
51312    saith the LORD.

51313 Isaiah 66

51314  1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is
51315    my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and
51316    where is the place of my rest?
51317  2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things
51318    have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even
51319    to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at
51320    my word.
51321  3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
51322    sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that
51323    offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that
51324    burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have
51325    chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
51326    abominations.
51327  4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears
51328    upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I
51329    spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes,
51330    and chose that in which I delighted not.
51331  5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your
51332    brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake,
51333    said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your
51334    joy, and they shall be ashamed.
51335  6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a
51336    voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
51337  7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came,
51338    she was delivered of a man child.
51339  8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall
51340    the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation
51341    be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
51342    forth her children.
51343  9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
51344    saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the
51345    womb? saith thy God.
51346 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that
51347    love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
51348 11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
51349    consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
51350    abundance of her glory.
51351 12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her
51352    like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing
51353    stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides,
51354    and be dandled upon her knees.
51355 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and
51356    ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
51357 14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones
51358    shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be
51359    known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his
51360    enemies.
51361 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his
51362    chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and
51363    his rebuke with flames of fire.
51364 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all
51365    flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
51366 17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the
51367    gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
51368    and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed
51369    together, saith the LORD.
51370 18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that
51371    I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come,
51372    and see my glory.
51373 19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that
51374    escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud,
51375    that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off,
51376    that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and
51377    they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
51378 20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto
51379    the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and
51380    in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy
51381    mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel
51382    bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the
51383    LORD.
51384 21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites,
51385    saith the LORD.
51386 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
51387    shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and
51388    your name remain.
51389 23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
51390    and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
51391    worship before me, saith the LORD.
51392 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men
51393    that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not
51394    die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be
51395    an abhorring unto all flesh.

51396 Book 24 Jeremiah

51397 Jeremiah 1

51398  1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that
51399    were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
51400  2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the
51401    son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his
51402    reign.
51403  3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
51404    of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the
51405    son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of
51406    Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
51407  4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
51408  5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou
51409    camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained
51410    thee a prophet unto the nations.
51411  6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a
51412    child.
51413  7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou
51414    shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I
51415    command thee thou shalt speak.
51416  8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver
51417    thee, saith the LORD.
51418  9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And
51419    the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy
51420    mouth.
51421 10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
51422    kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and
51423    to throw down, to build, and to plant.
51424 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah,
51425    what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
51426 12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will
51427    hasten my word to perform it.
51428 13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
51429    What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the
51430    face thereof is toward the north.
51431 14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall
51432    break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
51433 15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the
51434    north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set
51435    every one his throne at the entering of the gates of
51436    Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and
51437    against all the cities of Judah.
51438 16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
51439    wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
51440    other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
51441 17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto
51442    them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces,
51443    lest I confound thee before them.
51444 18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an
51445    iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against
51446    the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the
51447    priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
51448 19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail
51449    against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver
51450    thee.

51451 Jeremiah 2

51452  1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
51453  2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the
51454    LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of
51455    thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness,
51456    in a land that was not sown.
51457  3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his
51458    increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come
51459    upon them, saith the LORD.
51460  4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the
51461    families of the house of Israel:
51462  5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in
51463    me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after
51464    vanity, and are become vain?
51465  6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of
51466    the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through
51467    a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and
51468    of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed
51469    through, and where no man dwelt?
51470  7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit
51471    thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye
51472    defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
51473  8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle
51474    the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me,
51475    and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things
51476    that do not profit.
51477  9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with
51478    your children's children will I plead.
51479 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto
51480    Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a
51481    thing.
51482 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but
51483    my people have changed their glory for that which doth not
51484    profit.
51485 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid,
51486    be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
51487 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me
51488    the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
51489    broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
51490 14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he
51491    spoiled?
51492 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his
51493    land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
51494 16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown
51495    of thy head.
51496 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast
51497    forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
51498 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the
51499    waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of
51500    Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
51501 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings
51502    shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil
51503    thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God,
51504    and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
51505 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands;
51506    and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high
51507    hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the
51508    harlot.
51509 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how
51510    then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange
51511    vine unto me?
51512 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap,
51513    yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
51514 23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after
51515    Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done:
51516    thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
51517 24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind
51518    at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all
51519    they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month
51520    they shall find her.
51521 25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from
51522    thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have
51523    loved strangers, and after them will I go.
51524 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of
51525    Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their
51526    priests, and their prophets.
51527 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou
51528    hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto
51529    me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they
51530    will say, Arise, and save us.
51531 28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them
51532    arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for
51533    according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
51534 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed
51535    against me, saith the LORD.
51536 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
51537    correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
51538    destroying lion.
51539 31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
51540    wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my
51541    people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
51542 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my
51543    people have forgotten me days without number.
51544 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou
51545    also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
51546 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
51547    innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all
51548    these.
51549 35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall
51550    turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou
51551    sayest, I have not sinned.
51552 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also
51553    shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
51554 37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine
51555    head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou
51556    shalt not prosper in them.

51557 Jeremiah 3

51558  1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and
51559    become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall
51560    not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the
51561    harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the
51562    LORD.
51563  2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou
51564    hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them,
51565    as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the
51566    land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
51567  3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath
51568    been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou
51569    refusedst to be ashamed.
51570  4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art
51571    the guide of my youth?
51572  5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the
51573    end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou
51574    couldest.
51575  6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
51576    Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is
51577    gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree,
51578    and there hath played the harlot.
51579  7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto
51580    me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw
51581    it.
51582  8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
51583    committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of
51584    divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went
51585    and played the harlot also.
51586  9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom,
51587    that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones
51588    and with stocks.
51589 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not
51590    turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the
51591    LORD.
51592 11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
51593    justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
51594 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,
51595    thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause
51596    mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the
51597    LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
51598 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed
51599    against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the
51600    strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my
51601    voice, saith the LORD.
51602 14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married
51603    unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a
51604    family, and I will bring you to Zion:
51605 15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which
51606    shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
51607 16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased
51608    in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no
51609    more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it
51610    come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall
51611    they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
51612 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD;
51613    and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of
51614    the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after
51615    the imagination of their evil heart.
51616 18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
51617    Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the
51618    north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto
51619    your fathers.
51620 19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give
51621    thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of
51622    nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt
51623    not turn away from me.
51624 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so
51625    have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith
51626    the LORD.
51627 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and
51628    supplications of the children of Israel: for they have
51629    perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their
51630    God.
51631 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your
51632    backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD
51633    our God.
51634 23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from
51635    the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the
51636    salvation of Israel.
51637 24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
51638    youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
51639    daughters.
51640 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for
51641    we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers,
51642    from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the
51643    voice of the LORD our God.

51644 Jeremiah 4

51645  1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me:
51646    and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight,
51647    then shalt thou not remove.
51648  2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment,
51649    and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves
51650    in him, and in him shall they glory.
51651  3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
51652    Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
51653  4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins
51654    of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem:
51655    lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can
51656    quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
51657  5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow
51658    ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say,
51659    Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
51660  6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will
51661    bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
51662  7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the
51663    Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to
51664    make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,
51665    without an inhabitant.
51666  8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the
51667    fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
51668  9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that
51669    the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the
51670    princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
51671    shall wonder.
51672 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived
51673    this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace;
51674    whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
51675 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem,
51676    A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the
51677    daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
51678 12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now
51679    also will I give sentence against them.
51680 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be
51681    as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto
51682    us! for we are spoiled.
51683 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou
51684    mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within
51685    thee?
51686 15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from
51687    mount Ephraim.
51688 16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
51689    Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out
51690    their voice against the cities of Judah.
51691 17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;
51692    because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
51693 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee;
51694    this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it
51695    reacheth unto thine heart.
51696 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart
51697    maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou
51698    hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of
51699    war.
51700 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is
51701    spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a
51702    moment.
51703 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the
51704    trumpet?
51705 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
51706    sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are
51707    wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
51708 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void;
51709    and the heavens, and they had no light.
51710 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the
51711    hills moved lightly.
51712 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the
51713    heavens were fled.
51714 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and
51715    all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the
51716    LORD, and by his fierce anger.
51717 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
51718    yet will I not make a full end.
51719 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
51720    black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will
51721    not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
51722 29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
51723    bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the
51724    rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell
51725    therein.
51726 30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou
51727    clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with
51728    ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting,
51729    in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise
51730    thee, they will seek thy life.
51731 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
51732    anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the
51733    voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that
51734    spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is
51735    wearied because of murderers.

51736 Jeremiah 5

51737  1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
51738    now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can
51739    find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that
51740    seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
51741  2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
51742    falsely.
51743  3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken
51744    them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but
51745    they have refused to receive correction: they have made their
51746    faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
51747  4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for
51748    they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their
51749    God.
51750  5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;
51751    for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of
51752    their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and
51753    burst the bonds.
51754  6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf
51755    of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over
51756    their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in
51757    pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their
51758    backslidings are increased.
51759  7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken
51760    me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to
51761    the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled
51762    themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
51763  8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed
51764    after his neighbour's wife.
51765  9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall
51766    not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
51767 10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end:
51768    take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
51769 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
51770    treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
51771 12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither
51772    shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor
51773    famine:
51774 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
51775    them: thus shall it be done unto them.
51776 14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak
51777    this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and
51778    this people wood, and it shall devour them.
51779 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of
51780    Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an
51781    ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not,
51782    neither understandest what they say.
51783 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
51784 17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy
51785    sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy
51786    flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy
51787    fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein
51788    thou trustedst, with the sword.
51789 18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a
51790    full end with you.
51791 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth
51792    the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou
51793    answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange
51794    gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that
51795    is not your's.
51796 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
51797    saying,
51798 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
51799    which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
51800 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
51801    presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea
51802    by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the
51803    waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;
51804    though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
51805 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they
51806    are revolted and gone.
51807 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our
51808    God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his
51809    season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the
51810    harvest.
51811 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins
51812    have withholden good things from you.
51813 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he
51814    that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
51815 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
51816    deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
51817 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds
51818    of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the
51819    fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do
51820    they not judge.
51821 29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not
51822    my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
51823 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
51824 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
51825    their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will
51826    ye do in the end thereof?

51827 Jeremiah 6

51828  1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of
51829    the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set
51830    up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of
51831    the north, and great destruction.
51832  2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
51833    woman.
51834  3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
51835    shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall
51836    feed every one in his place.
51837  4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
51838    Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the
51839    evening are stretched out.
51840  5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
51841  6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and
51842    cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be
51843    visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
51844  7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
51845    wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me
51846    continually is grief and wounds.
51847  8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
51848    thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
51849  9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the
51850    remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
51851    grapegatherer into the baskets.
51852 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?
51853    behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken:
51854    behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they
51855    have no delight in it.
51856 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with
51857    holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and
51858    upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband
51859    with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full
51860    of days.
51861 12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their
51862    fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon
51863    the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
51864 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
51865    every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even
51866    unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
51867 14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
51868    slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
51869 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
51870    they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
51871    therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
51872    that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
51873 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask
51874    for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein,
51875    and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will
51876    not walk therein.
51877 17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of
51878    the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
51879 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is
51880    among them.
51881 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
51882    even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not
51883    hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
51884 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the
51885    sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
51886    acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
51887 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
51888    stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the
51889    sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his
51890    friend shall perish.
51891 22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
51892    country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of
51893    the earth.
51894 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have
51895    no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon
51896    horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter
51897    of Zion.
51898 24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish
51899    hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
51900 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
51901    sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
51902 26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow
51903    thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most
51904    bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon
51905    us.
51906 27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people,
51907    that thou mayest know and try their way.
51908 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they
51909    are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
51910 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the
51911    founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
51912 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath
51913    rejected them.

51914 Jeremiah 7

51915  1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
51916  2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this
51917    word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah,
51918    that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
51919  3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your
51920    ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this
51921    place.
51922  4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD,
51923    The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
51924  5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye
51925    throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
51926  6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,
51927    and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after
51928    other gods to your hurt:
51929  7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that
51930    I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
51931  8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
51932  9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely,
51933    and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye
51934    know not;
51935 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by
51936    my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these
51937    abominations?
51938 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of
51939    robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the
51940    LORD.
51941 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set
51942    my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the
51943    wickedness of my people Israel.
51944 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD,
51945    and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye
51946    heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
51947 14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my
51948    name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you
51949    and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
51950 15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all
51951    your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
51952 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry
51953    nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I
51954    will not hear thee.
51955 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
51956    streets of Jerusalem?
51957 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and
51958    the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of
51959    heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that
51960    they may provoke me to anger.
51961 19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not
51962    provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
51963 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my
51964    fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon
51965    beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of
51966    the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
51967 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
51968    burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
51969 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the
51970    day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning
51971    burnt offerings or sacrifices:
51972 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I
51973    will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in
51974    all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well
51975    unto you.
51976 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in
51977    the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and
51978    went backward, and not forward.
51979 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of
51980    Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants
51981    the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
51982 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but
51983    hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
51984 27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they
51985    will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but
51986    they will not answer thee.
51987 28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth
51988    not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction:
51989    truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
51990 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up
51991    a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and
51992    forsaken the generation of his wrath.
51993 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
51994    the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which
51995    is called by my name, to pollute it.
51996 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the
51997    valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
51998    daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither
51999    came it into my heart.
52000 32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
52001    shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of
52002    Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in
52003    Tophet, till there be no place.
52004 33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of
52005    the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall
52006    fray them away.
52007 34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from
52008    the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
52009    gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
52010    bride: for the land shall be desolate.

52011 Jeremiah 8

52012  1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones
52013    of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
52014    bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the
52015    bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
52016  2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and
52017    all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they
52018    have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they
52019    have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
52020    gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face
52021    of the earth.
52022  3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue
52023    of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all
52024    the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of
52025    hosts.
52026  4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall
52027    they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
52028  5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
52029    perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to
52030    return.
52031  6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man
52032    repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
52033    every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the
52034    battle.
52035  7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and
52036    the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of
52037    their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
52038  8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with
52039    us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes
52040    is in vain.
52041  9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,
52042    they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in
52043    them?
52044 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their
52045    fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the
52046    least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from
52047    the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
52048 11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
52049    slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
52050 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
52051    they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
52052    therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
52053    their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
52054 13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no
52055    grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf
52056    shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass
52057    away from them.
52058 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter
52059    into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the
52060    LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of
52061    gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
52062 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
52063    health, and behold trouble!
52064 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land
52065    trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for
52066    they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in
52067    it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
52068 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you,
52069    which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the
52070    LORD.
52071 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint
52072    in me.
52073 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people
52074    because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD
52075    in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to
52076    anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
52077 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
52078    saved.
52079 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am
52080    black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
52081 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why
52082    then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

52083 Jeremiah 9

52084  1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
52085    tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
52086    daughter of my people!
52087  2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring
52088    men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they
52089    be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
52090  3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they
52091    are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed
52092    from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
52093  4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in
52094    any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and
52095    every neighbour will walk with slanders.
52096  5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not
52097    speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
52098    and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
52099  6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit
52100    they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
52101  7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
52102    them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my
52103    people?
52104  8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one
52105    speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in
52106    heart he layeth his wait.
52107  9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall
52108    not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
52109 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and
52110    for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because
52111    they are burned up, so that none can pass through them;
52112    neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of
52113    the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
52114 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I
52115    will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
52116 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he
52117    to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare
52118    it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a
52119    wilderness, that none passeth through?
52120 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I
52121    set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked
52122    therein;
52123 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and
52124    after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
52125 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
52126    Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and
52127    give them water of gall to drink.
52128 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they
52129    nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after
52130    them, till I have consumed them.
52131 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the
52132    mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
52133    women, that they may come:
52134 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that
52135    our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out
52136    with waters.
52137 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
52138    spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken
52139    the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
52140 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear
52141    receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters
52142    wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
52143 21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our
52144    palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young
52145    men from the streets.
52146 22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
52147    fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
52148    harvestman, and none shall gather them.
52149 23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
52150    neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the
52151    rich man glory in his riches:
52152 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth
52153    and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise
52154    lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for
52155    in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
52156 25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all
52157    them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
52158 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
52159    Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in
52160    the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and
52161    all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

52162 Jeremiah 10

52163  1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
52164    Israel:
52165  2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be
52166    not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
52167    dismayed at them.
52168  3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree
52169    out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with
52170    the axe.
52171  4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with
52172    nails and with hammers, that it move not.
52173  5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must
52174    needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them;
52175    for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do
52176    good.
52177  6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art
52178    great, and thy name is great in might.
52179  7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth
52180    it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the
52181    nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto
52182    thee.
52183  8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a
52184    doctrine of vanities.
52185  9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold
52186    from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the
52187    founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the
52188    work of cunning men.
52189 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an
52190    everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and
52191    the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
52192 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the
52193    heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth,
52194    and from under these heavens.
52195 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
52196    world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his
52197    discretion.
52198 13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in
52199    the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the
52200    ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and
52201    bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
52202 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
52203    confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is
52204    falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
52205 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
52206    visitation they shall perish.
52207 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of
52208    all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD
52209    of hosts is his name.
52210 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
52211    fortress.
52212 18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the
52213    inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them,
52214    that they may find it so.
52215 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly
52216    this is a grief, and I must bear it.
52217 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my
52218    children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none
52219    to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
52220 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the
52221    LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks
52222    shall be scattered.
52223 22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion
52224    out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah
52225    desolate, and a den of dragons.
52226 23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is
52227    not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
52228 24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger,
52229    lest thou bring me to nothing.
52230 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and
52231    upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have
52232    eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have
52233    made his habitation desolate.

52234 Jeremiah 11

52235  1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
52236  2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of
52237    Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
52238  3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;
52239    Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
52240  4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them
52241    forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying,
52242    Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command
52243    you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
52244  5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your
52245    fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as
52246    it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
52247  6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the
52248    cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear
52249    ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
52250  7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I
52251    brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day,
52252    rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
52253  8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every
52254    one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will
52255    bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I
52256    commanded them to do: but they did them not.
52257  9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men
52258    of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
52259 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,
52260    which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods
52261    to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
52262    broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
52263 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon
52264    them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they
52265    shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
52266 12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem
52267    go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but
52268    they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
52269 13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O
52270    Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem
52271    have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to
52272    burn incense unto Baal.
52273 14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry
52274    or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that
52275    they cry unto me for their trouble.
52276 15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath
52277    wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from
52278    thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
52279 16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of
52280    goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled
52281    fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
52282 17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil
52283    against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the
52284    house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to
52285    provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
52286 18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
52287    then thou shewedst me their doings.
52288 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the
52289    slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices
52290    against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit
52291    thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
52292    that his name may be no more remembered.
52293 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest
52294    the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for
52295    unto thee have I revealed my cause.
52296 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that
52297    seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD,
52298    that thou die not by our hand:
52299 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish
52300    them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and
52301    their daughters shall die by famine:
52302 23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil
52303    upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

52304 Jeremiah 12

52305  1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me
52306    talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the
52307    wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very
52308    treacherously?
52309  2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow,
52310    yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and
52311    far from their reins.
52312  3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried
52313    mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the
52314    slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
52315  4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
52316    wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the
52317    beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He
52318    shall not see our last end.
52319  5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee,
52320    then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of
52321    peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how
52322    wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
52323  6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they
52324    have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a
52325    multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair
52326    words unto thee.
52327  7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have
52328    given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her
52329    enemies.
52330  8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth
52331    out against me: therefore have I hated it.
52332  9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round
52333    about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the
52334    field, come to devour.
52335 10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my
52336    portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a
52337    desolate wilderness.
52338 11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth
52339    unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man
52340    layeth it to heart.
52341 12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the
52342    wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the
52343    one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no
52344    flesh shall have peace.
52345 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put
52346    themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be
52347    ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the
52348    LORD.
52349 14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that
52350    touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
52351    inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and
52352    pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
52353 15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out
52354    I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring
52355    them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his
52356    land.
52357 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the
52358    ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as
52359    they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be
52360    built in the midst of my people.
52361 17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy
52362    that nation, saith the LORD.

52363 Jeremiah 13

52364  1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle,
52365    and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
52366  2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put
52367    it on my loins.
52368  3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
52369  4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins,
52370    and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the
52371    rock.
52372  5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
52373  6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto
52374    me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence,
52375    which I commanded thee to hide there.
52376  7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from
52377    the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was
52378    marred, it was profitable for nothing.
52379  8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
52380  9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of
52381    Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
52382 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in
52383    the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to
52384    serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle,
52385    which is good for nothing.
52386 11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I
52387    caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the
52388    whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto
52389    me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
52390    glory: but they would not hear.
52391 12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the
52392    LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine:
52393    and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that
52394    every bottle shall be filled with wine?
52395 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
52396    will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings
52397    that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the
52398    prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
52399    drunkenness.
52400 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and
52401    the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare,
52402    nor have mercy, but destroy them.
52403 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
52404 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and
52405    before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while
52406    ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and
52407    make it gross darkness.
52408 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret
52409    places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run
52410    down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away
52411    captive.
52412 18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit
52413    down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown
52414    of your glory.
52415 19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open
52416    them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall
52417    be wholly carried away captive.
52418 20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
52419    where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
52420 21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast
52421    taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not
52422    sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
52423 22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things
52424    upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
52425    discovered, and thy heels made bare.
52426 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
52427    then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
52428 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away
52429    by the wind of the wilderness.
52430 25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith
52431    the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in
52432    falsehood.
52433 26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy
52434    shame may appear.
52435 27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness
52436    of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the
52437    fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made
52438    clean? when shall it once be?

52439 Jeremiah 14

52440  1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
52441    dearth.
52442  2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black
52443    unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
52444  3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:
52445    they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with
52446    their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and
52447    covered their heads.
52448  4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the
52449    earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
52450  5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,
52451    because there was no grass.
52452  6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed
52453    up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there
52454    was no grass.
52455  7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it
52456    for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have
52457    sinned against thee.
52458  8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble,
52459    why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a
52460    wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
52461  9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that
52462    cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we
52463    are called by thy name; leave us not.
52464 10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to
52465    wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD
52466    doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and
52467    visit their sins.
52468 11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their
52469    good.
52470 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer
52471    burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I
52472    will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
52473    pestilence.
52474 13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them,
52475    Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but
52476    I will give you assured peace in this place.
52477 14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my
52478    name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither
52479    spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and
52480    divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their
52481    heart.
52482 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
52483    prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword
52484    and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine
52485    shall those prophets be consumed.
52486 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the
52487    streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and
52488    they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor
52489    their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their
52490    wickedness upon them.
52491 17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes
52492    run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for
52493    the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great
52494    breach, with a very grievous blow.
52495 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the
52496    sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are
52497    sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go
52498    about into a land that they know not.
52499 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion?
52500    why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we
52501    looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of
52502    healing, and behold trouble!
52503 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of
52504    our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
52505 21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the
52506    throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
52507 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can
52508    cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he,
52509    O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou
52510    hast made all these things.

52511 Jeremiah 15

52512  1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
52513    before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast
52514    them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
52515  2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither
52516    shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the
52517    LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the
52518    sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the
52519    famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
52520  3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the
52521    sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the
52522    heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
52523  4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
52524    earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah,
52525    for that which he did in Jerusalem.
52526  5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
52527    bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
52528  6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward:
52529    therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy
52530    thee; I am weary with repenting.
52531  7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I
52532    will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since
52533    they return not from their ways.
52534  8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I
52535    have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a
52536    spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it
52537    suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
52538  9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
52539    ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath
52540    been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I
52541    deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
52542 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife
52543    and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither
52544    lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one
52545    of them doth curse me.
52546 11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
52547    verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time
52548    of evil and in the time of affliction.
52549 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
52550 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
52551    without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy
52552    borders.
52553 14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
52554    which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger,
52555    which shall burn upon you.
52556 15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge
52557    me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering:
52558    know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
52559 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was
52560    unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called
52561    by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
52562 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat
52563    alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with
52564    indignation.
52565 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which
52566    refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a
52567    liar, and as waters that fail?
52568 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I
52569    bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou
52570    take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my
52571    mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto
52572    them.
52573 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall:
52574    and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail
52575    against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver
52576    thee, saith the LORD.
52577 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I
52578    will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

52579 Jeremiah 16

52580  1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
52581  2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons
52582    or daughters in this place.
52583  3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the
52584    daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their
52585    mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that
52586    begat them in this land;
52587  4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented;
52588    neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon
52589    the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the
52590    sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the
52591    fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
52592  5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
52593    neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my
52594    peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness
52595    and mercies.
52596  6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
52597    shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor
52598    cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
52599  7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to
52600    comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup
52601    of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
52602  8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
52603    them to eat and to drink.
52604  9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
52605    will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in
52606    your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the
52607    voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
52608 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
52609    all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath
52610    the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is
52611    our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed
52612    against the LORD our God?
52613 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have
52614    forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods,
52615    and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have
52616    forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
52617 12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk
52618    every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they
52619    may not hearken unto me:
52620 13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye
52621    know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye
52622    serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you
52623    favour.
52624 14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
52625    shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
52626    children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
52627 15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
52628    from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he
52629    had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land
52630    that I gave unto their fathers.
52631 16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they
52632    shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and
52633    they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill,
52634    and out of the holes of the rocks.
52635 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from
52636    my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
52637 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
52638    double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled
52639    mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and
52640    abominable things.
52641 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day
52642    of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends
52643    of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited
52644    lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
52645 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
52646 21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will
52647    cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know
52648    that my name is The LORD.

52649 Jeremiah 17

52650  1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the
52651    point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their
52652    heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
52653  2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves
52654    by the green trees upon the high hills.
52655  3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all
52656    thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin,
52657    throughout all thy borders.
52658  4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage
52659    that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies
52660    in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire
52661    in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
52662  5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
52663    and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the
52664    LORD.
52665  6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not
52666    see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in
52667    the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
52668  7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope
52669    the LORD is.
52670  8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that
52671    spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when
52672    heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
52673    careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
52674    yielding fruit.
52675  9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
52676    wicked: who can know it?
52677 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
52678    every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of
52679    his doings.
52680 11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he
52681    that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the
52682    midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
52683 12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our
52684    sanctuary.
52685 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
52686    ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the
52687    earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
52688    living waters.
52689 14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall
52690    be saved: for thou art my praise.
52691 15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let
52692    it come now.
52693 16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow
52694    thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest:
52695    that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
52696 17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
52697 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be
52698    confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed:
52699    bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double
52700    destruction.
52701 19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the
52702    children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in,
52703    and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of
52704    Jerusalem;
52705 20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of
52706    Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
52707    that enter in by these gates:
52708 21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
52709    burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of
52710    Jerusalem;
52711 22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath
52712    day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as
52713    I commanded your fathers.
52714 23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made
52715    their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive
52716    instruction.
52717 24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me,
52718    saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of
52719    this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to
52720    do no work therein;
52721 25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and
52722    princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots
52723    and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and
52724    the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for
52725    ever.
52726 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
52727    places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and
52728    from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south,
52729    bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings,
52730    and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house
52731    of the LORD.
52732 27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day,
52733    and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of
52734    Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
52735    gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem,
52736    and it shall not be quenched.

52737 Jeremiah 18

52738  1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
52739  2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
52740    cause thee to hear my words.
52741  3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he
52742    wrought a work on the wheels.
52743  4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of
52744    the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good
52745    to the potter to make it.
52746  5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
52747  6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith
52748    the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are
52749    ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
52750  7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
52751    concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to
52752    destroy it;
52753  8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from
52754    their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
52755    unto them.
52756  9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
52757    concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
52758 10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I
52759    will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit
52760    them.
52761 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
52762    inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
52763    I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you:
52764    return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways
52765    and your doings good.
52766 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our
52767    own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his
52768    evil heart.
52769 13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen,
52770    who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a
52771    very horrible thing.
52772 14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the
52773    rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come
52774    from another place be forsaken?
52775 15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense
52776    to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways
52777    from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast
52778    up;
52779 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every
52780    one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his
52781    head.
52782 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I
52783    will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their
52784    calamity.
52785 18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against
52786    Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor
52787    counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come,
52788    and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed
52789    to any of his words.
52790 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that
52791    contend with me.
52792 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit
52793    for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good
52794    for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
52795 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour
52796    out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives
52797    be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their
52798    men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword
52799    in battle.
52800 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a
52801    troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take
52802    me, and hid snares for my feet.
52803 23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay
52804    me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin
52805    from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal
52806    thus with them in the time of thine anger.

52807 Jeremiah 19

52808  1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and
52809    take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
52810    priests;
52811  2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by
52812    the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that
52813    I shall tell thee,
52814  3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and
52815    inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
52816    God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the
52817    which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
52818  4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place,
52819    and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither
52820    they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and
52821    have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
52822  5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their
52823    sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
52824    commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
52825  6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this
52826    place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the
52827    son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
52828  7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in
52829    this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before
52830    their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives:
52831    and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the
52832    heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
52833  8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one
52834    that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of
52835    all the plagues thereof.
52836  9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the
52837    flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the
52838    flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith
52839    their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten
52840    them.
52841 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that
52842    go with thee,
52843 11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so
52844    will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a
52845    potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they
52846    shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
52847 12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the
52848    inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
52849 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of
52850    Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all
52851    the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all
52852    the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto
52853    other gods.
52854 14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him
52855    to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house;
52856    and said to all the people,
52857 15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
52858    will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil
52859    that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened
52860    their necks, that they might not hear my words.

52861 Jeremiah 20

52862  1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief
52863    governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah
52864    prophesied these things.
52865  2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the
52866    stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by
52867    the house of the LORD.
52868  3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth
52869    Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The
52870    LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
52871  4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to
52872    thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the
52873    sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I
52874    will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
52875    he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them
52876    with the sword.
52877  5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all
52878    the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and
52879    all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the
52880    hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them,
52881    and carry them to Babylon.
52882  6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go
52883    into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou
52884    shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy
52885    friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
52886  7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art
52887    stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,
52888    every one mocketh me.
52889  8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
52890    because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and
52891    a derision, daily.
52892  9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
52893    more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning
52894    fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and
52895    I could not stay.
52896 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report,
52897    say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for
52898    my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we
52899    shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on
52900    him.
52901 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my
52902    persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they
52903    shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their
52904    everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
52905 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the
52906    reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for
52907    unto thee have I opened my cause.
52908 13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered
52909    the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
52910 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein
52911    my mother bare me be blessed.
52912 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A
52913    man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
52914 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew,
52915    and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and
52916    the shouting at noontide;
52917 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might
52918    have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
52919 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
52920    sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

52921 Jeremiah 21

52922  1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
52923    Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and
52924    Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
52925  2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
52926    king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD
52927    will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he
52928    may go up from us.
52929  3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
52930  4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back
52931    the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight
52932    against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which
52933    besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into
52934    the midst of this city.
52935  5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand
52936    and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in
52937    great wrath.
52938  6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and
52939    beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
52940  7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of
52941    Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left
52942    in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the
52943    famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
52944    into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
52945    that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of
52946    the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor
52947    have mercy.
52948  8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD;
52949    Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of
52950    death.
52951  9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by
52952    the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and
52953    falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and
52954    his life shall be unto him for a prey.
52955 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for
52956    good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the
52957    king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
52958 11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the
52959    word of the LORD;
52960 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the
52961    morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of
52962    the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that
52963    none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
52964 13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and
52965    rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come
52966    down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
52967 14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
52968    saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest
52969    thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

52970 Jeremiah 22

52971  1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
52972    Judah, and speak there this word,
52973  2 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that
52974    sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and
52975    thy people that enter in by these gates:
52976  3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness,
52977    and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and
52978    do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless,
52979    nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
52980  4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by
52981    the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of
52982    David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
52983    and his people.
52984  5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith
52985    the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
52986  6 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou
52987    art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will
52988    make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
52989  7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his
52990    weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast
52991    them into the fire.
52992  8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say
52993    every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus
52994    unto this great city?
52995  9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
52996    covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and
52997    served them.
52998 10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore
52999    for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see
53000    his native country.
53001 11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah
53002    king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father,
53003    which went forth out of this place; He shall not return
53004    thither any more:
53005 12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him
53006    captive, and shall see this land no more.
53007 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and
53008    his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service
53009    without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
53010 14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers,
53011    and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and
53012    painted with vermilion.
53013 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did
53014    not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and
53015    then it was well with him?
53016 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well
53017    with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
53018 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy
53019    covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
53020    oppression, and for violence, to do it.
53021 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of
53022    Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying,
53023    Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him,
53024    saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
53025 19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast
53026    forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
53027 20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan,
53028    and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
53029 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will
53030    not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou
53031    obeyedst not my voice.
53032 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go
53033    into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and
53034    confounded for all thy wickedness.
53035 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars,
53036    how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain
53037    as of a woman in travail!
53038 24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim
53039    king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I
53040    pluck thee thence;
53041 25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life,
53042    and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into
53043    the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
53044    of the Chaldeans.
53045 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into
53046    another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye
53047    die.
53048 27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall
53049    they not return.
53050 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel
53051    wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and
53052    his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
53053 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
53054 30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that
53055    shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall
53056    prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more
53057    in Judah.

53058 Jeremiah 23

53059  1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of
53060    my pasture! saith the LORD.
53061  2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the
53062    pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and
53063    driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will
53064    visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
53065  3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries
53066    whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their
53067    folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
53068  4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them:
53069    and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall
53070    they be lacking, saith the LORD.
53071  5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto
53072    David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper,
53073    and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
53074  6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
53075    safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE
53076    LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
53077  7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they
53078    shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the
53079    children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
53080  8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed
53081    of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all
53082    countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in
53083    their own land.
53084  9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my
53085    bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine
53086    hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words
53087    of his holiness.
53088 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing
53089    the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are
53090    dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not
53091    right.
53092 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have
53093    I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
53094 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the
53095    darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I
53096    will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation,
53097    saith the LORD.
53098 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
53099    prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
53100 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible
53101    thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen
53102    also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his
53103    wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the
53104    inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
53105 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
53106    prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make
53107    them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of
53108    Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
53109 16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of
53110    the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they
53111    speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of
53112    the LORD.
53113 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said,
53114    Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh
53115    after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come
53116    upon you.
53117 18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath
53118    perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and
53119    heard it?
53120 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a
53121    grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of
53122    the wicked.
53123 20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have
53124    executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his
53125    heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
53126 21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not
53127    spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
53128 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people
53129    to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their
53130    evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
53131 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
53132 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see
53133    him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the
53134    LORD.
53135 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my
53136    name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
53137 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
53138    prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their
53139    own heart;
53140 27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their
53141    dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their
53142    fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
53143 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he
53144    that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is
53145    the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
53146 29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a
53147    hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
53148 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD,
53149    that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
53150 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use
53151    their tongues, and say, He saith.
53152 32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith
53153    the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by
53154    their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor
53155    commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at
53156    all, saith the LORD.
53157 33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask
53158    thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then
53159    say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the
53160    LORD.
53161 34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that
53162    shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man
53163    and his house.
53164 35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to
53165    his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the
53166    LORD spoken?
53167 36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every
53168    man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the
53169    words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
53170 37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD
53171    answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
53172 38 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith
53173    the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD,
53174    and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden
53175    of the LORD;
53176 39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I
53177    will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your
53178    fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
53179 40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
53180    perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

53181 Jeremiah 24

53182  1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set
53183    before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king
53184    of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of
53185    Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the
53186    carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to
53187    Babylon.
53188  2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are
53189    first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which
53190    could not be eaten, they were so bad.
53191  3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I
53192    said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil,
53193    that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
53194  4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
53195  5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs,
53196    so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of
53197    Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the
53198    Chaldeans for their good.
53199  6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring
53200    them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull
53201    them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
53202  7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD:
53203    and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they
53204    shall return unto me with their whole heart.
53205  8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil;
53206    surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king
53207    of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that
53208    remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
53209  9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of
53210    the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a
53211    taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
53212 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
53213    among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I
53214    gave unto them and to their fathers.

53215 Jeremiah 25

53216  1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of
53217    Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
53218    of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
53219    Babylon;
53220  2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of
53221    Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
53222  3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of
53223    Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth
53224    year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have
53225    spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not
53226    hearkened.
53227  4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,
53228    rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor
53229    inclined your ear to hear.
53230  5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and
53231    from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the
53232    LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and
53233    ever:
53234  6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship
53235    them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your
53236    hands; and I will do you no hurt.
53237  7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye
53238    might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your
53239    own hurt.
53240  8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
53241    heard my words,
53242  9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
53243    saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
53244    servant, and will bring them against this land, and against
53245    the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round
53246    about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an
53247    astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
53248 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the
53249    voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
53250    of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of
53251    the candle.
53252 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an
53253    astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of
53254    Babylon seventy years.
53255 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
53256    accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that
53257    nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of
53258    the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
53259 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
53260    pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book,
53261    which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
53262 14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of
53263    them also: and I will recompense them according to their
53264    deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
53265 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine
53266    cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to
53267    whom I send thee, to drink it.
53268 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the
53269    sword that I will send among them.
53270 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the
53271    nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
53272 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings
53273    thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation,
53274    an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
53275 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and
53276    all his people;
53277 20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of
53278    Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and
53279    Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
53280 21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
53281 22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and
53282    the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
53283 23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost
53284    corners,
53285 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled
53286    people that dwell in the desert,
53287 25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all
53288    the kings of the Medes,
53289 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with
53290    another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the
53291    face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after
53292    them.
53293 27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
53294    hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue,
53295    and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will
53296    send among you.
53297 28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand
53298    to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD
53299    of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
53300 29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by
53301    my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be
53302    unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the
53303    inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
53304 30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say
53305    unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his
53306    voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon
53307    his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the
53308    grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
53309 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD
53310    hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all
53311    flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith
53312    the LORD.
53313 32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from
53314    nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up
53315    from the coasts of the earth.
53316 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of
53317    the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not
53318    be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung
53319    upon the ground.
53320 34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the
53321    ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your
53322    slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye
53323    shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
53324 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal
53325    of the flock to escape.
53326 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the
53327    principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath
53328    spoiled their pasture.
53329 37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the
53330    fierce anger of the LORD.
53331 38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is
53332    desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and
53333    because of his fierce anger.

53334 Jeremiah 26

53335  1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
53336    king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
53337  2 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house,
53338    and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship
53339    in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to
53340    speak unto them; diminish not a word:
53341  3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil
53342    way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do
53343    unto them because of the evil of their doings.
53344  4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will
53345    not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before
53346    you,
53347  5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I
53348    sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye
53349    have not hearkened;
53350  6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this
53351    city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
53352  7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard
53353    Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
53354  8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
53355    all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the
53356    people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people
53357    took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
53358  9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This
53359    house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate
53360    without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered
53361    against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
53362 10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came
53363    up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat
53364    down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.
53365 11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and
53366    to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he
53367    hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your
53368    ears.
53369 12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the
53370    people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this
53371    house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
53372 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the
53373    voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of
53374    the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
53375 14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth
53376    good and meet unto you.
53377 15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall
53378    surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this
53379    city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the
53380    LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your
53381    ears.
53382 16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and
53383    to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath
53384    spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
53385 17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to
53386    all the assembly of the people, saying,
53387 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king
53388    of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus
53389    saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field,
53390    and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
53391    house as the high places of a forest.
53392 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to
53393    death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and
53394    the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced
53395    against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our
53396    souls.
53397 20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
53398    LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who
53399    prophesied against this city and against this land according
53400    to all the words of Jeremiah.
53401 21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all
53402    the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to
53403    death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and
53404    went into Egypt;
53405 22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan
53406    the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
53407 23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him
53408    unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast
53409    his dead body into the graves of the common people.
53410 24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with
53411    Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the
53412    people to put him to death.

53413 Jeremiah 27

53414  1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
53415    king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
53416    saying,
53417  2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put
53418    them upon thy neck,
53419  3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab,
53420    and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus,
53421    and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which
53422    come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
53423  4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the
53424    LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your
53425    masters;
53426  5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the
53427    ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have
53428    given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
53429  6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of
53430    Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts
53431    of the field have I given him also to serve him.
53432  7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's
53433    son, until the very time of his land come: and then many
53434    nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
53435  8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which
53436    will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
53437    and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of
53438    Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the
53439    sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I
53440    have consumed them by his hand.
53441  9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your
53442    diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to
53443    your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not
53444    serve the king of Babylon:
53445 10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your
53446    land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
53447 11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the
53448    king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still
53449    in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and
53450    dwell therein.
53451 12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these
53452    words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of
53453    Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
53454 13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the
53455    famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against
53456    the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
53457 14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
53458    speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
53459    Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
53460 15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a
53461    lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might
53462    perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
53463 16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying,
53464    Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets
53465    that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the
53466    LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon:
53467    for they prophesy a lie unto you.
53468 17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
53469    wherefore should this city be laid waste?
53470 18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with
53471    them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts,
53472    that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and
53473    in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to
53474    Babylon.
53475 19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and
53476    concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning
53477    the residue of the vessels that remain in this city.
53478 20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried
53479    away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from
53480    Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and
53481    Jerusalem;
53482 21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
53483    concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD,
53484    and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
53485 22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be
53486    until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I
53487    bring them up, and restore them to this place.

53488 Jeremiah 28

53489  1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the
53490    reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in
53491    the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet,
53492    which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD,
53493    in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
53494  2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I
53495    have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
53496  3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all
53497    the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
53498    Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to
53499    Babylon:
53500  4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
53501    Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that
53502    went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke
53503    of the king of Babylon.
53504  5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in
53505    the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the
53506    people that stood in the house of the LORD,
53507  6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD
53508    perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again
53509    the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away
53510    captive, from Babylon into this place.
53511  7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine
53512    ears, and in the ears of all the people;
53513  8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old
53514    prophesied both against many countries, and against great
53515    kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
53516  9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the
53517    prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known,
53518    that the LORD hath truly sent him.
53519 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
53520    Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
53521 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying,
53522    Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of
53523    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations
53524    within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah
53525    went his way.
53526 12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet,
53527    after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off
53528    the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
53529 13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast
53530    broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes
53531    of iron.
53532 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have
53533    put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that
53534    they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall
53535    serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
53536 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear
53537    now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest
53538    this people to trust in a lie.
53539 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from
53540    off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because
53541    thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
53542 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
53543    month.

53544 Jeremiah 29

53545  1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
53546    prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders
53547    which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to
53548    the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had
53549    carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
53550  2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs,
53551    the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and
53552    the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
53553  3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son
53554    of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to
53555    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
53556  4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that
53557    are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried
53558    away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
53559  5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat
53560    the fruit of them;
53561  6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives
53562    for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they
53563    may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there,
53564    and not diminished.
53565  7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be
53566    carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in
53567    the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
53568  8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not
53569    your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you,
53570    deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to
53571    be dreamed.
53572  9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent
53573    them, saith the LORD.
53574 10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be
53575    accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
53576    word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
53577 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the
53578    LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
53579    expected end.
53580 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me,
53581    and I will hearken unto you.
53582 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
53583    with all your heart.
53584 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn
53585    away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the
53586    nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,
53587    saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place
53588    whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
53589 15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
53590    Babylon;
53591 16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon
53592    the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in
53593    this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with
53594    you into captivity;
53595 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them
53596    the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them
53597    like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
53598 18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and
53599    with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to
53600    all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an
53601    astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the
53602    nations whither I have driven them:
53603 19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD,
53604    which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up
53605    early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
53606 20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the
53607    captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
53608 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the
53609    son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which
53610    prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver
53611    them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
53612    shall slay them before your eyes;
53613 22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of
53614    Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like
53615    Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in
53616    the fire;
53617 23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have
53618    committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have
53619    spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded
53620    them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
53621 24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
53622 25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
53623    Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people
53624    that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah
53625    the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
53626 26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the
53627    priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD,
53628    for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that
53629    thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
53630 27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth,
53631    which maketh himself a prophet to you?
53632 28 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This
53633    captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and
53634    plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
53635 29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
53636    Jeremiah the prophet.
53637 30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
53638 31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD
53639    concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath
53640    prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to
53641    trust in a lie:
53642 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah
53643    the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell
53644    among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I
53645    will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught
53646    rebellion against the LORD.

53647 Jeremiah 30

53648  1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
53649  2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all
53650    the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
53651  3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring
53652    again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the
53653    LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave
53654    to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
53655  4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel
53656    and concerning Judah.
53657  5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling,
53658    of fear, and not of peace.
53659  6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
53660    wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a
53661    woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
53662  7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
53663    even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of
53664    it.
53665  8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
53666    hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will
53667    burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves
53668    of him:
53669  9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king,
53670    whom I will raise up unto them.
53671 10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD;
53672    neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from
53673    afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
53674    shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none
53675    shall make him afraid.
53676 11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I
53677    make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee,
53678    yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct
53679    thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether
53680    unpunished.
53681 12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy
53682    wound is grievous.
53683 13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound
53684    up: thou hast no healing medicines.
53685 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I
53686    have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the
53687    chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine
53688    iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
53689 15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable
53690    for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were
53691    increased, I have done these things unto thee.
53692 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all
53693    thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
53694    and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey
53695    upon thee will I give for a prey.
53696 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of
53697    thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an
53698    Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
53699 18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity
53700    of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and
53701    the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace
53702    shall remain after the manner thereof.
53703 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of
53704    them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall
53705    not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be
53706    small.
53707 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
53708    congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish
53709    all that oppress them.
53710 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor
53711    shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to
53712    draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that
53713    engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
53714 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
53715 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a
53716    continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of
53717    the wicked.
53718 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath
53719    done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart:
53720    in the latter days ye shall consider it.

53721 Jeremiah 31

53722  1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the
53723    families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
53724  2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword
53725    found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to
53726    cause him to rest.
53727  3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have
53728    loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
53729    lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
53730  4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of
53731    Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and
53732    shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
53733  5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the
53734    planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
53735  6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount
53736    Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the
53737    LORD our God.
53738  7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and
53739    shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye,
53740    and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
53741  8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
53742    them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and
53743    the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with
53744    child together: a great company shall return thither.
53745  9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I
53746    lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters
53747    in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a
53748    father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
53749 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the
53750    isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather
53751    him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
53752 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the
53753    hand of him that was stronger than he.
53754 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and
53755    shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat,
53756    and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and
53757    of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and
53758    they shall not sorrow any more at all.
53759 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and
53760    old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and
53761    will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
53762 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and
53763    my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
53764 15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,
53765    and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to
53766    be comforted for her children, because they were not.
53767 16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine
53768    eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the
53769    LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
53770 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy
53771    children shall come again to their own border.
53772 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast
53773    chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed
53774    to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art
53775    the LORD my God.
53776 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I
53777    was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea,
53778    even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
53779 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I
53780    spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
53781    therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have
53782    mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
53783 21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart
53784    toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn
53785    again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
53786 22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for
53787    the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall
53788    compass a man.
53789 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they
53790    shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities
53791    thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD
53792    bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
53793 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities
53794    thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with
53795    flocks.
53796 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished
53797    every sorrowful soul.
53798 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto
53799    me.
53800 27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the
53801    house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man,
53802    and with the seed of beast.
53803 28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over
53804    them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and
53805    to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to
53806    build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
53807 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a
53808    sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
53809 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that
53810    eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
53811 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new
53812    covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
53813    Judah:
53814 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
53815    in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of
53816    the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I
53817    was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
53818 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house
53819    of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law
53820    in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will
53821    be their God, and they shall be my people.
53822 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
53823    every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall
53824    all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
53825    saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
53826    remember their sin no more.
53827 35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day,
53828    and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by
53829    night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The
53830    LORD of hosts is his name:
53831 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,
53832    then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
53833    before me for ever.
53834 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the
53835    foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also
53836    cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,
53837    saith the LORD.
53838 38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be
53839    built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of
53840    the corner.
53841 39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon
53842    the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
53843 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and
53844    all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of
53845    the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD;
53846    it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

53847 Jeremiah 32

53848  1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year
53849    of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
53850    Nebuchadrezzar.
53851  2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and
53852    Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison,
53853    which was in the king of Judah's house.
53854  3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore
53855    dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
53856    will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
53857    he shall take it;
53858  4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of
53859    the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of
53860    the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth,
53861    and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
53862  5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be
53863    until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the
53864    Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
53865  6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
53866  7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come
53867    unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for
53868    the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
53869  8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the
53870    prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me,
53871    Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in
53872    the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is
53873    thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I
53874    knew that this was the word of the LORD.
53875  9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in
53876    Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of
53877    silver.
53878 10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took
53879    witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
53880 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was
53881    sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was
53882    open:
53883 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of
53884    Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine
53885    uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that
53886    subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that
53887    sat in the court of the prison.
53888 13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
53889 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these
53890    evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is
53891    sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an
53892    earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
53893 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses
53894    and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this
53895    land.
53896 16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto
53897    Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
53898 17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth
53899    by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing
53900    too hard for thee:
53901 18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest
53902    the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children
53903    after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is
53904    his name,
53905 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open
53906    upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one
53907    according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
53908    doings:
53909 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even
53910    unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast
53911    made thee a name, as at this day;
53912 21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of
53913    Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand,
53914    and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
53915 22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their
53916    fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
53917 23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy
53918    voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of
53919    all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast
53920    caused all this evil to come upon them:
53921 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and
53922    the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight
53923    against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of
53924    the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass;
53925    and, behold, thou seest it.
53926 25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for
53927    money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand
53928    of the Chaldeans.
53929 26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
53930 27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any
53931    thing too hard for me?
53932 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city
53933    into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
53934    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
53935 29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come
53936    and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon
53937    whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured
53938    out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
53939 30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only
53940    done evil before me from their youth: for the children of
53941    Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their
53942    hands, saith the LORD.
53943 31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger
53944    and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this
53945    day; that I should remove it from before my face,
53946 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the
53947    children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to
53948    anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and
53949    their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of
53950    Jerusalem.
53951 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face:
53952    though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet
53953    they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
53954 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called
53955    by my name, to defile it.
53956 35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the
53957    valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
53958    daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I
53959    commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they
53960    should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
53961 36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
53962    concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered
53963    into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the
53964    famine, and by the pestilence;
53965 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I
53966    have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great
53967    wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will
53968    cause them to dwell safely:
53969 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
53970 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may
53971    fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children
53972    after them:
53973 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will
53974    not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my
53975    fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
53976 41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will
53977    plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with
53978    my whole soul.
53979 42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great
53980    evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good
53981    that I have promised them.
53982 43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is
53983    desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of
53984    the Chaldeans.
53985 44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and
53986    seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in
53987    the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in
53988    the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley,
53989    and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their
53990    captivity to return, saith the LORD.

53991 Jeremiah 33

53992  1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second
53993    time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison,
53994    saying,
53995  2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed
53996    it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
53997  3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and
53998    mighty things, which thou knowest not.
53999  4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the
54000    houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of
54001    Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
54002  5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them
54003    with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger
54004    and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my
54005    face from this city.
54006  6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them,
54007    and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
54008  7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of
54009    Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
54010  8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they
54011    have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
54012    iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have
54013    transgressed against me.
54014  9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour
54015    before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the
54016    good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for
54017    all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure
54018    unto it.
54019 10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place,
54020    which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast,
54021    even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
54022    that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and
54023    without beast,
54024 11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
54025    bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that
54026    shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for
54027    his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the
54028    sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will
54029    cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first,
54030    saith the LORD.
54031 12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is
54032    desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities
54033    thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their
54034    flocks to lie down.
54035 13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and
54036    in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and
54037    in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
54038    shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that
54039    telleth them, saith the LORD.
54040 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform
54041    that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel
54042    and to the house of Judah.
54043 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
54044    righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute
54045    judgment and righteousness in the land.
54046 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell
54047    safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called,
54048    The LORD our righteousness.
54049 17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit
54050    upon the throne of the house of Israel;
54051 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to
54052    offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do
54053    sacrifice continually.
54054 19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
54055 20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day,
54056    and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day
54057    and night in their season;
54058 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
54059    that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and
54060    with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
54061 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of
54062    the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my
54063    servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
54064 23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
54065 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The
54066    two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast
54067    them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should
54068    be no more a nation before them.
54069 25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night,
54070    and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and
54071    earth;
54072 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant,
54073    so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the
54074    seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their
54075    captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

54076 Jeremiah 34

54077  1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
54078    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
54079    kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people,
54080    fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,
54081    saying,
54082  2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to
54083    Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD;
54084    Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
54085    Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
54086  3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be
54087    taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall
54088    behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak
54089    with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
54090  4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus
54091    saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
54092  5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy
54093    fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall
54094    they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying,
54095    Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
54096  6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah
54097    king of Judah in Jerusalem,
54098  7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and
54099    against all the cities of Judah that were left, against
54100    Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities
54101    remained of the cities of Judah.
54102  8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after
54103    that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people
54104    which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
54105  9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his
54106    maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that
54107    none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his
54108    brother.
54109 10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had
54110    entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his
54111    manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none
54112    should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed,
54113    and let them go.
54114 11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the
54115    handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought
54116    them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
54117 12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
54118    saying,
54119 13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with
54120    your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the
54121    land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
54122 14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an
54123    Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath
54124    served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:
54125    but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their
54126    ear.
54127 15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
54128    proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had
54129    made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my
54130    name:
54131 16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his
54132    servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at
54133    liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into
54134    subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
54135 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me,
54136    in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every
54137    man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you,
54138    saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
54139    famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the
54140    kingdoms of the earth.
54141 18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,
54142    which have not performed the words of the covenant which they
54143    had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and
54144    passed between the parts thereof,
54145 19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
54146    eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land,
54147    which passed between the parts of the calf;
54148 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into
54149    the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies
54150    shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the
54151    beasts of the earth.
54152 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into
54153    the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek
54154    their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army,
54155    which are gone up from you.
54156 22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to
54157    return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take
54158    it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah
54159    a desolation without an inhabitant.

54160 Jeremiah 35

54161  1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of
54162    Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
54163  2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and
54164    bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the
54165    chambers, and give them wine to drink.
54166  3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
54167    Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole
54168    house of the Rechabites;
54169  4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the
54170    chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of
54171    God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above
54172    the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the
54173    door:
54174  5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots
54175    full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
54176  6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of
54177    Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no
54178    wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:
54179  7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
54180    vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in
54181    tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be
54182    strangers.
54183  8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our
54184    father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all
54185    our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
54186  9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
54187    vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
54188 10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done
54189    according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
54190 11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came
54191    up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to
54192    Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear
54193    of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
54194 12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
54195 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell
54196    the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not
54197    receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
54198 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his
54199    sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they
54200    drink none, but obey their father's commandment:
54201    notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
54202    speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
54203 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising
54204    up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man
54205    from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after
54206    other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which
54207    I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not
54208    inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
54209 16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
54210    the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but
54211    this people hath not hearkened unto me:
54212 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel;
54213    Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants
54214    of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them:
54215    because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and
54216    I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
54217 18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith
54218    the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed
54219    the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his
54220    precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded
54221    you:
54222 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
54223    Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before
54224    me for ever.

54225 Jeremiah 36

54226  1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
54227    Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from
54228    the LORD, saying,
54229  2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words
54230    that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against
54231    Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto
54232    thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
54233  3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which
54234    I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from
54235    his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
54236  4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch
54237    wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD,
54238    which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
54239  5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot
54240    go into the house of the LORD:
54241  6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast
54242    written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of
54243    the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also
54244    thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of
54245    their cities.
54246  7 It may be they will present their supplication before the
54247    LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great
54248    is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced
54249    against this people.
54250  8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that
54251    Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the
54252    words of the LORD in the LORD's house.
54253  9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
54254    Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed
54255    a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to
54256    all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto
54257    Jerusalem.
54258 10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
54259    house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of
54260    Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the
54261    new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
54262 11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
54263    heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
54264 12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
54265    chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the
54266    scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son
54267    of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the
54268    son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
54269 13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had
54270    heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
54271 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
54272    the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying,
54273    Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears
54274    of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the
54275    roll in his hand, and came unto them.
54276 15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
54277    So Baruch read it in their ears.
54278 16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they
54279    were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will
54280    surely tell the king of all these words.
54281 17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou
54282    write all these words at his mouth?
54283 18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto
54284    me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
54285 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
54286    Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
54287 20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up
54288    the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all
54289    the words in the ears of the king.
54290 21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out
54291    of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the
54292    ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which
54293    stood beside the king.
54294 22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
54295    there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
54296 23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four
54297    leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire
54298    that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the
54299    fire that was on the hearth.
54300 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the
54301    king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
54302 25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
54303    intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but
54304    he would not hear them.
54305 26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
54306    Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
54307    take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD
54308    hid them.
54309 27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
54310    king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at
54311    the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
54312 28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former
54313    words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of
54314    Judah hath burned.
54315 29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the
54316    LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou
54317    written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly
54318    come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from
54319    thence man and beast?
54320 30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He
54321    shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead
54322    body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the
54323    night to the frost.
54324 31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
54325    iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants
54326    of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I
54327    have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
54328 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
54329    scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of
54330    Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
54331    Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides
54332    unto them many like words.

54333 Jeremiah 37

54334  1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah
54335    the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made
54336    king in the land of Judah.
54337  2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land,
54338    did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the
54339    prophet Jeremiah.
54340  3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and
54341    Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet
54342    Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
54343  4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they
54344    had not put him into prison.
54345  5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the
54346    Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they
54347    departed from Jerusalem.
54348  6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah
54349    saying,
54350  7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to
54351    the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me;
54352    Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall
54353    return to Egypt into their own land.
54354  8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this
54355    city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
54356  9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
54357    Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not
54358    depart.
54359 10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that
54360    fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among
54361    them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn
54362    this city with fire.
54363 11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was
54364    broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
54365 12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
54366    of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the
54367    people.
54368 13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward
54369    was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the
54370    son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
54371    Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
54372 14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the
54373    Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took
54374    Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
54375 15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him,
54376    and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for
54377    they had made that the prison.
54378 16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the
54379    cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
54380 17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king
54381    asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word
54382    from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou
54383    shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
54384 18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I
54385    offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against
54386    this people, that ye have put me in prison?
54387 19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying,
54388    The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against
54389    this land?
54390 20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my
54391    supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou
54392    cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe,
54393    lest I die there.
54394 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
54395    Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should
54396    give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street,
54397    until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah
54398    remained in the court of the prison.

54399 Jeremiah 38

54400  1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
54401    Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of
54402    Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all
54403    the people, saying,
54404  2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die
54405    by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he
54406    that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall
54407    have his life for a prey, and shall live.
54408  3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the
54409    hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
54410  4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let
54411    this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of
54412    the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all
54413    the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man
54414    seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
54415  5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for
54416    the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
54417  6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
54418    Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the
54419    prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
54420    dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the
54421    mire.
54422  7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which
54423    was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in
54424    the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
54425  8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to
54426    the king saying,
54427  9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
54428    have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into
54429    the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place
54430    where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
54431 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take
54432    from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the
54433    prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
54434 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house
54435    of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast
54436    clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into
54437    the dungeon to Jeremiah.
54438 12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these
54439    old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the
54440    cords. And Jeremiah did so.
54441 13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of
54442    the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
54443 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet
54444    unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the
54445    LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a
54446    thing; hide nothing from me.
54447 15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee,
54448    wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee
54449    counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
54450 16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As
54451    the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee
54452    to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men
54453    that seek thy life.
54454 17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God
54455    of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth
54456    unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live,
54457    and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt
54458    live, and thine house:
54459 18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's
54460    princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the
54461    Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt
54462    not escape out of their hand.
54463 19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
54464    Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me
54465    into their hand, and they mock me.
54466 20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I
54467    beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee:
54468    so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
54469 21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD
54470    hath shewed me:
54471 22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of
54472    Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's
54473    princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee
54474    on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the
54475    mire, and they are turned away back.
54476 23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the
54477    Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but
54478    shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou
54479    shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
54480 24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
54481    words, and thou shalt not die.
54482 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they
54483    come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what
54484    thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will
54485    not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
54486 26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication
54487    before the king, that he would not cause me to return to
54488    Jonathan's house, to die there.
54489 27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he
54490    told them according to all these words that the king had
54491    commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter
54492    was not perceived.
54493 28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day
54494    that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was
54495    taken.

54496 Jeremiah 39

54497  1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth
54498    month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army
54499    against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
54500  2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the
54501    ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
54502  3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in
54503    the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim,
54504    Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the
54505    princes of the king of Babylon.
54506  4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw
54507    them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth
54508    out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by
54509    the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the
54510    plain.
54511  5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook
54512    Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken
54513    him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to
54514    Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
54515  6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah
54516    before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles
54517    of Judah.
54518  7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
54519    chains, to carry him to Babylon.
54520  8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of
54521    the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
54522  9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
54523    into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the
54524    city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the
54525    rest of the people that remained.
54526 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of
54527    the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave
54528    them vineyards and fields at the same time.
54529 11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
54530    Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
54531 12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do
54532    unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
54533 13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban,
54534    Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of
54535    Babylon's princes;
54536 14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
54537    prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
54538    son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt
54539    among the people.
54540 15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut
54541    up in the court of the prison, saying,
54542 16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith
54543    the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my
54544    words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they
54545    shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
54546 17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou
54547    shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art
54548    afraid.
54549 18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the
54550    sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because
54551    thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

54552 Jeremiah 40

54553  1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
54554    Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from
54555    Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all
54556    that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which
54557    were carried away captive unto Babylon.
54558  2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him,
54559    The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
54560  3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath
54561    said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not
54562    obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
54563  4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which
54564    were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with
54565    me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if
54566    it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear:
54567    behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good
54568    and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
54569  5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to
54570    Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king
54571    of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and
54572    dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth
54573    convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave
54574    him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
54575  6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah;
54576    and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the
54577    land.
54578  7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the
54579    fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of
54580    Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the
54581    land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children,
54582    and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried
54583    away captive to Babylon;
54584  8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
54585    Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and
54586    Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
54587    Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and
54588    their men.
54589  9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto
54590    them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the
54591    Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,
54592    and it shall be well with you.
54593 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the
54594    Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine,
54595    and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and
54596    dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
54597 11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
54598    Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries,
54599    heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah,
54600    and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
54601    son of Shaphan;
54602 12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were
54603    driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto
54604    Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
54605 13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
54606    the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to
54607    Mizpah,
54608 14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the
54609    king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
54610    to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them
54611    not.
54612 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah
54613    secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay
54614    Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it:
54615    wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are
54616    gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in
54617    Judah perish?
54618 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of
54619    Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest
54620    falsely of Ishmael.

54621 Jeremiah 41

54622  1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son
54623    of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the
54624    princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah
54625    the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread
54626    together in Mizpah.
54627  2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that
54628    were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
54629    Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon
54630    had made governor over the land.
54631  3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with
54632    Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there,
54633    and the men of war.
54634  4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain
54635    Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
54636  5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from
54637    Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and
54638    their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings
54639    and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the
54640    LORD.
54641  6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to
54642    meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass,
54643    as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
54644    Ahikam.
54645  7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that
54646    Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the
54647    midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
54648  8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay
54649    us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of
54650    barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them
54651    not among their brethren.
54652  9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of
54653    the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which
54654    Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and
54655    Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were
54656    slain.
54657 10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the
54658    people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all
54659    the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the
54660    captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of
54661    Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away
54662    captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
54663 11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
54664    the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that
54665    Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
54666 12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the
54667    son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are
54668    in Gibeon.
54669 13 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with
54670    Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
54671    the forces that were with him, then they were glad.
54672 14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from
54673    Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son
54674    of Kareah.
54675 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with
54676    eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
54677 16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
54678    the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people
54679    whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from
54680    Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
54681    even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and
54682    the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
54683 17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,
54684    which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
54685 18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,
54686    because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the
54687    son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the
54688    land.

54689 Jeremiah 42

54690  1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
54691    Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people
54692    from the least even unto the greatest, came near,
54693  2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our
54694    supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the
54695    LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but
54696    a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
54697  3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk,
54698    and the thing that we may do.
54699  4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you;
54700    behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your
54701    words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the
54702    LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep
54703    nothing back from you.
54704  5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful
54705    witness between us, if we do not even according to all things
54706    for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
54707  6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the
54708    voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may
54709    be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
54710  7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD
54711    came unto Jeremiah.
54712  8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
54713    of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the
54714    least even to the greatest,
54715  9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
54716    unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
54717 10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you,
54718    and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you
54719    up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
54720 11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid;
54721    be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to
54722    save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
54723 12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon
54724    you, and cause you to return to your own land.
54725 13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey
54726    the voice of the LORD your God,
54727 14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we
54728    shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have
54729    hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
54730 15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of
54731    Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye
54732    wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn
54733    there;
54734 16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared,
54735    shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine,
54736    whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in
54737    Egypt; and there ye shall die.
54738 17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go
54739    into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by
54740    the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall
54741    remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
54742 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine
54743    anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants
54744    of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when
54745    ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and
54746    an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see
54747    this place no more.
54748 19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go
54749    ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you
54750    this day.
54751 20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the
54752    LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and
54753    according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare
54754    unto us, and we will do it.
54755 21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not
54756    obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the
54757    which he hath sent me unto you.
54758 22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword,
54759    by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye
54760    desire to go and to sojourn.

54761 Jeremiah 43

54762  1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of
54763    speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their
54764    God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even
54765    all these words,
54766  2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of
54767    Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou
54768    speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say,
54769    Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
54770  3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for
54771    to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might
54772    put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
54773  4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
54774    forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD,
54775    to dwell in the land of Judah.
54776  5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
54777    forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from
54778    all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the
54779    land of Judah;
54780  6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,
54781    and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
54782    left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and
54783    Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
54784  7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the
54785    voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
54786  8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
54787    saying,
54788  9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in
54789    the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in
54790    Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
54791 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
54792    Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king
54793    of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these
54794    stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion
54795    over them.
54796 11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and
54797    deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for
54798    captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the
54799    sword.
54800 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt;
54801    and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he
54802    shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
54803    putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in
54804    peace.
54805 13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the
54806    land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians
54807    shall he burn with fire.

54808 Jeremiah 44

54809  1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which
54810    dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at
54811    Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
54812  2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen
54813    all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all
54814    the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a
54815    desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
54816  3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to
54817    provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to
54818    serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor
54819    your fathers.
54820  4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising
54821    early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable
54822    thing that I hate.
54823  5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
54824    their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
54825  6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was
54826    kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
54827    Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
54828  7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God
54829    of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your
54830    souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling,
54831    out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
54832  8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands,
54833    burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither
54834    ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and
54835    that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations
54836    of the earth?
54837  9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the
54838    wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their
54839    wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your
54840    wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in
54841    the streets of Jerusalem?
54842 10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they
54843    feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set
54844    before you and before your fathers.
54845 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
54846    Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut
54847    off all Judah.
54848 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their
54849    faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they
54850    shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they
54851    shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they
54852    shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword
54853    and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an
54854    astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
54855 13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I
54856    have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by
54857    the pestilence:
54858 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the
54859    land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that
54860    they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they
54861    have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return
54862    but such as shall escape.
54863 15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned
54864    incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a
54865    great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of
54866    Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
54867 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of
54868    the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
54869 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of
54870    our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and
54871    to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and
54872    our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of
54873    Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty
54874    of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
54875 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven,
54876    and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all
54877    things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
54878 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured
54879    out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship
54880    her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
54881 20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the
54882    women, and to all the people which had given him that answer,
54883    saying,
54884 21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
54885    streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and
54886    your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD
54887    remember them, and came it not into his mind?
54888 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of
54889    your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have
54890    committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
54891    astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this
54892    day.
54893 23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned
54894    against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD,
54895    nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
54896    testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at
54897    this day.
54898 24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the
54899    women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the
54900    land of Egypt:
54901 25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye
54902    and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and
54903    fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our
54904    vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of
54905    heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will
54906    surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
54907 26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell
54908    in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name,
54909    saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the
54910    mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,
54911    The Lord GOD liveth.
54912 27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and
54913    all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be
54914    consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end
54915    of them.
54916 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of
54917    the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant
54918    of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
54919    there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
54920 29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will
54921    punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall
54922    surely stand against you for evil:
54923 30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of
54924    Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them
54925    that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the
54926    hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that
54927    sought his life.

54928 Jeremiah 45

54929  1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son
54930    of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the
54931    mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
54932    Josiah king of Judah, saying,
54933  2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:
54934  3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief
54935    to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
54936  4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold,
54937    that which I have built will I break down, and that which I
54938    have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
54939  5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for,
54940    behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but
54941    thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places
54942    whither thou goest.

54943 Jeremiah 46

54944  1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
54945    against the Gentiles;
54946  2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt,
54947    which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which
54948    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
54949    Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
54950  3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
54951  4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth
54952    with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the
54953    brigandines.
54954  5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and
54955    their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and
54956    look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
54957  6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they
54958    shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river
54959    Euphrates.
54960  7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved
54961    as the rivers?
54962  8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like
54963    the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the
54964    earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
54965  9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty
54966    men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle
54967    the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
54968 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of
54969    vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the
54970    sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk
54971    with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice
54972    in the north country by the river Euphrates.
54973 11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of
54974    Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt
54975    not be cured.
54976 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled
54977    the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
54978    and they are fallen both together.
54979 13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
54980    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land
54981    of Egypt.
54982 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in
54983    Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee;
54984    for the sword shall devour round about thee.
54985 15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because
54986    the LORD did drive them.
54987 16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they
54988    said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the
54989    land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
54990 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he
54991    hath passed the time appointed.
54992 18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts,
54993    Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the
54994    sea, so shall he come.
54995 19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
54996    captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
54997    inhabitant.
54998 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it
54999    cometh out of the north.
55000 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted
55001    bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away
55002    together: they did not stand, because the day of their
55003    calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
55004 22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall
55005    march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers
55006    of wood.
55007 23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it
55008    cannot be searched; because they are more than the
55009    grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
55010 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be
55011    delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
55012 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will
55013    punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their
55014    gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust
55015    in him:
55016 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their
55017    lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
55018    and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be
55019    inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
55020 27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O
55021    Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy
55022    seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return,
55023    and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
55024 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am
55025    with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations
55026    whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of
55027    thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee
55028    wholly unpunished.

55029 Jeremiah 47

55030  1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against
55031    the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
55032  2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,
55033    and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the
55034    land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell
55035    therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of
55036    the land shall howl.
55037  3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong
55038    horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of
55039    his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children
55040    for feebleness of hands;
55041  4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,
55042    and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that
55043    remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the
55044    remnant of the country of Caphtor.
55045  5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the
55046    remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
55047  6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be
55048    quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
55049  7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge
55050    against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he
55051    appointed it.

55052 Jeremiah 48

55053  1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
55054    Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and
55055    taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
55056  2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have
55057    devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from
55058    being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the
55059    sword shall pursue thee.
55060  3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
55061    destruction.
55062  4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be
55063    heard.
55064  5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up;
55065    for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry
55066    of destruction.
55067  6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the
55068    wilderness.
55069  7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy
55070    treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go
55071    forth into captivity with his priests and his princes
55072    together.
55073  8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall
55074    escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be
55075    destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
55076  9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the
55077    cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell
55078    therein.
55079 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and
55080    cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
55081 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on
55082    his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
55083    neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste
55084    remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
55085 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
55086    send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and
55087    shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
55088 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel
55089    was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
55090 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
55091 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen
55092    young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King,
55093    whose name is the LORD of hosts.
55094 16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction
55095    hasteth fast.
55096 17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know
55097    his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the
55098    beautiful rod!
55099 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy
55100    glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come
55101    upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
55102 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him
55103    that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
55104 20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell
55105    ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
55106 21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and
55107    upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
55108 22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
55109 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
55110 24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of
55111    the land of Moab, far or near.
55112 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the
55113    LORD.
55114 26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the
55115    LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall
55116    be in derision.
55117 27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among
55118    thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for
55119    joy.
55120 28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the
55121    rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides
55122    of the hole's mouth.
55123 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
55124    loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the
55125    haughtiness of his heart.
55126 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his
55127    lies shall not so effect it.
55128 31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all
55129    Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
55130 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of
55131    Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to
55132    the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits
55133    and upon thy vintage.
55134 33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and
55135    from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the
55136    winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting
55137    shall be no shouting.
55138 34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto
55139    Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto
55140    Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also
55141    of Nimrim shall be desolate.
55142 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him
55143    that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense
55144    to his gods.
55145 36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine
55146    heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because
55147    the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
55148 37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon
55149    all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
55150 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of
55151    Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like
55152    a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
55153 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab
55154    turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a
55155    dismaying to all them about him.
55156 40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and
55157    shall spread his wings over Moab.
55158 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the
55159    mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart
55160    of a woman in her pangs.
55161 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he
55162    hath magnified himself against the LORD.
55163 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O
55164    inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
55165 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he
55166    that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
55167    for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their
55168    visitation, saith the LORD.
55169 45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of
55170    the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a
55171    flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of
55172    Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
55173 46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for
55174    thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
55175 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter
55176    days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

55177 Jeremiah 49

55178  1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no
55179    sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad,
55180    and his people dwell in his cities?
55181  2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
55182    cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites;
55183    and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be
55184    burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that
55185    were his heirs, saith the LORD.
55186  3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of
55187    Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by
55188    the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his
55189    priests and his princes together.
55190  4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
55191    backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying,
55192    Who shall come unto me?
55193  5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of
55194    hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be
55195    driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him
55196    that wandereth.
55197  6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children
55198    of Ammon, saith the LORD.
55199  7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no
55200    more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their
55201    wisdom vanished?
55202  8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I
55203    will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will
55204    visit him.
55205  9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some
55206    gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till
55207    they have enough.
55208 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places,
55209    and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled,
55210    and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
55211 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and
55212    let thy widows trust in me.
55213 12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not
55214    to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he
55215    that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go
55216    unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
55217 13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall
55218    become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all
55219    the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
55220 14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent
55221    unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against
55222    her, and rise up to the battle.
55223 15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and
55224    despised among men.
55225 16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine
55226    heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that
55227    holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy
55228    nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,
55229    saith the LORD.
55230 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it
55231    shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues
55232    thereof.
55233 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
55234    cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there,
55235    neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
55236 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
55237    Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will
55238    suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man,
55239    that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will
55240    appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand
55241    before me?
55242 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
55243    against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against
55244    the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall
55245    draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate
55246    with them.
55247 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the
55248    noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
55249 22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his
55250    wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the
55251    mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
55252 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
55253    have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is
55254    sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
55255 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and
55256    fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her,
55257    as a woman in travail.
55258 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
55259 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the
55260    men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of
55261    hosts.
55262 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
55263    consume the palaces of Benhadad.
55264 28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which
55265    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the
55266    LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
55267 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall
55268    take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and
55269    their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every
55270    side.
55271 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor,
55272    saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken
55273    counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
55274 31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth
55275    without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor
55276    bars, which dwell alone.
55277 32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
55278    cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that
55279    are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity
55280    from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
55281 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation
55282    for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man
55283    dwell in it.
55284 34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against
55285    Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,
55286    saying,
55287 35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of
55288    Elam, the chief of their might.
55289 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four
55290    quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those
55291    winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of
55292    Elam shall not come.
55293 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and
55294    before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon
55295    them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send
55296    the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
55297 38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence
55298    the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
55299 39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will
55300    bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

55301 Jeremiah 50

55302  1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the
55303    land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
55304  2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a
55305    standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel
55306    is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
55307    confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
55308  3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her,
55309    which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell
55310    therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and
55311    beast.
55312  4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children
55313    of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together,
55314    going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
55315  5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,
55316    saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a
55317    perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
55318  6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
55319    them to go astray, they have turned them away on the
55320    mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
55321    forgotten their restingplace.
55322  7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries
55323    said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the
55324    LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of
55325    their fathers.
55326  8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the
55327    land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the
55328    flocks.
55329  9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
55330    assembly of great nations from the north country: and they
55331    shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she
55332    shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert
55333    man; none shall return in vain.
55334 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
55335    satisfied, saith the LORD.
55336 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of
55337    mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at
55338    grass, and bellow as bulls;
55339 12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall
55340    be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a
55341    wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
55342 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited,
55343    but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by
55344    Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
55345 14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye
55346    that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath
55347    sinned against the LORD.
55348 15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her
55349    foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is
55350    the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she
55351    hath done, do unto her.
55352 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the
55353    sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
55354    sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall
55355    flee every one to his own land.
55356 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away:
55357    first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this
55358    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
55359 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
55360    Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I
55361    have punished the king of Assyria.
55362 19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall
55363    feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied
55364    upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
55365 20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity
55366    of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and
55367    the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will
55368    pardon them whom I reserve.
55369 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
55370    against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy
55371    after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I
55372    have commanded thee.
55373 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
55374 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
55375    how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
55376 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O
55377    Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also
55378    caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
55379 25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the
55380    weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord
55381    GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
55382 26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses:
55383    cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of
55384    her be left.
55385 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe
55386    unto them! for their day is come, the time of their
55387    visitation.
55388 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of
55389    Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,
55390    the vengeance of his temple.
55391 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend
55392    the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape:
55393    recompense her according to her work; according to all that
55394    she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against
55395    the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
55396 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her
55397    men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
55398 31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord
55399    GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit
55400    thee.
55401 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall
55402    raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it
55403    shall devour all round about him.
55404 33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the
55405    children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took
55406    them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
55407 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he
55408    shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to
55409    the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
55410 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
55411    inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her
55412    wise men.
55413 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is
55414    upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
55415 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and
55416    upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and
55417    they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and
55418    they shall be robbed.
55419 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for
55420    it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their
55421    idols.
55422 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts
55423    of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell
55424    therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither
55425    shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
55426 40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
55427    thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither
55428    shall any son of man dwell therein.
55429 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great
55430    nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of
55431    the earth.
55432 42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and
55433    will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and
55434    they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a
55435    man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
55436 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his
55437    hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of
55438    a woman in travail.
55439 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
55440    Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them
55441    suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I
55442    may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint
55443    me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before
55444    me?
55445 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
55446    against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
55447    against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the
55448    flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their
55449    habitation desolate with them.
55450 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and
55451    the cry is heard among the nations.

55452 Jeremiah 51

55453  1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
55454    and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up
55455    against me, a destroying wind;
55456  2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and
55457    shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be
55458    against her round about.
55459  3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and
55460    against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and
55461    spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
55462  4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and
55463    they that are thrust through in her streets.
55464  5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of
55465    the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin
55466    against the Holy One of Israel.
55467  6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his
55468    soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of
55469    the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
55470  7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made
55471    all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine;
55472    therefore the nations are mad.
55473  8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take
55474    balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
55475  9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake
55476    her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her
55477    judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the
55478    skies.
55479 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let
55480    us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
55481 11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath
55482    raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device
55483    is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance
55484    of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
55485 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch
55486    strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the
55487    LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against
55488    the inhabitants of Babylon.
55489 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures,
55490    thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
55491 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will
55492    fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift
55493    up a shout against thee.
55494 15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
55495    world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his
55496    understanding.
55497 16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in
55498    the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the
55499    ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and
55500    bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
55501 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is
55502    confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is
55503    falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
55504 18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their
55505    visitation they shall perish.
55506 19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of
55507    all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD
55508    of hosts is his name.
55509 20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will
55510    I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy
55511    kingdoms;
55512 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
55513    and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his
55514    rider;
55515 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with
55516    thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will
55517    I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
55518 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his
55519    flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and
55520    his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces
55521    captains and rulers.
55522 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of
55523    Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your
55524    sight, saith the LORD.
55525 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the
55526    LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out
55527    mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and
55528    will make thee a burnt mountain.
55529 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a
55530    stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,
55531    saith the LORD.
55532 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the
55533    nations, prepare the nations against her, call together
55534    against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;
55535    appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as
55536    the rough caterpillers.
55537 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes,
55538    the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the
55539    land of his dominion.
55540 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of
55541    the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land
55542    of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
55543 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have
55544    remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became
55545    as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are
55546    broken.
55547 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
55548    another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at
55549    one end,
55550 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have
55551    burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
55552 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The
55553    daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to
55554    thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest
55555    shall come.
55556 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath
55557    crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed
55558    me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
55559    delicates, he hath cast me out.
55560 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall
55561    the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants
55562    of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
55563 36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause,
55564    and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and
55565    make her springs dry.
55566 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons,
55567    an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
55568 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions'
55569    whelps.
55570 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them
55571    drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep,
55572    and not wake, saith the LORD.
55573 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams
55574    with he goats.
55575 41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole
55576    earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among
55577    the nations!
55578 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the
55579    multitude of the waves thereof.
55580 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a
55581    land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass
55582    thereby.
55583 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out
55584    of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations
55585    shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of
55586    Babylon shall fall.
55587 45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every
55588    man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
55589 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that
55590    shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year,
55591    and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and
55592    violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
55593 47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon
55594    the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be
55595    confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
55596 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
55597    sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from
55598    the north, saith the LORD.
55599 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
55600    Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
55601 50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:
55602    remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your
55603    mind.
55604 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath
55605    covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries
55606    of the LORD's house.
55607 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
55608    do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land
55609    the wounded shall groan.
55610 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she
55611    should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
55612    spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
55613 54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction
55614    from the land of the Chaldeans:
55615 55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of
55616    her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters,
55617    a noise of their voice is uttered:
55618 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and
55619    her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken:
55620    for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
55621 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her
55622    captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall
55623    sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose
55624    name is the LORD of hosts.
55625 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall
55626    be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with
55627    fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the
55628    fire, and they shall be weary.
55629 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son
55630    of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the
55631    king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
55632    And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
55633 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
55634    Babylon, even all these words that are written against
55635    Babylon.
55636 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and
55637    shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
55638 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this
55639    place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither
55640    man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
55641 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this
55642    book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the
55643    midst of Euphrates:
55644 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not
55645    rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall
55646    be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

55647 Jeremiah 52

55648  1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
55649    and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
55650    name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
55651  2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD,
55652    according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
55653  3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem
55654    and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that
55655    Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
55656  4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
55657    tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
55658    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army,
55659    against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts
55660    against it round about.
55661  5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
55662    Zedekiah.
55663  6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the
55664    famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for
55665    the people of the land.
55666  7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and
55667    went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate
55668    between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now
55669    the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by
55670    the way of the plain.
55671  8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
55672    overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army
55673    was scattered from him.
55674  9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of
55675    Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave
55676    judgment upon him.
55677 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his
55678    eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
55679 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon
55680    bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him
55681    in prison till the day of his death.
55682 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which
55683    was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
55684    came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king
55685    of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
55686 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and
55687    all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great
55688    men, burned he with fire:
55689 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain
55690    of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round
55691    about.
55692 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
55693    certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the
55694    people that remained in the city, and those that fell away,
55695    that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the
55696    multitude.
55697 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the
55698    poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
55699 17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD,
55700    and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the
55701    LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them
55702    to Babylon.
55703 18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
55704    bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith
55705    they ministered, took they away.
55706 19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the
55707    caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups;
55708    that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver
55709    in silver, took the captain of the guard away.
55710 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were
55711    under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of
55712    the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
55713 21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was
55714    eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it;
55715    and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
55716 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one
55717    chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon
55718    the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar
55719    also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
55720 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all
55721    the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
55722 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
55723    and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
55724    door:
55725 25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge
55726    of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the
55727    king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal
55728    scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and
55729    threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in
55730    the midst of the city.
55731 26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought
55732    them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
55733 27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in
55734    Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away
55735    captive out of his own land.
55736 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive:
55737    in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
55738 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
55739    captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
55740 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan
55741    the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews
55742    seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were
55743    four thousand and six hundred.
55744 31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
55745    captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
55746    in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
55747    king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the
55748    head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of
55749    prison.
55750 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne
55751    of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
55752 33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat
55753    bread before him all the days of his life.
55754 34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the
55755    king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his
55756    death, all the days of his life.

55757 Book 25 Lamentations

55758 Lamentations 1

55759  1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how
55760    is she become as a widow! she that was great among the
55761    nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become
55762    tributary!
55763  2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her
55764    cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all
55765    her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become
55766    her enemies.
55767  3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and
55768    because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen,
55769    she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between
55770    the straits.
55771  4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
55772    feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her
55773    virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
55774  5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the
55775    LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her
55776    transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before
55777    the enemy.
55778  6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her
55779    princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they
55780    are gone without strength before the pursuer.
55781  7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
55782    miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of
55783    old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none
55784    did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her
55785    sabbaths.
55786  8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:
55787    all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her
55788    nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
55789  9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last
55790    end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no
55791    comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath
55792    magnified himself.
55793 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant
55794    things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her
55795    sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter
55796    into thy congregation.
55797 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their
55798    pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and
55799    consider; for I am become vile.
55800 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if
55801    there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto
55802    me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his
55803    fierce anger.
55804 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth
55805    against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned
55806    me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
55807 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are
55808    wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength
55809    to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from
55810    whom I am not able to rise up.
55811 15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the
55812    midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my
55813    young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of
55814    Judah, as in a winepress.
55815 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with
55816    water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is
55817    far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy
55818    prevailed.
55819 17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort
55820    her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his
55821    adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a
55822    menstruous woman among them.
55823 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his
55824    commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my
55825    sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
55826 19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and
55827    mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought
55828    their meat to relieve their souls.
55829 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled;
55830    mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously
55831    rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as
55832    death.
55833 21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all
55834    mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou
55835    hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called,
55836    and they shall be like unto me.
55837 22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them,
55838    as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my
55839    sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

55840 Lamentations 2

55841  1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in
55842    his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty
55843    of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his
55844    anger!
55845  2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and
55846    hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong
55847    holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to
55848    the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes
55849    thereof.
55850  3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he
55851    hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he
55852    burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth
55853    round about.
55854  4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right
55855    hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the
55856    eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out
55857    his fury like fire.
55858  5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath
55859    swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong
55860    holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning
55861    and lamentation.
55862  6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were
55863    of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the
55864    LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be
55865    forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his
55866    anger the king and the priest.
55867  7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his
55868    sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the
55869    walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of
55870    the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
55871  8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
55872    Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his
55873    hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the
55874    wall to lament; they languished together.
55875  9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and
55876    broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the
55877    Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision
55878    from the LORD.
55879 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and
55880    keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they
55881    have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of
55882    Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
55883 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver
55884    is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter
55885    of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in
55886    the streets of the city.
55887 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they
55888    swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their
55889    soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
55890 13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall
55891    I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal
55892    to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?
55893    for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
55894 14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and
55895    they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy
55896    captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of
55897    banishment.
55898 15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag
55899    their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the
55900    city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the
55901    whole earth?
55902 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they
55903    hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:
55904    certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found,
55905    we have seen it.
55906 17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath
55907    fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:
55908    he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused
55909    thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of
55910    thine adversaries.
55911 18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of
55912    Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give
55913    thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
55914 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches
55915    pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD:
55916    lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young
55917    children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
55918 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this.
55919    Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?
55920    shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of
55921    the Lord?
55922 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my
55923    virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast
55924    slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and
55925    not pitied.
55926 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so
55927    that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained:
55928    those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy
55929    consumed.

55930 Lamentations 3

55931  1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his
55932    wrath.
55933  2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into
55934    light.
55935  3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me
55936    all the day.
55937  4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my
55938    bones.
55939  5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and
55940    travail.
55941  6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
55942  7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made
55943    my chain heavy.
55944  8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
55945  9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my
55946    paths crooked.
55947 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in
55948    secret places.
55949 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath
55950    made me desolate.
55951 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
55952 13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my
55953    reins.
55954 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
55955 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken
55956    with wormwood.
55957 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath
55958    covered me with ashes.
55959 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat
55960    prosperity.
55961 18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
55962 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and
55963    the gall.
55964 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
55965 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
55966 22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because
55967    his compassions fail not.
55968 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
55969 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope
55970    in him.
55971 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that
55972    seeketh him.
55973 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for
55974    the salvation of the LORD.
55975 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
55976 28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it
55977    upon him.
55978 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
55979 30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full
55980    with reproach.
55981 31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
55982 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion
55983    according to the multitude of his mercies.
55984 33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of
55985    men.
55986 34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
55987 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most
55988    High,
55989 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
55990 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord
55991    commandeth it not?
55992 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and
55993    good?
55994 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment
55995    of his sins?
55996 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
55997 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the
55998    heavens.
55999 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not
56000    pardoned.
56001 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast
56002    slain, thou hast not pitied.
56003 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should
56004    not pass through.
56005 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst
56006    of the people.
56007 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
56008 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
56009 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction
56010    of the daughter of my people.
56011 49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any
56012    intermission.
56013 50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
56014 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of
56015    my city.
56016 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
56017 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone
56018    upon me.
56019 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
56020 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56021 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing,
56022    at my cry.
56023 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
56024    saidst, Fear not.
56025 58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast
56026    redeemed my life.
56027 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
56028 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations
56029    against me.
56030 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their
56031    imaginations against me;
56032 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device
56033    against me all the day.
56034 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their
56035    musick.
56036 64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work
56037    of their hands.
56038 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
56039 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of
56040    the LORD.

56041 Lamentations 4

56042  1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed!
56043    the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every
56044    street.
56045  2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are
56046    they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of
56047    the potter!
56048  3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to
56049    their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel,
56050    like the ostriches in the wilderness.
56051  4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his
56052    mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man
56053    breaketh it unto them.
56054  5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:
56055    they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
56056  6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my
56057    people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,
56058    that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on
56059    her.
56060  7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than
56061    milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their
56062    polishing was of sapphire:
56063  8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
56064    streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered,
56065    it is become like a stick.
56066  9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be
56067    slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for
56068    want of the fruits of the field.
56069 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children:
56070    they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my
56071    people.
56072 11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his
56073    fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath
56074    devoured the foundations thereof.
56075 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world,
56076    would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy
56077    should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
56078 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her
56079    priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of
56080    her,
56081 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have
56082    polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch
56083    their garments.
56084 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart,
56085    depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said
56086    among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
56087 16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more
56088    regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests,
56089    they favoured not the elders.
56090 17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our
56091    watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
56092 18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end
56093    is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
56094 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:
56095    they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in
56096    the wilderness.
56097 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was
56098    taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we
56099    shall live among the heathen.
56100 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the
56101    land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou
56102    shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
56103 22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter
56104    of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he
56105    will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will
56106    discover thy sins.

56107 Lamentations 5

56108  1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold
56109    our reproach.
56110  2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
56111  3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
56112  4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
56113  5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
56114  6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians,
56115    to be satisfied with bread.
56116  7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
56117    iniquities.
56118  8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver
56119    us out of their hand.
56120  9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the
56121    sword of the wilderness.
56122 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible
56123    famine.
56124 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities
56125    of Judah.
56126 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were
56127    not honoured.
56128 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under
56129    the wood.
56130 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
56131    musick.
56132 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
56133    mourning.
56134 16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have
56135    sinned!
56136 17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are
56137    dim.
56138 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes
56139    walk upon it.
56140 19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation
56141    to generation.
56142 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
56143    time?
56144 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew
56145    our days as of old.
56146 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against
56147    us.

56148 Book 26 Ezekiel

56149 Ezekiel 1

56150  1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
56151    month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the
56152    captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened,
56153    and I saw visions of God.
56154  2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of
56155    king Jehoiachin's captivity,
56156  3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
56157    the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
56158    Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
56159  4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north,
56160    a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness
56161    was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of
56162    amber, out of the midst of the fire.
56163  5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
56164    creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the
56165    likeness of a man.
56166  6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
56167  7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet
56168    was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the
56169    colour of burnished brass.
56170  8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
56171    four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
56172  9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
56173    they went; they went every one straight forward.
56174 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of
56175    a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they
56176    four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also
56177    had the face of an eagle.
56178 11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward;
56179    two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two
56180    covered their bodies.
56181 12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit
56182    was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
56183 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
56184    was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of
56185    lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the
56186    fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
56187 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of
56188    a flash of lightning.
56189 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon
56190    the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
56191 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the
56192    colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their
56193    appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle
56194    of a wheel.
56195 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
56196    turned not when they went.
56197 18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
56198    and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
56199 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:
56200    and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth,
56201    the wheels were lifted up.
56202 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was
56203    their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against
56204    them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
56205 21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
56206    stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the
56207    wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the
56208    living creature was in the wheels.
56209 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living
56210    creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched
56211    forth over their heads above.
56212 23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
56213    toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this
56214    side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their
56215    bodies.
56216 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the
56217    noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice
56218    of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let
56219    down their wings.
56220 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their
56221    heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
56222 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the
56223    likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone:
56224    and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the
56225    appearance of a man above upon it.
56226 27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire
56227    round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even
56228    upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I
56229    saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness
56230    round about.
56231 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day
56232    of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
56233    This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the
56234    LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a
56235    voice of one that spake.

56236 Ezekiel 2

56237  1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I
56238    will speak unto thee.
56239  2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set
56240    me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
56241  3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children
56242    of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against
56243    me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even
56244    unto this very day.
56245  4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send
56246    thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
56247    Lord GOD.
56248  5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will
56249    forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know
56250    that there hath been a prophet among them.
56251  6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid
56252    of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and
56253    thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words,
56254    nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious
56255    house.
56256  7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will
56257    hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most
56258    rebellious.
56259  8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou
56260    rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat
56261    that I give thee.
56262  9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo,
56263    a roll of a book was therein;
56264 10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and
56265    without: and there was written therein lamentations, and
56266    mourning, and woe.

56267 Ezekiel 3

56268  1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;
56269    eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
56270  2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
56271  3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and
56272    fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I
56273    eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
56274  4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house
56275    of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
56276  5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
56277    an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
56278  6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard
56279    language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I
56280    sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
56281  7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they
56282    will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are
56283    impudent and hardhearted.
56284  8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and
56285    thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
56286  9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear
56287    them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a
56288    rebellious house.
56289 10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I
56290    shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with
56291    thine ears.
56292 11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children
56293    of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith
56294    the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will
56295    forbear.
56296 12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a
56297    great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from
56298    his place.
56299 13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures
56300    that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over
56301    against them, and a noise of a great rushing.
56302 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
56303    bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD
56304    was strong upon me.
56305 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by
56306    the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained
56307    there astonished among them seven days.
56308 16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of
56309    the LORD came unto me, saying,
56310 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of
56311    Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
56312    warning from me.
56313 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou
56314    givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from
56315    his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall
56316    die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine
56317    hand.
56318 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
56319    wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his
56320    iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
56321 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness,
56322    and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him,
56323    he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he
56324    shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done
56325    shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine
56326    hand.
56327 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the
56328    righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live,
56329    because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
56330 22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto
56331    me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with
56332    thee.
56333 23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the
56334    glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the
56335    river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
56336 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and
56337    spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine
56338    house.
56339 25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon
56340    thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out
56341    among them:
56342 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth,
56343    that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover:
56344    for they are a rebellious house.
56345 27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou
56346    shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth,
56347    let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for
56348    they are a rebellious house.

56349 Ezekiel 4

56350  1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
56351    thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
56352  2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and
56353    cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set
56354    battering rams against it round about.
56355  3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a
56356    wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
56357    against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege
56358    against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
56359  4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the
56360    house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days
56361    that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
56362  5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,
56363    according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety
56364    days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
56365  6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right
56366    side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah
56367    forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
56368  7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of
56369    Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt
56370    prophesy against it.
56371  8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not
56372    turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the
56373    days of thy siege.
56374  9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
56375    lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel,
56376    and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the
56377    days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and
56378    ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
56379 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
56380    shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
56381 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an
56382    hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
56383 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it
56384    with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
56385 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat
56386    their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive
56387    them.
56388 14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been
56389    polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten
56390    of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither
56391    came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
56392 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for
56393    man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
56394 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the
56395    staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by
56396    weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure,
56397    and with astonishment:
56398 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with
56399    another, and consume away for their iniquity.

56400 Ezekiel 5

56401  1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
56402    barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon
56403    thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the
56404    hair.
56405  2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the
56406    city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt
56407    take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a
56408    third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out
56409    a sword after them.
56410  3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in
56411    thy skirts.
56412  4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the
56413    fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come
56414    forth into all the house of Israel.
56415  5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in
56416    the midst of the nations and countries that are round about
56417    her.
56418  6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than
56419    the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are
56420    round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my
56421    statutes, they have not walked in them.
56422  7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more
56423    than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked
56424    in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have
56425    done according to the judgments of the nations that are round
56426    about you;
56427  8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am
56428    against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee
56429    in the sight of the nations.
56430  9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and
56431    whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all
56432    thine abominations.
56433 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee,
56434    and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
56435    judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I
56436    scatter into all the winds.
56437 11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou
56438    hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and
56439    with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish
56440    thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any
56441    pity.
56442 12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with
56443    famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a
56444    third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I
56445    will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw
56446    out a sword after them.
56447 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my
56448    fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they
56449    shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I
56450    have accomplished my fury in them.
56451 14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the
56452    nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that
56453    pass by.
56454 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
56455    astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when
56456    I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in
56457    furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
56458 16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which
56459    shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to
56460    destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will
56461    break your staff of bread:
56462 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall
56463    bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through
56464    thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have
56465    spoken it.

56466 Ezekiel 6

56467  1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
56468  2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and
56469    prophesy against them,
56470  3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
56471    GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the
56472    hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I,
56473    will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high
56474    places.
56475  4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be
56476    broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
56477  5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel
56478    before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about
56479    your altars.
56480  6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and
56481    the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be
56482    laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and
56483    cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be
56484    abolished.
56485  7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall
56486    know that I am the LORD.
56487  8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall
56488    escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered
56489    through the countries.
56490  9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
56491    nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am
56492    broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me,
56493    and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and
56494    they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have
56495    committed in all their abominations.
56496 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not
56497    said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
56498 11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with
56499    thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the
56500    house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the
56501    famine, and by the pestilence.
56502 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is
56503    near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is
56504    besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my
56505    fury upon them.
56506 13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men
56507    shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon
56508    every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under
56509    every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where
56510    they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
56511 14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
56512    desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward
56513    Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I
56514    am the LORD.

56515 Ezekiel 7

56516  1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
56517  2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land
56518    of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of
56519    the land.
56520  3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon
56521    thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will
56522    recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
56523  4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity:
56524    but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine
56525    abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know
56526    that I am the LORD.
56527  5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is
56528    come.
56529  6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold,
56530    it is come.
56531  7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the
56532    land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not
56533    the sounding again of the mountains.
56534  8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish
56535    mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy
56536    ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
56537  9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
56538    recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations
56539    that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the
56540    LORD that smiteth.
56541 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth;
56542    the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
56543 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them
56544    shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's:
56545    neither shall there be wailing for them.
56546 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
56547    rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the
56548    multitude thereof.
56549 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,
56550    although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the
56551    whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall
56552    any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
56553 14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none
56554    goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude
56555    thereof.
56556 15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine
56557    within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and
56558    he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour
56559    him.
56560 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the
56561    mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning,
56562    every one for his iniquity.
56563 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as
56564    water.
56565 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror
56566    shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and
56567    baldness upon all their heads.
56568 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold
56569    shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be
56570    able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they
56571    shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels:
56572    because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
56573 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but
56574    they made the images of their abominations and of their
56575    detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from
56576    them.
56577 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,
56578    and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall
56579    pollute it.
56580 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my
56581    secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile
56582    it.
56583 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
56584    city is full of violence.
56585 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they
56586    shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the
56587    strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
56588 25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall
56589    be none.
56590 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
56591    rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the
56592    law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the
56593    ancients.
56594 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
56595    desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
56596    troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according
56597    to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I
56598    am the LORD.

56599 Ezekiel 8

56600  1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in
56601    the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the
56602    elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD
56603    fell there upon me.
56604  2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire:
56605    from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from
56606    his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the
56607    colour of amber.
56608  3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of
56609    mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and
56610    the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem,
56611    to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north;
56612    where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh
56613    to jealousy.
56614  4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
56615    according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
56616  5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the
56617    way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward
56618    the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this
56619    image of jealousy in the entry.
56620  6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they
56621    do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel
56622    committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary?
56623    but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater
56624    abominations.
56625  7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
56626    behold a hole in the wall.
56627  8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and
56628    when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
56629  9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations
56630    that they do here.
56631 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping
56632    things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house
56633    of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
56634 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the
56635    house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the
56636    son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a
56637    thick cloud of incense went up.
56638 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
56639    ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in
56640    the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us
56641    not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
56642 13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
56643    greater abominations that they do.
56644 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house
56645    which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women
56646    weeping for Tammuz.
56647 15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn
56648    thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than
56649    these.
56650 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house,
56651    and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between
56652    the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with
56653    their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces
56654    toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
56655 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it
56656    a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the
56657    abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the
56658    land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger:
56659    and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
56660 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare,
56661    neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears
56662    with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

56663 Ezekiel 9

56664  1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause
56665    them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every
56666    man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
56667  2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,
56668    which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon
56669    in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen,
56670    with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and
56671    stood beside the brasen altar.
56672  3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the
56673    cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And
56674    he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the
56675    writer's inkhorn by his side;
56676  4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,
56677    through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the
56678    foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the
56679    abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
56680  5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him
56681    through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither
56682    have ye pity:
56683  6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children,
56684    and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark;
56685    and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men
56686    which were before the house.
56687  7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts
56688    with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in
56689    the city.
56690  8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was
56691    left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord
56692    GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy
56693    pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
56694  9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
56695    Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and
56696    the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath
56697    forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
56698 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I
56699    have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
56700 11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn
56701    by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou
56702    hast commanded me.

56703 Ezekiel 10

56704  1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above
56705    the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were
56706    a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a
56707    throne.
56708  2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in
56709    between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand
56710    with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter
56711    them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
56712  3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when
56713    the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
56714  4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood
56715    over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with
56716    the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the
56717    LORD's glory.
56718  5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the
56719    outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he
56720    speaketh.
56721  6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man
56722    clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels,
56723    from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside
56724    the wheels.
56725  7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
56726    cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and
56727    took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was
56728    clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
56729  8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand
56730    under their wings.
56731  9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims,
56732    one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub:
56733    and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl
56734    stone.
56735 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as
56736    if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
56737 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned
56738    not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked
56739    they followed it; they turned not as they went.
56740 12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and
56741    their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about,
56742    even the wheels that they four had.
56743 13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
56744    wheel.
56745 14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a
56746    cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the
56747    third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
56748 15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature
56749    that I saw by the river of Chebar.
56750 16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when
56751    the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the
56752    earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.
56753 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,
56754    these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living
56755    creature was in them.
56756 18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of
56757    the house, and stood over the cherubims.
56758 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from
56759    the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also
56760    were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east
56761    gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel
56762    was over them above.
56763 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel
56764    by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the
56765    cherubims.
56766 21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and
56767    the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
56768 22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw
56769    by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they
56770    went every one straight forward.

56771 Ezekiel 11

56772  1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east
56773    gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold
56774    at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw
56775    Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah,
56776    princes of the people.
56777  2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that
56778    devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
56779  3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is
56780    the caldron, and we be the flesh.
56781  4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
56782  5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,
56783    Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of
56784    Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every
56785    one of them.
56786  6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled
56787    the streets thereof with the slain.
56788  7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have
56789    laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is
56790    the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of
56791    it.
56792  8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,
56793    saith the Lord GOD.
56794  9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you
56795    into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among
56796    you.
56797 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of
56798    Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
56799 11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the
56800    flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border
56801    of Israel:
56802 12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked
56803    in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done
56804    after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
56805 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son
56806    of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with
56807    a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end
56808    of the remnant of Israel?
56809 14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
56810 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy
56811    kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto
56812    whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from
56813    the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
56814 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast
56815    them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered
56816    them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little
56817    sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
56818 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
56819    from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where
56820    ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of
56821    Israel.
56822 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
56823    detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof
56824    from thence.
56825 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
56826    within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their
56827    flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
56828 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances,
56829    and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
56830    God.
56831 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their
56832    detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense
56833    their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
56834 22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels
56835    beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them
56836    above.
56837 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city,
56838    and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the
56839    city.
56840 24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision
56841    by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity.
56842    So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
56843 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that
56844    the LORD had shewed me.

56845 Ezekiel 12

56846  1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
56847  2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house,
56848    which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear,
56849    and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
56850  3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing,
56851    and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from
56852    thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will
56853    consider, though they be a rebellious house.
56854  4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight,
56855    as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in
56856    their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
56857  5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out
56858    thereby.
56859  6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and
56860    carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face,
56861    that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign
56862    unto the house of Israel.
56863  7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by
56864    day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through
56865    the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight,
56866    and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
56867  8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
56868  9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious
56869    house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
56870 10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden
56871    concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of
56872    Israel that are among them.
56873 11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done
56874    unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
56875 12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder
56876    in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through
56877    the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that
56878    he see not the ground with his eyes.
56879 13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in
56880    my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the
56881    Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
56882 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to
56883    help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword
56884    after them.
56885 15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter
56886    them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
56887 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the
56888    famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all
56889    their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and
56890    they shall know that I am the LORD.
56891 17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
56892 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water
56893    with trembling and with carefulness;
56894 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD
56895    of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel;
56896    They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their
56897    water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from
56898    all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that
56899    dwell therein.
56900 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the
56901    land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
56902 21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
56903 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of
56904    Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision
56905    faileth?
56906 23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this
56907    proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb
56908    in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the
56909    effect of every vision.
56910 24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
56911    divination within the house of Israel.
56912 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall
56913    speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for
56914    in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and
56915    will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
56916 26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
56917 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The
56918    vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he
56919    prophesieth of the times that are far off.
56920 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall
56921    none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I
56922    have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.

56923 Ezekiel 13

56924  1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
56925  2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
56926    prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their
56927    own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
56928  3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that
56929    follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
56930  4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
56931  5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge
56932    for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of
56933    the LORD.
56934  6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD
56935    saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made
56936    others to hope that they would confirm the word.
56937  7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying
56938    divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have
56939    not spoken?
56940  8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken
56941    vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,
56942    saith the Lord GOD.
56943  9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
56944    that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
56945    people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the
56946    house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of
56947    Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
56948 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
56949    Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and,
56950    lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
56951 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it
56952    shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O
56953    great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
56954 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you,
56955    Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?
56956 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a
56957    stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing
56958    shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to
56959    consume it.
56960 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with
56961    untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that
56962    the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall,
56963    and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall
56964    know that I am the LORD.
56965 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them
56966    that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto
56967    you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
56968 16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
56969    Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there
56970    is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.
56971 17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters
56972    of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and
56973    prophesy thou against them,
56974 18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew
56975    pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of
56976    every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my
56977    people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
56978 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley
56979    and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not
56980    die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your
56981    lying to my people that hear your lies?
56982 20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your
56983    pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly,
56984    and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls
56985    go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
56986 21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of
56987    your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be
56988    hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
56989 22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad,
56990    whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the
56991    wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by
56992    promising him life:
56993 23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations:
56994    for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall
56995    know that I am the LORD.

56996 Ezekiel 14

56997  1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat
56998    before me.
56999  2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57000  3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart,
57001    and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their
57002    face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
57003  4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the
57004    Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his
57005    idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
57006    iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the
57007    LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of
57008    his idols;
57009  5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart,
57010    because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
57011  6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
57012    GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn
57013    away your faces from all your abominations.
57014  7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
57015    sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and
57016    setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the
57017    stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to
57018    a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will
57019    answer him by myself:
57020  8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a
57021    sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of
57022    my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
57023  9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I
57024    the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my
57025    hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my
57026    people Israel.
57027 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
57028    punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of
57029    him that seeketh unto him;
57030 11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
57031    neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions;
57032    but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith
57033    the Lord GOD.
57034 12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
57035 13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing
57036    grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and
57037    will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send
57038    famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
57039 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
57040    they should deliver but their own souls by their
57041    righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
57042 15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they
57043    spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through
57044    because of the beasts:
57045 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
57046    GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only
57047    shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
57048 17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go
57049    through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
57050 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
57051    GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they
57052    only shall be delivered themselves.
57053 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury
57054    upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
57055 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the
57056    Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they
57057    shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
57058 21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four
57059    sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and
57060    the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man
57061    and beast?
57062 22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
57063    brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall
57064    come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their
57065    doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I
57066    have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have
57067    brought upon it.
57068 23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their
57069    doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause
57070    all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

57071 Ezekiel 15

57072  1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57073  2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than
57074    a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
57075  3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a
57076    pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
57077  4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth
57078    both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet
57079    for any work?
57080  5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
57081    less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath
57082    devoured it, and it is burned?
57083  6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the
57084    trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel,
57085    so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
57086  7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from
57087    one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall
57088    know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
57089  8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
57090    a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

57091 Ezekiel 16

57092  1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57093  2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
57094  3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and
57095    thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an
57096    Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
57097  4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel
57098    was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee;
57099    thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
57100  5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
57101    compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open
57102    field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast
57103    born.
57104  6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own
57105    blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live;
57106    yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
57107  7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and
57108    thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to
57109    excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair
57110    is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
57111  8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy
57112    time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee,
57113    and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
57114    into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou
57115    becamest mine.
57116  9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away
57117    thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
57118 10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with
57119    badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I
57120    covered thee with silk.
57121 11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon
57122    thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
57123 12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears,
57124    and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
57125 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment
57126    was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst
57127    eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding
57128    beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
57129 14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty:
57130    for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon
57131    thee, saith the Lord GOD.
57132 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the
57133    harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy
57134    fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
57135 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high
57136    places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon:
57137    the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
57138 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
57139    silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images
57140    of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
57141 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and
57142    thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
57143 19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and
57144    honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them
57145    for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
57146 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou
57147    hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them
57148    to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
57149 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause
57150    them to pass through the fire for them?
57151 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not
57152    remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and
57153    bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
57154 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto
57155    thee! saith the LORD GOD;)
57156 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast
57157    made thee an high place in every street.
57158 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and
57159    hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet
57160    to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
57161 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
57162    neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms,
57163    to provoke me to anger.
57164 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and
57165    have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto
57166    the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the
57167    Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
57168 28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because
57169    thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with
57170    them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
57171 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
57172    Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied
57173    therewith.
57174 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest
57175    all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
57176 31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every
57177    way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not
57178    been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
57179 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers
57180    instead of her husband!
57181 33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to
57182    all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee
57183    on every side for thy whoredom.
57184 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms,
57185    whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that
57186    thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee,
57187    therefore thou art contrary.
57188 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
57189 36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured
57190    out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with
57191    thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by
57192    the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
57193 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou
57194    hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with
57195    all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round
57196    about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them,
57197    that they may see all thy nakedness.
57198 38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed
57199    blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and
57200    jealousy.
57201 39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall
57202    throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high
57203    places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall
57204    take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
57205 40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they
57206    shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with
57207    their swords.
57208 41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute
57209    judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will
57210    cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also
57211    shalt give no hire any more.
57212 42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy
57213    shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no
57214    more angry.
57215 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but
57216    hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also
57217    will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD:
57218    and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine
57219    abominations.
57220 44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb
57221    against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
57222 45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and
57223    her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which
57224    lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an
57225    Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
57226 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that
57227    dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth
57228    at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
57229 47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after
57230    their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing,
57231    thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
57232 48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done,
57233    she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy
57234    daughters.
57235 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
57236    fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in
57237    her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
57238    and needy.
57239 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
57240    therefore I took them away as I saw good.
57241 51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast
57242    multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast
57243    justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou
57244    hast done.
57245 52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame
57246    for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than
57247    they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou
57248    confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast
57249    justified thy sisters.
57250 53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of
57251    Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her
57252    daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy
57253    captives in the midst of them:
57254 54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
57255    confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a
57256    comfort unto them.
57257 55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
57258    their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall
57259    return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters
57260    shall return to your former estate.
57261 56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day
57262    of thy pride,
57263 57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy
57264    reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round
57265    about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise
57266    thee round about.
57267 58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the
57268    LORD.
57269 59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as
57270    thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the
57271    covenant.
57272 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days
57273    of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
57274    covenant.
57275 61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou
57276    shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I
57277    will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy
57278    covenant.
57279 62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt
57280    know that I am the LORD:
57281 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open
57282    thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified
57283    toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

57284 Ezekiel 17

57285  1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57286  2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the
57287    house of Israel;
57288  3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great
57289    wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours,
57290    came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
57291  4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into
57292    a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
57293  5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a
57294    fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a
57295    willow tree.
57296  6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose
57297    branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under
57298    him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot
57299    forth sprigs.
57300  7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many
57301    feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward
57302    him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might
57303    water it by the furrows of her plantation.
57304  8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might
57305    bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it
57306    might be a goodly vine.
57307  9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he
57308    not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof,
57309    that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her
57310    spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up
57311    by the roots thereof.
57312 10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
57313    utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall
57314    wither in the furrows where it grew.
57315 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57316 12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things
57317    mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to
57318    Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes
57319    thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
57320 13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with
57321    him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the
57322    mighty of the land:
57323 14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself
57324    up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
57325 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
57326    Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall
57327    he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall
57328    he break the covenant, and be delivered?
57329 16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the
57330    king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and
57331    whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon
57332    he shall die.
57333 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
57334    make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building
57335    forts, to cut off many persons:
57336 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,
57337    lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he
57338    shall not escape.
57339 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath
57340    that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken,
57341    even it will I recompense upon his own head.
57342 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my
57343    snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with
57344    him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
57345 21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the
57346    sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all
57347    winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
57348 22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest
57349    branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off
57350    from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant
57351    it upon an high mountain and eminent:
57352 23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and
57353    it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly
57354    cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the
57355    shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
57356 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have
57357    brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have
57358    dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to
57359    flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

57360 Ezekiel 18

57361  1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
57362  2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of
57363    Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
57364    children's teeth are set on edge?
57365  3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any
57366    more to use this proverb in Israel.
57367  4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also
57368    the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall
57369    die.
57370  5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
57371  6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up
57372    his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath
57373    defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a
57374    menstruous woman,
57375  7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor
57376    his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his
57377    bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a
57378    garment;
57379  8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken
57380    any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath
57381    executed true judgment between man and man,
57382  9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to
57383    deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord
57384    GOD.
57385 10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and
57386    that doeth the like to any one of these things,
57387 11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten
57388    upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
57389 12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence,
57390    hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to
57391    the idols, hath committed abomination,
57392 13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he
57393    then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these
57394    abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon
57395    him.
57396 14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins
57397    which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
57398 15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up
57399    his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled
57400    his neighbour's wife,
57401 16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge,
57402    neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to
57403    the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
57404 17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not
57405    received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath
57406    walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of
57407    his father, he shall surely live.
57408 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his
57409    brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his
57410    people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
57411 19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the
57412    father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right,
57413    and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall
57414    surely live.
57415 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear
57416    the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
57417    iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall
57418    be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
57419    him.
57420 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
57421    committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is
57422    lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
57423 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not
57424    be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done
57425    he shall live.
57426 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith
57427    the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and
57428    live?
57429 24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,
57430    and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the
57431    abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his
57432    righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his
57433    trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
57434    sinned, in them shall he die.
57435 25 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O
57436    house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways
57437    unequal?
57438 26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and
57439    committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that
57440    he hath done shall he die.
57441 27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness
57442    that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and
57443    right, he shall save his soul alive.
57444 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his
57445    transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live,
57446    he shall not die.
57447 29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not
57448    equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your
57449    ways unequal?
57450 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one
57451    according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn
57452    yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not
57453    be your ruin.
57454 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
57455    transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for
57456    why will ye die, O house of Israel?
57457 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith
57458    the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

57459 Ezekiel 19

57460  1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
57461  2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among
57462    lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
57463  3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion,
57464    and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
57465  4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and
57466    they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
57467  5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost,
57468    then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young
57469    lion.
57470  6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young
57471    lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
57472  7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their
57473    cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by
57474    the noise of his roaring.
57475  8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
57476    provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in
57477    their pit.
57478  9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the
57479    king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice
57480    should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
57481 10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters:
57482    she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many
57483    waters.
57484 11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare
57485    rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches,
57486    and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her
57487    branches.
57488 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the
57489    ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods
57490    were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
57491 13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
57492    ground.
57493 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath
57494    devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a
57495    sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
57496    lamentation.

57497 Ezekiel 20

57498  1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month,
57499    the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of
57500    Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
57501  2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
57502  3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto
57503    them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me?
57504    As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by
57505    you.
57506  4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause
57507    them to know the abominations of their fathers:
57508  5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I
57509    chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the
57510    house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of
57511    Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the
57512    LORD your God;
57513  6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them
57514    forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for
57515    them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
57516    lands:
57517  7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations
57518    of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of
57519    Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
57520  8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:
57521    they did not every man cast away the abominations of their
57522    eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I
57523    said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my
57524    anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
57525  9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
57526    polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose
57527    sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth
57528    out of the land of Egypt.
57529 10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
57530    and brought them into the wilderness.
57531 11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments,
57532    which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
57533 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me
57534    and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that
57535    sanctify them.
57536 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
57537    they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my
57538    judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and
57539    my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour
57540    out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
57541 14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be
57542    polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them
57543    out.
57544 15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that
57545    I would not bring them into the land which I had given them,
57546    flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
57547 16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my
57548    statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after
57549    their idols.
57550 17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,
57551    neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
57552 18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not
57553    in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their
57554    judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
57555 19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my
57556    judgments, and do them;
57557 20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me
57558    and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
57559 21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked
57560    not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them,
57561    which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted
57562    my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them,
57563    to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
57564 22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's
57565    sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the
57566    heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
57567 23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I
57568    would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them
57569    through the countries;
57570 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised
57571    my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were
57572    after their fathers' idols.
57573 25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and
57574    judgments whereby they should not live;
57575 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to
57576    pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might
57577    make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am
57578    the LORD.
57579 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say
57580    unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers
57581    have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass
57582    against me.
57583 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I
57584    lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every
57585    high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there
57586    their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of
57587    their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and
57588    poured out there their drink offerings.
57589 29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go?
57590    And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.
57591 30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
57592    GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and
57593    commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
57594 31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass
57595    through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols,
57596    even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house
57597    of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be
57598    enquired of by you.
57599 32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that
57600    ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the
57601    countries, to serve wood and stone.
57602 33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and
57603    with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I
57604    rule over you:
57605 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you
57606    out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty
57607    hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
57608 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
57609    there will I plead with you face to face.
57610 36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the
57611    land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
57612 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring
57613    you into the bond of the covenant:
57614 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that
57615    transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the
57616    country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the
57617    land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
57618 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye,
57619    serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will
57620    not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with
57621    your gifts, and with your idols.
57622 40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
57623    Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of
57624    Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept
57625    them, and there will I require your offerings, and the
57626    firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
57627 41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out
57628    from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein
57629    ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before
57630    the heathen.
57631 42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you
57632    into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I
57633    lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
57634 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,
57635    wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in
57636    your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
57637 44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with
57638    you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor
57639    according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith
57640    the Lord GOD.
57641 45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57642 46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word
57643    toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south
57644    field;
57645 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD;
57646    Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee,
57647    and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry
57648    tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces
57649    from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
57650 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it
57651    shall not be quenched.
57652 49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
57653    parables?

57654 Ezekiel 21

57655  1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57656  2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word
57657    toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of
57658    Israel,
57659  3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
57660    am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his
57661    sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the
57662    wicked.
57663  4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and
57664    the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his
57665    sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
57666  5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my
57667    sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
57668  6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy
57669    loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
57670  7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest
57671    thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it
57672    cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
57673    feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be
57674    weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to
57675    pass, saith the Lord GOD.
57676  8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57677  9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A
57678    sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
57679 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that
57680    it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the
57681    rod of my son, as every tree.
57682 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled:
57683    this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into
57684    the hand of the slayer.
57685 12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it
57686    shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of
57687    the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy
57688    thigh.
57689 13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the
57690    rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
57691 14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands
57692    together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the
57693    sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are
57694    slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
57695 15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,
57696    that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah!
57697    it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
57698 16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the
57699    left, whithersoever thy face is set.
57700 17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my
57701    fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
57702 18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
57703 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword
57704    of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth
57705    out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the
57706    head of the way to the city.
57707 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
57708    Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
57709 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at
57710    the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his
57711    arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the
57712    liver.
57713 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint
57714    captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the
57715    voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the
57716    gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
57717 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their
57718    sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to
57719    remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
57720 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your
57721    iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are
57722    discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear;
57723    because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be
57724    taken with the hand.
57725 25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come,
57726    when iniquity shall have an end,
57727 26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the
57728    crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and
57729    abase him that is high.
57730 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no
57731    more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
57732 28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
57733    GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach;
57734    even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the
57735    slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the
57736    glittering:
57737 29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie
57738    unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are
57739    slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity
57740    shall have an end.
57741 30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee
57742    in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy
57743    nativity.
57744 31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow
57745    against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into
57746    the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
57747 32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the
57748    midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the
57749    LORD have spoken it.

57750 Ezekiel 22

57751  1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57752  2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the
57753    bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
57754  3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth
57755    blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh
57756    idols against herself to defile herself.
57757  4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and
57758    hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and
57759    thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto
57760    thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the
57761    heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
57762  5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall
57763    mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
57764  6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their
57765    power to shed blood.
57766  7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst
57767    of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in
57768    thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
57769  8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my
57770    sabbaths.
57771  9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee
57772    they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit
57773    lewdness.
57774 10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee
57775    have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
57776 11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife;
57777    and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and
57778    another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's
57779    daughter.
57780 12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken
57781    usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy
57782    neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
57783    GOD.
57784 13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest
57785    gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in
57786    the midst of thee.
57787 14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the
57788    days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it,
57789    and will do it.
57790 15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee
57791    in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
57792 16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight
57793    of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
57794 17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57795 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all
57796    they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of
57797    the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
57798 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become
57799    dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of
57800    Jerusalem.
57801 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,
57802    into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to
57803    melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury,
57804    and I will leave you there, and melt you.
57805 21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my
57806    wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.
57807 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye
57808    be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the
57809    LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
57810 23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57811 24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not
57812    cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
57813 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,
57814    like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured
57815    souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they
57816    have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
57817 26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy
57818    things: they have put no difference between the holy and
57819    profane, neither have they shewed difference between the
57820    unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my
57821    sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
57822 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the
57823    prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest
57824    gain.
57825 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter,
57826    seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith
57827    the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
57828 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised
57829    robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have
57830    oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
57831 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
57832    hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I
57833    should not destroy it: but I found none.
57834 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have
57835    consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I
57836    recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

57837 Ezekiel 23

57838  1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
57839  2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
57840  3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed
57841    whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed,
57842    and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
57843  4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her
57844    sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters.
57845    Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem
57846    Aholibah.
57847  5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted
57848    on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
57849  6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them
57850    desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
57851  7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that
57852    were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she
57853    doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
57854  8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her
57855    youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her
57856    virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
57857  9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
57858    into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
57859 10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her
57860    daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous
57861    among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
57862 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in
57863    her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than
57864    her sister in her whoredoms.
57865 12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and
57866    rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses,
57867    all of them desirable young men.
57868 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
57869 14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men
57870    pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans
57871    pourtrayed with vermilion,
57872 15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire
57873    upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the
57874    manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their
57875    nativity:
57876 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon
57877    them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
57878 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they
57879    defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with
57880    them, and her mind was alienated from them.
57881 18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness:
57882    then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was
57883    alienated from her sister.
57884 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance
57885    the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in
57886    the land of Egypt.
57887 20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the
57888    flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
57889 21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,
57890    in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy
57891    youth.
57892 22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
57893    raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is
57894    alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
57895 23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and
57896    Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable
57897    young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all
57898    of them riding upon horses.
57899 24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and
57900    wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set
57901    against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I
57902    will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee
57903    according to their judgments.
57904 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal
57905    furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine
57906    ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take
57907    thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured
57908    by the fire.
57909 26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away
57910    thy fair jewels.
57911 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy
57912    whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt
57913    not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
57914 28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into
57915    the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from
57916    whom thy mind is alienated:
57917 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away
57918    all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the
57919    nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy
57920    lewdness and thy whoredoms.
57921 30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a
57922    whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with
57923    their idols.
57924 31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I
57925    give her cup into thine hand.
57926 32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup
57927    deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in
57928    derision; it containeth much.
57929 33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup
57930    of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister
57931    Samaria.
57932 34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break
57933    the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I
57934    have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
57935 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten
57936    me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy
57937    lewdness and thy whoredoms.
57938 36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge
57939    Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their
57940    abominations;
57941 37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their
57942    hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and
57943    have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass
57944    for them through the fire, to devour them.
57945 38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my
57946    sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
57947 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then
57948    they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and,
57949    lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
57950 40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far,
57951    unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom
57952    thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst
57953    thyself with ornaments,
57954 41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it,
57955    whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
57956 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and
57957    with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the
57958    wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and
57959    beautiful crowns upon their heads.
57960 43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now
57961    commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
57962 44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that
57963    playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto
57964    Aholibah, the lewd women.
57965 45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner
57966    of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed
57967    blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
57968    hands.
57969 46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon
57970    them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
57971 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch
57972    them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their
57973    daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
57974 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
57975    women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
57976 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall
57977    bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the
57978    Lord GOD.

57979 Ezekiel 24

57980  1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day
57981    of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
57982  2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same
57983    day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this
57984    same day.
57985  3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto
57986    them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and
57987    also pour water into it:
57988  4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the
57989    thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
57990  5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under
57991    it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it
57992    therein.
57993  6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to
57994    the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out
57995    of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
57996  7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top
57997    of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with
57998    dust;
57999  8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have
58000    set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be
58001    covered.
58002  9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I
58003    will even make the pile for fire great.
58004 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it
58005    well, and let the bones be burned.
58006 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it
58007    may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be
58008    molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
58009 12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went
58010    not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
58011 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and
58012    thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy
58013    filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon
58014    thee.
58015 14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will
58016    do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will
58017    I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings,
58018    shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
58019 15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58020 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine
58021    eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,
58022    neither shall thy tears run down.
58023 17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire
58024    of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet,
58025    and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
58026 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife
58027    died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
58028 19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these
58029    things are to us, that thou doest so?
58030 20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me,
58031    saying,
58032 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
58033    Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your
58034    strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul
58035    pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left
58036    shall fall by the sword.
58037 22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips,
58038    nor eat the bread of men.
58039 23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon
58040    your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away
58041    for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
58042 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath
58043    done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I
58044    am the Lord GOD.
58045 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take
58046    from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire
58047    of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their
58048    sons and their daughters,
58049 26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to
58050    cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
58051 27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped,
58052    and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a
58053    sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

58054 Ezekiel 25

58055  1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
58056  2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy
58057    against them;
58058  3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD;
58059    Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my
58060    sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of
58061    Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah,
58062    when they went into captivity;
58063  4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east
58064    for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee,
58065    and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit,
58066    and they shall drink thy milk.
58067  5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites
58068    a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the
58069    LORD.
58070  6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine
58071    hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with
58072    all thy despite against the land of Israel;
58073  7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and
58074    will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut
58075    thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out
58076    of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know
58077    that I am the LORD.
58078  8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,
58079    Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
58080  9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
58081    cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory
58082    of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
58083 10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give
58084    them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered
58085    among the nations.
58086 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know
58087    that I am the LORD.
58088 12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against
58089    the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly
58090    offended, and revenged himself upon them;
58091 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out
58092    mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it;
58093    and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan
58094    shall fall by the sword.
58095 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people
58096    Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and
58097    according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith
58098    the Lord GOD.
58099 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by
58100    revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to
58101    destroy it for the old hatred;
58102 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out
58103    mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the
58104    Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
58105 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious
58106    rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall
58107    lay my vengeance upon them.

58108 Ezekiel 26

58109  1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of
58110    the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58111  2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem,
58112    Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is
58113    turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
58114  3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,
58115    O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee,
58116    as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
58117  4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her
58118    towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her
58119    like the top of a rock.
58120  5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of
58121    the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it
58122    shall become a spoil to the nations.
58123  6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the
58124    sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
58125  7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
58126    Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the
58127    north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and
58128    companies, and much people.
58129  8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and
58130    he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against
58131    thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
58132  9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with
58133    his axes he shall break down thy towers.
58134 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
58135    cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the
58136    horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he
58137    shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein
58138    is made a breach.
58139 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy
58140    streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong
58141    garrisons shall go down to the ground.
58142 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of
58143    thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and
58144    destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and
58145    thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
58146 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the
58147    sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
58148 14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a
58149    place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I
58150    the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
58151 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at
58152    the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the
58153    slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
58154 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
58155    thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered
58156    garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they
58157    shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment,
58158    and be astonished at thee.
58159 17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to
58160    thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring
58161    men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and
58162    her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that
58163    haunt it!
58164 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the
58165    isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
58166 19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate
58167    city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
58168    bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover
58169    thee;
58170 20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the
58171    pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the
58172    low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them
58173    that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I
58174    shall set glory in the land of the living;
58175 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though
58176    thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith
58177    the Lord GOD.

58178 Ezekiel 27

58179  1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
58180  2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
58181  3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of
58182    the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles,
58183    Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of
58184    perfect beauty.
58185  4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
58186    perfected thy beauty.
58187  5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they
58188    have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
58189  6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company
58190    of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out
58191    of the isles of Chittim.
58192  7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou
58193    spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles
58194    of Elishah was that which covered thee.
58195  8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise
58196    men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
58197  9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee
58198    thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were
58199    in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
58200 10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy
58201    men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they
58202    set forth thy comeliness.
58203 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round
58204    about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their
58205    shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty
58206    perfect.
58207 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all
58208    kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded
58209    in thy fairs.
58210 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they
58211    traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
58212 14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses
58213    and horsemen and mules.
58214 15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the
58215    merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present
58216    horns of ivory and ebony.
58217 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares
58218    of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds,
58219    purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and
58220    agate.
58221 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they
58222    traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey,
58223    and oil, and balm.
58224 18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy
58225    making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of
58226    Helbon, and white wool.
58227 19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:
58228    bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
58229 20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
58230 21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee
58231    in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy
58232    merchants.
58233 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants:
58234    they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with
58235    all precious stones, and gold.
58236 23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur,
58237    and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
58238 24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue
58239    clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel,
58240    bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
58241 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou
58242    wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the
58243    seas.
58244 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind
58245    hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
58246 27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and
58247    thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise,
58248    and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy
58249    company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the
58250    midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
58251 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
58252 29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots
58253    of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand
58254    upon the land;
58255 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and
58256    shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads,
58257    they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
58258 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird
58259    them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with
58260    bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
58261 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for
58262    thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus,
58263    like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
58264 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many
58265    people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the
58266    multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
58267 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the
58268    depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in
58269    the midst of thee shall fall.
58270 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee,
58271    and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled
58272    in their countenance.
58273 36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt
58274    be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

58275 Ezekiel 28

58276  1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
58277  2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord
58278    GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I
58279    am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
58280    yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart
58281    as the heart of God:
58282  3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that
58283    they can hide from thee:
58284  4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten
58285    thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
58286    treasures:
58287  5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased
58288    thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy
58289    riches:
58290  6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine
58291    heart as the heart of God;
58292  7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the
58293    terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
58294    against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy
58295    brightness.
58296  8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the
58297    deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
58298  9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but
58299    thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that
58300    slayeth thee.
58301 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
58302    strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
58303 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58304 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and
58305    say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the
58306    sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
58307 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
58308    was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the
58309    beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
58310    and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets
58311    and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou
58312    wast created.
58313 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set
58314    thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
58315    walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
58316 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
58317    created, till iniquity was found in thee.
58318 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst
58319    of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will
58320    cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will
58321    destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones
58322    of fire.
58323 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast
58324    corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast
58325    thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they
58326    may behold thee.
58327 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
58328    iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I
58329    bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour
58330    thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the
58331    sight of all them that behold thee.
58332 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished
58333    at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any
58334    more.
58335 20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58336 21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against
58337    it,
58338 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O
58339    Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they
58340    shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed
58341    judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
58342 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her
58343    streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her
58344    by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that
58345    I am the LORD.
58346 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of
58347    Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about
58348    them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the
58349    Lord GOD.
58350 25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house
58351    of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and
58352    shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then
58353    shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant
58354    Jacob.
58355 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses,
58356    and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence,
58357    when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise
58358    them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD
58359    their God.

58360 Ezekiel 29

58361  1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of
58362    the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58363  2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
58364    prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
58365  3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
58366    thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in
58367    the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine
58368    own, and I have made it for myself.
58369  4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of
58370    thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up
58371    out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers
58372    shall stick unto thy scales.
58373  5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all
58374    the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields;
58375    thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given
58376    thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of
58377    the heaven.
58378  6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the
58379    LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of
58380    Israel.
58381  7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and
58382    rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou
58383    brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
58384  8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a
58385    sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
58386  9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they
58387    shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river
58388    is mine, and I have made it.
58389 10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers,
58390    and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate,
58391    from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
58392 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall
58393    pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
58394 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the
58395    countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities
58396    that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will
58397    scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse
58398    them through the countries.
58399 13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I
58400    gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were
58401    scattered:
58402 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause
58403    them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of
58404    their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
58405 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt
58406    itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them,
58407    that they shall no more rule over the nations.
58408 16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
58409    which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall
58410    look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
58411 17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the
58412    first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the
58413    LORD came unto me, saying,
58414 18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to
58415    serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald,
58416    and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his
58417    army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against
58418    it:
58419 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the
58420    land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
58421    shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her
58422    prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
58423 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he
58424    served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord
58425    GOD.
58426 21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to
58427    bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in
58428    the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

58429 Ezekiel 30

58430  1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
58431  2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl
58432    ye, Woe worth the day!
58433  3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a
58434    cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
58435  4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be
58436    in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they
58437    shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be
58438    broken down.
58439  5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people,
58440    and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall
58441    fall with them by the sword.
58442  6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall;
58443    and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of
58444    Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
58445  7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that
58446    are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the
58447    cities that are wasted.
58448  8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire
58449    in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
58450  9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make
58451    the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon
58452    them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
58453 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of
58454    Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
58455 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall
58456    be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their
58457    swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
58458 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the
58459    hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all
58460    that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have
58461    spoken it.
58462 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I
58463    will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall
58464    be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a
58465    fear in the land of Egypt.
58466 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan,
58467    and will execute judgments in No.
58468 15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I
58469    will cut off the multitude of No.
58470 16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and
58471    No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses
58472    daily.
58473 17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword:
58474    and these cities shall go into captivity.
58475 18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall
58476    break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength
58477    shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and
58478    her daughters shall go into captivity.
58479 19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know
58480    that I am the LORD.
58481 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month,
58482    in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD
58483    came unto me, saying,
58484 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
58485    and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a
58486    roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
58487 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
58488    Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong,
58489    and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall
58490    out of his hand.
58491 23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
58492    disperse them through the countries.
58493 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put
58494    my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he
58495    shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded
58496    man.
58497 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the
58498    arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am
58499    the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king
58500    of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of
58501    Egypt.
58502 26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
58503    disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I
58504    am the LORD.

58505 Ezekiel 31

58506  1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month,
58507    in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came
58508    unto me, saying,
58509  2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
58510    multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
58511  3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair
58512    branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature;
58513    and his top was among the thick boughs.
58514  4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with
58515    her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little
58516    rivers unto all the trees of the field.
58517  5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the
58518    field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became
58519    long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
58520  6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and
58521    under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth
58522    their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
58523  7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his
58524    branches: for his root was by great waters.
58525  8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir
58526    trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were
58527    not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was
58528    like unto him in his beauty.
58529  9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that
58530    all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied
58531    him.
58532 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
58533    thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick
58534    boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
58535 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one
58536    of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven
58537    him out for his wickedness.
58538 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
58539    and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys
58540    his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the
58541    rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone
58542    down from his shadow, and have left him.
58543 13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and
58544    all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
58545 14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
58546    themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among
58547    the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their
58548    height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto
58549    death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the
58550    children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
58551 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the
58552    grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
58553    restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were
58554    stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the
58555    trees of the field fainted for him.
58556 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
58557    cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and
58558    all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all
58559    that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of
58560    the earth.
58561 17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain
58562    with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under
58563    his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
58564 18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the
58565    trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees
58566    of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in
58567    the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the
58568    sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord
58569    GOD.

58570 Ezekiel 32

58571  1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,
58572    in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came
58573    unto me, saying,
58574  2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt,
58575    and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations,
58576    and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth
58577    with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and
58578    fouledst their rivers.
58579  3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net
58580    over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring
58581    thee up in my net.
58582  4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth
58583    upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the
58584    heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the
58585    whole earth with thee.
58586  5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the
58587    valleys with thy height.
58588  6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou
58589    swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full
58590    of thee.
58591  7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and
58592    make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a
58593    cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
58594  8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee,
58595    and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
58596  9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring
58597    thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which
58598    thou hast not known.
58599 10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings
58600    shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my
58601    sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment,
58602    every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
58603 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon
58604    shall come upon thee.
58605 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to
58606    fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall
58607    spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall
58608    be destroyed.
58609 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the
58610    great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any
58611    more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
58612 14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to
58613    run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
58614 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country
58615    shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall
58616    smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I
58617    am the LORD.
58618 16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
58619    daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament
58620    for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the
58621    Lord GOD.
58622 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day
58623    of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58624 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them
58625    down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto
58626    the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the
58627    pit.
58628 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with
58629    the uncircumcised.
58630 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the
58631    sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her
58632    multitudes.
58633 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the
58634    midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down,
58635    they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
58636 22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him:
58637    all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
58638 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company
58639    is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the
58640    sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
58641 24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all
58642    of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down
58643    uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused
58644    their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne
58645    their shame with them that go down to the pit.
58646 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her
58647    multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them
58648    uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was
58649    caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their
58650    shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the
58651    midst of them that be slain.
58652 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are
58653    round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
58654    sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the
58655    living.
58656 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
58657    uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons
58658    of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but
58659    their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were
58660    the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
58661 28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
58662    and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
58663 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with
58664    their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword:
58665    they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go
58666    down to the pit.
58667 30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
58668    Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their
58669    terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie
58670    uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear
58671    their shame with them that go down to the pit.
58672 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
58673    multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword,
58674    saith the Lord GOD.
58675 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he
58676    shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that
58677    are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,
58678    saith the Lord GOD.

58679 Ezekiel 33

58680  1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58681  2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto
58682    them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the
58683    land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their
58684    watchman:
58685  3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the
58686    trumpet, and warn the people;
58687  4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh
58688    not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood
58689    shall be upon his own head.
58690  5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his
58691    blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall
58692    deliver his soul.
58693  6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the
58694    trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and
58695    take any person from among them, he is taken away in his
58696    iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
58697  7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the
58698    house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my
58699    mouth, and warn them from me.
58700  8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely
58701    die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way,
58702    that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will
58703    I require at thine hand.
58704  9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from
58705    it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his
58706    iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
58707 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel;
58708    Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be
58709    upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
58710 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no
58711    pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn
58712    from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways;
58713    for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
58714 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy
58715    people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver
58716    him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of
58717    the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he
58718    turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be
58719    able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
58720 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live;
58721    if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all
58722    his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his
58723    iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
58724 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if
58725    he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
58726 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had
58727    robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing
58728    iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
58729 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned
58730    unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he
58731    shall surely live.
58732 17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not
58733    equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
58734 18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and
58735    committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
58736 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which
58737    is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
58738 20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of
58739    Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
58740 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in
58741    the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that
58742    had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is
58743    smitten.
58744 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he
58745    that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came
58746    to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no
58747    more dumb.
58748 23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58749 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of
58750    Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the
58751    land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
58752 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with
58753    the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed
58754    blood: and shall ye possess the land?
58755 26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile
58756    every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
58757 27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live,
58758    surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword,
58759    and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to
58760    be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves
58761    shall die of the pestilence.
58762 28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her
58763    strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be
58764    desolate, that none shall pass through.
58765 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the
58766    land most desolate because of all their abominations which
58767    they have committed.
58768 30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are
58769    talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the
58770    houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother,
58771    saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that
58772    cometh forth from the LORD.
58773 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit
58774    before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they
58775    will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love,
58776    but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
58777 32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that
58778    hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for
58779    they hear thy words, but they do them not.
58780 33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall
58781    they know that a prophet hath been among them.

58782 Ezekiel 34

58783  1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58784  2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
58785    prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the
58786    shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed
58787    themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
58788  3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them
58789    that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
58790  4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed
58791    that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was
58792    broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven
58793    away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with
58794    force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
58795  5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and
58796    they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they
58797    were scattered.
58798  6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every
58799    high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of
58800    the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
58801  7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
58802  8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became
58803    a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,
58804    because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search
58805    for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my
58806    flock;
58807  9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
58808 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds;
58809    and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to
58810    cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed
58811    themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their
58812    mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
58813 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both
58814    search my sheep, and seek them out.
58815 12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is
58816    among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my
58817    sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have
58818    been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
58819 13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them
58820    from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and
58821    feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in
58822    all the inhabited places of the country.
58823 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high
58824    mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie
58825    in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the
58826    mountains of Israel.
58827 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith
58828    the Lord GOD.
58829 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which
58830    was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and
58831    will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the
58832    fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
58833 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
58834    judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he
58835    goats.
58836 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good
58837    pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of
58838    your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye
58839    must foul the residue with your feet?
58840 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with
58841    your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your
58842    feet.
58843 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even
58844    I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean
58845    cattle.
58846 21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed
58847    all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them
58848    abroad;
58849 22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a
58850    prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
58851 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed
58852    them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall
58853    be their shepherd.
58854 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a
58855    prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
58856 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause
58857    the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell
58858    safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
58859 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
58860    blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his
58861    season; there shall be showers of blessing.
58862 27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth
58863    shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their
58864    land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken
58865    the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of
58866    those that served themselves of them.
58867 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall
58868    the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell
58869    safely, and none shall make them afraid.
58870 29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall
58871    be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the
58872    shame of the heathen any more.
58873 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them,
58874    and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith
58875    the Lord GOD.
58876 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am
58877    your God, saith the Lord GOD.

58878 Ezekiel 35

58879  1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58880  2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
58881    against it,
58882  3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount
58883    Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand
58884    against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
58885  4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and
58886    thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
58887  5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the
58888    blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in
58889    the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity
58890    had an end:
58891  6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee
58892    unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not
58893    hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
58894  7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it
58895    him that passeth out and him that returneth.
58896  8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy
58897    hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they
58898    fall that are slain with the sword.
58899  9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall
58900    not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
58901 10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two
58902    countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the
58903    LORD was there:
58904 11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do
58905    according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which
58906    thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make
58907    myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
58908 12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard
58909    all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the
58910    mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are
58911    given us to consume.
58912 13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have
58913    multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
58914 14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I
58915    will make thee desolate.
58916 15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of
58917    Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou
58918    shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of
58919    it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

58920 Ezekiel 36

58921  1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel,
58922    and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
58923  2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against
58924    you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
58925  3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
58926    they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every
58927    side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the
58928    heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are
58929    an infamy of the people:
58930  4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
58931    GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the
58932    hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate
58933    wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a
58934    prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round
58935    about;
58936  5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my
58937    jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and
58938    against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their
58939    possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful
58940    minds, to cast it out for a prey.
58941  6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto
58942    the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the
58943    valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my
58944    jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of
58945    the heathen:
58946  7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand,
58947    Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their
58948    shame.
58949  8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
58950    branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for
58951    they are at hand to come.
58952  9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye
58953    shall be tilled and sown:
58954 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,
58955    even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the
58956    wastes shall be builded:
58957 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
58958    increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old
58959    estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings:
58960    and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
58961 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel;
58962    and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their
58963    inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of
58964    men.
58965 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land
58966    devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:
58967 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy
58968    nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
58969 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the
58970    heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the
58971    people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall
58972    any more, saith the Lord GOD.
58973 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
58974 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land,
58975    they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their
58976    way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
58977 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they
58978    had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had
58979    polluted it:
58980 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were
58981    dispersed through the countries: according to their way and
58982    according to their doings I judged them.
58983 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went,
58984    they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are
58985    the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
58986 21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel
58987    had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
58988 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord
58989    GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for
58990    mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the
58991    heathen, whither ye went.
58992 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among
58993    the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and
58994    the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD,
58995    when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
58996 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out
58997    of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
58998 25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
58999    clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will
59000    I cleanse you.
59001 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
59002    within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
59003    flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
59004 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
59005    my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
59006 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
59007    and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
59008 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will
59009    call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine
59010    upon you.
59011 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of
59012    the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine
59013    among the heathen.
59014 31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings
59015    that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own
59016    sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
59017 32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known
59018    unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house
59019    of Israel.
59020 33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed
59021    you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in
59022    the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
59023 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate
59024    in the sight of all that passed by.
59025 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like
59026    the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
59027    cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
59028 36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that
59029    I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was
59030    desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
59031 37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by
59032    the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them
59033    with men like a flock.
59034 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
59035    feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of
59036    men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

59037 Ezekiel 37

59038  1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the
59039    spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley
59040    which was full of bones,
59041  2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there
59042    were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very
59043    dry.
59044  3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I
59045    answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
59046  4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto
59047    them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
59048  5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause
59049    breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
59050  6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon
59051    you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye
59052    shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
59053  7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there
59054    was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came
59055    together, bone to his bone.
59056  8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon
59057    them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath
59058    in them.
59059  9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of
59060    man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from
59061    the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that
59062    they may live.
59063 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into
59064    them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an
59065    exceeding great army.
59066 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
59067    house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and
59068    our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
59069 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
59070    Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to
59071    come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of
59072    Israel.
59073 13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your
59074    graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
59075 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall
59076    place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD
59077    have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
59078 15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
59079 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon
59080    it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions:
59081    then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the
59082    stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his
59083    companions:
59084 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall
59085    become one in thine hand.
59086 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,
59087    saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
59088 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take
59089    the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the
59090    tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even
59091    with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they
59092    shall be one in mine hand.
59093 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand
59094    before their eyes.
59095 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
59096    take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither
59097    they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring
59098    them into their own land:
59099 22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains
59100    of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they
59101    shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided
59102    into two kingdoms any more at all.
59103 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their
59104    idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their
59105    transgressions: but I will save them out of all their
59106    dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse
59107    them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
59108 24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all
59109    shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments,
59110    and observe my statutes, and do them.
59111 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob
59112    my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall
59113    dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their
59114    children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be
59115    their prince for ever.
59116 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall
59117    be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them,
59118    and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of
59119    them for evermore.
59120 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their
59121    God, and they shall be my people.
59122 28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel,
59123    when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

59124 Ezekiel 38

59125  1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
59126  2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the
59127    chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
59128  3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O
59129    Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
59130  4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I
59131    will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
59132    horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a
59133    great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
59134    swords:
59135  5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield
59136    and helmet:
59137  6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north
59138    quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
59139  7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy
59140    company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto
59141    them.
59142  8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years
59143    thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the
59144    sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the
59145    mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
59146    brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely
59147    all of them.
59148  9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
59149    cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many
59150    people with thee.
59151 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at
59152    the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt
59153    think an evil thought:
59154 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
59155    villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell
59156    safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
59157    bars nor gates,
59158 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon
59159    the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
59160    people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten
59161    cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
59162 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the
59163    young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to
59164    take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey?
59165    to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods,
59166    to take a great spoil?
59167 14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith
59168    the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth
59169    safely, shalt thou not know it?
59170 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,
59171    thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
59172    horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
59173 16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud
59174    to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will
59175    bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when
59176    I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
59177 17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in
59178    old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
59179    prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee
59180    against them?
59181 18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come
59182    against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury
59183    shall come up in my face.
59184 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
59185    Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land
59186    of Israel;
59187 20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven,
59188    and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that
59189    creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face
59190    of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
59191    shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and
59192    every wall shall fall to the ground.
59193 21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my
59194    mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be
59195    against his brother.
59196 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood;
59197    and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the
59198    many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great
59199    hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
59200 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be
59201    known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I
59202    am the LORD.

59203 Ezekiel 39

59204  1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say,
59205    Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the
59206    chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
59207  2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of
59208    thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and
59209    will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
59210  3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause
59211    thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
59212  4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all
59213    thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee
59214    unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of
59215    the field to be devoured.
59216  5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it,
59217    saith the Lord GOD.
59218  6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell
59219    carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the
59220    LORD.
59221  7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people
59222    Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more:
59223    and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in
59224    Israel.
59225  8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this
59226    is the day whereof I have spoken.
59227  9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
59228    and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields
59229    and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves,
59230    and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven
59231    years:
59232 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut
59233    down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons
59234    with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and
59235    rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
59236 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto
59237    Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the
59238    passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses
59239    of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his
59240    multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
59241 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them,
59242    that they may cleanse the land.
59243 13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall
59244    be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith
59245    the Lord GOD.
59246 14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing
59247    through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain
59248    upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of
59249    seven months shall they search.
59250 15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth
59251    a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the
59252    buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
59253 16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall
59254    they cleanse the land.
59255 17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto
59256    every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field,
59257    Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
59258    to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
59259    sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh,
59260    and drink blood.
59261 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of
59262    the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
59263    bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
59264 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye
59265    be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
59266 20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots,
59267    with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
59268 21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen
59269    shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
59270    have laid upon them.
59271 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God
59272    from that day and forward.
59273 23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into
59274    captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against
59275    me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the
59276    hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
59277 24 According to their uncleanness and according to their
59278    transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from
59279    them.
59280 25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the
59281    captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of
59282    Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
59283 26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their
59284    trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they
59285    dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
59286 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered
59287    them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in
59288    the sight of many nations;
59289 28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which
59290    caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I
59291    have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of
59292    them any more there.
59293 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have
59294    poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord
59295    GOD.

59296 Ezekiel 40

59297  1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the
59298    beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the
59299    fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the
59300    selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me
59301    thither.
59302  2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,
59303    and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the
59304    frame of a city on the south.
59305  3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose
59306    appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of
59307    flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the
59308    gate.
59309  4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes,
59310    and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I
59311    shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto
59312    thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to
59313    the house of Israel.
59314  5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and
59315    in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the
59316    cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the
59317    building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
59318  6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and
59319    went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the
59320    gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the
59321    gate, which was one reed broad.
59322  7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed
59323    broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and
59324    the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was
59325    one reed.
59326  8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
59327  9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the
59328    posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was
59329    inward.
59330 10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on
59331    this side, and three on that side; they three were of one
59332    measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on
59333    that side.
59334 11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten
59335    cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
59336 12 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on
59337    this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the
59338    little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits
59339    on that side.
59340 13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber
59341    to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty
59342    cubits, door against door.
59343 14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of
59344    the court round about the gate.
59345 15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of
59346    the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
59347 16 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to
59348    their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the
59349    arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each
59350    post were palm trees.
59351 17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were
59352    chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about:
59353    thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
59354 18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the
59355    length of the gates was the lower pavement.
59356 19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower
59357    gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred
59358    cubits eastward and northward.
59359 20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the
59360    north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth
59361    thereof.
59362 21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and
59363    three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches
59364    thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length
59365    thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
59366    cubits.
59367 22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees,
59368    were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the
59369    east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches
59370    thereof were before them.
59371 23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate
59372    toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from
59373    gate to gate an hundred cubits.
59374 24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate
59375    toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the
59376    arches thereof according to these measures.
59377 25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round
59378    about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and
59379    the breadth five and twenty cubits.
59380 26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches
59381    thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this
59382    side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
59383 27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and
59384    he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred
59385    cubits.
59386 28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he
59387    measured the south gate according to these measures;
59388 29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and
59389    the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there
59390    were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it
59391    was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
59392 30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long,
59393    and five cubits broad.
59394 31 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
59395    trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had
59396    eight steps.
59397 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
59398    measured the gate according to these measures.
59399 33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and
59400    the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and
59401    there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round
59402    about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits
59403    broad.
59404 34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm
59405    trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that
59406    side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
59407 35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according
59408    to these measures;
59409 36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches
59410    thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was
59411    fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
59412 37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
59413    trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that
59414    side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
59415 38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of
59416    the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
59417 39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and
59418    two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering
59419    and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
59420 40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the
59421    north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was
59422    at the porch of the gate, were two tables.
59423 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side,
59424    by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew
59425    their sacrifices.
59426 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering,
59427    of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad,
59428    and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments
59429    wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
59430 43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about:
59431    and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
59432 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in
59433    the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and
59434    their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the
59435    east gate having the prospect toward the north.
59436 45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward
59437    the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of
59438    the house.
59439 46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
59440    priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the
59441    sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the
59442    LORD to minister unto him.
59443 47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an
59444    hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was
59445    before the house.
59446 48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each
59447    post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits
59448    on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on
59449    this side, and three cubits on that side.
59450 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
59451    eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they
59452    went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on
59453    this side, and another on that side.

59454 Ezekiel 41

59455  1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts,
59456    six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the
59457    other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
59458  2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of
59459    the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on
59460    the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty
59461    cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
59462  3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two
59463    cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door,
59464    seven cubits.
59465  4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the
59466    breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto
59467    me, This is the most holy place.
59468  5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
59469    breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the
59470    house on every side.
59471  6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty
59472    in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the
59473    house for the side chambers round about, that they might have
59474    hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
59475  7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward
59476    to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went
59477    still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of
59478    the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest
59479    chamber to the highest by the midst.
59480  8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the
59481    foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
59482    cubits.
59483  9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber
59484    without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the
59485    place of the side chambers that were within.
59486 10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits
59487    round about the house on every side.
59488 11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that
59489    was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward
59490    the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five
59491    cubits round about.
59492 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end
59493    toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the
59494    building was five cubits thick round about, and the length
59495    thereof ninety cubits.
59496 13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the
59497    separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an
59498    hundred cubits long;
59499 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate
59500    place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
59501 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the
59502    separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof
59503    on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with
59504    the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
59505 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries
59506    round about on their three stories, over against the door,
59507    cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the
59508    windows, and the windows were covered;
59509 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and
59510    without, and by all the wall round about within and without,
59511    by measure.
59512 18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm
59513    tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had
59514    two faces;
59515 19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one
59516    side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the
59517    other side: it was made through all the house round about.
59518 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm
59519    trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
59520 21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the
59521    sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the
59522    other.
59523 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length
59524    thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length
59525    thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto
59526    me, This is the table that is before the LORD.
59527 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
59528 24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two
59529    leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
59530 25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
59531    cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls;
59532    and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch
59533    without.
59534 26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side
59535    and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the
59536    side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

59537 Ezekiel 42

59538  1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward
59539    the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over
59540    against the separate place, and which was before the building
59541    toward the north.
59542  2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and
59543    the breadth was fifty cubits.
59544  3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court,
59545    and over against the pavement which was for the utter court,
59546    was gallery against gallery in three stories.
59547  4 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth
59548    inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
59549  5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were
59550    higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of
59551    the building.
59552  6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the
59553    pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened
59554    more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
59555  7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers,
59556    toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the
59557    length thereof was fifty cubits.
59558  8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court
59559    was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred
59560    cubits.
59561  9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side,
59562    as one goeth into them from the utter court.
59563 10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court
59564    toward the east, over against the separate place, and over
59565    against the building.
59566 11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the
59567    chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as
59568    broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to
59569    their fashions, and according to their doors.
59570 12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward
59571    the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way
59572    directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into
59573    them.
59574 13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south
59575    chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy
59576    chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall
59577    eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy
59578    things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the
59579    trespass offering; for the place is holy.
59580 14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of
59581    the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay
59582    their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and
59583    shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those
59584    things which are for the people.
59585 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he
59586    brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the
59587    east, and measured it round about.
59588 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five
59589    hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
59590 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the
59591    measuring reed round about.
59592 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the
59593    measuring reed.
59594 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
59595    reeds with the measuring reed.
59596 20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about,
59597    five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a
59598    separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

59599 Ezekiel 43

59600  1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that
59601    looketh toward the east:
59602  2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way
59603    of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters:
59604    and the earth shined with his glory.
59605  3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I
59606    saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to
59607    destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I
59608    saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
59609  4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of
59610    the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
59611  5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;
59612    and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
59613  6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man
59614    stood by me.
59615  7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and
59616    the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the
59617    midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name,
59618    shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor
59619    their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their
59620    kings in their high places.
59621  8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and
59622    their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they
59623    have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they
59624    have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
59625  9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of
59626    their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of
59627    them for ever.
59628 10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that
59629    they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure
59630    the pattern.
59631 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them
59632    the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings
59633    out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms
59634    thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms
59635    thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their
59636    sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the
59637    ordinances thereof, and do them.
59638 12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the
59639    whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold,
59640    this is the law of the house.
59641 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The
59642    cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be
59643    a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by
59644    the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall
59645    be the higher place of the altar.
59646 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle
59647    shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the
59648    lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits,
59649    and the breadth one cubit.
59650 15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and
59651    upward shall be four horns.
59652 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad,
59653    square in the four squares thereof.
59654 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen
59655    broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it
59656    shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit
59657    about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
59658 18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;
59659    These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they
59660    shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to
59661    sprinkle blood thereon.
59662 19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the
59663    seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me,
59664    saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
59665 20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the
59666    four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and
59667    upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge
59668    it.
59669 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he
59670    shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the
59671    sanctuary.
59672 22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats
59673    without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the
59674    altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
59675 23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a
59676    young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock
59677    without blemish.
59678 24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests
59679    shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a
59680    burnt offering unto the LORD.
59681 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin
59682    offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram
59683    out of the flock, without blemish.
59684 26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they
59685    shall consecrate themselves.
59686 27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the
59687    eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt
59688    offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will
59689    accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

59690 Ezekiel 44

59691  1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward
59692    sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
59693  2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall
59694    not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the
59695    LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it
59696    shall be shut.
59697  3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat
59698    bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch
59699    of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
59700  4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house:
59701    and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the
59702    house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
59703  5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold
59704    with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto
59705    thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD,
59706    and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the
59707    house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
59708  6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of
59709    Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it
59710    suffice you of all your abominations,
59711  7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,
59712    uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in
59713    my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my
59714    bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant
59715    because of all your abominations.
59716  8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye
59717    have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
59718  9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart,
59719    nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of
59720    any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
59721 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel
59722    went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols;
59723    they shall even bear their iniquity.
59724 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at
59725    the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they
59726    shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the
59727    people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto
59728    them.
59729 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and
59730    caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
59731    have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD,
59732    and they shall bear their iniquity.
59733 13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a
59734    priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in
59735    the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and
59736    their abominations which they have committed.
59737 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for
59738    all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done
59739    therein.
59740 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the
59741    charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray
59742    from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and
59743    they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the
59744    blood, saith the Lord GOD:
59745 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near
59746    to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my
59747    charge.
59748 17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the
59749    gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen
59750    garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they
59751    minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
59752 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have
59753    linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird
59754    themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
59755 19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the
59756    utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments
59757    wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers,
59758    and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not
59759    sanctify the people with their garments.
59760 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks
59761    to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
59762 21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the
59763    inner court.
59764 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that
59765    is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the
59766    house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
59767 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy
59768    and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and
59769    the clean.
59770 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they
59771    shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep
59772    my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall
59773    hallow my sabbaths.
59774 25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves:
59775    but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter,
59776    for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may
59777    defile themselves.
59778 26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven
59779    days.
59780 27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the
59781    inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his
59782    sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
59783 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their
59784    inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I
59785    am their possession.
59786 29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and
59787    the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel
59788    shall be theirs.
59789 30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every
59790    oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the
59791    priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your
59792    dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
59793 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself,
59794    or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

59795 Ezekiel 45

59796  1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for
59797    inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy
59798    portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five
59799    and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten
59800    thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round
59801    about.
59802  2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in
59803    length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and
59804    fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
59805  3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and
59806    twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it
59807    shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
59808  4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the
59809    ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister
59810    unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and
59811    an holy place for the sanctuary.
59812  5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten
59813    thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of
59814    the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty
59815    chambers.
59816  6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
59817    broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the
59818    oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house
59819    of Israel.
59820  7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on
59821    the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the
59822    possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy
59823    portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west
59824    side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length
59825    shall be over against one of the portions, from the west
59826    border unto the east border.
59827  8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes
59828    shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land
59829    shall they give to the house of Israel according to their
59830    tribes.
59831  9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of
59832    Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and
59833    justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the
59834    Lord GOD.
59835 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just
59836    bath.
59837 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
59838    may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the
59839    tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the
59840    homer.
59841 12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five
59842    and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
59843 13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an
59844    ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part
59845    of an ephah of an homer of barley:
59846 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall
59847    offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an
59848    homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
59849 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the
59850    fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt
59851    offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for
59852    them, saith the Lord GOD.
59853 16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the
59854    prince in Israel.
59855 17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and
59856    meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the
59857    new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the
59858    house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the
59859    meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
59860    offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
59861 18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day
59862    of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish,
59863    and cleanse the sanctuary:
59864 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering,
59865    and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four
59866    corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the
59867    gate of the inner court.
59868 20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every
59869    one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye
59870    reconcile the house.
59871 21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye
59872    shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened
59873    bread shall be eaten.
59874 22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for
59875    all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
59876 23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering
59877    to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish
59878    daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin
59879    offering.
59880 24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a
59881    bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an
59882    ephah.
59883 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall
59884    he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to
59885    the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and
59886    according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

59887 Ezekiel 46

59888  1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that
59889    looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days;
59890    but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the
59891    new moon it shall be opened.
59892  2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that
59893    gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the
59894    priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
59895    offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate:
59896    then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until
59897    the evening.
59898  3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of
59899    this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new
59900    moons.
59901  4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the
59902    LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish,
59903    and a ram without blemish.
59904  5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the
59905    meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and
59906    an hin of oil to an ephah.
59907  6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock
59908    without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be
59909    without blemish.
59910  7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock,
59911    and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his
59912    hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
59913  8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of
59914    the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way
59915    thereof.
59916  9 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in
59917    the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north
59918    gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and
59919    he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth
59920    by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way
59921    of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over
59922    against it.
59923 10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go
59924    in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
59925 11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering
59926    shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to
59927    the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an
59928    ephah.
59929 12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering
59930    or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then
59931    open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall
59932    prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did
59933    on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his
59934    going forth one shall shut the gate.
59935 13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a
59936    lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it
59937    every morning.
59938 14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning,
59939    the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of
59940    oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering
59941    continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
59942 15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and
59943    the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
59944 16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of
59945    his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall
59946    be their possession by inheritance.
59947 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his
59948    servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after
59949    it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be
59950    his sons' for them.
59951 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance
59952    by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he
59953    shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession:
59954    that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
59955 19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side
59956    of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which
59957    looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the
59958    two sides westward.
59959 20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests
59960    shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where
59961    they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out
59962    into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
59963 21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me
59964    to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in
59965    every corner of the court there was a court.
59966 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of
59967    forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of
59968    one measure.
59969 23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round
59970    about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the
59971    rows round about.
59972 24 Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil,
59973    where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of
59974    the people.

59975 Ezekiel 47

59976  1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and,
59977    behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the
59978    house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward
59979    the east, and the waters came down from under from the right
59980    side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
59981  2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and
59982    led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way
59983    that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on
59984    the right side.
59985  3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth
59986    eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me
59987    through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
59988  4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the
59989    waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a
59990    thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the
59991    loins.
59992  5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I
59993    could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim
59994    in, a river that could not be passed over.
59995  6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he
59996    brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
59997  7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were
59998    very many trees on the one side and on the other.
59999  8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east
60000    country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea:
60001    which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be
60002    healed.
60003  9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which
60004    moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and
60005    there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these
60006    waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every
60007    thing shall live whither the river cometh.
60008 10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon
60009    it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to
60010    spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their
60011    kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
60012 11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not
60013    be healed; they shall be given to salt.
60014 12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on
60015    that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not
60016    fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall
60017    bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their
60018    waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof
60019    shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
60020 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye
60021    shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of
60022    Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
60023 14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning
60024    the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers:
60025    and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
60026 15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north
60027    side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to
60028    Zedad;
60029 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of
60030    Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by
60031    the coast of Hauran.
60032 17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of
60033    Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath.
60034    And this is the north side.
60035 18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from
60036    Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by
60037    Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the
60038    east side.
60039 19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of
60040    strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the
60041    south side southward.
60042 20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border,
60043    till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
60044 21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes
60045    of Israel.
60046 22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for
60047    an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn
60048    among you, which shall beget children among you: and they
60049    shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of
60050    Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes
60051    of Israel.
60052 23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger
60053    sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the
60054    Lord GOD.

60055 Ezekiel 48

60056  1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to
60057    the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath,
60058    Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of
60059    Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for
60060    Dan.
60061  2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west
60062    side, a portion for Asher.
60063  3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the
60064    west side, a portion for Naphtali.
60065  4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the
60066    west side, a portion for Manasseh.
60067  5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the
60068    west side, a portion for Ephraim.
60069  6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the
60070    west side, a portion for Reuben.
60071  7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west
60072    side, a portion for Judah.
60073  8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west
60074    side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and
60075    twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the
60076    other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the
60077    sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
60078  9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of
60079    five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in
60080    breadth.
60081 10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy
60082    oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length,
60083    and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the
60084    east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and
60085    twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall
60086    be in the midst thereof.
60087 11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of
60088    Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when
60089    the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went
60090    astray.
60091 12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto
60092    them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
60093 13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall
60094    have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in
60095    breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and
60096    the breadth ten thousand.
60097 14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate
60098    the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
60099 15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over
60100    against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place
60101    for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city
60102    shall be in the midst thereof.
60103 16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four
60104    thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand
60105    and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five
60106    hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
60107 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two
60108    hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty,
60109    and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west
60110    two hundred and fifty.
60111 18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the
60112    holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand
60113    westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the
60114    holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto
60115    them that serve the city.
60116 19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the
60117    tribes of Israel.
60118 20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and
60119    twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare,
60120    with the possession of the city.
60121 21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and
60122    on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of
60123    the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the
60124    oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the
60125    five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against
60126    the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy
60127    oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst
60128    thereof.
60129 22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the
60130    possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is
60131    the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of
60132    Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
60133 23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the
60134    west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
60135 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the
60136    west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
60137 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west
60138    side, Issachar a portion.
60139 26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the
60140    west side, Zebulun a portion.
60141 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west
60142    side, Gad a portion.
60143 28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the
60144    border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in
60145    Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
60146 29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes
60147    of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith
60148    the Lord GOD.
60149 30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side,
60150    four thousand and five hundred measures.
60151 31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
60152    tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben,
60153    one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
60154 32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three
60155    gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate
60156    of Dan.
60157 33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures:
60158    and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one
60159    gate of Zebulun.
60160 34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their
60161    three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of
60162    Naphtali.
60163 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of
60164    the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

60165 Book 27 Daniel

60166 Daniel 1

60167  1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came
60168    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged
60169    it.
60170  2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with
60171    part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into
60172    the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the
60173    vessels into the treasure house of his god.
60174  3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs,
60175    that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of
60176    the king's seed, and of the princes;
60177  4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and
60178    skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and
60179    understanding science, and such as had ability in them to
60180    stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the
60181    learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
60182  5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's
60183    meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three
60184    years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the
60185    king.
60186  6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel,
60187    Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
60188  7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave
60189    unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of
60190    Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of
60191    Abednego.
60192  8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile
60193    himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine
60194    which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the
60195    eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
60196  9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with
60197    the prince of the eunuchs.
60198 10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord
60199    the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why
60200    should he see your faces worse liking than the children which
60201    are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to
60202    the king.
60203 11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had
60204    set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
60205 12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them
60206    give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
60207 13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the
60208    countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the
60209    king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
60210 14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten
60211    days.
60212 15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer
60213    and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the
60214    portion of the king's meat.
60215 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine
60216    that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
60217 17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill
60218    in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in
60219    all visions and dreams.
60220 18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should
60221    bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in
60222    before Nebuchadnezzar.
60223 19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found
60224    none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore
60225    stood they before the king.
60226 20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king
60227    enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the
60228    magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
60229 21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.

60230 Daniel 2

60231  1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar
60232    Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was
60233    troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
60234  2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the
60235    astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew
60236    the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
60237  3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my
60238    spirit was troubled to know the dream.
60239  4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live
60240    for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the
60241    interpretation.
60242  5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone
60243    from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the
60244    interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your
60245    houses shall be made a dunghill.
60246  6 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye
60247    shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour:
60248    therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
60249  7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants
60250    the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
60251  8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would
60252    gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
60253  9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but
60254    one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt
60255    words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore
60256    tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the
60257    interpretation thereof.
60258 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not
60259    a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter:
60260    therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such
60261    things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
60262 11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is
60263    none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods,
60264    whose dwelling is not with flesh.
60265 12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and
60266    commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
60267 13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain;
60268    and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
60269 14 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the
60270    captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the
60271    wise men of Babylon:
60272 15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the
60273    decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing
60274    known to Daniel.
60275 16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would
60276    give him time, and that he would shew the king the
60277    interpretation.
60278 17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to
60279    Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
60280 18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning
60281    this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish
60282    with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
60283 19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.
60284    Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
60285 20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever
60286    and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
60287 21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings,
60288    and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and
60289    knowledge to them that know understanding:
60290 22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in
60291    the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
60292 23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who
60293    hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me
60294    now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto
60295    us the king's matter.
60296 24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had
60297    ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said
60298    thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me
60299    in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the
60300    interpretation.
60301 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and
60302    said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of
60303    Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
60304 26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was
60305    Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream
60306    which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
60307 27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The
60308    secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the
60309    astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the
60310    king;
60311 28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and
60312    maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the
60313    latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy
60314    bed, are these;
60315 29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy
60316    bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth
60317    secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
60318 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any
60319    wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes
60320    that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that
60321    thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
60322 31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great
60323    image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and
60324    the form thereof was terrible.
60325 32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of
60326    silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
60327 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
60328 34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which
60329    smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and
60330    brake them to pieces.
60331 35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the
60332    gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of
60333    the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away,
60334    that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the
60335    image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
60336 36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof
60337    before the king.
60338 37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath
60339    given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
60340 38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the
60341    field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine
60342    hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this
60343    head of gold.
60344 39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee,
60345    and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over
60346    all the earth.
60347 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as
60348    iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron
60349    that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
60350 41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters'
60351    clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but
60352    there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as
60353    thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
60354 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of
60355    clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly
60356    broken.
60357 43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall
60358    mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not
60359    cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
60360 44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up
60361    a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom
60362    shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in
60363    pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for
60364    ever.
60365 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the
60366    mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron,
60367    the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God
60368    hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter:
60369    and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
60370 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and
60371    worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an
60372    oblation and sweet odours unto him.
60373 47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is,
60374    that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a
60375    revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
60376 48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great
60377    gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon,
60378    and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
60379 49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach,
60380    Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of
60381    Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

60382 Daniel 3

60383  1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height
60384    was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he
60385    set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
60386  2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the
60387    princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the
60388    treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers
60389    of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which
60390    Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
60391  3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the
60392    treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers
60393    of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication
60394    of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they
60395    stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
60396  4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people,
60397    nations, and languages,
60398  5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute,
60399    harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye
60400    fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
60401    king hath set up:
60402  6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour
60403    be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
60404  7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of
60405    the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of
60406    musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell
60407    down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
60408    king had set up.
60409  8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and
60410    accused the Jews.
60411  9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live
60412    for ever.
60413 10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall
60414    hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery,
60415    and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and
60416    worship the golden image:
60417 11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be
60418    cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
60419 12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of
60420    the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego;
60421    these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy
60422    gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
60423 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring
60424    Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men
60425    before the king.
60426 14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O
60427    Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor
60428    worship the golden image which I have set up?
60429 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the
60430    cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all
60431    kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I
60432    have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the
60433    same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who
60434    is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
60435 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the
60436    king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in
60437    this matter.
60438 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from
60439    the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine
60440    hand, O king.
60441 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not
60442    serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast
60443    set up.
60444 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his
60445    visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego:
60446    therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the
60447    furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
60448 20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to
60449    bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into
60450    the burning fiery furnace.
60451 21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and
60452    their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the
60453    midst of the burning fiery furnace.
60454 22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the
60455    furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the fire slew those men
60456    that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
60457 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell
60458    down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
60459 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in
60460    haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we
60461    cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered
60462    and said unto the king, True, O king.
60463 25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the
60464    midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the
60465    fourth is like the Son of God.
60466 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning
60467    fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and
60468    Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and
60469    come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth
60470    of the midst of the fire.
60471 27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's
60472    counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon
60473    whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their
60474    head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell
60475    of fire had passed on them.
60476 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of
60477    Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and
60478    delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed
60479    the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not
60480    serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
60481 29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and
60482    language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of
60483    Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and
60484    their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no
60485    other God that can deliver after this sort.
60486 30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the
60487    province of Babylon.

60488 Daniel 4

60489  1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and
60490    languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied
60491    unto you.
60492  2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high
60493    God hath wrought toward me.
60494  3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his
60495    kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from
60496    generation to generation.
60497  4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in
60498    my palace:
60499  5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my
60500    bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
60501  6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of
60502    Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the
60503    interpretation of the dream.
60504  7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans,
60505    and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but
60506    they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
60507  8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was
60508    Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is
60509    the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream,
60510    saying,
60511  9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that
60512    the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret
60513    troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have
60514    seen, and the interpretation thereof.
60515 10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and
60516    behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height
60517    thereof was great.
60518 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached
60519    unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the
60520    earth:
60521 12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and
60522    in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow
60523    under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs
60524    thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
60525 13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a
60526    watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
60527 14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off
60528    his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let
60529    the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his
60530    branches:
60531 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even
60532    with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the
60533    field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his
60534    portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
60535 16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart
60536    be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
60537 17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand
60538    by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living
60539    may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and
60540    giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the
60541    basest of men.
60542 18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O
60543    Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as
60544    all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto
60545    me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of
60546    the holy gods is in thee.
60547 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one
60548    hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said,
60549    Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation
60550    thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My
60551    lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the
60552    interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
60553 20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose
60554    height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all
60555    the earth;
60556 21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it
60557    was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt,
60558    and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their
60559    habitation:
60560 22 It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy
60561    greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion
60562    to the end of the earth.
60563 23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down
60564    from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it;
60565    yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even
60566    with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the
60567    field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his
60568    portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass
60569    over him;
60570 24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of
60571    the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
60572 25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be
60573    with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat
60574    grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven,
60575    and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the
60576    most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to
60577    whomsoever he will.
60578 26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree
60579    roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou
60580    shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
60581 27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and
60582    break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by
60583    shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy
60584    tranquillity.
60585 28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
60586 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the
60587    kingdom of Babylon.
60588 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I
60589    have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my
60590    power, and for the honour of my majesty?
60591 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice
60592    from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is
60593    spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
60594 32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be
60595    with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat
60596    grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until
60597    thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and
60598    giveth it to whomsoever he will.
60599 33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and
60600    he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his
60601    body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown
60602    like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
60603 34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine
60604    eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and
60605    I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that
60606    liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion,
60607    and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
60608 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing:
60609    and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and
60610    among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his
60611    hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
60612 36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory
60613    of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me;
60614    and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was
60615    established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added
60616    unto me.
60617 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of
60618    heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and
60619    those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

60620 Daniel 5

60621  1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his
60622    lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
60623  2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the
60624    golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had
60625    taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king,
60626    and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink
60627    therein.
60628  3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of
60629    the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the
60630    king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in
60631    them.
60632  4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver,
60633    of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
60634  5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote
60635    over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of
60636    the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that
60637    wrote.
60638  6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts
60639    troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and
60640    his knees smote one against another.
60641  7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the
60642    Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said
60643    to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing,
60644    and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with
60645    scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be
60646    the third ruler in the kingdom.
60647  8 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read
60648    the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation
60649    thereof.
60650  9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance
60651    was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
60652 10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords
60653    came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O
60654    king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor
60655    let thy countenance be changed:
60656 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the
60657    holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and
60658    understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was
60659    found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the
60660    king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians,
60661    astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
60662 12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and
60663    understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard
60664    sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same
60665    Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be
60666    called, and he will shew the interpretation.
60667 13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake
60668    and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the
60669    children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father
60670    brought out of Jewry?
60671 14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in
60672    thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is
60673    found in thee.
60674 15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in
60675    before me, that they should read this writing, and make known
60676    unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew
60677    the interpretation of the thing:
60678 16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make
60679    interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read
60680    the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof,
60681    thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold
60682    about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
60683 17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts
60684    be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will
60685    read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the
60686    interpretation.
60687 18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father
60688    a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
60689 19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and
60690    languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he
60691    slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he
60692    set up; and whom he would he put down.
60693 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in
60694    pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took
60695    his glory from him:
60696 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made
60697    like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses:
60698    they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with
60699    the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled
60700    in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it
60701    whomsoever he will.
60702 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart,
60703    though thou knewest all this;
60704 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and
60705    they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and
60706    thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk
60707    wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and
60708    gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor
60709    hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and
60710    whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
60711 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing
60712    was written.
60713 25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
60714    UPHARSIN.
60715 26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath
60716    numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
60717 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
60718    wanting.
60719 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
60720    Persians.
60721 29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with
60722    scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a
60723    proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler
60724    in the kingdom.
60725 30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
60726 31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore
60727    and two years old.

60728 Daniel 6

60729  1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and
60730    twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
60731  2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first:
60732    that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king
60733    should have no damage.
60734  3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and
60735    princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king
60736    thought to set him over the whole realm.
60737  4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion
60738    against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find
60739    none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither
60740    was there any error or fault found in him.
60741  5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against
60742    this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law
60743    of his God.
60744  6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the
60745    king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
60746  7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the
60747    princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted
60748    together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm
60749    decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man
60750    for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into
60751    the den of lions.
60752  8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that
60753    it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and
60754    Persians, which altereth not.
60755  9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
60756 10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into
60757    his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward
60758    Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and
60759    prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
60760 11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making
60761    supplication before his God.
60762 12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the
60763    king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man
60764    that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty
60765    days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of
60766    lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true,
60767    according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth
60768    not.
60769 13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel,
60770    which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth
60771    not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but
60772    maketh his petition three times a day.
60773 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased
60774    with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and
60775    he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
60776 15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the
60777    king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is,
60778    That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be
60779    changed.
60780 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him
60781    into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto
60782    Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver
60783    thee.
60784 17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den;
60785    and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the
60786    signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed
60787    concerning Daniel.
60788 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night
60789    fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before
60790    him: and his sleep went from him.
60791 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in
60792    haste unto the den of lions.
60793 20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice
60794    unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel,
60795    servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest
60796    continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
60797 21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
60798 22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths,
60799    that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency
60800    was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no
60801    hurt.
60802 23 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that
60803    they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken
60804    up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him,
60805    because he believed in his God.
60806 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had
60807    accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions,
60808    them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the
60809    mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever
60810    they came at the bottom of the den.
60811 25 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and
60812    languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied
60813    unto you.
60814 26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men
60815    tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the
60816    living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which
60817    shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto
60818    the end.
60819 27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders
60820    in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the
60821    power of the lions.
60822 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the
60823    reign of Cyrus the Persian.

60824 Daniel 7

60825  1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a
60826    dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the
60827    dream, and told the sum of the matters.
60828  2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and,
60829    behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great
60830    sea.
60831  3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from
60832    another.
60833  4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld
60834    till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from
60835    the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's
60836    heart was given to it.
60837  5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it
60838    raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the
60839    mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto
60840    it, Arise, devour much flesh.
60841  6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had
60842    upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also
60843    four heads; and dominion was given to it.
60844  7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth
60845    beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it
60846    had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and
60847    stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse
60848    from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
60849  8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them
60850    another little horn, before whom there were three of the first
60851    horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were
60852    eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
60853  9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of
60854    days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of
60855    his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery
60856    flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
60857 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand
60858    thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten
60859    thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books
60860    were opened.
60861 11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which
60862    the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and
60863    his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
60864 12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion
60865    taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and
60866    time.
60867 13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of
60868    man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of
60869    days, and they brought him near before him.
60870 14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom,
60871    that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his
60872    dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass
60873    away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
60874 15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and
60875    the visions of my head troubled me.
60876 16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the
60877    truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the
60878    interpretation of the things.
60879 17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which
60880    shall arise out of the earth.
60881 18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and
60882    possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
60883 19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was
60884    diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth
60885    were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in
60886    pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
60887 20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other
60888    which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn
60889    that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose
60890    look was more stout than his fellows.
60891 21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and
60892    prevailed against them;
60893 22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the
60894    saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints
60895    possessed the kingdom.
60896 23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom
60897    upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and
60898    shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and
60899    break it in pieces.
60900 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall
60901    arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be
60902    diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
60903 25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
60904    shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to
60905    change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand
60906    until a time and times and the dividing of time.
60907 26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his
60908    dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
60909 27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom
60910    under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the
60911    saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting
60912    kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
60913 28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my
60914    cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in
60915    me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

60916 Daniel 8

60917  1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision
60918    appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which
60919    appeared unto me at the first.
60920  2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I
60921    was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of
60922    Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
60923  3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood
60924    before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns
60925    were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher
60926    came up last.
60927  4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward;
60928    so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there
60929    any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according
60930    to his will, and became great.
60931  5 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the
60932    west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the
60933    ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
60934  6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen
60935    standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his
60936    power.
60937  7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with
60938    choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two
60939    horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him,
60940    but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and
60941    there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
60942  8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was
60943    strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four
60944    notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
60945  9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed
60946    exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and
60947    toward the pleasant land.
60948 10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast
60949    down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and
60950    stamped upon them.
60951 11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and
60952    by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of
60953    the sanctuary was cast down.
60954 12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by
60955    reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the
60956    ground; and it practised, and prospered.
60957 13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto
60958    that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision
60959    concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of
60960    desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be
60961    trodden under foot?
60962 14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days;
60963    then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
60964 15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the
60965    vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood
60966    before me as the appearance of a man.
60967 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which
60968    called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the
60969    vision.
60970 17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid,
60971    and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son
60972    of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
60973 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my
60974    face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
60975 19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in
60976    the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the
60977    end shall be.
60978 20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of
60979    Media and Persia.
60980 21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn
60981    that is between his eyes is the first king.
60982 22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four
60983    kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his
60984    power.
60985 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the
60986    transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce
60987    countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
60988 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and
60989    he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise,
60990    and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
60991 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in
60992    his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by
60993    peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the
60994    Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
60995 26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told
60996    is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be
60997    for many days.
60998 27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I
60999    rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at
61000    the vision, but none understood it.

61001 Daniel 9

61002  1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed
61003    of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the
61004    Chaldeans;
61005  2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books
61006    the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to
61007    Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years
61008    in the desolations of Jerusalem.
61009  3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and
61010    supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
61011  4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and
61012    said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant
61013    and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his
61014    commandments;
61015  5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done
61016    wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy
61017    precepts and from thy judgments:
61018  6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets,
61019    which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our
61020    fathers, and to all the people of the land.
61021  7 O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us
61022    confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and
61023    to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are
61024    near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither
61025    thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they
61026    have trespassed against thee.
61027  8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to
61028    our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned
61029    against thee.
61030  9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though
61031    we have rebelled against him;
61032 10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk
61033    in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the
61034    prophets.
61035 11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing,
61036    that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is
61037    poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of
61038    Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
61039 12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us,
61040    and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a
61041    great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as
61042    hath been done upon Jerusalem.
61043 13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come
61044    upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God,
61045    that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy
61046    truth.
61047 14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it
61048    upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works
61049    which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
61050 15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth
61051    out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten
61052    thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done
61053    wickedly.
61054 16 O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee,
61055    let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city
61056    Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for
61057    the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are
61058    become a reproach to all that are about us.
61059 17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and
61060    his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy
61061    sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
61062 18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and
61063    behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy
61064    name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for
61065    our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
61066 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer
61067    not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people
61068    are called by thy name.
61069 20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin
61070    and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my
61071    supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of
61072    my God;
61073 21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel,
61074    whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused
61075    to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening
61076    oblation.
61077 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I
61078    am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
61079 23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came
61080    forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly
61081    beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the
61082    vision.
61083 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy
61084    city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins,
61085    and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in
61086    everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and
61087    prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
61088 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of
61089    the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the
61090    Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and
61091    two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even
61092    in troublous times.
61093 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off,
61094    but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall
61095    come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end
61096    thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war
61097    desolations are determined.
61098 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and
61099    in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the
61100    oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations
61101    he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and
61102    that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

61103 Daniel 10

61104  1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed
61105    unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing
61106    was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood
61107    the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
61108  2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
61109  3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my
61110    mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole
61111    weeks were fulfilled.
61112  4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was
61113    by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
61114  5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain
61115    man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold
61116    of Uphaz:
61117  6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the
61118    appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and
61119    his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and
61120    the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
61121  7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with
61122    me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so
61123    that they fled to hide themselves.
61124  8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and
61125    there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned
61126    in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
61127  9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice
61128    of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my
61129    face toward the ground.
61130 10 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees
61131    and upon the palms of my hands.
61132 11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved,
61133    understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand
61134    upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken
61135    this word unto me, I stood trembling.
61136 12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day
61137    that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten
61138    thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come
61139    for thy words.
61140 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and
61141    twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came
61142    to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
61143 14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy
61144    people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many
61145    days.
61146 15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face
61147    toward the ground, and I became dumb.
61148 16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men
61149    touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said
61150    unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my
61151    sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
61152 17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my
61153    lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in
61154    me, neither is there breath left in me.
61155 18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance
61156    of a man, and he strengthened me,
61157 19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee,
61158    be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I
61159    was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast
61160    strengthened me.
61161 20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now
61162    will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I
61163    am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
61164 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of
61165    truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things,
61166    but Michael your prince.

61167 Daniel 11

61168  1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to
61169    confirm and to strengthen him.
61170  2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand
61171    up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far
61172    richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches
61173    he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
61174  3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great
61175    dominion, and do according to his will.
61176  4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and
61177    shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to
61178    his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled:
61179    for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside
61180    those.
61181  5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his
61182    princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion;
61183    his dominion shall be a great dominion.
61184  6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together;
61185    for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of
61186    the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the
61187    power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she
61188    shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that
61189    begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
61190  7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his
61191    estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into
61192    the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against
61193    them, and shall prevail:
61194  8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with
61195    their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and
61196    of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the
61197    north.
61198  9 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and
61199    shall return into his own land.
61200 10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a
61201    multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and
61202    overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be
61203    stirred up, even to his fortress.
61204 11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and
61205    shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the
61206    north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the
61207    multitude shall be given into his hand.
61208 12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be
61209    lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he
61210    shall not be strengthened by it.
61211 13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a
61212    multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come
61213    after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
61214 14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king
61215    of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt
61216    themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
61217 15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and
61218    take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall
61219    not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there
61220    be any strength to withstand.
61221 16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own
61222    will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in
61223    the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
61224 17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his
61225    whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do:
61226    and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her:
61227    but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
61228 18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall
61229    take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the
61230    reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he
61231    shall cause it to turn upon him.
61232 19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land:
61233    but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
61234 20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the
61235    glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be
61236    destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
61237 21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they
61238    shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in
61239    peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
61240 22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from
61241    before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the
61242    covenant.
61243 23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully:
61244    for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small
61245    people.
61246 24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the
61247    province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not
61248    done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them
61249    the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast
61250    his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
61251 25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the
61252    king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south
61253    shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty
61254    army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices
61255    against him.
61256 26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy
61257    him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down
61258    slain.
61259 27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and
61260    they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper:
61261    for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
61262 28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his
61263    heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do
61264    exploits, and return to his own land.
61265 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the
61266    south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
61267 30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he
61268    shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the
61269    holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have
61270    intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
61271 31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the
61272    sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily
61273    sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh
61274    desolate.
61275 32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt
61276    by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be
61277    strong, and do exploits.
61278 33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many:
61279    yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity,
61280    and by spoil, many days.
61281 34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little
61282    help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
61283 35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and
61284    to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end:
61285    because it is yet for a time appointed.
61286 36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall
61287    exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall
61288    speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall
61289    prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is
61290    determined shall be done.
61291 37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire
61292    of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself
61293    above all.
61294 38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god
61295    whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and
61296    silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
61297 39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,
61298    whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he
61299    shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land
61300    for gain.
61301 40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at
61302    him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a
61303    whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many
61304    ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall
61305    overflow and pass over.
61306 41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries
61307    shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand,
61308    even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
61309 42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and
61310    the land of Egypt shall not escape.
61311 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of
61312    silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the
61313    Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
61314 44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble
61315    him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy,
61316    and utterly to make away many.
61317 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the
61318    seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his
61319    end, and none shall help him.

61320 Daniel 12

61321  1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince
61322    which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall
61323    be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a
61324    nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people
61325    shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in
61326    the book.
61327  2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall
61328    awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
61329    everlasting contempt.
61330  3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
61331    firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the
61332    stars for ever and ever.
61333  4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even
61334    to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and
61335    knowledge shall be increased.
61336  5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the
61337    one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on
61338    that side of the bank of the river.
61339  6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
61340    waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these
61341    wonders?
61342  7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
61343    waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his
61344    left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever
61345    that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he
61346    shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy
61347    people, all these things shall be finished.
61348  8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord,
61349    what shall be the end of these things?
61350  9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up
61351    and sealed till the time of the end.
61352 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the
61353    wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall
61354    understand; but the wise shall understand.
61355 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken
61356    away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there
61357    shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
61358 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
61359    hundred and five and thirty days.
61360 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and
61361    stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

61362 Book 28 Hosea

61363 Hosea 1

61364  1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri,
61365    in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
61366    Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of
61367    Israel.
61368  2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD
61369    said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and
61370    children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great
61371    whoredom, departing from the LORD.
61372  3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
61373    conceived, and bare him a son.
61374  4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a
61375    little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the
61376    house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the
61377    house of Israel.
61378  5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the
61379    bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.
61380  6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said
61381    unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have
61382    mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them
61383    away.
61384  7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save
61385    them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor
61386    by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
61387  8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a
61388    son.
61389  9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people,
61390    and I will not be your God.
61391 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand
61392    of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it
61393    shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto
61394    them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them,
61395    Ye are the sons of the living God.
61396 11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be
61397    gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they
61398    shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of
61399    Jezreel.

61400 Hosea 2

61401  1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
61402  2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither
61403    am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out
61404    of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
61405  3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was
61406    born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry
61407    land, and slay her with thirst.
61408  4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the
61409    children of whoredoms.
61410  5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived
61411    them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my
61412    lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my
61413    flax, mine oil and my drink.
61414  6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
61415    make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
61416  7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not
61417    overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find
61418    them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first
61419    husband; for then was it better with me than now.
61420  8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,
61421    and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for
61422    Baal.
61423  9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time
61424    thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover
61425    my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
61426 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her
61427    lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
61428 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her
61429    new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
61430 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she
61431    hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me:
61432    and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field
61433    shall eat them.
61434 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she
61435    burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her
61436    earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and
61437    forgat me, saith the LORD.
61438 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
61439    wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
61440 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley
61441    of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in
61442    the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out
61443    of the land of Egypt.
61444 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt
61445    call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
61446 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and
61447    they shall no more be remembered by their name.
61448 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the
61449    beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the
61450    creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and
61451    the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them
61452    to lie down safely.
61453 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth
61454    thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
61455    lovingkindness, and in mercies.
61456 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou
61457    shalt know the LORD.
61458 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the
61459    LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
61460 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil;
61461    and they shall hear Jezreel.
61462 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy
61463    upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them
61464    which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall
61465    say, Thou art my God.

61466 Hosea 3

61467  1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of
61468    her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the
61469    LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods,
61470    and love flagons of wine.
61471  2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an
61472    homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
61473  3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou
61474    shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another
61475    man: so will I also be for thee.
61476  4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a
61477    king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and
61478    without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
61479  5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the
61480    LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD
61481    and his goodness in the latter days.

61482 Hosea 4

61483  1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD
61484    hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because
61485    there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the
61486    land.
61487  2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
61488    committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
61489  3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth
61490    therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with
61491    the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be
61492    taken away.
61493  4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are
61494    as they that strive with the priest.
61495  5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also
61496    shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy
61497    mother.
61498  6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou
61499    hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou
61500    shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law
61501    of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
61502  7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore
61503    will I change their glory into shame.
61504  8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on
61505    their iniquity.
61506  9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will
61507    punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
61508 10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit
61509    whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off
61510    to take heed to the LORD.
61511 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
61512 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff
61513    declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused
61514    them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their
61515    God.
61516 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn
61517    incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms,
61518    because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters
61519    shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
61520 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom,
61521    nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are
61522    separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots:
61523    therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
61524 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah
61525    offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to
61526    Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
61527 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD
61528    will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
61529 17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
61530 18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually:
61531    her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
61532 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be
61533    ashamed because of their sacrifices.

61534 Hosea 5

61535  1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and
61536    give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you,
61537    because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon
61538    Tabor.
61539  2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I
61540    have been a rebuker of them all.
61541  3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O
61542    Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
61543  4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for
61544    the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have
61545    not known the LORD.
61546  5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore
61547    shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also
61548    shall fall with them.
61549  6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek
61550    the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn
61551    himself from them.
61552  7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have
61553    begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with
61554    their portions.
61555  8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry
61556    aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
61557  9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the
61558    tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
61559 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:
61560    therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
61561 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he
61562    willingly walked after the commandment.
61563 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house
61564    of Judah as rottenness.
61565 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then
61566    went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet
61567    could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
61568 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to
61569    the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will
61570    take away, and none shall rescue him.
61571 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their
61572    offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek
61573    me early.

61574 Hosea 6

61575  1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and
61576    he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
61577  2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will
61578    raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
61579  3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his
61580    going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto
61581    us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
61582  4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do
61583    unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the
61584    early dew it goeth away.
61585  5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them
61586    by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light
61587    that goeth forth.
61588  6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of
61589    God more than burnt offerings.
61590  7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have
61591    they dealt treacherously against me.
61592  8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted
61593    with blood.
61594  9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of
61595    priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit
61596    lewdness.
61597 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is
61598    the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
61599 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I
61600    returned the captivity of my people.

61601 Hosea 7

61602  1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim
61603    was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit
61604    falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers
61605    spoileth without.
61606  2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all
61607    their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about;
61608    they are before my face.
61609  3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes
61610    with their lies.
61611  4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who
61612    ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it
61613    be leavened.
61614  5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with
61615    bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
61616  6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they
61617    lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the
61618    morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
61619  7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges;
61620    all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that
61621    calleth unto me.
61622  8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a
61623    cake not turned.
61624  9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not:
61625    yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth
61626    not.
61627 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do
61628    not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
61629 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to
61630    Egypt, they go to Assyria.
61631 12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will
61632    bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise
61633    them, as their congregation hath heard.
61634 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto
61635    them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have
61636    redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
61637 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they
61638    howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and
61639    wine, and they rebel against me.
61640 15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they
61641    imagine mischief against me.
61642 16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a
61643    deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the
61644    rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land
61645    of Egypt.

61646 Hosea 8

61647  1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle
61648    against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed
61649    my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
61650  2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
61651  3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall
61652    pursue him.
61653  4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes,
61654    and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they
61655    made them idols, that they may be cut off.
61656  5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled
61657    against them: how long will it be ere they attain to
61658    innocency?
61659  6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it
61660    is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
61661  7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the
61662    whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if
61663    so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
61664  8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles
61665    as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
61666  9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:
61667    Ephraim hath hired lovers.
61668 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I
61669    gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of
61670    the king of princes.
61671 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be
61672    unto him to sin.
61673 12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they
61674    were counted as a strange thing.
61675 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and
61676    eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember
61677    their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to
61678    Egypt.
61679 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and
61680    Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire
61681    upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

61682 Hosea 9

61683  1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast
61684    gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon
61685    every cornfloor.
61686  2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new
61687    wine shall fail in her.
61688  3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall
61689    return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
61690  4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall
61691    they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them
61692    as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be
61693    polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into
61694    the house of the LORD.
61695  5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast
61696    of the LORD?
61697  6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall
61698    gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places
61699    for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be
61700    in their tabernacles.
61701  7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are
61702    come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the
61703    spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and
61704    the great hatred.
61705  8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a
61706    snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of
61707    his God.
61708  9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of
61709    Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will
61710    visit their sins.
61711 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your
61712    fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:
61713    but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that
61714    shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
61715 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from
61716    the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
61717 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them,
61718    that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when
61719    I depart from them!
61720 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but
61721    Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
61722 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a
61723    miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
61724 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for
61725    the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine
61726    house, I will love them no more: all their princes are
61727    revolters.
61728 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no
61729    fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the
61730    beloved fruit of their womb.
61731 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto
61732    him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

61733 Hosea 10

61734  1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:
61735    according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the
61736    altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made
61737    goodly images.
61738  2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he
61739    shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
61740  3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not
61741    the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
61742  4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant:
61743    thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the
61744    field.
61745  5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of
61746    Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the
61747    priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof,
61748    because it is departed from it.
61749  6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king
61750    Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be
61751    ashamed of his own counsel.
61752  7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the
61753    water.
61754  8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be
61755    destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their
61756    altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to
61757    the hills, Fall on us.
61758  9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they
61759    stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity
61760    did not overtake them.
61761 10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people
61762    shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind
61763    themselves in their two furrows.
61764 11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to
61765    tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I
61766    will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall
61767    break his clods.
61768 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up
61769    your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he
61770    come and rain righteousness upon you.
61771 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have
61772    eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way,
61773    in the multitude of thy mighty men.
61774 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy
61775    fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in
61776    the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her
61777    children.
61778 15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness:
61779    in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

61780 Hosea 11

61781  1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son
61782    out of Egypt.
61783  2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed
61784    unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
61785  3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but
61786    they knew not that I healed them.
61787  4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was
61788    to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I
61789    laid meat unto them.
61790  5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian
61791    shall be his king, because they refused to return.
61792  6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his
61793    branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
61794  7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they
61795    called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
61796  8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee,
61797    Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee
61798    as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are
61799    kindled together.
61800  9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not
61801    return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy
61802    One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
61803 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion:
61804    when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the
61805    west.
61806 11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out
61807    of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses,
61808    saith the LORD.
61809 12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel
61810    with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful
61811    with the saints.

61812 Hosea 12

61813  1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he
61814    daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a
61815    covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
61816  2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish
61817    Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he
61818    recompense him.
61819  3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his
61820    strength he had power with God:
61821  4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and
61822    made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there
61823    he spake with us;
61824  5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
61825  6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and
61826    wait on thy God continually.
61827  7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he
61828    loveth to oppress.
61829  8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
61830    substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in
61831    me that were sin.
61832  9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet
61833    make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the
61834    solemn feast.
61835 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
61836    visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the
61837    prophets.
61838 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they
61839    sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps
61840    in the furrows of the fields.
61841 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served
61842    for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
61843 13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by
61844    a prophet was he preserved.
61845 14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall
61846    he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD
61847    return unto him.

61848 Hosea 13

61849  1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;
61850    but when he offended in Baal, he died.
61851  2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten
61852    images of their silver, and idols according to their own
61853    understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say
61854    of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
61855  3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early
61856    dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the
61857    whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the
61858    chimney.
61859  4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou
61860    shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
61861  5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great
61862    drought.
61863  6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were
61864    filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they
61865    forgotten me.
61866  7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the
61867    way will I observe them:
61868  8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and
61869    will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour
61870    them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
61871  9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine
61872    help.
61873 10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in
61874    all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a
61875    king and princes?
61876 11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my
61877    wrath.
61878 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
61879 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is
61880    an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the
61881    breaking forth of children.
61882 14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
61883    them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I
61884    will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine
61885    eyes.
61886 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall
61887    come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness,
61888    and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be
61889    dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
61890 16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against
61891    her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be
61892    dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped
61893    up.

61894 Hosea 14

61895  1 O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen
61896    by thine iniquity.
61897  2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take
61898    away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we
61899    render the calves of our lips.
61900  3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses:
61901    neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are
61902    our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
61903  4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for
61904    mine anger is turned away from him.
61905  5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily,
61906    and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
61907  6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the
61908    olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
61909  7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall
61910    revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof
61911    shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
61912  8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I
61913    have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree.
61914    From me is thy fruit found.
61915  9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent,
61916    and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right,
61917    and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall
61918    fall therein.

61919 Book 29 Joel

61920 Joel 1

61921  1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
61922  2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
61923    land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your
61924    fathers?
61925  3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
61926    children, and their children another generation.
61927  4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and
61928    that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and
61929    that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller
61930    eaten.
61931  5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of
61932    wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your
61933    mouth.
61934  6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without
61935    number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the
61936    cheek teeth of a great lion.
61937  7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath
61938    made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are
61939    made white.
61940  8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of
61941    her youth.
61942  9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the
61943    house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
61944 10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is
61945    wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
61946 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for
61947    the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field
61948    is perished.
61949 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the
61950    pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even
61951    all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is
61952    withered away from the sons of men.
61953 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of
61954    the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of
61955    my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is
61956    withholden from the house of your God.
61957 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders
61958    and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD
61959    your God, and cry unto the LORD,
61960 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a
61961    destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
61962 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness
61963    from the house of our God?
61964 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid
61965    desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
61966 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed,
61967    because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are
61968    made desolate.
61969 19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the
61970    pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the
61971    trees of the field.
61972 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of
61973    waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures
61974    of the wilderness.

61975 Joel 2

61976  1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
61977    mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the
61978    day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
61979  2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of
61980    thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a
61981    great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
61982    neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many
61983    generations.
61984  3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth:
61985    the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them
61986    a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
61987  4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
61988    horsemen, so shall they run.
61989  5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they
61990    leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the
61991    stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
61992  6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces
61993    shall gather blackness.
61994  7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like
61995    men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and
61996    they shall not break their ranks:
61997  8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in
61998    his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be
61999    wounded.
62000  9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the
62001    wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in
62002    at the windows like a thief.
62003 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble:
62004    the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall
62005    withdraw their shining:
62006 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his
62007    camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word:
62008    for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who
62009    can abide it?
62010 12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with
62011    all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
62012    mourning:
62013 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the
62014    LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger,
62015    and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
62016 14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing
62017    behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the
62018    LORD your God?
62019 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
62020    assembly:
62021 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the
62022    elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts:
62023    let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out
62024    of her closet.
62025 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the
62026    porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O
62027    LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the
62028    heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among
62029    the people, Where is their God?
62030 18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his
62031    people.
62032 19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I
62033    will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be
62034    satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach
62035    among the heathen:
62036 20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will
62037    drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face
62038    toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost
62039    sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall
62040    come up, because he hath done great things.
62041 21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do
62042    great things.
62043 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
62044    wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig
62045    tree and the vine do yield their strength.
62046 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD
62047    your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately,
62048    and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former
62049    rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
62050 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall
62051    overflow with wine and oil.
62052 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath
62053    eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the
62054    palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
62055 26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the
62056    name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with
62057    you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
62058 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I
62059    am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never
62060    be ashamed.
62061 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my
62062    spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
62063    prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
62064    shall see visions:
62065 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those
62066    days will I pour out my spirit.
62067 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth,
62068    blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
62069 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
62070    blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
62071 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the
62072    name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in
62073    Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in
62074    the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

62075 Joel 3

62076  1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall
62077    bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
62078  2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into
62079    the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for
62080    my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered
62081    among the nations, and parted my land.
62082  3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy
62083    for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might
62084    drink.
62085  4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and
62086    all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence?
62087    and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return
62088    your recompence upon your own head;
62089  5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
62090    into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
62091  6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have
62092    ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from
62093    their border.
62094  7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have
62095    sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
62096  8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of
62097    the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the
62098    Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
62099  9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the
62100    mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come
62101    up:
62102 10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into
62103    spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
62104 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather
62105    yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones
62106    to come down, O LORD.
62107 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of
62108    Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen
62109    round about.
62110 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you
62111    down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their
62112    wickedness is great.
62113 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day
62114    of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
62115 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall
62116    withdraw their shining.
62117 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
62118    Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the
62119    LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the
62120    children of Israel.
62121 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion,
62122    my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
62123    shall no strangers pass through her any more.
62124 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains
62125    shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk,
62126    and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
62127    fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and
62128    shall water the valley of Shittim.
62129 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate
62130    wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah,
62131    because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
62132 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation
62133    to generation.
62134 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for
62135    the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

62136 Book 30 Amos

62137 Amos 1

62138  1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which
62139    he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah,
62140    and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel,
62141    two years before the earthquake.
62142  2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice
62143    from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall
62144    mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
62145  3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and
62146    for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
62147    they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
62148  4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall
62149    devour the palaces of Benhadad.
62150  5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the
62151    inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the
62152    sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall
62153    go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
62154  6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for
62155    four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
62156    they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them
62157    up to Edom:
62158  7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour
62159    the palaces thereof:
62160  8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that
62161    holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand
62162    against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall
62163    perish, saith the Lord GOD.
62164  9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and
62165    for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
62166    they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered
62167    not the brotherly covenant:
62168 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall
62169    devour the palaces thereof.
62170 11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for
62171    four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he
62172    did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all
62173    pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his
62174    wrath for ever:
62175 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the
62176    palaces of Bozrah.
62177 13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children
62178    of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment
62179    thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of
62180    Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
62181 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall
62182    devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of
62183    battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
62184 15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes
62185    together, saith the LORD.

62186 Amos 2

62187  1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for
62188    four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he
62189    burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
62190  2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the
62191    palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with
62192    shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
62193  3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will
62194    slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
62195  4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and
62196    for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
62197    they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his
62198    commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the
62199    which their fathers have walked:
62200  5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the
62201    palaces of Jerusalem.
62202  6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and
62203    for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
62204    they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of
62205    shoes;
62206  7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
62207    and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father
62208    will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
62209  8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by
62210    every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the
62211    house of their god.
62212  9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like
62213    the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I
62214    destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
62215 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you
62216    forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the
62217    Amorite.
62218 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young
62219    men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of
62220    Israel? saith the LORD.
62221 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
62222    prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
62223 13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is
62224    full of sheaves.
62225 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the
62226    strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the
62227    mighty deliver himself:
62228 15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is
62229    swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that
62230    rideth the horse deliver himself.
62231 16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away
62232    naked in that day, saith the LORD.

62233 Amos 3

62234  1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O
62235    children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought
62236    up from the land of Egypt, saying,
62237  2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth:
62238    therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
62239  3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
62240  4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a
62241    young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
62242  5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for
62243    him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken
62244    nothing at all?
62245  6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be
62246    afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not
62247    done it?
62248  7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his
62249    secret unto his servants the prophets.
62250  8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath
62251    spoken, who can but prophesy?
62252  9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the
62253    land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains
62254    of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof,
62255    and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
62256 10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up
62257    violence and robbery in their palaces.
62258 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be
62259    even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy
62260    strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
62261 12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth
62262    of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the
62263    children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the
62264    corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
62265 13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord
62266    GOD, the God of hosts,
62267 14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of
62268    Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and
62269    the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the
62270    ground.
62271 15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and
62272    the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall
62273    have an end, saith the LORD.

62274 Amos 4

62275  1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of
62276    Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which
62277    say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
62278  2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days
62279    shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks,
62280    and your posterity with fishhooks.
62281  3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which
62282    is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith
62283    the LORD.
62284  4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
62285    transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and
62286    your tithes after three years:
62287  5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and
62288    proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you,
62289    O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
62290  6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your
62291    cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not
62292    returned unto me, saith the LORD.
62293  7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were
62294    yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon
62295    one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one
62296    piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not
62297    withered.
62298  8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water;
62299    but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me,
62300    saith the LORD.
62301  9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens
62302    and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees
62303    increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not
62304    returned unto me, saith the LORD.
62305 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of
62306    Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have
62307    taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your
62308    camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned
62309    unto me, saith the LORD.
62310 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and
62311    Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the
62312    burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
62313 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I
62314    will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
62315 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind,
62316    and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the
62317    morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the
62318    earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

62319 Amos 5

62320  1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a
62321    lamentation, O house of Israel.
62322  2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is
62323    forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
62324  3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a
62325    thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by
62326    an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
62327  4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me,
62328    and ye shall live:
62329  5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to
62330    Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and
62331    Bethel shall come to nought.
62332  6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire
62333    in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to
62334    quench it in Bethel.
62335  7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness
62336    in the earth,
62337  8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth
62338    the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark
62339    with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and
62340    poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his
62341    name:
62342  9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the
62343    spoiled shall come against the fortress.
62344 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him
62345    that speaketh uprightly.
62346 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye
62347    take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn
62348    stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted
62349    pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
62350 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
62351    they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside
62352    the poor in the gate from their right.
62353 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it
62354    is an evil time.
62355 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD,
62356    the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
62357 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in
62358    the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be
62359    gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
62360 16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus;
62361    Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the
62362    highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to
62363    mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
62364 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through
62365    thee, saith the LORD.
62366 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is
62367    it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
62368 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went
62369    into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent
62370    bit him.
62371 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even
62372    very dark, and no brightness in it?
62373 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in
62374    your solemn assemblies.
62375 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I
62376    will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace
62377    offerings of your fat beasts.
62378 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not
62379    hear the melody of thy viols.
62380 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a
62381    mighty stream.
62382 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
62383    wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
62384 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your
62385    images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
62386 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
62387    Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

62388 Amos 6

62389  1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the
62390    mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to
62391    whom the house of Israel came!
62392  2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath
62393    the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they
62394    better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your
62395    border?
62396  3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of
62397    violence to come near;
62398  4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their
62399    couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves
62400    out of the midst of the stall;
62401  5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
62402    instruments of musick, like David;
62403  6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief
62404    ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of
62405    Joseph.
62406  7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go
62407    captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves
62408    shall be removed.
62409  8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of
62410    hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces:
62411    therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
62412  9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one
62413    house, that they shall die.
62414 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him,
62415    to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto
62416    him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with
62417    thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy
62418    tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
62419 11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great
62420    house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
62421 12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen?
62422    for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of
62423    righteousness into hemlock:
62424 13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not
62425    taken to us horns by our own strength?
62426 14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of
62427    Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall
62428    afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of
62429    the wilderness.

62430 Amos 7

62431  1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed
62432    grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter
62433    growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's
62434    mowings.
62435  2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating
62436    the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I
62437    beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
62438  3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
62439  4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord
62440    GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep,
62441    and did eat up a part.
62442  5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall
62443    Jacob arise? for he is small.
62444  6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the
62445    Lord GOD.
62446  7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall
62447    made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
62448  8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said,
62449    A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a
62450    plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again
62451    pass by them any more:
62452  9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the
62453    sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise
62454    against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
62455 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
62456    Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst
62457    of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his
62458    words.
62459 11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and
62460    Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
62461 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away
62462    into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy
62463    there:
62464 13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the
62465    king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
62466 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet,
62467    neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a
62468    gatherer of sycomore fruit:
62469 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD
62470    said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
62471 16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest,
62472    Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the
62473    house of Isaac.
62474 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in
62475    the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the
62476    sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt
62477    die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into
62478    captivity forth of his land.

62479 Amos 8

62480  1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of
62481    summer fruit.
62482  2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of
62483    summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon
62484    my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
62485  3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day,
62486    saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every
62487    place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
62488  4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the
62489    poor of the land to fail,
62490  5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?
62491    and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah
62492    small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by
62493    deceit?
62494  6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair
62495    of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
62496  7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will
62497    never forget any of their works.
62498  8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that
62499    dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and
62500    it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
62501  9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD,
62502    that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will
62503    darken the earth in the clear day:
62504 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
62505    into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all
62506    loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the
62507    mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
62508 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
62509    famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for
62510    water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
62511 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even
62512    to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the
62513    LORD, and shall not find it.
62514 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for
62515    thirst.
62516 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O
62517    Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they
62518    shall fall, and never rise up again.

62519 Amos 9

62520  1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the
62521    lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in
62522    the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with
62523    the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he
62524    that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
62525  2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them;
62526    though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
62527  3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will
62528    search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from
62529    my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the
62530    serpent, and he shall bite them:
62531  4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence
62532    will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will
62533    set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
62534  5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it
62535    shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it
62536    shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by
62537    the flood of Egypt.
62538  6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath
62539    founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters
62540    of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth:
62541    The LORD is his name.
62542  7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children
62543    of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of
62544    the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the
62545    Syrians from Kir?
62546  8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom,
62547    and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving
62548    that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the
62549    LORD.
62550  9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel
62551    among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet
62552    shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
62553 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which
62554    say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
62555 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is
62556    fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up
62557    his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
62558 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the
62559    heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that
62560    doeth this.
62561 13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall
62562    overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth
62563    seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the
62564    hills shall melt.
62565 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel,
62566    and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and
62567    they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they
62568    shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
62569 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more
62570    be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith
62571    the LORD thy God.

62572 Book 31 Obadiah

62573 Obadiah 1

62574  1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning
62575    Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador
62576    is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up
62577    against her in battle.
62578  2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
62579    greatly despised.
62580  3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that
62581    dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high;
62582    that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the
62583    ground?
62584  4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set
62585    thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith
62586    the LORD.
62587  5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou
62588    cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if
62589    the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some
62590    grapes?
62591  6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden
62592    things sought up!
62593  7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the
62594    border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived
62595    thee, and prevailed against thee; that they eat thy bread have
62596    laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
62597  8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise
62598    men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
62599  9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end
62600    that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by
62601    slaughter.
62602 10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover
62603    thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
62604 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day
62605    that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and
62606    foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon
62607    Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
62608 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother
62609    in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou
62610    have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their
62611    destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the
62612    day of distress.
62613 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in
62614    the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked
62615    on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have
62616    laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
62617 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off
62618    those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have
62619    delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of
62620    distress.
62621 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou
62622    hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return
62623    upon thine own head.
62624 16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the
62625    heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they
62626    shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not
62627    been.
62628 17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be
62629    holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their
62630    possessions.
62631 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of
62632    Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they
62633    shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be
62634    any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken
62635    it.
62636 19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and
62637    they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the
62638    fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin
62639    shall possess Gilead.
62640 20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall
62641    possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the
62642    captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess
62643    the cities of the south.
62644 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of
62645    Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.

62646 Book 32 Jonah

62647 Jonah 1

62648  1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai,
62649    saying,
62650  2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for
62651    their wickedness is come up before me.
62652  3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of
62653    the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to
62654    Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it,
62655    to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
62656  4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was
62657    a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be
62658    broken.
62659  5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his
62660    god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the
62661    sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the
62662    sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
62663  6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest
62664    thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God
62665    will think upon us, that we perish not.
62666  7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast
62667    lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.
62668    So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
62669  8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose
62670    cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and
62671    whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people
62672    art thou?
62673  9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD,
62674    the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
62675 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why
62676    hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the
62677    presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
62678 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the
62679    sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was
62680    tempestuous.
62681 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the
62682    sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my
62683    sake this great tempest is upon you.
62684 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but
62685    they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous
62686    against them.
62687 14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee,
62688    O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's
62689    life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD,
62690    hast done as it pleased thee.
62691 15 So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and
62692    the sea ceased from her raging.
62693 16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a
62694    sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
62695 17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.
62696    And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three
62697    nights.

62698 Jonah 2

62699  1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's
62700    belly,
62701  2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD,
62702    and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou
62703    heardest my voice.
62704  3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the
62705    seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and
62706    thy waves passed over me.
62707  4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again
62708    toward thy holy temple.
62709  5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth
62710    closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
62711  6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with
62712    her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my
62713    life from corruption, O LORD my God.
62714  7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my
62715    prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
62716  8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
62717  9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving;
62718    I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
62719 10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah
62720    upon the dry land.

62721 Jonah 3

62722  1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time,
62723    saying,
62724  2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it
62725    the preaching that I bid thee.
62726  3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word
62727    of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three
62728    days' journey.
62729  4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he
62730    cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
62731    overthrown.
62732  5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,
62733    and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the
62734    least of them.
62735  6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
62736    throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with
62737    sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
62738  7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through
62739    Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let
62740    neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let
62741    them not feed, nor drink water:
62742  8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry
62743    mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil
62744    way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
62745  9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from
62746    his fierce anger, that we perish not?
62747 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;
62748    and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would
62749    do unto them; and he did it not.

62750 Jonah 4

62751  1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
62752  2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD,
62753    was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country?
62754    Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou
62755    art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
62756    kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
62757  3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me;
62758    for it is better for me to die than to live.
62759  4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
62760  5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the
62761    city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the
62762    shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
62763  6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over
62764    Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him
62765    from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
62766  7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day,
62767    and it smote the gourd that it withered.
62768  8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared
62769    a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah,
62770    that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is
62771    better for me to die than to live.
62772  9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the
62773    gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
62774 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the
62775    which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which
62776    came up in a night, and perished in a night:
62777 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are
62778    more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern
62779    between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
62780    cattle?

62781 Book 33 Micah

62782 Micah 1

62783  1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the
62784    days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he
62785    saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
62786  2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein
62787    is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from
62788    his holy temple.
62789  3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will
62790    come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
62791  4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys
62792    shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that
62793    are poured down a steep place.
62794  5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins
62795    of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is
62796    it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are
62797    they not Jerusalem?
62798  6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as
62799    plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones
62800    thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations
62801    thereof.
62802  7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces,
62803    and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and
62804    all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it
62805    of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of
62806    an harlot.
62807  8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked:
62808    I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the
62809    owls.
62810  9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is
62811    come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
62812 10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of
62813    Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
62814 11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame
62815    naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning
62816    of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
62817 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but
62818    evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
62819 13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift
62820    beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of
62821    Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
62822 14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the
62823    houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
62824 15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah:
62825    he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
62826 16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children;
62827    enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into
62828    captivity from thee.

62829 Micah 2

62830  1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their
62831    beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it
62832    is in the power of their hand.
62833  2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses,
62834    and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even
62835    a man and his heritage.
62836  3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do
62837    I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks;
62838    neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
62839  4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and
62840    lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly
62841    spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he
62842    removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
62843  5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot
62844    in the congregation of the LORD.
62845  6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall
62846    not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
62847  7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the
62848    LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good
62849    to him that walketh uprightly?
62850  8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off
62851    the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as
62852    men averse from war.
62853  9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant
62854    houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for
62855    ever.
62856 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is
62857    polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
62858 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I
62859    will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall
62860    even be the prophet of this people.
62861 12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely
62862    gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the
62863    sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they
62864    shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
62865 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and
62866    have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and
62867    their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of
62868    them.

62869 Micah 3

62870  1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes
62871    of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
62872  2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin
62873    from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
62874  3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from
62875    off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces,
62876    as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
62877  4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them:
62878    he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they
62879    have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
62880  5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my
62881    people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he
62882    that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war
62883    against him.
62884  6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a
62885    vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not
62886    divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the
62887    day shall be dark over them.
62888  7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded:
62889    yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer
62890    of God.
62891  8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of
62892    judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his
62893    transgression, and to Israel his sin.
62894  9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and
62895    princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and
62896    pervert all equity.
62897 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
62898 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof
62899    teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet
62900    will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among
62901    us? none evil can come upon us.
62902 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and
62903    Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as
62904    the high places of the forest.

62905 Micah 4

62906  1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain
62907    of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of
62908    the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and
62909    people shall flow unto it.
62910  2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up
62911    to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of
62912    Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in
62913    his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
62914    the LORD from Jerusalem.
62915  3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong
62916    nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into
62917    plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall
62918    not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn
62919    war any more.
62920  4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig
62921    tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the
62922    LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
62923  5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and
62924    we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and
62925    ever.
62926  6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth,
62927    and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have
62928    afflicted;
62929  7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was
62930    cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over
62931    them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
62932  8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the
62933    daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first
62934    dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
62935  9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is
62936    thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman
62937    in travail.
62938 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion,
62939    like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of
62940    the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go
62941    even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD
62942    shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
62943 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let
62944    her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
62945 12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand
62946    they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into
62947    the floor.
62948 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine
62949    horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt
62950    beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain
62951    unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole
62952    earth.

62953 Micah 5

62954  1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath
62955    laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel
62956    with a rod upon the cheek.
62957  2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the
62958    thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto
62959    me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been
62960    from of old, from everlasting.
62961  3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which
62962    travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his
62963    brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
62964  4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in
62965    the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall
62966    abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
62967  5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come
62968    into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then
62969    shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight
62970    principal men.
62971  6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and
62972    the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he
62973    deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land,
62974    and when he treadeth within our borders.
62975  7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people
62976    as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that
62977    tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
62978  8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the
62979    midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest,
62980    as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go
62981    through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none
62982    can deliver.
62983  9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all
62984    thine enemies shall be cut off.
62985 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I
62986    will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will
62987    destroy thy chariots:
62988 11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all
62989    thy strong holds:
62990 12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou
62991    shalt have no more soothsayers:
62992 13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images
62993    out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the
62994    work of thine hands.
62995 14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so
62996    will I destroy thy cities.
62997 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the
62998    heathen, such as they have not heard.

62999 Micah 6

63000  1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before
63001    the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
63002  2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong
63003    foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with
63004    his people, and he will plead with Israel.
63005  3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I
63006    wearied thee? testify against me.
63007  4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
63008    thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee
63009    Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
63010  5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted,
63011    and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto
63012    Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
63013  6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before
63014    the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
63015    with calves of a year old?
63016  7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten
63017    thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my
63018    transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
63019  8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the
63020    LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
63021    to walk humbly with thy God?
63022  9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom
63023    shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed
63024    it.
63025 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the
63026    wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
63027 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the
63028    bag of deceitful weights?
63029 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the
63030    inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is
63031    deceitful in their mouth.
63032 13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in
63033    making thee desolate because of thy sins.
63034 14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down
63035    shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but
63036    shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give
63037    up to the sword.
63038 15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the
63039    olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet
63040    wine, but shalt not drink wine.
63041 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the
63042    house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should
63043    make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an
63044    hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

63045 Micah 7

63046  1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer
63047    fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no
63048    cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
63049  2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none
63050    upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt
63051    every man his brother with a net.
63052  3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince
63053    asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man,
63054    he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
63055  4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper
63056    than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation
63057    cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
63058  5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide:
63059    keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
63060  6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up
63061    against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in
63062    law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
63063  7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God
63064    of my salvation: my God will hear me.
63065  8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
63066    arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto
63067    me.
63068  9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned
63069    against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for
63070    me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold
63071    his righteousness.
63072 10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall
63073    cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine
63074    eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the
63075    mire of the streets.
63076 11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall
63077    the decree be far removed.
63078 12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and
63079    from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the
63080    river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
63081 13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them
63082    that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
63083 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage,
63084    which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel:
63085    let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
63086 15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt
63087    will I shew unto him marvellous things.
63088 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might:
63089    they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall
63090    be deaf.
63091 17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out
63092    of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid
63093    of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
63094 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and
63095    passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?
63096    he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in
63097    mercy.
63098 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will
63099    subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into
63100    the depths of the sea.
63101 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to
63102    Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days
63103    of old.

63104 Book 34 Nahum

63105 Nahum 1

63106  1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
63107    Elkoshite.
63108  2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth,
63109    and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his
63110    adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
63111  3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at
63112    all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind
63113    and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
63114  4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the
63115    rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of
63116    Lebanon languisheth.
63117  5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth
63118    is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell
63119    therein.
63120  6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the
63121    fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and
63122    the rocks are thrown down by him.
63123  7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he
63124    knoweth them that trust in him.
63125  8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the
63126    place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
63127  9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter
63128    end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
63129 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they
63130    are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble
63131    fully dry.
63132 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the
63133    LORD, a wicked counsellor.
63134 12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many,
63135    yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through.
63136    Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
63137 13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst
63138    thy bonds in sunder.
63139 14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no
63140    more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I
63141    cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy
63142    grave; for thou art vile.
63143 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good
63144    tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn
63145    feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass
63146    through thee; he is utterly cut off.

63147 Nahum 2

63148  1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the
63149    munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy
63150    power mightily.
63151  2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the
63152    excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out,
63153    and marred their vine branches.
63154  3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are
63155    in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the
63156    day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly
63157    shaken.
63158  4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one
63159    against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like
63160    torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
63161  5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their
63162    walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the
63163    defence shall be prepared.
63164  6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall
63165    be dissolved.
63166  7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up,
63167    and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves,
63168    tabering upon their breasts.
63169  8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall
63170    flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look
63171    back.
63172  9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there
63173    is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant
63174    furniture.
63175 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and
63176    the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and
63177    the faces of them all gather blackness.
63178 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of
63179    the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked,
63180    and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
63181 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and
63182    strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,
63183    and his dens with ravin.
63184 13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
63185    burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy
63186    young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and
63187    the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

63188 Nahum 3

63189  1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery;
63190    the prey departeth not;
63191  2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
63192    wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping
63193    chariots.
63194  3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the
63195    glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a
63196    great number of carcases; and there is none end of their
63197    corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
63198  4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured
63199    harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations
63200    through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
63201  5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will
63202    discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations
63203    thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
63204  6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
63205    vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
63206  7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee
63207    shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will
63208    bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
63209  8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the
63210    rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was
63211    the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
63212  9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put
63213    and Lubim were thy helpers.
63214 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young
63215    children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the
63216    streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all
63217    her great men were bound in chains.
63218 11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt
63219    seek strength because of the enemy.
63220 12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the
63221    firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into
63222    the mouth of the eater.
63223 13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates
63224    of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the
63225    fire shall devour thy bars.
63226 14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go
63227    into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
63228 15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee
63229    off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself
63230    many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
63231 16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven:
63232    the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
63233 17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great
63234    grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but
63235    when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not
63236    known where they are.
63237 18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall
63238    dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains,
63239    and no man gathereth them.
63240 19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all
63241    that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee:
63242    for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

63243 Book 35 Habakkuk

63244 Habakkuk 1

63245  1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
63246  2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry
63247    out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
63248  3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold
63249    grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there
63250    are that raise up strife and contention.
63251  4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go
63252    forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
63253    therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
63254  5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
63255    marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will
63256    not believe, though it be told you.
63257  6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty
63258    nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to
63259    possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
63260  7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their
63261    dignity shall proceed of themselves.
63262  8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more
63263    fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall
63264    spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far;
63265    they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
63266  9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as
63267    the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the
63268    sand.
63269 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a
63270    scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they
63271    shall heap dust, and take it.
63272 11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and
63273    offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
63274 12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One?
63275    we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for
63276    judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for
63277    correction.
63278 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look
63279    on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal
63280    treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked
63281    devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
63282 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
63283    things, that have no ruler over them?
63284 15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in
63285    their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they
63286    rejoice and are glad.
63287 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto
63288    their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their
63289    meat plenteous.
63290 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
63291    continually to slay the nations?

63292 Habakkuk 2

63293  1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and
63294    will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall
63295    answer when I am reproved.
63296  2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make
63297    it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
63298  3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it
63299    shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it;
63300    because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
63301  4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but
63302    the just shall live by his faith.
63303  5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man,
63304    neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and
63305    is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him
63306    all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
63307  6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a
63308    taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that
63309    increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that
63310    ladeth himself with thick clay!
63311  7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and
63312    awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto
63313    them?
63314  8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the
63315    people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the
63316    violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell
63317    therein.
63318  9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house,
63319    that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered
63320    from the power of evil!
63321 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many
63322    people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
63323 11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of
63324    the timber shall answer it.
63325 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a
63326    city by iniquity!
63327 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall
63328    labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves
63329    for very vanity?
63330 14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory
63331    of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
63332 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy
63333    bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest
63334    look on their nakedness!
63335 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let
63336    thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand
63337    shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on
63338    thy glory.
63339 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of
63340    beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and
63341    for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that
63342    dwell therein.
63343 18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
63344    graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the
63345    maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
63346 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone,
63347    Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and
63348    silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
63349 20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep
63350    silence before him.

63351 Habakkuk 3

63352  1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
63353  2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD,
63354    revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the
63355    years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
63356  3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.
63357    His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his
63358    praise.
63359  4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out
63360    of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
63361  5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth
63362    at his feet.
63363  6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder
63364    the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the
63365    perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
63366  7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of
63367    the land of Midian did tremble.
63368  8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger
63369    against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou
63370    didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
63371  9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the
63372    tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with
63373    rivers.
63374 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of
63375    the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up
63376    his hands on high.
63377 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light
63378    of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy
63379    glittering spear.
63380 12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
63381    thresh the heathen in anger.
63382 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for
63383    salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of
63384    the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto
63385    the neck. Selah.
63386 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his
63387    villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their
63388    rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
63389 15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the
63390    heap of great waters.
63391 16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the
63392    voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in
63393    myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he
63394    cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his
63395    troops.
63396 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit
63397    be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the
63398    fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from
63399    the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
63400 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my
63401    salvation.
63402 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like
63403    hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high
63404    places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

63405 Book 36 Zephaniah

63406 Zephaniah 1

63407  1 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of
63408    Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of
63409    Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
63410  2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the
63411    LORD.
63412  3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the
63413    heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks
63414    with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land,
63415    saith the LORD.
63416  4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the
63417    inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of
63418    Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the
63419    priests;
63420  5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops;
63421    and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that
63422    swear by Malcham;
63423  6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that
63424    have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
63425  7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of
63426    the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice,
63427    he hath bid his guests.
63428  8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice,
63429    that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and
63430    all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
63431  9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the
63432    threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and
63433    deceit.
63434 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that
63435    there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an
63436    howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
63437 11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people
63438    are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
63439 12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search
63440    Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on
63441    their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do
63442    good, neither will he do evil.
63443 13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a
63444    desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit
63445    them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine
63446    thereof.
63447 14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth
63448    greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man
63449    shall cry there bitterly.
63450 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a
63451    day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and
63452    gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
63453 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and
63454    against the high towers.
63455 17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like
63456    blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and
63457    their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as
63458    the dung.
63459 18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver
63460    them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall
63461    be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make
63462    even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

63463 Zephaniah 2

63464  1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not
63465    desired;
63466  2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the
63467    chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you,
63468    before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
63469  3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought
63470    his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye
63471    shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
63472  4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they
63473    shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be
63474    rooted up.
63475  5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the
63476    Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan,
63477    the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that
63478    there shall be no inhabitant.
63479  6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for
63480    shepherds, and folds for flocks.
63481  7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;
63482    they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall
63483    they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall
63484    visit them, and turn away their captivity.
63485  8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the
63486    children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and
63487    magnified themselves against their border.
63488  9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
63489    Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of
63490    Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits,
63491    and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall
63492    spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
63493 10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have
63494    reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the
63495    LORD of hosts.
63496 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all
63497    the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one
63498    from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
63499 12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
63500 13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and
63501    destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry
63502    like a wilderness.
63503 14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts
63504    of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge
63505    in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the
63506    windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall
63507    uncover the cedar work.
63508 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in
63509    her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she
63510    become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every
63511    one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

63512 Zephaniah 3

63513  1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing
63514    city!
63515  2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she
63516    trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
63517  3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are
63518    evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
63519  4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests
63520    have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the
63521    law.
63522  5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do
63523    iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light,
63524    he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
63525  6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made
63526    their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are
63527    destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none
63528    inhabitant.
63529  7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive
63530    instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off,
63531    howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted
63532    all their doings.
63533  8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that
63534    I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the
63535    nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them
63536    mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth
63537    shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
63538  9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they
63539    may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one
63540    consent.
63541 10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the
63542    daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
63543 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings,
63544    wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will
63545    take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy
63546    pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy
63547    mountain.
63548 12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor
63549    people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
63550 13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies;
63551    neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for
63552    they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
63553 14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice
63554    with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
63555 15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine
63556    enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of
63557    thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
63558 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and
63559    to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
63560 17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save,
63561    he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love,
63562    he will joy over thee with singing.
63563 18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly,
63564    who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
63565 19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I
63566    will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven
63567    out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where
63568    they have been put to shame.
63569 20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I
63570    gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all
63571    people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before
63572    your eyes, saith the LORD.

63573 Book 37 Haggai

63574 Haggai 1

63575  1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in
63576    the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by
63577    Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
63578    governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
63579    priest, saying,
63580  2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The
63581    time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be
63582    built.
63583  3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
63584  4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and
63585    this house lie waste?
63586  5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your
63587    ways.
63588  6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have
63589    not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye
63590    clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages
63591    earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
63592  7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
63593  8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house;
63594    and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith
63595    the LORD.
63596  9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye
63597    brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of
63598    hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every
63599    man unto his own house.
63600 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the
63601    earth is stayed from her fruit.
63602 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the
63603    mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon
63604    the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and
63605    upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the
63606    hands.
63607 12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of
63608    Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people,
63609    obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of
63610    Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and
63611    the people did fear before the LORD.
63612 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message
63613    unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
63614 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of
63615    Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son
63616    of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the
63617    remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house
63618    of the LORD of hosts, their God,
63619 15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the
63620    second year of Darius the king.

63621 Haggai 2

63622  1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the
63623    month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai,
63624    saying,
63625  2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of
63626    Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and
63627    to the residue of the people, saying,
63628  3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory?
63629    and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison
63630    of it as nothing?
63631  4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be
63632    strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be
63633    strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work:
63634    for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
63635  5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came
63636    out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
63637  6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little
63638    while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the
63639    sea, and the dry land;
63640  7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations
63641    shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the
63642    LORD of hosts.
63643  8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of
63644    hosts.
63645  9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the
63646    former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give
63647    peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
63648 10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the
63649    second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the
63650    prophet, saying,
63651 11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning
63652    the law, saying,
63653 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with
63654    his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any
63655    meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
63656 13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch
63657    any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered
63658    and said, It shall be unclean.
63659 14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is
63660    this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of
63661    their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
63662 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from
63663    before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the
63664    LORD:
63665 16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty
63666    measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat
63667    for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but
63668    twenty.
63669 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all
63670    the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the
63671    LORD.
63672 18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and
63673    twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the
63674    foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.
63675 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig
63676    tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not
63677    brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
63678 20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four
63679    and twentieth day of the month, saying,
63680 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake
63681    the heavens and the earth;
63682 22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will
63683    destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I
63684    will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and
63685    the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the
63686    sword of his brother.
63687 23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O
63688    Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD,
63689    and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith
63690    the LORD of hosts.

63691 Book 38 Zechariah

63692 Zechariah 1

63693  1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the
63694    word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son
63695    of Iddo the prophet, saying,
63696  2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
63697  3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
63698    Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto
63699    you, saith the LORD of hosts.
63700  4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have
63701    cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from
63702    your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not
63703    hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
63704  5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live
63705    for ever?
63706  6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants
63707    the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they
63708    returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do
63709    unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings,
63710    so hath he dealt with us.
63711  7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which
63712    is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the
63713    word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son
63714    of Iddo the prophet, saying,
63715  8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and
63716    he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and
63717    behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
63718  9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that
63719    talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
63720 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and
63721    said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and
63722    fro through the earth.
63723 11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the
63724    myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the
63725    earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at
63726    rest.
63727 12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts,
63728    how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the
63729    cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these
63730    threescore and ten years?
63731 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good
63732    words and comfortable words.
63733 14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou,
63734    saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for
63735    Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
63736 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at
63737    ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped
63738    forward the affliction.
63739 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with
63740    mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of
63741    hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
63742 17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities
63743    through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD
63744    shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
63745 18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
63746 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these?
63747    And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered
63748    Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
63749 20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
63750 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying,
63751    These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man
63752    did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast
63753    out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over
63754    the land of Judah to scatter it.

63755 Zechariah 2

63756  1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with
63757    a measuring line in his hand.
63758  2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To
63759    measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and
63760    what is the length thereof.
63761  3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and
63762    another angel went out to meet him,
63763  4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying,
63764    Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the
63765    multitude of men and cattle therein:
63766  5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round
63767    about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
63768  6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith
63769    the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of
63770    the heaven, saith the LORD.
63771  7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of
63772    Babylon.
63773  8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent
63774    me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth
63775    you toucheth the apple of his eye.
63776  9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall
63777    be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD
63778    of hosts hath sent me.
63779 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I
63780    will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
63781 11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and
63782    shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and
63783    thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
63784 12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land,
63785    and shall choose Jerusalem again.
63786 13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up
63787    out of his holy habitation.

63788 Zechariah 3

63789  1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
63790    angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to
63791    resist him.
63792  2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan;
63793    even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not
63794    this a brand plucked out of the fire?
63795  3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before
63796    the angel.
63797  4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him,
63798    saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him
63799    he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from
63800    thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
63801  5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they
63802    set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments.
63803    And the angel of the LORD stood by.
63804  6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
63805  7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways,
63806    and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my
63807    house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee
63808    places to walk among these that stand by.
63809  8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that
63810    sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I
63811    will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
63812  9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one
63813    stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving
63814    thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the
63815    iniquity of that land in one day.
63816 10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man
63817    his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

63818 Zechariah 4

63819  1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as
63820    a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
63821  2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked,
63822    and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top
63823    of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the
63824    seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
63825  3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the
63826    bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
63827  4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me,
63828    saying, What are these, my lord?
63829  5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me,
63830    Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
63831  6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word
63832    of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
63833    power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
63834  7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
63835    become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof
63836    with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
63837  8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
63838  9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this
63839    house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know
63840    that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
63841 10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall
63842    rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel
63843    with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to
63844    and fro through the whole earth.
63845 11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive
63846    trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left
63847    side thereof?
63848 12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two
63849    olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the
63850    golden oil out of themselves?
63851 13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be?
63852    And I said, No, my lord.
63853 14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by
63854    the LORD of the whole earth.

63855 Zechariah 5

63856  1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold
63857    a flying roll.
63858  2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a
63859    flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the
63860    breadth thereof ten cubits.
63861  3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over
63862    the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall
63863    be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that
63864    sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
63865  4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall
63866    enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him
63867    that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the
63868    midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber
63869    thereof and the stones thereof.
63870  5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto
63871    me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth
63872    forth.
63873  6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that
63874    goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance
63875    through all the earth.
63876  7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is
63877    a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
63878  8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst
63879    of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth
63880    thereof.
63881  9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there
63882    came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they
63883    had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the
63884    ephah between the earth and the heaven.
63885 10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these
63886    bear the ephah?
63887 11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of
63888    Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her
63889    own base.

63890 Zechariah 6

63891  1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and,
63892    behold, there came four chariots out from between two
63893    mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
63894  2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second
63895    chariot black horses;
63896  3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth
63897    chariot grisled and bay horses.
63898  4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me,
63899    What are these, my lord?
63900  5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four
63901    spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before
63902    the LORD of all the earth.
63903  6 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north
63904    country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go
63905    forth toward the south country.
63906  7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk
63907    to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk
63908    to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro
63909    through the earth.
63910  8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold,
63911    these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit
63912    in the north country.
63913  9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
63914 10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and
63915    of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the
63916    same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of
63917    Zephaniah;
63918 11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon
63919    the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
63920 12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
63921    saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall
63922    grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the
63923    LORD:
63924 13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear
63925    the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he
63926    shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace
63927    shall be between them both.
63928 14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to
63929    Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in
63930    the temple of the LORD.
63931 15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple
63932    of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath
63933    sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will
63934    diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.

63935 Zechariah 7

63936  1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that
63937    the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of
63938    the ninth month, even in Chisleu;
63939  2 When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and
63940    Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
63941  3 And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the
63942    LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in
63943    the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so
63944    many years?
63945  4 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
63946  5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests,
63947    saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh
63948    month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me,
63949    even to me?
63950  6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for
63951    yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
63952  7 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the
63953    former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in
63954    prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men
63955    inhabited the south and the plain?
63956  8 And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
63957  9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true
63958    judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his
63959    brother:
63960 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger,
63961    nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his
63962    brother in your heart.
63963 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and
63964    stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
63965 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they
63966    should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts
63967    hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came
63968    a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
63969 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would
63970    not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD
63971    of hosts:
63972 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations
63973    whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them,
63974    that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the
63975    pleasant land desolate.

63976 Zechariah 8

63977  1 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
63978  2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with
63979    great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
63980  3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell
63981    in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a
63982    city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy
63983    mountain.
63984  4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old
63985    women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with
63986    his staff in his hand for very age.
63987  5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
63988    playing in the streets thereof.
63989  6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes
63990    of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be
63991    marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
63992  7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people
63993    from the east country, and from the west country;
63994  8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of
63995    Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
63996    God, in truth and in righteousness.
63997  9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye
63998    that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the
63999    prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the
64000    house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be
64001    built.
64002 10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire
64003    for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or
64004    came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one
64005    against his neighbour.
64006 11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in
64007    the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
64008 12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her
64009    fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens
64010    shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this
64011    people to possess all these things.
64012 13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the
64013    heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save
64014    you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands
64015    be strong.
64016 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you,
64017    when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of
64018    hosts, and I repented not:
64019 15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto
64020    Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
64021 16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the
64022    truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and
64023    peace in your gates:
64024 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his
64025    neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things
64026    that I hate, saith the LORD.
64027 18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
64028 19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month,
64029    and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and
64030    the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and
64031    gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and
64032    peace.
64033 20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that
64034    there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
64035 21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying,
64036    Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the
64037    LORD of hosts: I will go also.
64038 22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the
64039    LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
64040 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to
64041    pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the
64042    nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a
64043    Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God
64044    is with you.

64045 Zechariah 9

64046  1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and
64047    Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as
64048    of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
64049  2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though
64050    it be very wise.
64051  3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up
64052    silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
64053  4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her
64054    power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
64055  5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and
64056    be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be
64057    ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon
64058    shall not be inhabited.
64059  6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the
64060    pride of the Philistines.
64061  7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his
64062    abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth,
64063    even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor
64064    in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
64065  8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army,
64066    because of him that passeth by, and because of him that
64067    returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more:
64068    for now have I seen with mine eyes.
64069  9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
64070    Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and
64071    having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a
64072    colt the foal of an ass.
64073 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse
64074    from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he
64075    shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be
64076    from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of
64077    the earth.
64078 11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent
64079    forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
64080 12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
64081    do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
64082 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
64083    and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece,
64084    and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
64085 14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go
64086    forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the
64087    trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
64088 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour,
64089    and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a
64090    noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls,
64091    and as the corners of the altar.
64092 16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the
64093    flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a
64094    crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
64095 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
64096    corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the
64097    maids.

64098 Zechariah 10

64099  1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the
64100    LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain,
64101    to every one grass in the field.
64102  2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a
64103    lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain:
64104    therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled,
64105    because there was no shepherd.
64106  3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished
64107    the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the
64108    house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the
64109    battle.
64110  4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of
64111    him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
64112  5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their
64113    enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they
64114    shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on
64115    horses shall be confounded.
64116  6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the
64117    house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them;
64118    for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had
64119    not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear
64120    them.
64121  7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their
64122    heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall
64123    see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
64124  8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed
64125    them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
64126  9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember
64127    me in far countries; and they shall live with their children,
64128    and turn again.
64129 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and
64130    gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the
64131    land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for
64132    them.
64133 11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall
64134    smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river
64135    shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,
64136    and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
64137 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up
64138    and down in his name, saith the LORD.

64139 Zechariah 11

64140  1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy
64141    cedars.
64142  2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty
64143    are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the
64144    vintage is come down.
64145  3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their
64146    glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for
64147    the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
64148  4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
64149  5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty:
64150    and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am
64151    rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
64152  6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the
64153    LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his
64154    neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they
64155    shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver
64156    them.
64157  7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of
64158    the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called
64159    Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
64160  8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul
64161    lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
64162  9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die;
64163    and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the
64164    rest eat every one the flesh of another.
64165 10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I
64166    might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
64167 11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock
64168    that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
64169 12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and
64170    if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of
64171    silver.
64172 13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly
64173    price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty
64174    pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of
64175    the LORD.
64176 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might
64177    break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
64178 15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments
64179    of a foolish shepherd.
64180 16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall
64181    not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young
64182    one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth
64183    still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their
64184    claws in pieces.
64185 17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword
64186    shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall
64187    be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly
64188    darkened.

64189 Zechariah 12

64190  1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD,
64191    which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation
64192    of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
64193  2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
64194    people round about, when they shall be in the siege both
64195    against Judah and against Jerusalem.
64196  3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for
64197    all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in
64198    pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered
64199    together against it.
64200  4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with
64201    astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine
64202    eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of
64203    the people with blindness.
64204  5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The
64205    inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of
64206    hosts their God.
64207  6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth
64208    of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf;
64209    and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right
64210    hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again
64211    in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
64212  7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the
64213    glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants
64214    of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
64215  8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of
64216    Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall
64217    be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the
64218    angel of the LORD before them.
64219  9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to
64220    destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
64221 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
64222    inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
64223    supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
64224    pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his
64225    only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is
64226    in bitterness for his firstborn.
64227 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as
64228    the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
64229 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of
64230    the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of
64231    the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
64232 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;
64233    the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
64234 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their
64235    wives apart.

64236 Zechariah 13

64237  1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of
64238    David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for
64239    uncleanness.
64240  2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
64241    hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the
64242    land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will
64243    cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the
64244    land.
64245  3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy,
64246    then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto
64247    him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name
64248    of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him
64249    shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
64250  4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall
64251    be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied;
64252    neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
64253  5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man
64254    taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
64255  6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine
64256    hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in
64257    the house of my friends.
64258  7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that
64259    is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and
64260    the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon
64261    the little ones.
64262  8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the
64263    LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the
64264    third shall be left therein.
64265  9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will
64266    refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is
64267    tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I
64268    will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my
64269    God.

64270 Zechariah 14

64271  1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
64272    divided in the midst of thee.
64273  2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and
64274    the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women
64275    ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity,
64276    and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the
64277    city.
64278  3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations,
64279    as when he fought in the day of battle.
64280  4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
64281    which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives
64282    shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward
64283    the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of
64284    the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it
64285    toward the south.
64286  5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the
64287    valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall
64288    flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days
64289    of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and
64290    all the saints with thee.
64291  6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall
64292    not be clear, nor dark:
64293  7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not
64294    day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening
64295    time it shall be light.
64296  8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out
64297    from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half
64298    of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall
64299    it be.
64300  9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day
64301    shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
64302 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon
64303    south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited
64304    in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first
64305    gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel
64306    unto the king's winepresses.
64307 11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter
64308    destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
64309 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all
64310    the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh
64311    shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their
64312    eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall
64313    consume away in their mouth.
64314 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult
64315    from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold
64316    every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall
64317    rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
64318 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all
64319    the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and
64320    silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
64321 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
64322    camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in
64323    these tents, as this plague.
64324 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all
64325    the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from
64326    year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to
64327    keep the feast of tabernacles.
64328 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the
64329    families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the
64330    LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
64331 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have
64332    no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will
64333    smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of
64334    tabernacles.
64335 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of
64336    all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
64337 20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
64338    HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall
64339    be like the bowls before the altar.
64340 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness
64341    unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come
64342    and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there
64343    shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of
64344    hosts.

64345 Book 39 Malachi

64346 Malachi 1

64347  1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
64348  2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast
64349    thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD:
64350    yet I loved Jacob,
64351  3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage
64352    waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
64353  4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return
64354    and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts,
64355    They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call
64356    them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom
64357    the LORD hath indignation for ever.
64358  5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be
64359    magnified from the border of Israel.
64360  6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then
64361    I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master,
64362    where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests,
64363    that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy
64364    name?
64365  7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein
64366    have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD
64367    is contemptible.
64368  8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and
64369    if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now
64370    unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy
64371    person? saith the LORD of hosts.
64372  9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto
64373    us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons?
64374    saith the LORD of hosts.
64375 10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for
64376    nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I
64377    have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will
64378    I accept an offering at your hand.
64379 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the
64380    same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every
64381    place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure
64382    offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith
64383    the LORD of hosts.
64384 12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD
64385    is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is
64386    contemptible.
64387 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have
64388    snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that
64389    which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an
64390    offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
64391 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male,
64392    and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for
64393    I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is
64394    dreadful among the heathen.

64395 Malachi 2

64396  1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
64397  2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to
64398    give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even
64399    send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I
64400    have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
64401  3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your
64402    faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take
64403    you away with it.
64404  4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you,
64405    that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
64406  5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to
64407    him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before
64408    my name.
64409  6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found
64410    in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did
64411    turn many away from iniquity.
64412  7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should
64413    seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD
64414    of hosts.
64415  8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to
64416    stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi,
64417    saith the LORD of hosts.
64418  9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before
64419    all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but
64420    have been partial in the law.
64421 10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why
64422    do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by
64423    profaning the covenant of our fathers?
64424 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is
64425    committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned
64426    the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the
64427    daughter of a strange god.
64428 12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and
64429    the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that
64430    offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
64431 13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD
64432    with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that
64433    he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with
64434    good will at your hand.
64435 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness
64436    between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast
64437    dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of
64438    thy covenant.
64439 15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
64440    And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore
64441    take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously
64442    against the wife of his youth.
64443 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting
64444    away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the
64445    LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye
64446    deal not treacherously.
64447 17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein
64448    have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is
64449    good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or,
64450    Where is the God of judgment?

64451 Malachi 3

64452  1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way
64453    before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to
64454    his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye
64455    delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
64456  2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand
64457    when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like
64458    fullers' soap:
64459  3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he
64460    shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and
64461    silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in
64462    righteousness.
64463  4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant
64464    unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
64465  5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift
64466    witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and
64467    against false swearers, and against those that oppress the
64468    hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that
64469    turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith
64470    the LORD of hosts.
64471  6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob
64472    are not consumed.
64473  7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine
64474    ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will
64475    return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein
64476    shall we return?
64477  8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
64478    have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
64479  9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this
64480    whole nation.
64481 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be
64482    meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD
64483    of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and
64484    pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough
64485    to receive it.
64486 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall
64487    not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine
64488    cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of
64489    hosts.
64490 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
64491    delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
64492 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye
64493    say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
64494 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it
64495    that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked
64496    mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
64497 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
64498    wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even
64499    delivered.
64500 16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and
64501    the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance
64502    was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that
64503    thought upon his name.
64504 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day
64505    when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man
64506    spareth his own son that serveth him.
64507 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and
64508    the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
64509    him not.

64510 Malachi 4

64511  1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and
64512    all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
64513    stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the
64514    LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
64515    branch.
64516  2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
64517    arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and
64518    grow up as calves of the stall.
64519  3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes
64520    under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this,
64521    saith the LORD of hosts.
64522  4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
64523    unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and
64524    judgments.
64525  5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
64526    of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
64527  6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,
64528    and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come
64529    and smite the earth with a curse.

64530 Book 40 Matthew

64531 Matthew 1

64532  1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David,
64533    the son of Abraham.
64534  2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat
64535    Judas and his brethren;
64536  3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat
64537    Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
64538  4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and
64539    Naasson begat Salmon;
64540  5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth;
64541    and Obed begat Jesse;
64542  6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat
64543    Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
64544  7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia
64545    begat Asa;
64546  8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram
64547    begat Ozias;
64548  9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz
64549    begat Ezekias;
64550 10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon
64551    begat Josias;
64552 11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time
64553    they were carried away to Babylon:
64554 12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat
64555    Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
64556 13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and
64557    Eliakim begat Azor;
64558 14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat
64559    Eliud;
64560 15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and
64561    Matthan begat Jacob;
64562 16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born
64563    Jesus, who is called Christ.
64564 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
64565    generations; and from David until the carrying away into
64566    Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away
64567    into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
64568 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his
64569    mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together,
64570    she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
64571 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to
64572    make her a publick example, was minded to put her away
64573    privily.
64574 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the
64575    LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of
64576    David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that
64577    which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
64578 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
64579    JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
64580 22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was
64581    spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
64582 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a
64583    son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being
64584    interpreted is, God with us.
64585 24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the
64586    Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
64587 25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son:
64588    and he called his name JESUS.

64589 Matthew 2

64590  1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of
64591    Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to
64592    Jerusalem,
64593  2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have
64594    seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
64595  3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled,
64596    and all Jerusalem with him.
64597  4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of
64598    the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should
64599    be born.
64600  5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is
64601    written by the prophet,
64602  6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least
64603    among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a
64604    Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
64605  7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired
64606    of them diligently what time the star appeared.
64607  8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search
64608    diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him,
64609    bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
64610  9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the
64611    star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it
64612    came and stood over where the young child was.
64613 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great
64614    joy.
64615 11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young
64616    child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him:
64617    and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto
64618    him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
64619 12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return
64620    to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
64621 13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord
64622    appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the
64623    young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou
64624    there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young
64625    child to destroy him.
64626 14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by
64627    night, and departed into Egypt:
64628 15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be
64629    fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
64630    Out of Egypt have I called my son.
64631 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men,
64632    was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children
64633    that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from
64634    two years old and under, according to the time which he had
64635    diligently enquired of the wise men.
64636 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the
64637    prophet, saying,
64638 18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and
64639    great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not
64640    be comforted, because they are not.
64641 19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord
64642    appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
64643 20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go
64644    into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the
64645    young child's life.
64646 21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and
64647    came into the land of Israel.
64648 22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the
64649    room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither:
64650    notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned
64651    aside into the parts of Galilee:
64652 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might
64653    be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be
64654    called a Nazarene.

64655 Matthew 3

64656  1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the
64657    wilderness of Judaea,
64658  2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
64659  3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias,
64660    saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye
64661    the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
64662  4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a
64663    leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and
64664    wild honey.
64665  5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the
64666    region round about Jordan,
64667  6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
64668  7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to
64669    his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who
64670    hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
64671  8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
64672  9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our
64673    father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones
64674    to raise up children unto Abraham.
64675 10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
64676    therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is
64677    hewn down, and cast into the fire.
64678 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that
64679    cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not
64680    worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and
64681    with fire:
64682 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his
64683    floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn
64684    up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
64685 13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be
64686    baptized of him.
64687 14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of
64688    thee, and comest thou to me?
64689 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for
64690    thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he
64691    suffered him.
64692 16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of
64693    the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he
64694    saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting
64695    upon him:
64696 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in
64697    whom I am well pleased.

64698 Matthew 4

64699  1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be
64700    tempted of the devil.
64701  2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was
64702    afterward an hungred.
64703  3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son
64704    of God, command that these stones be made bread.
64705  4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
64706    bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the
64707    mouth of God.
64708  5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth
64709    him on a pinnacle of the temple,
64710  6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself
64711    down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge
64712    concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up,
64713    lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
64714  7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt
64715    the Lord thy God.
64716  8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high
64717    mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and
64718    the glory of them;
64719  9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou
64720    wilt fall down and worship me.
64721 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is
64722    written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
64723    shalt thou serve.
64724 11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and
64725    ministered unto him.
64726 12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he
64727    departed into Galilee;
64728 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is
64729    upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
64730 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the
64731    prophet, saying,
64732 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of
64733    the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
64734 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them
64735    which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung
64736    up.
64737 17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for
64738    the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
64739 18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren,
64740    Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into
64741    the sea: for they were fishers.
64742 19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers
64743    of men.
64744 20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
64745 21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the
64746    son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee
64747    their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
64748 22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and
64749    followed him.
64750 23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their
64751    synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and
64752    healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among
64753    the people.
64754 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto
64755    him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and
64756    torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and
64757    those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and
64758    he healed them.
64759 25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from
64760    Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from
64761    Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.

64762 Matthew 5

64763  1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and
64764    when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
64765  2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
64766  3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of
64767    heaven.
64768  4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
64769  5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
64770  6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
64771    righteousness: for they shall be filled.
64772  7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
64773  8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
64774  9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the
64775    children of God.
64776 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:
64777    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
64778 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
64779    and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my
64780    sake.
64781 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in
64782    heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before
64783    you.
64784 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his
64785    savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good
64786    for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot
64787    of men.
64788 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill
64789    cannot be hid.
64790 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but
64791    on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the
64792    house.
64793 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
64794    good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
64795 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
64796    I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
64797 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot
64798    or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
64799    fulfilled.
64800 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
64801    commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the
64802    least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and
64803    teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of
64804    heaven.
64805 20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall
64806    exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye
64807    shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
64808 21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt
64809    not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the
64810    judgment:
64811 22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother
64812    without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and
64813    whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger
64814    of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be
64815    in danger of hell fire.
64816 23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there
64817    rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
64818 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first
64819    be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy
64820    gift.
64821 25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way
64822    with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the
64823    judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be
64824    cast into prison.
64825 26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out
64826    thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
64827 27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt
64828    not commit adultery:
64829 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust
64830    after her hath committed adultery with her already in his
64831    heart.
64832 29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
64833    from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
64834    members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be
64835    cast into hell.
64836 30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it
64837    from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
64838    members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be
64839    cast into hell.
64840 31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him
64841    give her a writing of divorcement:
64842 32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife,
64843    saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit
64844    adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced
64845    committeth adultery.
64846 33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old
64847    time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto
64848    the Lord thine oaths:
64849 34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for
64850    it is God's throne:
64851 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by
64852    Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
64853 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not
64854    make one hair white or black.
64855 37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for
64856    whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
64857 38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a
64858    tooth for a tooth:
64859 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever
64860    shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other
64861    also.
64862 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy
64863    coat, let him have thy cloak also.
64864 41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him
64865    twain.
64866 42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow
64867    of thee turn not thou away.
64868 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
64869    neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
64870 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse
64871    you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which
64872    despitefully use you, and persecute you;
64873 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:
64874    for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and
64875    sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
64876 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do
64877    not even the publicans the same?
64878 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than
64879    others? do not even the publicans so?
64880 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in
64881    heaven is perfect.

64882 Matthew 6

64883  1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
64884    them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
64885    heaven.
64886  2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet
64887    before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
64888    streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto
64889    you, They have their reward.
64890  3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
64891    right hand doeth:
64892  4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth
64893    in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
64894  5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites
64895    are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in
64896    the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
64897    Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
64898  6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when
64899    thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
64900    secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee
64901    openly.
64902  7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
64903    for they think that they shall be heard for their much
64904    speaking.
64905  8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth
64906    what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
64907  9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in
64908    heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
64909 10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in
64910    heaven.
64911 11 Give us this day our daily bread.
64912 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
64913 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For
64914    thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
64915    Amen.
64916 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father
64917    will also forgive you:
64918 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your
64919    Father forgive your trespasses.
64920 16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad
64921    countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may
64922    appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have
64923    their reward.
64924 17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy
64925    face;
64926 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father
64927    which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret,
64928    shall reward thee openly.
64929 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and
64930    rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
64931 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
64932    moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break
64933    through nor steal:
64934 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
64935 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
64936    single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
64937 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
64938    darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness,
64939    how great is that darkness!
64940 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
64941    and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and
64942    despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
64943 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what
64944    ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body,
64945    what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the
64946    body than raiment?
64947 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
64948    reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth
64949    them. Are ye not much better than they?
64950 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his
64951    stature?
64952 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of
64953    the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
64954 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was
64955    not arrayed like one of these.
64956 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to
64957    day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much
64958    more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
64959 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What
64960    shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
64961 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your
64962    heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
64963 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
64964    and all these things shall be added unto you.
64965 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
64966    take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day
64967    is the evil thereof.

64968 Matthew 7

64969  1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
64970  2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with
64971    what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
64972  3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
64973    but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
64974  4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote
64975    out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
64976  5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
64977    and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of
64978    thy brother's eye.
64979  6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye
64980    your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their
64981    feet, and turn again and rend you.
64982  7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
64983    knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
64984  8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh
64985    findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
64986  9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will
64987    he give him a stone?
64988 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
64989 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
64990    children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven
64991    give good things to them that ask him?
64992 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
64993    you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the
64994    prophets.
64995 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and
64996    broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there
64997    be which go in thereat:
64998 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
64999    leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
65000 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
65001    clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
65002 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of
65003    thorns, or figs of thistles?
65004 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a
65005    corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
65006 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
65007    corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
65008 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
65009    and cast into the fire.
65010 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
65011 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
65012    the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
65013    which is in heaven.
65014 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
65015    prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils?
65016    and in thy name done many wonderful works?
65017 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart
65018    from me, ye that work iniquity.
65019 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
65020    them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house
65021    upon a rock:
65022 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
65023    blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was
65024    founded upon a rock.
65025 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
65026    them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his
65027    house upon the sand:
65028 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
65029    blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the
65030    fall of it.
65031 28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the
65032    people were astonished at his doctrine:
65033 29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the
65034    scribes.

65035 Matthew 8

65036  1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes
65037    followed him.
65038  2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying,
65039    Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
65040  3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will;
65041    be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
65042  4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy
65043    way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses
65044    commanded, for a testimony unto them.
65045  5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him
65046    a centurion, beseeching him,
65047  6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy,
65048    grievously tormented.
65049  7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
65050  8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that
65051    thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only,
65052    and my servant shall be healed.
65053  9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and
65054    I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and
65055    he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
65056 10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that
65057    followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great
65058    faith, no, not in Israel.
65059 11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and
65060    west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
65061    in the kingdom of heaven.
65062 12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer
65063    darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
65064 13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou
65065    hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was
65066    healed in the selfsame hour.
65067 14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's
65068    mother laid, and sick of a fever.
65069 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she
65070    arose, and ministered unto them.
65071 16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were
65072    possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his
65073    word, and healed all that were sick:
65074 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the
65075    prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our
65076    sicknesses.
65077 18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave
65078    commandment to depart unto the other side.
65079 19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will
65080    follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
65081 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds
65082    of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to
65083    lay his head.
65084 21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me
65085    first to go and bury my father.
65086 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury
65087    their dead.
65088 23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed
65089    him.
65090 24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch
65091    that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
65092 25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord,
65093    save us: we perish.
65094 26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little
65095    faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and
65096    there was a great calm.
65097 27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this,
65098    that even the winds and the sea obey him!
65099 28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the
65100    Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming
65101    out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass
65102    by that way.
65103 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with
65104    thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment
65105    us before the time?
65106 30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine
65107    feeding.
65108 31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out,
65109    suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
65110 32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they
65111    went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of
65112    swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and
65113    perished in the waters.
65114 33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the
65115    city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the
65116    possessed of the devils.
65117 34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when
65118    they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of
65119    their coasts.

65120 Matthew 9

65121  1 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his
65122    own city.
65123  2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy,
65124    lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the
65125    sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven
65126    thee.
65127  3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves,
65128    This man blasphemeth.
65129  4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil
65130    in your hearts?
65131  5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or
65132    to say, Arise, and walk?
65133  6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth
65134    to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,)
65135    Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
65136  7 And he arose, and departed to his house.
65137  8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified
65138    God, which had given such power unto men.
65139  9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named
65140    Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto
65141    him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
65142 10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house,
65143    behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him
65144    and his disciples.
65145 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples,
65146    Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
65147 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be
65148    whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
65149 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and
65150    not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but
65151    sinners to repentance.
65152 14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and
65153    the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
65154 15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber
65155    mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days
65156    will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and
65157    then shall they fast.
65158 16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for
65159    that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment,
65160    and the rent is made worse.
65161 17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles
65162    break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but
65163    they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
65164 18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a
65165    certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even
65166    now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall
65167    live.
65168 19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
65169 20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of
65170    blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of
65171    his garment:
65172 21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I
65173    shall be whole.
65174 22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said,
65175    Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.
65176    And the woman was made whole from that hour.
65177 23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the
65178    minstrels and the people making a noise,
65179 24 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but
65180    sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
65181 25 But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her
65182    by the hand, and the maid arose.
65183 26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
65184 27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him,
65185    crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
65186 28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to
65187    him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to
65188    do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
65189 29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be
65190    it unto you.
65191 30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them,
65192    saying, See that no man know it.
65193 31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in
65194    all that country.
65195 32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man
65196    possessed with a devil.
65197 33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the
65198    multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
65199 34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the
65200    prince of the devils.
65201 35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in
65202    their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and
65203    healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
65204 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion
65205    on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as
65206    sheep having no shepherd.
65207 37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is
65208    plenteous, but the labourers are few;
65209 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send
65210    forth labourers into his harvest.

65211 Matthew 10

65212  1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave
65213    them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to
65214    heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
65215  2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first,
65216    Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the
65217    son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
65218  3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican;
65219    James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was
65220    Thaddaeus;
65221  4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed
65222    him.
65223  5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go
65224    not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the
65225    Samaritans enter ye not:
65226  6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
65227  7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at
65228    hand.
65229  8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out
65230    devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
65231  9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
65232 10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes,
65233    nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
65234 11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who
65235    in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
65236 12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
65237 13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but
65238    if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
65239 14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when
65240    ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of
65241    your feet.
65242 15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land
65243    of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that
65244    city.
65245 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be
65246    ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
65247 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the
65248    councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
65249 18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my
65250    sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
65251 19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye
65252    shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what
65253    ye shall speak.
65254 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father
65255    which speaketh in you.
65256 21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the
65257    father the child: and the children shall rise up against their
65258    parents, and cause them to be put to death.
65259 22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he
65260    that endureth to the end shall be saved.
65261 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into
65262    another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone
65263    over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
65264 24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above
65265    his lord.
65266 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and
65267    the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the
65268    house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his
65269    household?
65270 26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that
65271    shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
65272 27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what
65273    ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
65274 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to
65275    kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy
65276    both soul and body in hell.
65277 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them
65278    shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
65279 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
65280 31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many
65281    sparrows.
65282 32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
65283    confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
65284 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny
65285    before my Father which is in heaven.
65286 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to
65287    send peace, but a sword.
65288 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and
65289    the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law
65290    against her mother in law.
65291 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
65292 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of
65293    me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not
65294    worthy of me.
65295 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is
65296    not worthy of me.
65297 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his
65298    life for my sake shall find it.
65299 40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me
65300    receiveth him that sent me.
65301 41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall
65302    receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous
65303    man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous
65304    man's reward.
65305 42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little
65306    ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple,
65307    verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

65308 Matthew 11

65309  1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding
65310    his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to
65311    preach in their cities.
65312  2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he
65313    sent two of his disciples,
65314  3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look
65315    for another?
65316  4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again
65317    those things which ye do hear and see:
65318  5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers
65319    are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and
65320    the poor have the gospel preached to them.
65321  6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
65322  7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes
65323    concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see?
65324    A reed shaken with the wind?
65325  8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft
65326    raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings'
65327    houses.
65328  9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto
65329    you, and more than a prophet.
65330 10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my
65331    messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before
65332    thee.
65333 11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there
65334    hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist:
65335    notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is
65336    greater than he.
65337 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
65338    heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
65339 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
65340 14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to
65341    come.
65342 15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
65343 16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto
65344    children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their
65345    fellows,
65346 17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we
65347    have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
65348 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He
65349    hath a devil.
65350 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold
65351    a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and
65352    sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
65353 20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty
65354    works were done, because they repented not:
65355 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
65356    mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre
65357    and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and
65358    ashes.
65359 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and
65360    Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
65361 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be
65362    brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been
65363    done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained
65364    until this day.
65365 24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the
65366    land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
65367 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father,
65368    Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things
65369    from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
65370 26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
65371 27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man
65372    knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the
65373    Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal
65374    him.
65375 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I
65376    will give you rest.
65377 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and
65378    lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
65379 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

65380 Matthew 12

65381  1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn;
65382    and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears
65383    of corn and to eat.
65384  2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy
65385    disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath
65386    day.
65387  3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when
65388    he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
65389  4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the
65390    shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for
65391    them which were with him, but only for the priests?
65392  5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days
65393    the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are
65394    blameless?
65395  6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the
65396    temple.
65397  7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and
65398    not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
65399  8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
65400  9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
65401 10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And
65402    they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath
65403    days? that they might accuse him.
65404 11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that
65405    shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath
65406    day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
65407 12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is
65408    lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
65409 13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he
65410    stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the
65411    other.
65412 14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him,
65413    how they might destroy him.
65414 15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and
65415    great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
65416 16 And charged them that they should not make him known:
65417 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the
65418    prophet, saying,
65419 18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my
65420    soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he
65421    shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
65422 19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his
65423    voice in the streets.
65424 20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he
65425    not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
65426 21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
65427 22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind,
65428    and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb
65429    both spake and saw.
65430 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son
65431    of David?
65432 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth
65433    not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the
65434    devils.
65435 25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every
65436    kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and
65437    every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
65438 26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself;
65439    how shall then his kingdom stand?
65440 27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your
65441    children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
65442 28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the
65443    kingdom of God is come unto you.
65444 29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil
65445    his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he
65446    will spoil his house.
65447 30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth
65448    not with me scattereth abroad.
65449 31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy
65450    shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy
65451    Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
65452 32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall
65453    be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy
65454    Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world,
65455    neither in the world to come.
65456 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make
65457    the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known
65458    by his fruit.
65459 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
65460    things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
65461    speaketh.
65462 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth
65463    forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure
65464    bringeth forth evil things.
65465 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak,
65466    they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
65467 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words
65468    thou shalt be condemned.
65469 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,
65470    saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
65471 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous
65472    generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be
65473    given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
65474 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's
65475    belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights
65476    in the heart of the earth.
65477 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this
65478    generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the
65479    preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
65480 42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this
65481    generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the
65482    uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
65483    and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
65484 43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
65485    through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
65486 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came
65487    out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and
65488    garnished.
65489 45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits
65490    more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there:
65491    and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even
65492    so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
65493 46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his
65494    brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
65495 47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren
65496    stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
65497 48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my
65498    mother? and who are my brethren?
65499 49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and
65500    said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
65501 50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in
65502    heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

65503 Matthew 13

65504  1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea
65505    side.
65506  2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that
65507    he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on
65508    the shore.
65509  3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying,
65510    Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
65511  4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the
65512    fowls came and devoured them up:
65513  5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth:
65514    and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of
65515    earth:
65516  6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they
65517    had no root, they withered away.
65518  7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and
65519    choked them:
65520  8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some
65521    an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
65522  9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
65523 10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou
65524    unto them in parables?
65525 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you
65526    to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it
65527    is not given.
65528 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have
65529    more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be
65530    taken away even that he hath.
65531 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
65532    not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
65533 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith,
65534    By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing
65535    ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
65536 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are
65537    dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any
65538    time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
65539    and should understand with their heart, and should be
65540    converted, and I should heal them.
65541 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for
65542    they hear.
65543 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous
65544    men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have
65545    not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and
65546    have not heard them.
65547 18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
65548 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and
65549    understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth
65550    away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which
65551    received seed by the way side.
65552 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is
65553    he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
65554 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for
65555    when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word,
65556    by and by he is offended.
65557 22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth
65558    the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of
65559    riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
65560 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that
65561    heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth
65562    fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty,
65563    some thirty.
65564 24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
65565    heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his
65566    field:
65567 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
65568    wheat, and went his way.
65569 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit,
65570    then appeared the tares also.
65571 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him,
65572    Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence
65573    then hath it tares?
65574 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said
65575    unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
65576 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root
65577    up also the wheat with them.
65578 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
65579    harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first
65580    the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather
65581    the wheat into my barn.
65582 31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
65583    heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took,
65584    and sowed in his field:
65585 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown,
65586    it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that
65587    the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
65588 33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is
65589    like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three
65590    measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
65591 34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables;
65592    and without a parable spake he not unto them:
65593 35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
65594    saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things
65595    which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
65596 36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house:
65597    and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the
65598    parable of the tares of the field.
65599 37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed
65600    is the Son of man;
65601 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the
65602    kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
65603 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
65604    of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
65605 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so
65606    shall it be in the end of this world.
65607 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
65608    gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them
65609    which do iniquity;
65610 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be
65611    wailing and gnashing of teeth.
65612 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom
65613    of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
65614 44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a
65615    field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy
65616    thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that
65617    field.
65618 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,
65619    seeking goodly pearls:
65620 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold
65621    all that he had, and bought it.
65622 47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast
65623    into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
65624 48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and
65625    gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
65626 49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come
65627    forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
65628 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be
65629    wailing and gnashing of teeth.
65630 51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things?
65631    They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
65632 52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is
65633    instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that
65634    is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure
65635    things new and old.
65636 53 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these
65637    parables, he departed thence.
65638 54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in
65639    their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said,
65640    Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
65641 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called
65642    Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and
65643    Judas?
65644 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath
65645    this man all these things?
65646 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A
65647    prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
65648    his own house.
65649 58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their
65650    unbelief.

65651 Matthew 14

65652  1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
65653  2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is
65654    risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth
65655    themselves in him.
65656  3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in
65657    prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
65658  4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
65659  5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the
65660    multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
65661  6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias
65662    danced before them, and pleased Herod.
65663  7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she
65664    would ask.
65665  8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me
65666    here John Baptist's head in a charger.
65667  9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and
65668    them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given
65669    her.
65670 10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
65671 11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the
65672    damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
65673 12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it,
65674    and went and told Jesus.
65675 13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a
65676    desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof,
65677    they followed him on foot out of the cities.
65678 14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved
65679    with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
65680 15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying,
65681    This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the
65682    multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy
65683    themselves victuals.
65684 16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them
65685    to eat.
65686 17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two
65687    fishes.
65688 18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
65689 19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and
65690    took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to
65691    heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his
65692    disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
65693 20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
65694    fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
65695 21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside
65696    women and children.
65697 22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a
65698    ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent
65699    the multitudes away.
65700 23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a
65701    mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was
65702    there alone.
65703 24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with
65704    waves: for the wind was contrary.
65705 25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them,
65706    walking on the sea.
65707 26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were
65708    troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
65709 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good
65710    cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
65711 28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me
65712    come unto thee on the water.
65713 29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the
65714    ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
65715 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and
65716    beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
65717 31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught
65718    him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore
65719    didst thou doubt?
65720 32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
65721 33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him,
65722    saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
65723 34 And when they were gone over, they came into the land of
65724    Gennesaret.
65725 35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent
65726    out into all that country round about, and brought unto him
65727    all that were diseased;
65728 36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his
65729    garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.

65730 Matthew 15

65731  1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of
65732    Jerusalem, saying,
65733  2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
65734    for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
65735  3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress
65736    the commandment of God by your tradition?
65737  4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and,
65738    He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
65739  5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother,
65740    It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
65741  6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free.
65742    Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by
65743    your tradition.
65744  7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
65745  8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and
65746    honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
65747  9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
65748    commandments of men.
65749 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and
65750    understand:
65751 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that
65752    which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
65753 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that
65754    the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
65755 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly
65756    Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
65757 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the
65758    blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
65759 15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this
65760    parable.
65761 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
65762 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the
65763    mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
65764 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth
65765    from the heart; and they defile the man.
65766 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
65767    adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
65768 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with
65769    unwashen hands defileth not a man.
65770 21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre
65771    and Sidon.
65772 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts,
65773    and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son
65774    of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
65775 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and
65776    besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
65777 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost
65778    sheep of the house of Israel.
65779 25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
65780 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the
65781    children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
65782 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs
65783    which fall from their masters' table.
65784 28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy
65785    faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was
65786    made whole from that very hour.
65787 29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of
65788    Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.
65789 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those
65790    that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast
65791    them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
65792 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb
65793    to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the
65794    blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
65795 32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have
65796    compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now
65797    three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them
65798    away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
65799 33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much
65800    bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
65801 34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they
65802    said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
65803 35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
65804 36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks,
65805    and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples
65806    to the multitude.
65807 37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
65808    broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
65809 38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and
65810    children.
65811 39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into
65812    the coasts of Magdala.

65813 Matthew 16

65814  1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting
65815    desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
65816  2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It
65817    will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
65818  3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the
65819    sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the
65820    face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the
65821    times?
65822  4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and
65823    there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the
65824    prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
65825  5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had
65826    forgotten to take bread.
65827  6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven
65828    of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
65829  7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we
65830    have taken no bread.
65831  8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little
65832    faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought
65833    no bread?
65834  9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of
65835    the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
65836 10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many
65837    baskets ye took up?
65838 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you
65839    concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the
65840    Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
65841 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the
65842    leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of
65843    the Sadducees.
65844 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked
65845    his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man
65846    am?
65847 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some,
65848    Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
65849 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
65850 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the
65851    Son of the living God.
65852 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon
65853    Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,
65854    but my Father which is in heaven.
65855 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this
65856    rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not
65857    prevail against it.
65858 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven:
65859    and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in
65860    heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be
65861    loosed in heaven.
65862 20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man
65863    that he was Jesus the Christ.
65864 21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples,
65865    how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of
65866    the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and
65867    be raised again the third day.
65868 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it
65869    far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
65870 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
65871    thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things
65872    that be of God, but those that be of men.
65873 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after
65874    me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow
65875    me.
65876 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever
65877    will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
65878 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,
65879    and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange
65880    for his soul?
65881 27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with
65882    his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to
65883    his works.
65884 28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which
65885    shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming
65886    in his kingdom.

65887 Matthew 17

65888  1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his
65889    brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
65890  2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as
65891    the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
65892  3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking
65893    with him.
65894  4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for
65895    us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three
65896    tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for
65897    Elias.
65898  5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them:
65899    and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my
65900    beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
65901  6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and
65902    were sore afraid.
65903  7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not
65904    afraid.
65905  8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save
65906    Jesus only.
65907  9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them,
65908    saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be
65909    risen again from the dead.
65910 10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes
65911    that Elias must first come?
65912 11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first
65913    come, and restore all things.
65914 12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew
65915    him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.
65916    Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
65917 13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John
65918    the Baptist.
65919 14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a
65920    certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
65921 15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore
65922    vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the
65923    water.
65924 16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure
65925    him.
65926 17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse
65927    generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I
65928    suffer you? bring him hither to me.
65929 18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and
65930    the child was cured from that very hour.
65931 19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could
65932    not we cast him out?
65933 20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily
65934    I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed,
65935    ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place;
65936    and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
65937 21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
65938 22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son
65939    of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:
65940 23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised
65941    again. And they were exceeding sorry.
65942 24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received
65943    tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master
65944    pay tribute?
65945 25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus
65946    prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do
65947    the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own
65948    children, or of strangers?
65949 26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then
65950    are the children free.
65951 27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the
65952    sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh
65953    up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a
65954    piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

65955 Matthew 18

65956  1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is
65957    the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
65958  2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the
65959    midst of them,
65960  3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and
65961    become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom
65962    of heaven.
65963  4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child,
65964    the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
65965  5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name
65966    receiveth me.
65967  6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe
65968    in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged
65969    about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the
65970    sea.
65971  7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be
65972    that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence
65973    cometh!
65974  8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off,
65975    and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into
65976    life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet
65977    to be cast into everlasting fire.
65978  9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from
65979    thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye,
65980    rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
65981 10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I
65982    say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the
65983    face of my Father which is in heaven.
65984 11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
65985 12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them
65986    be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and
65987    goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone
65988    astray?
65989 13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he
65990    rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine
65991    which went not astray.
65992 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven,
65993    that one of these little ones should perish.
65994 15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and
65995    tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall
65996    hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
65997 16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two
65998    more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word
65999    may be established.
66000 17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church:
66001    but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as
66002    an heathen man and a publican.
66003 18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall
66004    be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth
66005    shall be loosed in heaven.
66006 19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth
66007    as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done
66008    for them of my Father which is in heaven.
66009 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there
66010    am I in the midst of them.
66011 21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my
66012    brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
66013 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times:
66014    but, Until seventy times seven.
66015 23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain
66016    king, which would take account of his servants.
66017 24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him,
66018    which owed him ten thousand talents.
66019 25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to
66020    be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and
66021    payment to be made.
66022 26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying,
66023    Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
66024 27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and
66025    loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
66026 28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his
66027    fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid
66028    hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that
66029    thou owest.
66030 29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him,
66031    saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
66032 30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he
66033    should pay the debt.
66034 31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very
66035    sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
66036 32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O
66037    thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because
66038    thou desiredst me:
66039 33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy
66040    fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
66041 34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors,
66042    till he should pay all that was due unto him.
66043 35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye
66044    from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their
66045    trespasses.

66046 Matthew 19

66047  1 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these
66048    sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of
66049    Judaea beyond Jordan;
66050  2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
66051  3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying
66052    unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for
66053    every cause?
66054  4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he
66055    which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
66056  5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother,
66057    and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one
66058    flesh?
66059  6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What
66060    therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
66061  7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a
66062    writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
66063  8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your
66064    hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the
66065    beginning it was not so.
66066  9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except
66067    it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth
66068    adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit
66069    adultery.
66070 10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with
66071    his wife, it is not good to marry.
66072 11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying,
66073    save they to whom it is given.
66074 12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their
66075    mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made
66076    eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made
66077    themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that
66078    is able to receive it, let him receive it.
66079 13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he
66080    should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples
66081    rebuked them.
66082 14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not,
66083    to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
66084 15 And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
66085 16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what
66086    good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
66087 17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none
66088    good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life,
66089    keep the commandments.
66090 18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder,
66091    Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou
66092    shalt not bear false witness,
66093 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy
66094    neighbour as thyself.
66095 20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept
66096    from my youth up: what lack I yet?
66097 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that
66098    thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure
66099    in heaven: and come and follow me.
66100 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away
66101    sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
66102 23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you,
66103    That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
66104 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go
66105    through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into
66106    the kingdom of God.
66107 25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed,
66108    saying, Who then can be saved?
66109 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is
66110    impossible; but with God all things are possible.
66111 27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have
66112    forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
66113 28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which
66114    have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man
66115    shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon
66116    twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
66117 29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
66118    sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,
66119    for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall
66120    inherit everlasting life.
66121 30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be
66122    first.

66123 Matthew 20

66124  1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an
66125    householder, which went out early in the morning to hire
66126    labourers into his vineyard.
66127  2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day,
66128    he sent them into his vineyard.
66129  3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing
66130    idle in the marketplace,
66131  4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and
66132    whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
66133  5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did
66134    likewise.
66135  6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others
66136    standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the
66137    day idle?
66138  7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto
66139    them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right,
66140    that shall ye receive.
66141  8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his
66142    steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire,
66143    beginning from the last unto the first.
66144  9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour,
66145    they received every man a penny.
66146 10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have
66147    received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
66148 11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the
66149    goodman of the house,
66150 12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast
66151    made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat
66152    of the day.
66153 13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no
66154    wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
66155 14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this
66156    last, even as unto thee.
66157 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is
66158    thine eye evil, because I am good?
66159 16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be
66160    called, but few chosen.
66161 17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples
66162    apart in the way, and said unto them,
66163 18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be
66164    betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they
66165    shall condemn him to death,
66166 19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge,
66167    and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
66168 20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her
66169    sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
66170 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him,
66171    Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right
66172    hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
66173 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye
66174    able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be
66175    baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say
66176    unto him, We are able.
66177 23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and
66178    be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to
66179    sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but
66180    it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my
66181    Father.
66182 24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation
66183    against the two brethren.
66184 25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the
66185    princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they
66186    that are great exercise authority upon them.
66187 26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great
66188    among you, let him be your minister;
66189 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your
66190    servant:
66191 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
66192    minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
66193 29 And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed
66194    him.
66195 30 And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they
66196    heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on
66197    us, O Lord, thou son of David.
66198 31 And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their
66199    peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O
66200    Lord, thou son of David.
66201 32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye
66202    that I shall do unto you?
66203 33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
66204 34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and
66205    immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

66206 Matthew 21

66207  1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to
66208    Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two
66209    disciples,
66210  2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and
66211    straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her:
66212    loose them, and bring them unto me.
66213  3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath
66214    need of them; and straightway he will send them.
66215  4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
66216    by the prophet, saying,
66217  5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto
66218    thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an
66219    ass.
66220  6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
66221  7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their
66222    clothes, and they set him thereon.
66223  8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way;
66224    others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in
66225    the way.
66226  9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried,
66227    saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh
66228    in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
66229 10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved,
66230    saying, Who is this?
66231 11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth
66232    of Galilee.
66233 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them
66234    that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables
66235    of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
66236 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called
66237    the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
66238 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he
66239    healed them.
66240 15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful
66241    things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and
66242    saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore
66243    displeased,
66244 16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus
66245    saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of
66246    babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
66247 17 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and
66248    he lodged there.
66249 18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
66250 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and
66251    found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let
66252    no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the
66253    fig tree withered away.
66254 20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How
66255    soon is the fig tree withered away!
66256 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If
66257    ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which
66258    is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this
66259    mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it
66260    shall be done.
66261 22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing,
66262    ye shall receive.
66263 23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and
66264    the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and
66265    said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave
66266    thee this authority?
66267 24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one
66268    thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by
66269    what authority I do these things.
66270 25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men?
66271    And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say,
66272    From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe
66273    him?
66274 26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold
66275    John as a prophet.
66276 27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said
66277    unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these
66278    things.
66279 28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to
66280    the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
66281 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented,
66282    and went.
66283 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered
66284    and said, I go, sir: and went not.
66285 31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say
66286    unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto
66287    you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of
66288    God before you.
66289 32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye
66290    believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed
66291    him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that
66292    ye might believe him.
66293 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which
66294    planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a
66295    winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to
66296    husbandmen, and went into a far country:
66297 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants
66298    to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
66299 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed
66300    another, and stoned another.
66301 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they
66302    did unto them likewise.
66303 37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will
66304    reverence my son.
66305 38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among
66306    themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let
66307    us seize on his inheritance.
66308 39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and
66309    slew him.
66310 40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he
66311    do unto those husbandmen?
66312 41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men,
66313    and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which
66314    shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
66315 42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures,
66316    The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the
66317    head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is
66318    marvellous in our eyes?
66319 43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken
66320    from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits
66321    thereof.
66322 44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on
66323    whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
66324 45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his
66325    parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
66326 46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the
66327    multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

66328 Matthew 22

66329  1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and
66330    said,
66331  2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made
66332    a marriage for his son,
66333  3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to
66334    the wedding: and they would not come.
66335  4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which
66336    are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my
66337    fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the
66338    marriage.
66339  5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his
66340    farm, another to his merchandise:
66341  6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them
66342    spitefully, and slew them.
66343  7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent
66344    forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up
66345    their city.
66346  8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they
66347    which were bidden were not worthy.
66348  9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall
66349    find, bid to the marriage.
66350 10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered
66351    together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the
66352    wedding was furnished with guests.
66353 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a
66354    man which had not on a wedding garment:
66355 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not
66356    having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
66357 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot,
66358    and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there
66359    shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
66360 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
66361 15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might
66362    entangle him in his talk.
66363 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians,
66364    saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the
66365    way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou
66366    regardest not the person of men.
66367 17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give
66368    tribute unto Caesar, or not?
66369 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye
66370    me, ye hypocrites?
66371 19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
66372 20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and
66373    superscription?
66374 21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render
66375    therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto
66376    God the things that are God's.
66377 22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him,
66378    and went their way.
66379 23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there
66380    is no resurrection, and asked him,
66381 24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children,
66382    his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his
66383    brother.
66384 25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he
66385    had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his
66386    wife unto his brother:
66387 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
66388 27 And last of all the woman died also.
66389 28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the
66390    seven? for they all had her.
66391 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
66392    scriptures, nor the power of God.
66393 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in
66394    marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
66395 31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read
66396    that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
66397 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
66398    Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
66399 33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his
66400    doctrine.
66401 34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees
66402    to silence, they were gathered together.
66403 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question,
66404    tempting him, and saying,
66405 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
66406 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
66407    thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
66408 38 This is the first and great commandment.
66409 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
66410    as thyself.
66411 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
66412 41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
66413 42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say
66414    unto him, The son of David.
66415 43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him
66416    Lord, saying,
66417 44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I
66418    make thine enemies thy footstool?
66419 45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
66420 46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any
66421    man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

66422 Matthew 23

66423  1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
66424  2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
66425  3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe
66426    and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do
66427    not.
66428  4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay
66429    them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move
66430    them with one of their fingers.
66431  5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make
66432    broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their
66433    garments,
66434  6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in
66435    the synagogues,
66436  7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi,
66437    Rabbi.
66438  8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even
66439    Christ; and all ye are brethren.
66440  9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your
66441    Father, which is in heaven.
66442 10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even
66443    Christ.
66444 11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
66445 12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that
66446    shall humble himself shall be exalted.
66447 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye
66448    shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go
66449    in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go
66450    in.
66451 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour
66452    widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore
66453    ye shall receive the greater damnation.
66454 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye
66455    compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is
66456    made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than
66457    yourselves.
66458 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall
66459    swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear
66460    by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
66461 17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the
66462    temple that sanctifieth the gold?
66463 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but
66464    whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
66465 19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the
66466    altar that sanctifieth the gift?
66467 20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and
66468    by all things thereon.
66469 21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by
66470    him that dwelleth therein.
66471 22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of
66472    God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
66473 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay
66474    tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the
66475    weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith:
66476    these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
66477    undone.
66478 24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
66479 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make
66480    clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within
66481    they are full of extortion and excess.
66482 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the
66483    cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
66484 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are
66485    like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
66486    outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all
66487    uncleanness.
66488 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but
66489    within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
66490 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye
66491    build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of
66492    the righteous,
66493 30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would
66494    not have been partakers with them in the blood of the
66495    prophets.
66496 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the
66497    children of them which killed the prophets.
66498 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
66499 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
66500    damnation of hell?
66501 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
66502    scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some
66503    of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute
66504    them from city to city:
66505 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
66506    earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of
66507    Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple
66508    and the altar.
66509 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
66510    generation.
66511 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
66512    stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have
66513    gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her
66514    chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
66515 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
66516 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye
66517    shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

66518 Matthew 24

66519  1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his
66520    disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the
66521    temple.
66522  2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily
66523    I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon
66524    another, that shall not be thrown down.
66525  3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came
66526    unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things
66527    be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end
66528    of the world?
66529  4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man
66530    deceive you.
66531  5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
66532    deceive many.
66533  6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be
66534    not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the
66535    end is not yet.
66536  7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
66537    kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and
66538    earthquakes, in divers places.
66539  8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
66540  9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill
66541    you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
66542 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
66543    and shall hate one another.
66544 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
66545 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
66546    cold.
66547 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
66548    saved.
66549 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
66550    world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end
66551    come.
66552 15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
66553    spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,
66554    (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
66555 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
66556 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any
66557    thing out of his house:
66558 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his
66559    clothes.
66560 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give
66561    suck in those days!
66562 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on
66563    the sabbath day:
66564 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
66565    beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
66566 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no
66567    flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be
66568    shortened.
66569 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or
66570    there; believe it not.
66571 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and
66572    shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were
66573    possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
66574 25 Behold, I have told you before.
66575 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the
66576    desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers;
66577    believe it not.
66578 27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even
66579    unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
66580 28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be
66581    gathered together.
66582 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun
66583    be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the
66584    stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens
66585    shall be shaken:
66586 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
66587    and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they
66588    shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with
66589    power and great glory.
66590 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
66591    and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
66592    from one end of heaven to the other.
66593 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
66594    tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
66595 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that
66596    it is near, even at the doors.
66597 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till
66598    all these things be fulfilled.
66599 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
66600    away.
66601 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of
66602    heaven, but my Father only.
66603 37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the
66604    Son of man be.
66605 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
66606    and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
66607    that Noe entered into the ark,
66608 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
66609    shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
66610 40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and
66611    the other left.
66612 41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be
66613    taken, and the other left.
66614 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth
66615    come.
66616 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in
66617    what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and
66618    would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
66619 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think
66620    not the Son of man cometh.
66621 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath
66622    made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due
66623    season?
66624 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall
66625    find so doing.
66626 47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all
66627    his goods.
66628 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord
66629    delayeth his coming;
66630 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and
66631    drink with the drunken;
66632 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh
66633    not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
66634 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with
66635    the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

66636 Matthew 25

66637  1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins,
66638    which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
66639  2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
66640  3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with
66641    them:
66642  4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
66643  5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
66644  6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom
66645    cometh; go ye out to meet him.
66646  7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
66647  8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for
66648    our lamps are gone out.
66649  9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not
66650    enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and
66651    buy for yourselves.
66652 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that
66653    were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was
66654    shut.
66655 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord,
66656    open to us.
66657 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you
66658    not.
66659 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
66660    wherein the Son of man cometh.
66661 14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far
66662    country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them
66663    his goods.
66664 15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to
66665    another one; to every man according to his several ability;
66666    and straightway took his journey.
66667 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded
66668    with the same, and made them other five talents.
66669 17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other
66670    two.
66671 18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and
66672    hid his lord's money.
66673 19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and
66674    reckoneth with them.
66675 20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought
66676    other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me
66677    five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents
66678    more.
66679 21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful
66680    servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
66681    make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of
66682    thy lord.
66683 22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord,
66684    thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained
66685    two other talents beside them.
66686 23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;
66687    thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee
66688    ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
66689 24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord,
66690    I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast
66691    not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
66692 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth:
66693    lo, there thou hast that is thine.
66694 26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful
66695    servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and
66696    gather where I have not strawed:
66697 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the
66698    exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine
66699    own with usury.
66700 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which
66701    hath ten talents.
66702 29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
66703    abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even
66704    that which he hath.
66705 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness:
66706    there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
66707 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy
66708    angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his
66709    glory:
66710 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall
66711    separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his
66712    sheep from the goats:
66713 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on
66714    the left.
66715 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
66716    blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
66717    from the foundation of the world:
66718 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and
66719    ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
66720 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was
66721    in prison, and ye came unto me.
66722 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
66723    thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee
66724    drink?
66725 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and
66726    clothed thee?
66727 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
66728 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
66729    you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
66730    these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
66731 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from
66732    me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil
66733    and his angels:
66734 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty,
66735    and ye gave me no drink:
66736 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed
66737    me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
66738 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
66739    thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick,
66740    or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
66741 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you,
66742    Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did
66743    it not to me.
66744 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the
66745    righteous into life eternal.

66746 Matthew 26

66747  1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these
66748    sayings, he said unto his disciples,
66749  2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and
66750    the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
66751  3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes,
66752    and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high
66753    priest, who was called Caiaphas,
66754  4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill
66755    him.
66756  5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar
66757    among the people.
66758  6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the
66759    leper,
66760  7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very
66761    precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at
66762    meat.
66763  8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying,
66764    To what purpose is this waste?
66765  9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to
66766    the poor.
66767 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye
66768    the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
66769 11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not
66770    always.
66771 12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did
66772    it for my burial.
66773 13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be
66774    preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this
66775    woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
66776 14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the
66777    chief priests,
66778 15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver
66779    him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces
66780    of silver.
66781 16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
66782 17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the
66783    disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that
66784    we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
66785 18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him,
66786    The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover
66787    at thy house with my disciples.
66788 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they
66789    made ready the passover.
66790 20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
66791 21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one
66792    of you shall betray me.
66793 22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them
66794    to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
66795 23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in
66796    the dish, the same shall betray me.
66797 24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto
66798    that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good
66799    for that man if he had not been born.
66800 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is
66801    it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
66802 26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and
66803    brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat;
66804    this is my body.
66805 27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
66806    saying, Drink ye all of it;
66807 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for
66808    many for the remission of sins.
66809 29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit
66810    of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my
66811    Father's kingdom.
66812 30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount
66813    of Olives.
66814 31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because
66815    of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the
66816    shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered
66817    abroad.
66818 32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
66819 33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be
66820    offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
66821 34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night,
66822    before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
66823 35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I
66824    not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
66825 36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane,
66826    and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray
66827    yonder.
66828 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and
66829    began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
66830 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even
66831    unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
66832 39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and
66833    prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup
66834    pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
66835 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and
66836    saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
66837 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit
66838    indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
66839 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my
66840    Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink
66841    it, thy will be done.
66842 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were
66843    heavy.
66844 44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third
66845    time, saying the same words.
66846 45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on
66847    now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the
66848    Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
66849 46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray
66850    me.
66851 47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came,
66852    and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from
66853    the chief priests and elders of the people.
66854 48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever
66855    I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
66856 49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and
66857    kissed him.
66858 50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then
66859    came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.
66860 51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out
66861    his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high
66862    priest's, and smote off his ear.
66863 52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his
66864    place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the
66865    sword.
66866 53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he
66867    shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
66868 54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it
66869    must be?
66870 55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come
66871    out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me?
66872    I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no
66873    hold on me.
66874 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets
66875    might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and
66876    fled.
66877 57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas
66878    the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were
66879    assembled.
66880 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace,
66881    and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
66882 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought
66883    false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
66884 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet
66885    found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
66886 61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of
66887    God, and to build it in three days.
66888 62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou
66889    nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
66890 63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and
66891    said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell
66892    us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
66893 64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto
66894    you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the
66895    right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
66896 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken
66897    blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now
66898    ye have heard his blasphemy.
66899 66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
66900 67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others
66901    smote him with the palms of their hands,
66902 68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote
66903    thee?
66904 69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto
66905    him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
66906 70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou
66907    sayest.
66908 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him,
66909    and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with
66910    Jesus of Nazareth.
66911 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
66912 73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said
66913    to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech
66914    bewrayeth thee.
66915 74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the
66916    man. And immediately the cock crew.
66917 75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him,
66918    Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went
66919    out, and wept bitterly.

66920 Matthew 27

66921  1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of
66922    the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
66923  2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered
66924    him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
66925  3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was
66926    condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty
66927    pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
66928  4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent
66929    blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
66930  5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and
66931    departed, and went and hanged himself.
66932  6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is
66933    not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is
66934    the price of blood.
66935  7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's
66936    field, to bury strangers in.
66937  8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this
66938    day.
66939  9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the
66940    prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver,
66941    the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of
66942    Israel did value;
66943 10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed
66944    me.
66945 11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked
66946    him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said
66947    unto him, Thou sayest.
66948 12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he
66949    answered nothing.
66950 13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things
66951    they witness against thee?
66952 14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the
66953    governor marvelled greatly.
66954 15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the
66955    people a prisoner, whom they would.
66956 16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
66957 17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto
66958    them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus
66959    which is called Christ?
66960 18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
66961 19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto
66962    him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I
66963    have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
66964 20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that
66965    they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
66966 21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain
66967    will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
66968 22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which
66969    is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
66970 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they
66971    cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
66972 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather
66973    a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before
66974    the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just
66975    person: see ye to it.
66976 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us,
66977    and on our children.
66978 26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged
66979    Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
66980 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common
66981    hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
66982 28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
66983 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon
66984    his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the
66985    knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the
66986    Jews!
66987 30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on
66988    the head.
66989 31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off
66990    from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to
66991    crucify him.
66992 32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by
66993    name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
66994 33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is
66995    to say, a place of a skull,
66996 34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he
66997    had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
66998 35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots:
66999    that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
67000    They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did
67001    they cast lots.
67002 36 And sitting down they watched him there;
67003 37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS
67004    THE KING OF THE JEWS.
67005 38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the
67006    right hand, and another on the left.
67007 39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
67008 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it
67009    in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come
67010    down from the cross.
67011 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes
67012    and elders, said,
67013 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of
67014    Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will
67015    believe him.
67016 43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have
67017    him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
67018 44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same
67019    in his teeth.
67020 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
67021    unto the ninth hour.
67022 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
67023    saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my
67024    God, why hast thou forsaken me?
67025 47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said,
67026    This man calleth for Elias.
67027 48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled
67028    it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
67029 49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to
67030    save him.
67031 50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up
67032    the ghost.
67033 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the
67034    top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks
67035    rent;
67036 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints
67037    which slept arose,
67038 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went
67039    into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
67040 54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching
67041    Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done,
67042    they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
67043 55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed
67044    Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
67045 56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James
67046    and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.
67047 57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea,
67048    named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
67049 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate
67050    commanded the body to be delivered.
67051 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean
67052    linen cloth,
67053 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the
67054    rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the
67055    sepulchre, and departed.
67056 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over
67057    against the sepulchre.
67058 62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation,
67059    the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
67060 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was
67061    yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
67062 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the
67063    third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him
67064    away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so
67065    the last error shall be worse than the first.
67066 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it
67067    as sure as ye can.
67068 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone,
67069    and setting a watch.

67070 Matthew 28

67071  1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the
67072    first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
67073    to see the sepulchre.
67074  2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of
67075    the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the
67076    stone from the door, and sat upon it.
67077  3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as
67078    snow:
67079  4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead
67080    men.
67081  5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye:
67082    for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
67083  6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the
67084    place where the Lord lay.
67085  7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from
67086    the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there
67087    shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
67088  8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and
67089    great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
67090  9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met
67091    them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the
67092    feet, and worshipped him.
67093 10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren
67094    that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
67095 11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into
67096    the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things
67097    that were done.
67098 12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken
67099    counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
67100 13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him
67101    away while we slept.
67102 14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him,
67103    and secure you.
67104 15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this
67105    saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
67106 16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a
67107    mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
67108 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
67109 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given
67110    unto me in heaven and in earth.
67111 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
67112    name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
67113 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
67114    commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end
67115    of the world. Amen.

67116 Book 41 Mark

67117 Mark 1

67118  1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
67119  2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger
67120    before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
67121  3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way
67122    of the Lord, make his paths straight.
67123  4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of
67124    repentance for the remission of sins.
67125  5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they
67126    of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of
67127    Jordan, confessing their sins.
67128  6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a
67129    skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
67130  7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after
67131    me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down
67132    and unloose.
67133  8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize
67134    you with the Holy Ghost.
67135  9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from
67136    Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
67137 10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens
67138    opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
67139 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my
67140    beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
67141 12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
67142 13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of
67143    Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered
67144    unto him.
67145 14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into
67146    Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
67147 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is
67148    at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
67149 16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and
67150    Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were
67151    fishers.
67152 17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make
67153    you to become fishers of men.
67154 18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
67155 19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the
67156    son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the
67157    ship mending their nets.
67158 20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father
67159    Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after
67160    him.
67161 21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath
67162    day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
67163 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them
67164    as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
67165 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit;
67166    and he cried out,
67167 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus
67168    of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou
67169    art, the Holy One of God.
67170 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of
67171    him.
67172 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a
67173    loud voice, he came out of him.
67174 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among
67175    themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is
67176    this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean
67177    spirits, and they do obey him.
67178 28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the
67179    region round about Galilee.
67180 29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they
67181    entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and
67182    John.
67183 30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they
67184    tell him of her.
67185 31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and
67186    immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
67187 32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all
67188    that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
67189 33 And all the city was gathered together at the door.
67190 34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast
67191    out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because
67192    they knew him.
67193 35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he
67194    went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there
67195    prayed.
67196 36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.
67197 37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek
67198    for thee.
67199 38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I
67200    may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
67201 39 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee,
67202    and cast out devils.
67203 40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling
67204    down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst
67205    make me clean.
67206 41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and
67207    touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
67208 42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed
67209    from him, and he was cleansed.
67210 43 And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;
67211 44 And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go
67212    thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy
67213    cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony
67214    unto them.
67215 45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze
67216    abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly
67217    enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and
67218    they came to him from every quarter.

67219 Mark 2

67220  1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it
67221    was noised that he was in the house.
67222  2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that
67223    there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about
67224    the door: and he preached the word unto them.
67225  3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which
67226    was borne of four.
67227  4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they
67228    uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it
67229    up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
67230  5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the
67231    palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
67232  6 But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and
67233    reasoning in their hearts,
67234  7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins
67235    but God only?
67236  8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they
67237    so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason
67238    ye these things in your hearts?
67239  9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins
67240    be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and
67241    walk?
67242 10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth
67243    to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
67244 11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way
67245    into thine house.
67246 12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth
67247    before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and
67248    glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
67249 13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude
67250    resorted unto him, and he taught them.
67251 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting
67252    at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he
67253    arose and followed him.
67254 15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house,
67255    many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and
67256    his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
67257 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans
67258    and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he
67259    eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
67260 17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole
67261    have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came
67262    not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
67263 18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast:
67264    and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John
67265    and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
67266 19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber
67267    fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have
67268    the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
67269 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken
67270    away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
67271 21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment:
67272    else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old,
67273    and the rent is made worse.
67274 22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new
67275    wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the
67276    bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new
67277    bottles.
67278 23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on
67279    the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to
67280    pluck the ears of corn.
67281 24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the
67282    sabbath day that which is not lawful?
67283 25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when
67284    he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with
67285    him?
67286 26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the
67287    high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to
67288    eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with
67289    him?
67290 27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not
67291    man for the sabbath:
67292 28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

67293 Mark 3

67294  1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man
67295    there which had a withered hand.
67296  2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath
67297    day; that they might accuse him.
67298  3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand
67299    forth.
67300  4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath
67301    days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held
67302    their peace.
67303  5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being
67304    grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the
67305    man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and
67306    his hand was restored whole as the other.
67307  6 And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel
67308    with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
67309  7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and
67310    a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
67311  8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan;
67312    and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they
67313    had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
67314  9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait
67315    on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
67316 10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him
67317    for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
67318 11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him,
67319    and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
67320 12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him
67321    known.
67322 13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he
67323    would: and they came unto him.
67324 14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that
67325    he might send them forth to preach,
67326 15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
67327 16 And Simon he surnamed Peter;
67328 17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James;
67329    and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
67330 18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and
67331    Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and
67332    Simon the Canaanite,
67333 19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went
67334    into an house.
67335 20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could
67336    not so much as eat bread.
67337 21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on
67338    him: for they said, He is beside himself.
67339 22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath
67340    Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out
67341    devils.
67342 23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables,
67343    How can Satan cast out Satan?
67344 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom
67345    cannot stand.
67346 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot
67347    stand.
67348 26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he
67349    cannot stand, but hath an end.
67350 27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his
67351    goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he
67352    will spoil his house.
67353 28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the
67354    sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall
67355    blaspheme:
67356 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never
67357    forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
67358 30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
67359 31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing
67360    without, sent unto him, calling him.
67361 32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him,
67362    Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
67363 33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my
67364    brethren?
67365 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and
67366    said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
67367 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my
67368    brother, and my sister, and mother.

67369 Mark 4

67370  1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was
67371    gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a
67372    ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the
67373    sea on the land.
67374  2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them
67375    in his doctrine,
67376  3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
67377  4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side,
67378    and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
67379  5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth;
67380    and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of
67381    earth:
67382  6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had
67383    no root, it withered away.
67384  7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked
67385    it, and it yielded no fruit.
67386  8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang
67387    up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some
67388    sixty, and some an hundred.
67389  9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him
67390    hear.
67391 10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the
67392    twelve asked of him the parable.
67393 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the
67394    mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without,
67395    all these things are done in parables:
67396 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they
67397    may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be
67398    converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
67399 13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then
67400    will ye know all parables?
67401 14 The sower soweth the word.
67402 15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown;
67403    but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh
67404    away the word that was sown in their hearts.
67405 16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground;
67406    who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it
67407    with gladness;
67408 17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time:
67409    afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the
67410    word's sake, immediately they are offended.
67411 18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear
67412    the word,
67413 19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
67414    and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and
67415    it becometh unfruitful.
67416 20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear
67417    the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some
67418    thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
67419 21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a
67420    bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
67421 22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested;
67422    neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come
67423    abroad.
67424 23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
67425 24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what
67426    measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you
67427    that hear shall more be given.
67428 25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not,
67429    from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
67430 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast
67431    seed into the ground;
67432 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should
67433    spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
67434 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the
67435    blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
67436 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in
67437    the sickle, because the harvest is come.
67438 30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or
67439    with what comparison shall we compare it?
67440 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in
67441    the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
67442 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than
67443    all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls
67444    of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
67445 33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as
67446    they were able to hear it.
67447 34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they
67448    were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
67449 35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them,
67450    Let us pass over unto the other side.
67451 36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even
67452    as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other
67453    little ships.
67454 37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into
67455    the ship, so that it was now full.
67456 38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow:
67457    and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not
67458    that we perish?
67459 39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea,
67460    Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great
67461    calm.
67462 40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that
67463    ye have no faith?
67464 41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What
67465    manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey
67466    him?

67467 Mark 5

67468  1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the
67469    country of the Gadarenes.
67470  2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met
67471    him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
67472  3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind
67473    him, no, not with chains:
67474  4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains,
67475    and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the
67476    fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
67477  5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the
67478    tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
67479  6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
67480  7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with
67481    thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by
67482    God, that thou torment me not.
67483  8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean
67484    spirit.
67485  9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying,
67486    My name is Legion: for we are many.
67487 10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out
67488    of the country.
67489 11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of
67490    swine feeding.
67491 12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the
67492    swine, that we may enter into them.
67493 13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits
67494    went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran
67495    violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about
67496    two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
67497 14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and
67498    in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was
67499    done.
67500 15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with
67501    the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in
67502    his right mind: and they were afraid.
67503 16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was
67504    possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
67505 17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
67506 18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed
67507    with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
67508 19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to
67509    thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done
67510    for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
67511 20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great
67512    things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
67513 21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other
67514    side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the
67515    sea.
67516 22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue,
67517    Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
67518 23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at
67519    the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on
67520    her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
67521 24 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and
67522    thronged him.
67523 25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
67524 26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent
67525    all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew
67526    worse,
67527 27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and
67528    touched his garment.
67529 28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be
67530    whole.
67531 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and
67532    she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
67533 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone
67534    out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who
67535    touched my clothes?
67536 31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude
67537    thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
67538 32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
67539 33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in
67540    her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the
67541    truth.
67542 34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee
67543    whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
67544 35 While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the
67545    synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead:
67546    why troublest thou the Master any further?
67547 36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto
67548    the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.
67549 37 And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James,
67550    and John the brother of James.
67551 38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and
67552    seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
67553 39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this
67554    ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
67555 40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all
67556    out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and
67557    them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was
67558    lying.
67559 41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha
67560    cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee,
67561    arise.
67562 42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of
67563    the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great
67564    astonishment.
67565 43 And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and
67566    commanded that something should be given her to eat.

67567 Mark 6

67568  1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country;
67569    and his disciples follow him.
67570  2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the
67571    synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From
67572    whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this
67573    which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are
67574    wrought by his hands?
67575  3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of
67576    James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his
67577    sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
67578  4 But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honour,
67579    but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own
67580    house.
67581  5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his
67582    hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
67583  6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round
67584    about the villages, teaching.
67585  7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them
67586    forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean
67587    spirits;
67588  8 And commanded them that they should take nothing for their
67589    journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in
67590    their purse:
67591  9 But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
67592 10 And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an
67593    house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
67594 11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye
67595    depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a
67596    testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be
67597    more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment,
67598    than for that city.
67599 12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
67600 13 And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that
67601    were sick, and healed them.
67602 14 And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:)
67603    and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead,
67604    and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
67605 15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a
67606    prophet, or as one of the prophets.
67607 16 But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I
67608    beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
67609 17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and
67610    bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's
67611    wife: for he had married her.
67612 18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to
67613    have thy brother's wife.
67614 19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have
67615    killed him; but she could not:
67616 20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an
67617    holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many
67618    things, and heard him gladly.
67619 21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday
67620    made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates
67621    of Galilee;
67622 22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and
67623    danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king
67624    said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I
67625    will give it thee.
67626 23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will
67627    give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
67628 24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I
67629    ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
67630 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and
67631    asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger
67632    the head of John the Baptist.
67633 26 And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and
67634    for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
67635 27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded
67636    his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the
67637    prison,
67638 28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel:
67639    and the damsel gave it to her mother.
67640 29 And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his
67641    corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
67642 30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and
67643    told him all things, both what they had done, and what they
67644    had taught.
67645 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert
67646    place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going,
67647    and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
67648 32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
67649 33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran
67650    afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came
67651    together unto him.
67652 34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved
67653    with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not
67654    having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
67655 35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto
67656    him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far
67657    passed:
67658 36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about,
67659    and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have
67660    nothing to eat.
67661 37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they
67662    say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of
67663    bread, and give them to eat?
67664 38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And
67665    when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
67666 39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon
67667    the green grass.
67668 40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
67669 41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he
67670    looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and
67671    gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two
67672    fishes divided he among them all.
67673 42 And they did all eat, and were filled.
67674 43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of
67675    the fishes.
67676 44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand
67677    men.
67678 45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the
67679    ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while
67680    he sent away the people.
67681 46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to
67682    pray.
67683 47 And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea,
67684    and he alone on the land.
67685 48 And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary
67686    unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh
67687    unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by
67688    them.
67689 49 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it
67690    had been a spirit, and cried out:
67691 50 For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he
67692    talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is
67693    I; be not afraid.
67694 51 And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased:
67695    and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and
67696    wondered.
67697 52 For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their
67698    heart was hardened.
67699 53 And when they had passed over, they came into the land of
67700    Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.
67701 54 And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew
67702    him,
67703 55 And ran through that whole region round about, and began to
67704    carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he
67705    was.
67706 56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or
67707    country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him
67708    that they might touch if it were but the border of his
67709    garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

67710 Mark 7

67711  1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the
67712    scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
67713  2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with
67714    defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found
67715    fault.
67716  3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their
67717    hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
67718  4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat
67719    not. And many other things there be, which they have received
67720    to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and
67721    of tables.
67722  5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy
67723    disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
67724    bread with unwashen hands?
67725  6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of
67726    you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me
67727    with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
67728  7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
67729    commandments of men.
67730  8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition
67731    of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such
67732    like things ye do.
67733  9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of
67734    God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
67735 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso
67736    curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
67737 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is
67738    Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be
67739    profited by me; he shall be free.
67740 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his
67741    mother;
67742 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition,
67743    which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
67744 14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto
67745    them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
67746 15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him
67747    can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those
67748    are they that defile the man.
67749 16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
67750 17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his
67751    disciples asked him concerning the parable.
67752 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also?
67753    Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without
67754    entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
67755 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly,
67756    and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
67757 20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth
67758    the man.
67759 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil
67760    thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
67761 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an
67762    evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
67763 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
67764 24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre
67765    and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man
67766    know it: but he could not be hid.
67767 25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean
67768    spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
67769 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she
67770    besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her
67771    daughter.
67772 27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for
67773    it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it
67774    unto the dogs.
67775 28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs
67776    under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
67777 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is
67778    gone out of thy daughter.
67779 30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone
67780    out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
67781 31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he
67782    came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts
67783    of Decapolis.
67784 32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an
67785    impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand
67786    upon him.
67787 33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers
67788    into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
67789 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him,
67790    Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
67791 35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his
67792    tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
67793 36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more
67794    he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published
67795    it;
67796 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all
67797    things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to
67798    speak.

67799 Mark 8

67800  1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having
67801    nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith
67802    unto them,
67803  2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been
67804    with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
67805  3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will
67806    faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
67807  4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy
67808    these men with bread here in the wilderness?
67809  5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said,
67810    Seven.
67811  6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he
67812    took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to
67813    his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before
67814    the people.
67815  7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded
67816    to set them also before them.
67817  8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
67818    broken meat that was left seven baskets.
67819  9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent
67820    them away.
67821 10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and
67822    came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
67823 11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him,
67824    seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
67825 12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this
67826    generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There
67827    shall no sign be given unto this generation.
67828 13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to
67829    the other side.
67830 14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had
67831    they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
67832 15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven
67833    of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
67834 16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we
67835    have no bread.
67836 17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye,
67837    because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither
67838    understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
67839 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do
67840    ye not remember?
67841 19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many
67842    baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him,
67843    Twelve.
67844 20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full
67845    of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
67846 21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
67847 22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto
67848    him, and besought him to touch him.
67849 23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the
67850    town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon
67851    him, he asked him if he saw ought.
67852 24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
67853 25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him
67854    look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
67855 26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the
67856    town, nor tell it to any in the town.
67857 27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of
67858    Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples,
67859    saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
67860 28 And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and
67861    others, One of the prophets.
67862 29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter
67863    answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
67864 30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
67865 31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer
67866    many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief
67867    priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise
67868    again.
67869 32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began
67870    to rebuke him.
67871 33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he
67872    rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou
67873    savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that
67874    be of men.
67875 34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples
67876    also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him
67877    deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
67878 35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever
67879    shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same
67880    shall save it.
67881 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole
67882    world, and lose his own soul?
67883 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
67884 38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in
67885    this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the
67886    Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his
67887    Father with the holy angels.

67888 Mark 9

67889  1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be
67890    some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death,
67891    till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
67892  2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and
67893    John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by
67894    themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
67895  3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as
67896    no fuller on earth can white them.
67897  4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were
67898    talking with Jesus.
67899  5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for
67900    us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for
67901    thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
67902  6 For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.
67903  7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came
67904    out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
67905  8 And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no
67906    man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.
67907  9 And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that
67908    they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the
67909    Son of man were risen from the dead.
67910 10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one
67911    with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
67912 11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias
67913    must first come?
67914 12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and
67915    restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man,
67916    that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
67917 13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have
67918    done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
67919 14 And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude
67920    about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
67921 15 And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were
67922    greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.
67923 16 And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
67924 17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have
67925    brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
67926 18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth,
67927    and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to
67928    thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could
67929    not.
67930 19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long
67931    shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him
67932    unto me.
67933 20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him,
67934    straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground,
67935    and wallowed foaming.
67936 21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came
67937    unto him? And he said, Of a child.
67938 22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the
67939    waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have
67940    compassion on us, and help us.
67941 23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are
67942    possible to him that believeth.
67943 24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said
67944    with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
67945 25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he
67946    rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf
67947    spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into
67948    him.
67949 26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him:
67950    and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
67951 27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he
67952    arose.
67953 28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him
67954    privately, Why could not we cast him out?
67955 29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing,
67956    but by prayer and fasting.
67957 30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he
67958    would not that any man should know it.
67959 31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of
67960    man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill
67961    him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
67962 32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask
67963    him.
67964 33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked
67965    them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the
67966    way?
67967 34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed
67968    among themselves, who should be the greatest.
67969 35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them,
67970    If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all,
67971    and servant of all.
67972 36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and
67973    when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
67974 37 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name,
67975    receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not
67976    me, but him that sent me.
67977 38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out
67978    devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad
67979    him, because he followeth not us.
67980 39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which
67981    shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of
67982    me.
67983 40 For he that is not against us is on our part.
67984 41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my
67985    name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he
67986    shall not lose his reward.
67987 42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that
67988    believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were
67989    hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
67990 43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee
67991    to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into
67992    hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
67993 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
67994 45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee
67995    to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into
67996    hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
67997 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
67998 47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for
67999    thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than
68000    having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
68001 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
68002 49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice
68003    shall be salted with salt.
68004 50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness,
68005    wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have
68006    peace one with another.

68007 Mark 10

68008  1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea
68009    by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him
68010    again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
68011  2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for
68012    a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
68013  3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command
68014    you?
68015  4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement,
68016    and to put her away.
68017  5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of
68018    your heart he wrote you this precept.
68019  6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and
68020    female.
68021  7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
68022    cleave to his wife;
68023  8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more
68024    twain, but one flesh.
68025  9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
68026    asunder.
68027 10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same
68028    matter.
68029 11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and
68030    marry another, committeth adultery against her.
68031 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to
68032    another, she committeth adultery.
68033 13 And they brought young children to him, that he should touch
68034    them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
68035 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto
68036    them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid
68037    them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
68038 15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
68039    of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
68040 16 And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and
68041    blessed them.
68042 17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one
68043    running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what
68044    shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
68045 18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is
68046    none good but one, that is, God.
68047 19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not
68048    kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not,
68049    Honour thy father and mother.
68050 20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I
68051    observed from my youth.
68052 21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One
68053    thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and
68054    give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and
68055    come, take up the cross, and follow me.
68056 22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he
68057    had great possessions.
68058 23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples,
68059    How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom
68060    of God!
68061 24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus
68062    answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it
68063    for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of
68064    God!
68065 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
68066    than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
68067 26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among
68068    themselves, Who then can be saved?
68069 27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible,
68070    but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
68071 28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and
68072    have followed thee.
68073 29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is
68074    no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or
68075    father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
68076    sake, and the gospel's,
68077 30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses,
68078    and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and
68079    lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal
68080    life.
68081 31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
68082 32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went
68083    before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they
68084    were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell
68085    them what things should happen unto him,
68086 33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man
68087    shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the
68088    scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall
68089    deliver him to the Gentiles:
68090 34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit
68091    upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise
68092    again.
68093 35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him,
68094    saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us
68095    whatsoever we shall desire.
68096 36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?
68097 37 They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy
68098    right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
68099 38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye
68100    drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the
68101    baptism that I am baptized with?
68102 39 And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye
68103    shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the
68104    baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
68105 40 But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to
68106    give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
68107 41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased
68108    with James and John.
68109 42 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know
68110    that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles
68111    exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise
68112    authority upon them.
68113 43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great
68114    among you, shall be your minister:
68115 44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of
68116    all.
68117 45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
68118    minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
68119 46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with
68120    his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus,
68121    the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
68122 47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to
68123    cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
68124 48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he
68125    cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on
68126    me.
68127 49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And
68128    they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort,
68129    rise; he calleth thee.
68130 50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
68131 51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I
68132    should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I
68133    might receive my sight.
68134 52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee
68135    whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed
68136    Jesus in the way.

68137 Mark 11

68138  1 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and
68139    Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his
68140    disciples,
68141  2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against
68142    you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a
68143    colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.
68144  3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the
68145    Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him
68146    hither.
68147  4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door
68148    without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
68149  5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do
68150    ye, loosing the colt?
68151  6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they
68152    let them go.
68153  7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on
68154    him; and he sat upon him.
68155  8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down
68156    branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
68157  9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried,
68158    saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
68159    Lord:
68160 10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the
68161    name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
68162 11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and
68163    when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the
68164    eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
68165 12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was
68166    hungry:
68167 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if
68168    haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it,
68169    he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
68170 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee
68171    hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
68172 15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple,
68173    and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple,
68174    and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats
68175    of them that sold doves;
68176 16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel
68177    through the temple.
68178 17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house
68179    shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye
68180    have made it a den of thieves.
68181 18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how
68182    they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the
68183    people was astonished at his doctrine.
68184 19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
68185 20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree
68186    dried up from the roots.
68187 21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master,
68188    behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
68189 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
68190 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this
68191    mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and
68192    shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those
68193    things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have
68194    whatsoever he saith.
68195 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when
68196    ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
68197 25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against
68198    any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you
68199    your trespasses.
68200 26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in
68201    heaven forgive your trespasses.
68202 27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the
68203    temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes,
68204    and the elders,
68205 28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things?
68206    and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
68207 29 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you
68208    one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what
68209    authority I do these things.
68210 30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
68211 31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say,
68212    From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
68213 32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all
68214    men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
68215 33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And
68216    Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what
68217    authority I do these things.

68218 Mark 12

68219  1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man
68220    planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a
68221    place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to
68222    husbandmen, and went into a far country.
68223  2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he
68224    might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the
68225    vineyard.
68226  3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
68227  4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they
68228    cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away
68229    shamefully handled.
68230  5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many
68231    others; beating some, and killing some.
68232  6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him
68233    also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
68234  7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir;
68235    come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
68236  8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the
68237    vineyard.
68238  9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come
68239    and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto
68240    others.
68241 10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the
68242    builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
68243 11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
68244 12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for
68245    they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and
68246    they left him, and went their way.
68247 13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the
68248    Herodians, to catch him in his words.
68249 14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know
68250    that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest
68251    not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth:
68252    Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
68253 15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their
68254    hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny,
68255    that I may see it.
68256 16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this
68257    image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
68258 17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the
68259    things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are
68260    God's. And they marvelled at him.
68261 18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no
68262    resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
68263 19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave
68264    his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother
68265    should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
68266 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and
68267    dying left no seed.
68268 21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed:
68269    and the third likewise.
68270 22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman
68271    died also.
68272 23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose
68273    wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
68274 24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err,
68275    because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
68276 25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry,
68277    nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in
68278    heaven.
68279 26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in
68280    the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying,
68281    I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
68282    Jacob?
68283 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye
68284    therefore do greatly err.
68285 28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning
68286    together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked
68287    him, Which is the first commandment of all?
68288 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is,
68289    Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
68290 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
68291    with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
68292    strength: this is the first commandment.
68293 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy
68294    neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater
68295    than these.
68296 32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the
68297    truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
68298 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the
68299    understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the
68300    strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than
68301    all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
68302 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto
68303    him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man
68304    after that durst ask him any question.
68305 35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple,
68306    How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?
68307 36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my
68308    Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy
68309    footstool.
68310 37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he
68311    then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
68312 38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes,
68313    which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the
68314    marketplaces,
68315 39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms
68316    at feasts:
68317 40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long
68318    prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
68319 41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the
68320    people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich
68321    cast in much.
68322 42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two
68323    mites, which make a farthing.
68324 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,
68325    Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in,
68326    than all they which have cast into the treasury:
68327 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her
68328    want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

68329 Mark 13

68330  1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith
68331    unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings
68332    are here!
68333  2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great
68334    buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another,
68335    that shall not be thrown down.
68336  3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the
68337    temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him
68338    privately,
68339  4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the
68340    sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
68341  5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man
68342    deceive you:
68343  6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
68344    deceive many.
68345  7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not
68346    troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not
68347    be yet.
68348  8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
68349    kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and
68350    there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings
68351    of sorrows.
68352  9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to
68353    councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye
68354    shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a
68355    testimony against them.
68356 10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
68357 11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no
68358    thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
68359    premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour,
68360    that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy
68361    Ghost.
68362 12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the
68363    father the son; and children shall rise up against their
68364    parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
68365 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he
68366    that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
68367 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of
68368    by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him
68369    that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee
68370    to the mountains:
68371 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the
68372    house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his
68373    house:
68374 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to
68375    take up his garment.
68376 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give
68377    suck in those days!
68378 18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
68379 19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from
68380    the beginning of the creation which God created unto this
68381    time, neither shall be.
68382 20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh
68383    should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath
68384    chosen, he hath shortened the days.
68385 21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or,
68386    lo, he is there; believe him not:
68387 22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall
68388    shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even
68389    the elect.
68390 23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
68391 24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
68392    darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
68393 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in
68394    heaven shall be shaken.
68395 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds
68396    with great power and glory.
68397 27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together
68398    his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the
68399    earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
68400 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet
68401    tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
68402 29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to
68403    pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
68404 30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass,
68405    till all these things be done.
68406 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass
68407    away.
68408 32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the
68409    angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
68410 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time
68411    is.
68412 34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left
68413    his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every
68414    man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
68415 35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the
68416    house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing,
68417    or in the morning:
68418 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
68419 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

68420 Mark 14

68421  1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of
68422    unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought
68423    how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
68424  2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar
68425    of the people.
68426  3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he
68427    sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of
68428    ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box,
68429    and poured it on his head.
68430  4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves,
68431    and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
68432  5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence,
68433    and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against
68434    her.
68435  6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath
68436    wrought a good work on me.
68437  7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will
68438    ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
68439  8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint
68440    my body to the burying.
68441  9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be
68442    preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath
68443    done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
68444 10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief
68445    priests, to betray him unto them.
68446 11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give
68447    him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
68448 12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the
68449    passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we
68450    go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
68451 13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto
68452    them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man
68453    bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
68454 14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the
68455    house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I
68456    shall eat the passover with my disciples?
68457 15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and
68458    prepared: there make ready for us.
68459 16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and
68460    found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the
68461    passover.
68462 17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
68463 18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto
68464    you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
68465 19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by
68466    one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
68467 20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve,
68468    that dippeth with me in the dish.
68469 21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe
68470    to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it
68471    for that man if he had never been born.
68472 22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake
68473    it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
68474 23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it
68475    to them: and they all drank of it.
68476 24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament,
68477    which is shed for many.
68478 25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of
68479    the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of
68480    God.
68481 26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount
68482    of Olives.
68483 27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of
68484    me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd,
68485    and the sheep shall be scattered.
68486 28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
68487 29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet
68488    will not I.
68489 30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this
68490    day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou
68491    shalt deny me thrice.
68492 31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I
68493    will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
68494 32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he
68495    saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
68496 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to
68497    be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
68498 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto
68499    death: tarry ye here, and watch.
68500 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and
68501    prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from
68502    him.
68503 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee;
68504    take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but
68505    what thou wilt.
68506 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto
68507    Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
68508 38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit
68509    truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
68510 39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
68511 40 And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their
68512    eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
68513 41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on
68514    now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come;
68515    behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
68516 42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
68517 43 And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the
68518    twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves,
68519    from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
68520 44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying,
68521    Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead
68522    him away safely.
68523 45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and
68524    saith, Master, master; and kissed him.
68525 46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him.
68526 47 And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a
68527    servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
68528 48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as
68529    against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
68530 49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me
68531    not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
68532 50 And they all forsook him, and fled.
68533 51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen
68534    cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold
68535    on him:
68536 52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
68537 53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were
68538    assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the
68539    scribes.
68540 54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the
68541    high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself
68542    at the fire.
68543 55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness
68544    against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
68545 56 For many bare false witness against him, but their witness
68546    agreed not together.
68547 57 And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him,
68548    saying,
68549 58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with
68550    hands, and within three days I will build another made without
68551    hands.
68552 59 But neither so did their witness agree together.
68553 60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus,
68554    saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness
68555    against thee?
68556 61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high
68557    priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the
68558    Son of the Blessed?
68559 62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting
68560    on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of
68561    heaven.
68562 63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we
68563    any further witnesses?
68564 64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all
68565    condemned him to be guilty of death.
68566 65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to
68567    buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants
68568    did strike him with the palms of their hands.
68569 66 And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of
68570    the maids of the high priest:
68571 67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him,
68572    and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
68573 68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what
68574    thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock
68575    crew.
68576 69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood
68577    by, This is one of them.
68578 70 And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by
68579    said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art
68580    a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.
68581 71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this
68582    man of whom ye speak.
68583 72 And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind
68584    the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice,
68585    thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he
68586    wept.

68587 Mark 15

68588  1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a
68589    consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole
68590    council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered
68591    him to Pilate.
68592  2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he
68593    answering said unto them, Thou sayest it.
68594  3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he
68595    answered nothing.
68596  4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing?
68597    behold how many things they witness against thee.
68598  5 But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.
68599  6 Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner,
68600    whomsoever they desired.
68601  7 And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them
68602    that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder
68603    in the insurrection.
68604  8 And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he
68605    had ever done unto them.
68606  9 But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto
68607    you the King of the Jews?
68608 10 For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
68609 11 But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather
68610    release Barabbas unto them.
68611 12 And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye
68612    then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the
68613    Jews?
68614 13 And they cried out again, Crucify him.
68615 14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And
68616    they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
68617 15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released
68618    Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged
68619    him, to be crucified.
68620 16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called
68621    Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
68622 17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of
68623    thorns, and put it about his head,
68624 18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
68625 19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon
68626    him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
68627 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from
68628    him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to
68629    crucify him.
68630 21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming
68631    out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear
68632    his cross.
68633 22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being
68634    interpreted, The place of a skull.
68635 23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he
68636    received it not.
68637 24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments,
68638    casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
68639 25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
68640 26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE
68641    KING OF THE JEWS.
68642 27 And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right
68643    hand, and the other on his left.
68644 28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was
68645    numbered with the transgressors.
68646 29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,
68647    and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest
68648    it in three days,
68649 30 Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
68650 31 Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves
68651    with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
68652 32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that
68653    we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him
68654    reviled him.
68655 33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the
68656    whole land until the ninth hour.
68657 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
68658    Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My
68659    God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
68660 35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said,
68661    Behold, he calleth Elias.
68662 36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on
68663    a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see
68664    whether Elias will come to take him down.
68665 37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
68666 38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to
68667    the bottom.
68668 39 And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that
68669    he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this
68670    man was the Son of God.
68671 40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary
68672    Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses,
68673    and Salome;
68674 41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and
68675    ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with
68676    him unto Jerusalem.
68677 42 And now when the even was come, because it was the
68678    preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
68679 43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also
68680    waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto
68681    Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
68682 44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto
68683    him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while
68684    dead.
68685 45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to
68686    Joseph.
68687 46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him
68688    in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out
68689    of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
68690 47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where
68691    he was laid.

68692 Mark 16

68693  1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
68694    mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that
68695    they might come and anoint him.
68696  2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they
68697    came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
68698  3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the
68699    stone from the door of the sepulchre?
68700  4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away:
68701    for it was very great.
68702  5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting
68703    on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they
68704    were affrighted.
68705  6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of
68706    Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here:
68707    behold the place where they laid him.
68708  7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth
68709    before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said
68710    unto you.
68711  8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for
68712    they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to
68713    any man; for they were afraid.
68714  9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he
68715    appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast
68716    seven devils.
68717 10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they
68718    mourned and wept.
68719 11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been
68720    seen of her, believed not.
68721 12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as
68722    they walked, and went into the country.
68723 13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed
68724    they them.
68725 14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and
68726    upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart,
68727    because they believed not them which had seen him after he was
68728    risen.
68729 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach
68730    the gospel to every creature.
68731 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
68732    believeth not shall be damned.
68733 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name
68734    shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
68735 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly
68736    thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
68737    sick, and they shall recover.
68738 19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received
68739    up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
68740 20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord
68741    working with them, and confirming the word with signs
68742    following. Amen.

68743 Book 42 Luke

68744 Luke 1

68745  1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a
68746    declaration of those things which are most surely believed
68747    among us,
68748  2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning
68749    were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
68750  3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of
68751    all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order,
68752    most excellent Theophilus,
68753  4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein
68754    thou hast been instructed.
68755  5 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain
68756    priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife
68757    was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
68758  6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the
68759    commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
68760  7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and
68761    they both were now well stricken in years.
68762  8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's
68763    office before God in the order of his course,
68764  9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to
68765    burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
68766 10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at
68767    the time of incense.
68768 11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on
68769    the right side of the altar of incense.
68770 12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell
68771    upon him.
68772 13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy
68773    prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son,
68774    and thou shalt call his name John.
68775 14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice
68776    at his birth.
68777 15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall
68778    drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled
68779    with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
68780 16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord
68781    their God.
68782 17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias,
68783    to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
68784    disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people
68785    prepared for the Lord.
68786 18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this?
68787    for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
68788 19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that
68789    stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee,
68790    and to shew thee these glad tidings.
68791 20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until
68792    the day that these things shall be performed, because thou
68793    believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their
68794    season.
68795 21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he
68796    tarried so long in the temple.
68797 22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they
68798    perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he
68799    beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
68800 23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his
68801    ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
68802 24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid
68803    herself five months, saying,
68804 25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked
68805    on me, to take away my reproach among men.
68806 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God
68807    unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
68808 27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the
68809    house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
68810 28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art
68811    highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among
68812    women.
68813 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast
68814    in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
68815 30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast
68816    found favour with God.
68817 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth
68818    a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
68819 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest:
68820    and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father
68821    David:
68822 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of
68823    his kingdom there shall be no end.
68824 34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I
68825    know not a man?
68826 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall
68827    come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow
68828    thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of
68829    thee shall be called the Son of God.
68830 36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a
68831    son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who
68832    was called barren.
68833 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
68834 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me
68835    according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
68836 39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country
68837    with haste, into a city of Juda;
68838 40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted
68839    Elisabeth.
68840 41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation
68841    of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled
68842    with the Holy Ghost:
68843 42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art
68844    thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
68845 43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should
68846    come to me?
68847 44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in
68848    mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
68849 45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a
68850    performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
68851 46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
68852 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
68853 48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for,
68854    behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
68855 49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy
68856    is his name.
68857 50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to
68858    generation.
68859 51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the
68860    proud in the imagination of their hearts.
68861 52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them
68862    of low degree.
68863 53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he
68864    hath sent empty away.
68865 54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his
68866    mercy;
68867 55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for
68868    ever.
68869 56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to
68870    her own house.
68871 57 Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered;
68872    and she brought forth a son.
68873 58 And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had
68874    shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
68875 59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to
68876    circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the
68877    name of his father.
68878 60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be
68879    called John.
68880 61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is
68881    called by this name.
68882 62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him
68883    called.
68884 63 And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name
68885    is John. And they marvelled all.
68886 64 And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed,
68887    and he spake, and praised God.
68888 65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all
68889    these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill
68890    country of Judaea.
68891 66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts,
68892    saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of
68893    the Lord was with him.
68894 67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and
68895    prophesied, saying,
68896 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and
68897    redeemed his people,
68898 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of
68899    his servant David;
68900 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been
68901    since the world began:
68902 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of
68903    all that hate us;
68904 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember
68905    his holy covenant;
68906 73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
68907 74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of
68908    the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
68909 75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our
68910    life.
68911 76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest:
68912    for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his
68913    ways;
68914 77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the
68915    remission of their sins,
68916 78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring
68917    from on high hath visited us,
68918 79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow
68919    of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
68920 80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the
68921    deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

68922 Luke 2

68923  1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a
68924    decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be
68925    taxed.
68926  2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of
68927    Syria.)
68928  3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
68929  4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of
68930    Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called
68931    Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
68932  5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with
68933    child.
68934  6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were
68935    accomplished that she should be delivered.
68936  7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
68937    swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was
68938    no room for them in the inn.
68939  8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the
68940    field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
68941  9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory
68942    of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
68943 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring
68944    you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
68945 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour,
68946    which is Christ the Lord.
68947 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe
68948    wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
68949 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the
68950    heavenly host praising God, and saying,
68951 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
68952    toward men.
68953 15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them
68954    into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go
68955    even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass,
68956    which the Lord hath made known unto us.
68957 16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the
68958    babe lying in a manger.
68959 17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying
68960    which was told them concerning this child.
68961 18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were
68962    told them by the shepherds.
68963 19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her
68964    heart.
68965 20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for
68966    all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told
68967    unto them.
68968 21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of
68969    the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of
68970    the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
68971 22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of
68972    Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to
68973    present him to the Lord;
68974 23 (As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that
68975    openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
68976 24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in
68977    the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young
68978    pigeons.
68979 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was
68980    Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the
68981    consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
68982 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should
68983    not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
68984 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the
68985    parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the
68986    custom of the law,
68987 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
68988 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according
68989    to thy word:
68990 30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
68991 31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
68992 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people
68993    Israel.
68994 33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were
68995    spoken of him.
68996 34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother,
68997    Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of
68998    many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
68999 35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that
69000    the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
69001 36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel,
69002    of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived
69003    with an husband seven years from her virginity;
69004 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which
69005    departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and
69006    prayers night and day.
69007 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the
69008    Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption
69009    in Jerusalem.
69010 39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of
69011    the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city
69012    Nazareth.
69013 40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with
69014    wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
69015 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of
69016    the passover.
69017 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem
69018    after the custom of the feast.
69019 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the
69020    child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his
69021    mother knew not of it.
69022 44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a
69023    day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and
69024    acquaintance.
69025 45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to
69026    Jerusalem, seeking him.
69027 46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in
69028    the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing
69029    them, and asking them questions.
69030 47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding
69031    and answers.
69032 48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said
69033    unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy
69034    father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
69035 49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye
69036    not that I must be about my Father's business?
69037 50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
69038 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was
69039    subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in
69040    her heart.
69041 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with
69042    God and man.

69043 Luke 3

69044  1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
69045    Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being
69046    tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of
69047    Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the
69048    tetrarch of Abilene,
69049  2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God
69050    came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
69051  3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the
69052    baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
69053  4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the
69054    prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
69055    Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
69056  5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill
69057    shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight,
69058    and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
69059  6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
69060  7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized
69061    of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee
69062    from the wrath to come?
69063  8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin
69064    not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father:
69065    for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise
69066    up children unto Abraham.
69067  9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every
69068    tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
69069    down, and cast into the fire.
69070 10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
69071 11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let
69072    him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let
69073    him do likewise.
69074 12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him,
69075    Master, what shall we do?
69076 13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is
69077    appointed you.
69078 14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what
69079    shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man,
69080    neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
69081 15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in
69082    their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
69083 16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with
69084    water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose
69085    shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with
69086    the Holy Ghost and with fire:
69087 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his
69088    floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the
69089    chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
69090 18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the
69091    people.
69092 19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his
69093    brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had
69094    done,
69095 20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
69096 21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that
69097    Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
69098 22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove
69099    upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art
69100    my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
69101 23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being
69102    (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of
69103    Heli,
69104 24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which
69105    was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was
69106    the son of Joseph,
69107 25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos,
69108    which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which
69109    was the son of Nagge,
69110 26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias,
69111    which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which
69112    was the son of Juda,
69113 27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which
69114    was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel,
69115    which was the son of Neri,
69116 28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which
69117    was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was
69118    the son of Er,
69119 29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which
69120    was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was
69121    the son of Levi,
69122 30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which
69123    was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was
69124    the son of Eliakim,
69125 31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which
69126    was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which
69127    was the son of David,
69128 32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which
69129    was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was
69130    the son of Naasson,
69131 33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram,
69132    which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which
69133    was the son of Juda,
69134 34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which
69135    was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was
69136    the son of Nachor,
69137 35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which
69138    was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was
69139    the son of Sala,
69140 36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad,
69141    which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was
69142    the son of Lamech,
69143 37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch,
69144    which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel,
69145    which was the son of Cainan,
69146 38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which
69147    was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

69148 Luke 4

69149  1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan,
69150    and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
69151  2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he
69152    did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward
69153    hungered.
69154  3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God,
69155    command this stone that it be made bread.
69156  4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall
69157    not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
69158  5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed
69159    unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
69160  6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee,
69161    and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to
69162    whomsoever I will I give it.
69163  7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
69164  8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me,
69165    Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
69166    and him only shalt thou serve.
69167  9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of
69168    the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast
69169    thyself down from hence:
69170 10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee,
69171    to keep thee:
69172 11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time
69173    thou dash thy foot against a stone.
69174 12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not
69175    tempt the Lord thy God.
69176 13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed
69177    from him for a season.
69178 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee:
69179    and there went out a fame of him through all the region round
69180    about.
69181 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
69182 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as
69183    his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day,
69184    and stood up for to read.
69185 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
69186    Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place
69187    where it was written,
69188 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me
69189    to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
69190    brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
69191    recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that
69192    are bruised,
69193 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
69194 20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister,
69195    and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the
69196    synagogue were fastened on him.
69197 21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture
69198    fulfilled in your ears.
69199 22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words
69200    which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this
69201    Joseph's son?
69202 23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this
69203    proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard
69204    done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
69205 24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in
69206    his own country.
69207 25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the
69208    days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six
69209    months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
69210 26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a
69211    city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
69212 27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the
69213    prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the
69214    Syrian.
69215 28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things,
69216    were filled with wrath,
69217 29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto
69218    the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they
69219    might cast him down headlong.
69220 30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
69221 31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them
69222    on the sabbath days.
69223 32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was
69224    with power.
69225 33 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an
69226    unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
69227 34 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus
69228    of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou
69229    art; the Holy One of God.
69230 35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of
69231    him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came
69232    out of him, and hurt him not.
69233 36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying,
69234    What a word is this! for with authority and power he
69235    commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
69236 37 And the fame of him went out into every place of the country
69237    round about.
69238 38 And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's
69239    house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever;
69240    and they besought him for her.
69241 39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her:
69242    and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
69243 40 Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with
69244    divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands
69245    on every one of them, and healed them.
69246 41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou
69247    art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them
69248    not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
69249 42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place:
69250    and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him,
69251    that he should not depart from them.
69252 43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to
69253    other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
69254 44 And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

69255 Luke 5

69256  1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to
69257    hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
69258  2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were
69259    gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
69260  3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and
69261    prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land.
69262    And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.
69263  4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out
69264    into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
69265  5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all
69266    the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I
69267    will let down the net.
69268  6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude
69269    of fishes: and their net brake.
69270  7 And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other
69271    ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and
69272    filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
69273  8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying,
69274    Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
69275  9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the
69276    draught of the fishes which they had taken:
69277 10 And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which
69278    were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not;
69279    from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
69280 11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook
69281    all, and followed him.
69282 12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a
69283    man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and
69284    besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me
69285    clean.
69286 13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be
69287    thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
69288 14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to
69289    the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses
69290    commanded, for a testimony unto them.
69291 15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and
69292    great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by
69293    him of their infirmities.
69294 16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
69295 17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that
69296    there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which
69297    were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and
69298    Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
69299 18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a
69300    palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him
69301    before him.
69302 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him
69303    in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and
69304    let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst
69305    before Jesus.
69306 20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins
69307    are forgiven thee.
69308 21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who
69309    is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but
69310    God alone?
69311 22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said
69312    unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
69313 23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to
69314    say, Rise up and walk?
69315 24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth
69316    to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say
69317    unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine
69318    house.
69319 25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that
69320    whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
69321 26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were
69322    filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
69323 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican,
69324    named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto
69325    him, Follow me.
69326 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
69327 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there
69328    was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down
69329    with them.
69330 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his
69331    disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and
69332    sinners?
69333 31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need
69334    not a physician; but they that are sick.
69335 32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
69336 33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast
69337    often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the
69338    Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
69339 34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the
69340    bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
69341 35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken
69342    away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
69343 36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece
69344    of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new
69345    maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new
69346    agreeth not with the old.
69347 37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new
69348    wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles
69349    shall perish.
69350 38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are
69351    preserved.
69352 39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new:
69353    for he saith, The old is better.

69354 Luke 6

69355  1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first,
69356    that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples
69357    plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their
69358    hands.
69359  2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that
69360    which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
69361  3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as
69362    this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they
69363    which were with him;
69364  4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the
69365    shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it
69366    is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
69367  5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the
69368    sabbath.
69369  6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered
69370    into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right
69371    hand was withered.
69372  7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would
69373    heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation
69374    against him.
69375  8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the
69376    withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he
69377    arose and stood forth.
69378  9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it
69379    lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save
69380    life, or to destroy it?
69381 10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man,
69382    Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was
69383    restored whole as the other.
69384 11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with
69385    another what they might do to Jesus.
69386 12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a
69387    mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
69388 13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of
69389    them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
69390 14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother,
69391    James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
69392 15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
69393    called Zelotes,
69394 16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also
69395    was the traitor.
69396 17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the
69397    company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out
69398    of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre
69399    and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their
69400    diseases;
69401 18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were
69402    healed.
69403 19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went
69404    virtue out of him, and healed them all.
69405 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed
69406    be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
69407 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled.
69408    Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
69409 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall
69410    separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and
69411    cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
69412 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your
69413    reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their
69414    fathers unto the prophets.
69415 24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your
69416    consolation.
69417 25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you
69418    that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
69419 26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
69420    their fathers to the false prophets.
69421 27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to
69422    them which hate you,
69423 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which
69424    despitefully use you.
69425 29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the
69426    other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take
69427    thy coat also.
69428 30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh
69429    away thy goods ask them not again.
69430 31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them
69431    likewise.
69432 32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for
69433    sinners also love those that love them.
69434 33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank
69435    have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
69436 34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank
69437    have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much
69438    again.
69439 35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for
69440    nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be
69441    the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the
69442    unthankful and to the evil.
69443 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
69444 37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye
69445    shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
69446 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed
69447    down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give
69448    into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal
69449    it shall be measured to you again.
69450 39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the
69451    blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
69452 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is
69453    perfect shall be as his master.
69454 41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
69455    but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
69456 42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull
69457    out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest
69458    not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast
69459    out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou
69460    see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
69461 43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth
69462    a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
69463 44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do
69464    not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
69465 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth
69466    forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil
69467    treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for
69468    of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
69469 46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
69470    say?
69471 47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth
69472    them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
69473 48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and
69474    laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the
69475    stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake
69476    it: for it was founded upon a rock.
69477 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without
69478    a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the
69479    stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the
69480    ruin of that house was great.

69481 Luke 7

69482  1 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the
69483    people, he entered into Capernaum.
69484  2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was
69485    sick, and ready to die.
69486  3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the
69487    Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
69488  4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly,
69489    saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
69490  5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
69491  6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from
69492    the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him,
69493    Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou
69494    shouldest enter under my roof:
69495  7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee:
69496    but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
69497  8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me
69498    soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to
69499    another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and
69500    he doeth it.
69501  9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned
69502    him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say
69503    unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
69504 10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the
69505    servant whole that had been sick.
69506 11 And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city
69507    called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much
69508    people.
69509 12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there
69510    was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and
69511    she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
69512 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said
69513    unto her, Weep not.
69514 14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood
69515    still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
69516 15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he
69517    delivered him to his mother.
69518 16 And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying,
69519    That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath
69520    visited his people.
69521 17 And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and
69522    throughout all the region round about.
69523 18 And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things.
69524 19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to
69525    Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for
69526    another?
69527 20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath
69528    sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or
69529    look we for another?
69530 21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and
69531    plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he
69532    gave sight.
69533 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell
69534    John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind
69535    see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,
69536    the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
69537 23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
69538 24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to
69539    speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into
69540    the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
69541 25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft
69542    raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and
69543    live delicately, are in kings' courts.
69544 26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto
69545    you, and much more than a prophet.
69546 27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger
69547    before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
69548 28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there
69549    is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is
69550    least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
69551 29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans,
69552    justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
69553 30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God
69554    against themselves, being not baptized of him.
69555 31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of
69556    this generation? and to what are they like?
69557 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and
69558    calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you,
69559    and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have
69560    not wept.
69561 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking
69562    wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
69563 34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold
69564    a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and
69565    sinners!
69566 35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
69567 36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with
69568    him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to
69569    meat.
69570 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she
69571    knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought
69572    an alabaster box of ointment,
69573 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash
69574    his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her
69575    head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the
69576    ointment.
69577 39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake
69578    within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would
69579    have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth
69580    him: for she is a sinner.
69581 40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to
69582    say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
69583 41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one
69584    owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
69585 42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them
69586    both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
69587 43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave
69588    most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
69589 44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou
69590    this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no
69591    water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and
69592    wiped them with the hairs of her head.
69593 45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came
69594    in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
69595 46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath
69596    anointed my feet with ointment.
69597 47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are
69598    forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven,
69599    the same loveth little.
69600 48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
69601 49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within
69602    themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
69603 50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in
69604    peace.

69605 Luke 8

69606  1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every
69607    city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of
69608    the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
69609  2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and
69610    infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven
69611    devils,
69612  3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and
69613    many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
69614  4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to
69615    him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
69616  5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell
69617    by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the
69618    air devoured it.
69619  6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it
69620    withered away, because it lacked moisture.
69621  7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it,
69622    and choked it.
69623  8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit
69624    an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried,
69625    He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
69626  9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable
69627    be?
69628 10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the
69629    kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they
69630    might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
69631 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
69632 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the
69633    devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they
69634    should believe and be saved.
69635 13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the
69636    word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while
69637    believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
69638 14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they
69639    have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and
69640    pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
69641 15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and
69642    good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth
69643    fruit with patience.
69644 16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a
69645    vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a
69646    candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
69647 17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest;
69648    neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come
69649    abroad.
69650 18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him
69651    shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be
69652    taken even that which he seemeth to have.
69653 19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not
69654    come at him for the press.
69655 20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy
69656    brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
69657 21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren
69658    are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
69659 22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship
69660    with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto
69661    the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.
69662 23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm
69663    of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were
69664    in jeopardy.
69665 24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master,
69666    we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging
69667    of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
69668 25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being
69669    afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is
69670    this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they
69671    obey him.
69672 26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is
69673    over against Galilee.
69674 27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city
69675    a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no
69676    clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
69677 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and
69678    with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus,
69679    thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
69680 29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the
69681    man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound
69682    with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was
69683    driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
69684 30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said,
69685    Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
69686 31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out
69687    into the deep.
69688 32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the
69689    mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to
69690    enter into them. And he suffered them.
69691 33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the
69692    swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the
69693    lake, and were choked.
69694 34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went
69695    and told it in the city and in the country.
69696 35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus,
69697    and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed,
69698    sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind:
69699    and they were afraid.
69700 36 They also which saw it told them by what means he that was
69701    possessed of the devils was healed.
69702 37 Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round
69703    about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken
69704    with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned
69705    back again.
69706 38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him
69707    that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
69708 39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath
69709    done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout
69710    the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
69711 40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people
69712    gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
69713 41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler
69714    of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and
69715    besought him that he would come into his house:
69716 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and
69717    she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
69718 43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had
69719    spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed
69720    of any,
69721 44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and
69722    immediately her issue of blood stanched.
69723 45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and
69724    they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng
69725    thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
69726 46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that
69727    virtue is gone out of me.
69728 47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came
69729    trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him
69730    before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and
69731    how she was healed immediately.
69732 48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith
69733    hath made thee whole; go in peace.
69734 49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the
69735    synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead;
69736    trouble not the Master.
69737 50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not:
69738    believe only, and she shall be made whole.
69739 51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in,
69740    save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother
69741    of the maiden.
69742 52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is
69743    not dead, but sleepeth.
69744 53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
69745 54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called,
69746    saying, Maid, arise.
69747 55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he
69748    commanded to give her meat.
69749 56 And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they
69750    should tell no man what was done.

69751 Luke 9

69752  1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them
69753    power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
69754  2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the
69755    sick.
69756  3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither
69757    staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have
69758    two coats apiece.
69759  4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence
69760    depart.
69761  5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that
69762    city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony
69763    against them.
69764  6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the
69765    gospel, and healing every where.
69766  7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and
69767    he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John
69768    was risen from the dead;
69769  8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one
69770    of the old prophets was risen again.
69771  9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom
69772    I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
69773 10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that
69774    they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into
69775    a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
69776 11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he
69777    received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and
69778    healed them that had need of healing.
69779 12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and
69780    said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into
69781    the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get
69782    victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
69783 13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We
69784    have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should
69785    go and buy meat for all this people.
69786 14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his
69787    disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
69788 15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
69789 16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking
69790    up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the
69791    disciples to set before the multitude.
69792 17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up
69793    of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
69794 18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples
69795    were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people
69796    that I am?
69797 19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias;
69798    and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
69799 20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering
69800    said, The Christ of God.
69801 21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no
69802    man that thing;
69803 22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be
69804    rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be
69805    slain, and be raised the third day.
69806 23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let
69807    him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
69808 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever
69809    will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
69810 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and
69811    lose himself, or be cast away?
69812 26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him
69813    shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own
69814    glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
69815 27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which
69816    shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
69817 28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings,
69818    he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain
69819    to pray.
69820 29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered,
69821    and his raiment was white and glistering.
69822 30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses
69823    and Elias:
69824 31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he
69825    should accomplish at Jerusalem.
69826 32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep:
69827    and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men
69828    that stood with him.
69829 33 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said
69830    unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us
69831    make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and
69832    one for Elias: not knowing what he said.
69833 34 While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed
69834    them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
69835 35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my
69836    beloved Son: hear him.
69837 36 And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they
69838    kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those
69839    things which they had seen.
69840 37 And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come
69841    down from the hill, much people met him.
69842 38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I
69843    beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.
69844 39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and
69845    it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly
69846    departeth from him.
69847 40 And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could
69848    not.
69849 41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation,
69850    how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son
69851    hither.
69852 42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare
69853    him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the
69854    child, and delivered him again to his father.
69855 43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while
69856    they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said
69857    unto his disciples,
69858 44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man
69859    shall be delivered into the hands of men.
69860 45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them,
69861    that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that
69862    saying.
69863 46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should
69864    be greatest.
69865 47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a
69866    child, and set him by him,
69867 48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my
69868    name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth
69869    him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same
69870    shall be great.
69871 49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out
69872    devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth
69873    not with us.
69874 50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not
69875    against us is for us.
69876 51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be
69877    received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
69878 52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and
69879    entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for
69880    him.
69881 53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though
69882    he would go to Jerusalem.
69883 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said,
69884    Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven,
69885    and consume them, even as Elias did?
69886 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what
69887    manner of spirit ye are of.
69888 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to
69889    save them. And they went to another village.
69890 57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain
69891    man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou
69892    goest.
69893 58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the
69894    air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his
69895    head.
69896 59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer
69897    me first to go and bury my father.
69898 60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou
69899    and preach the kingdom of God.
69900 61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me
69901    first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
69902 62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the
69903    plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

69904 Luke 10

69905  1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and
69906    sent them two and two before his face into every city and
69907    place, whither he himself would come.
69908  2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but
69909    the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the
69910    harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
69911  3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
69912  4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man
69913    by the way.
69914  5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to
69915    this house.
69916  6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon
69917    it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
69918  7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things
69919    as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not
69920    from house to house.
69921  8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat
69922    such things as are set before you:
69923  9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The
69924    kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
69925 10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not,
69926    go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
69927 11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do
69928    wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that
69929    the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
69930 12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that
69931    day for Sodom, than for that city.
69932 13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
69933    mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been
69934    done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in
69935    sackcloth and ashes.
69936 14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the
69937    judgment, than for you.
69938 15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be
69939    thrust down to hell.
69940 16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you
69941    despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent
69942    me.
69943 17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even
69944    the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
69945 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from
69946    heaven.
69947 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and
69948    scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing
69949    shall by any means hurt you.
69950 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are
69951    subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are
69952    written in heaven.
69953 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee,
69954    O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these
69955    things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto
69956    babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
69957 22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man
69958    knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is,
69959    but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
69960 23 And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately,
69961    Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
69962 24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to
69963    see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to
69964    hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
69965 25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him,
69966    saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
69967 26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest
69968    thou?
69969 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
69970    all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
69971    strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
69972 28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and
69973    thou shalt live.
69974 29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who
69975    is my neighbour?
69976 30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from
69977    Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped
69978    him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him
69979    half dead.
69980 31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and
69981    when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
69982 32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and
69983    looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
69984 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was:
69985    and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
69986 34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and
69987    wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn,
69988    and took care of him.
69989 35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and
69990    gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him;
69991    and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will
69992    repay thee.
69993 36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto
69994    him that fell among the thieves?
69995 37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto
69996    him, Go, and do thou likewise.
69997 38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a
69998    certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him
69999    into her house.
70000 39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus'
70001    feet, and heard his word.
70002 40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him,
70003    and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me
70004    to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
70005 41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art
70006    careful and troubled about many things:
70007 42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part,
70008    which shall not be taken away from her.

70009 Luke 11

70010  1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain
70011    place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him,
70012    Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
70013  2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art
70014    in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
70015    done, as in heaven, so in earth.
70016  3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
70017  4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is
70018    indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver
70019    us from evil.
70020  5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and
70021    shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend
70022    me three loaves;
70023  6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have
70024    nothing to set before him?
70025  7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the
70026    door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot
70027    rise and give thee.
70028  8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because
70029    he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise
70030    and give him as many as he needeth.
70031  9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and
70032    ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
70033 10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh
70034    findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
70035 11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will
70036    he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish
70037    give him a serpent?
70038 12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
70039 13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
70040    children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the
70041    Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
70042 14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came
70043    to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the
70044    people wondered.
70045 15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub
70046    the chief of the devils.
70047 16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
70048 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom
70049    divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house
70050    divided against a house falleth.
70051 18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his
70052    kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through
70053    Beelzebub.
70054 19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons
70055    cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
70056 20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the
70057    kingdom of God is come upon you.
70058 21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in
70059    peace:
70060 22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome
70061    him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and
70062    divideth his spoils.
70063 23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth
70064    not with me scattereth.
70065 24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
70066    through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith,
70067    I will return unto my house whence I came out.
70068 25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
70069 26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more
70070    wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and
70071    the last state of that man is worse than the first.
70072 27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman
70073    of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed
70074    is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast
70075    sucked.
70076 28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word
70077    of God, and keep it.
70078 29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to
70079    say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there
70080    shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
70081 30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the
70082    Son of man be to this generation.
70083 31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the
70084    men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from
70085    the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
70086    and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
70087 32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this
70088    generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the
70089    preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
70090 33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret
70091    place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they
70092    which come in may see the light.
70093 34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is
70094    single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine
70095    eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
70096 35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not
70097    darkness.
70098 36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part
70099    dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright
70100    shining of a candle doth give thee light.
70101 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with
70102    him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
70103 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not
70104    first washed before dinner.
70105 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the
70106    outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is
70107    full of ravening and wickedness.
70108 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that
70109    which is within also?
70110 41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold,
70111    all things are clean unto you.
70112 42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all
70113    manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God:
70114    these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
70115    undone.
70116 43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in
70117    the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
70118 44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as
70119    graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are
70120    not aware of them.
70121 45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
70122    thus saying thou reproachest us also.
70123 46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men
70124    with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not
70125    the burdens with one of your fingers.
70126 47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
70127    your fathers killed them.
70128 48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers:
70129    for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
70130 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them
70131    prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and
70132    persecute:
70133 50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
70134    foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
70135 51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which
70136    perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto
70137    you, It shall be required of this generation.
70138 52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of
70139    knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were
70140    entering in ye hindered.
70141 53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the
70142    Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to
70143    speak of many things:
70144 54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his
70145    mouth, that they might accuse him.

70146 Luke 12

70147  1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an
70148    innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one
70149    upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all,
70150    Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
70151  2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;
70152    neither hid, that shall not be known.
70153  3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard
70154    in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in
70155    closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
70156  4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill
70157    the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
70158  5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which
70159    after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say
70160    unto you, Fear him.
70161  6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of
70162    them is forgotten before God?
70163  7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear
70164    not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
70165  8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men,
70166    him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of
70167    God:
70168  9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the
70169    angels of God.
70170 10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it
70171    shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against
70172    the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
70173 11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto
70174    magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing
70175    ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
70176 12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye
70177    ought to say.
70178 13 And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my
70179    brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
70180 14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider
70181    over you?
70182 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness:
70183    for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things
70184    which he possesseth.
70185 16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a
70186    certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
70187 17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do,
70188    because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
70189 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and
70190    build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my
70191    goods.
70192 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up
70193    for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
70194 20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be
70195    required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou
70196    hast provided?
70197 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich
70198    toward God.
70199 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take
70200    no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the
70201    body, what ye shall put on.
70202 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
70203 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which
70204    neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how
70205    much more are ye better than the fowls?
70206 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature
70207    one cubit?
70208 26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why
70209    take ye thought for the rest?
70210 27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin
70211    not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was
70212    not arrayed like one of these.
70213 28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field,
70214    and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he
70215    clothe you, O ye of little faith?
70216 29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,
70217    neither be ye of doubtful mind.
70218 30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after:
70219    and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
70220 31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things
70221    shall be added unto you.
70222 32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure
70223    to give you the kingdom.
70224 33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags
70225    which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not,
70226    where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
70227 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
70228 35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
70229 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when
70230    he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and
70231    knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
70232 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall
70233    find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird
70234    himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come
70235    forth and serve them.
70236 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third
70237    watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
70238 39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what
70239    hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have
70240    suffered his house to be broken through.
70241 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an
70242    hour when ye think not.
70243 41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable
70244    unto us, or even to all?
70245 42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward,
70246    whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give
70247    them their portion of meat in due season?
70248 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall
70249    find so doing.
70250 44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over
70251    all that he hath.
70252 45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his
70253    coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens,
70254    and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
70255 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh
70256    not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut
70257    him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the
70258    unbelievers.
70259 47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not
70260    himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten
70261    with many stripes.
70262 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes,
70263    shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is
70264    given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have
70265    committed much, of him they will ask the more.
70266 49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be
70267    already kindled?
70268 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I
70269    straitened till it be accomplished!
70270 51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you,
70271    Nay; but rather division:
70272 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided,
70273    three against two, and two against three.
70274 53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son
70275    against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the
70276    daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her
70277    daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in
70278    law.
70279 54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out
70280    of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so
70281    it is.
70282 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be
70283    heat; and it cometh to pass.
70284 56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the
70285    earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
70286 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
70287 58 When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as
70288    thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be
70289    delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the
70290    judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee
70291    into prison.
70292 59 I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid
70293    the very last mite.

70294 Luke 13

70295  1 There were present at that season some that told him of the
70296    Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their
70297    sacrifices.
70298  2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these
70299    Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they
70300    suffered such things?
70301  3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
70302    perish.
70303  4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and
70304    slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that
70305    dwelt in Jerusalem?
70306  5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
70307    perish.
70308  6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree
70309    planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon,
70310    and found none.
70311  7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these
70312    three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find
70313    none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
70314  8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year
70315    also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
70316  9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou
70317    shalt cut it down.
70318 10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
70319 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity
70320    eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise
70321    lift up herself.
70322 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto
70323    her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
70324 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made
70325    straight, and glorified God.
70326 14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation,
70327    because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said
70328    unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to
70329    work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the
70330    sabbath day.
70331 15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not
70332    each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from
70333    the stall, and lead him away to watering?
70334 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom
70335    Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from
70336    this bond on the sabbath day?
70337 17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were
70338    ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious
70339    things that were done by him.
70340 18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and
70341    whereunto shall I resemble it?
70342 19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast
70343    into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the
70344    fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
70345 20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
70346 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three
70347    measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
70348 22 And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and
70349    journeying toward Jerusalem.
70350 23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And
70351    he said unto them,
70352 24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto
70353    you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
70354 25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut
70355    to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at
70356    the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall
70357    answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
70358 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy
70359    presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
70360 27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are;
70361    depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
70362 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall
70363    see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in
70364    the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
70365 29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from
70366    the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the
70367    kingdom of God.
70368 30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there
70369    are first which shall be last.
70370 31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto
70371    him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
70372 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I
70373    cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the
70374    third day I shall be perfected.
70375 33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day
70376    following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of
70377    Jerusalem.
70378 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and
70379    stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have
70380    gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood
70381    under her wings, and ye would not!
70382 35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say
70383    unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye
70384    shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

70385 Luke 14

70386  1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the
70387    chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they
70388    watched him.
70389  2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the
70390    dropsy.
70391  3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees,
70392    saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
70393  4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him,
70394    and let him go;
70395  5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or
70396    an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out
70397    on the sabbath day?
70398  6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
70399  7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he
70400    marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them.
70401  8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in
70402    the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be
70403    bidden of him;
70404  9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this
70405    man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
70406 10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room;
70407    that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee,
70408    Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the
70409    presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
70410 11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
70411    humbleth himself shall be exalted.
70412 12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a
70413    dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren,
70414    neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also
70415    bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
70416 13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the
70417    lame, the blind:
70418 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee:
70419    for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
70420 15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these
70421    things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread
70422    in the kingdom of God.
70423 16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and
70424    bade many:
70425 17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were
70426    bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
70427 18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first
70428    said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must
70429    needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
70430 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to
70431    prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
70432 20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I
70433    cannot come.
70434 21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then
70435    the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go
70436    out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring
70437    in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the
70438    blind.
70439 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded,
70440    and yet there is room.
70441 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways
70442    and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be
70443    filled.
70444 24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden
70445    shall taste of my supper.
70446 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and
70447    said unto them,
70448 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother,
70449    and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and
70450    his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
70451 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me,
70452    cannot be my disciple.
70453 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down
70454    first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to
70455    finish it?
70456 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able
70457    to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
70458 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
70459 31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth
70460    not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten
70461    thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty
70462    thousand?
70463 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an
70464    ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
70465 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all
70466    that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
70467 34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith
70468    shall it be seasoned?
70469 35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but
70470    men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

70471 Luke 15

70472  1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to
70473    hear him.
70474  2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man
70475    receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
70476  3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
70477  4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of
70478    them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness,
70479    and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
70480  5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders,
70481    rejoicing.
70482  6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and
70483    neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have
70484    found my sheep which was lost.
70485  7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one
70486    sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just
70487    persons, which need no repentance.
70488  8 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one
70489    piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek
70490    diligently till she find it?
70491  9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her
70492    neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found
70493    the piece which I had lost.
70494 10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the
70495    angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
70496 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
70497 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me
70498    the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto
70499    them his living.
70500 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together,
70501    and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his
70502    substance with riotous living.
70503 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that
70504    land; and he began to be in want.
70505 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country;
70506    and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
70507 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that
70508    the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
70509 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants
70510    of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish
70511    with hunger!
70512 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him,
70513    Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
70514 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of
70515    thy hired servants.
70516 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a
70517    great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and
70518    ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
70519 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against
70520    heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called
70521    thy son.
70522 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best
70523    robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes
70524    on his feet:
70525 23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat,
70526    and be merry:
70527 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and
70528    is found. And they began to be merry.
70529 25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew
70530    nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
70531 26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things
70532    meant.
70533 27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath
70534    killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and
70535    sound.
70536 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his
70537    father out, and intreated him.
70538 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I
70539    serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy
70540    commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might
70541    make merry with my friends:
70542 30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy
70543    living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
70544 31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that
70545    I have is thine.
70546 32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this
70547    thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is
70548    found.

70549 Luke 16

70550  1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich
70551    man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him
70552    that he had wasted his goods.
70553  2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear
70554    this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou
70555    mayest be no longer steward.
70556  3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my
70557    lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg
70558    I am ashamed.
70559  4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the
70560    stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
70561  5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and
70562    said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
70563  6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him,
70564    Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
70565  7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said,
70566    An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy
70567    bill, and write fourscore.
70568  8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done
70569    wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation
70570    wiser than the children of light.
70571  9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon
70572    of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you
70573    into everlasting habitations.
70574 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in
70575    much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
70576    much.
70577 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous
70578    mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
70579 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another
70580    man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
70581 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the
70582    one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and
70583    despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
70584 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these
70585    things: and they derided him.
70586 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves
70587    before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is
70588    highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
70589 16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the
70590    kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
70591 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle
70592    of the law to fail.
70593 18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another,
70594    committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put
70595    away from her husband committeth adultery.
70596 19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
70597    fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
70598 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid
70599    at his gate, full of sores,
70600 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the
70601    rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
70602 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
70603    the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and
70604    was buried;
70605 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth
70606    Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
70607 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and
70608    send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water,
70609    and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
70610 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
70611    receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things:
70612    but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
70613 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
70614    fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot;
70615    neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
70616 27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou
70617    wouldest send him to my father's house:
70618 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest
70619    they also come into this place of torment.
70620 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let
70621    them hear them.
70622 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them
70623    from the dead, they will repent.
70624 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
70625    neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

70626 Luke 17

70627  1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that
70628    offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
70629  2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
70630    neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one
70631    of these little ones.
70632  3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee,
70633    rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
70634  4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and
70635    seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent;
70636    thou shalt forgive him.
70637  5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
70638  6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed,
70639    ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by
70640    the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey
70641    you.
70642  7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle,
70643    will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field,
70644    Go and sit down to meat?
70645  8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may
70646    sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and
70647    drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
70648  9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were
70649    commanded him? I trow not.
70650 10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which
70651    are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have
70652    done that which was our duty to do.
70653 11 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed
70654    through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
70655 12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten
70656    men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
70657 13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have
70658    mercy on us.
70659 14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves
70660    unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went,
70661    they were cleansed.
70662 15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
70663    and with a loud voice glorified God,
70664 16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and
70665    he was a Samaritan.
70666 17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but
70667    where are the nine?
70668 18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save
70669    this stranger.
70670 19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made
70671    thee whole.
70672 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of
70673    God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God
70674    cometh not with observation:
70675 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold,
70676    the kingdom of God is within you.
70677 22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye
70678    shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye
70679    shall not see it.
70680 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not
70681    after them, nor follow them.
70682 24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part
70683    under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so
70684    shall also the Son of man be in his day.
70685 25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this
70686    generation.
70687 26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the
70688    days of the Son of man.
70689 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given
70690    in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and
70691    the flood came, and destroyed them all.
70692 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they
70693    drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
70694 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and
70695    brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
70696 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is
70697    revealed.
70698 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his
70699    stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and
70700    he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
70701 32 Remember Lot's wife.
70702 33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and
70703    whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
70704 34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed;
70705    the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
70706 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,
70707    and the other left.
70708 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the
70709    other left.
70710 37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said
70711    unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be
70712    gathered together.

70713 Luke 18

70714  1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought
70715    always to pray, and not to faint;
70716  2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God,
70717    neither regarded man:
70718  3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him,
70719    saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
70720  4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within
70721    himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
70722  5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest
70723    by her continual coming she weary me.
70724  6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
70725  7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and
70726    night unto him, though he bear long with them?
70727  8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless
70728    when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
70729  9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in
70730    themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
70731 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee,
70732    and the other a publican.
70733 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank
70734    thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust,
70735    adulterers, or even as this publican.
70736 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
70737 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much
70738    as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying,
70739    God be merciful to me a sinner.
70740 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather
70741    than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be
70742    abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
70743 15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch
70744    them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
70745 16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little
70746    children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is
70747    the kingdom of God.
70748 17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
70749    of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
70750 18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall
70751    I do to inherit eternal life?
70752 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is
70753    good, save one, that is, God.
70754 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not
70755    kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy
70756    father and thy mother.
70757 21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
70758 22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet
70759    lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and
70760    distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in
70761    heaven: and come, follow me.
70762 23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very
70763    rich.
70764 24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How
70765    hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of
70766    God!
70767 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye,
70768    than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
70769 26 And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?
70770 27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are
70771    possible with God.
70772 28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
70773 29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man
70774    that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or
70775    children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
70776 30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and
70777    in the world to come life everlasting.
70778 31 Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold,
70779    we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the
70780    prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
70781 32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be
70782    mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
70783 33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the
70784    third day he shall rise again.
70785 34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was
70786    hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
70787 35 And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a
70788    certain blind man sat by the way side begging:
70789 36 And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
70790 37 And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
70791 38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on
70792    me.
70793 39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold
70794    his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou son of David,
70795    have mercy on me.
70796 40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and
70797    when he was come near, he asked him,
70798 41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said,
70799    Lord, that I may receive my sight.
70800 42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath
70801    saved thee.
70802 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him,
70803    glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave
70804    praise unto God.

70805 Luke 19

70806  1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
70807  2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the
70808    chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
70809  3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the
70810    press, because he was little of stature.
70811  4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see
70812    him: for he was to pass that way.
70813  5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him,
70814    and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for
70815    to day I must abide at thy house.
70816  6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
70817  7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was
70818    gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
70819  8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the
70820    half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any
70821    thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him
70822    fourfold.
70823  9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this
70824    house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
70825 10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was
70826    lost.
70827 11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable,
70828    because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought
70829    that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
70830 12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country
70831    to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
70832 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds,
70833    and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
70834 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him,
70835    saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
70836 15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having
70837    received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be
70838    called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might
70839    know how much every man had gained by trading.
70840 16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten
70841    pounds.
70842 17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou
70843    hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over
70844    ten cities.
70845 18 And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five
70846    pounds.
70847 19 And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
70848 20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound,
70849    which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
70850 21 For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou
70851    takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou
70852    didst not sow.
70853 22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge
70854    thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere
70855    man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did
70856    not sow:
70857 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at
70858    my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
70859 24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound,
70860    and give it to him that hath ten pounds.
70861 25 (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)
70862 26 For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be
70863    given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be
70864    taken away from him.
70865 27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign
70866    over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
70867 28 And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to
70868    Jerusalem.
70869 29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and
70870    Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two
70871    of his disciples,
70872 30 Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which
70873    at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never
70874    man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
70875 31 And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say
70876    unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
70877 32 And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he
70878    had said unto them.
70879 33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said
70880    unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
70881 34 And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
70882 35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments
70883    upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
70884 36 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.
70885 37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the
70886    mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to
70887    rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty
70888    works that they had seen;
70889 38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the
70890    Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
70891 39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto
70892    him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
70893 40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these
70894    should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
70895 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over
70896    it,
70897 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy
70898    day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are
70899    hid from thine eyes.
70900 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall
70901    cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep
70902    thee in on every side,
70903 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children
70904    within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon
70905    another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
70906 45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that
70907    sold therein, and them that bought;
70908 46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of
70909    prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
70910 47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and
70911    the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
70912 48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were
70913    very attentive to hear him.

70914 Luke 20

70915  1 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught
70916    the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief
70917    priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
70918  2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest
70919    thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
70920  3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one
70921    thing; and answer me:
70922  4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
70923  5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say,
70924    From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
70925  6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for
70926    they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
70927  7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
70928  8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority
70929    I do these things.
70930  9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain
70931    man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and
70932    went into a far country for a long time.
70933 10 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that
70934    they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the
70935    husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
70936 11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and
70937    entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
70938 12 And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast
70939    him out.
70940 13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will
70941    send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when
70942    they see him.
70943 14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among
70944    themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him,
70945    that the inheritance may be ours.
70946 15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
70947    therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
70948 16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the
70949    vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God
70950    forbid.
70951 17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is
70952    written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is
70953    become the head of the corner?
70954 18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on
70955    whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
70956 19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to
70957    lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they
70958    perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
70959 20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign
70960    themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words,
70961    that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of
70962    the governor.
70963 21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest
70964    and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of
70965    any, but teachest the way of God truly:
70966 22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
70967 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why
70968    tempt ye me?
70969 24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They
70970    answered and said, Caesar's.
70971 25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things
70972    which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
70973 26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people:
70974    and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
70975 27 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that
70976    there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
70977 28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die,
70978    having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother
70979    should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
70980 29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a
70981    wife, and died without children.
70982 30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
70983 31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and
70984    they left no children, and died.
70985 32 Last of all the woman died also.
70986 33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for
70987    seven had her to wife.
70988 34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world
70989    marry, and are given in marriage:
70990 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world,
70991    and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are
70992    given in marriage:
70993 36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the
70994    angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the
70995    resurrection.
70996 37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush,
70997    when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of
70998    Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
70999 38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all
71000    live unto him.
71001 39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast
71002    well said.
71003 40 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.
71004 41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's
71005    son?
71006 42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said
71007    unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
71008 43 Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
71009 44 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?
71010 45 Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his
71011    disciples,
71012 46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and
71013    love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the
71014    synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
71015 47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers:
71016    the same shall receive greater damnation.

71017 Luke 21

71018  1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts
71019    into the treasury.
71020  2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two
71021    mites.
71022  3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow
71023    hath cast in more than they all:
71024  4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the
71025    offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the
71026    living that she had.
71027  5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with
71028    goodly stones and gifts, he said,
71029  6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in
71030    the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that
71031    shall not be thrown down.
71032  7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these
71033    things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall
71034    come to pass?
71035  8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall
71036    come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth
71037    near: go ye not therefore after them.
71038  9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not
71039    terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the
71040    end is not by and by.
71041 10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and
71042    kingdom against kingdom:
71043 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines,
71044    and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall
71045    there be from heaven.
71046 12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and
71047    persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into
71048    prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's
71049    sake.
71050 13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
71051 14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before
71052    what ye shall answer:
71053 15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your
71054    adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
71055 16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and
71056    kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be
71057    put to death.
71058 17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
71059 18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
71060 19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
71061 20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then
71062    know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
71063 21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and
71064    let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not
71065    them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
71066 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are
71067    written may be fulfilled.
71068 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give
71069    suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the
71070    land, and wrath upon this people.
71071 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
71072    away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden
71073    down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be
71074    fulfilled.
71075 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in
71076    the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with
71077    perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
71078 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after
71079    those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of
71080    heaven shall be shaken.
71081 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
71082    power and great glory.
71083 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and
71084    lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
71085 29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all
71086    the trees;
71087 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves
71088    that summer is now nigh at hand.
71089 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye
71090    that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
71091 32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away,
71092    till all be fulfilled.
71093 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass
71094    away.
71095 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
71096    overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of
71097    this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
71098 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the
71099    face of the whole earth.
71100 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
71101    worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and
71102    to stand before the Son of man.
71103 37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at
71104    night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the
71105    mount of Olives.
71106 38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the
71107    temple, for to hear him.

71108 Luke 22

71109  1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called
71110    the Passover.
71111  2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill
71112    him; for they feared the people.
71113  3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the
71114    number of the twelve.
71115  4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and
71116    captains, how he might betray him unto them.
71117  5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
71118  6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto
71119    them in the absence of the multitude.
71120  7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must
71121    be killed.
71122  8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the
71123    passover, that we may eat.
71124  9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
71125 10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the
71126    city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water;
71127    follow him into the house where he entereth in.
71128 11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master
71129    saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat
71130    the passover with my disciples?
71131 12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make
71132    ready.
71133 13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they
71134    made ready the passover.
71135 14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve
71136    apostles with him.
71137 15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this
71138    passover with you before I suffer:
71139 16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it
71140    be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
71141 17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and
71142    divide it among yourselves:
71143 18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine,
71144    until the kingdom of God shall come.
71145 19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave
71146    unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you:
71147    this do in remembrance of me.
71148 20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the
71149    new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
71150 21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on
71151    the table.
71152 22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe
71153    unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
71154 23 And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it
71155    was that should do this thing.
71156 24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should
71157    be accounted the greatest.
71158 25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise
71159    lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them
71160    are called benefactors.
71161 26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let
71162    him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth
71163    serve.
71164 27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that
71165    serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as
71166    he that serveth.
71167 28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
71168 29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed
71169    unto me;
71170 30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit
71171    on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
71172 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to
71173    have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
71174 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when
71175    thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
71176 33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both
71177    into prison, and to death.
71178 34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this
71179    day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
71180 35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and
71181    scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
71182 36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him
71183    take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword,
71184    let him sell his garment, and buy one.
71185 37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be
71186    accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the
71187    transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
71188 38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said
71189    unto them, It is enough.
71190 39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of
71191    Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
71192 40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye
71193    enter not into temptation.
71194 41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and
71195    kneeled down, and prayed,
71196 42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me:
71197    nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
71198 43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,
71199    strengthening him.
71200 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat
71201    was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the
71202    ground.
71203 45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his
71204    disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
71205 46 And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter
71206    into temptation.
71207 47 And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was
71208    called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew
71209    near unto Jesus to kiss him.
71210 48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man
71211    with a kiss?
71212 49 When they which were about him saw what would follow, they
71213    said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
71214 50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut
71215    off his right ear.
71216 51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he
71217    touched his ear, and healed him.
71218 52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the
71219    temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come
71220    out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
71221 53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no
71222    hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of
71223    darkness.
71224 54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high
71225    priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
71226 55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and
71227    were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
71228 56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and
71229    earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with
71230    him.
71231 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
71232 58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art
71233    also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
71234 59 And about the space of one hour after another confidently
71235    affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him:
71236    for he is a Galilaean.
71237 60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And
71238    immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
71239 61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter
71240    remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him,
71241    Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
71242 62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
71243 63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
71244 64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the
71245    face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote
71246    thee?
71247 65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
71248 66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the
71249    chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into
71250    their council, saying,
71251 67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell
71252    you, ye will not believe:
71253 68 And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
71254 69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the
71255    power of God.
71256 70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said
71257    unto them, Ye say that I am.
71258 71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we
71259    ourselves have heard of his own mouth.

71260 Luke 23

71261  1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto
71262    Pilate.
71263  2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow
71264    perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to
71265    Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
71266  3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?
71267    And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
71268  4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I
71269    find no fault in this man.
71270  5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the
71271    people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee
71272    to this place.
71273  6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a
71274    Galilaean.
71275  7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's
71276    jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at
71277    Jerusalem at that time.
71278  8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was
71279    desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard
71280    many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle
71281    done by him.
71282  9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him
71283    nothing.
71284 10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused
71285    him.
71286 11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked
71287    him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to
71288    Pilate.
71289 12 And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together:
71290    for before they were at enmity between themselves.
71291 13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and
71292    the rulers and the people,
71293 14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that
71294    perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him
71295    before you, have found no fault in this man touching those
71296    things whereof ye accuse him:
71297 15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing
71298    worthy of death is done unto him.
71299 16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
71300 17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
71301 18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man,
71302    and release unto us Barabbas:
71303 19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder,
71304    was cast into prison.)
71305 20 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to
71306    them.
71307 21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
71308 22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he
71309    done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore
71310    chastise him, and let him go.
71311 23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he
71312    might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief
71313    priests prevailed.
71314 24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
71315 25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was
71316    cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered
71317    Jesus to their will.
71318 26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a
71319    Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the
71320    cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
71321 27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of
71322    women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
71323 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep
71324    not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
71325 29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say,
71326    Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the
71327    paps which never gave suck.
71328 30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and
71329    to the hills, Cover us.
71330 31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be
71331    done in the dry?
71332 32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be
71333    put to death.
71334 33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary,
71335    there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the
71336    right hand, and the other on the left.
71337 34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what
71338    they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
71339 35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them
71340    derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if
71341    he be Christ, the chosen of God.
71342 36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering
71343    him vinegar,
71344 37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
71345 38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of
71346    Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
71347 39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him,
71348    saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
71349 40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou
71350    fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
71351 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our
71352    deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
71353 42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest
71354    into thy kingdom.
71355 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt
71356    thou be with me in paradise.
71357 44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over
71358    all the earth until the ninth hour.
71359 45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent
71360    in the midst.
71361 46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father,
71362    into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he
71363    gave up the ghost.
71364 47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God,
71365    saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
71366 48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding
71367    the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
71368 49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from
71369    Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
71370 50 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and
71371    he was a good man, and a just:
71372 51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;)
71373    he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself
71374    waited for the kingdom of God.
71375 52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
71376 53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a
71377    sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was
71378    laid.
71379 54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
71380 55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed
71381    after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
71382 56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and
71383    rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

71384 Luke 24

71385  1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning,
71386    they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they
71387    had prepared, and certain others with them.
71388  2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
71389  3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
71390  4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout,
71391    behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
71392  5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the
71393    earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the
71394    dead?
71395  6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you
71396    when he was yet in Galilee,
71397  7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of
71398    sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
71399  8 And they remembered his words,
71400  9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things
71401    unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
71402 10 It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of
71403    James, and other women that were with them, which told these
71404    things unto the apostles.
71405 11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they
71406    believed them not.
71407 12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping
71408    down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and
71409    departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
71410 13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village
71411    called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore
71412    furlongs.
71413 14 And they talked together of all these things which had
71414    happened.
71415 15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and
71416    reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
71417 16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
71418 17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these
71419    that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
71420 18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said
71421    unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not
71422    known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
71423 19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him,
71424    Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in
71425    deed and word before God and all the people:
71426 20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be
71427    condemned to death, and have crucified him.
71428 21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed
71429    Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since
71430    these things were done.
71431 22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished,
71432    which were early at the sepulchre;
71433 23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they
71434    had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was
71435    alive.
71436 24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre,
71437    and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw
71438    not.
71439 25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe
71440    all that the prophets have spoken:
71441 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter
71442    into his glory?
71443 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto
71444    them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
71445 28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he
71446    made as though he would have gone further.
71447 29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is
71448    toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to
71449    tarry with them.
71450 30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took
71451    bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
71452 31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished
71453    out of their sight.
71454 32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within
71455    us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to
71456    us the scriptures?
71457 33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and
71458    found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with
71459    them,
71460 34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
71461 35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was
71462    known of them in breaking of bread.
71463 36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of
71464    them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
71465 37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they
71466    had seen a spirit.
71467 38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do
71468    thoughts arise in your hearts?
71469 39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me,
71470    and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
71471    have.
71472 40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his
71473    feet.
71474 41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said
71475    unto them, Have ye here any meat?
71476 42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an
71477    honeycomb.
71478 43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
71479 44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto
71480    you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be
71481    fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the
71482    prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
71483 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand
71484    the scriptures,
71485 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved
71486    Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
71487 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached
71488    in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
71489 48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
71490 49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but
71491    tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with
71492    power from on high.
71493 50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his
71494    hands, and blessed them.
71495 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from
71496    them, and carried up into heaven.
71497 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great
71498    joy:
71499 53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.
71500    Amen.

71501 Book 43 John

71502 John 1

71503  1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
71504    the Word was God.
71505  2 The same was in the beginning with God.
71506  3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing
71507    made that was made.
71508  4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
71509  5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness
71510    comprehended it not.
71511  6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
71512  7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light,
71513    that all men through him might believe.
71514  8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that
71515    Light.
71516  9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
71517    into the world.
71518 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the
71519    world knew him not.
71520 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
71521 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become
71522    the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
71523 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
71524    nor of the will of man, but of God.
71525 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
71526    beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
71527    Father,) full of grace and truth.
71528 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of
71529    whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me:
71530    for he was before me.
71531 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
71532 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by
71533    Jesus Christ.
71534 18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which
71535    is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
71536 19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and
71537    Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
71538 20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the
71539    Christ.
71540 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I
71541    am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
71542 22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an
71543    answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
71544 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make
71545    straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
71546 24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
71547 25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou
71548    then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that
71549    prophet?
71550 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there
71551    standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
71552 27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose
71553    shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
71554 28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John
71555    was baptizing.
71556 29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
71557    Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
71558    world.
71559 30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is
71560    preferred before me: for he was before me.
71561 31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to
71562    Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
71563 32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from
71564    heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
71565 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water,
71566    the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit
71567    descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which
71568    baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
71569 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
71570 35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
71571 36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb
71572    of God!
71573 37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed
71574    Jesus.
71575 38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto
71576    them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to
71577    say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
71578 39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he
71579    dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth
71580    hour.
71581 40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was
71582    Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
71583 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We
71584    have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the
71585    Christ.
71586 42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he
71587    said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called
71588    Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
71589 43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and
71590    findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
71591 44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
71592 45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found
71593    him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write,
71594    Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
71595 46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out
71596    of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
71597 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an
71598    Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
71599 48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus
71600    answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee,
71601    when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
71602 49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son
71603    of God; thou art the King of Israel.
71604 50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I
71605    saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see
71606    greater things than these.
71607 51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
71608    Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God
71609    ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

71610 John 2

71611  1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and
71612    the mother of Jesus was there:
71613  2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
71614  3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him,
71615    They have no wine.
71616  4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine
71617    hour is not yet come.
71618  5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto
71619    you, do it.
71620  6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the
71621    manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three
71622    firkins apiece.
71623  7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they
71624    filled them up to the brim.
71625  8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the
71626    governor of the feast. And they bare it.
71627  9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made
71628    wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew
71629    the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the
71630    bridegroom,
71631 10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth
71632    good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is
71633    worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
71634 11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
71635    manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
71636 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and
71637    his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not
71638    many days.
71639 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to
71640    Jerusalem.
71641 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and
71642    doves, and the changers of money sitting:
71643 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them
71644    all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured
71645    out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
71646 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence;
71647    make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
71648 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of
71649    thine house hath eaten me up.
71650 18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest
71651    thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
71652 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in
71653    three days I will raise it up.
71654 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in
71655    building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
71656 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
71657 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples
71658    remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed
71659    the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
71660 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast
71661    day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles
71662    which he did.
71663 24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew
71664    all men,
71665 25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew
71666    what was in man.

71667 John 3

71668  1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of
71669    the Jews:
71670  2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we
71671    know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do
71672    these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
71673  3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto
71674    thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
71675    God.
71676  4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is
71677    old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and
71678    be born?
71679  5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man
71680    be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
71681    kingdom of God.
71682  6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
71683    born of the Spirit is spirit.
71684  7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
71685  8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
71686    thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it
71687    goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
71688  9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
71689 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel,
71690    and knowest not these things?
71691 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and
71692    testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
71693 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how
71694    shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
71695 13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down
71696    from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
71697 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
71698    must the Son of man be lifted up:
71699 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
71700    eternal life.
71701 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
71702    Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
71703    have everlasting life.
71704 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;
71705    but that the world through him might be saved.
71706 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
71707    believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not
71708    believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
71709 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the
71710    world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
71711    deeds were evil.
71712 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh
71713    to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
71714 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds
71715    may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
71716 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land
71717    of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
71718 23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because
71719    there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
71720 24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
71721 25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples
71722    and the Jews about purifying.
71723 26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was
71724    with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold,
71725    the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
71726 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it
71727    be given him from heaven.
71728 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the
71729    Christ, but that I am sent before him.
71730 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of
71731    the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth
71732    greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy
71733    therefore is fulfilled.
71734 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
71735 31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the
71736    earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh
71737    from heaven is above all.
71738 32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no
71739    man receiveth his testimony.
71740 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that
71741    God is true.
71742 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God
71743    giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
71744 35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his
71745    hand.
71746 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he
71747    that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath
71748    of God abideth on him.

71749 John 4

71750  1 When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that
71751    Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
71752  2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
71753  3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
71754  4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
71755  5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar,
71756    near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son
71757    Joseph.
71758  6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied
71759    with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the
71760    sixth hour.
71761  7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith
71762    unto her, Give me to drink.
71763  8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
71764  9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou,
71765    being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?
71766    for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
71767 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of
71768    God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou
71769    wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee
71770    living water.
71771 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,
71772    and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living
71773    water?
71774 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the
71775    well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his
71776    cattle?
71777 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this
71778    water shall thirst again:
71779 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him
71780    shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
71781    be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
71782 15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I
71783    thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
71784 16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
71785 17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said
71786    unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
71787 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is
71788    not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
71789 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a
71790    prophet.
71791 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
71792    Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
71793 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when
71794    ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem,
71795    worship the Father.
71796 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for
71797    salvation is of the Jews.
71798 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
71799    shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the
71800    Father seeketh such to worship him.
71801 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
71802    spirit and in truth.
71803 25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is
71804    called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
71805 26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
71806 27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked
71807    with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why
71808    talkest thou with her?
71809 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the
71810    city, and saith to the men,
71811 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is
71812    not this the Christ?
71813 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
71814 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master,
71815    eat.
71816 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
71817 33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man
71818    brought him ought to eat?
71819 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that
71820    sent me, and to finish his work.
71821 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh
71822    harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look
71823    on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
71824 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
71825    life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may
71826    rejoice together.
71827 37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another
71828    reapeth.
71829 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other
71830    men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
71831 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for
71832    the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that
71833    ever I did.
71834 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him
71835    that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
71836 41 And many more believed because of his own word;
71837 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy
71838    saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is
71839    indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
71840 43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
71841 44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in
71842    his own country.
71843 45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received
71844    him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at
71845    the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
71846 46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the
71847    water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was
71848    sick at Capernaum.
71849 47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee,
71850    he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down,
71851    and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
71852 48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye
71853    will not believe.
71854 49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
71855 50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man
71856    believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went
71857    his way.
71858 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told
71859    him, saying, Thy son liveth.
71860 52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And
71861    they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever
71862    left him.
71863 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which
71864    Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and
71865    his whole house.
71866 54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was
71867    come out of Judaea into Galilee.

71868 John 5

71869  1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
71870    Jerusalem.
71871  2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is
71872    called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
71873  3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind,
71874    halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
71875  4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and
71876    troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling
71877    of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease
71878    he had.
71879  5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and
71880    eight years.
71881  6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long
71882    time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
71883  7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the
71884    water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am
71885    coming, another steppeth down before me.
71886  8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
71887  9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed,
71888    and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
71889 10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the
71890    sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
71891 11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto
71892    me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
71893 12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee,
71894    Take up thy bed, and walk?
71895 13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had
71896    conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
71897 14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him,
71898    Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing
71899    come unto thee.
71900 15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which
71901    had made him whole.
71902 16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay
71903    him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
71904 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I
71905    work.
71906 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not
71907    only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his
71908    Father, making himself equal with God.
71909 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
71910    unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth
71911    the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also
71912    doeth the Son likewise.
71913 20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that
71914    himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these,
71915    that ye may marvel.
71916 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them;
71917    even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
71918 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment
71919    unto the Son:
71920 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the
71921    Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father
71922    which hath sent him.
71923 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
71924    believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and
71925    shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death
71926    unto life.
71927 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now
71928    is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and
71929    they that hear shall live.
71930 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to
71931    the Son to have life in himself;
71932 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because
71933    he is the Son of man.
71934 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all
71935    that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
71936 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the
71937    resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
71938    resurrection of damnation.
71939 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
71940    judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the
71941    will of the Father which hath sent me.
71942 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
71943 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that
71944    the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
71945 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
71946 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say,
71947    that ye might be saved.
71948 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for
71949    a season to rejoice in his light.
71950 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works
71951    which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that
71952    I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
71953 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness
71954    of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen
71955    his shape.
71956 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath
71957    sent, him ye believe not.
71958 39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal
71959    life: and they are they which testify of me.
71960 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
71961 41 I receive not honour from men.
71962 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
71963 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if
71964    another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
71965 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and
71966    seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
71967 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is
71968    one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
71969 46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he
71970    wrote of me.
71971 47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my
71972    words?

71973 John 6

71974  1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which
71975    is the sea of Tiberias.
71976  2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his
71977    miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
71978  3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his
71979    disciples.
71980  4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
71981  5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company
71982    come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy
71983    bread, that these may eat?
71984  6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he
71985    would do.
71986  7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not
71987    sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
71988  8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith
71989    unto him,
71990  9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two
71991    small fishes: but what are they among so many?
71992 10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much
71993    grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five
71994    thousand.
71995 11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he
71996    distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that
71997    were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they
71998    would.
71999 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up
72000    the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
72001 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve
72002    baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which
72003    remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
72004 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did,
72005    said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into
72006    the world.
72007 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take
72008    him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a
72009    mountain himself alone.
72010 16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the
72011    sea,
72012 17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward
72013    Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to
72014    them.
72015 18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
72016 19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty
72017    furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh
72018    unto the ship: and they were afraid.
72019 20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
72020 21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and
72021    immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
72022 22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other
72023    side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save
72024    that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus
72025    went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his
72026    disciples were gone away alone;
72027 23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the
72028    place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given
72029    thanks:)
72030 24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there,
72031    neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to
72032    Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
72033 25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they
72034    said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
72035 26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
72036    Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye
72037    did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
72038 27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat
72039    which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man
72040    shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
72041 28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work
72042    the works of God?
72043 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God,
72044    that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
72045 30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then,
72046    that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
72047 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He
72048    gave them bread from heaven to eat.
72049 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
72050    Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father
72051    giveth you the true bread from heaven.
72052 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and
72053    giveth life unto the world.
72054 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
72055 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that
72056    cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me
72057    shall never thirst.
72058 36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe
72059    not.
72060 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that
72061    cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
72062 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the
72063    will of him that sent me.
72064 39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all
72065    which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise
72066    it up again at the last day.
72067 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
72068    seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting
72069    life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
72070 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread
72071    which came down from heaven.
72072 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose
72073    father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I
72074    came down from heaven?
72075 43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among
72076    yourselves.
72077 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me
72078    draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
72079 45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of
72080    God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of
72081    the Father, cometh unto me.
72082 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of
72083    God, he hath seen the Father.
72084 47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath
72085    everlasting life.
72086 48 I am that bread of life.
72087 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
72088 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man
72089    may eat thereof, and not die.
72090 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man
72091    eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that
72092    I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
72093    world.
72094 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can
72095    this man give us his flesh to eat?
72096 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
72097    Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his
72098    blood, ye have no life in you.
72099 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal
72100    life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
72101 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
72102 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in
72103    me, and I in him.
72104 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father:
72105    so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
72106 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your
72107    fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this
72108    bread shall live for ever.
72109 59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in
72110    Capernaum.
72111 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this,
72112    said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
72113 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it,
72114    he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
72115 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was
72116    before?
72117 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
72118    the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are
72119    life.
72120 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew
72121    from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who
72122    should betray him.
72123 65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come
72124    unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
72125 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no
72126    more with him.
72127 67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
72128 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou
72129    hast the words of eternal life.
72130 69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son
72131    of the living God.
72132 70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of
72133    you is a devil?
72134 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was
72135    that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

72136 John 7

72137  1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not
72138    walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
72139  2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
72140  3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go
72141    into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that
72142    thou doest.
72143  4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he
72144    himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things,
72145    shew thyself to the world.
72146  5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
72147  6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your
72148    time is alway ready.
72149  7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify
72150    of it, that the works thereof are evil.
72151  8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for
72152    my time is not yet full come.
72153  9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in
72154    Galilee.
72155 10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto
72156    the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
72157 11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
72158 12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him:
72159    for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he
72160    deceiveth the people.
72161 13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
72162 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the
72163    temple, and taught.
72164 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters,
72165    having never learned?
72166 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but
72167    his that sent me.
72168 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
72169    whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
72170 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that
72171    seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
72172    unrighteousness is in him.
72173 19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth
72174    the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
72175 20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth
72176    about to kill thee?
72177 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and
72178    ye all marvel.
72179 22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is
72180    of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day
72181    circumcise a man.
72182 23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law
72183    of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I
72184    have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
72185 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
72186    judgment.
72187 25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they
72188    seek to kill?
72189 26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do
72190    the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
72191 27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh,
72192    no man knoweth whence he is.
72193 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both
72194    know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself,
72195    but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
72196 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
72197 30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him,
72198    because his hour was not yet come.
72199 31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ
72200    cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man
72201    hath done?
72202 32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things
72203    concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent
72204    officers to take him.
72205 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you,
72206    and then I go unto him that sent me.
72207 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am,
72208    thither ye cannot come.
72209 35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that
72210    we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the
72211    Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
72212 36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me,
72213    and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
72214 37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
72215    cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and
72216    drink.
72217 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of
72218    his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
72219 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on
72220    him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given;
72221    because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
72222 40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying,
72223    said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
72224 41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ
72225    come out of Galilee?
72226 42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of
72227    David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
72228 43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
72229 44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands
72230    on him.
72231 45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and
72232    they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
72233 46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
72234 47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
72235 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
72236 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
72237 50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night,
72238    being one of them,)
72239 51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what
72240    he doeth?
72241 52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee?
72242    Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
72243 53 And every man went unto his own house.

72244 John 8

72245  1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
72246  2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and
72247    all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught
72248    them.
72249  3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken
72250    in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
72251  4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery,
72252    in the very act.
72253  5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned:
72254    but what sayest thou?
72255  6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse
72256    him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the
72257    ground, as though he heard them not.
72258  7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and
72259    said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him
72260    first cast a stone at her.
72261  8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
72262  9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own
72263    conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even
72264    unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman
72265    standing in the midst.
72266 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman,
72267    he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath
72268    no man condemned thee?
72269 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I
72270    condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
72271 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of
72272    the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness,
72273    but shall have the light of life.
72274 13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of
72275    thyself; thy record is not true.
72276 14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of
72277    myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and
72278    whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I
72279    go.
72280 15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
72281 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone,
72282    but I and the Father that sent me.
72283 17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men
72284    is true.
72285 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent
72286    me beareth witness of me.
72287 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered,
72288    Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye
72289    should have known my Father also.
72290 20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the
72291    temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet
72292    come.
72293 21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall
72294    seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot
72295    come.
72296 22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith,
72297    Whither I go, ye cannot come.
72298 23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above:
72299    ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
72300 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for
72301    if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
72302 25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto
72303    them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
72304 26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that
72305    sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I
72306    have heard of him.
72307 27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
72308 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of
72309    man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of
72310    myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
72311 29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me
72312    alone; for I do always those things that please him.
72313 30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
72314 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
72315    continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
72316 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
72317    free.
72318 33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in
72319    bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
72320 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
72321    committeth sin is the servant of sin.
72322 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son
72323    abideth ever.
72324 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free
72325    indeed.
72326 37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me,
72327    because my word hath no place in you.
72328 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that
72329    which ye have seen with your father.
72330 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus
72331    saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do
72332    the works of Abraham.
72333 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the
72334    truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
72335 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be
72336    not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
72337 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love
72338    me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of
72339    myself, but he sent me.
72340 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot
72341    hear my word.
72342 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
72343    ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
72344    not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
72345    speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and
72346    the father of it.
72347 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
72348 46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why
72349    do ye not believe me?
72350 47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them
72351    not, because ye are not of God.
72352 48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well
72353    that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
72354 49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father,
72355    and ye do dishonour me.
72356 50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and
72357    judgeth.
72358 51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he
72359    shall never see death.
72360 52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a
72361    devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If
72362    a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
72363 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and
72364    the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
72365 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it
72366    is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is
72367    your God:
72368 55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should
72369    say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I
72370    know him, and keep his saying.
72371 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and
72372    was glad.
72373 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old,
72374    and hast thou seen Abraham?
72375 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before
72376    Abraham was, I am.
72377 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid
72378    himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst
72379    of them, and so passed by.

72380 John 9

72381  1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his
72382    birth.
72383  2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this
72384    man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
72385  3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents:
72386    but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
72387  4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:
72388    the night cometh, when no man can work.
72389  5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
72390  6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay
72391    of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with
72392    the clay,
72393  7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is
72394    by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and
72395    washed, and came seeing.
72396  8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him
72397    that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
72398  9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he
72399    said, I am he.
72400 10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
72401 11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay,
72402    and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of
72403    Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
72404 12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
72405 13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
72406 14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and
72407    opened his eyes.
72408 15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received
72409    his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and
72410    I washed, and do see.
72411 16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God,
72412    because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a
72413    man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a
72414    division among them.
72415 17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him,
72416    that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
72417 18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been
72418    blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents
72419    of him that had received his sight.
72420 19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was
72421    born blind? how then doth he now see?
72422 20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our
72423    son, and that he was born blind:
72424 21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath
72425    opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall
72426    speak for himself.
72427 22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews:
72428    for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess
72429    that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
72430 23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
72431 24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto
72432    him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
72433 25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know
72434    not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
72435 26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened
72436    he thine eyes?
72437 27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not
72438    hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his
72439    disciples?
72440 28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we
72441    are Moses' disciples.
72442 29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know
72443    not from whence he is.
72444 30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a
72445    marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet
72446    he hath opened mine eyes.
72447 31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a
72448    worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
72449 32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the
72450    eyes of one that was born blind.
72451 33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
72452 34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in
72453    sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
72454 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found
72455    him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
72456 36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on
72457    him?
72458 37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he
72459    that talketh with thee.
72460 38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
72461 39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that
72462    they which see not might see; and that they which see might be
72463    made blind.
72464 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these
72465    words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
72466 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin:
72467    but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

72468 John 10

72469  1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the
72470    door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the
72471    same is a thief and a robber.
72472  2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the
72473    sheep.
72474  3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and
72475    he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
72476  4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them,
72477    and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
72478  5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him:
72479    for they know not the voice of strangers.
72480  6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not
72481    what things they were which he spake unto them.
72482  7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto
72483    you, I am the door of the sheep.
72484  8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the
72485    sheep did not hear them.
72486  9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,
72487    and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
72488 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to
72489    destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they
72490    might have it more abundantly.
72491 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for
72492    the sheep.
72493 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own
72494    the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the
72495    sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth
72496    the sheep.
72497 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not
72498    for the sheep.
72499 14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of
72500    mine.
72501 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay
72502    down my life for the sheep.
72503 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also
72504    I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be
72505    one fold, and one shepherd.
72506 17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
72507    that I might take it again.
72508 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have
72509    power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This
72510    commandment have I received of my Father.
72511 19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these
72512    sayings.
72513 20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear
72514    ye him?
72515 21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil.
72516    Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
72517 22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it
72518    was winter.
72519 23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
72520 24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How
72521    long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell
72522    us plainly.
72523 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the
72524    works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
72525 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said
72526    unto you.
72527 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
72528 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never
72529    perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
72530 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man
72531    is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
72532 30 I and my Father are one.
72533 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
72534 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my
72535    Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
72536 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee
72537    not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man,
72538    makest thyself God.
72539 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye
72540    are gods?
72541 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
72542    the scripture cannot be broken;
72543 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into
72544    the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of
72545    God?
72546 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
72547 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that
72548    ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in
72549    him.
72550 39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of
72551    their hand,
72552 40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at
72553    first baptized; and there he abode.
72554 41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but
72555    all things that John spake of this man were true.
72556 42 And many believed on him there.

72557 John 11

72558  1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the
72559    town of Mary and her sister Martha.
72560  2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and
72561    wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
72562  3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he
72563    whom thou lovest is sick.
72564  4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto
72565    death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be
72566    glorified thereby.
72567  5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
72568  6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two
72569    days still in the same place where he was.
72570  7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into
72571    Judaea again.
72572  8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to
72573    stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
72574  9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any
72575    man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the
72576    light of this world.
72577 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is
72578    no light in him.
72579 11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our
72580    friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of
72581    sleep.
72582 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
72583 13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had
72584    spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
72585 14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
72586 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the
72587    intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
72588 16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his
72589    fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
72590 17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave
72591    four days already.
72592 18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs
72593    off:
72594 19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them
72595    concerning their brother.
72596 20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went
72597    and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
72598 21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
72599    brother had not died.
72600 22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God,
72601    God will give it thee.
72602 23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
72603 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the
72604    resurrection at the last day.
72605 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he
72606    that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
72607 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
72608    Believest thou this?
72609 27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the
72610    Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
72611 28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary
72612    her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth
72613    for thee.
72614 29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto
72615    him.
72616 30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that
72617    place where Martha met him.
72618 31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted
72619    her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went
72620    out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep
72621    there.
72622 32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell
72623    down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been
72624    here, my brother had not died.
72625 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also
72626    weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was
72627    troubled.
72628 34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord,
72629    come and see.
72630 35 Jesus wept.
72631 36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
72632 37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the
72633    eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not
72634    have died?
72635 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave.
72636    It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
72637 39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him
72638    that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh:
72639    for he hath been dead four days.
72640 40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou
72641    wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
72642 41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead
72643    was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I
72644    thank thee that thou hast heard me.
72645 42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the
72646    people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that
72647    thou hast sent me.
72648 43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice,
72649    Lazarus, come forth.
72650 44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
72651    graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
72652    Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
72653 45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the
72654    things which Jesus did, believed on him.
72655 46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told
72656    them what things Jesus had done.
72657 47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council,
72658    and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
72659 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the
72660    Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
72661 49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that
72662    same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
72663 50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should
72664    die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
72665 51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that
72666    year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
72667 52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather
72668    together in one the children of God that were scattered
72669    abroad.
72670 53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put
72671    him to death.
72672 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went
72673    thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city
72674    called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
72675 55 And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of
72676    the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify
72677    themselves.
72678 56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as
72679    they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come
72680    to the feast?
72681 57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a
72682    commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should
72683    shew it, that they might take him.

72684 John 12

72685  1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where
72686    Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the
72687    dead.
72688  2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus
72689    was one of them that sat at the table with him.
72690  3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly,
72691    and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her
72692    hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
72693  4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
72694    which should betray him,
72695  5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and
72696    given to the poor?
72697  6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he
72698    was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
72699  7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying
72700    hath she kept this.
72701  8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not
72702    always.
72703  9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and
72704    they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see
72705    Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
72706 10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus
72707    also to death;
72708 11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and
72709    believed on Jesus.
72710 12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when
72711    they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
72712 13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and
72713    cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in
72714    the name of the Lord.
72715 14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it
72716    is written,
72717 15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting
72718    on an ass's colt.
72719 16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but
72720    when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these
72721    things were written of him, and that they had done these
72722    things unto him.
72723 17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus
72724    out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
72725 18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard
72726    that he had done this miracle.
72727 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how
72728    ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
72729 20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to
72730    worship at the feast:
72731 21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of
72732    Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
72733 22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip
72734    tell Jesus.
72735 23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the
72736    Son of man should be glorified.
72737 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall
72738    into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it
72739    bringeth forth much fruit.
72740 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his
72741    life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
72742 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there
72743    shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my
72744    Father honour.
72745 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me
72746    from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
72747 28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven,
72748    saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
72749 29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that
72750    it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
72751 30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me,
72752    but for your sakes.
72753 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of
72754    this world be cast out.
72755 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men
72756    unto me.
72757 33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
72758 34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that
72759    Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man
72760    must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
72761 35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light
72762    with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come
72763    upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither
72764    he goeth.
72765 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the
72766    children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and
72767    did hide himself from them.
72768 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they
72769    believed not on him:
72770 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled,
72771    which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to
72772    whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
72773 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said
72774    again,
72775 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that
72776    they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their
72777    heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
72778 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of
72779    him.
72780 42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;
72781    but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest
72782    they should be put out of the synagogue:
72783 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
72784 44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not
72785    on me, but on him that sent me.
72786 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
72787 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on
72788    me should not abide in darkness.
72789 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him
72790    not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
72791 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one
72792    that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall
72793    judge him in the last day.
72794 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me,
72795    he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should
72796    speak.
72797 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting:
72798    whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me,
72799    so I speak.

72800 John 13

72801  1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his
72802    hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the
72803    Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved
72804    them unto the end.
72805  2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the
72806    heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
72807  3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his
72808    hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
72809  4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a
72810    towel, and girded himself.
72811  5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash
72812    the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith
72813    he was girded.
72814  6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord,
72815    dost thou wash my feet?
72816  7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not
72817    now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
72818  8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus
72819    answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
72820  9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also
72821    my hands and my head.
72822 10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash
72823    his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not
72824    all.
72825 11 For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are
72826    not all clean.
72827 12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments,
72828    and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have
72829    done to you?
72830 13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
72831 14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye
72832    also ought to wash one another's feet.
72833 15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have
72834    done to you.
72835 16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater
72836    than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that
72837    sent him.
72838 17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
72839 18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that
72840    the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me
72841    hath lifted up his heel against me.
72842 19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass,
72843    ye may believe that I am he.
72844 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I
72845    send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that
72846    sent me.
72847 21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and
72848    testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one
72849    of you shall betray me.
72850 22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he
72851    spake.
72852 23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples,
72853    whom Jesus loved.
72854 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who
72855    it should be of whom he spake.
72856 25 He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is
72857    it?
72858 26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I
72859    have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to
72860    Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
72861 27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto
72862    him, That thou doest, do quickly.
72863 28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this
72864    unto him.
72865 29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that
72866    Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of
72867    against the feast; or, that he should give something to the
72868    poor.
72869 30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it
72870    was night.
72871 31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of
72872    man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
72873 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in
72874    himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
72875 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall
72876    seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot
72877    come; so now I say to you.
72878 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another;
72879    as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
72880 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye
72881    have love one to another.
72882 36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus
72883    answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but
72884    thou shalt follow me afterwards.
72885 37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I
72886    will lay down my life for thy sake.
72887 38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?
72888    Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till
72889    thou hast denied me thrice.

72890 John 14

72891  1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe
72892    also in me.
72893  2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
72894    would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
72895  3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
72896    and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be
72897    also.
72898  4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
72899  5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest;
72900    and how can we know the way?
72901  6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
72902    no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
72903  7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and
72904    from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
72905  8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it
72906    sufficeth us.
72907  9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and
72908    yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath
72909    seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
72910 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in
72911    me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but
72912    the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
72913 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or
72914    else believe me for the very works' sake.
72915 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the
72916    works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these
72917    shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
72918 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that
72919    the Father may be glorified in the Son.
72920 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
72921 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
72922 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
72923    Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
72924 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
72925    because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know
72926    him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
72927 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
72928 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see
72929    me: because I live, ye shall live also.
72930 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in
72931    me, and I in you.
72932 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that
72933    loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
72934    and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
72935 22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou
72936    wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
72937 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will
72938    keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come
72939    unto him, and make our abode with him.
72940 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word
72941    which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
72942 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with
72943    you.
72944 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
72945    will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
72946    all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
72947    you.
72948 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the
72949    world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
72950    neither let it be afraid.
72951 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again
72952    unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I
72953    go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
72954 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it
72955    is come to pass, ye might believe.
72956 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of
72957    this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
72958 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the
72959    Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go
72960    hence.

72961 John 15

72962  1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
72963  2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and
72964    every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may
72965    bring forth more fruit.
72966  3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto
72967    you.
72968  4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
72969    itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye
72970    abide in me.
72971  5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and
72972    I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me
72973    ye can do nothing.
72974  6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
72975    withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire,
72976    and they are burned.
72977  7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
72978    what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
72979  8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so
72980    shall ye be my disciples.
72981  9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye
72982    in my love.
72983 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as
72984    I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
72985 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain
72986    in you, and that your joy might be full.
72987 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have
72988    loved you.
72989 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
72990    life for his friends.
72991 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
72992 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
72993    not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for
72994    all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known
72995    unto you.
72996 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
72997    you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your
72998    fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the
72999    Father in my name, he may give it you.
73000 17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
73001 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
73002    hated you.
73003 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
73004    because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of
73005    the world, therefore the world hateth you.
73006 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
73007    greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will
73008    also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will
73009    keep yours also.
73010 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,
73011    because they know not him that sent me.
73012 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
73013    but now they have no cloak for their sin.
73014 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
73015 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man
73016    did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and
73017    hated both me and my Father.
73018 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that
73019    is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
73020 26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
73021    the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from
73022    the Father, he shall testify of me:
73023 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me
73024    from the beginning.

73025 John 16

73026  1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be
73027    offended.
73028  2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time
73029    cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth
73030    God service.
73031  3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not
73032    known the Father, nor me.
73033  4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall
73034    come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these
73035    things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was
73036    with you.
73037  5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you
73038    asketh me, Whither goest thou?
73039  6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath
73040    filled your heart.
73041  7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you
73042    that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
73043    come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
73044  8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
73045    righteousness, and of judgment:
73046  9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
73047 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no
73048    more;
73049 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
73050 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear
73051    them now.
73052 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide
73053    you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but
73054    whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will
73055    shew you things to come.
73056 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall
73057    shew it unto you.
73058 15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I,
73059    that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
73060 16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little
73061    while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
73062 17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this
73063    that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see
73064    me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and,
73065    Because I go to the Father?
73066 18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little
73067    while? we cannot tell what he saith.
73068 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said
73069    unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A
73070    little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little
73071    while, and ye shall see me?
73072 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament,
73073    but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but
73074    your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
73075 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour
73076    is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she
73077    remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born
73078    into the world.
73079 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again,
73080    and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from
73081    you.
73082 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say
73083    unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he
73084    will give it you.
73085 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall
73086    receive, that your joy may be full.
73087 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time
73088    cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I
73089    shall shew you plainly of the Father.
73090 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you,
73091    that I will pray the Father for you:
73092 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me,
73093    and have believed that I came out from God.
73094 28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world:
73095    again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
73096 29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly,
73097    and speakest no proverb.
73098 30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not
73099    that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou
73100    camest forth from God.
73101 31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
73102 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be
73103    scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and
73104    yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
73105 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
73106    peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good
73107    cheer; I have overcome the world.

73108 John 17

73109  1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
73110    said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son
73111    also may glorify thee:
73112  2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should
73113    give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
73114  3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
73115    true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
73116  4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work
73117    which thou gavest me to do.
73118  5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with
73119    the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
73120  6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me
73121    out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me;
73122    and they have kept thy word.
73123  7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given
73124    me are of thee.
73125  8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and
73126    they have received them, and have known surely that I came out
73127    from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
73128  9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which
73129    thou hast given me; for they are thine.
73130 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified
73131    in them.
73132 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
73133    and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name
73134    those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we
73135    are.
73136 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
73137    those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is
73138    lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be
73139    fulfilled.
73140 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,
73141    that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
73142 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them,
73143    because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the
73144    world.
73145 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
73146    that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
73147 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
73148 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
73149 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
73150    them into the world.
73151 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
73152    sanctified through the truth.
73153 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
73154    believe on me through their word;
73155 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in
73156    thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may
73157    believe that thou hast sent me.
73158 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that
73159    they may be one, even as we are one:
73160 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in
73161    one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and
73162    hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
73163 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be
73164    with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou
73165    hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of
73166    the world.
73167 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have
73168    known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
73169 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it:
73170    that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and
73171    I in them.

73172 John 18

73173  1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his
73174    disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the
73175    which he entered, and his disciples.
73176  2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus
73177    ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
73178  3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from
73179    the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns
73180    and torches and weapons.
73181  4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,
73182    went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
73183  5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I
73184    am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
73185  6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went
73186    backward, and fell to the ground.
73187  7 Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus
73188    of Nazareth.
73189  8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye
73190    seek me, let these go their way:
73191  9 That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them
73192    which thou gavest me have I lost none.
73193 10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high
73194    priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's
73195    name was Malchus.
73196 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath:
73197    the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
73198 12 Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took
73199    Jesus, and bound him,
73200 13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to
73201    Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
73202 14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it
73203    was expedient that one man should die for the people.
73204 15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple:
73205    that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with
73206    Jesus into the palace of the high priest.
73207 16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other
73208    disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto
73209    her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
73210 17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not
73211    thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.
73212 18 And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire
73213    of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and
73214    Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
73215 19 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his
73216    doctrine.
73217 20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught
73218    in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always
73219    resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
73220 21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said
73221    unto them: behold, they know what I said.
73222 22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood
73223    by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest
73224    thou the high priest so?
73225 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the
73226    evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
73227 24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
73228 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore
73229    unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied
73230    it, and said, I am not.
73231 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman
73232    whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the
73233    garden with him?
73234 27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
73235 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment:
73236    and it was early; and they themselves went not into the
73237    judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they
73238    might eat the passover.
73239 29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation
73240    bring ye against this man?
73241 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor,
73242    we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
73243 31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him
73244    according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is
73245    not lawful for us to put any man to death:
73246 32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake,
73247    signifying what death he should die.
73248 33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called
73249    Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
73250 34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did
73251    others tell it thee of me?
73252 35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief
73253    priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
73254 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom
73255    were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I
73256    should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not
73257    from hence.
73258 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus
73259    answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I
73260    born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should
73261    bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth
73262    heareth my voice.
73263 38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said
73264    this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I
73265    find in him no fault at all.
73266 39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at
73267    the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the
73268    King of the Jews?
73269 40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas.
73270    Now Barabbas was a robber.

73271 John 19

73272  1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
73273  2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his
73274    head, and they put on him a purple robe,
73275  3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with
73276    their hands.
73277  4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them,
73278    Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find
73279    no fault in him.
73280  5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the
73281    purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
73282  6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they
73283    cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto
73284    them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in
73285    him.
73286  7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought
73287    to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
73288  8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more
73289    afraid;
73290  9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus,
73291    Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
73292 10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest
73293    thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to
73294    release thee?
73295 11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me,
73296    except it were given thee from above: therefore he that
73297    delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
73298 12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the
73299    Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not
73300    Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh
73301    against Caesar.
73302 13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus
73303    forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is
73304    called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
73305 14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the
73306    sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
73307 15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him.
73308    Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief
73309    priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
73310 16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
73311    they took Jesus, and led him away.
73312 17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the
73313    place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
73314 18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either
73315    side one, and Jesus in the midst.
73316 19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the
73317    writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
73318 20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where
73319    Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written
73320    in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
73321 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not,
73322    The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
73323 22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
73324 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
73325    garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and
73326    also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the
73327    top throughout.
73328 24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but
73329    cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might
73330    be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them,
73331    and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore
73332    the soldiers did.
73333 25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his
73334    mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary
73335    Magdalene.
73336 26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing
73337    by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy
73338    son!
73339 27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from
73340    that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
73341 28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
73342    accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I
73343    thirst.
73344 29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a
73345    spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his
73346    mouth.
73347 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is
73348    finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
73349 31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
73350    bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day,
73351    (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that
73352    their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
73353 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and
73354    of the other which was crucified with him.
73355 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
73356    they brake not his legs:
73357 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and
73358    forthwith came there out blood and water.
73359 35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he
73360    knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
73361 36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be
73362    fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
73363 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom
73364    they pierced.
73365 38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of
73366    Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that
73367    he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him
73368    leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
73369 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to
73370    Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
73371    about an hundred pound weight.
73372 40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen
73373    clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
73374 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden;
73375    and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet
73376    laid.
73377 42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews'
73378    preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

73379 John 20

73380  1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it
73381    was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken
73382    away from the sepulchre.
73383  2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
73384    disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have
73385    taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not
73386    where they have laid him.
73387  3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came
73388    to the sepulchre.
73389  4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun
73390    Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
73391  5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes
73392    lying; yet went he not in.
73393  6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the
73394    sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
73395  7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the
73396    linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
73397  8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the
73398    sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
73399  9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise
73400    again from the dead.
73401 10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
73402 11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she
73403    wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
73404 12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head,
73405    and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
73406 13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto
73407    them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not
73408    where they have laid him.
73409 14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw
73410    Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
73411 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest
73412    thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him,
73413    Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast
73414    laid him, and I will take him away.
73415 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto
73416    him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
73417 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended
73418    to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I
73419    ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and
73420    your God.
73421 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen
73422    the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
73423 19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
73424    when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled
73425    for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and
73426    saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
73427 20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his
73428    side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.
73429 21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father
73430    hath sent me, even so send I you.
73431 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto
73432    them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
73433 23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and
73434    whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
73435 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with
73436    them when Jesus came.
73437 25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the
73438    LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands
73439    the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of
73440    the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not
73441    believe.
73442 26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and
73443    Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and
73444    stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
73445 27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold
73446    my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my
73447    side: and be not faithless, but believing.
73448 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
73449 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou
73450    hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet
73451    have believed.
73452 30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his
73453    disciples, which are not written in this book:
73454 31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the
73455    Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life
73456    through his name.

73457 John 21

73458  1 After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples
73459    at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.
73460  2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus,
73461    and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and
73462    two other of his disciples.
73463  3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto
73464    him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a
73465    ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
73466  4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore:
73467    but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
73468  5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They
73469    answered him, No.
73470  6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the
73471    ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they
73472    were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
73473  7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It
73474    is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord,
73475    he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and
73476    did cast himself into the sea.
73477  8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were
73478    not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,)
73479    dragging the net with fishes.
73480  9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of
73481    coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
73482 10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now
73483    caught.
73484 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great
73485    fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were
73486    so many, yet was not the net broken.
73487 12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the
73488    disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the
73489    Lord.
73490 13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish
73491    likewise.
73492 14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his
73493    disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
73494 15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son
73495    of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him,
73496    Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him,
73497    Feed my lambs.
73498 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas,
73499    lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest
73500    that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
73501 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest
73502    thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third
73503    time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest
73504    all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto
73505    him, Feed my sheep.
73506 18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou
73507    girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when
73508    thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and
73509    another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest
73510    not.
73511 19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God.
73512    And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
73513 20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved
73514    following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and
73515    said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
73516 21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man
73517    do?
73518 22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come,
73519    what is that to thee? follow thou me.
73520 23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that
73521    disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall
73522    not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is
73523    that to thee?
73524 24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and
73525    wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
73526 25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the
73527    which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that
73528    even the world itself could not contain the books that should
73529    be written. Amen.

73530 Book 44 Acts

73531 Acts 1

73532  1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that
73533    Jesus began both to do and teach,
73534  2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through
73535    the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom
73536    he had chosen:
73537  3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many
73538    infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking
73539    of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
73540  4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that
73541    they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the
73542    promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
73543  5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized
73544    with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
73545  6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him,
73546    saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom
73547    to Israel?
73548  7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or
73549    the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
73550  8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come
73551    upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,
73552    and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part
73553    of the earth.
73554  9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was
73555    taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
73556 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,
73557    behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
73558 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
73559    into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into
73560    heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go
73561    into heaven.
73562 12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called
73563    Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
73564 13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room,
73565    where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew,
73566    Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of
73567    Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
73568 14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and
73569    supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus,
73570    and with his brethren.
73571 15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the
73572    disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about
73573    an hundred and twenty,)
73574 16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been
73575    fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake
73576    before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took
73577    Jesus.
73578 17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this
73579    ministry.
73580 18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity;
73581    and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all
73582    his bowels gushed out.
73583 19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch
73584    as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that
73585    is to say, The field of blood.
73586 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be
73587    desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let
73588    another take.
73589 21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the
73590    time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
73591 22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he
73592    was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness
73593    with us of his resurrection.
73594 23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was
73595    surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
73596 24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the
73597    hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
73598 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from
73599    which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own
73600    place.
73601 26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon
73602    Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

73603 Acts 2

73604  1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all
73605    with one accord in one place.
73606  2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing
73607    mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
73608    sitting.
73609  3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire,
73610    and it sat upon each of them.
73611  4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
73612    speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
73613  5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of
73614    every nation under heaven.
73615  6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together,
73616    and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak
73617    in his own language.
73618  7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another,
73619    Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
73620  8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were
73621    born?
73622  9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in
73623    Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and
73624    Asia,
73625 10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya
73626    about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
73627 11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the
73628    wonderful works of God.
73629 12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to
73630    another, What meaneth this?
73631 13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
73632 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice,
73633    and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at
73634    Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
73635 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the
73636    third hour of the day.
73637 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
73638 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will
73639    pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your
73640    daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see
73641    visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
73642 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in
73643    those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
73644 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the
73645    earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
73646 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
73647    blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
73648 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the
73649    name of the Lord shall be saved.
73650 22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
73651    approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs,
73652    which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves
73653    also know:
73654 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and
73655    foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have
73656    crucified and slain:
73657 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
73658    because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
73659 25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always
73660    before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not
73661    be moved:
73662 26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad;
73663    moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
73664 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou
73665    suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
73666 28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make
73667    me full of joy with thy countenance.
73668 29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the
73669    patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his
73670    sepulchre is with us unto this day.
73671 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with
73672    an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to
73673    the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
73674 31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ,
73675    that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see
73676    corruption.
73677 32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
73678 33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having
73679    received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath
73680    shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
73681 34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith
73682    himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
73683    hand,
73684 35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
73685 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God
73686    hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord
73687    and Christ.
73688 37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart,
73689    and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and
73690    brethren, what shall we do?
73691 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one
73692    of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,
73693    and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
73694 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all
73695    that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall
73696    call.
73697 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying,
73698    Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
73699 41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the
73700    same day there were added unto them about three thousand
73701    souls.
73702 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and
73703    fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
73704 43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were
73705    done by the apostles.
73706 44 And all that believed were together, and had all things
73707    common;
73708 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all
73709    men, as every man had need.
73710 46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and
73711    breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with
73712    gladness and singleness of heart,
73713 47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the
73714    Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

73715 Acts 3

73716  1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the
73717    hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
73718  2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried,
73719    whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called
73720    Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
73721  3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an
73722    alms.
73723  4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look
73724    on us.
73725  5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of
73726    them.
73727  6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I
73728    have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise
73729    up and walk.
73730  7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and
73731    immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
73732  8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them
73733    into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
73734  9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
73735 10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the
73736    Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder
73737    and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
73738 11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all
73739    the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called
73740    Solomon's, greatly wondering.
73741 12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of
73742    Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on
73743    us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this
73744    man to walk?
73745 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our
73746    fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up,
73747    and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was
73748    determined to let him go.
73749 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a
73750    murderer to be granted unto you;
73751 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the
73752    dead; whereof we are witnesses.
73753 16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man
73754    strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him
73755    hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you
73756    all.
73757 17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as
73758    did also your rulers.
73759 18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of
73760    all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so
73761    fulfilled.
73762 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be
73763    blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the
73764    presence of the Lord.
73765 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
73766    you:
73767 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of
73768    all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
73769    prophets since the world began.
73770 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the
73771    Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto
73772    me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say
73773    unto you.
73774 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not
73775    hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
73776 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow
73777    after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these
73778    days.
73779 25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which
73780    God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy
73781    seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
73782 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him
73783    to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his
73784    iniquities.

73785 Acts 4

73786  1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the
73787    captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
73788  2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached
73789    through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
73790  3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the
73791    next day: for it was now eventide.
73792  4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the
73793    number of the men was about five thousand.
73794  5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and
73795    elders, and scribes,
73796  6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and
73797    Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high
73798    priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
73799  7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what
73800    power, or by what name, have ye done this?
73801  8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye
73802    rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
73803  9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the
73804    impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
73805 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel,
73806    that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye
73807    crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth
73808    this man stand here before you whole.
73809 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders,
73810    which is become the head of the corner.
73811 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none
73812    other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
73813    saved.
73814 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and
73815    perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they
73816    marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been
73817    with Jesus.
73818 14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them,
73819    they could say nothing against it.
73820 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the
73821    council, they conferred among themselves,
73822 16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a
73823    notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them
73824    that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
73825 17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us
73826    straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man
73827    in this name.
73828 18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all
73829    nor teach in the name of Jesus.
73830 19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be
73831    right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto
73832    God, judge ye.
73833 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and
73834    heard.
73835 21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go,
73836    finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the
73837    people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
73838 22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of
73839    healing was shewed.
73840 23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported
73841    all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
73842 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God
73843    with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made
73844    heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
73845 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the
73846    heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
73847 26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered
73848    together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
73849 27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast
73850    anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles,
73851    and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
73852 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
73853    before to be done.
73854 29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy
73855    servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
73856 30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and
73857    wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
73858 31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were
73859    assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy
73860    Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
73861 32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and
73862    of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things
73863    which he possessed was his own; but they had all things
73864    common.
73865 33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the
73866    resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them
73867    all.
73868 34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as
73869    were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the
73870    prices of the things that were sold,
73871 35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was
73872    made unto every man according as he had need.
73873 36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which
73874    is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and
73875    of the country of Cyprus,
73876 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at
73877    the apostles' feet.

73878 Acts 5

73879  1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold
73880    a possession,
73881  2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to
73882    it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles'
73883    feet.
73884  3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to
73885    lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of
73886    the land?
73887  4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was
73888    sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived
73889    this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but
73890    unto God.
73891  5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the
73892    ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these
73893    things.
73894  6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out,
73895    and buried him.
73896  7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his
73897    wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
73898  8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land
73899    for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
73900  9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed
73901    together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of
73902    them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall
73903    carry thee out.
73904 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the
73905    ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and,
73906    carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
73907 11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as
73908    heard these things.
73909 12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders
73910    wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord
73911    in Solomon's porch.
73912 13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the
73913    people magnified them.
73914 14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both
73915    of men and women.)
73916 15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets,
73917    and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the
73918    shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
73919 16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto
73920    Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with
73921    unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
73922 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him,
73923    (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with
73924    indignation,
73925 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the
73926    common prison.
73927 19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors,
73928    and brought them forth, and said,
73929 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words
73930    of this life.
73931 21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early
73932    in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they
73933    that were with him, and called the council together, and all
73934    the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison
73935    to have them brought.
73936 22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison,
73937    they returned and told,
73938 23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and
73939    the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had
73940    opened, we found no man within.
73941 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the
73942    chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them
73943    whereunto this would grow.
73944 25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye
73945    put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the
73946    people.
73947 26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them
73948    without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should
73949    have been stoned.
73950 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the
73951    council: and the high priest asked them,
73952 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not
73953    teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with
73954    your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
73955 29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought
73956    to obey God rather than men.
73957 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and
73958    hanged on a tree.
73959 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
73960    Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of
73961    sins.
73962 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the
73963    Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
73964 33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took
73965    counsel to slay them.
73966 34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named
73967    Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the
73968    people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little
73969    space;
73970 35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves
73971    what ye intend to do as touching these men.
73972 36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be
73973    somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined
73974    themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him,
73975    were scattered, and brought to nought.
73976 37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the
73977    taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished;
73978    and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
73979 38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them
73980    alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will
73981    come to nought:
73982 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be
73983    found even to fight against God.
73984 40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles,
73985    and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in
73986    the name of Jesus, and let them go.
73987 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
73988    that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
73989 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not
73990    to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

73991 Acts 6

73992  1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was
73993    multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against
73994    the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily
73995    ministration.
73996  2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto
73997    them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word
73998    of God, and serve tables.
73999  3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest
74000    report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint
74001    over this business.
74002  4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the
74003    ministry of the word.
74004  5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose
74005    Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and
74006    Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas,
74007    and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
74008  6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed,
74009    they laid their hands on them.
74010  7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples
74011    multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the
74012    priests were obedient to the faith.
74013  8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and
74014    miracles among the people.
74015  9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the
74016    synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians,
74017    and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
74018 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by
74019    which he spake.
74020 11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak
74021    blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
74022 12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the
74023    scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to
74024    the council,
74025 13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not
74026    to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the
74027    law:
74028 14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall
74029    destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses
74030    delivered us.
74031 15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him,
74032    saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

74033 Acts 7

74034  1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
74035  2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of
74036    glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in
74037    Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
74038  3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
74039    kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
74040  4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in
74041    Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed
74042    him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
74043  5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to
74044    set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him
74045    for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he
74046    had no child.
74047  6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a
74048    strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage,
74049    and entreat them evil four hundred years.
74050  7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge,
74051    said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me
74052    in this place.
74053  8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham
74054    begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac
74055    begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
74056  9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt:
74057    but God was with him,
74058 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him
74059    favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and
74060    he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
74061 11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and
74062    Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no
74063    sustenance.
74064 12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out
74065    our fathers first.
74066 13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren;
74067    and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
74068 14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all
74069    his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
74070 15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
74071 16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre
74072    that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor
74073    the father of Sychem.
74074 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had
74075    sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
74076 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
74077 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated
74078    our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to
74079    the end they might not live.
74080 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and
74081    nourished up in his father's house three months:
74082 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and
74083    nourished him for her own son.
74084 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and
74085    was mighty in words and in deeds.
74086 23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart
74087    to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
74088 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and
74089    avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
74090 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that
74091    God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
74092 26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove,
74093    and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are
74094    brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
74095 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying,
74096    Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
74097 28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
74098 29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land
74099    of Madian, where he begat two sons.
74100 30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in
74101    the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame
74102    of fire in a bush.
74103 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew
74104    near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
74105 32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and
74106    the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled,
74107    and durst not behold.
74108 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet:
74109    for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
74110 34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is
74111    in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to
74112    deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
74113 35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler
74114    and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a
74115    deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in
74116    the bush.
74117 36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and
74118    signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the
74119    wilderness forty years.
74120 37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A
74121    prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your
74122    brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
74123 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the
74124    angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our
74125    fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
74126 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them,
74127    and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
74128 40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for
74129    this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot
74130    not what is become of him.
74131 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto
74132    the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
74133 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of
74134    heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye
74135    house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and
74136    sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
74137 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your
74138    god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will
74139    carry you away beyond Babylon.
74140 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,
74141    as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make
74142    it according to the fashion that he had seen.
74143 45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus
74144    into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before
74145    the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
74146 46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle
74147    for the God of Jacob.
74148 47 But Solomon built him an house.
74149 48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
74150    as saith the prophet,
74151 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house
74152    will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my
74153    rest?
74154 50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
74155 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
74156    always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
74157 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and
74158    they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the
74159    Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and
74160    murderers:
74161 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and
74162    have not kept it.
74163 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and
74164    they gnashed on him with their teeth.
74165 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly
74166    into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on
74167    the right hand of God,
74168 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man
74169    standing on the right hand of God.
74170 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
74171    and ran upon him with one accord,
74172 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the
74173    witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose
74174    name was Saul.
74175 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord
74176    Jesus, receive my spirit.
74177 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay
74178    not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he
74179    fell asleep.

74180 Acts 8

74181  1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there
74182    was a great persecution against the church which was at
74183    Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the
74184    regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
74185  2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great
74186    lamentation over him.
74187  3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every
74188    house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
74189  4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where
74190    preaching the word.
74191  5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached
74192    Christ unto them.
74193  6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things
74194    which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he
74195    did.
74196  7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many
74197    that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies,
74198    and that were lame, were healed.
74199  8 And there was great joy in that city.
74200  9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in
74201    the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of
74202    Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
74203 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest,
74204    saying, This man is the great power of God.
74205 11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had
74206    bewitched them with sorceries.
74207 12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning
74208    the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were
74209    baptized, both men and women.
74210 13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he
74211    continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles
74212    and signs which were done.
74213 14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that
74214    Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them
74215    Peter and John:
74216 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they
74217    might receive the Holy Ghost:
74218 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were
74219    baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
74220 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy
74221    Ghost.
74222 18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles'
74223    hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
74224 19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay
74225    hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
74226 20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because
74227    thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with
74228    money.
74229 21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart
74230    is not right in the sight of God.
74231 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if
74232    perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
74233 23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in
74234    the bond of iniquity.
74235 24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD for me,
74236    that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
74237 25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the
74238    Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many
74239    villages of the Samaritans.
74240 26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise,
74241    and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from
74242    Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
74243 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an
74244    eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the
74245    Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had
74246    come to Jerusalem for to worship,
74247 28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the
74248    prophet.
74249 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to
74250    this chariot.
74251 30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet
74252    Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
74253 31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And
74254    he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
74255 32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led
74256    as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his
74257    shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
74258 33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall
74259    declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
74260 34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom
74261    speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
74262 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture,
74263    and preached unto him Jesus.
74264 36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water:
74265    and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me
74266    to be baptized?
74267 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou
74268    mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ
74269    is the Son of God.
74270 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went
74271    down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he
74272    baptized him.
74273 39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the
74274    Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and
74275    he went on his way rejoicing.
74276 40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he
74277    preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

74278 Acts 9

74279  1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against
74280    the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
74281  2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that
74282    if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women,
74283    he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
74284  3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there
74285    shined round about him a light from heaven:
74286  4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him,
74287    Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
74288  5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus
74289    whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the
74290    pricks.
74291  6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou
74292    have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into
74293    the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
74294  7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing
74295    a voice, but seeing no man.
74296  8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened,
74297    he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him
74298    into Damascus.
74299  9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor
74300    drink.
74301 10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias;
74302    and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said,
74303    Behold, I am here, Lord.
74304 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street
74305    which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas
74306    for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
74307 12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and
74308    putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
74309 13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man,
74310    how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
74311 14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all
74312    that call on thy name.
74313 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen
74314    vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and
74315    kings, and the children of Israel:
74316 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my
74317    name's sake.
74318 17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and
74319    putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even
74320    Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath
74321    sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled
74322    with the Holy Ghost.
74323 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been
74324    scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was
74325    baptized.
74326 19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was
74327    Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
74328 20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he
74329    is the Son of God.
74330 21 But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he
74331    that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem,
74332    and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them
74333    bound unto the chief priests?
74334 22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the
74335    Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very
74336    Christ.
74337 23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel
74338    to kill him:
74339 24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the
74340    gates day and night to kill him.
74341 25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the
74342    wall in a basket.
74343 26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join
74344    himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and
74345    believed not that he was a disciple.
74346 27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and
74347    declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and
74348    that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at
74349    Damascus in the name of Jesus.
74350 28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
74351 29 And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and
74352    disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay
74353    him.
74354 30 Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to
74355    Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
74356 31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee
74357    and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the
74358    Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
74359 32 And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters,
74360    he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
74361 33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept
74362    his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
74363 34 And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee
74364    whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
74365 35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to
74366    the Lord.
74367 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which
74368    by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of
74369    good works and almsdeeds which she did.
74370 37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and
74371    died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper
74372    chamber.
74373 38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples
74374    had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men,
74375    desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
74376 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they
74377    brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood
74378    by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which
74379    Dorcas made, while she was with them.
74380 40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed;
74381    and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she
74382    opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
74383 41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had
74384    called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
74385 42 And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in
74386    the Lord.
74387 43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with
74388    one Simon a tanner.

74389 Acts 10

74390  1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a
74391    centurion of the band called the Italian band,
74392  2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house,
74393    which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
74394  3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day
74395    an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him,
74396    Cornelius.
74397  4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is
74398    it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are
74399    come up for a memorial before God.
74400  5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose
74401    surname is Peter:
74402  6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea
74403    side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
74404  7 And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he
74405    called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of
74406    them that waited on him continually;
74407  8 And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent
74408    them to Joppa.
74409  9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh
74410    unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about
74411    the sixth hour:
74412 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while
74413    they made ready, he fell into a trance,
74414 11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon
74415    him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners,
74416    and let down to the earth:
74417 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and
74418    wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
74419 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
74420 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing
74421    that is common or unclean.
74422 15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God
74423    hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
74424 16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again
74425    into heaven.
74426 17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he
74427    had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from
74428    Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before
74429    the gate,
74430 18 And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter,
74431    were lodged there.
74432 19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him,
74433    Behold, three men seek thee.
74434 20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting
74435    nothing: for I have sent them.
74436 21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from
74437    Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the
74438    cause wherefore ye are come?
74439 22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one
74440    that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of
74441    the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for
74442    thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
74443 23 Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow
74444    Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa
74445    accompanied him.
74446 24 And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius
74447    waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and
74448    near friends.
74449 25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down
74450    at his feet, and worshipped him.
74451 26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a
74452    man.
74453 27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that
74454    were come together.
74455 28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful
74456    thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto
74457    one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should
74458    not call any man common or unclean.
74459 29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was
74460    sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
74461 30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this
74462    hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold,
74463    a man stood before me in bright clothing,
74464 31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are
74465    had in remembrance in the sight of God.
74466 32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname
74467    is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by
74468    the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
74469 33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done
74470    that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present
74471    before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
74472 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive
74473    that God is no respecter of persons:
74474 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh
74475    righteousness, is accepted with him.
74476 36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching
74477    peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
74478 37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all
74479    Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John
74480    preached;
74481 38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
74482    with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that
74483    were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
74484 39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the
74485    land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged
74486    on a tree:
74487 40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
74488 41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God,
74489    even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from
74490    the dead.
74491 42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify
74492    that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of
74493    quick and dead.
74494 43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name
74495    whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
74496 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all
74497    them which heard the word.
74498 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished,
74499    as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also
74500    was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
74501 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then
74502    answered Peter,
74503 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized,
74504    which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
74505 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.
74506    Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

74507 Acts 11

74508  1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that
74509    the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
74510  2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the
74511    circumcision contended with him,
74512  3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat
74513    with them.
74514  4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and
74515    expounded it by order unto them, saying,
74516  5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a
74517    vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great
74518    sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even
74519    to me:
74520  6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered,
74521    and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and
74522    creeping things, and fowls of the air.
74523  7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and
74524    eat.
74525  8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath
74526    at any time entered into my mouth.
74527  9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath
74528    cleansed, that call not thou common.
74529 10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again
74530    into heaven.
74531 11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come
74532    unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
74533 12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting.
74534    Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered
74535    into the man's house:
74536 13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which
74537    stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for
74538    Simon, whose surname is Peter;
74539 14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house
74540    shall be saved.
74541 15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us
74542    at the beginning.
74543 16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John
74544    indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the
74545    Holy Ghost.
74546 17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto
74547    us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I
74548    could withstand God?
74549 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and
74550    glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles
74551    granted repentance unto life.
74552 19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that
74553    arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus,
74554    and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews
74555    only.
74556 20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when
74557    they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching
74558    the LORD Jesus.
74559 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number
74560    believed, and turned unto the Lord.
74561 22 Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church
74562    which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he
74563    should go as far as Antioch.
74564 23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad,
74565    and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would
74566    cleave unto the Lord.
74567 24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of
74568    faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
74569 25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
74570 26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it
74571    came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with
74572    the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were
74573    called Christians first in Antioch.
74574 27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
74575 28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by
74576    the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all
74577    the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
74578 29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability,
74579    determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in
74580    Judaea:
74581 30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of
74582    Barnabas and Saul.

74583 Acts 12

74584  1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands
74585    to vex certain of the church.
74586  2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
74587  3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further
74588    to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
74589  4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and
74590    delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him;
74591    intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
74592  5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made
74593    without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
74594  6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night
74595    Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two
74596    chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
74597  7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light
74598    shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and
74599    raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell
74600    off from his hands.
74601  8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy
74602    sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy
74603    garment about thee, and follow me.
74604  9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was
74605    true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.
74606 10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came
74607    unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to
74608    them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on
74609    through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
74610 11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a
74611    surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered
74612    me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of
74613    the people of the Jews.
74614 12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of
74615    Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many
74616    were gathered together praying.
74617 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to
74618    hearken, named Rhoda.
74619 14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for
74620    gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the
74621    gate.
74622 15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly
74623    affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
74624 16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the
74625    door, and saw him, they were astonished.
74626 17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace,
74627    declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the
74628    prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to
74629    the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
74630 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
74631    soldiers, what was become of Peter.
74632 19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he
74633    examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to
74634    death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there
74635    abode.
74636 20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon:
74637    but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus
74638    the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because
74639    their country was nourished by the king's country.
74640 21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon
74641    his throne, and made an oration unto them.
74642 22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god,
74643    and not of a man.
74644 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he
74645    gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up
74646    the ghost.
74647 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
74648 25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had
74649    fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose
74650    surname was Mark.

74651 Acts 13

74652  1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain
74653    prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called
74654    Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been
74655    brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
74656  2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost
74657    said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I
74658    have called them.
74659  3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on
74660    them, they sent them away.
74661  4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto
74662    Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
74663  5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God
74664    in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their
74665    minister.
74666  6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they
74667    found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name
74668    was Barjesus:
74669  7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a
74670    prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to
74671    hear the word of God.
74672  8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation)
74673    withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the
74674    faith.
74675  9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy
74676    Ghost, set his eyes on him.
74677 10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child
74678    of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not
74679    cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
74680 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou
74681    shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And
74682    immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he
74683    went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
74684 12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being
74685    astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
74686 13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to
74687    Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to
74688    Jerusalem.
74689 14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in
74690    Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and
74691    sat down.
74692 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers
74693    of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren,
74694    if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
74695 16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of
74696    Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
74697 17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and
74698    exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of
74699    Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
74700 18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in
74701    the wilderness.
74702 19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of
74703    Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
74704 20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of
74705    four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
74706 21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul
74707    the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space
74708    of forty years.
74709 22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to
74710    be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said,
74711    I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own
74712    heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
74713 23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised
74714    unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
74715 24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of
74716    repentance to all the people of Israel.
74717 25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that
74718    I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me,
74719    whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
74720 26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and
74721    whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this
74722    salvation sent.
74723 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because
74724    they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which
74725    are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in
74726    condemning him.
74727 28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired
74728    they Pilate that he should be slain.
74729 29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they
74730    took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
74731 30 But God raised him from the dead:
74732 31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from
74733    Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
74734 32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise
74735    which was made unto the fathers,
74736 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he
74737    hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the
74738    second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
74739 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no
74740    more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will
74741    give you the sure mercies of David.
74742 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not
74743    suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
74744 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will
74745    of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw
74746    corruption:
74747 37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
74748 38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through
74749    this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
74750 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things,
74751    from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
74752 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of
74753    in the prophets;
74754 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a
74755    work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe,
74756    though a man declare it unto you.
74757 42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles
74758    besought that these words might be preached to them the next
74759    sabbath.
74760 43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and
74761    religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking
74762    to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
74763 44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together
74764    to hear the word of God.
74765 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with
74766    envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by
74767    Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
74768 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary
74769    that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but
74770    seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of
74771    everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
74772 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to
74773    be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for
74774    salvation unto the ends of the earth.
74775 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and
74776    glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained
74777    to eternal life believed.
74778 49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the
74779    region.
74780 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and
74781    the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul
74782    and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
74783 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and
74784    came unto Iconium.
74785 52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy
74786    Ghost.

74787 Acts 14

74788  1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together
74789    into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great
74790    multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
74791  2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made
74792    their minds evil affected against the brethren.
74793  3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord,
74794    which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted
74795    signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
74796  4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with
74797    the Jews, and part with the apostles.
74798  5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and
74799    also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully,
74800    and to stone them,
74801  6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities
74802    of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
74803  7 And there they preached the gospel.
74804  8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet,
74805    being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
74806  9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and
74807    perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
74808 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he
74809    leaped and walked.
74810 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up
74811    their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are
74812    come down to us in the likeness of men.
74813 12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius,
74814    because he was the chief speaker.
74815 13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city,
74816    brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done
74817    sacrifice with the people.
74818 14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they
74819    rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
74820 15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of
74821    like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should
74822    turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made
74823    heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are
74824    therein:
74825 16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own
74826    ways.
74827 17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he
74828    did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons,
74829    filling our hearts with food and gladness.
74830 18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that
74831    they had not done sacrifice unto them.
74832 19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium,
74833    who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out
74834    of the city, supposing he had been dead.
74835 20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up,
74836    and came into the city: and the next day he departed with
74837    Barnabas to Derbe.
74838 21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had
74839    taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium,
74840    and Antioch,
74841 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to
74842    continue in the faith, and that we must through much
74843    tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
74844 23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and
74845    had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on
74846    whom they believed.
74847 24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to
74848    Pamphylia.
74849 25 And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down
74850    into Attalia:
74851 26 And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been
74852    recommended to the grace of God for the work which they
74853    fulfilled.
74854 27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together,
74855    they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had
74856    opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
74857 28 And there they abode long time with the disciples.

74858 Acts 15

74859  1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the
74860    brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner
74861    of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
74862  2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and
74863    disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas,
74864    and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the
74865    apostles and elders about this question.
74866  3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed
74867    through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the
74868    Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
74869  4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of
74870    the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared
74871    all things that God had done with them.
74872  5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
74873    believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and
74874    to command them to keep the law of Moses.
74875  6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of
74876    this matter.
74877  7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and
74878    said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good
74879    while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my
74880    mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
74881  8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving
74882    them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
74883  9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their
74884    hearts by faith.
74885 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of
74886    the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to
74887    bear?
74888 11 But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ
74889    we shall be saved, even as they.
74890 12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to
74891    Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had
74892    wrought among the Gentiles by them.
74893 13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying,
74894    Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
74895 14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the
74896    Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
74897 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
74898 16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle
74899    of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the
74900    ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
74901 17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
74902    Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who
74903    doeth all these things.
74904 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the
74905    world.
74906 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from
74907    among the Gentiles are turned to God:
74908 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions
74909    of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and
74910    from blood.
74911 21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him,
74912    being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
74913 22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church,
74914    to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul
74915    and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief
74916    men among the brethren:
74917 23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles
74918    and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which
74919    are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
74920 24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from
74921    us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls,
74922    saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we
74923    gave no such commandment:
74924 25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to
74925    send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
74926 26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord
74927    Jesus Christ.
74928 27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell
74929    you the same things by mouth.
74930 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon
74931    you no greater burden than these necessary things;
74932 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood,
74933    and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if
74934    ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
74935 30 So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when
74936    they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the
74937    epistle:
74938 31 Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
74939 32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted
74940    the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
74941 33 And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in
74942    peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
74943 34 Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
74944 35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and
74945    preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
74946 36 And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again
74947    and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached
74948    the word of the LORD, and see how they do.
74949 37 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname
74950    was Mark.
74951 38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed
74952    from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
74953 39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they
74954    departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took
74955    Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
74956 40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the
74957    brethren unto the grace of God.
74958 41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the
74959    churches.

74960 Acts 16

74961  1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain
74962    disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain
74963    woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a
74964    Greek:
74965  2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra
74966    and Iconium.
74967  3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and
74968    circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those
74969    quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
74970  4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the
74971    decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and
74972    elders which were at Jerusalem.
74973  5 And so were the churches established in the faith, and
74974    increased in number daily.
74975  6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of
74976    Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the
74977    word in Asia,
74978  7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into
74979    Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
74980  8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
74981  9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man
74982    of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into
74983    Macedonia, and help us.
74984 10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured
74985    to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had
74986    called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
74987 11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course
74988    to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
74989 12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that
74990    part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city
74991    abiding certain days.
74992 13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side,
74993    where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake
74994    unto the women which resorted thither.
74995 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the
74996    city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart
74997    the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were
74998    spoken of Paul.
74999 15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us,
75000    saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come
75001    into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
75002 16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel
75003    possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought
75004    her masters much gain by soothsaying:
75005 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men
75006    are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the
75007    way of salvation.
75008 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned
75009    and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus
75010    Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
75011 19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was
75012    gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the
75013    marketplace unto the rulers,
75014 20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being
75015    Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
75016 21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive,
75017    neither to observe, being Romans.
75018 22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the
75019    magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat
75020    them.
75021 23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them
75022    into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
75023 24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner
75024    prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
75025 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto
75026    God: and the prisoners heard them.
75027 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
75028    foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the
75029    doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
75030 27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and
75031    seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would
75032    have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been
75033    fled.
75034 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm:
75035    for we are all here.
75036 29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling,
75037    and fell down before Paul and Silas,
75038 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be
75039    saved?
75040 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
75041    shalt be saved, and thy house.
75042 32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that
75043    were in his house.
75044 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their
75045    stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
75046 34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat
75047    before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his
75048    house.
75049 35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants,
75050    saying, Let those men go.
75051 36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The
75052    magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and
75053    go in peace.
75054 37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly
75055    uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and
75056    now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them
75057    come themselves and fetch us out.
75058 38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and
75059    they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
75060 39 And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and
75061    desired them to depart out of the city.
75062 40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of
75063    Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted
75064    them, and departed.

75065 Acts 17

75066  1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
75067    they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
75068  2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three
75069    sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
75070  3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered,
75071    and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I
75072    preach unto you, is Christ.
75073  4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas;
75074    and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief
75075    women not a few.
75076  5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto
75077    them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a
75078    company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the
75079    house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
75080  6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain
75081    brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have
75082    turned the world upside down are come hither also;
75083  7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the
75084    decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one
75085    Jesus.
75086  8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when
75087    they heard these things.
75088  9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other,
75089    they let them go.
75090 10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night
75091    unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the
75092    Jews.
75093 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
75094    received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
75095    scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
75096 12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women
75097    which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
75098 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word
75099    of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also,
75100    and stirred up the people.
75101 14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it
75102    were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
75103 15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and
75104    receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come
75105    to him with all speed, they departed.
75106 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
75107    stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
75108 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with
75109    the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met
75110    with him.
75111 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the
75112    Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this
75113    babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of
75114    strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the
75115    resurrection.
75116 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May
75117    we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
75118 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would
75119    know therefore what these things mean.
75120 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent
75121    their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear
75122    some new thing.)
75123 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men
75124    of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too
75125    superstitious.
75126 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an
75127    altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom
75128    therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
75129 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he
75130    is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
75131    hands;
75132 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed
75133    any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all
75134    things;
75135 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on
75136    all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times
75137    before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
75138 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after
75139    him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
75140 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain
75141    also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
75142    offspring.
75143 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to
75144    think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone,
75145    graven by art and man's device.
75146 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
75147    commandeth all men every where to repent:
75148 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge
75149    the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained;
75150    whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath
75151    raised him from the dead.
75152 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
75153    mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this
75154    matter.
75155 33 So Paul departed from among them.
75156 34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the
75157    which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris,
75158    and others with them.

75159 Acts 18

75160  1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to
75161    Corinth;
75162  2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately
75163    come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that
75164    Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came
75165    unto them.
75166  3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and
75167    wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
75168  4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded
75169    the Jews and the Greeks.
75170  5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul
75171    was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that
75172    Jesus was Christ.
75173  6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his
75174    raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own
75175    heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the
75176    Gentiles.
75177  7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's
75178    house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house
75179    joined hard to the synagogue.
75180  8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the
75181    Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing
75182    believed, and were baptized.
75183  9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not
75184    afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
75185 10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee:
75186    for I have much people in this city.
75187 11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the
75188    word of God among them.
75189 12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made
75190    insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to
75191    the judgment seat,
75192 13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to
75193    the law.
75194 14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said
75195    unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked
75196    lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
75197 15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law,
75198    look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
75199 16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.
75200 17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the
75201    synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio
75202    cared for none of those things.
75203 18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then
75204    took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria,
75205    and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in
75206    Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
75207 19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself
75208    entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
75209 20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he
75210    consented not;
75211 21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this
75212    feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto
75213    you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
75214 22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted
75215    the church, he went down to Antioch.
75216 23 And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went
75217    over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order,
75218    strengthening all the disciples.
75219 24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an
75220    eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
75221 25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
75222    fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the
75223    things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
75224 26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when
75225    Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and
75226    expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
75227 27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren
75228    wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he
75229    was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
75230 28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly,
75231    shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

75232 Acts 19

75233  1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul
75234    having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and
75235    finding certain disciples,
75236  2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye
75237    believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard
75238    whether there be any Holy Ghost.
75239  3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And
75240    they said, Unto John's baptism.
75241  4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of
75242    repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe
75243    on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
75244  5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the
75245    Lord Jesus.
75246  6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost
75247    came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
75248  7 And all the men were about twelve.
75249  8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space
75250    of three months, disputing and persuading the things
75251    concerning the kingdom of God.
75252  9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake
75253    evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them,
75254    and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of
75255    one Tyrannus.
75256 10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they
75257    which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both
75258    Jews and Greeks.
75259 11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
75260 12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs
75261    or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil
75262    spirits went out of them.
75263 13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them
75264    to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD
75265    Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
75266 14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of
75267    the priests, which did so.
75268 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul
75269    I know; but who are ye?
75270 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and
75271    overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled
75272    out of that house naked and wounded.
75273 17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at
75274    Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord
75275    Jesus was magnified.
75276 18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their
75277    deeds.
75278 19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books
75279    together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the
75280    price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
75281 20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
75282 21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit,
75283    when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to
75284    Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see
75285    Rome.
75286 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto
75287    him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for
75288    a season.
75289 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
75290 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made
75291    silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the
75292    craftsmen;
75293 25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation,
75294    and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
75295 26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but
75296    almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and
75297    turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which
75298    are made with hands:
75299 27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at
75300    nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana
75301    should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed,
75302    whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
75303 28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath,
75304    and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
75305 29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having
75306    caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's
75307    companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the
75308    theatre.
75309 30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the
75310    disciples suffered him not.
75311 31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent
75312    unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself
75313    into the theatre.
75314 32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the
75315    assembly was confused: and the more part knew not wherefore
75316    they were come together.
75317 33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting
75318    him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would
75319    have made his defence unto the people.
75320 34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about
75321    the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the
75322    Ephesians.
75323 35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye
75324    men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that
75325    the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess
75326    Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
75327 36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye
75328    ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
75329 37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither
75330    robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
75331 38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him,
75332    have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are
75333    deputies: let them implead one another.
75334 39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall
75335    be determined in a lawful assembly.
75336 40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's
75337    uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of
75338    this concourse.
75339 41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

75340 Acts 20

75341  1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the
75342    disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into
75343    Macedonia.
75344  2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much
75345    exhortation, he came into Greece,
75346  3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for
75347    him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return
75348    through Macedonia.
75349  4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of
75350    the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of
75351    Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
75352  5 These going before tarried for us at Troas.
75353  6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened
75354    bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we
75355    abode seven days.
75356  7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
75357    together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to
75358    depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
75359  8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they
75360    were gathered together.
75361  9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus,
75362    being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long
75363    preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the
75364    third loft, and was taken up dead.
75365 10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said,
75366    Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
75367 11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and
75368    eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he
75369    departed.
75370 12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little
75371    comforted.
75372 13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there
75373    intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding
75374    himself to go afoot.
75375 14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to
75376    Mitylene.
75377 15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against
75378    Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at
75379    Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
75380 16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would
75381    not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible
75382    for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
75383 17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of
75384    the church.
75385 18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know,
75386    from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I
75387    have been with you at all seasons,
75388 19 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many
75389    tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait
75390    of the Jews:
75391 20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but
75392    have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house
75393    to house,
75394 21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
75395    repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
75396 22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not
75397    knowing the things that shall befall me there:
75398 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that
75399    bonds and afflictions abide me.
75400 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear
75401    unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and
75402    the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to
75403    testify the gospel of the grace of God.
75404 25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone
75405    preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
75406 26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from
75407    the blood of all men.
75408 27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of
75409    God.
75410 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,
75411    over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed
75412    the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
75413 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves
75414    enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
75415 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse
75416    things, to draw away disciples after them.
75417 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three
75418    years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
75419 32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of
75420    his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an
75421    inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
75422 33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
75423 34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto
75424    my necessities, and to them that were with me.
75425 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought
75426    to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord
75427    Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to
75428    receive.
75429 36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with
75430    them all.
75431 37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed
75432    him,
75433 38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they
75434    should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the
75435    ship.

75436 Acts 21

75437  1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and
75438    had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and
75439    the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:
75440  2 And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard,
75441    and set forth.
75442  3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left
75443    hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the
75444    ship was to unlade her burden.
75445  4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said
75446    to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to
75447    Jerusalem.
75448  5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went
75449    our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and
75450    children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on
75451    the shore, and prayed.
75452  6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship;
75453    and they returned home again.
75454  7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to
75455    Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one
75456    day.
75457  8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and
75458    came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip
75459    the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with
75460    him.
75461  9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did
75462    prophesy.
75463 10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea
75464    a certain prophet, named Agabus.
75465 11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound
75466    his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost,
75467    So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this
75468    girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
75469 12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that
75470    place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.
75471 13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine
75472    heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
75473    Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
75474 14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The
75475    will of the Lord be done.
75476 15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to
75477    Jerusalem.
75478 16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea,
75479    and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple,
75480    with whom we should lodge.
75481 17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us
75482    gladly.
75483 18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all
75484    the elders were present.
75485 19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what
75486    things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
75487 20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto
75488    him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are
75489    which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
75490 21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews
75491    which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that
75492    they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk
75493    after the customs.
75494 22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together:
75495    for they will hear that thou art come.
75496 23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which
75497    have a vow on them;
75498 24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges
75499    with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know
75500    that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee,
75501    are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and
75502    keepest the law.
75503 25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and
75504    concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they
75505    keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood,
75506    and from strangled, and from fornication.
75507 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself
75508    with them entered into the temple, to signify the
75509    accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an
75510    offering should be offered for every one of them.
75511 27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were
75512    of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the
75513    people, and laid hands on him,
75514 28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that
75515    teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law,
75516    and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the
75517    temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
75518 29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an
75519    Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the
75520    temple.)
75521 30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and
75522    they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith
75523    the doors were shut.
75524 31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the
75525    chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an
75526    uproar.
75527 32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down
75528    unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the
75529    soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
75530 33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded
75531    him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and
75532    what he had done.
75533 34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude:
75534    and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he
75535    commanded him to be carried into the castle.
75536 35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne
75537    of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
75538 36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away
75539    with him.
75540 37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the
75541    chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou
75542    speak Greek?
75543 38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an
75544    uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men
75545    that were murderers?
75546 39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in
75547    Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee,
75548    suffer me to speak unto the people.
75549 40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs,
75550    and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was
75551    made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue,
75552    saying,

75553 Acts 22

75554  1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make
75555    now unto you.
75556  2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to
75557    them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
75558  3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in
75559    Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel,
75560    and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the
75561    fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
75562  4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and
75563    delivering into prisons both men and women.
75564  5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the
75565    estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto
75566    the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were
75567    there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
75568  6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come
75569    nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from
75570    heaven a great light round about me.
75571  7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me,
75572    Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
75573  8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am
75574    Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
75575  9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were
75576    afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
75577 10 And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said unto me,
75578    Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee
75579    of all things which are appointed for thee to do.
75580 11 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being
75581    led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into
75582    Damascus.
75583 12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a
75584    good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
75585 13 Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul,
75586    receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
75587 14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that
75588    thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and
75589    shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
75590 15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast
75591    seen and heard.
75592 16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash
75593    away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
75594 17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem,
75595    even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
75596 18 And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly
75597    out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony
75598    concerning me.
75599 19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in
75600    every synagogue them that believed on thee:
75601 20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was
75602    standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the
75603    raiment of them that slew him.
75604 21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence
75605    unto the Gentiles.
75606 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up
75607    their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the
75608    earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
75609 23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw
75610    dust into the air,
75611 24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle,
75612    and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he
75613    might know wherefore they cried so against him.
75614 25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the
75615    centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man
75616    that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
75617 26 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief
75618    captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a
75619    Roman.
75620 27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art
75621    thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
75622 28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I
75623    this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
75624 29 Then straightway they departed from him which should have
75625    examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he
75626    knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
75627 30 On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty
75628    wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his
75629    bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council
75630    to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

75631 Acts 23

75632  1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and
75633    brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until
75634    this day.
75635  2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him
75636    to smite him on the mouth.
75637  3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited
75638    wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and
75639    commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
75640  4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?
75641  5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high
75642    priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the
75643    ruler of thy people.
75644  6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and
75645    the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and
75646    brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope
75647    and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
75648  7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the
75649    Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
75650  8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither
75651    angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
75652  9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the
75653    Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in
75654    this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let
75655    us not fight against God.
75656 10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain,
75657    fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them,
75658    commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force
75659    from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
75660 11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of
75661    good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in
75662    Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
75663 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and
75664    bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither
75665    eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
75666 13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
75667 14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We
75668    have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat
75669    nothing until we have slain Paul.
75670 15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain
75671    that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would
75672    enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or
75673    ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
75674 16 And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he
75675    went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
75676 17 Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said,
75677    Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a
75678    certain thing to tell him.
75679 18 So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and
75680    said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to
75681    bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto
75682    thee.
75683 19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him
75684    aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell
75685    me?
75686 20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou
75687    wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though
75688    they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
75689 21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him
75690    of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with
75691    an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have
75692    killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from
75693    thee.
75694 22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and
75695    charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these
75696    things to me.
75697 23 And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two
75698    hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore
75699    and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the
75700    night;
75701 24 And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring
75702    him safe unto Felix the governor.
75703 25 And he wrote a letter after this manner:
75704 26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth
75705    greeting.
75706 27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of
75707    them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having
75708    understood that he was a Roman.
75709 28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused
75710    him, I brought him forth into their council:
75711 29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but
75712    to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of
75713    bonds.
75714 30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the
75715    man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his
75716    accusers also to say before thee what they had against him.
75717    Farewell.
75718 31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and
75719    brought him by night to Antipatris.
75720 32 On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and
75721    returned to the castle:
75722 33 Who, when they came to Caesarea and delivered the epistle to
75723    the governor, presented Paul also before him.
75724 34 And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what
75725    province he was. And when he understood that he was of
75726    Cilicia;
75727 35 I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come.
75728    And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.

75729 Acts 24

75730  1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the
75731    elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who
75732    informed the governor against Paul.
75733  2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him,
75734    saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that
75735    very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,
75736  3 We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with
75737    all thankfulness.
75738  4 Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I
75739    pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few
75740    words.
75741  5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of
75742    sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a
75743    ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
75744  6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took,
75745    and would have judged according to our law.
75746  7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great
75747    violence took him away out of our hands,
75748  8 Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of
75749    whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things,
75750    whereof we accuse him.
75751  9 And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
75752 10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to
75753    speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of
75754    many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully
75755    answer for myself:
75756 11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but
75757    twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
75758 12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any
75759    man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues,
75760    nor in the city:
75761 13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
75762 14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they
75763    call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all
75764    things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
75765 15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
75766    that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the
75767    just and unjust.
75768 16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience
75769    void to offence toward God, and toward men.
75770 17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and
75771    offerings.
75772 18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the
75773    temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
75774 19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they
75775    had ought against me.
75776 20 Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil
75777    doing in me, while I stood before the council,
75778 21 Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among
75779    them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in
75780    question by you this day.
75781 22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect
75782    knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias
75783    the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost
75784    of your matter.
75785 23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have
75786    liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to
75787    minister or come unto him.
75788 24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife
75789    Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him
75790    concerning the faith in Christ.
75791 25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment
75792    to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this
75793    time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
75794 26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul,
75795    that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the
75796    oftener, and communed with him.
75797 27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and
75798    Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

75799 Acts 25

75800  1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days
75801    he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
75802  2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him
75803    against Paul, and besought him,
75804  3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to
75805    Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
75806  4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and
75807    that he himself would depart shortly thither.
75808  5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down
75809    with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in
75810    him.
75811  6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went
75812    down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment
75813    seat commanded Paul to be brought.
75814  7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem
75815    stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints
75816    against Paul, which they could not prove.
75817  8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the
75818    Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have
75819    I offended any thing at all.
75820  9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul,
75821    and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of
75822    these things before me?
75823 10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I
75824    ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou
75825    very well knowest.
75826 11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of
75827    death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these
75828    things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto
75829    them. I appeal unto Caesar.
75830 12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered,
75831    Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
75832 13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto
75833    Caesarea to salute Festus.
75834 14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's
75835    cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in
75836    bonds by Felix:
75837 15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the
75838    elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment
75839    against him.
75840 16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to
75841    deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have
75842    the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for
75843    himself concerning the crime laid against him.
75844 17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on
75845    the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man
75846    to be brought forth.
75847 18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none
75848    accusation of such things as I supposed:
75849 19 But had certain questions against him of their own
75850    superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul
75851    affirmed to be alive.
75852 20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him
75853    whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these
75854    matters.
75855 21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of
75856    Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to
75857    Caesar.
75858 22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man
75859    myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
75860 23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with
75861    great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with
75862    the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus'
75863    commandment Paul was brought forth.
75864 24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here
75865    present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude
75866    of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also
75867    here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
75868 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of
75869    death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have
75870    determined to send him.
75871 26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord.
75872    Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially
75873    before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I
75874    might have somewhat to write.
75875 27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not
75876    withal to signify the crimes laid against him.

75877 Acts 26

75878  1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for
75879    thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for
75880    himself:
75881  2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for
75882    myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I
75883    am accused of the Jews:
75884  3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and
75885    questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee
75886    to hear me patiently.
75887  4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among
75888    mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
75889  5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that
75890    after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a
75891    Pharisee.
75892  6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made
75893    of God, unto our fathers:
75894  7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God
75895    day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king
75896    Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
75897  8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God
75898    should raise the dead?
75899  9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things
75900    contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
75901 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints
75902    did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the
75903    chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my
75904    voice against them.
75905 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them
75906    to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I
75907    persecuted them even unto strange cities.
75908 12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission
75909    from the chief priests,
75910 13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above
75911    the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them
75912    which journeyed with me.
75913 14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice
75914    speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul,
75915    why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against
75916    the pricks.
75917 15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom
75918    thou persecutest.
75919 16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto
75920    thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness
75921    both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things
75922    in the which I will appear unto thee;
75923 17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto
75924    whom now I send thee,
75925 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light,
75926    and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive
75927    forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are
75928    sanctified by faith that is in me.
75929 19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the
75930    heavenly vision:
75931 20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and
75932    throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles,
75933    that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for
75934    repentance.
75935 21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went
75936    about to kill me.
75937 22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this
75938    day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other
75939    things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should
75940    come:
75941 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first
75942    that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the
75943    people, and to the Gentiles.
75944 24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud
75945    voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make
75946    thee mad.
75947 25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth
75948    the words of truth and soberness.
75949 26 For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak
75950    freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are
75951    hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
75952 27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou
75953    believest.
75954 28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a
75955    Christian.
75956 29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also
75957    all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether
75958    such as I am, except these bonds.
75959 30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the
75960    governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
75961 31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves,
75962    saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
75963 32 Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at
75964    liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

75965 Acts 27

75966  1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy,
75967    they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named
75968    Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.
75969  2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning
75970    to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian
75971    of Thessalonica, being with us.
75972  3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously
75973    entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to
75974    refresh himself.
75975  4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus,
75976    because the winds were contrary.
75977  5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia,
75978    we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
75979  6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing
75980    into Italy; and he put us therein.
75981  7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come
75982    over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed
75983    under Crete, over against Salmone;
75984  8 And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The
75985    fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
75986  9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now
75987    dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul
75988    admonished them,
75989 10 And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be
75990    with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship,
75991    but also of our lives.
75992 11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner
75993    of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
75994 12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the
75995    more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they
75996    might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an
75997    haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north
75998    west.
75999 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had
76000    obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by
76001    Crete.
76002 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind,
76003    called Euroclydon.
76004 15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the
76005    wind, we let her drive.
76006 16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we
76007    had much work to come by the boat:
76008 17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding
76009    the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the
76010    quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
76011 18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day
76012    they lightened the ship;
76013 19 And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling
76014    of the ship.
76015 20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no
76016    small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was
76017    then taken away.
76018 21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of
76019    them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and
76020    not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and
76021    loss.
76022 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be
76023    no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
76024 23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am,
76025    and whom I serve,
76026 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar:
76027    and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
76028 25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it
76029    shall be even as it was told me.
76030 26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
76031 27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up
76032    and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they
76033    drew near to some country;
76034 28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had
76035    gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it
76036    fifteen fathoms.
76037 29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast
76038    four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
76039 30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when
76040    they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as
76041    though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
76042 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these
76043    abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
76044 32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her
76045    fall off.
76046 33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to
76047    take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have
76048    tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
76049 34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your
76050    health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any
76051    of you.
76052 35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to
76053    God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he
76054    began to eat.
76055 36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some
76056    meat.
76057 37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and
76058    sixteen souls.
76059 38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and
76060    cast out the wheat into the sea.
76061 39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they
76062    discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they
76063    were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
76064 40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
76065    themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and
76066    hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
76067 41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship
76068    aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable,
76069    but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
76070 42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any
76071    of them should swim out, and escape.
76072 43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their
76073    purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast
76074    themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
76075 44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the
76076    ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to
76077    land.

76078 Acts 28

76079  1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was
76080    called Melita.
76081  2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for
76082    they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the
76083    present rain, and because of the cold.
76084  3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them
76085    on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened
76086    on his hand.
76087  4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his
76088    hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a
76089    murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance
76090    suffereth not to live.
76091  5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
76092  6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen
76093    down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while,
76094    and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and
76095    said that he was a god.
76096  7 In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the
76097    island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us
76098    three days courteously.
76099  8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a
76100    fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and
76101    prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
76102  9 So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the
76103    island, came, and were healed:
76104 10 Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed,
76105    they laded us with such things as were necessary.
76106 11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria,
76107    which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and
76108    Pollux.
76109 12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
76110 13 And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and
76111    after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to
76112    Puteoli:
76113 14 Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them
76114    seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
76115 15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to
76116    meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom
76117    when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
76118 16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the
76119    prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered
76120    to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
76121 17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the
76122    chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together,
76123    he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed
76124    nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was
76125    I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the
76126    Romans.
76127 18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because
76128    there was no cause of death in me.
76129 19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to
76130    appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation
76131    of.
76132 20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you,
76133    and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I
76134    am bound with this chain.
76135 21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of
76136    Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came
76137    shewed or spake any harm of thee.
76138 22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as
76139    concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken
76140    against.
76141 23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him
76142    into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the
76143    kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of
76144    the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till
76145    evening.
76146 24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some
76147    believed not.
76148 25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed,
76149    after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost
76150    by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
76151 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear,
76152    and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not
76153    perceive:
76154 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears
76155    are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest
76156    they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
76157    understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I
76158    should heal them.
76159 28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is
76160    sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
76161 29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had
76162    great reasoning among themselves.
76163 30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and
76164    received all that came in unto him,
76165 31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which
76166    concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man
76167    forbidding him.

76168 Book 45 Romans

76169 Romans 1

76170  1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,
76171    separated unto the gospel of God,
76172  2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy
76173    scriptures,)
76174  3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of
76175    the seed of David according to the flesh;
76176  4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the
76177    spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
76178  5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience
76179    to the faith among all nations, for his name:
76180  6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
76181  7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:
76182    Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus
76183    Christ.
76184  8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that
76185    your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
76186  9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the
76187    gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you
76188    always in my prayers;
76189 10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a
76190    prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
76191 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some
76192    spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
76193 12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the
76194    mutual faith both of you and me.
76195 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I
76196    purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I
76197    might have some fruit among you also, even as among other
76198    Gentiles.
76199 14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to
76200    the wise, and to the unwise.
76201 15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to
76202    you that are at Rome also.
76203 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
76204    power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to
76205    the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
76206 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
76207    faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
76208 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
76209    ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
76210    unrighteousness;
76211 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;
76212    for God hath shewed it unto them.
76213 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
76214    are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
76215    made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are
76216    without excuse:
76217 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as
76218    God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their
76219    imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
76220 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
76221 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
76222    made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
76223    beasts, and creeping things.
76224 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
76225    lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies
76226    between themselves:
76227 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and
76228    served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for
76229    ever. Amen.
76230 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
76231    their women did change the natural use into that which is
76232    against nature:
76233 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
76234    woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
76235    working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
76236    that recompence of their error which was meet.
76237 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their
76238    knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those
76239    things which are not convenient;
76240 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
76241    wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
76242    debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
76243 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters,
76244    inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
76245 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural
76246    affection, implacable, unmerciful:
76247 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such
76248    things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
76249    pleasure in them that do them.

76250 Romans 2

76251  1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that
76252    judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
76253    thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
76254  2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth
76255    against them which commit such things.
76256  3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such
76257    things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the
76258    judgment of God?
76259  4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
76260    and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God
76261    leadeth thee to repentance?
76262  5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto
76263    thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
76264    righteous judgment of God;
76265  6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
76266  7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for
76267    glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
76268  8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,
76269    but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
76270  9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth
76271    evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
76272 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good,
76273    to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
76274 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
76275 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish
76276    without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be
76277    judged by the law;
76278 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the
76279    doers of the law shall be justified.
76280 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature
76281    the things contained in the law, these, having not the law,
76282    are a law unto themselves:
76283 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their
76284    conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean
76285    while accusing or else excusing one another;)
76286 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
76287    Christ according to my gospel.
76288 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and
76289    makest thy boast of God,
76290 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more
76291    excellent, being instructed out of the law;
76292 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind,
76293    a light of them which are in darkness,
76294 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast
76295    the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
76296 21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not
76297    thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou
76298    steal?
76299 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou
76300    commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit
76301    sacrilege?
76302 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the
76303    law dishonourest thou God?
76304 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through
76305    you, as it is written.
76306 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but
76307    if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made
76308    uncircumcision.
76309 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the
76310    law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
76311 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil
76312    the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost
76313    transgress the law?
76314 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
76315    circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
76316 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is
76317    that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose
76318    praise is not of men, but of God.

76319 Romans 3

76320  1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
76321    circumcision?
76322  2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed
76323    the oracles of God.
76324  3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make
76325    the faith of God without effect?
76326  4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it
76327    is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings,
76328    and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
76329  5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,
76330    what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I
76331    speak as a man)
76332  6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
76333  7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto
76334    his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
76335  8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some
76336    affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
76337    damnation is just.
76338  9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we
76339    have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all
76340    under sin;
76341 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
76342 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
76343    after God.
76344 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
76345    unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
76346 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they
76347    have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
76348 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
76349 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
76350 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
76351 17 And the way of peace have they not known:
76352 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
76353 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
76354    them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
76355    and all the world may become guilty before God.
76356 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
76357    justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of
76358    sin.
76359 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is
76360    manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
76361 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
76362    Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is
76363    no difference:
76364 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
76365 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
76366    that is in Christ Jesus:
76367 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
76368    his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of
76369    sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
76370 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he
76371    might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in
76372    Jesus.
76373 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
76374    Nay: but by the law of faith.
76375 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without
76376    the deeds of the law.
76377 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the
76378    Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
76379 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by
76380    faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
76381 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,
76382    we establish the law.

76383 Romans 4

76384  1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining
76385    to the flesh, hath found?
76386  2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to
76387    glory; but not before God.
76388  3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was
76389    counted unto him for righteousness.
76390  4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace,
76391    but of debt.
76392  5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that
76393    justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for
76394    righteousness.
76395  6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto
76396    whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
76397  7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and
76398    whose sins are covered.
76399  8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
76400  9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or
76401    upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was
76402    reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
76403 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in
76404    uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
76405 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
76406    righteousness of the faith which he had yet being
76407    uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that
76408    believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness
76409    might be imputed unto them also:
76410 12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the
76411    circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that
76412    faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet
76413    uncircumcised.
76414 13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was
76415    not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through
76416    the righteousness of faith.
76417 14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,
76418    and the promise made of none effect:
76419 15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is
76420    no transgression.
76421 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the
76422    end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that
76423    only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
76424    faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
76425 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
76426    before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the
76427    dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they
76428    were.
76429 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
76430    father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So
76431    shall thy seed be.
76432 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body
76433    now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet
76434    the deadness of Sarah's womb:
76435 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but
76436    was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
76437 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was
76438    able also to perform.
76439 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
76440 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
76441    to him;
76442 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on
76443    him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
76444 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for
76445    our justification.

76446 Romans 5

76447  1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
76448    through our Lord Jesus Christ:
76449  2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein
76450    we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
76451  3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing
76452    that tribulation worketh patience;
76453  4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
76454  5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
76455    abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
76456  6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died
76457    for the ungodly.
76458  7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet
76459    peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
76460  8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
76461    yet sinners, Christ died for us.
76462  9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
76463    saved from wrath through him.
76464 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the
76465    death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be
76466    saved by his life.
76467 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
76468    Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
76469 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
76470    by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
76471    sinned:
76472 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not
76473    imputed when there is no law.
76474 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them
76475    that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
76476    transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
76477 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if
76478    through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace
76479    of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
76480    Christ, hath abounded unto many.
76481 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
76482    judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of
76483    many offences unto justification.
76484 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more
76485    they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
76486    righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
76487 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men
76488    to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free
76489    gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
76490 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by
76491    the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
76492 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
76493    where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
76494 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
76495    through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our
76496    Lord.

76497 Romans 6

76498  1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace
76499    may abound?
76500  2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any
76501    longer therein?
76502  3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus
76503    Christ were baptized into his death?
76504  4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that
76505    like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
76506    Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
76507  5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his
76508    death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
76509  6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the
76510    body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not
76511    serve sin.
76512  7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
76513  8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also
76514    live with him:
76515  9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
76516    death hath no more dominion over him.
76517 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he
76518    liveth, he liveth unto God.
76519 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
76520    but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
76521 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
76522    should obey it in the lusts thereof.
76523 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
76524    unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as
76525    those that are alive from the dead, and your members as
76526    instruments of righteousness unto God.
76527 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
76528    the law, but under grace.
76529 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but
76530    under grace? God forbid.
76531 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
76532    obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto
76533    death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
76534 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye
76535    have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
76536    delivered you.
76537 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
76538    righteousness.
76539 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of
76540    your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to
76541    uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield
76542    your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
76543 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
76544    righteousness.
76545 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now
76546    ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
76547 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God,
76548    ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting
76549    life.
76550 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal
76551    life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

76552 Romans 7

76553  1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the
76554    law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he
76555    liveth?
76556  2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her
76557    husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she
76558    is loosed from the law of her husband.
76559  3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to
76560    another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her
76561    husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no
76562    adulteress, though she be married to another man.
76563  4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by
76564    the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even
76565    to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth
76566    fruit unto God.
76567  5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were
76568    by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto
76569    death.
76570  6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
76571    we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and
76572    not in the oldness of the letter.
76573  7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
76574    not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust,
76575    except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
76576  8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
76577    manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
76578  9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment
76579    came, sin revived, and I died.
76580 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be
76581    unto death.
76582 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and
76583    by it slew me.
76584 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
76585    and good.
76586 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid.
76587    But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that
76588    which is good; that sin by the commandment might become
76589    exceeding sinful.
76590 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold
76591    under sin.
76592 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
76593    not; but what I hate, that do I.
76594 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law
76595    that it is good.
76596 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in
76597    me.
76598 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
76599    thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that
76600    which is good I find not.
76601 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would
76602    not, that I do.
76603 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but
76604    sin that dwelleth in me.
76605 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present
76606    with me.
76607 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
76608 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law
76609    of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
76610    which is in my members.
76611 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body
76612    of this death?
76613 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the
76614    mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law
76615    of sin.

76616 Romans 8

76617  1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
76618    Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
76619    Spirit.
76620  2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
76621    free from the law of sin and death.
76622  3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
76623    flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
76624    flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
76625  4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
76626    who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
76627  5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the
76628    flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the
76629    Spirit.
76630  6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually
76631    minded is life and peace.
76632  7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not
76633    subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
76634  8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
76635  9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
76636    the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the
76637    Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
76638 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but
76639    the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
76640 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
76641    dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall
76642    also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in
76643    you.
76644 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
76645    after the flesh.
76646 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye
76647    through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall
76648    live.
76649 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons
76650    of God.
76651 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
76652    but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
76653    Abba, Father.
76654 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are
76655    the children of God:
76656 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
76657    with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be
76658    also glorified together.
76659 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
76660    worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed
76661    in us.
76662 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
76663    manifestation of the sons of God.
76664 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly,
76665    but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
76666 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
76667    bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the
76668    children of God.
76669 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
76670    pain together until now.
76671 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
76672    firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
76673    ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of
76674    our body.
76675 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
76676    for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
76677 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
76678    wait for it.
76679 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know
76680    not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself
76681    maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
76682    uttered.
76683 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
76684    the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints
76685    according to the will of God.
76686 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them
76687    that love God, to them who are the called according to his
76688    purpose.
76689 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
76690    conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
76691    firstborn among many brethren.
76692 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and
76693    whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified,
76694    them he also glorified.
76695 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who
76696    can be against us?
76697 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
76698    all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
76699 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is
76700    God that justifieth.
76701 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
76702    that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who
76703    also maketh intercession for us.
76704 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall
76705    tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
76706    nakedness, or peril, or sword?
76707 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
76708    we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
76709 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
76710    him that loved us.
76711 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
76712    nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
76713    to come,
76714 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able
76715    to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
76716    our Lord.

76717 Romans 9

76718  1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also
76719    bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
76720  2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
76721  3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my
76722    brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
76723  4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the
76724    glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the
76725    service of God, and the promises;
76726  5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh
76727    Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
76728  6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
76729    are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
76730  7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all
76731    children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
76732  8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are
76733    not the children of God: but the children of the promise are
76734    counted for the seed.
76735  9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and
76736    Sarah shall have a son.
76737 10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
76738    even by our father Isaac;
76739 11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any
76740    good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election
76741    might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
76742 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
76743 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
76744 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God
76745    forbid.
76746 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have
76747    mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
76748    compassion.
76749 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that
76750    runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
76751 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same
76752    purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in
76753    thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the
76754    earth.
76755 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom
76756    he will he hardeneth.
76757 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For
76758    who hath resisted his will?
76759 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall
76760    the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made
76761    me thus?
76762 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to
76763    make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
76764 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power
76765    known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath
76766    fitted to destruction:
76767 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
76768    vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
76769 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also
76770    of the Gentiles?
76771 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which
76772    were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
76773 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said
76774    unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called
76775    the children of the living God.
76776 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the
76777    children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall
76778    be saved:
76779 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in
76780    righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon
76781    the earth.
76782 29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left
76783    us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto
76784    Gomorrha.
76785 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not
76786    after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
76787    righteousness which is of faith.
76788 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,
76789    hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
76790 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were
76791    by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
76792    stumblingstone;
76793 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and
76794    rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be
76795    ashamed.

76796 Romans 10

76797  1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is,
76798    that they might be saved.
76799  2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
76800    according to knowledge.
76801  3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going
76802    about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
76803    themselves unto the righteousness of God.
76804  4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every
76805    one that believeth.
76806  5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law,
76807    That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
76808  6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise,
76809    Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that
76810    is, to bring Christ down from above:)
76811  7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up
76812    Christ again from the dead.)
76813  8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth,
76814    and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
76815  9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
76816    shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
76817    dead, thou shalt be saved.
76818 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with
76819    the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
76820 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not
76821    be ashamed.
76822 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for
76823    the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
76824 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
76825    saved.
76826 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not
76827    believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have
76828    not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
76829 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is
76830    written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
76831    gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
76832 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith,
76833    Lord, who hath believed our report?
76834 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of
76835    God.
76836 18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went
76837    into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the
76838    world.
76839 19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will
76840    provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a
76841    foolish nation I will anger you.
76842 20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that
76843    sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not
76844    after me.
76845 21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my
76846    hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

76847 Romans 11

76848  1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I
76849    also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
76850    Benjamin.
76851  2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye
76852    not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh
76853    intercession to God against Israel saying,
76854  3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine
76855    altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
76856  4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to
76857    myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the
76858    image of Baal.
76859  5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
76860    according to the election of grace.
76861  6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace
76862    is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more
76863    grace: otherwise work is no more work.
76864  7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for;
76865    but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
76866  8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of
76867    slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they
76868    should not hear;) unto this day.
76869  9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
76870    and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
76871 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow
76872    down their back alway.
76873 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God
76874    forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto
76875    the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
76876 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the
76877    diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more
76878    their fulness?
76879 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of
76880    the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
76881 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my
76882    flesh, and might save some of them.
76883 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the
76884    world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the
76885    dead?
76886 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if
76887    the root be holy, so are the branches.
76888 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a
76889    wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them
76890    partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
76891 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou
76892    bearest not the root, but the root thee.
76893 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might
76894    be graffed in.
76895 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou
76896    standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
76897 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he
76898    also spare not thee.
76899 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them
76900    which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou
76901    continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut
76902    off.
76903 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be
76904    graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
76905 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by
76906    nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive
76907    tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
76908    branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
76909 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
76910    mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that
76911    blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of
76912    the Gentiles be come in.
76913 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There
76914    shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away
76915    ungodliness from Jacob:
76916 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away
76917    their sins.
76918 28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
76919    as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's
76920    sakes.
76921 29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
76922 30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now
76923    obtained mercy through their unbelief:
76924 31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your
76925    mercy they also may obtain mercy.
76926 32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might
76927    have mercy upon all.
76928 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of
76929    God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past
76930    finding out!
76931 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
76932    counsellor?
76933 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed
76934    unto him again?
76935 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to
76936    whom be glory for ever. Amen.

76937 Romans 12

76938  1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that
76939    ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
76940    unto God, which is your reasonable service.
76941  2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
76942    the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
76943    good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
76944  3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that
76945    is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he
76946    ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath
76947    dealt to every man the measure of faith.
76948  4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have
76949    not the same office:
76950  5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one
76951    members one of another.
76952  6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is
76953    given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to
76954    the proportion of faith;
76955  7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that
76956    teacheth, on teaching;
76957  8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him
76958    do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that
76959    sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
76960  9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil;
76961    cleave to that which is good.
76962 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in
76963    honour preferring one another;
76964 11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
76965 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant
76966    in prayer;
76967 13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
76968 14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
76969 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that
76970    weep.
76971 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
76972    but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own
76973    conceits.
76974 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in
76975    the sight of all men.
76976 18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably
76977    with all men.
76978 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place
76979    unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will
76980    repay, saith the Lord.
76981 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give
76982    him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on
76983    his head.
76984 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

76985 Romans 13

76986  1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is
76987    no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
76988  2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the
76989    ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to
76990    themselves damnation.
76991  3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
76992    Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is
76993    good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
76994  4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do
76995    that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in
76996    vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute
76997    wrath upon him that doeth evil.
76998  5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but
76999    also for conscience sake.
77000  6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's
77001    ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
77002  7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is
77003    due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom
77004    honour.
77005  8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that
77006    loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
77007  9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill,
77008    Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou
77009    shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is
77010    briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love
77011    thy neighbour as thyself.
77012 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the
77013    fulfilling of the law.
77014 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake
77015    out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we
77016    believed.
77017 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore
77018    cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour
77019    of light.
77020 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and
77021    drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife
77022    and envying.
77023 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision
77024    for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

77025 Romans 14

77026  1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful
77027    disputations.
77028  2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is
77029    weak, eateth herbs.
77030  3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let
77031    not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath
77032    received him.
77033  4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own
77034    master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for
77035    God is able to make him stand.
77036  5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth
77037    every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own
77038    mind.
77039  6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he
77040    that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
77041    He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks;
77042    and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth
77043    God thanks.
77044  7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
77045  8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we
77046    die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die,
77047    we are the Lord's.
77048  9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that
77049    he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
77050 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at
77051    nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment
77052    seat of Christ.
77053 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall
77054    bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
77055 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
77056 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge
77057    this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion
77058    to fall in his brother's way.
77059 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is
77060    nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing
77061    to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
77062 15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou
77063    not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ
77064    died.
77065 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
77066 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
77067    righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
77068 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to
77069    God, and approved of men.
77070 19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace,
77071    and things wherewith one may edify another.
77072 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are
77073    pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
77074 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any
77075    thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is
77076    made weak.
77077 22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he
77078    that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
77079 23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth
77080    not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

77081 Romans 15

77082  1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the
77083    weak, and not to please ourselves.
77084  2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to
77085    edification.
77086  3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written,
77087    The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
77088  4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for
77089    our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
77090    scriptures might have hope.
77091  5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be
77092    likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
77093  6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the
77094    Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
77095  7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us
77096    to the glory of God.
77097  8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision
77098    for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the
77099    fathers:
77100  9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it
77101    is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the
77102    Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
77103 10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
77104 11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all
77105    ye people.
77106 12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and
77107    he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall
77108    the Gentiles trust.
77109 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
77110    believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of
77111    the Holy Ghost.
77112 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye
77113    also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able
77114    also to admonish one another.
77115 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto
77116    you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace
77117    that is given to me of God,
77118 16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
77119    ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the
77120    Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy
77121    Ghost.
77122 17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in
77123    those things which pertain to God.
77124 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which
77125    Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient,
77126    by word and deed,
77127 19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit
77128    of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto
77129    Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
77130 20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ
77131    was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
77132 21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall
77133    see: and they that have not heard shall understand.
77134 22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to
77135    you.
77136 23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a
77137    great desire these many years to come unto you;
77138 24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you:
77139    for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my
77140    way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with
77141    your company.
77142 25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
77143 26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a
77144    certain contribution for the poor saints which are at
77145    Jerusalem.
77146 27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For
77147    if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual
77148    things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal
77149    things.
77150 28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them
77151    this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
77152 29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the
77153    fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
77154 30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,
77155    and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with
77156    me in your prayers to God for me;
77157 31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in
77158    Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be
77159    accepted of the saints;
77160 32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may
77161    with you be refreshed.
77162 33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

77163 Romans 16

77164  1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the
77165    church which is at Cenchrea:
77166  2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that
77167    ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for
77168    she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
77169  3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
77170  4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not
77171    only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
77172  5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my
77173    well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto
77174    Christ.
77175  6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
77176  7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my
77177    fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also
77178    were in Christ before me.
77179  8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
77180  9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
77181 10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of
77182    Aristobulus' household.
77183 11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the
77184    household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
77185 12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute
77186    the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
77187 13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
77188 14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the
77189    brethren which are with them.
77190 15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and
77191    Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
77192 16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ
77193    salute you.
77194 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
77195    and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned;
77196    and avoid them.
77197 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but
77198    their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive
77199    the hearts of the simple.
77200 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad
77201    therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto
77202    that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
77203 20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet
77204    shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
77205 21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater,
77206    my kinsmen, salute you.
77207 22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
77208 23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you.
77209    Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus
77210    a brother.
77211 24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
77212 25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my
77213    gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the
77214    revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the
77215    world began,
77216 26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the
77217    prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God,
77218    made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
77219 27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever.
77220    Amen.

77221 Book 46 1 Corinthians

77222 1 Corinthians 1

77223  1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will
77224    of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
77225  2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are
77226    sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that
77227    in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,
77228    both their's and our's:
77229  3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
77230    the Lord Jesus Christ.
77231  4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God
77232    which is given you by Jesus Christ;
77233  5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance,
77234    and in all knowledge;
77235  6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
77236  7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of
77237    our Lord Jesus Christ:
77238  8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be
77239    blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
77240  9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of
77241    his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
77242 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
77243    Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no
77244    divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together
77245    in the same mind and in the same judgment.
77246 11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them
77247    which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions
77248    among you.
77249 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and
77250    I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
77251 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye
77252    baptized in the name of Paul?
77253 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and
77254    Gaius;
77255 15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
77256 16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I
77257    know not whether I baptized any other.
77258 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:
77259    not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be
77260    made of none effect.
77261 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
77262    foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of
77263    God.
77264 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and
77265    will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
77266 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer
77267    of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this
77268    world?
77269 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew
77270    not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
77271    save them that believe.
77272 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
77273 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
77274    stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
77275 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
77276    the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
77277 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
77278    weakness of God is stronger than men.
77279 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men
77280    after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
77281 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
77282    confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the
77283    world to confound the things which are mighty;
77284 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised,
77285    hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to
77286    nought things that are:
77287 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
77288 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us
77289    wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
77290 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him
77291    glory in the Lord.

77292 1 Corinthians 2

77293  1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency
77294    of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of
77295    God.
77296  2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus
77297    Christ, and him crucified.
77298  3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much
77299    trembling.
77300  4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of
77301    man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
77302  5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in
77303    the power of God.
77304  6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not
77305    the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world,
77306    that come to nought:
77307  7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
77308    wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
77309  8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they
77310    known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
77311  9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
77312    neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which
77313    God hath prepared for them that love him.
77314 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
77315    Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
77316 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of
77317    man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man,
77318    but the Spirit of God.
77319 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
77320    spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are
77321    freely given to us of God.
77322 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's
77323    wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
77324    spiritual things with spiritual.
77325 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
77326    God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
77327    them, because they are spiritually discerned.
77328 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is
77329    judged of no man.
77330 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
77331    him? But we have the mind of Christ.

77332 1 Corinthians 3

77333  1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
77334    but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
77335  2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye
77336    were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
77337  3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying,
77338    and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
77339  4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of
77340    Apollos; are ye not carnal?
77341  5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
77342    believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
77343  6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
77344  7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that
77345    watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
77346  8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every
77347    man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
77348  9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's
77349    husbandry, ye are God's building.
77350 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a
77351    wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another
77352    buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth
77353    thereupon.
77354 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which
77355    is Jesus Christ.
77356 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver,
77357    precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
77358 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
77359    declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire
77360    shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
77361 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he
77362    shall receive a reward.
77363 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but
77364    he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
77365 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit
77366    of God dwelleth in you?
77367 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
77368    for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
77369 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be
77370    wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be
77371    wise.
77372 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it
77373    is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
77374 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that
77375    they are vain.
77376 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
77377 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or
77378    death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
77379 23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

77380 1 Corinthians 4

77381  1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and
77382    stewards of the mysteries of God.
77383  2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found
77384    faithful.
77385  3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged
77386    of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
77387  4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified:
77388    but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
77389  5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come,
77390    who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness,
77391    and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then
77392    shall every man have praise of God.
77393  6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
77394    myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in
77395    us not to think of men above that which is written, that no
77396    one of you be puffed up for one against another.
77397  7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou
77398    that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why
77399    dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
77400  8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings
77401    without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also
77402    might reign with you.
77403  9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as
77404    it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto
77405    the world, and to angels, and to men.
77406 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we
77407    are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are
77408    despised.
77409 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and
77410    are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain
77411    dwellingplace;
77412 12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we
77413    bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
77414 13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the
77415    world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
77416 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons
77417    I warn you.
77418 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet
77419    have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten
77420    you through the gospel.
77421 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
77422 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my
77423    beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you
77424    into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach
77425    every where in every church.
77426 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
77427 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will
77428    know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the
77429    power.
77430 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
77431 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love,
77432    and in the spirit of meekness?

77433 1 Corinthians 5

77434  1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,
77435    and such fornication as is not so much as named among the
77436    Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
77437  2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he
77438    that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
77439  3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have
77440    judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that
77441    hath so done this deed,
77442  4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered
77443    together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus
77444    Christ,
77445  5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the
77446    flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord
77447    Jesus.
77448  6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven
77449    leaveneth the whole lump?
77450  7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,
77451    as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is
77452    sacrificed for us:
77453  8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither
77454    with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
77455    unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
77456  9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with
77457    fornicators:
77458 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with
77459    the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then
77460    must ye needs go out of the world.
77461 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any
77462    man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or
77463    an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;
77464    with such an one no not to eat.
77465 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do
77466    not ye judge them that are within?
77467 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from
77468    among yourselves that wicked person.

77469 1 Corinthians 6

77470  1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law
77471    before the unjust, and not before the saints?
77472  2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if
77473    the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the
77474    smallest matters?
77475  3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things
77476    that pertain to this life?
77477  4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life,
77478    set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
77479  5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man
77480    among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his
77481    brethren?
77482  6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the
77483    unbelievers.
77484  7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye
77485    go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong?
77486    why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
77487  8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
77488  9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom
77489    of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
77490    nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
77491    mankind,
77492 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
77493    extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
77494 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are
77495    sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord
77496    Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
77497 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not
77498    expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be
77499    brought under the power of any.
77500 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall
77501    destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication,
77502    but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
77503 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up
77504    us by his own power.
77505 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall
77506    I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members
77507    of an harlot? God forbid.
77508 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
77509    body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
77510 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
77511 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
77512    body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his
77513    own body.
77514 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
77515    Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
77516    your own?
77517 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
77518    body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

77519 1 Corinthians 7

77520  1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good
77521    for a man not to touch a woman.
77522  2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own
77523    wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
77524  3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and
77525    likewise also the wife unto the husband.
77526  4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and
77527    likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but
77528    the wife.
77529  5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a
77530    time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and
77531    come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your
77532    incontinency.
77533  6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
77534  7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man
77535    hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and
77536    another after that.
77537  8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for
77538    them if they abide even as I.
77539  9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better
77540    to marry than to burn.
77541 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let
77542    not the wife depart from her husband:
77543 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be
77544    reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away
77545    his wife.
77546 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a
77547    wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him,
77548    let him not put her away.
77549 13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if
77550    he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
77551 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
77552    unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your
77553    children unclean; but now are they holy.
77554 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a
77555    sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called
77556    us to peace.
77557 16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy
77558    husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save
77559    thy wife?
77560 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath
77561    called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all
77562    churches.
77563 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
77564    uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be
77565    circumcised.
77566 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but
77567    the keeping of the commandments of God.
77568 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
77569 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou
77570    mayest be made free, use it rather.
77571 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the
77572    Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free,
77573    is Christ's servant.
77574 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
77575 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide
77576    with God.
77577 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet
77578    I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the
77579    Lord to be faithful.
77580 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present
77581    distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
77582 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou
77583    loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
77584 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin
77585    marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have
77586    trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
77587 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,
77588    that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
77589 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that
77590    rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as
77591    though they possessed not;
77592 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the
77593    fashion of this world passeth away.
77594 32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried
77595    careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may
77596    please the Lord:
77597 33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the
77598    world, how he may please his wife.
77599 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The
77600    unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she
77601    may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is
77602    married careth for the things of the world, how she may please
77603    her husband.
77604 35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a
77605    snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may
77606    attend upon the Lord without distraction.
77607 36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward
77608    his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so
77609    require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them
77610    marry.
77611 37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
77612    necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so
77613    decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
77614 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that
77615    giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
77616 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth;
77617    but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to
77618    whom she will; only in the Lord.
77619 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I
77620    think also that I have the Spirit of God.

77621 1 Corinthians 8

77622  1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all
77623    have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
77624  2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth
77625    nothing yet as he ought to know.
77626  3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
77627  4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are
77628    offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is
77629    nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but
77630    one.
77631  5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or
77632    in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
77633  6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all
77634    things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are
77635    all things, and we by him.
77636  7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some
77637    with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing
77638    offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is
77639    defiled.
77640  8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are
77641    we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
77642  9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become
77643    a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
77644 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in
77645    the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is
77646    weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to
77647    idols;
77648 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for
77649    whom Christ died?
77650 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak
77651    conscience, ye sin against Christ.
77652 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no
77653    flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to
77654    offend.

77655 1 Corinthians 9

77656  1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus
77657    Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
77658  2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you:
77659    for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
77660  3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
77661  4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
77662  5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as
77663    other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
77664  6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
77665  7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth
77666    a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who
77667    feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
77668  8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same
77669    also?
77670  9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle
77671    the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take
77672    care for oxen?
77673 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no
77674    doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in
77675    hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of
77676    his hope.
77677 11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing
77678    if we shall reap your carnal things?
77679 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we
77680    rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer
77681    all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
77682 13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live
77683    of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar
77684    are partakers with the altar?
77685 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the
77686    gospel should live of the gospel.
77687 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written
77688    these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were
77689    better for me to die, than that any man should make my
77690    glorying void.
77691 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of:
77692    for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I
77693    preach not the gospel!
77694 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if
77695    against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed
77696    unto me.
77697 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel,
77698    I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse
77699    not my power in the gospel.
77700 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself
77701    servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
77702 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the
77703    Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I
77704    might gain them that are under the law;
77705 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not
77706    without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might
77707    gain them that are without law.
77708 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am
77709    made all things to all men, that I might by all means save
77710    some.
77711 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker
77712    thereof with you.
77713 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
77714    receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
77715 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in
77716    all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but
77717    we an incorruptible.
77718 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one
77719    that beateth the air:
77720 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest
77721    that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself
77722    should be a castaway.

77723 1 Corinthians 10

77724  1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant,
77725    how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
77726    through the sea;
77727  2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
77728  3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
77729  4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of
77730    that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
77731    Christ.
77732  5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were
77733    overthrown in the wilderness.
77734  6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should
77735    not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
77736  7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is
77737    written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to
77738    play.
77739  8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed,
77740    and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
77741  9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and
77742    were destroyed of serpents.
77743 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were
77744    destroyed of the destroyer.
77745 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and
77746    they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
77747    world are come.
77748 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
77749    fall.
77750 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to
77751    man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
77752    tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation
77753    also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
77754 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
77755 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
77756 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of
77757    the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the
77758    communion of the body of Christ?
77759 17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all
77760    partakers of that one bread.
77761 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the
77762    sacrifices partakers of the altar?
77763 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is
77764    offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
77765 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they
77766    sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye
77767    should have fellowship with devils.
77768 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye
77769    cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of
77770    devils.
77771 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
77772 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not
77773    expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify
77774    not.
77775 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
77776 25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no
77777    question for conscience sake:
77778 26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
77779 27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be
77780    disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no
77781    question for conscience sake.
77782 28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto
77783    idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience
77784    sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
77785 29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is
77786    my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
77787 30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for
77788    that for which I give thanks?
77789 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do
77790    all to the glory of God.
77791 32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles,
77792    nor to the church of God:
77793 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own
77794    profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

77795 1 Corinthians 11

77796  1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
77797  2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things,
77798    and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
77799  3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is
77800    Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of
77801    Christ is God.
77802  4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,
77803    dishonoureth his head.
77804  5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head
77805    uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as
77806    if she were shaven.
77807  6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if
77808    it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be
77809    covered.
77810  7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he
77811    is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of
77812    the man.
77813  8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
77814  9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for
77815    the man.
77816 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head
77817    because of the angels.
77818 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the
77819    woman without the man, in the Lord.
77820 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the
77821    woman; but all things of God.
77822 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God
77823    uncovered?
77824 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have
77825    long hair, it is a shame unto him?
77826 15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her
77827    hair is given her for a covering.
77828 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,
77829    neither the churches of God.
77830 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye
77831    come together not for the better, but for the worse.
77832 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear
77833    that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
77834 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are
77835    approved may be made manifest among you.
77836 20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to
77837    eat the Lord's supper.
77838 21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper:
77839    and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
77840 22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye
77841    the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I
77842    say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
77843 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered
77844    unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was
77845    betrayed took bread:
77846 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take,
77847    eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
77848    remembrance of me.
77849 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had
77850    supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood:
77851    this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
77852 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do
77853    shew the Lord's death till he come.
77854 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup
77855    of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood
77856    of the Lord.
77857 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that
77858    bread, and drink of that cup.
77859 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
77860    drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
77861 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many
77862    sleep.
77863 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
77864 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we
77865    should not be condemned with the world.
77866 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry
77867    one for another.
77868 34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not
77869    together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order
77870    when I come.

77871 1 Corinthians 12

77872  1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
77873    ignorant.
77874  2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb
77875    idols, even as ye were led.
77876  3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by
77877    the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can
77878    say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
77879  4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
77880  5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same
77881    Lord.
77882  6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same
77883    God which worketh all in all.
77884  7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to
77885    profit withal.
77886  8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to
77887    another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
77888  9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of
77889    healing by the same Spirit;
77890 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to
77891    another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of
77892    tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
77893 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit,
77894    dividing to every man severally as he will.
77895 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
77896    members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is
77897    Christ.
77898 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether
77899    we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have
77900    been all made to drink into one Spirit.
77901 14 For the body is not one member, but many.
77902 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of
77903    the body; is it therefore not of the body?
77904 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not
77905    of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
77906 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the
77907    whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
77908 18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the
77909    body, as it hath pleased him.
77910 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
77911 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
77912 21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee:
77913    nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
77914 22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be
77915    more feeble, are necessary:
77916 23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less
77917    honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our
77918    uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
77919 24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the
77920    body together, having given more abundant honour to that part
77921    which lacked.
77922 25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the
77923    members should have the same care one for another.
77924 26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it;
77925    or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
77926 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
77927 28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles,
77928    secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles,
77929    then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of
77930    tongues.
77931 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all
77932    workers of miracles?
77933 30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do
77934    all interpret?
77935 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a
77936    more excellent way.

77937 1 Corinthians 13

77938  1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have
77939    not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling
77940    cymbal.
77941  2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
77942    mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
77943    that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
77944    nothing.
77945  3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
77946    I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it
77947    profiteth me nothing.
77948  4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;
77949    charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
77950  5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not
77951    easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
77952  6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
77953  7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
77954    endureth all things.
77955  8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they
77956    shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
77957    whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
77958  9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
77959 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in
77960    part shall be done away.
77961 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
77962    child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put
77963    away childish things.
77964 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
77965    now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am
77966    known.
77967 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
77968    greatest of these is charity.

77969 1 Corinthians 14

77970  1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather
77971    that ye may prophesy.
77972  2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto
77973    men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in
77974    the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
77975  3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and
77976    exhortation, and comfort.
77977  4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he
77978    that prophesieth edifieth the church.
77979  5 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye
77980    prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that
77981    speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church
77982    may receive edifying.
77983  6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what
77984    shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by
77985    revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by
77986    doctrine?
77987  7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or
77988    harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall
77989    it be known what is piped or harped?
77990  8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare
77991    himself to the battle?
77992  9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be
77993    understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall
77994    speak into the air.
77995 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world,
77996    and none of them is without signification.
77997 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be
77998    unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall
77999    be a barbarian unto me.
78000 12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts,
78001    seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
78002 13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that
78003    he may interpret.
78004 14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my
78005    understanding is unfruitful.
78006 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray
78007    with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and
78008    I will sing with the understanding also.
78009 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that
78010    occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of
78011    thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
78012 17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not
78013    edified.
78014 18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
78015 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my
78016    understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also,
78017    than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
78018 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice
78019    be ye children, but in understanding be men.
78020 21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other
78021    lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will
78022    they not hear me, saith the Lord.
78023 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe,
78024    but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for
78025    them that believe not, but for them which believe.
78026 23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place,
78027    and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are
78028    unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
78029 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not,
78030    or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
78031 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so
78032    falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that
78033    God is in you of a truth.
78034 26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of
78035    you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a
78036    revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done
78037    unto edifying.
78038 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at
78039    the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
78040 28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the
78041    church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
78042 29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
78043 30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the
78044    first hold his peace.
78045 31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and
78046    all may be comforted.
78047 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
78048 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in
78049    all churches of the saints.
78050 34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not
78051    permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be
78052    under obedience as also saith the law.
78053 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands
78054    at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
78055 36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you
78056    only?
78057 37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let
78058    him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the
78059    commandments of the Lord.
78060 38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
78061 39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to
78062    speak with tongues.
78063 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

78064 1 Corinthians 15

78065  1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I
78066    preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye
78067    stand;
78068  2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I
78069    preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
78070  3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
78071    received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
78072    scriptures;
78073  4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
78074    according to the scriptures:
78075  5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
78076  6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at
78077    once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but
78078    some are fallen asleep.
78079  7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
78080  8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of
78081    due time.
78082  9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be
78083    called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
78084 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which
78085    was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more
78086    abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God
78087    which was with me.
78088 11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye
78089    believed.
78090 12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say
78091    some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
78092 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ
78093    not risen:
78094 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and
78095    your faith is also vain.
78096 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have
78097    testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not
78098    up, if so be that the dead rise not.
78099 16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
78100 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in
78101    your sins.
78102 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
78103 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men
78104    most miserable.
78105 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
78106    firstfruits of them that slept.
78107 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection
78108    of the dead.
78109 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
78110    alive.
78111 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
78112    afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
78113 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the
78114    kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down
78115    all rule and all authority and power.
78116 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his
78117    feet.
78118 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
78119 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith
78120    all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is
78121    excepted, which did put all things under him.
78122 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the
78123    Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under
78124    him, that God may be all in all.
78125 29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if
78126    the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the
78127    dead?
78128 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
78129 31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our
78130    Lord, I die daily.
78131 32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at
78132    Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us
78133    eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
78134 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
78135 34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the
78136    knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
78137 35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with
78138    what body do they come?
78139 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it
78140    die:
78141 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that
78142    shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some
78143    other grain:
78144 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every
78145    seed his own body.
78146 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of
78147    flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and
78148    another of birds.
78149 40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but
78150    the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the
78151    terrestrial is another.
78152 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
78153    and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from
78154    another star in glory.
78155 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
78156    corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
78157 43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
78158    weakness; it is raised in power:
78159 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
78160    There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
78161 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
78162    soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
78163 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which
78164    is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
78165 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the
78166    Lord from heaven.
78167 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as
78168    is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
78169 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also
78170    bear the image of the heavenly.
78171 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
78172    the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
78173    incorruption.
78174 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
78175    shall all be changed,
78176 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
78177    for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
78178    incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
78179 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
78180    must put on immortality.
78181 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and
78182    this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
78183    brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed
78184    up in victory.
78185 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
78186 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
78187 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our
78188    Lord Jesus Christ.
78189 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
78190    always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know
78191    that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

78192 1 Corinthians 16

78193  1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given
78194    order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
78195  2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him
78196    in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no
78197    gatherings when I come.
78198  3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters,
78199    them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
78200  4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
78201  5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia:
78202    for I do pass through Macedonia.
78203  6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you,
78204    that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
78205  7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a
78206    while with you, if the Lord permit.
78207  8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
78208  9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there
78209    are many adversaries.
78210 10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without
78211    fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
78212 11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in
78213    peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the
78214    brethren.
78215 12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come
78216    unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to
78217    come at this time; but he will come when he shall have
78218    convenient time.
78219 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be
78220    strong.
78221 14 Let all your things be done with charity.
78222 15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that
78223    it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted
78224    themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
78225 16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that
78226    helpeth with us, and laboureth.
78227 17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and
78228    Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have
78229    supplied.
78230 18 For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore
78231    acknowledge ye them that are such.
78232 19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute
78233    you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
78234 20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy
78235    kiss.
78236 21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
78237 22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema
78238    Maranatha.
78239 23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
78240 24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

78241 Book 47 2 Corinthians

78242 2 Corinthians 1

78243  1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
78244    Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at
78245    Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
78246  2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the
78247    Lord Jesus Christ.
78248  3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
78249    Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
78250  4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able
78251    to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort
78252    wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
78253  5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
78254    consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
78255  6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and
78256    salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same
78257    sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted,
78258    it is for your consolation and salvation.
78259  7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are
78260    partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the
78261    consolation.
78262  8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble
78263    which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure,
78264    above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
78265  9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
78266    not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
78267 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in
78268    whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
78269 11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift
78270    bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be
78271    given by many on our behalf.
78272 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
78273    that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly
78274    wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation
78275    in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
78276 13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or
78277    acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
78278 14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
78279    rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord
78280    Jesus.
78281 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before,
78282    that ye might have a second benefit;
78283 16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of
78284    Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward
78285    Judaea.
78286 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the
78287    things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh,
78288    that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
78289 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
78290 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you
78291    by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and
78292    nay, but in him was yea.
78293 20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen,
78294    unto the glory of God by us.
78295 21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath
78296    anointed us, is God;
78297 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit
78298    in our hearts.
78299 23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare
78300    you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
78301 24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers
78302    of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

78303 2 Corinthians 2

78304  1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again
78305    to you in heaviness.
78306  2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad,
78307    but the same which is made sorry by me?
78308  3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should
78309    have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having
78310    confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
78311  4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto
78312    you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that
78313    ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
78314  5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in
78315    part: that I may not overcharge you all.
78316  6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was
78317    inflicted of many.
78318  7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and
78319    comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up
78320    with overmuch sorrow.
78321  8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward
78322    him.
78323  9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof
78324    of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
78325 10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave
78326    any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it
78327    in the person of Christ;
78328 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not
78329    ignorant of his devices.
78330 12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel,
78331    and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
78332 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my
78333    brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into
78334    Macedonia.
78335 14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in
78336    Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us
78337    in every place.
78338 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are
78339    saved, and in them that perish:
78340 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the
78341    other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for
78342    these things?
78343 17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as
78344    of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in
78345    Christ.

78346 2 Corinthians 3

78347  1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
78348    others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of
78349    commendation from you?
78350  2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of
78351    all men:
78352  3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of
78353    Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
78354    Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in
78355    fleshy tables of the heart.
78356  4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
78357  5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
78358    of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
78359  6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not
78360    of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but
78361    the spirit giveth life.
78362  7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in
78363    stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not
78364    stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
78365    countenance; which glory was to be done away:
78366  8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
78367    glorious?
78368  9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more
78369    doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
78370 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
78371    respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
78372 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that
78373    which remaineth is glorious.
78374 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
78375    speech:
78376 13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the
78377    children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
78378    that which is abolished:
78379 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the
78380    same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
78381    which vail is done away in Christ.
78382 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon
78383    their heart.
78384 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
78385    taken away.
78386 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
78387    is, there is liberty.
78388 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory
78389    of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
78390    glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

78391 2 Corinthians 4

78392  1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
78393    mercy, we faint not;
78394  2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not
78395    walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
78396    deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending
78397    ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
78398  3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
78399  4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
78400    which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
78401    Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
78402  5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
78403    ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
78404  6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
78405    hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
78406    of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
78407  7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
78408    excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
78409  8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are
78410    perplexed, but not in despair;
78411  9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
78412 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
78413    that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
78414    body.
78415 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus'
78416    sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in
78417    our mortal flesh.
78418 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
78419 13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is
78420    written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also
78421    believe, and therefore speak;
78422 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up
78423    us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
78424 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace
78425    might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of
78426    God.
78427 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man
78428    perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
78429 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh
78430    for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
78431 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the
78432    things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
78433    temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

78434 2 Corinthians 5

78435  1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
78436    dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with
78437    hands, eternal in the heavens.
78438  2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon
78439    with our house which is from heaven:
78440  3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
78441  4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened:
78442    not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that
78443    mortality might be swallowed up of life.
78444  5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who
78445    also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
78446  6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are
78447    at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
78448  7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
78449  8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from
78450    the body, and to be present with the Lord.
78451  9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may
78452    be accepted of him.
78453 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ;
78454    that every one may receive the things done in his body,
78455    according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
78456 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but
78457    we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made
78458    manifest in your consciences.
78459 12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you
78460    occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to
78461    answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
78462 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether
78463    we be sober, it is for your cause.
78464 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge,
78465    that if one died for all, then were all dead:
78466 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not
78467    henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for
78468    them, and rose again.
78469 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea,
78470    though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
78471    henceforth know we him no more.
78472 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old
78473    things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
78474 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself
78475    by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
78476    reconciliation;
78477 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
78478    himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath
78479    committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
78480 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
78481    beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye
78482    reconciled to God.
78483 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that
78484    we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

78485 2 Corinthians 6

78486  1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that
78487    ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
78488  2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in
78489    the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the
78490    accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
78491  3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not
78492    blamed:
78493  4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,
78494    in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in
78495    distresses,
78496  5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in
78497    watchings, in fastings;
78498  6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by
78499    the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
78500  7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of
78501    righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
78502  8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as
78503    deceivers, and yet true;
78504  9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we
78505    live; as chastened, and not killed;
78506 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many
78507    rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
78508 11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is
78509    enlarged.
78510 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own
78511    bowels.
78512 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my
78513    children,) be ye also enlarged.
78514 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
78515    fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
78516    communion hath light with darkness?
78517 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he
78518    that believeth with an infidel?
78519 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye
78520    are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will
78521    dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and
78522    they shall be my people.
78523 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
78524    the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
78525    you.
78526 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
78527    daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

78528 2 Corinthians 7

78529  1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
78530    cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
78531    perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
78532  2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man,
78533    we have defrauded no man.
78534  3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that
78535    ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
78536  4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my
78537    glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding
78538    joyful in all our tribulation.
78539  5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest,
78540    but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings,
78541    within were fears.
78542  6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down,
78543    comforted us by the coming of Titus;
78544  7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith
78545    he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire,
78546    your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced
78547    the more.
78548  8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent,
78549    though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath
78550    made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
78551  9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye
78552    sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly
78553    manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
78554 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be
78555    repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
78556 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly
78557    sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing
78558    of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea,
78559    what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In
78560    all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this
78561    matter.
78562 12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause
78563    that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered
78564    wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might
78565    appear unto you.
78566 13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and
78567    exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because
78568    his spirit was refreshed by you all.
78569 14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not
78570    ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so
78571    our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
78572 15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst
78573    he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and
78574    trembling ye received him.
78575 16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all
78576    things.

78577 2 Corinthians 8

78578  1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God
78579    bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
78580  2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their
78581    joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their
78582    liberality.
78583  3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power
78584    they were willing of themselves;
78585  4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift,
78586    and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the
78587    saints.
78588  5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own
78589    selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
78590  6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he
78591    would also finish in you the same grace also.
78592  7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and
78593    utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your
78594    love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
78595  8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness
78596    of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
78597  9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though
78598    he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye
78599    through his poverty might be rich.
78600 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you,
78601    who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward
78602    a year ago.
78603 11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a
78604    readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of
78605    that which ye have.
78606 12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according
78607    to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
78608 13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
78609 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may
78610    be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a
78611    supply for your want: that there may be equality:
78612 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over;
78613    and he that had gathered little had no lack.
78614 16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the
78615    heart of Titus for you.
78616 17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more
78617    forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
78618 18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the
78619    gospel throughout all the churches;
78620 19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to
78621    travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to
78622    the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready
78623    mind:
78624 20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance
78625    which is administered by us:
78626 21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the
78627    Lord, but also in the sight of men.
78628 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have
78629    oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more
78630    diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
78631 23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and
78632    fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of,
78633    they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of
78634    Christ.
78635 24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof
78636    of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

78637 2 Corinthians 9

78638  1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
78639    superfluous for me to write to you:
78640  2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of
78641    you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago;
78642    and your zeal hath provoked very many.
78643  3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should
78644    be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
78645  4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you
78646    unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this
78647    same confident boasting.
78648  5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that
78649    they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your
78650    bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be
78651    ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
78652  6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
78653    sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
78654    bountifully.
78655  7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him
78656    give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a
78657    cheerful giver.
78658  8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye,
78659    always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to
78660    every good work:
78661  9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to
78662    the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
78663 10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread
78664    for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the
78665    fruits of your righteousness;)
78666 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which
78667    causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
78668 12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the
78669    want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings
78670    unto God;
78671 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God
78672    for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and
78673    for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
78674 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the
78675    exceeding grace of God in you.
78676 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

78677 2 Corinthians 10

78678  1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness
78679    of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent
78680    am bold toward you:
78681  2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present
78682    with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against
78683    some, which think of us as if we walked according to the
78684    flesh.
78685  3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
78686    flesh:
78687  4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
78688    through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
78689  5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
78690    itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
78691    captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
78692  6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when
78693    your obedience is fulfilled.
78694  7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man
78695    trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think
78696    this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
78697  8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority,
78698    which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your
78699    destruction, I should not be ashamed:
78700  9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
78701 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his
78702    bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
78703 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by
78704    letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when
78705    we are present.
78706 12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
78707    ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they
78708    measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves
78709    among themselves, are not wise.
78710 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but
78711    according to the measure of the rule which God hath
78712    distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
78713 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we
78714    reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in
78715    preaching the gospel of Christ:
78716 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other
78717    men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased,
78718    that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule
78719    abundantly,
78720 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to
78721    boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
78722 17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
78723 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the
78724    Lord commendeth.

78725 2 Corinthians 11

78726  1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and
78727    indeed bear with me.
78728  2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
78729    espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a
78730    chaste virgin to Christ.
78731  3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
78732    through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from
78733    the simplicity that is in Christ.
78734  4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
78735    not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have
78736    not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted,
78737    ye might well bear with him.
78738  5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest
78739    apostles.
78740  6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we
78741    have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
78742  7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be
78743    exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God
78744    freely?
78745  8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you
78746    service.
78747  9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable
78748    to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which
78749    came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept
78750    myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep
78751    myself.
78752 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
78753    boasting in the regions of Achaia.
78754 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
78755 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion
78756    from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they
78757    may be found even as we.
78758 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
78759    themselves into the apostles of Christ.
78760 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel
78761    of light.
78762 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
78763    transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall
78764    be according to their works.
78765 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as
78766    a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
78767 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it
78768    were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
78769 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
78770 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
78771 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man
78772    devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a
78773    man smite you on the face.
78774 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak.
78775    Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am
78776    bold also.
78777 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are
78778    they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
78779 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more;
78780    in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons
78781    more frequent, in deaths oft.
78782 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
78783 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I
78784    suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
78785 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of
78786    robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the
78787    heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness,
78788    in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
78789 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger
78790    and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
78791 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon
78792    me daily, the care of all the churches.
78793 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn
78794    not?
78795 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which
78796    concern mine infirmities.
78797 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed
78798    for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
78799 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city
78800    of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
78801 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall,
78802    and escaped his hands.

78803 2 Corinthians 12

78804  1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to
78805    visions and revelations of the Lord.
78806  2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in
78807    the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot
78808    tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
78809  3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the
78810    body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
78811  4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable
78812    words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
78813  5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory,
78814    but in mine infirmities.
78815  6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for
78816    I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should
78817    think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he
78818    heareth of me.
78819  7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the
78820    abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in
78821    the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should
78822    be exalted above measure.
78823  8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might
78824    depart from me.
78825  9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
78826    strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore
78827    will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of
78828    Christ may rest upon me.
78829 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in
78830    necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake:
78831    for when I am weak, then am I strong.
78832 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I
78833    ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I
78834    behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
78835 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all
78836    patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
78837 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches,
78838    except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive
78839    me this wrong.
78840 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will
78841    not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for
78842    the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the
78843    parents for the children.
78844 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the
78845    more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
78846 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being
78847    crafty, I caught you with guile.
78848 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
78849 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make
78850    a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not
78851    in the same steps?
78852 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak
78853    before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved,
78854    for your edifying.
78855 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I
78856    would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would
78857    not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,
78858    backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
78859 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you,
78860    and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and
78861    have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and
78862    lasciviousness which they have committed.

78863 2 Corinthians 13

78864  1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two
78865    or three witnesses shall every word be established.
78866  2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the
78867    second time; and being absent now I write to them which
78868    heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come
78869    again, I will not spare:
78870  3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to
78871    you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
78872  4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by
78873    the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall
78874    live with him by the power of God toward you.
78875  5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
78876    selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is
78877    in you, except ye be reprobates?
78878  6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
78879  7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should
78880    appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest,
78881    though we be as reprobates.
78882  8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
78883  9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this
78884    also we wish, even your perfection.
78885 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being
78886    present I should use sharpness, according to the power which
78887    the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
78888 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort,
78889    be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace
78890    shall be with you.
78891 12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
78892 13 All the saints salute you.
78893 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and
78894    the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

78895 Book 48 Galatians

78896 Galatians 1

78897  1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus
78898    Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
78899  2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of
78900    Galatia:
78901  3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our
78902    Lord Jesus Christ,
78903  4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from
78904    this present evil world, according to the will of God and our
78905    Father:
78906  5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
78907  6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
78908    into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
78909  7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and
78910    would pervert the gospel of Christ.
78911  8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
78912    gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let
78913    him be accursed.
78914  9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any
78915    other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be
78916    accursed.
78917 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men?
78918    for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of
78919    Christ.
78920 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was
78921    preached of me is not after man.
78922 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but
78923    by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
78924 13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews'
78925    religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of
78926    God, and wasted it:
78927 14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in
78928    mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the
78929    traditions of my fathers.
78930 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's
78931    womb, and called me by his grace,
78932 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the
78933    heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
78934 17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles
78935    before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto
78936    Damascus.
78937 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter,
78938    and abode with him fifteen days.
78939 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's
78940    brother.
78941 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I
78942    lie not.
78943 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
78944 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were
78945    in Christ:
78946 23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times
78947    past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
78948 24 And they glorified God in me.

78949 Galatians 2

78950  1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with
78951    Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
78952  2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that
78953    gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to
78954    them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run,
78955    or had run, in vain.
78956  3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was
78957    compelled to be circumcised:
78958  4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who
78959    came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ
78960    Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
78961  5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that
78962    the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
78963  6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were,
78964    it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for
78965    they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to
78966    me:
78967  7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the
78968    uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the
78969    circumcision was unto Peter;
78970  8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship
78971    of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the
78972    Gentiles:)
78973  9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,
78974    perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me
78975    and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go
78976    unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
78977 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same
78978    which I also was forward to do.
78979 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the
78980    face, because he was to be blamed.
78981 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the
78982    Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated
78983    himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
78984 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that
78985    Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
78986 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the
78987    truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If
78988    thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and
78989    not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live
78990    as do the Jews?
78991 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
78992 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law,
78993    but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in
78994    Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of
78995    Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of
78996    the law shall no flesh be justified.
78997 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves
78998    also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of
78999    sin? God forbid.
79000 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make
79001    myself a transgressor.
79002 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live
79003    unto God.
79004 20 I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but
79005    Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
79006    flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
79007    gave himself for me.
79008 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come
79009    by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

79010 Galatians 3

79011  1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should
79012    not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been
79013    evidently set forth, crucified among you?
79014  2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the
79015    works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
79016  3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made
79017    perfect by the flesh?
79018  4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
79019  5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh
79020    miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by
79021    the hearing of faith?
79022  6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for
79023    righteousness.
79024  7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are
79025    the children of Abraham.
79026  8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
79027    heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto
79028    Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
79029  9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful
79030    Abraham.
79031 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the
79032    curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth
79033    not in all things which are written in the book of the law to
79034    do them.
79035 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God,
79036    it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
79037 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them
79038    shall live in them.
79039 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
79040    a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
79041    hangeth on a tree:
79042 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
79043    through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the
79044    Spirit through faith.
79045 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a
79046    man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth,
79047    or addeth thereto.
79048 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith
79049    not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed,
79050    which is Christ.
79051 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before
79052    of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty
79053    years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise
79054    of none effect.
79055 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of
79056    promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
79057 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of
79058    transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise
79059    was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a
79060    mediator.
79061 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
79062 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for
79063    if there had been a law given which could have given life,
79064    verily righteousness should have been by the law.
79065 22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the
79066    promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that
79067    believe.
79068 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up
79069    unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
79070 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto
79071    Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
79072 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a
79073    schoolmaster.
79074 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
79075 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put
79076    on Christ.
79077 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor
79078    free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in
79079    Christ Jesus.
79080 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
79081    according to the promise.

79082 Galatians 4

79083  1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
79084    nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
79085  2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of
79086    the father.
79087  3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the
79088    elements of the world:
79089  4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
79090    Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
79091  5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
79092    the adoption of sons.
79093  6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
79094    Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
79095  7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son,
79096    then an heir of God through Christ.
79097  8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them
79098    which by nature are no gods.
79099  9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of
79100    God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,
79101    whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
79102 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
79103 11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in
79104    vain.
79105 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye
79106    have not injured me at all.
79107 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the
79108    gospel unto you at the first.
79109 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor
79110    rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ
79111    Jesus.
79112 15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you
79113    record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked
79114    out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
79115 16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the
79116    truth?
79117 17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would
79118    exclude you, that ye might affect them.
79119 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good
79120    thing, and not only when I am present with you.
79121 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
79122    Christ be formed in you,
79123 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice;
79124    for I stand in doubt of you.
79125 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear
79126    the law?
79127 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a
79128    bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
79129 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but
79130    he of the freewoman was by promise.
79131 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
79132    the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,
79133    which is Agar.
79134 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to
79135    Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
79136 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of
79137    us all.
79138 27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not;
79139    break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the
79140    desolate hath many more children than she which hath an
79141    husband.
79142 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
79143 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him
79144    that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
79145 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman
79146    and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir
79147    with the son of the freewoman.
79148 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but
79149    of the free.

79150 Galatians 5

79151  1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made
79152    us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
79153  2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ
79154    shall profit you nothing.
79155  3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he
79156    is a debtor to do the whole law.
79157  4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
79158    justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
79159  5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness
79160    by faith.
79161  6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing,
79162    nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
79163  7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey
79164    the truth?
79165  8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
79166  9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
79167 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be
79168    none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear
79169    his judgment, whosoever he be.
79170 11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet
79171    suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
79172 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
79173 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not
79174    liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one
79175    another.
79176 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou
79177    shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
79178 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be
79179    not consumed one of another.
79180 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil
79181    the lust of the flesh.
79182 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit
79183    against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the
79184    other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
79185 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
79186 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
79187    Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
79188 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
79189    strife, seditions, heresies,
79190 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of
79191    the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time
79192    past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
79193    kingdom of God.
79194 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
79195    longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
79196 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
79197 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
79198    affections and lusts.
79199 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
79200 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
79201    envying one another.

79202 Galatians 6

79203  1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
79204    spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness;
79205    considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
79206  2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of
79207    Christ.
79208  3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is
79209    nothing, he deceiveth himself.
79210  4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have
79211    rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
79212  5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
79213  6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that
79214    teacheth in all good things.
79215  7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
79216    soweth, that shall he also reap.
79217  8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
79218    corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the
79219    Spirit reap life everlasting.
79220  9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we
79221    shall reap, if we faint not.
79222 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
79223    especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
79224 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine
79225    own hand.
79226 12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they
79227    constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer
79228    persecution for the cross of Christ.
79229 13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law;
79230    but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in
79231    your flesh.
79232 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our
79233    Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and
79234    I unto the world.
79235 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing,
79236    nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
79237 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them,
79238    and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
79239 17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body
79240    the marks of the Lord Jesus.
79241 18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
79242    spirit. Amen.

79243 Book 49 Ephesians

79244 Ephesians 1

79245  1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the
79246    saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ
79247    Jesus:
79248  2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the
79249    Lord Jesus Christ.
79250  3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
79251    hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
79252    places in Christ:
79253  4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of
79254    the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him
79255    in love:
79256  5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
79257    Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
79258  6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made
79259    us accepted in the beloved.
79260  7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
79261    of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
79262  8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
79263  9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according
79264    to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
79265 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might
79266    gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in
79267    heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
79268 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being
79269    predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all
79270    things after the counsel of his own will:
79271 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first
79272    trusted in Christ.
79273 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of
79274    truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that
79275    ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
79276 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption
79277    of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
79278 15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord
79279    Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
79280 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my
79281    prayers;
79282 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
79283    may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
79284    knowledge of him:
79285 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may
79286    know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of
79287    the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
79288 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward
79289    who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
79290 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead,
79291    and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
79292 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
79293    dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
79294    world, but also in that which is to come:
79295 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the
79296    head over all things to the church,
79297 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

79298 Ephesians 2

79299  1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and
79300    sins;
79301  2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this
79302    world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the
79303    spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
79304  3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in
79305    the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
79306    and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath,
79307    even as others.
79308  4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
79309    loved us,
79310  5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together
79311    with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
79312  6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
79313    heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
79314  7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of
79315    his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
79316  8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
79317    yourselves: it is the gift of God:
79318  9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
79319 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
79320    works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
79321    them.
79322 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the
79323    flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
79324    the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
79325 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from
79326    the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
79327    of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
79328 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made
79329    nigh by the blood of Christ.
79330 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken
79331    down the middle wall of partition between us;
79332 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
79333    commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself
79334    of twain one new man, so making peace;
79335 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the
79336    cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
79337 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to
79338    them that were nigh.
79339 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
79340    Father.
79341 19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
79342    fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
79343 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
79344    prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
79345 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an
79346    holy temple in the Lord:
79347 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God
79348    through the Spirit.

79349 Ephesians 3

79350  1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
79351    Gentiles,
79352  2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which
79353    is given me to you-ward:
79354  3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as
79355    I wrote afore in few words,
79356  4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the
79357    mystery of Christ)
79358  5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
79359    as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by
79360    the Spirit;
79361  6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body,
79362    and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
79363  7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the
79364    grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his
79365    power.
79366  8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this
79367    grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the
79368    unsearchable riches of Christ;
79369  9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
79370    which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,
79371    who created all things by Jesus Christ:
79372 10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
79373    heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold
79374    wisdom of God,
79375 11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ
79376    Jesus our Lord:
79377 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the
79378    faith of him.
79379 13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for
79380    you, which is your glory.
79381 14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord
79382    Jesus Christ,
79383 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
79384 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,
79385    to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
79386 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being
79387    rooted and grounded in love,
79388 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth,
79389    and length, and depth, and height;
79390 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that
79391    ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
79392 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
79393    that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in
79394    us,
79395 21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all
79396    ages, world without end. Amen.

79397 Ephesians 4

79398  1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye
79399    walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
79400  2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering,
79401    forbearing one another in love;
79402  3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
79403    peace.
79404  4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in
79405    one hope of your calling;
79406  5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
79407  6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all,
79408    and in you all.
79409  7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the
79410    measure of the gift of Christ.
79411  8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led
79412    captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
79413  9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended
79414    first into the lower parts of the earth?
79415 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above
79416    all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
79417 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
79418    evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
79419 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the
79420    ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
79421 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
79422    knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
79423    measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
79424 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
79425    carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of
79426    men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to
79427    deceive;
79428 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
79429    things, which is the head, even Christ:
79430 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted
79431    by that which every joint supplieth, according to the
79432    effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh
79433    increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
79434 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye
79435    henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of
79436    their mind,
79437 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the
79438    life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of
79439    the blindness of their heart:
79440 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto
79441    lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
79442 20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
79443 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him,
79444    as the truth is in Jesus:
79445 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old
79446    man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
79447 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
79448 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in
79449    righteousness and true holiness.
79450 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
79451    neighbour: for we are members one of another.
79452 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
79453    wrath:
79454 27 Neither give place to the devil.
79455 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour,
79456    working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may
79457    have to give to him that needeth.
79458 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but
79459    that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may
79460    minister grace unto the hearers.
79461 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed
79462    unto the day of redemption.
79463 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and
79464    evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
79465 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
79466    another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

79467 Ephesians 5

79468  1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
79469  2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given
79470    himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a
79471    sweetsmelling savour.
79472  3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it
79473    not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
79474  4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which
79475    are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
79476  5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor
79477    covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the
79478    kingdom of Christ and of God.
79479  6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
79480    things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of
79481    disobedience.
79482  7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
79483  8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the
79484    Lord: walk as children of light:
79485  9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and
79486    righteousness and truth;)
79487 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
79488 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
79489    but rather reprove them.
79490 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done
79491    of them in secret.
79492 13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the
79493    light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
79494 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from
79495    the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
79496 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as
79497    wise,
79498 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
79499 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of
79500    the Lord is.
79501 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled
79502    with the Spirit;
79503 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
79504    songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
79505 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in
79506    the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
79507 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
79508 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
79509    Lord.
79510 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the
79511    head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
79512 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the
79513    wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
79514 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the
79515    church, and gave himself for it;
79516 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of
79517    water by the word,
79518 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not
79519    having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should
79520    be holy and without blemish.
79521 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
79522    loveth his wife loveth himself.
79523 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and
79524    cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
79525 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his
79526    bones.
79527 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
79528    shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one
79529    flesh.
79530 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the
79531    church.
79532 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his
79533    wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her
79534    husband.

79535 Ephesians 6

79536  1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
79537  2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment
79538    with promise;
79539  3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on
79540    the earth.
79541  4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring
79542    them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
79543  5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according
79544    to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your
79545    heart, as unto Christ;
79546  6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of
79547    Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
79548  7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
79549  8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
79550    shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
79551  9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing
79552    threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven;
79553    neither is there respect of persons with him.
79554 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power
79555    of his might.
79556 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand
79557    against the wiles of the devil.
79558 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
79559    principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
79560    darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
79561    places.
79562 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may
79563    be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to
79564    stand.
79565 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and
79566    having on the breastplate of righteousness;
79567 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of
79568    peace;
79569 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be
79570    able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
79571 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,
79572    which is the word of God:
79573 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
79574    and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
79575    for all saints;
79576 19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may
79577    open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
79578 20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may
79579    speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
79580 21 But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus,
79581    a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall
79582    make known to you all things:
79583 22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might
79584    know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
79585 23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the
79586    Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
79587 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in
79588    sincerity. Amen.

79589 Book 50 Philippians

79590 Philippians 1

79591  1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the
79592    saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops
79593    and deacons:
79594  2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
79595    the Lord Jesus Christ.
79596  3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
79597  4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with
79598    joy,
79599  5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until
79600    now;
79601  6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a
79602    good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus
79603    Christ:
79604  7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I
79605    have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the
79606    defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers
79607    of my grace.
79608  8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the
79609    bowels of Jesus Christ.
79610  9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more
79611    in knowledge and in all judgment;
79612 10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be
79613    sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
79614 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by
79615    Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
79616 12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things
79617    which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the
79618    furtherance of the gospel;
79619 13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and
79620    in all other places;
79621 14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my
79622    bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
79623 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some
79624    also of good will:
79625 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing
79626    to add affliction to my bonds:
79627 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence
79628    of the gospel.
79629 18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or
79630    in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea,
79631    and will rejoice.
79632 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your
79633    prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
79634 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in
79635    nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as
79636    always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body,
79637    whether it be by life, or by death.
79638 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
79639 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour:
79640    yet what I shall choose I wot not.
79641 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart,
79642    and to be with Christ; which is far better:
79643 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
79644 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and
79645    continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
79646 26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for
79647    me by my coming to you again.
79648 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of
79649    Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I
79650    may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit,
79651    with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
79652 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them
79653    an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and
79654    that of God.
79655 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to
79656    believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
79657 30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to
79658    be in me.

79659 Philippians 2

79660  1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
79661    comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any
79662    bowels and mercies,
79663  2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love,
79664    being of one accord, of one mind.
79665  3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in
79666    lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than
79667    themselves.
79668  4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on
79669    the things of others.
79670  5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
79671  6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
79672    equal with God:
79673  7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form
79674    of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
79675  8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
79676    became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
79677  9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a
79678    name which is above every name:
79679 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
79680    heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
79681 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
79682    Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
79683 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my
79684    presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your
79685    own salvation with fear and trembling.
79686 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
79687    his good pleasure.
79688 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
79689 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
79690    without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
79691    among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
79692 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day
79693    of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in
79694    vain.
79695 17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of
79696    your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
79697 18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
79698 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto
79699    you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your
79700    state.
79701 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your
79702    state.
79703 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus
79704    Christ's.
79705 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father,
79706    he hath served with me in the gospel.
79707 23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see
79708    how it will go with me.
79709 24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
79710 25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my
79711    brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your
79712    messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
79713 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness,
79714    because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
79715 27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on
79716    him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have
79717    sorrow upon sorrow.
79718 28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him
79719    again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
79720 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold
79721    such in reputation:
79722 30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not
79723    regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

79724 Philippians 3

79725  1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
79726    things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is
79727    safe.
79728  2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the
79729    concision.
79730  3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit,
79731    and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
79732    flesh.
79733  4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other
79734    man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh,
79735    I more:
79736  5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the
79737    tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the
79738    law, a Pharisee;
79739  6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the
79740    righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
79741  7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for
79742    Christ.
79743  8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the
79744    excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom
79745    I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but
79746    dung, that I may win Christ,
79747  9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which
79748    is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,
79749    the righteousness which is of God by faith:
79750 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and
79751    the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto
79752    his death;
79753 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the
79754    dead.
79755 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already
79756    perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for
79757    which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
79758 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
79759    thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
79760    reaching forth unto those things which are before,
79761 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of
79762    God in Christ Jesus.
79763 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and
79764    if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even
79765    this unto you.
79766 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by
79767    the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
79768 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which
79769    walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
79770 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell
79771    you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of
79772    Christ:
79773 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose
79774    glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
79775 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look
79776    for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
79777 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
79778    unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is
79779    able even to subdue all things unto himself.

79780 Philippians 4

79781  1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy
79782    and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
79783  2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the
79784    same mind in the Lord.
79785  3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women
79786    which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and
79787    with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of
79788    life.
79789  4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
79790  5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at
79791    hand.
79792  6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
79793    supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
79794    unto God.
79795  7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall
79796    keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
79797  8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
79798    things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
79799    things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
79800    things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if
79801    there be any praise, think on these things.
79802  9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and
79803    heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with
79804    you.
79805 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your
79806    care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also
79807    careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
79808 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in
79809    whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
79810 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every
79811    where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to
79812    be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
79813 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
79814 14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate
79815    with my affliction.
79816 15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the
79817    gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated
79818    with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
79819 16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my
79820    necessity.
79821 17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may
79822    abound to your account.
79823 18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of
79824    Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of
79825    a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
79826 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
79827    in glory by Christ Jesus.
79828 20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
79829 21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are
79830    with me greet you.
79831 22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's
79832    household.
79833 23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

79834 Book 51 Colossians

79835 Colossians 1

79836  1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
79837    Timotheus our brother,
79838  2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at
79839    Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and
79840    the Lord Jesus Christ.
79841  3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
79842    praying always for you,
79843  4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love
79844    which ye have to all the saints,
79845  5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye
79846    heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
79847  6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and
79848    bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye
79849    heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
79850  7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is
79851    for you a faithful minister of Christ;
79852  8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
79853  9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not
79854    cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled
79855    with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
79856    understanding;
79857 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being
79858    fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge
79859    of God;
79860 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power,
79861    unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
79862 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be
79863    partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
79864 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath
79865    translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
79866 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the
79867    forgiveness of sins:
79868 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
79869    creature:
79870 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and
79871    that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
79872    thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all
79873    things were created by him, and for him:
79874 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
79875 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the
79876    beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he
79877    might have the preeminence.
79878 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness
79879    dwell;
79880 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him
79881    to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether
79882    they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
79883 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind
79884    by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
79885 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy
79886    and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
79887 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not
79888    moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard,
79889    and which was preached to every creature which is under
79890    heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
79891 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that
79892    which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for
79893    his body's sake, which is the church:
79894 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of
79895    God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
79896 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
79897    generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
79898 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory
79899    of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you,
79900    the hope of glory:
79901 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in
79902    all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ
79903    Jesus:
79904 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working,
79905    which worketh in me mightily.

79906 Colossians 2

79907  1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you,
79908    and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my
79909    face in the flesh;
79910  2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
79911    love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
79912    understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God,
79913    and of the Father, and of Christ;
79914  3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
79915  4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
79916    words.
79917  5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the
79918    spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness
79919    of your faith in Christ.
79920  6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
79921    ye in him:
79922  7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye
79923    have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
79924  8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain
79925    deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
79926    world, and not after Christ.
79927  9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
79928 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all
79929    principality and power:
79930 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made
79931    without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the
79932    flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
79933 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
79934    through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him
79935    from the dead.
79936 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of
79937    your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having
79938    forgiven you all trespasses;
79939 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against
79940    us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
79941    nailing it to his cross;
79942 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew
79943    of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
79944 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
79945    respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
79946    days:
79947 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of
79948    Christ.
79949 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility
79950    and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which
79951    he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
79952 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints
79953    and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together,
79954    increaseth with the increase of God.
79955 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
79956    world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
79957    ordinances,
79958 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
79959 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the
79960    commandments and doctrines of men?
79961 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and
79962    humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the
79963    satisfying of the flesh.

79964 Colossians 3

79965  1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are
79966    above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
79967  2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
79968    earth.
79969  3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
79970  4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
79971    appear with him in glory.
79972  5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
79973    fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
79974    concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
79975  6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children
79976    of disobedience:
79977  7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
79978  8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
79979    blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
79980  9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old
79981    man with his deeds;
79982 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge
79983    after the image of him that created him:
79984 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
79985    uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ
79986    is all, and in all.
79987 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
79988    bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
79989    longsuffering;
79990 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man
79991    have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so
79992    also do ye.
79993 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond
79994    of perfectness.
79995 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which
79996    also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
79997 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
79998    teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
79999    spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the
80000    Lord.
80001 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of
80002    the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
80003 18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit
80004    in the Lord.
80005 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
80006 20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well
80007    pleasing unto the Lord.
80008 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be
80009    discouraged.
80010 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the
80011    flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness
80012    of heart, fearing God;
80013 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not
80014    unto men;
80015 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the
80016    inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
80017 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he
80018    hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

80019 Colossians 4

80020  1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;
80021    knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
80022  2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
80023  3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door
80024    of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am
80025    also in bonds:
80026  4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
80027  5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the
80028    time.
80029  6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that
80030    ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
80031  7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved
80032    brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the
80033    Lord:
80034  8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might
80035    know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
80036  9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of
80037    you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done
80038    here.
80039 10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus,
80040    sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received
80041    commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
80042 11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the
80043    circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom
80044    of God, which have been a comfort unto me.
80045 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth
80046    you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye
80047    may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
80048 13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and
80049    them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
80050 14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
80051 15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and
80052    the church which is in his house.
80053 16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read
80054    also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise
80055    read the epistle from Laodicea.
80056 17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou
80057    hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
80058 18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds.
80059    Grace be with you. Amen.

80060 Book 52 1 Thessalonians

80061 1 Thessalonians 1

80062  1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
80063    Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus
80064    Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
80065    the Lord Jesus Christ.
80066  2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of
80067    you in our prayers;
80068  3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of
80069    love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the
80070    sight of God and our Father;
80071  4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
80072  5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in
80073    power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye
80074    know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
80075  6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having
80076    received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy
80077    Ghost.
80078  7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and
80079    Achaia.
80080  8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
80081    Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to
80082    God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any
80083    thing.
80084  9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we
80085    had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the
80086    living and true God;
80087 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the
80088    dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

80089 1 Thessalonians 2

80090  1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that
80091    it was not in vain:
80092  2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were
80093    shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in
80094    our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much
80095    contention.
80096  3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor
80097    in guile:
80098  4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the
80099    gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which
80100    trieth our hearts.
80101  5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know,
80102    nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
80103  6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others,
80104    when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
80105  7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her
80106    children:
80107  8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to
80108    have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also
80109    our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
80110  9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for
80111    labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable
80112    unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
80113 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and
80114    unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
80115 11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one
80116    of you, as a father doth his children,
80117 12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his
80118    kingdom and glory.
80119 13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,
80120    when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye
80121    received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the
80122    word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that
80123    believe.
80124 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God
80125    which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered
80126    like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the
80127    Jews:
80128 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and
80129    have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary
80130    to all men:
80131 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be
80132    saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon
80133    them to the uttermost.
80134 17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in
80135    presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see
80136    your face with great desire.
80137 18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and
80138    again; but Satan hindered us.
80139 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not
80140    even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his
80141    coming?
80142 20 For ye are our glory and joy.

80143 1 Thessalonians 3

80144  1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good
80145    to be left at Athens alone;
80146  2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our
80147    fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and
80148    to comfort you concerning your faith:
80149  3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for
80150    yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
80151  4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we
80152    should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye
80153    know.
80154  5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know
80155    your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you,
80156    and our labour be in vain.
80157  6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us
80158    good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good
80159    remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we
80160    also to see you:
80161  7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our
80162    affliction and distress by your faith:
80163  8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
80164  9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all
80165    the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
80166 10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face,
80167    and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
80168 11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
80169    direct our way unto you.
80170 12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
80171    toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
80172 13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness
80173    before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus
80174    Christ with all his saints.

80175 1 Thessalonians 4

80176  1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by
80177    the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to
80178    walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
80179  2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
80180  3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye
80181    should abstain from fornication:
80182  4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in
80183    sanctification and honour;
80184  5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which
80185    know not God:
80186  6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter:
80187    because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also
80188    have forewarned you and testified.
80189  7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
80190    holiness.
80191  8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who
80192    hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
80193  9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto
80194    you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
80195 10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all
80196    Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more
80197    and more;
80198 11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business,
80199    and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
80200 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and
80201    that ye may have lack of nothing.
80202 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
80203    them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others
80204    which have no hope.
80205 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
80206    also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
80207 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
80208    which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall
80209    not prevent them which are asleep.
80210 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
80211    with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
80212    and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
80213 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
80214    with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so
80215    shall we ever be with the Lord.
80216 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

80217 1 Thessalonians 5

80218  1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need
80219    that I write unto you.
80220  2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
80221    cometh as a thief in the night.
80222  3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
80223    destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with
80224    child; and they shall not escape.
80225  4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
80226    overtake you as a thief.
80227  5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day:
80228    we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
80229  6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and
80230    be sober.
80231  7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be
80232    drunken are drunken in the night.
80233  8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the
80234    breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of
80235    salvation.
80236  9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain
80237    salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
80238 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should
80239    live together with him.
80240 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another,
80241    even as also ye do.
80242 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among
80243    you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
80244 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
80245    And be at peace among yourselves.
80246 14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly,
80247    comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward
80248    all men.
80249 15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever
80250    follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all
80251    men.
80252 16 Rejoice evermore.
80253 17 Pray without ceasing.
80254 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in
80255    Christ Jesus concerning you.
80256 19 Quench not the Spirit.
80257 20 Despise not prophesyings.
80258 21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
80259 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
80260 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
80261    your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless
80262    unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
80263 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
80264 25 Brethren, pray for us.
80265 26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
80266 27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all
80267    the holy brethren.
80268 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

80269 Book 53 2 Thessalonians

80270 2 Thessalonians 1

80271  1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
80272    Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
80273  2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord
80274    Jesus Christ.
80275  3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
80276    meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the
80277    charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
80278  4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for
80279    your patience and faith in all your persecutions and
80280    tribulations that ye endure:
80281  5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God,
80282    that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which
80283    ye also suffer:
80284  6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense
80285    tribulation to them that trouble you;
80286  7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
80287    shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
80288  8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God,
80289    and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
80290  9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
80291    presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
80292 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
80293    admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among
80294    you was believed) in that day.
80295 11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would
80296    count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good
80297    pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
80298 12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in
80299    you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the
80300    Lord Jesus Christ.

80301 2 Thessalonians 2

80302  1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
80303    Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
80304  2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by
80305    spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day
80306    of Christ is at hand.
80307  3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
80308    come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of
80309    sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
80310  4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
80311    God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
80312    temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
80313  5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
80314    these things?
80315  6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in
80316    his time.
80317  7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now
80318    letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
80319  8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
80320    consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with
80321    the brightness of his coming:
80322  9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all
80323    power and signs and lying wonders,
80324 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
80325    perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
80326    they might be saved.
80327 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
80328    they should believe a lie:
80329 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
80330    had pleasure in unrighteousness.
80331 13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren
80332    beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning
80333    chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit
80334    and belief of the truth:
80335 14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the
80336    glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
80337 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which
80338    ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
80339 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,
80340    which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation
80341    and good hope through grace,
80342 17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and
80343    work.

80344 2 Thessalonians 3

80345  1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may
80346    have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
80347  2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men:
80348    for all men have not faith.
80349  3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you
80350    from evil.
80351  4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both
80352    do and will do the things which we command you.
80353  5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into
80354    the patient waiting for Christ.
80355  6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
80356    Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that
80357    walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he
80358    received of us.
80359  7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved
80360    not ourselves disorderly among you;
80361  8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought
80362    with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be
80363    chargeable to any of you:
80364  9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an
80365    ensample unto you to follow us.
80366 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if
80367    any would not work, neither should he eat.
80368 11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you
80369    disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
80370 12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus
80371    Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own
80372    bread.
80373 13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
80374 14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that
80375    man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
80376 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
80377 16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all
80378    means. The Lord be with you all.
80379 17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token
80380    in every epistle: so I write.
80381 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

80382 Book 54 1 Timothy

80383 1 Timothy 1

80384  1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our
80385    Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
80386  2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and
80387    peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
80388  3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into
80389    Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no
80390    other doctrine,
80391  4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which
80392    minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in
80393    faith: so do.
80394  5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart,
80395    and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
80396  6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain
80397    jangling;
80398  7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what
80399    they say, nor whereof they affirm.
80400  8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
80401  9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man,
80402    but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for
80403    sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and
80404    murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
80405 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with
80406    mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and
80407    if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound
80408    doctrine;
80409 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was
80410    committed to my trust.
80411 12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for
80412    that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
80413 13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious:
80414    but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
80415 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith
80416    and love which is in Christ Jesus.
80417 15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that
80418    Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am
80419    chief.
80420 16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first
80421    Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern
80422    to them which should hereafter believe on him to life
80423    everlasting.
80424 17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise
80425    God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
80426 18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the
80427    prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them
80428    mightest war a good warfare;
80429 19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put
80430    away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
80431 20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto
80432    Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

80433 1 Timothy 2

80434  1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications,
80435    prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all
80436    men;
80437  2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead
80438    a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
80439  3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our
80440    Saviour;
80441  4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
80442    knowledge of the truth.
80443  5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,
80444    the man Christ Jesus;
80445  6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due
80446    time.
80447  7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak
80448    the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles
80449    in faith and verity.
80450  8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy
80451    hands, without wrath and doubting.
80452  9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest
80453    apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided
80454    hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
80455 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good
80456    works.
80457 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
80458 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over
80459    the man, but to be in silence.
80460 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
80461 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in
80462    the transgression.
80463 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they
80464    continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

80465 1 Timothy 3

80466  1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop,
80467    he desireth a good work.
80468  2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,
80469    vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt
80470    to teach;
80471  3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but
80472    patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
80473  4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in
80474    subjection with all gravity;
80475  5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he
80476    take care of the church of God?)
80477  6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the
80478    condemnation of the devil.
80479  7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without;
80480    lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
80481  8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not
80482    given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
80483  9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
80484 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the
80485    office of a deacon, being found blameless.
80486 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober,
80487    faithful in all things.
80488 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their
80489    children and their own houses well.
80490 13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase
80491    to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith
80492    which is in Christ Jesus.
80493 14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee
80494    shortly:
80495 15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest
80496    to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of
80497    the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
80498 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God
80499    was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of
80500    angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
80501    received up into glory.

80502 1 Timothy 4

80503  1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times
80504    some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
80505    spirits, and doctrines of devils;
80506  2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared
80507    with a hot iron;
80508  3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,
80509    which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of
80510    them which believe and know the truth.
80511  4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused,
80512    if it be received with thanksgiving:
80513  5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
80514  6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou
80515    shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the
80516    words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast
80517    attained.
80518  7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself
80519    rather unto godliness.
80520  8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is
80521    profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that
80522    now is, and of that which is to come.
80523  9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
80524 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we
80525    trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men,
80526    specially of those that believe.
80527 11 These things command and teach.
80528 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the
80529    believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in
80530    faith, in purity.
80531 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to
80532    doctrine.
80533 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by
80534    prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
80535 15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that
80536    thy profiting may appear to all.
80537 16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in
80538    them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them
80539    that hear thee.

80540 1 Timothy 5

80541  1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the
80542    younger men as brethren;
80543  2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all
80544    purity.
80545  3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
80546  4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn
80547    first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for
80548    that is good and acceptable before God.
80549  5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God,
80550    and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
80551  6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
80552  7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
80553  8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of
80554    his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an
80555    infidel.
80556  9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore
80557    years old, having been the wife of one man.
80558 10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up
80559    children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the
80560    saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have
80561    diligently followed every good work.
80562 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax
80563    wanton against Christ, they will marry;
80564 12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first
80565    faith.
80566 13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house
80567    to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
80568    speaking things which they ought not.
80569 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children,
80570    guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak
80571    reproachfully.
80572 15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
80573 16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them
80574    relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may
80575    relieve them that are widows indeed.
80576 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double
80577    honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
80578 18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that
80579    treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his
80580    reward.
80581 19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or
80582    three witnesses.
80583 20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
80584 21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
80585    elect angels, that thou observe these things without
80586    preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
80587 22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other
80588    men's sins: keep thyself pure.
80589 23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's
80590    sake and thine often infirmities.
80591 24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment;
80592    and some men they follow after.
80593 25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand;
80594    and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

80595 1 Timothy 6

80596  1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own
80597    masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his
80598    doctrine be not blasphemed.
80599  2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise
80600    them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service,
80601    because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the
80602    benefit. These things teach and exhort.
80603  3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome
80604    words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the
80605    doctrine which is according to godliness;
80606  4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and
80607    strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil
80608    surmisings,
80609  5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of
80610    the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such
80611    withdraw thyself.
80612  6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
80613  7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we
80614    can carry nothing out.
80615  8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
80616  9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare,
80617    and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in
80618    destruction and perdition.
80619 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while
80620    some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and
80621    pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
80622 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after
80623    righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
80624 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,
80625    whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good
80626    profession before many witnesses.
80627 13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all
80628    things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate
80629    witnessed a good confession;
80630 14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable,
80631    until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
80632 15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only
80633    Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
80634 16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man
80635    can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom
80636    be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
80637 17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not
80638    highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living
80639    God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
80640 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to
80641    distribute, willing to communicate;
80642 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against
80643    the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
80644 20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
80645    profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely
80646    so called:
80647 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace
80648    be with thee. Amen.

80649 Book 55 2 Timothy

80650 2 Timothy 1

80651  1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according
80652    to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
80653  2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace,
80654    from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
80655  3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure
80656    conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in
80657    my prayers night and day;
80658  4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that
80659    I may be filled with joy;
80660  5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in
80661    thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy
80662    mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
80663  6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift
80664    of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
80665  7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power,
80666    and of love, and of a sound mind.
80667  8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,
80668    nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the
80669    afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
80670  9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not
80671    according to our works, but according to his own purpose and
80672    grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
80673    began,
80674 10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus
80675    Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and
80676    immortality to light through the gospel:
80677 11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a
80678    teacher of the Gentiles.
80679 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I
80680    am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am
80681    persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed
80682    unto him against that day.
80683 13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of
80684    me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
80685 14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy
80686    Ghost which dwelleth in us.
80687 15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned
80688    away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
80689 16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft
80690    refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
80691 17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently,
80692    and found me.
80693 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in
80694    that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at
80695    Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

80696 2 Timothy 2

80697  1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in
80698    Christ Jesus.
80699  2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many
80700    witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be
80701    able to teach others also.
80702  3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus
80703    Christ.
80704  4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of
80705    this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a
80706    soldier.
80707  5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,
80708    except he strive lawfully.
80709  6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the
80710    fruits.
80711  7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in
80712    all things.
80713  8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised
80714    from the dead according to my gospel:
80715  9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds;
80716    but the word of God is not bound.
80717 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they
80718    may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with
80719    eternal glory.
80720 11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall
80721    also live with him:
80722 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he
80723    also will deny us:
80724 13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny
80725    himself.
80726 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before
80727    the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to
80728    the subverting of the hearers.
80729 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
80730    needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
80731 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase
80732    unto more ungodliness.
80733 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus
80734    and Philetus;
80735 18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the
80736    resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
80737 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this
80738    seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one
80739    that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
80740 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of
80741    silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and
80742    some to dishonour.
80743 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a
80744    vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use,
80745    and prepared unto every good work.
80746 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith,
80747    charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure
80748    heart.
80749 23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they
80750    do gender strifes.
80751 24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle
80752    unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
80753 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God
80754    peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of
80755    the truth;
80756 26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the
80757    devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

80758 2 Timothy 3

80759  1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall
80760    come.
80761  2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
80762    boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
80763    unthankful, unholy,
80764  3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
80765    incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
80766  4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than
80767    lovers of God;
80768  5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
80769    from such turn away.
80770  6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead
80771    captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers
80772    lusts,
80773  7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the
80774    truth.
80775  8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also
80776    resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning
80777    the faith.
80778  9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be
80779    manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
80780 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life,
80781    purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
80782 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at
80783    Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of
80784    them all the Lord delivered me.
80785 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
80786    persecution.
80787 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,
80788    deceiving, and being deceived.
80789 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and
80790    hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
80791 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
80792    which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith
80793    which is in Christ Jesus.
80794 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
80795    profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
80796    instruction in righteousness:
80797 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto
80798    all good works.

80799 2 Timothy 4

80800  1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
80801    who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and
80802    his kingdom;
80803  2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,
80804    rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
80805  3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound
80806    doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
80807    themselves teachers, having itching ears;
80808  4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall
80809    be turned unto fables.
80810  5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work
80811    of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
80812  6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure
80813    is at hand.
80814  7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
80815    kept the faith:
80816  8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
80817    which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that
80818    day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his
80819    appearing.
80820  9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
80821 10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world,
80822    and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus
80823    unto Dalmatia.
80824 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for
80825    he is profitable to me for the ministry.
80826 12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
80827 13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest,
80828    bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
80829 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward
80830    him according to his works:
80831 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our
80832    words.
80833 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook
80834    me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
80835 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me;
80836    that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all
80837    the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth
80838    of the lion.
80839 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will
80840    preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for
80841    ever and ever. Amen.
80842 19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
80843 20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum
80844    sick.
80845 21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee,
80846    and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
80847 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.
80848    Amen.

80849 Book 56 Titus

80850 Titus 1

80851  1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
80852    according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging
80853    of the truth which is after godliness;
80854  2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised
80855    before the world began;
80856  3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching,
80857    which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God
80858    our Saviour;
80859  4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy,
80860    and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our
80861    Saviour.
80862  5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set
80863    in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in
80864    every city, as I had appointed thee:
80865  6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful
80866    children not accused of riot or unruly.
80867  7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not
80868    selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not
80869    given to filthy lucre;
80870  8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just,
80871    holy, temperate;
80872  9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he
80873    may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince
80874    the gainsayers.
80875 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers,
80876    specially they of the circumcision:
80877 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses,
80878    teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
80879 12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The
80880    Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
80881 13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they
80882    may be sound in the faith;
80883 14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men,
80884    that turn from the truth.
80885 15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are
80886    defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind
80887    and conscience is defiled.
80888 16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him,
80889    being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work
80890    reprobate.

80891 Titus 2

80892  1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
80893  2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith,
80894    in charity, in patience.
80895  3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh
80896    holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers
80897    of good things;
80898  4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their
80899    husbands, to love their children,
80900  5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to
80901    their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
80902  6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
80903  7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in
80904    doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
80905  8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the
80906    contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of
80907    you.
80908  9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to
80909    please them well in all things; not answering again;
80910 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may
80911    adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
80912 11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to
80913    all men,
80914 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
80915    should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present
80916    world;
80917 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of
80918    the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
80919 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
80920    iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous
80921    of good works.
80922 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.
80923    Let no man despise thee.

80924 Titus 3

80925  1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers,
80926    to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
80927  2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle,
80928    shewing all meekness unto all men.
80929  3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
80930    deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice
80931    and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
80932  4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward
80933    man appeared,
80934  5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
80935    according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
80936    regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
80937  6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our
80938    Saviour;
80939  7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs
80940    according to the hope of eternal life.
80941  8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou
80942    affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might
80943    be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and
80944    profitable unto men.
80945  9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions,
80946    and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and
80947    vain.
80948 10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second
80949    admonition reject;
80950 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being
80951    condemned of himself.
80952 12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent
80953    to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to
80954    winter.
80955 13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey
80956    diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
80957 14 And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary
80958    uses, that they be not unfruitful.
80959 15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in
80960    the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

80961 Book 57 Philemon

80962 Philemon 1

80963  1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother,
80964    unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
80965  2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier,
80966    and to the church in thy house:
80967  3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord
80968    Jesus Christ.
80969  4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
80970  5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord
80971    Jesus, and toward all saints;
80972  6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by
80973    the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in
80974    Christ Jesus.
80975  7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the
80976    bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
80977  8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin
80978    thee that which is convenient,
80979  9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one
80980    as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
80981 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my
80982    bonds:
80983 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now
80984    profitable to thee and to me:
80985 12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is,
80986    mine own bowels:
80987 13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might
80988    have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
80989 14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit
80990    should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
80991 15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou
80992    shouldest receive him for ever;
80993 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved,
80994    specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the
80995    flesh, and in the Lord?
80996 17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
80997 18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine
80998    account;
80999 19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it:
81000    albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine
81001    own self besides.
81002 20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my
81003    bowels in the Lord.
81004 21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing
81005    that thou wilt also do more than I say.
81006 22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through
81007    your prayers I shall be given unto you.
81008 23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
81009 24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
81010 25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

81011 Book 58 Hebrews

81012 Hebrews 1

81013  1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time
81014    past unto the fathers by the prophets,
81015  2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he
81016    hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
81017    worlds;
81018  3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image
81019    of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his
81020    power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the
81021    right hand of the Majesty on high:
81022  4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
81023    inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
81024  5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my
81025    Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to
81026    him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
81027  6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the
81028    world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
81029  7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and
81030    his ministers a flame of fire.
81031  8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
81032    ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy
81033    kingdom.
81034  9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore
81035    God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness
81036    above thy fellows.
81037 10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of
81038    the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
81039 11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax
81040    old as doth a garment;
81041 12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be
81042    changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
81043 13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my
81044    right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
81045 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister
81046    for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

81047 Hebrews 2

81048  1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things
81049    which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
81050  2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every
81051    transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of
81052    reward;
81053  3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which
81054    at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed
81055    unto us by them that heard him;
81056  4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders,
81057    and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost,
81058    according to his own will?
81059  5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to
81060    come, whereof we speak.
81061  6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man,
81062    that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou
81063    visitest him?
81064  7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst
81065    him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of
81066    thy hands:
81067  8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in
81068    that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that
81069    is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put
81070    under him.
81071  9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels
81072    for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour;
81073    that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
81074 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are
81075    all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the
81076    captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
81077 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are
81078    all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
81079    brethren,
81080 12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst
81081    of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
81082 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and
81083    the children which God hath given me.
81084 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
81085    blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that
81086    through death he might destroy him that had the power of
81087    death, that is, the devil;
81088 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
81089    lifetime subject to bondage.
81090 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he
81091    took on him the seed of Abraham.
81092 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto
81093    his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high
81094    priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for
81095    the sins of the people.
81096 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able
81097    to succour them that are tempted.

81098 Hebrews 3

81099  1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
81100    consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ
81101    Jesus;
81102  2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was
81103    faithful in all his house.
81104  3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses,
81105    inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour
81106    than the house.
81107  4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all
81108    things is God.
81109  5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant,
81110    for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
81111  6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if
81112    we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm
81113    unto the end.
81114  7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his
81115    voice,
81116  8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
81117    temptation in the wilderness:
81118  9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works
81119    forty years.
81120 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They
81121    do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
81122 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
81123 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart
81124    of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
81125 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest
81126    any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
81127 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning
81128    of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
81129 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not
81130    your hearts, as in the provocation.
81131 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all
81132    that came out of Egypt by Moses.
81133 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them
81134    that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
81135 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest,
81136    but to them that believed not?
81137 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

81138 Hebrews 4

81139  1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of
81140    entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short
81141    of it.
81142  2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but
81143    the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
81144    faith in them that heard it.
81145  3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As
81146    I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest:
81147    although the works were finished from the foundation of the
81148    world.
81149  4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this
81150    wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
81151  5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
81152  6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein,
81153    and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because
81154    of unbelief:
81155  7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day,
81156    after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear
81157    his voice, harden not your hearts.
81158  8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward
81159    have spoken of another day.
81160  9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
81161 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from
81162    his own works, as God did from his.
81163 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man
81164    fall after the same example of unbelief.
81165 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than
81166    any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
81167    soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
81168    discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
81169 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his
81170    sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of
81171    him with whom we have to do.
81172 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed
81173    into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
81174    profession.
81175 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with
81176    the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted
81177    like as we are, yet without sin.
81178 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
81179    may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

81180 Hebrews 5

81181  1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men
81182    in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and
81183    sacrifices for sins:
81184  2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are
81185    out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with
81186    infirmity.
81187  3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for
81188    himself, to offer for sins.
81189  4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is
81190    called of God, as was Aaron.
81191  5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high
81192    priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day
81193    have I begotten thee.
81194  6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever
81195    after the order of Melchisedec.
81196  7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers
81197    and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that
81198    was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he
81199    feared;
81200  8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
81201    which he suffered;
81202  9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
81203    salvation unto all them that obey him;
81204 10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
81205 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,
81206    seeing ye are dull of hearing.
81207 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need
81208    that one teach you again which be the first principles of the
81209    oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and
81210    not of strong meat.
81211 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
81212    righteousness: for he is a babe.
81213 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even
81214    those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to
81215    discern both good and evil.

81216 Hebrews 6

81217  1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,
81218    let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation
81219    of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
81220  2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of
81221    resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
81222  3 And this will we do, if God permit.
81223  4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and
81224    have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of
81225    the Holy Ghost,
81226  5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the
81227    world to come,
81228  6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;
81229    seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and
81230    put him to an open shame.
81231  7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon
81232    it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is
81233    dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
81234  8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is
81235    nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
81236  9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and
81237    things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
81238 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of
81239    love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have
81240    ministered to the saints, and do minister.
81241 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence
81242    to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
81243 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through
81244    faith and patience inherit the promises.
81245 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear
81246    by no greater, he sware by himself,
81247 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I
81248    will multiply thee.
81249 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the
81250    promise.
81251 16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for
81252    confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
81253 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
81254    promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an
81255    oath:
81256 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for
81257    God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled
81258    for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
81259 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
81260    stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
81261 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an
81262    high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

81263 Hebrews 7

81264  1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high
81265    God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the
81266    kings, and blessed him;
81267  2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by
81268    interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King
81269    of Salem, which is, King of peace;
81270  3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having
81271    neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto
81272    the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
81273  4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the
81274    patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
81275  5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the
81276    office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of
81277    the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren,
81278    though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
81279  6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes
81280    of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
81281  7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the
81282    better.
81283  8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth
81284    them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
81285  9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed
81286    tithes in Abraham.
81287 10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec
81288    met him.
81289 11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for
81290    under it the people received the law,) what further need was
81291    there that another priest should rise after the order of
81292    Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
81293 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a
81294    change also of the law.
81295 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another
81296    tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
81297 14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which
81298    tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
81299 15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude
81300    of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
81301 16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but
81302    after the power of an endless life.
81303 17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order
81304    of Melchisedec.
81305 18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going
81306    before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
81307 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a
81308    better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
81309 20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
81310 21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an
81311    oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not
81312    repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
81313    Melchisedec:)
81314 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
81315 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not
81316    suffered to continue by reason of death:
81317 24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
81318    priesthood.
81319 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that
81320    come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
81321    intercession for them.
81322 26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,
81323    undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the
81324    heavens;
81325 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up
81326    sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's:
81327    for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
81328 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but
81329    the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son,
81330    who is consecrated for evermore.

81331 Hebrews 8

81332  1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We
81333    have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the
81334    throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
81335  2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which
81336    the Lord pitched, and not man.
81337  3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
81338    sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have
81339    somewhat also to offer.
81340  4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing
81341    that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
81342  5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as
81343    Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
81344    tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things
81345    according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
81346  6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how
81347    much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
81348    established upon better promises.
81349  7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no
81350    place have been sought for the second.
81351  8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come,
81352    saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house
81353    of Israel and with the house of Judah:
81354  9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
81355    in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of
81356    the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant,
81357    and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
81358 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
81359    Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws
81360    into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be
81361    to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
81362 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every
81363    man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me,
81364    from the least to the greatest.
81365 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their
81366    sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
81367 13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.
81368    Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish
81369    away.

81370 Hebrews 9

81371  1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine
81372    service, and a worldly sanctuary.
81373  2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the
81374    candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called
81375    the sanctuary.
81376  3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
81377    Holiest of all;
81378  4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant
81379    overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot
81380    that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of
81381    the covenant;
81382  5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of
81383    which we cannot now speak particularly.
81384  6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went
81385    always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of
81386    God.
81387  7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every
81388    year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for
81389    the errors of the people:
81390  8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest
81391    of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
81392    tabernacle was yet standing:
81393  9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were
81394    offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him
81395    that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
81396 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and
81397    carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of
81398    reformation.
81399 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
81400    by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
81401    that is to say, not of this building;
81402 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
81403    he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
81404    eternal redemption for us.
81405 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
81406    heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
81407    the flesh:
81408 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
81409    eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
81410    conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
81411 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
81412    that by means of death, for the redemption of the
81413    transgressions that were under the first testament, they which
81414    are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
81415 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the
81416    death of the testator.
81417 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it
81418    is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
81419 18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
81420    blood.
81421 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people
81422    according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of
81423    goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
81424    both the book, and all the people,
81425 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
81426    enjoined unto you.
81427 21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all
81428    the vessels of the ministry.
81429 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
81430    without shedding of blood is no remission.
81431 23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the
81432    heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
81433    themselves with better sacrifices than these.
81434 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with
81435    hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven
81436    itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
81437 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
81438    entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
81439 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of
81440    the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he
81441    appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
81442 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this
81443    the judgment:
81444 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
81445    them that look for him shall he appear the second time without
81446    sin unto salvation.

81447 Hebrews 10

81448  1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not
81449    the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices
81450    which they offered year by year continually make the comers
81451    thereunto perfect.
81452  2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because
81453    that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
81454    conscience of sins.
81455  3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of
81456    sins every year.
81457  4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats
81458    should take away sins.
81459  5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice
81460    and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared
81461    me:
81462  6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no
81463    pleasure.
81464  7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
81465    written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
81466  8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings
81467    and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure
81468    therein; which are offered by the law;
81469  9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
81470    the first, that he may establish the second.
81471 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of
81472    the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
81473 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering
81474    oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away
81475    sins:
81476 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for
81477    ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
81478 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his
81479    footstool.
81480 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
81481    sanctified.
81482 15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that
81483    he had said before,
81484 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those
81485    days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts,
81486    and in their minds will I write them;
81487 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
81488 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
81489    sin.
81490 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
81491    by the blood of Jesus,
81492 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us,
81493    through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
81494 21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
81495 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
81496    having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our
81497    bodies washed with pure water.
81498 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;
81499    (for he is faithful that promised;)
81500 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to
81501    good works:
81502 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the
81503    manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the
81504    more, as ye see the day approaching.
81505 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the
81506    knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
81507    sins,
81508 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
81509    indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
81510 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or
81511    three witnesses:
81512 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought
81513    worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath
81514    counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
81515    sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
81516    Spirit of grace?
81517 30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I
81518    will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall
81519    judge his people.
81520 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
81521    God.
81522 32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye
81523    were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
81524 33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches
81525    and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of
81526    them that were so used.
81527 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the
81528    spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in
81529    heaven a better and an enduring substance.
81530 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
81531    recompence of reward.
81532 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the
81533    will of God, ye might receive the promise.
81534 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and
81535    will not tarry.
81536 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my
81537    soul shall have no pleasure in him.
81538 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of
81539    them that believe to the saving of the soul.

81540 Hebrews 11

81541  1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
81542    of things not seen.
81543  2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
81544  3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
81545    word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of
81546    things which do appear.
81547  4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
81548    Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God
81549    testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
81550  5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death;
81551    and was not found, because God had translated him: for before
81552    his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
81553  6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that
81554    cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
81555    rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
81556  7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
81557    moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
81558    by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the
81559    righteousness which is by faith.
81560  8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place
81561    which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and
81562    he went out, not knowing whither he went.
81563  9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange
81564    country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the
81565    heirs with him of the same promise:
81566 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder
81567    and maker is God.
81568 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive
81569    seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age,
81570    because she judged him faithful who had promised.
81571 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead,
81572    so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand
81573    which is by the sea shore innumerable.
81574 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
81575    having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and
81576    embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and
81577    pilgrims on the earth.
81578 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a
81579    country.
81580 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from
81581    whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have
81582    returned.
81583 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
81584    wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he
81585    hath prepared for them a city.
81586 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he
81587    that had received the promises offered up his only begotten
81588    son,
81589 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
81590 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the
81591    dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
81592 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to
81593    come.
81594 21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of
81595    Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
81596 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing
81597    of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his
81598    bones.
81599 23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his
81600    parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were
81601    not afraid of the king's commandment.
81602 24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be
81603    called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
81604 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,
81605    than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
81606 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the
81607    treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of
81608    the reward.
81609 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king:
81610    for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
81611 28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of
81612    blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
81613 29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which
81614    the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
81615 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were
81616    compassed about seven days.
81617 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed
81618    not, when she had received the spies with peace.
81619 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell
81620    of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of
81621    David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
81622 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
81623    obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
81624 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
81625    out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight,
81626    turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
81627 35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others
81628    were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might
81629    obtain a better resurrection:
81630 36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea,
81631    moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
81632 37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
81633    slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
81634    goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
81635 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts,
81636    and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
81637 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,
81638    received not the promise:
81639 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they
81640    without us should not be made perfect.

81641 Hebrews 12

81642  1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
81643    cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
81644    which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
81645    the race that is set before us,
81646  2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who
81647    for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
81648    despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the
81649    throne of God.
81650  3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
81651    against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
81652  4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
81653  5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you
81654    as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of
81655    the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
81656  6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every
81657    son whom he receiveth.
81658  7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons;
81659    for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
81660  8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers,
81661    then are ye bastards, and not sons.
81662  9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected
81663    us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in
81664    subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
81665 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own
81666    pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of
81667    his holiness.
81668 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
81669    grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable
81670    fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
81671 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble
81672    knees;
81673 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame
81674    be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
81675 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man
81676    shall see the Lord:
81677 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest
81678    any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby
81679    many be defiled;
81680 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who
81681    for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
81682 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited
81683    the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of
81684    repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
81685 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and
81686    that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
81687    tempest,
81688 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which
81689    voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be
81690    spoken to them any more:
81691 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so
81692    much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or
81693    thrust through with a dart:
81694 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly
81695    fear and quake:)
81696 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the
81697    living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
81698    company of angels,
81699 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
81700    written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
81701    spirits of just men made perfect,
81702 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the
81703    blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of
81704    Abel.
81705 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped
81706    not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not
81707    we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
81708 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,
81709    saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also
81710    heaven.
81711 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those
81712    things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those
81713    things which cannot be shaken may remain.
81714 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
81715    have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence
81716    and godly fear:
81717 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

81718 Hebrews 13

81719  1 Let brotherly love continue.
81720  2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have
81721    entertained angels unawares.
81722  3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them
81723    which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
81724  4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
81725    whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
81726  5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content
81727    with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never
81728    leave thee, nor forsake thee.
81729  6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will
81730    not fear what man shall do unto me.
81731  7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken
81732    unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the
81733    end of their conversation.
81734  8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
81735  9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it
81736    is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not
81737    with meats, which have not profited them that have been
81738    occupied therein.
81739 10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which
81740    serve the tabernacle.
81741 11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into
81742    the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without
81743    the camp.
81744 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with
81745    his own blood, suffered without the gate.
81746 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing
81747    his reproach.
81748 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
81749 15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
81750    continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to
81751    his name.
81752 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such
81753    sacrifices God is well pleased.
81754 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves:
81755    for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account,
81756    that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is
81757    unprofitable for you.
81758 18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all
81759    things willing to live honestly.
81760 19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be
81761    restored to you the sooner.
81762 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our
81763    Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the
81764    blood of the everlasting covenant,
81765 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in
81766    you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus
81767    Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
81768 22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation:
81769    for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
81770 23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom,
81771    if he come shortly, I will see you.
81772 24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the
81773    saints. They of Italy salute you.
81774 25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

81775 Book 59 James

81776 James 1

81777  1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
81778    twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
81779  2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
81780    temptations;
81781  3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
81782  4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect
81783    and entire, wanting nothing.
81784  5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
81785    all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
81786    him.
81787  6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
81788    wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
81789    tossed.
81790  7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of
81791    the Lord.
81792  8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
81793  9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
81794 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of
81795    the grass he shall pass away.
81796 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it
81797    withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the
81798    grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich
81799    man fade away in his ways.
81800 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
81801    tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
81802    promised to them that love him.
81803 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for
81804    God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
81805 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
81806    lust, and enticed.
81807 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
81808    when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
81809 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
81810 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
81811    cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
81812    variableness, neither shadow of turning.
81813 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
81814    should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
81815 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
81816    hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
81817 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
81818 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
81819    naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
81820    which is able to save your souls.
81821 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
81822    your own selves.
81823 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
81824    unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
81825 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
81826    forgetteth what manner of man he was.
81827 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
81828    continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a
81829    doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
81830 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not
81831    his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion
81832    is vain.
81833 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
81834    To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to
81835    keep himself unspotted from the world.

81836 James 2

81837  1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
81838    Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
81839  2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring,
81840    in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile
81841    raiment;
81842  3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and
81843    say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the
81844    poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
81845  4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges
81846    of evil thoughts?
81847  5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of
81848    this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he
81849    hath promised to them that love him?
81850  6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you,
81851    and draw you before the judgment seats?
81852  7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are
81853    called?
81854  8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou
81855    shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
81856  9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are
81857    convinced of the law as transgressors.
81858 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one
81859    point, he is guilty of all.
81860 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not
81861    kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou
81862    art become a transgressor of the law.
81863 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the
81864    law of liberty.
81865 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no
81866    mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
81867 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath
81868    faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
81869 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
81870 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed
81871    and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things
81872    which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
81873 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
81874 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me
81875    thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by
81876    my works.
81877 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the
81878    devils also believe, and tremble.
81879 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is
81880    dead?
81881 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
81882    offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
81883 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was
81884    faith made perfect?
81885 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed
81886    God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was
81887    called the Friend of God.
81888 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by
81889    faith only.
81890 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works,
81891    when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out
81892    another way?
81893 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
81894    works is dead also.

81895 James 3

81896  1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall
81897    receive the greater condemnation.
81898  2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in
81899    word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the
81900    whole body.
81901  3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey
81902    us; and we turn about their whole body.
81903  4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are
81904    driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very
81905    small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
81906  5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great
81907    things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
81908  6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the
81909    tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and
81910    setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of
81911    hell.
81912  7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and
81913    of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of
81914    mankind:
81915  8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of
81916    deadly poison.
81917  9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse
81918    we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
81919 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
81920    brethren, these things ought not so to be.
81921 11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and
81922    bitter?
81923 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a
81924    vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and
81925    fresh.
81926 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him
81927    shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of
81928    wisdom.
81929 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory
81930    not, and lie not against the truth.
81931 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly,
81932    sensual, devilish.
81933 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every
81934    evil work.
81935 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
81936    peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and
81937    good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
81938 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that
81939    make peace.

81940 James 4

81941  1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not
81942    hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
81943  2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot
81944    obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
81945  3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
81946    consume it upon your lusts.
81947  4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
81948    friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
81949    therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
81950  5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
81951    dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
81952  6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
81953    the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
81954  7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
81955    will flee from you.
81956  8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your
81957    hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
81958  9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned
81959    to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
81960 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift
81961    you up.
81962 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil
81963    of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the
81964    law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art
81965    not a doer of the law, but a judge.
81966 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who
81967    art thou that judgest another?
81968 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into
81969    such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and
81970    get gain:
81971 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is
81972    your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
81973    time, and then vanisheth away.
81974 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and
81975    do this, or that.
81976 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is
81977    evil.
81978 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to
81979    him it is sin.

81980 James 5

81981  1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that
81982    shall come upon you.
81983  2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
81984  3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall
81985    be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were
81986    fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
81987  4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your
81988    fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the
81989    cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of
81990    the Lord of sabaoth.
81991  5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye
81992    have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
81993  6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist
81994    you.
81995  7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
81996    Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the
81997    earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the
81998    early and latter rain.
81999  8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of
82000    the Lord draweth nigh.
82001  9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be
82002    condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
82003 10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name
82004    of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of
82005    patience.
82006 11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the
82007    patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the
82008    Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
82009 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by
82010    heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but
82011    let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into
82012    condemnation.
82013 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let
82014    him sing psalms.
82015 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the
82016    church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in
82017    the name of the Lord:
82018 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord
82019    shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall
82020    be forgiven him.
82021 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,
82022    that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
82023    righteous man availeth much.
82024 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he
82025    prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on
82026    the earth by the space of three years and six months.
82027 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth
82028    brought forth her fruit.
82029 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert
82030    him;
82031 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the
82032    error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide
82033    a multitude of sins.

82034 Book 60 1 Peter

82035 1 Peter 1

82036  1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered
82037    throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
82038  2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
82039    through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
82040    sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and
82041    peace, be multiplied.
82042  3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
82043    according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
82044    lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
82045  4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
82046    fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
82047  5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
82048    ready to be revealed in the last time.
82049  6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need
82050    be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
82051  7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of
82052    gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be
82053    found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of
82054    Jesus Christ:
82055  8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him
82056    not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full
82057    of glory:
82058  9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your
82059    souls.
82060 10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched
82061    diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto
82062    you:
82063 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
82064    which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand
82065    the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
82066 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto
82067    us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto
82068    you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the
82069    Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels
82070    desire to look into.
82071 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope
82072    to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
82073    revelation of Jesus Christ;
82074 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to
82075    the former lusts in your ignorance:
82076 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all
82077    manner of conversation;
82078 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
82079 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons
82080    judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your
82081    sojourning here in fear:
82082 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
82083    corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
82084    conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
82085 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
82086    blemish and without spot:
82087 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
82088    world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
82089 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the
82090    dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in
82091    God.
82092 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth
82093    through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
82094    that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
82095 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
82096    incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
82097    for ever.
82098 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the
82099    flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof
82100    falleth away:
82101 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the
82102    word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

82103 1 Peter 2

82104  1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
82105    hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
82106  2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye
82107    may grow thereby:
82108  3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
82109  4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of
82110    men, but chosen of God, and precious,
82111  5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an
82112    holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable
82113    to God by Jesus Christ.
82114  6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay
82115    in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that
82116    believeth on him shall not be confounded.
82117  7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them
82118    which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed,
82119    the same is made the head of the corner,
82120  8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them
82121    which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also
82122    they were appointed.
82123  9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
82124    nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
82125    praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
82126    marvellous light;
82127 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people
82128    of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained
82129    mercy.
82130 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims,
82131    abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
82132 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,
82133    whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your
82134    good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of
82135    visitation.
82136 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
82137    sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
82138 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the
82139    punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do
82140    well.
82141 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to
82142    silence the ignorance of foolish men:
82143 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of
82144    maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
82145 17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the
82146    king.
82147 18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only
82148    to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
82149 19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God
82150    endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
82151 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults,
82152    ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and
82153    suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with
82154    God.
82155 21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered
82156    for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his
82157    steps:
82158 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
82159 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered,
82160    he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth
82161    righteously:
82162 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
82163    that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
82164    by whose stripes ye were healed.
82165 25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto
82166    the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

82167 1 Peter 3

82168  1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;
82169    that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word
82170    be won by the conversation of the wives;
82171  2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
82172  3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting
82173    the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
82174  4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is
82175    not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
82176    which is in the sight of God of great price.
82177  5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who
82178    trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto
82179    their own husbands:
82180  6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters
82181    ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any
82182    amazement.
82183  7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
82184    giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as
82185    being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers
82186    be not hindered.
82187  8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of
82188    another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
82189  9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
82190    contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called,
82191    that ye should inherit a blessing.
82192 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain
82193    his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
82194 11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and
82195    ensue it.
82196 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears
82197    are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is
82198    against them that do evil.
82199 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that
82200    which is good?
82201 14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye:
82202    and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
82203 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always
82204    to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the
82205    hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
82206 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of
82207    you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse
82208    your good conversation in Christ.
82209 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for
82210    well doing, than for evil doing.
82211 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the
82212    unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in
82213    the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
82214 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
82215 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering
82216    of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a
82217    preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by
82218    water.
82219 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
82220    (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the
82221    answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection
82222    of Jesus Christ:
82223 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God;
82224    angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

82225 1 Peter 4

82226  1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,
82227    arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath
82228    suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
82229  2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the
82230    flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
82231  3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought
82232    the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness,
82233    lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable
82234    idolatries:
82235  4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the
82236    same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
82237  5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick
82238    and the dead.
82239  6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that
82240    are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the
82241    flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
82242  7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober,
82243    and watch unto prayer.
82244  8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves:
82245    for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
82246  9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
82247 10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same
82248    one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
82249 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any
82250    man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God
82251    giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus
82252    Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.
82253    Amen.
82254 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which
82255    is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
82256 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's
82257    sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be
82258    glad also with exceeding joy.
82259 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for
82260    the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part
82261    he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
82262 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as
82263    an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
82264 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed;
82265    but let him glorify God on this behalf.
82266 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
82267    God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of
82268    them that obey not the gospel of God?
82269 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the
82270    ungodly and the sinner appear?
82271 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God
82272    commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as
82273    unto a faithful Creator.

82274 1 Peter 5

82275  1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder,
82276    and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker
82277    of the glory that shall be revealed:
82278  2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight
82279    thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy
82280    lucre, but of a ready mind;
82281  3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being
82282    ensamples to the flock.
82283  4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a
82284    crown of glory that fadeth not away.
82285  5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea,
82286    all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with
82287    humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the
82288    humble.
82289  6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that
82290    he may exalt you in due time:
82291  7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
82292  8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a
82293    roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
82294  9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same
82295    afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the
82296    world.
82297 10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
82298    glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while,
82299    make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
82300 11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
82301 12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have
82302    written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the
82303    true grace of God wherein ye stand.
82304 13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you,
82305    saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
82306 14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you
82307    all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

82308 Book 61 2 Peter

82309 2 Peter 1

82310  1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them
82311    that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
82312    righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
82313  2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge
82314    of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
82315  3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things
82316    that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of
82317    him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
82318  4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
82319    promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine
82320    nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
82321    through lust.
82322  5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith
82323    virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
82324  6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and
82325    to patience godliness;
82326  7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
82327    charity.
82328  8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that
82329    ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of
82330    our Lord Jesus Christ.
82331  9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar
82332    off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
82333 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
82334    calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall
82335    never fall:
82336 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
82337    into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
82338    Christ.
82339 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in
82340    remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be
82341    established in the present truth.
82342 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to
82343    stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
82344 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even
82345    as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
82346 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
82347    to have these things always in remembrance.
82348 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we
82349    made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
82350    Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
82351 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when
82352    there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This
82353    is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
82354 18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were
82355    with him in the holy mount.
82356 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do
82357    well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark
82358    place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your
82359    hearts:
82360 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of
82361    any private interpretation.
82362 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
82363    holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

82364 2 Peter 2

82365  1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as
82366    there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall
82367    bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
82368    them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
82369  2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom
82370    the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
82371  3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
82372    merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
82373    lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
82374  4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
82375    down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to
82376    be reserved unto judgment;
82377  5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth
82378    person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood
82379    upon the world of the ungodly;
82380  6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes
82381    condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto
82382    those that after should live ungodly;
82383  7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of
82384    the wicked:
82385  8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
82386    hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their
82387    unlawful deeds;)
82388  9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,
82389    and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
82390    punished:
82391 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
82392    uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they,
82393    selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
82394 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring
82395    not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
82396 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
82397    destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not;
82398    and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
82399 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that
82400    count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and
82401    blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while
82402    they feast with you;
82403 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
82404    beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with
82405    covetous practices; cursed children:
82406 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,
82407    following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the
82408    wages of unrighteousness;
82409 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with
82410    man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
82411 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
82412    tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
82413 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they
82414    allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much
82415    wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live
82416    in error.
82417 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the
82418    servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the
82419    same is he brought in bondage.
82420 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
82421    through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
82422    they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end
82423    is worse with them than the beginning.
82424 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
82425    righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from
82426    the holy commandment delivered unto them.
82427 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,
82428    The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was
82429    washed to her wallowing in the mire.

82430 2 Peter 3

82431  1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both
82432    which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
82433  2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before
82434    by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the
82435    apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
82436  3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
82437    scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
82438  4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the
82439    fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
82440    beginning of the creation.
82441  5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of
82442    God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the
82443    water and in the water:
82444  6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
82445    perished:
82446  7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word
82447    are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of
82448    judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
82449  8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day
82450    is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as
82451    one day.
82452  9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men
82453    count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing
82454    that any should perish, but that all should come to
82455    repentance.
82456 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in
82457    the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
82458    the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and
82459    the works that are therein shall be burned up.
82460 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what
82461    manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and
82462    godliness,
82463 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
82464    wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
82465    elements shall melt with fervent heat?
82466 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new
82467    heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
82468 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
82469    diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,
82470    and blameless.
82471 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation;
82472    even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom
82473    given unto him hath written unto you;
82474 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things;
82475    in which are some things hard to be understood, which they
82476    that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the
82477    other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
82478 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before,
82479    beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the
82480    wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
82481 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and
82482    Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever.
82483    Amen.

82484 Book 62 1 John

82485 1 John 1

82486  1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which
82487    we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our
82488    hands have handled, of the Word of life;
82489  2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
82490    witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with
82491    the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
82492  3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye
82493    also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is
82494    with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
82495  4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
82496  5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and
82497    declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness
82498    at all.
82499  6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
82500    darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
82501  7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
82502    fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his
82503    Son cleanseth us from all sin.
82504  8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
82505    truth is not in us.
82506  9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
82507    our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
82508 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his
82509    word is not in us.

82510 1 John 2

82511  1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin
82512    not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
82513    Jesus Christ the righteous:
82514  2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's
82515    only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
82516  3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
82517    commandments.
82518  4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments,
82519    is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
82520  5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God
82521    perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
82522  6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk,
82523    even as he walked.
82524  7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
82525    commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old
82526    commandment is the word which ye have heard from the
82527    beginning.
82528  8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true
82529    in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true
82530    light now shineth.
82531  9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is
82532    in darkness even until now.
82533 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is
82534    none occasion of stumbling in him.
82535 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in
82536    darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that
82537    darkness hath blinded his eyes.
82538 12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are
82539    forgiven you for his name's sake.
82540 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is
82541    from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye
82542    have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little
82543    children, because ye have known the Father.
82544 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him
82545    that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young
82546    men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in
82547    you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
82548 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
82549    If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
82550    him.
82551 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the
82552    lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
82553    but is of the world.
82554 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that
82555    doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
82556 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard
82557    that antichrist shall come, even now are there many
82558    antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
82559 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they
82560    had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us:
82561    but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they
82562    were not all of us.
82563 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all
82564    things.
82565 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but
82566    because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
82567 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He
82568    is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
82569 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he
82570    that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
82571 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the
82572    beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning
82573    shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in
82574    the Father.
82575 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal
82576    life.
82577 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that
82578    seduce you.
82579 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in
82580    you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same
82581    anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no
82582    lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
82583 28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall
82584    appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him
82585    at his coming.
82586 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that
82587    doeth righteousness is born of him.

82588 1 John 3

82589  1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
82590    that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
82591    knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
82592  2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
82593    appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall
82594    appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
82595  3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
82596    even as he is pure.
82597  4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin
82598    is the transgression of the law.
82599  5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and
82600    in him is no sin.
82601  6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath
82602    not seen him, neither known him.
82603  7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth
82604    righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
82605  8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth
82606    from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was
82607    manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
82608  9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed
82609    remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of
82610    God.
82611 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of
82612    the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,
82613    neither he that loveth not his brother.
82614 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that
82615    we should love one another.
82616 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
82617    And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil,
82618    and his brother's righteous.
82619 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
82620 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we
82621    love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in
82622    death.
82623 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that
82624    no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
82625 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his
82626    life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the
82627    brethren.
82628 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
82629    need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how
82630    dwelleth the love of God in him?
82631 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in
82632    tongue; but in deed and in truth.
82633 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure
82634    our hearts before him.
82635 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart,
82636    and knoweth all things.
82637 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence
82638    toward God.
82639 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his
82640    commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his
82641    sight.
82642 23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the
82643    name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave
82644    us commandment.
82645 24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he
82646    in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the
82647    Spirit which he hath given us.

82648 1 John 4

82649  1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
82650    they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
82651    the world.
82652  2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth
82653    that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
82654  3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come
82655    in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of
82656    antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and
82657    even now already is it in the world.
82658  4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
82659    because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the
82660    world.
82661  5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and
82662    the world heareth them.
82663  6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not
82664    of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and
82665    the spirit of error.
82666  7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
82667    every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
82668  8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
82669  9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that
82670    God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might
82671    live through him.
82672 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
82673    and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
82674 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
82675    another.
82676 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
82677    dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
82678 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
82679    hath given us of his Spirit.
82680 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son
82681    to be the Saviour of the world.
82682 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
82683    dwelleth in him, and he in God.
82684 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.
82685    God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and
82686    God in him.
82687 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in
82688    the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this
82689    world.
82690 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
82691    because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect
82692    in love.
82693 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
82694 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
82695    liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,
82696    how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
82697 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God
82698    love his brother also.

82699 1 John 5

82700  1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God:
82701    and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that
82702    is begotten of him.
82703  2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love
82704    God, and keep his commandments.
82705  3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments:
82706    and his commandments are not grievous.
82707  4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this
82708    is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
82709  5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth
82710    that Jesus is the Son of God?
82711  6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ;
82712    not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the
82713    Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
82714  7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
82715    the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
82716  8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit,
82717    and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
82718  9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is
82719    greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath
82720    testified of his Son.
82721 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in
82722    himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar;
82723    because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
82724 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal
82725    life, and this life is in his Son.
82726 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son
82727    of God hath not life.
82728 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name
82729    of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life,
82730    and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
82731 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we
82732    ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
82733 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know
82734    that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
82735 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death,
82736    he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not
82737    unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he
82738    shall pray for it.
82739 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
82740 18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that
82741    is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one
82742    toucheth him not.
82743 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
82744    wickedness.
82745 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
82746    understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are
82747    in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the
82748    true God, and eternal life.
82749 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

82750 Book 63 2 John

82751 2 John 1

82752  1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in
82753    the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known
82754    the truth;
82755  2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with
82756    us for ever.
82757  3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and
82758    from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth
82759    and love.
82760  4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in
82761    truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
82762  5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new
82763    commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the
82764    beginning, that we love one another.
82765  6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is
82766    the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye
82767    should walk in it.
82768  7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not
82769    that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and
82770    an antichrist.
82771  8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we
82772    have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
82773  9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
82774    Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of
82775    Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
82776 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine,
82777    receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
82778 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil
82779    deeds.
82780 12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with
82781    paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to
82782    face, that our joy may be full.
82783 13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.

82784 Book 64 3 John

82785 3 John 1

82786  1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the
82787    truth.
82788  2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and
82789    be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
82790  3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified
82791    of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the
82792    truth.
82793  4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in
82794    truth.
82795  5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the
82796    brethren, and to strangers;
82797  6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church:
82798    whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly
82799    sort, thou shalt do well:
82800  7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking
82801    nothing of the Gentiles.
82802  8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be
82803    fellowhelpers to the truth.
82804  9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have
82805    the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
82806 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he
82807    doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not
82808    content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the
82809    brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out
82810    of the church.
82811 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is
82812    good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil
82813    hath not seen God.
82814 12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth
82815    itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our
82816    record is true.
82817 13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen
82818    write unto thee:
82819 14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face
82820    to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the
82821    friends by name.

82822 Book 65 Jude

82823 Jude 1

82824  1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to
82825    them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in
82826    Jesus Christ, and called:
82827  2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
82828  3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the
82829    common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and
82830    exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith
82831    which was once delivered unto the saints.
82832  4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before
82833    of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the
82834    grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only
82835    Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
82836  5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew
82837    this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the
82838    land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
82839  6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left
82840    their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
82841    under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
82842  7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like
82843    manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after
82844    strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
82845    vengeance of eternal fire.
82846  8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
82847    dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
82848  9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he
82849    disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him
82850    a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
82851 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but
82852    what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things
82853    they corrupt themselves.
82854 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran
82855    greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in
82856    the gainsaying of Core.
82857 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast
82858    with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are
82859    without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit
82860    withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
82861 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
82862    wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
82863    for ever.
82864 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
82865    saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
82866    saints,
82867 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
82868    ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
82869    ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which
82870    ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
82871 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own
82872    lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having
82873    men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
82874 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
82875    of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
82876 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last
82877    time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
82878 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the
82879    Spirit.
82880 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
82881    faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
82882 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
82883    our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
82884 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
82885 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire;
82886    hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
82887 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
82888    present you faultless before the presence of his glory with
82889    exceeding joy,
82890 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
82891    dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

82892 Book 66 Revelation

82893 Revelation 1

82894  1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to
82895    shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass;
82896    and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant
82897    John:
82898  2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of
82899    Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
82900  3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of
82901    this prophecy, and keep those things which are written
82902    therein: for the time is at hand.
82903  4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto
82904    you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is
82905    to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his
82906    throne;
82907  5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the
82908    first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the
82909    earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in
82910    his own blood,
82911  6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to
82912    him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
82913  7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him,
82914    and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth
82915    shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
82916  8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
82917    Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the
82918    Almighty.
82919  9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in
82920    tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,
82921    was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God,
82922    and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
82923 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
82924    great voice, as of a trumpet,
82925 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and,
82926    What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven
82927    churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and
82928    unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
82929    Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
82930 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being
82931    turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
82932 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the
82933    Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt
82934    about the paps with a golden girdle.
82935 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow;
82936    and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
82937 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a
82938    furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
82939 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth
82940    went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the
82941    sun shineth in his strength.
82942 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid
82943    his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the
82944    first and the last:
82945 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
82946    evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
82947 19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which
82948    are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
82949 20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right
82950    hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are
82951    the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks
82952    which thou sawest are the seven churches.

82953 Revelation 2

82954  1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things
82955    saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who
82956    walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
82957  2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how
82958    thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried
82959    them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found
82960    them liars:
82961  3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast
82962    laboured, and hast not fainted.
82963  4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast
82964    left thy first love.
82965  5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent,
82966    and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly,
82967    and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou
82968    repent.
82969  6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the
82970    Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
82971  7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
82972    the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
82973    tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
82974  8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things
82975    saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
82976  9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art
82977    rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are
82978    Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
82979 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the
82980    devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be
82981    tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou
82982    faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
82983 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
82984    the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the
82985    second death.
82986 12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things
82987    saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
82988 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's
82989    seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my
82990    faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful
82991    martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
82992 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there
82993    them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to
82994    cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat
82995    things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
82996 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the
82997    Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
82998 16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight
82999    against them with the sword of my mouth.
83000 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
83001    the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
83002    hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the
83003    stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that
83004    receiveth it.
83005 18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These
83006    things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a
83007    flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
83008 19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy
83009    patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the
83010    first.
83011 20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou
83012    sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a
83013    prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit
83014    fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
83015 21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she
83016    repented not.
83017 22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit
83018    adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent
83019    of their deeds.
83020 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches
83021    shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts:
83022    and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
83023 24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as
83024    have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of
83025    Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
83026 25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
83027 26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to
83028    him will I give power over the nations:
83029 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a
83030    potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of
83031    my Father.
83032 28 And I will give him the morning star.
83033 29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
83034    the churches.

83035 Revelation 3

83036  1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things
83037    saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven
83038    stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou
83039    livest, and art dead.
83040  2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are
83041    ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before
83042    God.
83043  3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold
83044    fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will
83045    come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I
83046    will come upon thee.
83047  4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled
83048    their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they
83049    are worthy.
83050  5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white
83051    raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of
83052    life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before
83053    his angels.
83054  6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
83055    the churches.
83056  7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These
83057    things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath
83058    the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and
83059    shutteth, and no man openeth;
83060  8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door,
83061    and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and
83062    hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
83063  9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say
83064    they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make
83065    them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I
83066    have loved thee.
83067 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will
83068    keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon
83069    all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
83070 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that
83071    no man take thy crown.
83072 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my
83073    God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him
83074    the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which
83075    is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God:
83076    and I will write upon him my new name.
83077 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
83078    the churches.
83079 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;
83080    These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
83081    the beginning of the creation of God;
83082 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would
83083    thou wert cold or hot.
83084 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
83085    will spue thee out of my mouth.
83086 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and
83087    have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,
83088    and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
83089 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
83090    mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be
83091    clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear;
83092    and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
83093 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
83094    and repent.
83095 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
83096    voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
83097    with him, and he with me.
83098 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my
83099    throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
83100    Father in his throne.
83101 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto
83102    the churches.

83103 Revelation 4

83104  1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:
83105    and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet
83106    talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew
83107    thee things which must be hereafter.
83108  2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was
83109    set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
83110  3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine
83111    stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in
83112    sight like unto an emerald.
83113  4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and
83114    upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed
83115    in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
83116  5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and
83117    voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the
83118    throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
83119  6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto
83120    crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the
83121    throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
83122  7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like
83123    a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the
83124    fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
83125  8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and
83126    they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and
83127    night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was,
83128    and is, and is to come.
83129  9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him
83130    that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
83131 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on
83132    the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and
83133    cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
83134 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and
83135    power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure
83136    they are and were created.

83137 Revelation 5

83138  1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a
83139    book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven
83140    seals.
83141  2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is
83142    worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
83143  3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth,
83144    was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
83145  4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and
83146    to read the book, neither to look thereon.
83147  5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the
83148    Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed
83149    to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
83150  6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the
83151    four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as
83152    it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which
83153    are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
83154  7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him
83155    that sat upon the throne.
83156  8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and
83157    twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of
83158    them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the
83159    prayers of saints.
83160  9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
83161    book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and
83162    hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and
83163    tongue, and people, and nation;
83164 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
83165    reign on the earth.
83166 11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about
83167    the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of
83168    them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of
83169    thousands;
83170 12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to
83171    receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and
83172    honour, and glory, and blessing.
83173 13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and
83174    under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are
83175    in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and
83176    power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
83177    Lamb for ever and ever.
83178 14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders
83179    fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

83180 Revelation 6

83181  1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard,
83182    as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts
83183    saying, Come and see.
83184  2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him
83185    had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth
83186    conquering, and to conquer.
83187  3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second
83188    beast say, Come and see.
83189  4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was
83190    given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth,
83191    and that they should kill one another: and there was given
83192    unto him a great sword.
83193  5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
83194    say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he
83195    that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
83196  6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A
83197    measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for
83198    a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
83199  7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of
83200    the fourth beast say, Come and see.
83201  8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat
83202    on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was
83203    given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill
83204    with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the
83205    beasts of the earth.
83206  9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar
83207    the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for
83208    the testimony which they held:
83209 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord,
83210    holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on
83211    them that dwell on the earth?
83212 11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was
83213    said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,
83214    until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that
83215    should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
83216 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
83217    was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth
83218    of hair, and the moon became as blood;
83219 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig
83220    tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
83221    wind.
83222 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled
83223    together; and every mountain and island were moved out of
83224    their places.
83225 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich
83226    men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
83227    bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in
83228    the rocks of the mountains;
83229 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us
83230    from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
83231    wrath of the Lamb:
83232 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able
83233    to stand?

83234 Revelation 7

83235  1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four
83236    corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth,
83237    that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea,
83238    nor on any tree.
83239  2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the
83240    seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the
83241    four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the
83242    sea,
83243  3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,
83244    till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
83245    foreheads.
83246  4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there
83247    were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the
83248    tribes of the children of Israel.
83249  5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
83250    of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad
83251    were sealed twelve thousand.
83252  6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
83253    of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
83254    Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
83255  7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
83256    tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
83257    Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
83258  8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the
83259    tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
83260    Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
83261  9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
83262    could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and
83263    tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed
83264    with white robes, and palms in their hands;
83265 10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God
83266    which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
83267 11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the
83268    elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on
83269    their faces, and worshipped God,
83270 12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and
83271    thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our
83272    God for ever and ever. Amen.
83273 13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these
83274    which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
83275 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me,
83276    These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have
83277    washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the
83278    Lamb.
83279 15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day
83280    and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne
83281    shall dwell among them.
83282 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither
83283    shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
83284 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
83285    them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and
83286    God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

83287 Revelation 8

83288  1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
83289    heaven about the space of half an hour.
83290  2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them
83291    were given seven trumpets.
83292  3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden
83293    censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he
83294    should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden
83295    altar which was before the throne.
83296  4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of
83297    the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
83298  5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the
83299    altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and
83300    thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
83301  6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared
83302    themselves to sound.
83303  7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire
83304    mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the
83305    third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was
83306    burnt up.
83307  8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain
83308    burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of
83309    the sea became blood;
83310  9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and
83311    had life, died; and the third part of the ships were
83312    destroyed.
83313 10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from
83314    heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third
83315    part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
83316 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third
83317    part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the
83318    waters, because they were made bitter.
83319 12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun
83320    was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third
83321    part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened,
83322    and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night
83323    likewise.
83324 13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of
83325    heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the
83326    inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the
83327    trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

83328 Revelation 9

83329  1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven
83330    unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless
83331    pit.
83332  2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out
83333    of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and
83334    the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
83335  3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and
83336    unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have
83337    power.
83338  4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass
83339    of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but
83340    only those men which have not the seal of God in their
83341    foreheads.
83342  5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but
83343    that they should be tormented five months: and their torment
83344    was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
83345  6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it;
83346    and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
83347  7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared
83348    unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like
83349    gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
83350  8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were
83351    as the teeth of lions.
83352  9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron;
83353    and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of
83354    many horses running to battle.
83355 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings
83356    in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
83357 11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the
83358    bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon,
83359    but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
83360 12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more
83361    hereafter.
83362 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four
83363    horns of the golden altar which is before God,
83364 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the
83365    four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
83366 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an
83367    hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the
83368    third part of men.
83369 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred
83370    thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
83371 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on
83372    them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and
83373    brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of
83374    lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and
83375    brimstone.
83376 18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire,
83377    and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of
83378    their mouths.
83379 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for
83380    their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with
83381    them they do hurt.
83382 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues
83383    yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should
83384    not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass,
83385    and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor
83386    walk:
83387 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their
83388    sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

83389 Revelation 10

83390  1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed
83391    with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face
83392    was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
83393  2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his
83394    right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
83395  3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when
83396    he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
83397  4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was
83398    about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
83399    me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and
83400    write them not.
83401  5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the
83402    earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
83403  6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created
83404    heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and
83405    the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which
83406    are therein, that there should be time no longer:
83407  7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he
83408    shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,
83409    as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
83410  8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again,
83411    and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the
83412    hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the
83413    earth.
83414  9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the
83415    little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and
83416    it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth
83417    sweet as honey.
83418 10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it
83419    up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I
83420    had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
83421 11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many
83422    peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

83423 Revelation 11

83424  1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel
83425    stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the
83426    altar, and them that worship therein.
83427  2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and
83428    measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the
83429    holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
83430  3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall
83431    prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed
83432    in sackcloth.
83433  4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks
83434    standing before the God of the earth.
83435  5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their
83436    mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt
83437    them, he must in this manner be killed.
83438  6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days
83439    of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to
83440    blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as
83441    they will.
83442  7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast
83443    that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war
83444    against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
83445  8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great
83446    city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also
83447    our Lord was crucified.
83448  9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
83449    shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall
83450    not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
83451 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them,
83452    and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because
83453    these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
83454 11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God
83455    entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great
83456    fear fell upon them which saw them.
83457 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
83458    Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and
83459    their enemies beheld them.
83460 13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth
83461    part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men
83462    seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave
83463    glory to the God of heaven.
83464 14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh
83465    quickly.
83466 15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in
83467    heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the
83468    kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign
83469    for ever and ever.
83470 16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their
83471    seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
83472 17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art,
83473    and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy
83474    great power, and hast reigned.
83475 18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the
83476    time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou
83477    shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to
83478    the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and
83479    shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
83480 19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen
83481    in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were
83482    lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake,
83483    and great hail.

83484 Revelation 12

83485  1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed
83486    with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a
83487    crown of twelve stars:
83488  2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and
83489    pained to be delivered.
83490  3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a
83491    great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven
83492    crowns upon his heads.
83493  4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and
83494    did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the
83495    woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child
83496    as soon as it was born.
83497  5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations
83498    with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and
83499    to his throne.
83500  6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
83501    prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand
83502    two hundred and threescore days.
83503  7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
83504    against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
83505  8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in
83506    heaven.
83507  9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called
83508    the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was
83509    cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with
83510    him.
83511 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come
83512    salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the
83513    power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast
83514    down, which accused them before our God day and night.
83515 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
83516    word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto
83517    the death.
83518 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe
83519    to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil
83520    is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth
83521    that he hath but a short time.
83522 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
83523    persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
83524 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that
83525    she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she
83526    is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the
83527    face of the serpent.
83528 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after
83529    the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the
83530    flood.
83531 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her
83532    mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of
83533    his mouth.
83534 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war
83535    with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of
83536    God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

83537 Revelation 13

83538  1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up
83539    out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his
83540    horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
83541  2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his
83542    feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of
83543    a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and
83544    great authority.
83545  3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and
83546    his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after
83547    the beast.
83548  4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the
83549    beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto
83550    the beast? who is able to make war with him?
83551  5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and
83552    blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty
83553    and two months.
83554  6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
83555    his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
83556  7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to
83557    overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and
83558    tongues, and nations.
83559  8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose
83560    names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain
83561    from the foundation of the world.
83562  9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
83563 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he
83564    that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
83565    Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
83566 11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he
83567    had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
83568 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,
83569    and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
83570    the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
83571 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down
83572    from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
83573 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of
83574    those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the
83575    beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they
83576    should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a
83577    sword, and did live.
83578 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
83579    that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that
83580    as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be
83581    killed.
83582 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
83583    and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
83584    foreheads:
83585 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,
83586    or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
83587 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the
83588    number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his
83589    number is Six hundred threescore and six.

83590 Revelation 14

83591  1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and
83592    with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his
83593    Father's name written in their foreheads.
83594  2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters,
83595    and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of
83596    harpers harping with their harps:
83597  3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and
83598    before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn
83599    that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which
83600    were redeemed from the earth.
83601  4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are
83602    virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he
83603    goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the
83604    firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
83605  5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without
83606    fault before the throne of God.
83607  6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the
83608    everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the
83609    earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and
83610    people,
83611  7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for
83612    the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made
83613    heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
83614  8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen,
83615    is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink
83616    of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
83617  9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
83618    If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his
83619    mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
83620 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is
83621    poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;
83622    and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
83623    presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
83624 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever:
83625    and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and
83626    his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
83627 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep
83628    the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
83629 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed
83630    are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith
83631    the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their
83632    works do follow them.
83633 14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one
83634    sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden
83635    crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
83636 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud
83637    voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and
83638    reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest
83639    of the earth is ripe.
83640 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the
83641    earth; and the earth was reaped.
83642 17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,
83643    he also having a sharp sickle.
83644 18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power
83645    over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp
83646    sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the
83647    clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully
83648    ripe.
83649 19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and
83650    gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great
83651    winepress of the wrath of God.
83652 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came
83653    out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the
83654    space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

83655 Revelation 15

83656  1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven
83657    angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up
83658    the wrath of God.
83659  2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and
83660    them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his
83661    image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name,
83662    stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
83663  3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the
83664    song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works,
83665    Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of
83666    saints.
83667  4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for
83668    thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship
83669    before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
83670  5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the
83671    tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
83672  6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven
83673    plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their
83674    breasts girded with golden girdles.
83675  7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven
83676    golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and
83677    ever.
83678  8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God,
83679    and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the
83680    temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were
83681    fulfilled.

83682 Revelation 16

83683  1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the
83684    seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the
83685    wrath of God upon the earth.
83686  2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
83687    and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which
83688    had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his
83689    image.
83690  3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it
83691    became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died
83692    in the sea.
83693  4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and
83694    fountains of waters; and they became blood.
83695  5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O
83696    Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast
83697    judged thus.
83698  6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou
83699    hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
83700  7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God
83701    Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
83702  8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and
83703    power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
83704  9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name
83705    of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented
83706    not to give him glory.
83707 10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the
83708    beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed
83709    their tongues for pain,
83710 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and
83711    their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
83712 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river
83713    Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of
83714    the kings of the east might be prepared.
83715 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the
83716    mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and
83717    out of the mouth of the false prophet.
83718 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
83719    forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
83720    gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
83721 15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and
83722    keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his
83723    shame.
83724 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the
83725    Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
83726 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and
83727    there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the
83728    throne, saying, It is done.
83729 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there
83730    was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon
83731    the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
83732 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the
83733    cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in
83734    remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine
83735    of the fierceness of his wrath.
83736 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
83737 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every
83738    stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God
83739    because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was
83740    exceeding great.

83741 Revelation 17

83742  1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven
83743    vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will
83744    shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth
83745    upon many waters:
83746  2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
83747    and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the
83748    wine of her fornication.
83749  3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I
83750    saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names
83751    of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
83752  4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and
83753    decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a
83754    golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of
83755    her fornication:
83756  5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE
83757    GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
83758  6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and
83759    with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I
83760    wondered with great admiration.
83761  7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I
83762    will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that
83763    carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
83764  8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend
83765    out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they
83766    that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not
83767    written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,
83768    when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
83769  9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are
83770    seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
83771 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and
83772    the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must
83773    continue a short space.
83774 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and
83775    is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
83776 12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
83777    received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one
83778    hour with the beast.
83779 13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength
83780    unto the beast.
83781 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
83782    overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and
83783    they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
83784 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the
83785    whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and
83786    tongues.
83787 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these
83788    shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked,
83789    and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
83790 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to
83791    agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words
83792    of God shall be fulfilled.
83793 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which
83794    reigneth over the kings of the earth.

83795 Revelation 18

83796  1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from
83797    heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with
83798    his glory.
83799  2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the
83800    great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of
83801    devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
83802    unclean and hateful bird.
83803  3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
83804    fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed
83805    fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed
83806    rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
83807  4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of
83808    her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that
83809    ye receive not of her plagues.
83810  5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered
83811    her iniquities.
83812  6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her
83813    double according to her works: in the cup which she hath
83814    filled fill to her double.
83815  7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so
83816    much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart,
83817    I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
83818  8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and
83819    mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with
83820    fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
83821  9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and
83822    lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for
83823    her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
83824 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas,
83825    alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one
83826    hour is thy judgment come.
83827 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her;
83828    for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
83829 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and
83830    of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet,
83831    and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all
83832    manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron,
83833    and marble,
83834 13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and
83835    wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and
83836    sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
83837 14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from
83838    thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed
83839    from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
83840 15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
83841    shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and
83842    wailing,
83843 16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in
83844    fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and
83845    precious stones, and pearls!
83846 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every
83847    shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as
83848    many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
83849 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What
83850    city is like unto this great city!
83851 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and
83852    wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made
83853    rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her
83854    costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
83855 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and
83856    prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
83857 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and
83858    cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that
83859    great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more
83860    at all.
83861 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and
83862    trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no
83863    craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more
83864    in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more
83865    at all in thee;
83866 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;
83867    and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be
83868    heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great
83869    men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations
83870    deceived.
83871 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and
83872    of all that were slain upon the earth.

83873 Revelation 19

83874  1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in
83875    heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour,
83876    and power, unto the Lord our God:
83877  2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged
83878    the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her
83879    fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her
83880    hand.
83881  3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever
83882    and ever.
83883  4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down
83884    and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen;
83885    Alleluia.
83886  5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God,
83887    all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and
83888    great.
83889  6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as
83890    the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty
83891    thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent
83892    reigneth.
83893  7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the
83894    marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself
83895    ready.
83896  8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine
83897    linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the
83898    righteousness of saints.
83899  9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called
83900    unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me,
83901    These are the true sayings of God.
83902 10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me,
83903    See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy
83904    brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for
83905    the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
83906 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that
83907    sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in
83908    righteousness he doth judge and make war.
83909 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
83910    crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he
83911    himself.
83912 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his
83913    name is called The Word of God.
83914 14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
83915    horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
83916 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
83917    should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of
83918    iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and
83919    wrath of Almighty God.
83920 16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
83921    KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
83922 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a
83923    loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of
83924    heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of
83925    the great God;
83926 18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains,
83927    and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of
83928    them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and
83929    bond, both small and great.
83930 19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their
83931    armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on
83932    the horse, and against his army.
83933 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
83934    wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that
83935    had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped
83936    his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire
83937    burning with brimstone.
83938 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon
83939    the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the
83940    fowls were filled with their flesh.

83941 Revelation 20

83942  1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of
83943    the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
83944  2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the
83945    Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
83946  3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set
83947    a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more,
83948    till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he
83949    must be loosed a little season.
83950  4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
83951    given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were
83952    beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God,
83953    and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
83954    neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in
83955    their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand
83956    years.
83957  5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand
83958    years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
83959  6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first
83960    resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they
83961    shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with
83962    him a thousand years.
83963  7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed
83964    out of his prison,
83965  8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
83966    quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together
83967    to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
83968  9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed
83969    the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire
83970    came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
83971 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of
83972    fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are,
83973    and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
83974 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from
83975    whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was
83976    found no place for them.
83977 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
83978    books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the
83979    book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things
83980    which were written in the books, according to their works.
83981 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
83982    hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were
83983    judged every man according to their works.
83984 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is
83985    the second death.
83986 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
83987    cast into the lake of fire.

83988 Revelation 21

83989  1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven
83990    and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more
83991    sea.
83992  2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
83993    God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
83994    husband.
83995  3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
83996    tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them,
83997    and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
83998    them, and be their God.
83999  4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
84000    shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
84001    shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
84002    away.
84003  5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all
84004    things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are
84005    true and faithful.
84006  6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
84007    beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of
84008    the fountain of the water of life freely.
84009  7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his
84010    God, and he shall be my son.
84011  8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
84012    murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
84013    all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth
84014    with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
84015  9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the
84016    seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with
84017    me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the
84018    Lamb's wife.
84019 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
84020    mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
84021    descending out of heaven from God,
84022 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone
84023    most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
84024 12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at
84025    the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are
84026    the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
84027 13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the
84028    south three gates; and on the west three gates.
84029 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them
84030    the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
84031 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the
84032    city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
84033 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as
84034    the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve
84035    thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height
84036    of it are equal.
84037 17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and
84038    four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of
84039    the angel.
84040 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city
84041    was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
84042 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished
84043    with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was
84044    jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the
84045    fourth, an emerald;
84046 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
84047    chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth,
84048    a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an
84049    amethyst.
84050 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate
84051    was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as
84052    it were transparent glass.
84053 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the
84054    Lamb are the temple of it.
84055 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
84056    shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb
84057    is the light thereof.
84058 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the
84059    light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory
84060    and honour into it.
84061 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there
84062    shall be no night there.
84063 26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into
84064    it.
84065 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that
84066    defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a
84067    lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

84068 Revelation 22

84069  1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as
84070    crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
84071  2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
84072    river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of
84073    fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of
84074    the tree were for the healing of the nations.
84075  3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of
84076    the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
84077  4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their
84078    foreheads.
84079  5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
84080    neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light:
84081    and they shall reign for ever and ever.
84082  6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and
84083    the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto
84084    his servants the things which must shortly be done.
84085  7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings
84086    of the prophecy of this book.
84087  8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had
84088    heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the
84089    angel which shewed me these things.
84090  9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy
84091    fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them
84092    which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
84093 10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
84094    this book: for the time is at hand.
84095 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is
84096    filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let
84097    him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy
84098    still.
84099 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
84100    every man according as his work shall be.
84101 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
84102    the last.
84103 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have
84104    right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
84105    into the city.
84106 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
84107    murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a
84108    lie.
84109 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things
84110    in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and
84111    the bright and morning star.
84112 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that
84113    heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And
84114    whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
84115 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
84116    prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things,
84117    God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this
84118    book:
84119 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of
84120    this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of
84121    life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are
84122    written in this book.
84123 20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly.
84124    Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
84125 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.