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Romans 2421
II Corinthians 2486
Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . 2421
Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . 2423 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . 2486
Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . 2426 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . 2488
Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . 2427 Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . 2489
Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . 2429 Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . 2490
Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . 2431
Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . 2492
Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . 2433
Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . 2435 Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . 2493
Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . 2437 Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . 2495
Chapter 10 . . . . . . . . 2440 Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . 2496
Chapter 11 . . . . . . . . 2441 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . 2498
Chapter 12 . . . . . . . . 2444
Chapter 10 . . . . . . . . 2499
Chapter 13 . . . . . . . . 2446
Chapter 14 . . . . . . . . 2447 Chapter 11 . . . . . . . . 2501
Chapter 15 . . . . . . . . 2449 Chapter 12 . . . . . . . . 2503
Chapter 16 . . . . . . . . 2451 Chapter 13 . . . . . . . . 2505
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Old Testament
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Genesis
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GENESIS 21
tree yielding fruit after his and over the night, and to di-
kind, whose seed is in itself, vide the light from the dark-
upon the earth: and it was ness: and God saw that it
so. 12 And the earth brought was good. 19 And the evening
forth grass, and herb yield- and the morning were the
ing seed after his kind, and fourth day. 20 And God said,
the tree yielding fruit, whose Let the waters bring forth
seed was in itself, after his abundantly the moving crea-
kind: and God saw that it ture that hath life, and fowl
was good. 13 And the evening that may fly above the earth
and the morning were the in the open firmament of
third day. 14 And God said, heaven. 21 And God created
Let there be lights in the fir- great whales, and every liv-
mament of the heaven to di- ing creature that moveth,
vide the day from the night; which the waters brought
and let them be for signs, forth abundantly, after their
and for seasons, and for days, kind, and every winged fowl
and years: 15 And let them after his kind: and God saw
be for lights in the firma- that it was good. 22 And
ment of the heaven to give God blessed them, saying,
light upon the earth: and it Be fruitful, and multiply, and
was so. 16 And God made fill the waters in the seas,
two great lights; the greater and let fowl multiply in the
light to rule the day, and earth. 23 And the evening
the lesser light to rule the and the morning were the
night: he made the stars fifth day. 24 And God said,
GENESIS 22
Let the earth bring forth the of the sea, and over the fowl
living creature after his kind, of the air, and over every liv-
cattle, and creeping thing, ing thing that moveth upon
and beast of the earth af- the earth. 29 And God said,
ter his kind: and it was so. Behold, I have given you ev-
25 And God made the beast ery herb bearing seed, which
of the earth after his kind, is upon the face of all the
and cattle after their kind, earth, and every tree, in the
and every thing that creep- which is the fruit of a tree
eth upon the earth after his yielding seed; to you it shall
kind: and God saw that it be for meat. 30 And to every
was good. 26 And God said, beast of the earth, and to ev-
Let us make man in our im- ery fowl of the air, and to ev-
age, after our likeness: and ery thing that creepeth upon
let them have dominion over the earth, wherein there is
the fish of the sea, and over life, I have given every green
the fowl of the air, and over herb for meat: and it was so.
the cattle, and over all the 31 And God saw every thing
earth, and over every creep- that he had made, and, be-
ing thing that creepeth upon hold, it was very good. And
the earth. 27 So God created the evening and the morning
man in his own image, in were the sixth day.
the image of God created he
him; male and female cre-
ated he them. 28 And God Chapter 2
blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and Thus the heavens and the
multiply, and replenish the earth were finished, and all
earth, and subdue it: and the host of them. 2 And on
have dominion over the fish the seventh day God ended
his work which he had made;
GENESIS 23
help meet for him. 19 And his father and his mother,
out of the ground the Lord and shall cleave unto his wife:
God formed every beast of and they shall be one flesh.
the field, and every fowl of 25 And they were both naked,
the air; and brought them the man and his wife, and
unto Adam to see what he were not ashamed.
would call them: and what-
soever Adam called every liv-
ing creature, that was the Chapter 3
name thereof. 20 And Adam
gave names to all cattle, and Now the serpent was more
to the fowl of the air, and subtil than any beast of the
to every beast of the field; field which the Lord God
but for Adam there was not had made. And he said unto
found an help meet for him. the woman, Yea, hath God
21 And the Lord God caused said, Ye shall not eat of ev-
ery tree of the garden? 2 And
GENESIS 25
the woman said unto the ser- voice of the Lord God walk-
pent, We may eat of the ing in the garden in the cool
fruit of the trees of the gar- of the day: and Adam and
den: 3 But of the fruit of the his wife hid themselves from
tree which is in the midst of the presence of the Lord
the garden, God hath said, God amongst the trees of the
Ye shall not eat of it, nei- garden. 9 And the Lord God
ther shall ye touch it, lest ye called unto Adam, and said
die. 4 And the serpent said unto him, Where art thou?
unto the woman, Ye shall not 10 And he said, I heard thy
surely die: 5 For God doth voice in the garden, and I was
know that in the day ye eat afraid, because I was naked;
thereof, then your eyes shall and I hid myself. 11 And
be opened, and ye shall be he said, Who told thee that
as gods, knowing good and thou wast naked? Hast thou
evil. 6 And when the woman eaten of the tree, whereof I
saw that the tree was good commanded thee that thou
for food, and that it was shouldest not eat? 12 And
pleasant to the eyes, and a the man said, The woman
tree to be desired to make whom thou gavest to be with
one wise, she took of the me, she gave me of the tree,
fruit thereof, and did eat, and I did eat. 13 And the
and gave also unto her hus- Lord God said unto the
band with her; and he did woman, What is this that
eat. 7 And the eyes of them thou hast done? And the
both were opened, and they woman said, The serpent be-
knew that they were naked; guiled me, and I did eat.
and they sewed fig leaves to- 14 And the Lord God said
cursed above all cattle, and of thy face shalt thou eat
above every beast of the field; bread, till thou return unto
upon thy belly shalt thou go, the ground; for out of it wast
and dust shalt thou eat all thou taken: for dust thou
the days of thy life: 15 And I art, and unto dust shalt thou
will put enmity between thee return. 20 And Adam called
and the woman, and between his wife’s name Eve; because
thy seed and her seed; it shall she was the mother of all liv-
bruise thy head, and thou ing. 21 Unto Adam also and
shalt bruise his heel. 16 Unto to his wife did the Lord
the woman he said, I will God make coats of skins, and
greatly multiply thy sorrow clothed them. 22 And the
and thy conception; in sor- Lord God said, Behold, the
row thou shalt bring forth man is become as one of us,
children; and thy desire shall to know good and evil: and
be to thy husband, and he now, lest he put forth his
shall rule over thee. 17 And hand, and take also of the
unto Adam he said, Because tree of life, and eat, and
thou hast hearkened unto the live for ever: 23 Therefore the
voice of thy wife, and hast Lord God sent him forth
eaten of the tree, of which from the garden of Eden, to
I commanded thee, saying, till the ground from whence
Thou shalt not eat of it: he was taken. 24 So he drove
cursed is the ground for thy out the man; and he placed
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat at the east of the garden of
of it all the days of thy life; Eden Cherubims, and a flam-
18 Thorns also and thistles ing sword which turned every
shall it bring forth to thee; way, to keep the way of the
and thou shalt eat the herb tree of life.
of the field; 19 In the sweat
GENESIS 27
from thy face shall I be hid; Adah bare Jabal: he was the
and I shall be a fugitive and a father of such as dwell in
vagabond in the earth; and it tents, and of such as have
shall come to pass, that every cattle. 21 And his brother’s
one that findeth me shall slay name was Jubal: he was the
me. 15 And the Lord said father of all such as handle
unto him, Therefore whoso- the harp and organ. 22 And
ever slayeth Cain, vengeance Zillah, she also bare Tubal-
shall be taken on him sev- cain, an instructer of every
enfold. And the Lord set artificer in brass and iron:
a mark upon Cain, lest any and the sister of Tubalcain
finding him should kill him. was Naamah. 23 And Lamech
16 And Cain went out from said unto his wives, Adah
the presence of the Lord, and Zillah, Hear my voice;
and dwelt in the land of Nod, ye wives of Lamech, hearken
on the east of Eden. 17 And unto my speech: for I have
Cain knew his wife; and she slain a man to my wound-
conceived, and bare Enoch: ing, and a young man to
and he builded a city, and my hurt. 24 If Cain shall
called the name of the city, be avenged sevenfold, truly
after the name of his son, Lamech seventy and seven-
Enoch. 18 And unto Enoch fold. 25 And Adam knew
was born Irad: and Irad be- his wife again; and she bare
gat Mehujael: and Mehu- a son, and called his name
jael begat Methusael: and Seth: For God, said she,
Methusael begat Lamech. hath appointed me another
19 And Lamech took unto him seed instead of Abel, whom
two wives: the name of the Cain slew. 26 And to Seth,
one was Adah, and the name to him also there was born a
of the other Zillah. 20 And son; and he called his name
GENESIS 29
Enos: then began men to call sons and daughters: 8 And all
upon the name of the Lord. the days of Seth were nine
hundred and twelve years:
and he died. 9 And Enos
Chapter 5 lived ninety years, and begat
Cainan: 10 And Enos lived
This is the book of the gen- after he begat Cainan eight
erations of Adam. In the hundred and fifteen years,
day that God created man, and begat sons and daugh-
in the likeness of God made ters: 11 And all the days
he him; 2 Male and female of Enos were nine hundred
created he them; and blessed and five years: and he died.
them, and called their name 12 And Cainan lived seventy
that they were fair; and they the fowls of the air; for it
took them wives of all which repenteth me that I have
they chose. 3 And the Lord made them. 8 But Noah
of men, and they bare chil- rupt before God, and the
dren to them, the same be- earth was filled with vio-
came mighty men which were lence. 12 And God looked
of old, men of renown. 5 And upon the earth, and, be-
God saw that the wicked- hold, it was corrupt; for
ness of man was great in the all flesh had corrupted his
earth, and that every imag- way upon the earth. 13 And
ination of the thoughts of God said unto Noah, The
his heart was only evil con- end of all flesh is come be-
tinually. 6 And it repented fore me; for the earth is
the Lord that he had made filled with violence through
man on the earth, and it them; and, behold, I will de-
grieved him at his heart. stroy them with the earth.
7 And the Lord said, I will 14 Make thee an ark of go-
the fashion which thou shalt their kind, and of cattle after
make it of : The length of their kind, of every creep-
the ark shall be three hun- ing thing of the earth after
dred cubits, the breadth of it his kind, two of every sort
fifty cubits, and the height of shall come unto thee, to keep
it thirty cubits. 16 A window them alive. 21 And take thou
shalt thou make to the ark, unto thee of all food that is
and in a cubit shalt thou fin- eaten, and thou shalt gather
ish it above; and the door of it to thee; and it shall be for
the ark shalt thou set in the food for thee, and for them.
side thereof; with lower, sec- 22 Thus did Noah; according
it came to pass after seven went in, went in male and fe-
days, that the waters of the male of all flesh, as God had
flood were upon the earth. commanded him: and the
11 In the six hundredth year Lord shut him in. 17 And
of Noah’s life, in the second the flood was forty days upon
GENESIS 34
the earth; and the waters heaven; and they were de-
increased, and bare up the stroyed from the earth: and
ark, and it was lift up above Noah only remained alive,
the earth. 18 And the waters and they that were with him
prevailed, and were increased in the ark. 24 And the waters
greatly upon the earth; and prevailed upon the earth an
the ark went upon the face hundred and fifty days.
of the waters. 19 And the
waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth; and all the Chapter 8
high hills, that were under
the whole heaven, were cov- And God remembered Noah,
ered. 20 Fifteen cubits up- and every living thing, and
ward did the waters prevail; all the cattle that was with
and the mountains were cov- him in the ark: and God
ered. 21 And all flesh died made a wind to pass over
that moved upon the earth, the earth, and the waters as-
both of fowl, and of cattle, swaged; 2 The fountains also
and of beast, and of every of the deep and the win-
creeping thing that creepeth dows of heaven were stopped,
upon the earth, and every and the rain from heaven
man: 22 All in whose nos- was restrained; 3 And the wa-
trils was the breath of life, ters returned from off the
of all that was in the dry earth continually: and af-
land, died. 23 And every liv- ter the end of the hundred
ing substance was destroyed and fifty days the waters
which was upon the face were abated. 4 And the ark
of the ground, both man, rested in the seventh month,
and cattle, and the creeping on the seventeenth day of
things, and the fowl of the the month, upon the moun-
tains of Ararat. 5 And the
GENESIS 35
ery beast of the earth with cloud; and I will look upon
you; from all that go out of it, that I may remember the
the ark, to every beast of the everlasting covenant between
earth. 11 And I will estab- God and every living crea-
lish my covenant with you; ture of all flesh that is upon
neither shall all flesh be cut the earth. 17 And God said
off any more by the waters unto Noah, This is the to-
of a flood; neither shall there ken of the covenant, which I
any more be a flood to de- have established between me
stroy the earth. 12 And God and all flesh that is upon
said, This is the token of the the earth. 18 And the sons of
covenant which I make be- Noah, that went forth of the
tween me and you and ev- ark, were Shem, and Ham,
ery living creature that is and Japheth: and Ham is the
with you, for perpetual gen- father of Canaan. 19 These
erations: 13 I do set my bow are the three sons of Noah:
GENESIS 38
gin to do: and now noth- gat Salah four hundred and
ing will be restrained from three years, and begat sons
them, which they have imag- and daughters. 14 And Salah
ined to do. 7 Go to, let lived thirty years, and begat
us go down, and there con- Eber: 15 And Salah lived af-
found their language, that ter he begat Eber four hun-
they may not understand one dred and three years, and
another’s speech. 8 So the begat sons and daughters.
Lord scattered them abroad 16 And Eber lived four and
from thence upon the face of thirty years, and begat Pe-
all the earth: and they left off leg: 17 And Eber lived after
to build the city. 9 Therefore he begat Peleg four hundred
is the name of it called Ba- and thirty years, and begat
bel; because the Lord did sons and daughters. 18 And
there confound the language Peleg lived thirty years, and
of all the earth: and from begat Reu: 19 And Peleg
thence did the Lord scat- lived after he begat Reu
ter them abroad upon the two hundred and nine years,
face of all the earth. 10 These and begat sons and daugh-
are the generations of Shem: ters. 20 And Reu lived two
Shem was an hundred years and thirty years, and be-
old, and begat Arphaxad gat Serug: 21 And Reu lived
two years after the flood: after he begat Serug two
11 And Shem lived after he hundred and seven years,
begat Arphaxad five hundred and begat sons and daugh-
years, and begat sons and ters. 22 And Serug lived
men and thy herdmen; for unto Abram, after that Lot
we be brethren. 9 Is not the was separated from him, Lift
whole land before thee? sep- up now thine eyes, and look
arate thyself, I pray thee, from the place where thou
from me: if thou wilt take art northward, and south-
the left hand, then I will go ward, and eastward, and
to the right; or if thou de- westward: 15 For all the land
part to the right hand, then which thou seest, to thee will
I will go to the left. 10 And I give it, and to thy seed for
Lot lifted up his eyes, and be- ever. 16 And I will make thy
held all the plain of Jordan, seed as the dust of the earth:
that it was well watered ev- so that if a man can number
ery where, before the Lord the dust of the earth, then
destroyed Sodom and Go- shall thy seed also be num-
morrah, even as the garden bered. 17 Arise, walk through
of the Lord, like the land the land in the length of it
of Egypt, as thou comest and in the breadth of it; for I
unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose will give it unto thee. 18 Then
him all the plain of Jor- Abram removed his tent, and
dan; and Lot journeyed east: came and dwelt in the plain
and they separated them- of Mamre, which is in He-
selves the one from the other. bron, and built there an altar
12 Abram dwelled in the land unto the Lord.
of Canaan, and Lot dwelled
in the cities of the plain,
and pitched his tent toward Chapter 14
Sodom. 13 But the men of
Sodom were wicked and sin- And it came to pass in the
ners before the Lord exceed- days of Amraphel king of
ingly. 14 And the Lord said Shinar, Arioch king of El-
lasar, Chedorlaomer king of
GENESIS 46
Elam, and Tidal king of na- went out the king of Sodom,
tions; 2 That these made war and the king of Gomorrah,
with Bera king of Sodom, and the king of Admah, and
and with Birsha king of the king of Zeboiim, and the
Gomorrah, Shinab king of king of Bela (the same is
Admah, and Shemeber king Zoar;) and they joined bat-
of Zeboiim, and the king of tle with them in the vale
Bela, which is Zoar. 3 All of Siddim; 9 With Chedor-
these were joined together in laomer the king of Elam, and
the vale of Siddim, which is with Tidal king of nations,
the salt sea. 4 Twelve years and Amraphel king of Shi-
they served Chedorlaomer, nar, and Arioch king of El-
and in the thirteenth year lasar; four kings with five.
they rebelled. 5 And in the 10 And the vale of Siddim
given my maid into thy bo- art with child, and shalt bear
som; and when she saw that a son, and shalt call his
she had conceived, I was de- name Ishmael; because the
spised in her eyes: the Lord Lord hath heard thy afflic-
judge between me and thee. tion. 12 And he will be a
6 But Abram said unto Sarai, wild man; his hand will be
Behold, thy maid is in thy against every man, and ev-
hand; do to her as it pleaseth ery man’s hand against him;
thee. And when Sarai dealt and he shall dwell in the
hardly with her, she fled from presence of all his brethren.
her face. 7 And the angel 13 And she called the name
der her hands. 10 And the and six years old, when Ha-
angel of the Lord said unto gar bare Ishmael to Abram.
her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not
be numbered for multitude. Chapter 17
11 And the angel of the Lord
said unto her, Behold, thou And when Abram was ninety
years old and nine, the Lord
GENESIS 51
wife shall bear thee a son in- years old and nine, when he
deed; and thou shalt call his was circumcised in the flesh
name Isaac: and I will estab- of his foreskin. 25 And Ish-
lish my covenant with him mael his son was thirteen
GENESIS 53
years old, when he was cir- under the tree: 5 And I will
cumcised in the flesh of his fetch a morsel of bread, and
foreskin. 26 In the selfsame comfort ye your hearts; af-
day was Abraham circum- ter that ye shall pass on: for
cised, and Ishmael his son. therefore are ye come to your
27 And all the men of his servant. And they said, So
house, born in the house, do, as thou hast said. 6 And
and bought with money of Abraham hastened into the
the stranger, were circum- tent unto Sarah, and said,
cised with him. Make ready quickly three
measures of fine meal, knead
it, and make cakes upon the
Chapter 18 hearth. 7 And Abraham ran
unto the herd, and fetcht a
And the Lord appeared calf tender and good, and
unto him in the plains of gave it unto a young man;
Mamre: and he sat in the and he hasted to dress it.
tent door in the heat of the 8 And he took butter, and
day; 2 And he lift up his eyes milk, and the calf which he
and looked, and, lo, three had dressed, and set it before
men stood by him: and when them; and he stood by them
he saw them, he ran to meet under the tree, and they did
them from the tent door, and eat. 9 And they said unto
bowed himself toward the him, Where is Sarah thy
ground, 3 And said, My Lord, wife? And he said, Behold,
if now I have found favour in in the tent. 10 And he said,
thy sight, pass not away, I I will certainly return unto
pray thee, from thy servant: thee according to the time
4 Let a little water, I pray
of life; and, lo, Sarah thy
you, be fetched, and wash wife shall have a son. And
your feet, and rest yourselves
GENESIS 54
of life, and Sarah shall have see whether they have done
a son. 15 Then Sarah denied, altogether according to the
saying, I laughed not; for she cry of it, which is come
was afraid. And he said, unto me; and if not, I will
Nay; but thou didst laugh. know. 22 And the men turned
16 And the men rose up from their faces from thence, and
thence, and looked toward went toward Sodom: but
Sodom: and Abraham went Abraham stood yet before
with them to bring them on the Lord. 23 And Abra-
the way. 17 And the Lord ham drew near, and said,
said, Shall I hide from Abra- Wilt thou also destroy the
GENESIS 55
the city, bring them out of they had brought them forth
this place: 13 For we will de- abroad, that he said, Escape
stroy this place, because the for thy life; look not be-
cry of them is waxen great hind thee, neither stay thou
before the face of the Lord; in all the plain; escape to
and the Lord hath sent us the mountain, lest thou be
to destroy it. 14 And Lot consumed. 18 And Lot said
went out, and spake unto his unto them, Oh, not so, my
sons in law, which married Lord: 19 Behold now, thy ser-
his daughters, and said, Up, vant hath found grace in thy
get you out of this place; for sight, and thou hast magni-
the Lord will destroy this fied thy mercy, which thou
city. But he seemed as one hast shewed unto me in sav-
that mocked unto his sons in ing my life; and I cannot es-
law. 15 And when the morn- cape to the mountain, lest
ing arose, then the angels some evil take me, and I die:
hastened Lot, saying, Arise, 20 Behold now, this city is
take thy wife, and thy two near to flee unto, and it is
daughters, which are here; a little one: Oh, let me es-
lest thou be consumed in the cape thither, (is it not a lit-
iniquity of the city. 16 And tle one?) and my soul shall
GENESIS 58
live. 21 And he said unto him, the plain, and beheld, and,
See, I have accepted thee lo, the smoke of the coun-
concerning this thing also, try went up as the smoke of
that I will not overthrow this a furnace. 29 And it came
city, for the which thou hast to pass, when God destroyed
spoken. 22 Haste thee, es- the cities of the plain, that
cape thither; for I cannot God remembered Abraham,
do any thing till thou be and sent Lot out of the midst
come thither. Therefore the of the overthrow, when he
name of the city was called overthrew the cities in the
Zoar. 23 The sun was risen which Lot dwelt. 30 And
upon the earth when Lot en- Lot went up out of Zoar,
tered into Zoar. 24 Then the and dwelt in the mountain,
Lord rained upon Sodom and his two daughters with
and upon Gomorrah brim- him; for he feared to dwell
stone and fire from the Lord in Zoar: and he dwelt in a
out of heaven; 25 And he over- cave, he and his two daugh-
threw those cities, and all ters. 31 And the firstborn said
the plain, and all the inhab- unto the younger, Our father
itants of the cities, and that is old, and there is not a
which grew upon the ground. man in the earth to come in
26 But his wife looked back unto us after the manner of
from behind him, and she be- all the earth: 32 Come, let us
came a pillar of salt. 27 And make our father drink wine,
Abraham gat up early in and we will lie with him,
the morning to the place that we may preserve seed
where he stood before the of our father. 33 And they
Lord: 28 And he looked to- made their father drink wine
ward Sodom and Gomorrah, that night: and the first-
and toward all the land of born went in, and lay with
GENESIS 59
prayed unto God: and God that hear will laugh with me.
healed Abimelech, and his 7 And she said, Who would
lift up the lad, and hold him swear. 25 And Abraham re-
GENESIS 63
offering, and rose up, and ham built an altar there, and
went unto the place of which laid the wood in order, and
God had told him. 4 Then bound Isaac his son, and
on the third day Abraham laid him on the altar upon
lifted up his eyes, and saw the wood. 10 And Abraham
the place afar off. 5 And stretched forth his hand, and
Abraham said unto his young took the knife to slay his
men, Abide ye here with the son. 11 And the angel of the
ass; and I and the lad will Lord called unto him out of
go yonder and worship, and heaven, and said, Abraham,
come again to you. 6 And Abraham: and he said, Here
Abraham took the wood of am I. 12 And he said, Lay
the burnt offering, and laid not thine hand upon the lad,
it upon Isaac his son; and he neither do thou any thing
took the fire in his hand, and unto him: for now I know
a knife; and they went both that thou fearest God, seeing
of them together. 7 And Isaac thou hast not withheld thy
spake unto Abraham his fa- son, thine only son from me.
ther, and said, My father: 13 And Abraham lifted up his
angel before thee, and thou the well of water; and the
shalt take a wife unto my daughters of the men of the
son from thence. 8 And if city come out to draw water:
the woman will not be will- 14 And let it come to pass,
filled her pitcher, and came art thou? tell me, I pray
up. 17 And the servant ran thee: is there room in thy fa-
to meet her, and said, Let ther’s house for us to lodge
me, I pray thee, drink a little in? 24 And she said unto
water of thy pitcher. 18 And him, I am the daughter of
she said, Drink, my lord: Bethuel the son of Milcah,
and she hasted, and let down which she bare unto Nahor.
her pitcher upon her hand, 25 She said moreover unto
had made his journey pros- the damsel ran, and told
perous or not. 22 And it them of her mother’s house
came to pass, as the camels these things. 29 And Re-
had done drinking, that the bekah had a brother, and his
man took a golden earring name was Laban: and Laban
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ran out unto the man, unto and he is become great: and
the well. 30 And it came to he hath given him flocks, and
pass, when he saw the ear- herds, and silver, and gold,
ring and bracelets upon his and menservants, and maid-
sister’s hands, and when he servants, and camels, and
heard the words of Rebekah asses. 36 And Sarah my mas-
his sister, saying, Thus spake ter’s wife bare a son to my
the man unto me; that he master when she was old:
came unto the man; and, be- and unto him hath he given
hold, he stood by the camels all that he hath. 37 And my
at the well. 31 And he said, master made me swear, say-
Come in, thou blessed of ing, Thou shalt not take a
the Lord; wherefore stand- wife to my son of the daugh-
est thou without? for I ters of the Canaanites, in
have prepared the house, and whose land I dwell: 38 But
room for the camels. 32 And thou shalt go unto my fa-
the man came into the house: ther’s house, and to my kin-
and he ungirded his camels, dred, and take a wife unto
and gave straw and proven- my son. 39 And I said unto
der for the camels, and wa- my master, Peradventure the
ter to wash his feet, and the woman will not follow me.
men’s feet that were with 40 And he said unto me, The
thee, take her, and go, and will call the damsel, and en-
let her be thy master’s son’s quire at her mouth. 58 And
wife, as the Lord hath spo- they called Rebekah, and
ken. 52 And it came to pass, said unto her, Wilt thou go
that, when Abraham’s ser- with this man? And she
vant heard their words, he said, I will go. 59 And they
worshipped the Lord, bow- sent away Rebekah their sis-
ing himself to the earth. ter, and her nurse, and Abra-
53 And the servant brought ham’s servant, and his men.
forth jewels of silver, and 60 And they blessed Rebekah,
and when she saw Isaac, she mim. 4 And the sons of Mid-
lighted off the camel. 65 For ian; Ephah, and Epher, and
she had said unto the ser- Hanoch, and Abida, and El-
vant, What man is this that daah. All these were the
walketh in the field to meet children of Keturah. 5 And
us? And the servant had Abraham gave all that he
said, It is my master: there- had unto Isaac. 6 But unto
fore she took a vail, and cov- the sons of the concubines,
ered herself. 66 And the ser- which Abraham had, Abra-
vant told Isaac all things that ham gave gifts, and sent
he had done. 67 And Isaac them away from Isaac his
brought her into his mother son, while he yet lived, east-
Sarah’s tent, and took Re- ward, unto the east country.
bekah, and she became his 7 And these are the days of
out red, all over like an hairy Swear to me this day; and
garment; and they called his he sware unto him: and he
name Esau. 26 And after that sold his birthright unto Ja-
came his brother out, and cob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau
his hand took hold on Esau’s bread and pottage of lentiles;
heel; and his name was and he did eat and drink,
called Jacob: and Isaac was and rose up, and went his
threescore years old when way: thus Esau despised his
she bare them. 27 And the birthright.
boys grew: and Esau was
a cunning hunter, a man of
the field; and Jacob was a Chapter 26
plain man, dwelling in tents.
28 And Isaac loved Esau, be- And there was a famine in
cause he did eat of his veni- the land, beside the first
son: but Rebekah loved Ja- famine that was in the days
cob. 29 And Jacob sod pot- of Abraham. And Isaac
tage: and Esau came from went unto Abimelech king of
the field, and he was faint: the Philistines unto Gerar.
30 And Esau said to Jacob, 2 And the Lord appeared
Feed me, I pray thee, with unto him, and said, Go not
that same red pottage; for I down into Egypt; dwell in
am faint: therefore was his the land which I shall tell
name called Edom. 31 And thee of: 3 Sojourn in this
Jacob said, Sell me this day land, and I will be with thee,
and will bless thee; for unto
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fore I die. 5 And Rebekah ture will feel me, and I shall
heard when Isaac spake to seem to him as a deceiver;
Esau his son. And Esau and I shall bring a curse
went to the field to hunt upon me, and not a bless-
for venison, and to bring ing. 13 And his mother said
it. 6 And Rebekah spake unto him, Upon me be thy
unto Jacob her son, saying, curse, my son: only obey
Behold, I heard thy father my voice, and go fetch me
speak unto Esau thy brother, them. 14 And he went, and
saying, 7 Bring me venison, fetched, and brought them to
and make me savoury meat, his mother: and his mother
that I may eat, and bless thee made savoury meat, such as
before the Lord before my his father loved. 15 And Re-
death. 8 Now therefore, my bekah took goodly raiment of
son, obey my voice accord- her eldest son Esau, which
ing to that which I command were with her in the house,
thee. 9 Go now to the flock, and put them upon Jacob
and fetch me from thence her younger son: 16 And she
two good kids of the goats; put the skins of the kids of
and I will make them savoury the goats upon his hands,
meat for thy father, such and upon the smooth of his
as he loveth: 10 And thou neck: 17 And she gave the
shalt bring it to thy father, savoury meat and the bread,
that he may eat, and that which she had prepared, into
he may bless thee before his the hand of her son Jacob.
death. 11 And Jacob said to 18 And he came unto his fa-
bring thee again into this this stone, which I have set
land; for I will not leave thee, for a pillar, shall be God’s
until I have done that which house: and of all that thou
I have spoken to thee of. shalt give me I will surely
16 And Jacob awaked out of give the tenth unto thee.
his sleep, and he said, Surely
the Lord is in this place;
and I knew it not. 17 And Chapter 29
he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful is this place! this Then Jacob went on his jour-
is none other but the house ney, and came into the land
of God, and this is the gate of the people of the east.
2 And he looked, and behold
of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose
up early in the morning, and a well in the field, and, lo,
took the stone that he had there were three flocks of
put for his pillows, and set sheep lying by it; for out of
it up for a pillar, and poured that well they watered the
oil upon the top of it. 19 And flocks: and a great stone was
he called the name of that upon the well’s mouth. 3 And
place Bethel: but the name thither were all the flocks
of that city was called Luz at gathered: and they rolled the
the first. 20 And Jacob vowed stone from the well’s mouth,
a vow, saying, If God will be and watered the sheep, and
with me, and will keep me put the stone again upon the
in this way that I go, and well’s mouth in his place.
4 And Jacob said unto them,
will give me bread to eat, and
raiment to put on, 21 So that My brethren, whence be ye?
I come again to my father’s And they said, Of Haran
house in peace; then shall the are we. 5 And he said unto
Lord be my God: 22 And them, Know ye Laban the
son of Nahor? And they
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sons: therefore was his name said, God hath judged me,
called Levi. 35 And she con- and hath also heard my
ceived again, and bare a son: voice, and hath given me
and she said, Now will I a son: therefore called she
praise the Lord: therefore his name Dan. 7 And Bil-
she called his name Judah; hah Rachel’s maid conceived
and left bearing. again, and bare Jacob a sec-
ond son. 8 And Rachel said,
With great wrestlings have
Chapter 30 I wrestled with my sister,
and I have prevailed: and
And when Rachel saw that she called his name Naph-
she bare Jacob no children, tali. 9 When Leah saw that
Rachel envied her sister; and she had left bearing, she took
said unto Jacob, Give me Zilpah her maid, and gave
children, or else I die. 2 And her Jacob to wife. 10 And Zil-
Jacob’s anger was kindled pah Leah’s maid bare Jacob
against Rachel: and he said, a son. 11 And Leah said, A
Am I in God’s stead, who troop cometh: and she called
hath withheld from thee the
GENESIS 88
may go unto mine own place, feed and keep thy flock: 32 I
and to my country. 26 Give will pass through all thy flock
me my wives and my chil- to day, removing from thence
dren, for whom I have served all the speckled and spotted
thee, and let me go: for thou cattle, and all the brown cat-
knowest my service which I tle among the sheep, and the
have done thee. 27 And La- spotted and speckled among
ban said unto him, I pray the goats: and of such shall
thee, if I have found favour be my hire. 33 So shall my
in thine eyes, tarry: for I righteousness answer for me
have learned by experience in time to come, when it
that the Lord hath blessed shall come for my hire be-
me for thy sake. 28 And he fore thy face: every one that
said, Appoint me thy wages, is not speckled and spotted
and I will give it. 29 And he among the goats, and brown
said unto him, Thou knowest among the sheep, that shall
how I have served thee, and be counted stolen with me.
how thy cattle was with me. 34 And Laban said, Behold,
30 For it was little which thou I would it might be accord-
hadst before I came, and it ing to thy word. 35 And
himself and Jacob: and Ja- eyes of the cattle in the gut-
cob fed the rest of Laban’s ters, that they might con-
flocks. 37 And Jacob took ceive among the rods. 42 But
him rods of green poplar, when the cattle were feeble,
and of the hazel and ches- he put them not in: so the
nut tree; and pilled white feebler were Laban’s, and the
strakes in them, and made stronger Jacob’s. 43 And the
the white appear which was man increased exceedingly,
in the rods. 38 And he set the and had much cattle, and
rods which he had pilled be- maidservants, and menser-
fore the flocks in the gutters vants, and camels, and asses.
in the watering troughs when
the flocks came to drink, that
they should conceive when Chapter 31
they came to drink. 39 And
the flocks conceived before And he heard the words of
the rods, and brought forth Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob
cattle ringstraked, speckled, hath taken away all that
and spotted. 40 And Jacob was our father’s; and of
did separate the lambs, and that which was our father’s
set the faces of the flocks hath he gotten all this glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the coun-
toward the ringstraked, and
all the brown in the flock of tenance of Laban, and, be-
Laban; and he put his own hold, it was not toward him
flocks by themselves, and put as before. 3 And the Lord
them not unto Laban’s cat- said unto Jacob, Return unto
tle. 41 And it came to pass, the land of thy fathers, and
whensoever the stronger cat- to thy kindred; and I will
tle did conceive, that Ja- be with thee. 4 And Jacob
cob laid the rods before the sent and called Rachel and
Leah to the field unto his
GENESIS 91
and that thou shalt not pass Esau his brother unto the
over this heap and this pil- land of Seir, the country
lar unto me, for harm. 53 The of Edom. 4 And he com-
God of Abraham, and the manded them, saying, Thus
God of Nahor, the God of shall ye speak unto my lord
their father, judge betwixt Esau; Thy servant Jacob
us. And Jacob sware by saith thus, I have sojourned
the fear of his father Isaac. with Laban, and stayed there
54 Then Jacob offered sacri- until now: 5 And I have
fice upon the mount, and oxen, and asses, flocks, and
called his brethren to eat menservants, and womenser-
bread: and they did eat vants: and I have sent to
bread, and tarried all night tell my lord, that I may find
in the mount. 55 And early in grace in thy sight. 6 And
the morning Laban rose up, the messengers returned to
and kissed his sons and his Jacob, saying, We came to
daughters, and blessed them: thy brother Esau, and also
and Laban departed, and re- he cometh to meet thee,
turned unto his place. and four hundred men with
him. 7 Then Jacob was
tle in the field: and Jacob eyes, and what ye shall say
held his peace until they were unto me I will give. 12 Ask
come. 6 And Hamor the fa- me never so much dowry and
ther of Shechem went out gift, and I will give according
unto Jacob to commune with as ye shall say unto me: but
him. 7 And the sons of Ja- give me the damsel to wife.
cob came out of the field 13 And the sons of Jacob an-
when they heard it: and the swered Shechem and Hamor
men were grieved, and they his father deceitfully, and
were very wroth, because he said, because he had defiled
had wrought folly in Israel Dinah their sister: 14 And
in lying with Jacob’s daugh- they said unto them, We can-
ter; which thing ought not not do this thing, to give
to be done. 8 And Hamor our sister to one that is un-
communed with them, say- circumcised; for that were
ing, The soul of my son a reproach unto us: 15 But
Shechem longeth for your in this will we consent unto
daughter: I pray you give you: If ye will be as we
her him to wife. 9 And make be, that every male of you
ye marriages with us, and be circumcised; 16 Then will
give your daughters unto us, we give our daughters unto
and take our daughters unto you, and we will take your
you. 10 And ye shall dwell daughters to us, and we will
with us: and the land shall dwell with you, and we will
be before you; dwell and become one people. 17 But
trade ye therein, and get you if ye will not hearken unto
possessions therein. 11 And us, to be circumcised; then
Shechem said unto her fa- will we take our daughter,
ther and unto her brethren, and we will be gone. 18 And
Let me find grace in your their words pleased Hamor,
GENESIS 101
herein will the men consent Jacob came upon the slain,
unto us for to dwell with and spoiled the city, because
us, to be one people, if ev- they had defiled their sis-
ery male among us be cir- ter. 28 They took their sheep,
cumcised, as they are cir- and their oxen, and their
cumcised. 23 Shall not their asses, and that which was
cattle and their substance in the city, and that which
and every beast of theirs be was in the field, 29 And all
ours? only let us consent their wealth, and all their lit-
unto them, and they will tle ones, and their wives took
dwell with us. 24 And unto they captive, and spoiled
GENESIS 102
fleddest from the face of Esau tar, and called the place El-
thy brother. 2 Then Jacob bethel: because there God
said unto his household, and appeared unto him, when
to all that were with him, he fled from the face of
Put away the strange gods his brother. 8 But Debo-
they hated him yet the more I pray thee, see whether it
for his dreams, and for his be well with thy brethren,
words. 9 And he dreamed and well with the flocks; and
yet another dream, and told bring me word again. So
it his brethren, and said, he sent him out of the vale
Behold, I have dreamed a of Hebron, and he came to
dream more; and, behold, Shechem. 15 And a certain
the sun and the moon and man found him, and, be-
the eleven stars made obei- hold, he was wandering in
sance to me. 10 And he told the field: and the man asked
it to his father, and to his him, saying, What seekest
brethren: and his father re- thou? 16 And he said, I seek
buked him, and said unto my brethren: tell me, I pray
him, What is this dream thee, where they feed their
that thou hast dreamed? flocks. 17 And the man said,
Shall I and thy mother and They are departed hence; for
thy brethren indeed come I heard them say, Let us go
to bow down ourselves to to Dothan. And Joseph went
thee to the earth? 11 And after his brethren, and found
GENESIS 109
pit; and, behold, Joseph was the Midianites sold him into
not in the pit; and he rent his Egypt unto Potiphar, an offi-
clothes. 30 And he returned cer of Pharaoh’s, and captain
unto his brethren, and said, of the guard.
The child is not; and I,
whither shall I go? 31 And
they took Joseph’s coat, and Chapter 38
killed a kid of the goats,
and dipped the coat in the And it came to pass at
blood; 32 And they sent the that time, that Judah went
coat of many colours, and down from his brethren, and
they brought it to their fa- turned in to a certain Adul-
ther; and said, This have we lamite, whose name was Hi-
rah. 2 And Judah saw
found: know now whether
it be thy son’s coat or no. there a daughter of a certain
33 And he knew it, and said, Canaanite, whose name was
It is my son’s coat; an evil Shuah; and he took her, and
beast hath devoured him; went in unto her. 3 And she
Joseph is without doubt rent conceived, and bare a son;
in pieces. 34 And Jacob rent and he called his name Er.
4 And she conceived again,
his clothes, and put sackcloth
upon his loins, and mourned and bare a son; and she
for his son many days. 35 And called his name Onan. 5 And
all his sons and all his daugh- she yet again conceived, and
ters rose up to comfort him; bare a son; and called his
but he refused to be com- name Shelah: and he was at
forted; and he said, For I will Chezib, when she bare him.
6 And Judah took a wife for
go down into the grave unto
my son mourning. Thus his Er his firstborn, whose name
father wept for him. 36 And was Tamar. 7 And Er, Ju-
dah’s firstborn, was wicked
GENESIS 111
nath, he and his friend Hirah shall I give thee? And she
GENESIS 112
said, Thy signet, and thy ter, that it was told Judah,
bracelets, and thy staff that saying, Tamar thy daughter
is in thine hand. And he in law hath played the harlot;
gave it her, and came in unto and also, behold, she is with
her, and she conceived by child by whoredom. And Ju-
him. 19 And she arose, and dah said, Bring her forth,
went away, and laid by her and let her be burnt. 25 When
vail from her, and put on she was brought forth, she
the garments of her widow- sent to her father in law,
hood. 20 And Judah sent the saying, By the man, whose
kid by the hand of his friend these are, am I with child:
the Adullamite, to receive and she said, Discern, I pray
his pledge from the woman’s thee, whose are these, the
hand: but he found her not. signet, and bracelets, and
21 Then he asked the men of staff. 26 And Judah acknowl-
that place, saying, Where is edged them, and said, She
the harlot, that was openly hath been more righteous
by the way side? And they than I; because that I gave
said, There was no harlot in her not to Shelah my son.
this place. 22 And he returned And he knew her again no
to Judah, and said, I can- more. 27 And it came to pass
not find her; and also the in the time of her travail,
men of the place said, that that, behold, twins were in
there was no harlot in this her womb. 28 And it came
place. 23 And Judah said, Let to pass, when she travailed,
her take it to her, lest we that the one put out his
be shamed: behold, I sent hand: and the midwife took
this kid, and thou hast not and bound upon his hand a
found her. 24 And it came to scarlet thread, saying, This
pass about three months af- came out first. 29 And it came
GENESIS 113
and he left his garment in her his master heard the words
hand, and fled, and got him of his wife, which she spake
out. 13 And it came to pass, unto him, saying, After this
when she saw that he had left manner did thy servant to
his garment in her hand, and me; that his wrath was kin-
was fled forth, 14 That she dled. 20 And Joseph’s master
called unto the men of her took him, and put him into
house, and spake unto them, the prison, a place where the
saying, See, he hath brought king’s prisoners were bound:
in an Hebrew unto us to and he was there in the
mock us; he came in unto me prison. 21 But the Lord was
GENESIS 115
with Joseph, and shewed him the prison, the place where
mercy, and gave him favour Joseph was bound. 4 And
in the sight of the keeper the captain of the guard
of the prison. 22 And the charged Joseph with them,
keeper of the prison commit- and he served them: and
ted to Joseph’s hand all the they continued a season in
prisoners that were in the ward. 5 And they dreamed
prison; and whatsoever they a dream both of them, each
did there, he was the doer of man his dream in one night,
it. 23 The keeper of the prison each man according to the
looked not to any thing that interpretation of his dream,
was under his hand; because the butler and the baker of
the Lord was with him, and the king of Egypt, which
that which he did, the Lord were bound in the prison.
made it to prosper. 6 And Joseph came in unto
lifted up the head of the chief fleshed kine did eat up the
butler and of the chief baker seven well favoured and fat
among his servants. 21 And kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
he restored the chief but- 5 And he slept and dreamed
ler unto his butlership again; the second time: and, be-
and he gave the cup into hold, seven ears of corn came
Pharaoh’s hand: 22 But he up upon one stalk, rank
hanged the chief baker: as and good. 6 And, behold,
Joseph had interpreted to seven thin ears and blasted
them. 23 Yet did not the chief with the east wind sprung
butler remember Joseph, but up after them. 7 And the
forgat him. seven thin ears devoured the
seven rank and full ears.
And Pharaoh awoke, and,
Chapter 41 behold, it was a dream.
8 And it came to pass in the
off his ring from his hand, years the earth brought forth
and put it upon Joseph’s by handfuls. 48 And he gath-
hand, and arrayed him in ered up all the food of the
vestures of fine linen, and seven years, which were in
put a gold chain about his the land of Egypt, and laid
neck; 43 And he made him up the food in the cities: the
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food of the field, which was bread. 55 And when all the
round about every city, laid land of Egypt was famished,
he up in the same. 49 And the people cried to Pharaoh
Joseph gathered corn as the for bread: and Pharaoh said
sand of the sea, very much, unto all the Egyptians, Go
until he left numbering; for it unto Joseph; what he saith
was without number. 50 And to you, do. 56 And the famine
unto Joseph were born two was over all the face of the
sons before the years of earth: And Joseph opened
famine came, which Asenath all the storehouses, and sold
the daughter of Potipherah unto the Egyptians; and the
priest of On bare unto him. famine waxed sore in the
51 And Joseph called the land of Egypt. 57 And all
name of the firstborn Man- countries came into Egypt
asseh: For God, said he, hath to Joseph for to buy corn;
made me forget all my toil, because that the famine was
and all my father’s house. so sore in all lands.
52 And the name of the sec-
ye, carry corn for the famine to fill their sacks with corn,
of your houses: 20 But bring and to restore every man’s
your youngest brother unto money into his sack, and to
me; so shall your words be give them provision for the
verified, and ye shall not die. way: and thus did he unto
And they did so. 21 And them. 26 And they laded
is this that God hath done their sacks, that, behold, ev-
unto us? 29 And they came ery man’s bundle of money
unto Jacob their father unto was in his sack: and when
the land of Canaan, and told both they and their father
him all that befell unto them; saw the bundles of money,
saying, 30 The man, who is they were afraid. 36 And Ja-
the lord of the land, spake cob their father said unto
roughly to us, and took us for them, Me have ye bereaved
spies of the country. 31 And of my children: Joseph is
we said unto him, We are not, and Simeon is not, and
true men; we are no spies: ye will take Benjamin away:
32 We be twelve brethren, all these things are against
sons of our father; one is not, me. 37 And Reuben spake
and the youngest is this day unto his father, saying, Slay
with our father in the land of my two sons, if I bring him
Canaan. 33 And the man, the not to thee: deliver him into
lord of the country, said unto my hand, and I will bring
us, Hereby shall I know that him to thee again. 38 And
ye are true men; leave one of he said, My son shall not
your brethren here with me, go down with you; for his
and take food for the famine brother is dead, and he is left
of your households, and be alone: if mischief befall him
gone: 34 And bring your by the way in the which ye
youngest brother unto me: go, then shall ye bring down
then shall I know that ye are my gray hairs with sorrow to
no spies, but that ye are true the grave.
men: so will I deliver you
your brother, and ye shall
traffick in the land. 35 And it
came to pass as they emptied
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at noon: for they heard that and went out, and refrained
they should eat bread there. himself, and said, Set on
26 And when Joseph came bread. 32 And they set on
home, they brought him the for him by himself, and for
present which was in their them by themselves, and for
hand into the house, and the Egyptians, which did eat
bowed themselves to him to with him, by themselves: be-
the earth. 27 And he asked cause the Egyptians might
them of their welfare, and not eat bread with the He-
said, Is your father well, the brews; for that is an abom-
old man of whom ye spake? ination unto the Egyptians.
Is he yet alive? 28 And 33 And they sat before him,
saw the wagons which Joseph Israel carried Jacob their fa-
had sent to carry him, the ther, and their little ones,
spirit of Jacob their father re- and their wives, in the wag-
vived: 28 And Israel said, It is ons which Pharaoh had sent
enough; Joseph my son is yet to carry him. 6 And they took
alive: I will go and see him their cattle, and their goods,
before I die. which they had gotten in the
land of Canaan, and came
into Egypt, Jacob, and all
Chapter 46 his seed with him: 7 His sons,
and his sons’ sons with him,
And Israel took his journey his daughters, and his sons’
with all that he had, and daughters, and all his seed
came to Beersheba, and of- brought he with him into
fered sacrifices unto the God Egypt. 8 And these are the
of his father Isaac. 2 And names of the children of Is-
God spake unto Israel in the rael, which came into Egypt,
visions of the night, and said, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Jacob’s firstborn. 9 And the
Here am I. 3 And he said, I sons of Reuben; Hanoch,
am God, the God of thy fa- and Phallu, and Hezron, and
ther: fear not to go down Carmi. 10 And the sons of
into Egypt; for I will there Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin,
make of thee a great na- and Ohad, and Jachin, and
tion: 4 I will go down with Zohar, and Shaul the son
thee into Egypt; and I will of a Canaanitish woman.
also surely bring thee up 11 And the sons of Levi; Ger-
vah, and Job, and Shimron. were Belah, and Becher, and
14 And the sons of Zebulun; Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman,
Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and
15 These be the sons of Leah, Huppim, and Ard. 22 These
which she bare unto Jacob in are the sons of Rachel, which
Padanaram, with his daugh- were born to Jacob: all the
ter Dinah: all the souls of his souls were fourteen. 23 And
sons and his daughters were the sons of Dan; Hushim.
thirty and three. 16 And the 24 And the sons of Naph-
tle. 7 And Joseph brought all the land; for the famine
in Jacob his father, and set was very sore, so that the
him before Pharaoh: and Ja- land of Egypt and all the
cob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And land of Canaan fainted by
Pharaoh said unto Jacob, reason of the famine. 14 And
How old art thou? 9 And Ja- Joseph gathered up all the
cob said unto Pharaoh, The money that was found in
days of the years of my pil- the land of Egypt, and in
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that year. 18 When that year bought he not; for the priests
was ended, they came unto had a portion assigned them
him the second year, and said of Pharaoh, and did eat their
unto him, We will not hide portion which Pharaoh gave
it from my lord, how that them: wherefore they sold
our money is spent; my lord not their lands. 23 Then
also hath our herds of cat- Joseph said unto the people,
tle; there is not ought left Behold, I have bought you
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this day and your land for an hundred forty and seven
Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for years. 29 And the time drew
you, and ye shall sow the nigh that Israel must die:
land. 24 And it shall come and he called his son Joseph,
to pass in the increase, that and said unto him, If now
ye shall give the fifth part I have found grace in thy
unto Pharaoh, and four parts sight, put, I pray thee, thy
shall be your own, for seed of hand under my thigh, and
the field, and for your food, deal kindly and truly with
and for them of your house- me; bury me not, I pray thee,
holds, and for food for your in Egypt: 30 But I will lie
little ones. 25 And they said, with my fathers, and thou
Thou hast saved our lives: shalt carry me out of Egypt,
let us find grace in the sight and bury me in their bury-
of my lord, and we will be ingplace. And he said, I will
Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And do as thou hast said. 31 And
Joseph made it a law over the he said, Swear unto me. And
land of Egypt unto this day, he sware unto him. And Is-
that Pharaoh should have the rael bowed himself upon the
fifth part; except the land of bed’s head.
the priests only, which be-
came not Pharaoh’s. 27 And
Israel dwelt in the land of Chapter 48
Egypt, in the country of
Goshen; and they had pos- And it came to pass after
sessions therein, and grew, these things, that one told
and multiplied exceedingly. Joseph, Behold, thy father
28 And Jacob lived in the land is sick: and he took with
of Egypt seventeen years: so him his two sons, Manasseh
and Ephraim. 2 And one
the whole age of Jacob was
told Jacob, and said, Behold,
GENESIS 139
thy son Joseph cometh unto yet there was but a little way
thee: and Israel strengthened to come unto Ephrath: and I
himself, and sat upon the buried her there in the way of
bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Ephrath; the same is Beth-
Joseph, God Almighty ap- lehem. 8 And Israel beheld
peared unto me at Luz in the Joseph’s sons, and said, Who
land of Canaan, and blessed are these? 9 And Joseph said
me, 4 And said unto me, Be- unto his father, They are my
hold, I will make thee fruit- sons, whom God hath given
ful, and multiply thee, and me in this place. And he
I will make of thee a mul- said, Bring them, I pray thee,
titude of people; and will unto me, and I will bless
give this land to thy seed them. 10 Now the eyes of
after thee for an everlast- Israel were dim for age, so
ing possession. 5 And now that he could not see. And
thy two sons, Ephraim and he brought them near unto
Manasseh, which were born him; and he kissed them, and
unto thee in the land of embraced them. 11 And Is-
Egypt before I came unto rael said unto Joseph, I had
thee into Egypt, are mine; not thought to see thy face:
as Reuben and Simeon, they and, lo, God hath shewed me
shall be mine. 6 And thy is- also thy seed. 12 And Joseph
sue, which thou begettest af- brought them out from be-
ter them, shall be thine, and tween his knees, and he
shall be called after the name bowed himself with his face
of their brethren in their in- to the earth. 13 And Joseph
heritance. 7 And as for me, took them both, Ephraim
when I came from Padan, in his right hand toward Is-
Rachel died by me in the land rael’s left hand, and Man-
of Canaan in the way, when asseh in his left hand to-
GENESIS 140
ward Israel’s right hand, and father, Not so, my father: for
brought them near unto him. this is the firstborn; put thy
14 And Israel stretched out right hand upon his head.
his right hand, and laid it 19 And his father refused, and
ham and Isaac did walk, the day, saying, In thee shall Is-
God which fed me all my life rael bless, saying, God make
long unto this day, 16 The An- thee as Ephraim and as Man-
gel which redeemed me from asseh: and he set Ephraim
all evil, bless the lads; and let before Manasseh. 21 And Is-
my name be named on them, rael said unto Joseph, Be-
and the name of my fathers hold, I die: but God shall
Abraham and Isaac; and let be with you, and bring you
them grow into a multitude again unto the land of your
in the midst of the earth. fathers. 22 Moreover I have
17 And when Joseph saw that given to thee one portion
his father laid his right hand above thy brethren, which I
upon the head of Ephraim, took out of the hand of the
it displeased him: and he Amorite with my sword and
held up his father’s hand, with my bow.
to remove it from Ephraim’s
head unto Manasseh’s head.
18 And Joseph said unto his
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tell you that which shall be- thy brethren shall praise: thy
fall you in the last days. hand shall be in the neck of
2 Gather yourselves together,
thine enemies; thy father’s
and hear, ye sons of Ja- children shall bow down be-
cob; and hearken unto Is- fore thee. 9 Judah is a lion’s
rael your father. 3 Reuben, whelp: from the prey, my
thou art my firstborn, my son, thou art gone up: he
might, and the beginning of stooped down, he couched
my strength, the excellency as a lion, and as an old
of dignity, and the excel- lion; who shall rouse him up?
lency of power: 4 Unstable 10 The sceptre shall not de-
as water, thou shalt not ex- part from Judah, nor a law-
cel; because thou wentest up giver from between his feet,
to thy father’s bed; then de- until Shiloh come; and unto
filedst thou it: he went up him shall the gathering of
to my couch. 5 Simeon and the people be. 11 Binding
Levi are brethren; instru- his foal unto the vine, and
ments of cruelty are in their his ass’s colt unto the choice
habitations. 6 O my soul, vine; he washed his garments
come not thou into their se- in wine, and his clothes in the
cret; unto their assembly, blood of grapes: 12 His eyes
mine honour, be not thou shall be red with wine, and
united: for in their anger his teeth white with milk.
they slew a man, and in their 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the
their sin; for they did unto and his father’s house: and
thee evil: and now, we pray Joseph lived an hundred and
thee, forgive the trespass of ten years. 23 And Joseph saw
the servants of the God of Ephraim’s children of the
thy father. And Joseph wept third generation: the chil-
when they spake unto him. dren also of Machir the son
18 And his brethren also went of Manasseh were brought
and fell down before his face; up upon Joseph’s knees.
and they said, Behold, we be 24 And Joseph said unto his
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EXODUS 147
them serve, was with rigour. with the midwives: and the
15 And the king of Egypt people multiplied, and waxed
spake to the Hebrew mid- very mighty. 21 And it came
wives, of which the name of to pass, because the mid-
the one was Shiphrah, and wives feared God, that he
the name of the other Puah: made them houses. 22 And
16 And he said, When ye do Pharaoh charged all his peo-
the office of a midwife to ple, saying, Every son that
the Hebrew women, and see is born ye shall cast into the
them upon the stools; if it river, and every daughter ye
be a son, then ye shall kill shall save alive.
him: but if it be a daughter,
then she shall live. 17 But
the midwives feared God,
and did not as the king of
EXODUS 148
she could not longer hide daughter said unto her, Take
him, she took for him an ark this child away, and nurse it
of bulrushes, and daubed it for me, and I will give thee
with slime and with pitch, thy wages. And the woman
and put the child therein; took the child, and nursed
and she laid it in the flags it. 10 And the child grew,
by the river’s brink. 4 And and she brought him unto
his sister stood afar off, to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he
wit what would be done to became her son. And
him. 5 And the daughter of she called his name Moses:
Pharaoh came down to wash and she said, Because I
herself at the river; and her drew him out of the water.
maidens walked along by the 11 And it came to pass in
river’s side; and when she those days, when Moses was
saw the ark among the flags, grown, that he went out unto
she sent her maid to fetch it. his brethren, and looked on
6 And when she had opened
their burdens: and he spied
it, she saw the child: and, an Egyptian smiting an He-
behold, the babe wept. And brew, one of his brethren.
she had compassion on him, 12 And he looked this way
the Lord God of their fa- ter which thou takest out of
thers, the God of Abraham, the river shall become blood
the God of Isaac, and the upon the dry land. 10 And
God of Jacob, hath appeared Moses said unto the Lord, O
unto thee. 6 And the Lord my Lord, I am not eloquent,
said furthermore unto him, neither heretofore, nor since
Put now thine hand into thy thou hast spoken unto thy
bosom. And he put his hand servant: but I am slow of
into his bosom: and when speech, and of a slow tongue.
he took it out, behold, his 11 And the Lord said unto
shalt speak unto him, and and Moses took the rod of
put words in his mouth: and God in his hand. 21 And
I will be with thy mouth, the Lord said unto Moses,
and with his mouth, and When thou goest to return
will teach you what ye shall into Egypt, see that thou
do. 16 And he shall be thy do all those wonders before
spokesman unto the people: Pharaoh, which I have put in
and he shall be, even he thine hand: but I will harden
shall be to thee instead of a his heart, that he shall not
mouth, and thou shalt be to let the people go. 22 And
him instead of God. 17 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh,
thou shalt take this rod in Thus saith the Lord, Is-
thine hand, wherewith thou rael is my son, even my
shalt do signs. 18 And Moses firstborn: 23 And I say unto
went and returned to Jethro thee, Let my son go, that
his father in law, and said he may serve me: and if
unto him, Let me go, I pray thou refuse to let him go,
thee, and return unto my behold, I will slay thy son,
brethren which are in Egypt, even thy firstborn. 24 And
and see whether they be yet it came to pass by the way
alive. And Jethro said to in the inn, that the Lord
Moses, Go in peace. 19 And met him, and sought to kill
the Lord said unto Moses him. 25 Then Zipporah took
in Midian, Go, return into a sharp stone, and cut off the
Egypt: for all the men are foreskin of her son, and cast
dead which sought thy life. it at his feet, and said, Surely
20 And Moses took his wife a bloody husband art thou to
and his sons, and set them me. 26 So he let him go: then
upon an ass, and he re- she said, A bloody husband
turned to the land of Egypt: thou art, because of the cir-
EXODUS 155
Moses and Aaron went and said, The God of the He-
gathered together all the el- brews hath met with us: let
ders of the children of Is- us go, we pray thee, three
rael: 30 And Aaron spake all days’ journey into the desert,
the words which the Lord and sacrifice unto the Lord
had spoken unto Moses, and our God; lest he fall upon
did the signs in the sight us with pestilence, or with
of the people. 31 And the the sword. 4 And the king
people believed: and when of Egypt said unto them,
they heard that the Lord Wherefore do ye, Moses and
had visited the children of Is- Aaron, let the people from
rael, and that he had looked their works? get you unto
upon their affliction, then your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh
they bowed their heads and said, Behold, the people of
worshipped. the land now are many, and
ye make them rest from their
burdens. 6 And Pharaoh
let them go, behold, I will Moses and Aaron, and said,
smite all thy borders with Intreat the Lord, that he
frogs: 3 And the river shall
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may take away the frogs from and the frogs died out of the
me, and from my people; houses, out of the villages,
and I will let the people go, and out of the fields. 14 And
that they may do sacrifice they gathered them together
unto the Lord. 9 And Moses upon heaps: and the land
said unto Pharaoh, Glory stank. 15 But when Pharaoh
over me: when shall I in- saw that there was respite, he
treat for thee, and for thy hardened his heart, and hear-
servants, and for thy peo- kened not unto them; as the
ple, to destroy the frogs from Lord had said. 16 And the
thee and thy houses, that Lord said unto Moses, Say
they may remain in the river unto Aaron, Stretch out thy
only? 10 And he said, To rod, and smite the dust of
morrow. And he said, Be the land, that it may become
it according to thy word: lice throughout all the land
that thou mayest know that of Egypt. 17 And they did so;
there is none like unto the for Aaron stretched out his
Lord our God. 11 And the hand with his rod, and smote
frogs shall depart from thee, the dust of the earth, and
and from thy houses, and it became lice in man, and
from thy servants, and from in beast; all the dust of the
thy people; they shall re- land became lice through-
main in the river only. 12 And out all the land of Egypt.
Moses and Aaron went out 18 And the magicians did so
and all that thou hast in the mingled with the hail, very
field; for upon every man and grievous, such as there was
beast which shall be found none like it in all the land of
in the field, and shall not Egypt since it became a na-
be brought home, the hail tion. 25 And the hail smote
shall come down upon them, throughout all the land of
and they shall die. 20 He Egypt all that was in the
that feared the word of the field, both man and beast;
Lord among the servants of and the hail smote every herb
Pharaoh made his servants of the field, and brake every
and his cattle flee into the tree of the field. 26 Only in
houses: 21 And he that re- the land of Goshen, where
garded not the word of the the children of Israel were,
Lord left his servants and was there no hail. 27 And
his cattle in the field. 22 And Pharaoh sent, and called for
the Lord said unto Moses, Moses and Aaron, and said
Stretch forth thine hand to- unto them, I have sinned
ward heaven, that there may this time: the Lord is righ-
be hail in all the land of teous, and I and my peo-
Egypt, upon man, and upon ple are wicked. 28 Intreat
the earth, that one cannot be will go with our young and
able to see the earth: and with our old, with our sons
they shall eat the residue of and with our daughters, with
that which is escaped, which our flocks and with our herds
remaineth unto you from the will we go; for we must hold a
hail, and shall eat every tree feast unto the Lord. 10 And
which groweth for you out of he said unto them, Let the
the field: 6 And they shall fill Lord be so with you, as I
thy houses, and the houses will let you go, and your lit-
of all thy servants, and the tle ones: look to it; for evil
houses of all the Egyptians; is before you. 11 Not so: go
which neither thy fathers, now ye that are men, and
nor thy fathers’ fathers have serve the Lord; for that ye
seen, since the day that they did desire. And they were
were upon the earth unto driven out from Pharaoh’s
this day. And he turned presence. 12 And the Lord
himself, and went out from said unto Moses, Stretch out
Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh’s thine hand over the land of
servants said unto him, How Egypt for the locusts, that
long shall this man be a snare they may come up upon the
unto us? let the men go, that land of Egypt, and eat ev-
they may serve the Lord ery herb of the land, even all
their God: knowest thou not that the hail hath left. 13 And
yet that Egypt is destroyed? Moses stretched forth his rod
8 And Moses and Aaron were over the land of Egypt, and
brought again unto Pharaoh: the Lord brought an east
and he said unto them, Go, wind upon the land all that
serve the Lord your God: day, and all that night; and
but who are they that shall when it was morning, the
go? 9 And Moses said, We east wind brought the lo-
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and on the upper door post you for a token upon the
of the houses, wherein they houses where ye are: and
shall eat it. 8 And they shall when I see the blood, I will
eat the flesh in that night, pass over you, and the plague
roast with fire, and unleav- shall not be upon you to
ened bread; and with bit- destroy you, when I smite
ter herbs they shall eat it. the land of Egypt. 14 And
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sod- this day shall be unto you
den at all with water, but for a memorial; and ye shall
roast with fire; his head with keep it a feast to the Lord
his legs, and with the pur- throughout your generations;
tenance thereof. 10 And ye ye shall keep it a feast by an
shall let nothing of it remain ordinance for ever. 15 Seven
until the morning; and that days shall ye eat unleavened
which remaineth of it until bread; even the first day ye
the morning ye shall burn shall put away leaven out of
with fire. 11 And thus shall ye your houses: for whosoever
eat it; with your loins girded, eateth leavened bread from
your shoes on your feet, and the first day until the sev-
your staff in your hand; and enth day, that soul shall be
ye shall eat it in haste: it is cut off from Israel. 16 And in
the Lord’S passover. 12 For the first day there shall be an
I will pass through the land holy convocation, and in the
of Egypt this night, and will seventh day there shall be an
smite all the firstborn in the holy convocation to you; no
land of Egypt, both man and manner of work shall be done
beast; and against all the in them, save that which
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What mean ye by this ser- and said, Rise up, and get
vice? 27 That ye shall say, It you forth from among my
is the sacrifice of the Lord’S people, both ye and the chil-
passover, who passed over dren of Israel; and go, serve
the houses of the children the Lord, as ye have said.
of Israel in Egypt, when he 32 Also take your flocks and
matrix, and every firstling ken upon thine hand, and for
that cometh of a beast which frontlets between thine eyes:
thou hast; the males shall for by strength of hand the
be the Lord’S. 13 And ev- Lord brought us forth out
ery firstling of an ass thou of Egypt. 17 And it came to
shalt redeem with a lamb; pass, when Pharaoh had let
and if thou wilt not redeem the people go, that God led
it, then thou shalt break his them not through the way of
neck: and all the firstborn the land of the Philistines,
of man among thy children although that was near; for
shalt thou redeem. 14 And God said, Lest peradventure
it shall be when thy son as- the people repent when they
keth thee in time to come, see war, and they return to
saying, What is this? that Egypt: 18 But God led the
thou shalt say unto him, By people about, through the
strength of hand the Lord way of the wilderness of the
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And the Lord spake unto chosen chariots, and all the
Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto chariots of Egypt, and cap-
the children of Israel, that tains over every one of them.
they turn and encamp before
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chariots, and upon his horse- dry ground: and the waters
men. 18 And the Egyptians were a wall unto them on
shall know that I am the their right hand, and on their
Lord, when I have gotten left. 23 And the Egyptians
me honour upon Pharaoh, pursued, and went in after
upon his chariots, and upon them to the midst of the sea,
his horsemen. 19 And the even all Pharaoh’s horses, his
angel of God, which went chariots, and his horsemen.
before the camp of Israel, 24 And it came to pass, that
over the sea; and the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out
caused the sea to go back thine hand over the sea, that
by a strong east wind all the waters may come again
that night, and made the upon the Egyptians, upon
sea dry land, and the waters their chariots, and upon their
were divided. 22 And the chil- horsemen. 27 And Moses
dren of Israel went into the stretched forth his hand over
midst of the sea upon the the sea, and the sea re-
EXODUS 182
people which thou hast re- went in with his chariots and
deemed: thou hast guided with his horsemen into the
them in thy strength unto sea, and the Lord brought
EXODUS 184
all the women went out af- gently hearken to the voice of
ter her with timbrels and the Lord thy God, and wilt
with dances. 21 And Miriam do that which is right in his
answered them, Sing ye to sight, and wilt give ear to his
the Lord, for he hath tri- commandments, and keep all
umphed gloriously; the horse his statutes, I will put none
and his rider hath he thrown of these diseases upon thee,
into the sea. 22 So Moses which I have brought upon
brought Israel from the Red the Egyptians: for I am
sea, and they went out into the Lord that healeth thee.
the wilderness of Shur; and 27 And they came to Elim,
ond month after their de- unto all the children of Israel,
parting out of the land of At even, then ye shall know
Egypt. 2 And the whole that the Lord hath brought
congregation of the children you out from the land of
of Israel murmured against Egypt: 7 And in the morn-
Moses and Aaron in the ing, then ye shall see the
wilderness: 3 And the chil- glory of the Lord; for that
dren of Israel said unto them, he heareth your murmur-
Would to God we had died ings against the Lord: and
by the hand of the Lord in what are we, that ye mur-
the land of Egypt, when we mur against us? 8 And Moses
sat by the flesh pots, and said, This shall be, when the
when we did eat bread to Lord shall give you in the
the full; for ye have brought evening flesh to eat, and in
us forth into this wilderness, the morning bread to the full;
to kill this whole assembly for that the Lord heareth
with hunger. 4 Then said the your murmurings which ye
Lord unto Moses, Behold, I murmur against him: and
will rain bread from heaven what are we? your mur-
for you; and the people shall murings are not against us,
go out and gather a certain but against the Lord. 9 And
rate every day, that I may Moses spake unto Aaron, Say
prove them, whether they unto all the congregation of
will walk in my law, or no. the children of Israel, Come
5 And it shall come to pass, near before the Lord: for
that on the sixth day they he hath heard your mur-
shall prepare that which they murings. 10 And it came to
bring in; and it shall be twice pass, as Aaron spake unto
EXODUS 186
the dew that lay was gone man leave of it till the morn-
up, behold, upon the face ing. 20 Notwithstanding they
of the wilderness there lay a hearkened not unto Moses;
small round thing, as small but some of them left of it
as the hoar frost on the until the morning, and it
ground. 15 And when the bred worms, and stank: and
children of Israel saw it, they Moses was wroth with them.
said one to another, It is 21 And they gathered it ev-
manna: for they wist not ery morning, every man ac-
what it was. And Moses said cording to his eating: and
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when the sun waxed hot, it went out some of the peo-
melted. 22 And it came to ple on the seventh day for to
pass, that on the sixth day gather, and they found none.
they gathered twice as much 28 And the Lord said unto
Eat that to day; for to day the thing which the Lord
is a sabbath unto the Lord: commandeth, Fill an omer of
to day ye shall not find it in it to be kept for your genera-
the field. 26 Six days ye shall tions; that they may see the
gather it; but on the seventh bread wherewith I have fed
day, which is the sabbath, in you in the wilderness, when
it there shall be none. 27 And I brought you forth from
it came to pass, that there the land of Egypt. 33 And
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Moses said unto Aaron, Take ter that we may drink. And
a pot, and put an omer full Moses said unto them, Why
of manna therein, and lay chide ye with me? where-
it up before the Lord, to fore do ye tempt the Lord?
be kept for your generations. 3 And the people thirsted
34 As the Lord commanded there for water; and the peo-
Moses, so Aaron laid it up ple murmured against Moses,
before the Testimony, to be and said, Wherefore is this
kept. 35 And the children of that thou hast brought us
Israel did eat manna forty up out of Egypt, to kill us
years, until they came to a and our children and our cat-
land inhabited; they did eat tle with thirst? 4 And Moses
manna, until they came unto cried unto the Lord, say-
the borders of the land of ing, What shall I do unto
Canaan. 36 Now an omer is this people? they be almost
the tenth part of an ephah. ready to stone me. 5 And
the Lord said unto Moses,
Go on before the people, and
Chapter 17 take with thee of the el-
ders of Israel; and thy rod,
And all the congregation of wherewith thou smotest the
the children of Israel jour- river, take in thine hand,
neyed from the wilderness and go. 6 Behold, I will
ple: and the people stood thee counsel, and God shall
by Moses from the morning be with thee: Be thou for
unto the evening. 14 And the people to God-ward, that
when Moses’ father in law thou mayest bring the causes
saw all that he did to the unto God: 20 And thou shalt
people, he said, What is this teach them ordinances and
thing that thou doest to the laws, and shalt shew them
people? why sittest thou the way wherein they must
thyself alone, and all the walk, and the work that they
people stand by thee from must do. 21 Moreover thou
morning unto even? 15 And shalt provide out of all the
Moses said unto his father people able men, such as fear
in law, Because the people God, men of truth, hating
come unto me to enquire of covetousness; and place such
God: 16 When they have a over them, to be rulers of
matter, they come unto me; thousands, and rulers of hun-
and I judge between one and dreds, rulers of fifties, and
another, and I do make them rulers of tens: 22 And let
know the statutes of God, them judge the people at
and his laws. 17 And Moses’ all seasons: and it shall be,
father in law said unto him, that every great matter they
The thing that thou doest shall bring unto thee, but ev-
is not good. 18 Thou wilt ery small matter they shall
surely wear away, both thou, judge: so shall it be eas-
and this people that is with ier for thyself, and they shall
thee: for this thing is too bear the burden with thee.
heavy for thee; thou art 23 If thou shalt do this thing,
visiting the iniquity of the fa- it. 12 Honour thy father and
thers upon the children unto thy mother: that thy days
the third and fourth genera- may be long upon the land
tion of them that hate me; which the Lord thy God
6 And shewing mercy unto giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt
thousands of them that love not kill. 14 Thou shalt not
me, and keep my command- commit adultery. 15 Thou
ments. 7 Thou shalt not take shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt
the name of the Lord thy not bear false witness against
God in vain; for the Lord thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt
will not hold him guiltless not covet thy neighbour’s
that taketh his name in vain. house, thou shalt not covet
8 Remember the sabbath day, thy neighbour’s wife, nor his
to keep it holy. 9 Six days manservant, nor his maid-
shalt thou labour, and do all servant, nor his ox, nor his
thy work: 10 But the seventh ass, nor any thing that is
day is the sabbath of the thy neighbour’s. 18 And all
Lord thy God: in it thou the people saw the thunder-
shalt not do any work, thou, ings, and the lightnings, and
nor thy son, nor thy daugh- the noise of the trumpet, and
ter, thy manservant, nor thy the mountain smoking: and
maidservant, nor thy cat- when the people saw it, they
tle, nor thy stranger that is removed, and stood afar off.
within thy gates: 11 For in six 19 And they said unto Moses,
days the Lord made heaven Speak thou with us, and we
and earth, the sea, and all will hear: but let not God
that in them is, and rested speak with us, lest we die.
the seventh day: where- 20 And Moses said unto the
fore the Lord blessed the people, Fear not: for God is
sabbath day, and hallowed come to prove you, and that
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a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; his neighbour money or stuff
he shall restore five oxen for to keep, and it be stolen out
an ox, and four sheep for a of the man’s house; if the
sheep. 2 If a thief be found thief be found, let him pay
breaking up, and be smitten double. 8 If the thief be not
that he die, there shall no found, then the master of the
blood be shed for him. 3 If house shall be brought unto
the sun be risen upon him, the judges, to see whether he
there shall be blood shed for have put his hand unto his
him; for he should make full neighbour’s goods. 9 For all
restitution; if he have noth- manner of trespass, whether
ing, then he shall be sold for it be for ox, for ass, for
his theft. 4 If the theft be sheep, for raiment, or for
certainly found in his hand any manner of lost thing,
alive, whether it be ox, or which another challengeth to
ass, or sheep; he shall re-
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the Amorites, and the Hit- from before thee in one year;
tites, and the Perizzites, and lest the land become deso-
the Canaanites, the Hivites, late, and the beast of the
and the Jebusites: and I will field multiply against thee.
cut them off. 24 Thou shalt 30 By little and little I will
not bow down to their gods, drive them out from before
nor serve them, nor do after thee, until thou be increased,
their works: but thou shalt and inherit the land. 31 And I
utterly overthrow them, and will set thy bounds from the
quite break down their im- Red sea even unto the sea of
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the Philistines, and from the swered with one voice, and
desert unto the river: for I said, All the words which
will deliver the inhabitants of the Lord hath said will we
the land into your hand; and do. 4 And Moses wrote all
thou shalt drive them out be- the words of the Lord, and
fore thee. 32 Thou shalt make rose up early in the morning,
no covenant with them, nor and builded an altar under
with their gods. 33 They shall the hill, and twelve pillars,
not dwell in thy land, lest according to the twelve tribes
they make thee sin against of Israel. 5 And he sent young
me: for if thou serve their men of the children of Is-
gods, it will surely be a snare rael, which offered burnt of-
unto thee. ferings, and sacrificed peace
offerings of oxen unto the
Lord. 6 And Moses took half
Chapter 24 of the blood, and put it in
basons; and half of the blood
And he said unto Moses, he sprinkled on the altar.
Come up unto the Lord, 7 And he took the book of
and silver, and brass, 4 And 12 And thou shalt cast four
blue, and purple, and scar- rings of gold for it, and
let, and fine linen, and goats’ put them in the four cor-
hair, 5 And rams’ skins dyed ners thereof; and two rings
red, and badgers’ skins, and shall be in the one side of it,
shittim wood, 6 Oil for the and two rings in the other
light, spices for anointing side of it. 13 And thou shalt
oil, and for sweet incense, make staves of shittim wood,
7 Onyx stones, and stones to and overlay them with gold.
be set in the ephod, and 14 And thou shalt put the
I shew thee, after the pat- rings of the ark: they shall
tern of the tabernacle, and not be taken from it. 16 And
the pattern of all the instru- thou shalt put into the ark
ments thereof, even so shall the testimony which I shall
ye make it. 10 And they give thee. 17 And thou shalt
shall make an ark of shittim make a mercy seat of pure
wood: two cubits and a half gold: two cubits and a half
shall be the length thereof, shall be the length thereof,
and a cubit and a half the and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof, and a cubit breadth thereof. 18 And thou
and a half the height thereof. shalt make two cherubims
11 And thou shalt overlay it of gold, of beaten work
with pure gold, within and shalt thou make them, in the
without shalt thou overlay it, two ends of the mercy seat.
and shalt make upon it a 19 And make one cherub on
crown of gold round about. the one end, and the other
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length thereof, and a cubit thou shalt set upon the ta-
the breadth thereof, and a ble shewbread before me al-
cubit and a half the height way. 31 And thou shalt make
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side, to cover it. 14 And thou silver; two sockets under one
shalt make a covering for the board, and two sockets un-
tent of rams’ skins dyed red, der another board. 22 And
and a covering above of bad- for the sides of the tabernacle
gers’ skins. 15 And thou shalt westward thou shalt make six
make boards for the taber- boards. 23 And two boards
nacle of shittim wood stand- shalt thou make for the cor-
ing up. 16 Ten cubits shall be ners of the tabernacle in the
the length of a board, and two sides. 24 And they shall
a cubit and a half shall be be coupled together beneath,
the breadth of one board. and they shall be coupled to-
17 Two tenons shall there be gether above the head of it
in one board, set in order one unto one ring: thus shall it be
against another: thus shalt for them both; they shall be
thou make for all the boards for the two corners. 25 And
of the tabernacle. 18 And they shall be eight boards,
thou shalt make the boards and their sockets of silver,
for the tabernacle, twenty sixteen sockets; two sockets
boards on the south side under one board, and two
southward. 19 And thou shalt sockets under another board.
make forty sockets of sil- 26 And thou shalt make bars
ver under the twenty boards; of shittim wood; five for the
two sockets under one board boards of the one side of the
for his two tenons, and two tabernacle, 27 And five bars
sockets under another board for the boards of the other
for his two tenons. 20 And side of the tabernacle, and
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five bars for the boards of the vide unto you between the
side of the tabernacle, for the holy place and the most holy.
two sides westward. 28 And 34 And thou shalt put the
the middle bar in the midst mercy seat upon the ark of
of the boards shall reach the testimony in the most
from end to end. 29 And thou holy place. 35 And thou shalt
shalt overlay the boards with set the table without the
gold, and make their rings vail, and the candlestick over
of gold for places for the against the table on the side
bars: and thou shalt overlay of the tabernacle toward the
the bars with gold. 30 And south: and thou shalt put
thou shalt rear up the taber- the table on the north side.
nacle according to the fash- 36 And thou shalt make an
ion thereof which was shewed hanging for the door of the
thee in the mount. 31 And tent, of blue, and purple,
thou shalt make a vail of and scarlet, and fine twined
blue, and purple, and scarlet, linen, wrought with needle-
and fine twined linen of cun- work. 37 And thou shalt make
ning work: with cherubims for the hanging five pillars
shall it be made: 32 And thou of shittim wood, and over-
shalt hang it upon four pil- lay them with gold, and their
lars of shittim wood overlaid hooks shall be of gold: and
with gold: their hooks shall thou shalt cast five sockets of
be of gold, upon the four brass for them.
sockets of silver. 33 And thou
shalt hang up the vail under
the taches, that thou mayest Chapter 27
bring in thither within the
vail the ark of the testi- And thou shalt make an al-
mony: and the vail shall di- tar of shittim wood, five
cubits long, and five cubits
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Aaron shall bear the judg- plate of pure gold, and grave
ment of the children of Is- upon it, like the engravings
rael upon his heart before of a signet, HOLINESS TO
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make them. 3 And thou shalt and his sons. 10 And thou
put them into one basket, shalt cause a bullock to be
and bring them in the bas- brought before the taberna-
ket, with the bullock and cle of the congregation: and
the two rams. 4 And Aaron Aaron and his sons shall put
and his sons thou shalt bring their hands upon the head
unto the door of the taberna- of the bullock. 11 And thou
cle of the congregation, and shalt kill the bullock before
shalt wash them with water. the Lord, by the door of the
5 And thou shalt take the gar- tabernacle of the congrega-
ments, and put upon Aaron tion. 12 And thou shalt take
the coat, and the robe of the of the blood of the bullock,
ephod, and the ephod, and and put it upon the horns
the breastplate, and gird him of the altar with thy finger,
with the curious girdle of the and pour all the blood be-
ephod: 6 And thou shalt put side the bottom of the al-
the mitre upon his head, and tar. 13 And thou shalt take
put the holy crown upon the all the fat that covereth the
mitre. 7 Then shalt thou take inwards, and the caul that is
the anointing oil, and pour above the liver, and the two
it upon his head, and anoint kidneys, and the fat that is
him. 8 And thou shalt bring upon them, and burn them
his sons, and put coats upon upon the altar. 14 But the
them. 9 And thou shalt gird flesh of the bullock, and his
them with girdles, Aaron skin, and his dung, shalt
and his sons, and put the thou burn with fire without
bonnets on them: and the the camp: it is a sin offering.
priest’s office shall be theirs 15 Thou shalt also take one
for a perpetual statute: and ram; and Aaron and his sons
thou shalt consecrate Aaron shall put their hands upon
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the head of the ram. 16 And blood that is upon the altar,
thou shalt slay the ram, and and of the anointing oil, and
thou shalt take his blood, sprinkle it upon Aaron, and
and sprinkle it round about upon his garments, and upon
upon the altar. 17 And thou his sons, and upon the gar-
shalt cut the ram in pieces, ments of his sons with him:
and wash the inwards of him, and he shall be hallowed, and
and his legs, and put them his garments, and his sons,
unto his pieces, and unto his and his sons’ garments with
head. 18 And thou shalt burn him. 22 Also thou shalt take
the whole ram upon the al- of the ram the fat and the
tar: it is a burnt offering rump, and the fat that cov-
unto the Lord: it is a sweet ereth the inwards, and the
savour, an offering made by caul above the liver, and the
fire unto the Lord. 19 And two kidneys, and the fat that
thou shalt take the other is upon them, and the right
ram; and Aaron and his sons shoulder; for it is a ram of
shall put their hands upon consecration: 23 And one loaf
the head of the ram. 20 Then of bread, and one cake of
shalt thou kill the ram, and oiled bread, and one wafer
take of his blood, and put out of the basket of the un-
it upon the tip of the right leavened bread that is be-
ear of Aaron, and upon the fore the Lord: 24 And thou
tip of the right ear of his shalt put all in the hands
sons, and upon the thumb of of Aaron, and in the hands
their right hand, and upon of his sons; and shalt wave
the great toe of their right them for a wave offering be-
foot, and sprinkle the blood fore the Lord. 25 And thou
upon the altar round about. shalt receive them of their
21 And thou shalt take of the hands, and burn them upon
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and fifty shekels, and of sweet speak unto the children of Is-
calamus two hundred and rael, saying, This shall be an
fifty shekels, 24 And of cas- holy anointing oil unto me
sia five hundred shekels, af- throughout your generations.
ter the shekel of the sanc- 32 Upon man’s flesh shall it
son of Uri, the son of Hur, ing with all his furniture, and
of the tribe of Judah: 3 And the laver and his foot, 10 And
I have filled him with the the cloths of service, and
spirit of God, in wisdom,
EXODUS 226
said, These be thy gods, O Is- Moses, I have seen this peo-
rael, which brought thee up ple, and, behold, it is a stiff-
out of the land of Egypt. necked people: 10 Now there-
5 And when Aaron saw it, fore let me alone, that my
he built an altar before it; wrath may wax hot against
and Aaron made proclama- them, and that I may con-
tion, and said, To morrow sume them: and I will make
is a feast to the Lord. of thee a great nation. 11 And
6 And they rose up early Moses besought the Lord
on the morrow, and offered his God, and said, Lord,
burnt offerings, and brought why doth thy wrath wax hot
peace offerings; and the peo- against thy people, which
ple sat down to eat and to thou hast brought forth out
drink, and rose up to play. of the land of Egypt with
EXODUS 228
the one side and on the other unto Aaron, What did this
EXODUS 229
people unto thee, that thou said unto them, Thus saith
hast brought so great a sin the Lord God of Israel, Put
upon them? 22 And Aaron every man his sword by his
said, Let not the anger of side, and go in and out
my lord wax hot: thou know- from gate to gate through-
est the people, that they out the camp, and slay ev-
are set on mischief. 23 For ery man his brother, and
they said unto me, Make us every man his companion,
gods, which shall go before and every man his neigh-
us: for as for this Moses, bour. 28 And the children
the man that brought us up of Levi did according to the
out of the land of Egypt, we word of Moses: and there
wot not what is become of fell of the people that day
him. 24 And I said unto them, about three thousand men.
Whosoever hath any gold, let 29 For Moses had said, Con-
the Lord went out unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto
tabernacle of the congrega- me, Bring up this people:
tion, which was without the and thou hast not let me
camp. 8 And it came to pass, know whom thou wilt send
when Moses went out unto with me. Yet thou hast said,
the tabernacle, that all the I know thee by name, and
people rose up, and stood ev- thou hast also found grace in
ery man at his tent door, and my sight. 13 Now therefore,
looked after Moses, until he I pray thee, if I have found
was gone into the taberna- grace in thy sight, shew me
cle. 9 And it came to pass, now thy way, that I may
as Moses entered into the know thee, that I may find
tabernacle, the cloudy pil- grace in thy sight: and con-
lar descended, and stood at sider that this nation is thy
the door of the tabernacle, people. 14 And he said, My
and the Lord talked with presence shall go with thee,
Moses. 10 And all the people and I will give thee rest.
saw the cloudy pillar stand 15 And he said unto him, If
Lord said unto Moses, Write ward all the children of Is-
thou these words: for after rael came nigh: and he gave
the tenor of these words I them in commandment all
have made a covenant with that the Lord had spoken
thee and with Israel. 28 And with him in mount Sinai.
he was there with the Lord 33 And till Moses had done
ing for the door of the court, found blue, and purple, and
18 The pins of the tabernacle, scarlet, and fine linen, and
and the pins of the court, goats’ hair, and red skins
and their cords, 19 The cloths of rams, and badgers’ skins,
of service, to do service in brought them. 24 Every one
the holy place, the holy gar- that did offer an offering of
ments for Aaron the priest, silver and brass brought the
and the garments of his sons, Lord’S offering: and ev-
to minister in the priest’s of- ery man, with whom was
fice. 20 And all the congrega- found shittim wood for any
tion of the children of Israel work of the service, brought
departed from the presence it. 25 And all the women
of Moses. 21 And they came, that were wise hearted did
every one whose heart stirred spin with their hands, and
him up, and every one whom brought that which they had
his spirit made willing, and spun, both of blue, and of
they brought the Lord’S of- purple, and of scarlet, and
fering to the work of the of fine linen. 26 And all the
tabernacle of the congrega- women whose heart stirred
tion, and for all his service, them up in wisdom spun
and for the holy garments. goats’ hair. 27 And the rulers
22 And they came, both men brought onyx stones, and
and women, as many as were stones to be set, for the
willing hearted, and brought ephod, and for the breast-
bracelets, and earrings, and plate; 28 And spice, and oil
rings, and tablets, all jewels for the light, and for the
of gold: and every man that anointing oil, and for the
offered offered an offering of sweet incense. 29 The chil-
gold unto the Lord. 23 And dren of Israel brought a will-
every man, with whom was ing offering unto the Lord,
EXODUS 238
twined linen, and blue, and goats’ hair for the tent over
purple, and scarlet: with the tabernacle: eleven cur-
EXODUS 240
tains he made them. 15 The make for all the boards of the
length of one curtain was tabernacle. 23 And he made
thirty cubits, and four cu- boards for the tabernacle;
bits was the breadth of one twenty boards for the south
curtain: the eleven curtains side southward: 24 And forty
were of one size. 16 And sockets of silver he made un-
he coupled five curtains by der the twenty boards; two
themselves, and six curtains sockets under one board for
by themselves. 17 And he his two tenons, and two
made fifty loops upon the ut- sockets under another board
termost edge of the curtain in for his two tenons. 25 And
the coupling, and fifty loops for the other side of the
made he upon the edge of tabernacle, which is toward
the curtain which coupleth the north corner, he made
the second. 18 And he made twenty boards, 26 And their
fifty taches of brass to cou- forty sockets of silver; two
ple the tent together, that sockets under one board, and
it might be one. 19 And he two sockets under another
made a covering for the tent board. 27 And for the sides
of rams’ skins dyed red, and of the tabernacle westward
a covering of badgers’ skins he made six boards. 28 And
above that. 20 And he made two boards made he for the
boards for the tabernacle of corners of the tabernacle in
shittim wood, standing up. the two sides. 29 And they
21 The length of a board was were coupled beneath, and
ten cubits, and the breadth coupled together at the head
of a board one cubit and a thereof, to one ring: thus he
half. 22 One board had two did to both of them in both
tenons, equally distant one the corners. 30 And there
from another: thus did he were eight boards; and their
EXODUS 241
their wings over the mercy which were upon the table,
seat, with their faces one to his dishes, and his spoons,
another; even to the mercy and his bowls, and his cov-
seatward were the faces of ers to cover withal, of pure
the cherubims. 10 And he gold. 17 And he made the
made the table of shittim candlestick of pure gold: of
wood: two cubits was the beaten work made he the
length thereof, and a cubit candlestick; his shaft, and his
the breadth thereof, and a branch, his bowls, his knops,
cubit and a half the height and his flowers, were of the
thereof: 11 And he overlaid same: 18 And six branches go-
it with pure gold, and made ing out of the sides thereof;
EXODUS 243
scarlet, and in the fine linen, was the length thereof, and
with cunning work. 4 They a span the breadth thereof,
made shoulderpieces for it, to being doubled. 10 And they
couple it together: by the set in it four rows of stones:
two edges was it coupled to- the first row was a sardius, a
gether. 5 And the curious gir- topaz, and a carbuncle: this
dle of his ephod, that was was the first row. 11 And
upon it, was of the same, ac- the second row, an emer-
cording to the work thereof; ald, a sapphire, and a di-
of gold, blue, and purple, amond. 12 And the third
ward. 20 And they made two pure gold, and put the bells
other golden rings, and put between the pomegranates
them on the two sides of upon the hem of the robe,
the ephod underneath, to- round about between the
ward the forepart of it, over pomegranates; 26 A bell and
against the other coupling a pomegranate, a bell and
thereof, above the curious a pomegranate, round about
girdle of the ephod. 21 And the hem of the robe to min-
they did bind the breast- ister in; as the Lord com-
plate by his rings unto the manded Moses. 27 And they
rings of the ephod with a made coats of fine linen of
lace of blue, that it might woven work for Aaron, and
be above the curious gir- for his sons, 28 And a mitre of
dle of the ephod, and that fine linen, and goodly bon-
the breastplate might not nets of fine linen, and linen
be loosed from the ephod; breeches of fine twined linen,
EXODUS 249
all the work of the taberna- grate of brass, his staves, and
cle of the tent of the con- all his vessels, the laver and
gregation finished: and the his foot, 40 The hangings of
children of Israel did accord- the court, his pillars, and his
ing to all that the Lord sockets, and the hanging for
commanded Moses, so did the court gate, his cords, and
they. 33 And they brought his pins, and all the vessels
the tabernacle unto Moses, of the service of the taber-
the tent, and all his furni- nacle, for the tent of the
ture, his taches, his boards, congregation, 41 The cloths of
his bars, and his pillars, and service to do service in the
his sockets, 34 And the cov- holy place, and the holy gar-
ering of rams’ skins dyed ments for Aaron the priest,
red, and the covering of bad- and his sons’ garments, to
gers’ skins, and the vail of minister in the priest’s office.
the covering, 35 The ark of 42 According to all that the
EXODUS 250
be set in order upon it; and laver and his foot, and sanc-
thou shalt bring in the can- tify it. 12 And thou shalt
dlestick, and light the lamps bring Aaron and his sons
thereof. 5 And thou shalt set unto the door of the taber-
the altar of gold for the in- nacle of the congregation,
cense before the ark of the and wash them with water.
testimony, and put the hang- 13 And thou shalt put upon
253
LEVITICUS 254
sacrifice, which is upon the and the caul above the liver,
wood that is on the fire: it is with the kidneys, it shall he
an offering made by fire, of a take away. 11 And the priest
sweet savour unto the Lord. shall burn it upon the al-
6 And if his offering for a sac- tar: it is the food of the of-
rifice of peace offering unto fering made by fire unto the
the Lord be of the flock; Lord. 12 And if his offering
male or female, he shall of- be a goat, then he shall offer
fer it without blemish. 7 If he it before the Lord. 13 And
offer a lamb for his offering, he shall lay his hand upon
then shall he offer it before the head of it, and kill it
the Lord. 8 And he shall lay before the tabernacle of the
his hand upon the head of his congregation: and the sons
offering, and kill it before the of Aaron shall sprinkle the
tabernacle of the congrega- blood thereof upon the al-
tion: and Aaron’s sons shall tar round about. 14 And he
sprinkle the blood thereof shall offer thereof his offer-
round about upon the altar. ing, even an offering made by
9 And he shall offer of the sac- fire unto the Lord; the fat
rifice of the peace offering an that covereth the inwards,
offering made by fire unto the and all the fat that is upon
Lord; the fat thereof, and the inwards, 15 And the two
the whole rump, it shall he kidneys, and the fat that is
take off hard by the back- upon them, which is by the
bone; and the fat that cov- flanks, and the caul above
ereth the inwards, and all the liver, with the kidneys,
the fat that is upon the in- it shall he take away. 16 And
wards, 10 And the two kid- the priest shall burn them
neys, and the fat that is upon upon the altar: it is the food
them, which is by the flanks, of the offering made by fire
LEVITICUS 258
for a sweet savour: all the upon the bullock’s head, and
fat is the Lord’S. 17 It shall kill the bullock before the
be a perpetual statute for Lord. 5 And the priest that
your generations throughout is anointed shall take of the
all your dwellings, that ye eat bullock’s blood, and bring it
neither fat nor blood. to the tabernacle of the con-
gregation: 6 And the priest
shall dip his finger in the
Chapter 4 blood, and sprinkle of the
blood seven times before the
And the Lord spake unto Lord, before the vail of the
Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto sanctuary. 7 And the priest
the children of Israel, say- shall put some of the blood
ing, If a soul shall sin upon the horns of the al-
through ignorance against tar of sweet incense before
any of the commandments of the Lord, which is in the
the Lord concerning things tabernacle of the congrega-
which ought not to be done, tion; and shall pour all the
and shall do against any of blood of the bullock at the
them: 3 If the priest that bottom of the altar of the
is anointed do sin accord- burnt offering, which is at
ing to the sin of the peo- the door of the tabernacle
ple; then let him bring for his of the congregation. 8 And
sin, which he hath sinned, a he shall take off from it all
young bullock without blem- the fat of the bullock for the
ish unto the Lord for a sin offering; the fat that cov-
sin offering. 4 And he shall ereth the inwards, and all the
bring the bullock unto the fat that is upon the inwards,
door of the tabernacle of 9 And the two kidneys, and
head of the sin offering, and put it upon the horns of the
slay the sin offering in the altar of burnt offering, and
place of the burnt offering. shall pour out all the blood
30 And the priest shall take thereof at the bottom of the
of the blood thereof with his altar: 35 And he shall take
finger, and put it upon the away all the fat thereof, as
horns of the altar of burnt the fat of the lamb is taken
offering, and shall pour out away from the sacrifice of
all the blood thereof at the the peace offerings; and the
bottom of the altar. 31 And priest shall burn them upon
he shall take away all the fat the altar, according to the of-
thereof, as the fat is taken ferings made by fire unto the
away from off the sacrifice Lord: and the priest shall
of peace offerings; and the make an atonement for his
priest shall burn it upon the sin that he hath committed,
altar for a sweet savour unto and it shall be forgiven him.
the Lord; and the priest
shall make an atonement for
him, and it shall be forgiven Chapter 5
him. 32 And if he bring a
lamb for a sin offering, he And if a soul sin, and hear
shall bring it a female with- the voice of swearing, and is
out blemish. 33 And he shall a witness, whether he hath
lay his hand upon the head seen or known of it; if he
of the sin offering, and slay it do not utter it, then he shall
for a sin offering in the place bear his iniquity. 2 Or if a
where they kill the burnt of- soul touch any unclean thing,
fering. 34 And the priest shall whether it be a carcase of an
take of the blood of the sin unclean beast, or a carcase of
offering with his finger, and unclean cattle, or the carcase
of unclean creeping things,
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the two kidneys, and the fat and dry, shall all the sons of
that is on them, which is Aaron have, one as much as
by the flanks, and the caul another. 11 And this is the
that is above the liver, with law of the sacrifice of peace
the kidneys, it shall he take offerings, which he shall of-
away: 5 And the priest shall fer unto the Lord. 12 If he
burn them upon the altar offer it for a thanksgiving,
for an offering made by fire then he shall offer with the
unto the Lord: it is a tres- sacrifice of thanksgiving un-
pass offering. 6 Every male leavened cakes mingled with
among the priests shall eat oil, and unleavened wafers
thereof: it shall be eaten in anointed with oil, and cakes
the holy place: it is most mingled with oil, of fine flour,
holy. 7 As the sin offering fried. 13 Besides the cakes,
is, so is the trespass offering: he shall offer for his offering
there is one law for them: leavened bread with the sac-
the priest that maketh atone- rifice of thanksgiving of his
ment therewith shall have it. peace offerings. 14 And of it
8 And the priest that offer- he shall offer one out of the
eth any man’s burnt offering, whole oblation for an heave
even the priest shall have to offering unto the Lord, and
himself the skin of the burnt it shall be the priest’s that
offering which he hath of- sprinkleth the blood of the
fered. 9 And all the meat of- peace offerings. 15 And the
fering that is baken in the flesh of the sacrifice of his
oven, and all that is dressed peace offerings for thanksgiv-
in the fryingpan, and in the ing shall be eaten the same
pan, shall be the priest’s that day that it is offered; he
offereth it. 10 And every meat shall not leave any of it un-
offering, mingled with oil, til the morning. 16 But if the
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and the garments, and the put the mitre upon his head;
anointing oil, and a bullock also upon the mitre, even
for the sin offering, and two upon his forefront, did he
rams, and a basket of un- put the golden plate, the
leavened bread; 3 And gather holy crown; as the Lord
thou all the congregation to- commanded Moses. 10 And
gether unto the door of the Moses took the anointing oil,
tabernacle of the congrega- and anointed the taberna-
tion. 4 And Moses did as the cle and all that was therein,
Lord commanded him; and and sanctified them. 11 And
the assembly was gathered he sprinkled thereof upon
together unto the door of the the altar seven times, and
tabernacle of the congrega- anointed the altar and all
tion. 5 And Moses said unto his vessels, both the laver
the congregation, This is the and his foot, to sanctify
thing which the Lord com-
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the thumb of his right hand, and burnt them on the al-
and upon the great toe of his tar upon the burnt offering:
right foot. 24 And he brought they were consecrations for
Aaron’s sons, and Moses put a sweet savour: it is an of-
of the blood upon the tip of fering made by fire unto the
their right ear, and upon the Lord. 29 And Moses took
thumbs of their right hands, the breast, and waved it for
and upon the great toes of a wave offering before the
their right feet: and Moses Lord: for of the ram of con-
sprinkled the blood upon the secration it was Moses’ part;
altar round about. 25 And he as the Lord commanded
took the fat, and the rump, Moses. 30 And Moses took
and all the fat that was upon of the anointing oil, and of
the inwards, and the caul the blood which was upon
above the liver, and the two the altar, and sprinkled it
kidneys, and their fat, and upon Aaron, and upon his
the right shoulder: 26 And garments, and upon his sons,
out of the basket of unleav- and upon his sons’ garments
ened bread, that was before with him; and sanctified
the Lord, he took one un- Aaron, and his garments,
leavened cake, and a cake of and his sons, and his sons’
oiled bread, and one wafer, garments with him. 31 And
and put them on the fat, Moses said unto Aaron and
and upon the right shoul- to his sons, Boil the flesh at
der: 27 And he put all upon the door of the tabernacle of
Aaron’s hands, and upon his the congregation: and there
sons’ hands, and waved them eat it with the bread that
for a wave offering before the is in the basket of consecra-
Lord. 28 And Moses took tions, as I commanded, say-
them from off their hands, ing, Aaron and his sons shall
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eat it. 32 And that which re- said unto Aaron, Take thee
maineth of the flesh and of a young calf for a sin offer-
the bread shall ye burn with ing, and a ram for a burnt of-
fire. 33 And ye shall not go fering, without blemish, and
out of the door of the taber- offer them before the Lord.
nacle of the congregation in 3 And unto the children of Is-
seven days, until the days of rael thou shalt speak, saying,
your consecration be at an Take ye a kid of the goats for
end: for seven days shall he a sin offering; and a calf and
consecrate you. 34 As he hath a lamb, both of the first year,
done this day, so the Lord without blemish, for a burnt
hath commanded to do, to offering; 4 Also a bullock and
make an atonement for you. a ram for peace offerings,
35 Therefore shall ye abide at to sacrifice before the Lord;
the door of the tabernacle and a meat offering mingled
of the congregation day and with oil: for to day the Lord
night seven days, and keep will appear unto you. 5 And
the charge of the Lord, that they brought that which
ye die not: for so I am com- Moses commanded before
manded. 36 So Aaron and the tabernacle of the congre-
his sons did all things which gation: and all the congrega-
the Lord commanded by the tion drew near and stood be-
hand of Moses. fore the Lord. 6 And Moses
said, This is the thing which
the Lord commanded that
Chapter 9 ye should do: and the glory
of the Lord shall appear
And it came to pass on the unto you. 7 And Moses said
eighth day, that Moses called unto Aaron, Go unto the al-
Aaron and his sons, and the tar, and offer thy sin offer-
elders of Israel; 2 And he
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ing, and thy burnt offering, the burnt offering unto him,
and make an atonement for with the pieces thereof, and
thyself, and for the people: the head: and he burnt them
and offer the offering of the upon the altar. 14 And he
people, and make an atone- did wash the inwards and the
ment for them; as the Lord legs, and burnt them upon
commanded. 8 Aaron there- the burnt offering on the al-
fore went unto the altar, and tar. 15 And he brought the
slew the calf of the sin of- people’s offering, and took
fering, which was for him- the goat, which was the sin
self. 9 And the sons of Aaron offering for the people, and
brought the blood unto him: slew it, and offered it for
and he dipped his finger in sin, as the first. 16 And
unto Ithamar, his sons, Un- ken unto them by the hand
cover not your heads, neither of Moses. 12 And Moses
rend your clothes; lest ye die, spake unto Aaron, and unto
and lest wrath come upon Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
all the people: but let your his sons that were left, Take
brethren, the whole house the meat offering that re-
of Israel, bewail the burn- maineth of the offerings of
ing which the Lord hath the Lord made by fire, and
kindled. 7 And ye shall not eat it without leaven beside
go out from the door of the the altar: for it is most holy:
tabernacle of the congrega- 13 And ye shall eat it in the
ye not eat, and their carcase kite after his kind; 15 Every
shall ye not touch; they are raven after his kind; 16 And
unclean to you. 9 These shall the owl, and the night hawk,
ye eat of all that are in the and the cuckow, and the
waters: whatsoever hath fins hawk after his kind, 17 And
and scales in the waters, in the little owl, and the cor-
the seas, and in the rivers, morant, and the great owl,
them shall ye eat. 10 And 18 And the swan, and the
all that have not fins and pelican, and the gier ea-
scales in the seas, and in the gle, 19 And the stork, the
rivers, of all that move in heron after her kind, and
the waters, and of any liv- the lapwing, and the bat.
ing thing which is in the wa- 20 All fowls that creep, go-
tle after his kind, and the they are unclean unto you.
grasshopper after his kind. 29 These also shall be unclean
23 But all other flying creep- unto you among the creep-
ing things, which have four ing things that creep upon
feet, shall be an abomination the earth; the weasel, and the
unto you. 24 And for these mouse, and the tortoise af-
ye shall be unclean: whoso- ter his kind, 30 And the fer-
ever toucheth the carcase of ret, and the chameleon, and
them shall be unclean un- the lizard, and the snail, and
til the even. 25 And whoso- the mole. 31 These are un-
ever beareth ought of the car- clean to you among all that
case of them shall wash his creep: whosoever doth touch
clothes, and be unclean un- them, when they be dead,
til the even. 26 The carcases shall be unclean until the
of every beast which divideth even. 32 And upon whatso-
the hoof, and is not cloven- ever any of them, when they
footed, nor cheweth the cud, are dead, doth fall, it shall
are unclean unto you: ev- be unclean; whether it be any
ery one that toucheth them vessel of wood, or raiment, or
shall be unclean. 27 And skin, or sack, whatsoever ves-
whatsoever goeth upon his sel it be, wherein any work
paws, among all manner of is done, it must be put into
beasts that go on all four, water, and it shall be un-
those are unclean unto you: clean until the even; so it
whoso toucheth their car- shall be cleansed. 33 And ev-
case shall be unclean until ery earthen vessel, whereinto
the even. 28 And he that any of them falleth, whatso-
beareth the carcase of them ever is in it shall be unclean;
shall wash his clothes, and and ye shall break it. 34 Of
be unclean until the even: all meat which may be eaten,
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thing wherein the plague is, the second time, and shall be
and he shall shut it up seven clean. 59 This is the law of
days more: 55 And the priest the plague of leprosy in a gar-
shall look on the plague, af- ment of woollen or linen, ei-
ter that it is washed: and, ther in the warp, or woof, or
behold, if the plague have any thing of skins, to pro-
not changed his colour, and nounce it clean, or to pro-
the plague be not spread; it nounce it unclean.
is unclean; thou shalt burn it
in the fire; it is fret inward,
whether it be bare within or Chapter 14
without. 56 And if the priest
look, and, behold, the plague And the Lord spake unto
be somewhat dark after the Moses, saying, 2 This shall be
washing of it; then he shall the law of the leper in the
rend it out of the garment, day of his cleansing: He shall
or out of the skin, or out be brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth
of the warp, or out of the
woof: 57 And if it appear still out of the camp; and the
in the garment, either in the priest shall look, and, be-
warp, or in the woof, or in hold, if the plague of leprosy
any thing of skin; it is a be healed in the leper; 4 Then
spreading plague: thou shalt shall the priest command to
burn that wherein the plague take for him that is to be
is with fire. 58 And the gar- cleansed two birds alive and
ment, either warp, or woof, clean, and cedar wood, and
or whatsoever thing of skin it scarlet, and hyssop: 5 And
be, which thou shalt wash, if the priest shall command
the plague be departed from that one of the birds be killed
them, then it shall be washed in an earthen vessel over run-
ning water: 6 As for the liv-
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log of oil, and the priest shall priest’s hand he shall put
wave them for a wave offer- upon the head of him that is
ing before the Lord: 25 And to be cleansed, to make an
he shall kill the lamb of atonement for him before the
the trespass offering, and the Lord. 30 And he shall offer
priest shall take some of the the one of the turtledoves, or
blood of the trespass offer- of the young pigeons, such
ing, and put it upon the tip as he can get; 31 Even such
of the right ear of him that as he is able to get, the
is to be cleansed, and upon one for a sin offering, and
the thumb of his right hand, the other for a burnt offer-
and upon the great toe of ing, with the meat offering:
his right foot: 26 And the and the priest shall make an
priest shall pour of the oil atonement for him that is to
into the palm of his own left be cleansed before the Lord.
hand: 27 And the priest shall 32 This is the law of him in
clean place without the city: into the house all the while
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that it is shut up shall be un- with the living bird, and with
clean until the even. 47 And the cedar wood, and with the
he that lieth in the house hyssop, and with the scar-
shall wash his clothes; and he let: 53 But he shall let go
that eateth in the house shall the living bird out of the
wash his clothes. 48 And if city into the open fields, and
the priest shall come in, and make an atonement for the
look upon it, and, behold, the house: and it shall be clean.
plague hath not spread in the 54 This is the law for all man-
before the Lord unto the clean until the even. 20 And
door of the tabernacle of the every thing that she lieth
congregation, and give them upon in her separation shall
unto the priest: 15 And the be unclean: every thing also
priest shall offer them, the that she sitteth upon shall be
one for a sin offering, and the unclean. 21 And whosoever
other for a burnt offering; toucheth her bed shall wash
and the priest shall make an his clothes, and bathe him-
atonement for him before the self in water, and be unclean
Lord for his issue. 16 And until the even. 22 And whoso-
if any man’s seed of copula- ever toucheth any thing that
tion go out from him, then she sat upon shall wash his
he shall wash all his flesh clothes, and bathe himself in
in water, and be unclean water, and be unclean un-
until the even. 17 And ev- til the even. 23 And if it
ery garment, and every skin, be on her bed, or on any
whereon is the seed of copu- thing whereon she sitteth,
lation, shall be washed with when he toucheth it, he shall
water, and be unclean un- be unclean until the even.
til the even. 18 The woman 24 And if any man lie with
also with whom man shall her at all, and her flowers be
lie with seed of copulation, upon him, he shall be un-
they shall both bathe them- clean seven days; and all the
selves in water, and be un- bed whereon he lieth shall be
clean until the even. 19 And unclean. 25 And if a woman
if a woman have an issue, have an issue of her blood
and her issue in her flesh be many days out of the time
blood, she shall be put apart of her separation, or if it
seven days: and whosoever run beyond the time of her
toucheth her shall be un- separation; all the days of
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wash his flesh in water, and bring the bullock of the sin
so put them on. 5 And he offering, which is for himself,
shall take of the congregation and shall make an atonement
of the children of Israel two for himself, and for his house,
kids of the goats for a sin and shall kill the bullock of
offering, and one ram for a the sin offering which is for
burnt offering. 6 And Aaron himself: 12 And he shall take
shall offer his bullock of the a censer full of burning coals
sin offering, which is for him- of fire from off the altar be-
self, and make an atonement fore the Lord, and his hands
for himself, and for his house. full of sweet incense beaten
7 And he shall take the two small, and bring it within
goats, and present them be- the vail: 13 And he shall put
fore the Lord at the door the incense upon the fire be-
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fore the Lord, that the cloud there shall be no man in the
of the incense may cover the tabernacle of the congrega-
mercy seat that is upon the tion when he goeth in to
testimony, that he die not: make an atonement in the
14 And he shall take of the holy place, until he come out,
blood of the bullock, and and have made an atonement
sprinkle it with his finger for himself, and for his house-
upon the mercy seat east- hold, and for all the congre-
ward; and before the mercy gation of Israel. 18 And he
seat shall he sprinkle of the shall go out unto the altar
blood with his finger seven that is before the Lord, and
times. 15 Then shall he kill make an atonement for it;
the goat of the sin offering, and shall take of the blood
that is for the people, and of the bullock, and of the
bring his blood within the blood of the goat, and put
vail, and do with that blood it upon the horns of the al-
as he did with the blood of tar round about. 19 And he
the bullock, and sprinkle it shall sprinkle of the blood
upon the mercy seat, and be- upon it with his finger seven
fore the mercy seat: 16 And times, and cleanse it, and
he shall make an atonement hallow it from the unclean-
for the holy place, because of ness of the children of Is-
the uncleanness of the chil- rael. 20 And when he hath
dren of Israel, and because made an end of reconciling
of their transgressions in all the holy place, and the taber-
their sins: and so shall he nacle of the congregation,
do for the tabernacle of the and the altar, he shall bring
congregation, that remaineth the live goat: 21 And Aaron
among them in the midst shall lay both his hands upon
of their uncleanness. 17 And the head of the live goat,
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and confess over him all the goat for the scapegoat shall
iniquities of the children of wash his clothes, and bathe
Israel, and all their trans- his flesh in water, and af-
gressions in all their sins, terward come into the camp.
putting them upon the head 27 And the bullock for the sin
of the goat, and shall send offering, and the goat for the
him away by the hand of a sin offering, whose blood was
fit man into the wilderness: brought in to make atone-
22 And the goat shall bear ment in the holy place, shall
upon him all their iniquities one carry forth without the
unto a land not inhabited: camp; and they shall burn in
and he shall let go the goat in the fire their skins, and their
the wilderness. 23 And Aaron flesh, and their dung. 28 And
shall come into the taberna- he that burneth them shall
cle of the congregation, and wash his clothes, and bathe
shall put off the linen gar- his flesh in water, and after-
ments, which he put on when ward he shall come into the
he went into the holy place, camp. 29 And this shall be
and shall leave them there: a statute for ever unto you:
24 And he shall wash his flesh that in the seventh month, on
with water in the holy place, the tenth day of the month,
and put on his garments, ye shall afflict your souls, and
and come forth, and offer do no work at all, whether
his burnt offering, and the it be one of your own coun-
burnt offering of the people, try, or a stranger that so-
and make an atonement for journeth among you: 30 For
himself, and for the people. on that day shall the priest
25 And the fat of the sin offer- make an atonement for you,
ing shall he burn upon the al- to cleanse you, that ye may
tar. 26 And he that let go the be clean from all your sins
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tion, unto the priest, and journ among you, that eateth
offer them for peace offer- any manner of blood; I will
ings unto the Lord. 6 And even set my face against that
the priest shall sprinkle the soul that eateth blood, and
blood upon the altar of the will cut him off from among
Lord at the door of the his people. 11 For the life
tabernacle of the congrega- of the flesh is in the blood:
tion, and burn the fat for a and I have given it to you
sweet savour unto the Lord. upon the altar to make an
7 And they shall no more of- atonement for your souls: for
fer their sacrifices unto dev- it is the blood that maketh
ils, after whom they have an atonement for the soul.
gone a whoring. This shall 12 Therefore I said unto the
the wages of him that is Thou shalt not let thy cattle
hired shall not abide with gender with a diverse kind:
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Lord, unto the door of the shall not round the corners
tabernacle of the congrega- of your heads, neither shalt
tion, even a ram for a tres- thou mar the corners of thy
pass offering. 22 And the beard. 28 Ye shall not make
priest shall make an atone- any cuttings in your flesh
ment for him with the ram for the dead, nor print any
of the trespass offering before marks upon you: I am the
the Lord for his sin which Lord. 29 Do not prostitute
he hath done: and the sin thy daughter, to cause her
which he hath done shall be to be a whore; lest the land
forgiven him. 23 And when ye fall to whoredom, and the
shall come into the land, and land become full of wicked-
shall have planted all manner ness. 30 Ye shall keep my
of trees for food, then ye shall sabbaths, and reverence my
count the fruit thereof as sanctuary: I am the Lord.
uncircumcised: three years 31 Regard not them that have
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thing. 11 But if the priest buy the Lord spake unto Moses,
any soul with his money, he saying, 18 Speak unto Aaron,
shall eat of it, and he that and to his sons, and unto
is born in his house: they all the children of Israel, and
shall eat of his meat. 12 If say unto them, Whatsoever
the priest’s daughter also be he be of the house of Israel,
married unto a stranger, she or of the strangers in Israel,
may not eat of an offering that will offer his oblation
of the holy things. 13 But for all his vows, and for all
if the priest’s daughter be his freewill offerings, which
a widow, or divorced, and they will offer unto the Lord
have no child, and is returned for a burnt offering; 19 Ye
unto her father’s house, as shall offer at your own will
in her youth, she shall eat a male without blemish, of
of her father’s meat: but the beeves, of the sheep, or of
there shall no stranger eat the goats. 20 But whatsoever
thereof. 14 And if a man hath a blemish, that shall ye
eat of the holy thing unwit- not offer: for it shall not be
tingly, then he shall put the acceptable for you. 21 And
fifth part thereof unto it, and whosoever offereth a sacrifice
shall give it unto the priest of peace offerings unto the
with the holy thing. 15 And Lord to accomplish his vow,
they shall not profane the or a freewill offering in beeves
holy things of the children or sheep, it shall be perfect
of Israel, which they offer to be accepted; there shall be
unto the Lord; 16 Or suffer no blemish therein. 22 Blind,
them to bear the iniquity of or broken, or maimed, or
trespass, when they eat their having a wen, or scurvy, or
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are the firstfruits unto the vest of your land, thou shalt
Lord. 18 And ye shall offer not make clean riddance of
with the bread seven lambs the corners of thy field when
without blemish of the first thou reapest, neither shalt
year, and one young bullock, thou gather any gleaning of
and two rams: they shall be thy harvest: thou shalt leave
for a burnt offering unto the them unto the poor, and
Lord, with their meat offer- to the stranger: I am the
ing, and their drink offerings, Lord your God. 23 And the
even an offering made by Lord spake unto Moses, say-
fire, of sweet savour unto the ing, 24 Speak unto the chil-
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are the feasts of the Lord, the Lord seven days in the
which ye shall proclaim to year. It shall be a statute for
be holy convocations, to of- ever in your generations: ye
fer an offering made by fire shall celebrate it in the sev-
unto the Lord, a burnt of- enth month. 42 Ye shall dwell
fering, and a meat offering, a in booths seven days; all that
sacrifice, and drink offerings, are Israelites born shall dwell
every thing upon his day: in booths: 43 That your gen-
38 Beside the sabbaths of the erations may know that I
Lord, and beside your gifts, made the children of Israel
and beside all your vows, and to dwell in booths, when I
beside all your freewill of- brought them out of the land
ferings, which ye give unto of Egypt: I am the Lord
the Lord. 39 Also in the your God. 44 And Moses de-
fifteenth day of the seventh clared unto the children of Is-
month, when ye have gath- rael the feasts of the Lord.
ered in the fruit of the land,
ye shall keep a feast unto
the Lord seven days: on Chapter 24
the first day shall be a sab-
bath, and on the eighth day And the Lord spake unto
shall be a sabbath. 40 And ye Moses, saying, 2 Command
shall take you on the first day the children of Israel, that
the boughs of goodly trees, they bring unto thee pure oil
branches of palm trees, and olive beaten for the light, to
the boughs of thick trees, and cause the lamps to burn con-
willows of the brook; and ye tinually. 3 Without the vail of
shall rejoice before the Lord the testimony, in the taber-
your God seven days. 41 And nacle of the congregation,
ye shall keep it a feast unto shall Aaron order it from the
evening unto the morning be-
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and according to the fewness for ever: for the land is mine;
of years thou shalt diminish for ye are strangers and so-
the price of it: for according journers with me. 24 And in
to the number of the years of all the land of your posses-
the fruits doth he sell unto sion ye shall grant a redemp-
thee. 17 Ye shall not there- tion for the land. 25 If thy
fore oppress one another; but brother be waxen poor, and
thou shalt fear thy God: for hath sold away some of his
I am the Lord your God. possession, and if any of his
18 Wherefore ye shall do my kin come to redeem it, then
statutes, and keep my judg- shall he redeem that which
ments, and do them; and his brother sold. 26 And if
ye shall dwell in the land the man have none to re-
in safety. 19 And the land deem it, and himself be able
shall yield her fruit, and ye to redeem it; 27 Then let him
shall eat your fill, and dwell count the years of the sale
therein in safety. 20 And if ye thereof, and restore the over-
shall say, What shall we eat plus unto the man to whom
the seventh year? behold, we he sold it; that he may return
shall not sow, nor gather in unto his possession. 28 But if
our increase: 21 Then I will he be not able to restore it
command my blessing upon to him, then that which is
you in the sixth year, and sold shall remain in the hand
it shall bring forth fruit for of him that hath bought it
three years. 22 And ye shall until the year of jubile: and
sow the eighth year, and eat in the jubile it shall go out,
yet of old fruit until the ninth and he shall return unto his
year; until her fruits come in possession. 29 And if a man
ye shall eat of the old store. sell a dwelling house in a
23 The land shall not be sold walled city, then he may re-
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hearken unto me, and will spent in vain: for your land
not do all these command- shall not yield her increase,
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neither shall the trees of the shall bake your bread in one
land yield their fruits. 21 And oven, and they shall deliver
if ye walk contrary unto me, you your bread again by
and will not hearken unto weight: and ye shall eat, and
me; I will bring seven times not be satisfied. 27 And if ye
more plagues upon you ac- will not for all this hearken
cording to your sins. 22 I unto me, but walk contrary
will also send wild beasts unto me; 28 Then I will walk
among you, which shall rob contrary unto you also in
you of your children, and de- fury; and I, even I, will chas-
stroy your cattle, and make tise you seven times for your
you few in number; and sins. 29 And ye shall eat the
your high ways shall be des- flesh of your sons, and the
olate. 23 And if ye will not flesh of your daughters shall
be reformed by me by these ye eat. 30 And I will destroy
things, but will walk con- your high places, and cut
trary unto me; 24 Then will I down your images, and cast
also walk contrary unto you, your carcases upon the car-
and will punish you yet seven cases of your idols, and my
times for your sins. 25 And I soul shall abhor you. 31 And
will bring a sword upon you, I will make your cities waste,
that shall avenge the quarrel and bring your sanctuaries
of my covenant: and when ye unto desolation, and I will
are gathered together within not smell the savour of your
your cities, I will send the sweet odours. 32 And I will
pestilence among you; and bring the land into desola-
ye shall be delivered into the tion: and your enemies which
hand of the enemy. 26 And dwell therein shall be aston-
when I have broken the staff ished at it. 33 And I will scat-
of your bread, ten women ter you among the heathen,
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and will draw out a sword af- eat you up. 39 And they
ter you: and your land shall that are left of you shall pine
be desolate, and your cities away in their iniquity in your
waste. 34 Then shall the land enemies’ lands; and also in
enjoy her sabbaths, as long the iniquities of their fathers
as it lieth desolate, and ye be shall they pine away with
in your enemies’ land; even them. 40 If they shall con-
then shall the land rest, and fess their iniquity, and the in-
enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As iquity of their fathers, with
long as it lieth desolate it their trespass which they
shall rest; because it did not trespassed against me, and
rest in your sabbaths, when that also they have walked
ye dwelt upon it. 36 And contrary unto me; 41 And that
upon them that are left alive I also have walked contrary
of you I will send a faint- unto them, and have brought
ness into their hearts in the them into the land of their
lands of their enemies; and enemies; if then their un-
the sound of a shaken leaf circumcised hearts be hum-
shall chase them; and they bled, and they then accept of
shall flee, as fleeing from a the punishment of their iniq-
sword; and they shall fall uity: 42 Then will I remem-
when none pursueth. 37 And ber my covenant with Jacob,
they shall fall one upon an- and also my covenant with
other, as it were before a Isaac, and also my covenant
sword, when none pursueth: with Abraham will I remem-
and ye shall have no power ber; and I will remember the
to stand before your ene- land. 43 The land also shall
mies. 38 And ye shall per- be left of them, and shall en-
ish among the heathen, and joy her sabbaths, while she
the land of your enemies shall lieth desolate without them:
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all that, when they be in the of the male from twenty years
land of their enemies, I will old even unto sixty years
not cast them away, neither old, even thy estimation shall
will I abhor them, to destroy be fifty shekels of silver, af-
them utterly, and to break ter the shekel of the sanctu-
my covenant with them: for ary. 4 And if it be a female,
I am the Lord their God. then thy estimation shall be
45 But I will for their sakes re- thirty shekels. 5 And if it
member the covenant of their be from five years old even
ancestors, whom I brought unto twenty years old, then
forth out of the land of Egypt thy estimation shall be of
in the sight of the heathen, the male twenty shekels, and
that I might be their God: I for the female ten shekels.
am the Lord. 46 These are 6 And if it be from a month
the statutes and judgments old even unto five years old,
and laws, which the Lord then thy estimation shall be
made between him and the of the male five shekels of
children of Israel in mount silver, and for the female
Sinai by the hand of Moses. thy estimation shall be three
shekels of silver. 7 And if it
be from sixty years old and
Chapter 27 above; if it be a male, then
thy estimation shall be fif-
And the Lord spake unto teen shekels, and for the fe-
Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto
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A unto Moses in
the wilderness
of Sinai, in the
tabernacle of the congrega-
tion, on the first day of the
one head of the house of his
fathers. 5 And these are the
names of the men that shall
stand with you: of the tribe
of Reuben; Elizur the son of
second month, in the second Shedeur. 6 Of Simeon; She-
year after they were come out lumiel the son of Zurishad-
of the land of Egypt, saying, dai. 7 Of Judah; Nahshon the
2 Take ye the sum of all the son of Amminadab. 8 Of Is-
congregation of the children sachar; Nethaneel the son of
of Israel, after their families, Zuar. 9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the
by the house of their fathers, son of Helon. 10 Of the chil-
with the number of their dren of Joseph: of Ephraim;
names, every male by their Elishama the son of Ammi-
polls; 3 From twenty years old hud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel
and upward, all that are able the son of Pedahzur. 11 Of
to go forth to war in Israel: Benjamin; Abidan the son of
thou and Aaron shall num- Gideoni. 12 Of Dan; Ahiezer
332
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that were numbered were six shall pitch their tents, every
hundred thousand and three man by his own camp, and
thousand and five hundred every man by his own stan-
and fifty. 47 But the Levites dard, throughout their hosts.
after the tribe of their fathers 53 But the Levites shall pitch
ing the charge of the sanc- and two hundred. 35 And the
tuary. 29 The families of the chief of the house of the fa-
sons of Kohath shall pitch ther of the families of Mer-
on the side of the taberna- ari was Zuriel the son of Abi-
cle southward. 30 And the hail: these shall pitch on the
chief of the house of the fa- side of the tabernacle north-
ther of the families of the Ko- ward. 36 And under the cus-
hathites shall be Elizaphan tody and charge of the sons
the son of Uzziel. 31 And of Merari shall be the boards
their charge shall be the ark, of the tabernacle, and the
and the table, and the can- bars thereof, and the pil-
dlestick, and the altars, and lars thereof, and the sockets
the vessels of the sanctu- thereof, and all the vessels
ary wherewith they minis- thereof, and all that serveth
ter, and the hanging, and all thereto, 37 And the pillars
the service thereof. 32 And of the court round about,
Eleazar the son of Aaron the and their sockets, and their
priest shall be chief over the pins, and their cords. 38 But
chief of the Levites, and have those that encamp before the
the oversight of them that tabernacle toward the east,
keep the charge of the sanc- even before the tabernacle
tuary. 33 Of Merari was the of the congregation eastward,
family of the Mahlites, and shall be Moses, and Aaron
the family of the Mushites: and his sons, keeping the
these are the families of Mer- charge of the sanctuary for
ari. 34 And those that were the charge of the children of
numbered of them, accord- Israel; and the stranger that
ing to the number of all the cometh nigh shall be put to
males, from a month old and death. 39 All that were num-
upward, were six thousand bered of the Levites, which
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til fifty years old, all that they shall take a cloth of
enter into the host, to do blue, and cover the candle-
the work in the tabernacle stick of the light, and his
of the congregation. 4 This lamps, and his tongs, and
shall be the service of the his snuffdishes, and all the
sons of Kohath in the taber- oil vessels thereof, where-
nacle of the congregation, with they minister unto it:
about the most holy things: 10 And they shall put it and
5 And when the camp setteth
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number them, every one that and after the house of their
entereth into the service, to fathers, 35 From thirty years
do the work of the tabernacle old and upward even unto
of the congregation. 31 And fifty years old, every one that
this is the charge of their entereth into the service, for
burden, according to all their the work in the tabernacle
service in the tabernacle of of the congregation: 36 And
the congregation; the boards those that were numbered of
of the tabernacle, and the them by their families were
bars thereof, and the pillars two thousand seven hundred
thereof, and sockets thereof, and fifty. 37 These were they
32 And the pillars of the court that were numbered of the
round about, and their sock- families of the Kohathites,
ets, and their pins, and their all that might do service in
cords, with all their instru- the tabernacle of the con-
ments, and with all their gregation, which Moses and
service: and by name ye Aaron did number according
shall reckon the instruments to the commandment of the
of the charge of their bur- Lord by the hand of Moses.
den. 33 This is the service 38 And those that were num-
curse shall go into thy bow- her husband, that the water
els, to make thy belly to that causeth the curse shall
swell, and thy thigh to rot: enter into her, and become
And the woman shall say, bitter, and her belly shall
Amen, amen. 23 And the swell, and her thigh shall
priest shall write these curses rot: and the woman shall be
in a book, and he shall blot a curse among her people.
them out with the bitter wa- 28 And if the woman be not
say unto them, When either his brother, or for his sis-
man or woman shall sepa- ter, when they die: because
rate themselves to vow a vow the consecration of his God
of a Nazarite, to separate is upon his head. 8 All the
themselves unto the Lord: days of his separation he is
3 He shall separate himself holy unto the Lord. 9 And
from wine and strong drink, if any man die very suddenly
and shall drink no vinegar by him, and he hath defiled
of wine, or vinegar of strong the head of his consecration;
drink, neither shall he drink then he shall shave his head
any liquor of grapes, nor eat in the day of his cleansing,
moist grapes, or dried. 4 All on the seventh day shall he
the days of his separation shave it. 10 And on the eighth
shall he eat nothing that is day he shall bring two tur-
made of the vine tree, from tles, or two young pigeons, to
the kernels even to the husk. the priest, to the door of the
5 All the days of the vow of tabernacle of the congrega-
his separation there shall no tion: 11 And the priest shall
razor come upon his head: offer the one for a sin offer-
until the days be fulfilled, in ing, and the other for a burnt
the which he separateth him- offering, and make an atone-
self unto the Lord, he shall ment for him, for that he
be holy, and shall let the sinned by the dead, and shall
locks of the hair of his head hallow his head that same
grow. 6 All the days that he day. 12 And he shall con-
separateth himself unto the secrate unto the Lord the
Lord he shall come at no days of his separation, and
dead body. 7 He shall not shall bring a lamb of the
make himself unclean for his first year for a trespass of-
father, or for his mother, for fering: but the days that
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were before shall be lost, be- the priest shall offer also his
cause his separation was de- meat offering, and his drink
filed. 13 And this is the law of offering. 18 And the Nazarite
the Nazarite, when the days shall shave the head of his
of his separation are fulfilled: separation at the door of the
he shall be brought unto the tabernacle of the congrega-
door of the tabernacle of the tion, and shall take the hair
congregation: 14 And he shall of the head of his separa-
offer his offering unto the tion, and put it in the fire
Lord, one he lamb of the which is under the sacrifice
first year without blemish for of the peace offerings. 19 And
a burnt offering, and one ewe the priest shall take the sod-
lamb of the first year with- den shoulder of the ram, and
out blemish for a sin offer- one unleavened cake out of
ing, and one ram without the basket, and one unleav-
blemish for peace offerings, ened wafer, and shall put
15 And a basket of unleav- them upon the hands of the
ened bread, cakes of fine flour Nazarite, after the hair of his
mingled with oil, and wafers separation is shaven: 20 And
of unleavened bread anointed the priest shall wave them
with oil, and their meat of- for a wave offering before the
fering, and their drink offer- Lord: this is holy for the
ings. 16 And the priest shall priest, with the wave breast
bring them before the Lord, and heave shoulder: and af-
and shall offer his sin offer- ter that the Nazarite may
ing, and his burnt offering: drink wine. 21 This is the
17 And he shall offer the ram law of the Nazarite who hath
for a sacrifice of peace offer- vowed, and of his offering
ings unto the Lord, with the unto the Lord for his sep-
basket of unleavened bread: aration, beside that that his
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golden spoon of ten shekels, ings, two oxen, five rams, five
full of incense: 39 One young he goats, five lambs of the
bullock, one ram, one lamb of first year: this was the of-
the first year, for a burnt of- fering of Eliasaph the son of
fering: 40 One kid of the goats Deuel. 48 On the seventh day
for a sin offering: 41 And Elishama the son of Ammi-
for a sacrifice of peace offer- hud, prince of the children of
ings, two oxen, five rams, five Ephraim, offered: 49 His of-
he goats, five lambs of the fering was one silver charger,
first year: this was the of- the weight whereof was an
fering of Shelumiel the son hundred and thirty shekels,
of Zurishaddai. 42 On the one silver bowl of seventy
sixth day Eliasaph the son of shekels, after the shekel of
Deuel, prince of the children the sanctuary; both of them
of Gad, offered: 43 His of- full of fine flour mingled with
fering was one silver charger oil for a meat offering: 50 One
of the weight of an hundred golden spoon of ten shekels,
and thirty shekels, a silver full of incense: 51 One young
bowl of seventy shekels, af- bullock, one ram, one lamb of
ter the shekel of the sanctu- the first year, for a burnt of-
ary; both of them full of fine fering: 52 One kid of the goats
flour mingled with oil for a for a sin offering: 53 And for
meat offering: 44 One golden a sacrifice of peace offerings,
spoon of ten shekels, full of two oxen, five rams, five he
incense: 45 One young bul- goats, five lambs of the first
lock, one ram, one lamb of year: this was the offering
the first year, for a burnt of- of Elishama the son of Am-
fering: 46 One kid of the goats mihud. 54 On the eighth day
for a sin offering: 47 And offered Gamaliel the son of
for a sacrifice of peace offer- Pedahzur, prince of the chil-
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I have taken the Levites for ter that went the Levites
all the firstborn of the chil- in to do their service in the
dren of Israel. 19 And I have tabernacle of the congrega-
given the Levites as a gift tion before Aaron, and be-
to Aaron and to his sons fore his sons: as the Lord
from among the children of had commanded Moses con-
Israel, to do the service of cerning the Levites, so did
the children of Israel in the they unto them. 23 And the
tabernacle of the congrega- Lord spake unto Moses, say-
tion, and to make an atone- ing, 24 This is it that be-
ment for the children of Is- longeth unto the Levites:
rael: that there be no plague from twenty and five years
among the children of Israel, old and upward they shall go
when the children of Israel in to wait upon the service
come nigh unto the sanc- of the tabernacle of the con-
tuary. 20 And Moses, and gregation: 25 And from the
Aaron, and all the congrega- age of fifty years they shall
tion of the children of Israel, cease waiting upon the ser-
did to the Levites accord- vice thereof, and shall serve
ing unto all that the Lord no more: 26 But shall min-
commanded Moses concern- ister with their brethren in
ing the Levites, so did the the tabernacle of the congre-
children of Israel unto them. gation, to keep the charge,
21 And the Levites were puri- and shall do no service.
fied, and they washed their Thus shalt thou do unto
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And the Lord spake unto priests, shall blow with the
Moses, saying, 2 Make thee
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dai. 20 And over the host of 27 And over the host of the
the tribe of the children of tribe of the children of Naph-
Gad was Eliasaph the son tali was Ahira the son of
of Deuel. 21 And the Ko- Enan. 28 Thus were the
ing, Who shall give us flesh thou shalt see now whether
to eat? for it was well my word shall come to pass
with us in Egypt: there- unto thee or not. 24 And
fore the Lord will give you Moses went out, and told
flesh, and ye shall eat. 19 Ye the people the words of the
shall not eat one day, nor Lord, and gathered the sev-
two days, nor five days, nei- enty men of the elders of
ther ten days, nor twenty the people, and set them
days; 20 But even a whole round about the tabernacle.
month, until it come out at 25 And the Lord came down
Lord said unto Moses, Is the man, and told Moses, and
Lord’S hand waxed short? said, Eldad and Medad do
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prophets, and that the Lord called the name of that place
would put his spirit upon Kibrothhattaavah: because
them! 30 And Moses gat him there they buried the peo-
into the camp, he and the el- ple that lusted. 35 And the
ders of Israel. 31 And there people journeyed from Ki-
went forth a wind from the brothhattaavah unto Haze-
Lord, and brought quails roth; and abode at Hazeroth.
from the sea, and let them
fall by the camp, as it were
a day’s journey on this side, Chapter 12
and as it were a day’s jour-
ney on the other side, round And Miriam and Aaron
about the camp, and as it spake against Moses because
were two cubits high upon of the Ethiopian woman
the face of the earth. 32 And whom he had married: for
the people stood up all that he had married an Ethiopian
woman. 2 And they said,
day, and all that night, and
all the next day, and they Hath the Lord indeed spo-
gathered the quails: he that ken only by Moses? hath he
gathered least gathered ten not spoken also by us? And
homers: and they spread the Lord heard it. 3 (Now
the man Moses was very
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meek, above all the men anger of the Lord was kin-
which were upon the face dled against them; and he
of the earth.) 4 And the departed. 10 And the cloud
Lord spake suddenly unto departed from off the taber-
Moses, and unto Aaron, and nacle; and, behold, Miriam
unto Miriam, Come out ye became leprous, white as
three unto the tabernacle of snow: and Aaron looked
the congregation. And they upon Miriam, and, behold,
three came out. 5 And the she was leprous. 11 And
Lord came down in the pil- Aaron said unto Moses, Alas,
lar of the cloud, and stood my lord, I beseech thee, lay
in the door of the taberna- not the sin upon us, wherein
cle, and called Aaron and we have done foolishly, and
Miriam: and they both came wherein we have sinned.
forth. 6 And he said, Hear 12 Let her not be as one dead,
cities they be that they dwell was called the brook Esh-
in, whether in tents, or in col, because of the cluster
strong holds; 20 And what of grapes which the chil-
the land is, whether it be dren of Israel cut down from
fat or lean, whether there thence. 25 And they returned
be wood therein, or not. from searching of the land af-
And be ye of good courage, ter forty days. 26 And they
and bring of the fruit of went and came to Moses,
the land. Now the time and to Aaron, and to all the
was the time of the firstripe congregation of the children
grapes. 21 So they went of Israel, unto the wilder-
up, and searched the land ness of Paran, to Kadesh;
from the wilderness of Zin and brought back word unto
unto Rehob, as men come them, and unto all the con-
to Hamath. 22 And they as- gregation, and shewed them
cended by the south, and the fruit of the land. 27 And
came unto Hebron; where they told him, and said, We
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Tal- came unto the land whither
mai, the children of Anak, thou sentest us, and surely
were. (Now Hebron was it floweth with milk and
built seven years before Zoan honey; and this is the fruit
in Egypt.) 23 And they of it. 28 Nevertheless the peo-
came unto the brook of Es- ple be strong that dwell in
hcol, and cut down from the land, and the cities are
thence a branch with one walled, and very great: and
cluster of grapes, and they moreover we saw the chil-
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ing thou shalt offer the third among you in your genera-
part of an hin of wine, for a tions, and will offer an offer-
sweet savour unto the Lord. ing made by fire, of a sweet
8 And when thou preparest a savour unto the Lord; as ye
bullock for a burnt offering, do, so he shall do. 15 One
or for a sacrifice in perform- ordinance shall be both for
ing a vow, or peace offer- you of the congregation, and
ings unto the Lord: 9 Then also for the stranger that so-
shall he bring with a bullock journeth with you, an ordi-
a meat offering of three tenth nance for ever in your gener-
deals of flour mingled with ations: as ye are, so shall the
half an hin of oil. 10 And stranger be before the Lord.
thou shalt bring for a drink 16 One law and one manner
Aaron, and said unto them, unto you, that the God of Is-
Ye take too much upon you, rael hath separated you from
seeing all the congregation the congregation of Israel, to
are holy, every one of them, bring you near to himself to
and the Lord is among do the service of the taberna-
them: wherefore then lift cle of the Lord, and to stand
ye up yourselves above the before the congregation to
congregation of the Lord? minister unto them? 10 And
4 And when Moses heard it,
he hath brought thee near
he fell upon his face: 5 And to him, and all thy brethren
he spake unto Korah and the sons of Levi with thee:
unto all his company, saying, and seek ye the priesthood
Even to morrow the Lord also? 11 For which cause
will shew who are his, and both thou and all thy com-
who is holy; and will cause
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and their sons, and their lit- and all that appertained to
tle children. 28 And Moses them, went down alive into
said, Hereby ye shall know the pit, and the earth closed
that the Lord hath sent me upon them: and they per-
to do all these works; for I ished from among the con-
have not done them of mine gregation. 34 And all Israel
own mind. 29 If these men that were round about them
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come nigh the vessels of the death. 8 And the Lord spake
sanctuary and the altar, that unto Aaron, Behold, I also
neither they, nor ye also, have given thee the charge of
die. 4 And they shall be mine heave offerings of all the
joined unto thee, and keep hallowed things of the chil-
the charge of the tabernacle dren of Israel; unto thee have
of the congregation, for all I given them by reason of the
the service of the tabernacle: anointing, and to thy sons,
and a stranger shall not come by an ordinance for ever.
nigh unto you. 5 And ye shall 9 This shall be thine of the
your priest’s office for every offering of their gift, with all
thing of the altar, and within the wave offerings of the chil-
the vail; and ye shall serve: dren of Israel: I have given
I have given your priest’s of- them unto thee, and to thy
fice unto you as a service of sons and to thy daughters
gift: and the stranger that with thee, by a statute for
cometh nigh shall be put to ever: every one that is clean
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third day, and on the sev- they shall take of the ashes of
enth day he shall be clean: the burnt heifer of purifica-
but if he purify not him- tion for sin, and running wa-
self the third day, then the ter shall be put thereto in a
seventh day he shall not be vessel: 18 And a clean person
clean. 13 Whosoever toucheth shall take hyssop, and dip
the dead body of any man it in the water, and sprinkle
that is dead, and purifi- it upon the tent, and upon
eth not himself, defileth the all the vessels, and upon the
tabernacle of the Lord; and persons that were there, and
that soul shall be cut off from upon him that touched a
Israel: because the water of bone, or one slain, or one
separation was not sprinkled dead, or a grave: 19 And
upon him, he shall be un- the clean person shall sprin-
clean; his uncleanness is yet kle upon the unclean on the
upon him. 14 This is the third day, and on the sev-
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ter out of the rock: so thou gers from Kadesh unto the
shalt give the congregation king of Edom, Thus saith thy
and their beasts drink. 9 And brother Israel, Thou know-
Moses took the rod from be- est all the travail that hath
fore the Lord, as he com- befallen us: 15 How our fa-
manded him. 10 And Moses thers went down into Egypt,
and Aaron gathered the con- and we have dwelt in Egypt
gregation together before the a long time; and the Egyp-
rock, and he said unto them, tians vexed us, and our fa-
Hear now, ye rebels; must we thers: 16 And when we cried
fetch you water out of this unto the Lord, he heard our
rock? 11 And Moses lifted up voice, and sent an angel, and
his hand, and with his rod hath brought us forth out of
he smote the rock twice: and Egypt: and, behold, we are
the water came out abun- in Kadesh, a city in the ut-
dantly, and the congregation termost of thy border: 17 Let
drank, and their beasts also. us pass, I pray thee, through
12 And the Lord spake unto thy country: we will not
Moses and Aaron, Because pass through the fields, or
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ther will we drink of the wa- Lord spake unto Moses and
ter of the wells: we will go Aaron in mount Hor, by
by the king’s high way, we the coast of the land of
will not turn to the right Edom, saying, 24 Aaron shall
hand nor to the left, un- be gathered unto his peo-
til we have passed thy bor- ple: for he shall not enter
ders. 18 And Edom said unto into the land which I have
him, Thou shalt not pass by given unto the children of
me, lest I come out against Israel, because ye rebelled
thee with the sword. 19 And against my word at the water
the children of Israel said of Meribah. 25 Take Aaron
unto him, We will go by and Eleazar his son, and
the high way: and if I and bring them up unto mount
my cattle drink of thy wa- Hor: 26 And strip Aaron of
ter, then I will pay for it: I his garments, and put them
will only, without doing any upon Eleazar his son: and
thing else, go through on my Aaron shall be gathered unto
feet. 20 And he said, Thou his people, and shall die
shalt not go through. And there. 27 And Moses did as
Edom came out against him the Lord commanded: and
with much people, and with they went up into mount
a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom Hor in the sight of all the
refused to give Israel passage congregation. 28 And Moses
through his border: where- stripped Aaron of his gar-
fore Israel turned away from ments, and put them upon
him. 22 And the children of Eleazar his son; and Aaron
Israel, even the whole con- died there in the top of
gregation, journeyed from the mount: and Moses and
Kadesh, and came unto Eleazar came down from the
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mount. 29 And when all the soul of the people was much
congregation saw that Aaron discouraged because of the
was dead, they mourned for way. 5 And the people spake
Aaron thirty days, even all against God, and against
the house of Israel. Moses, Wherefore have ye
brought us up out of Egypt
to die in the wilderness?
Chapter 21 for there is no bread, nei-
ther is there any water; and
And when king Arad the our soul loatheth this light
Canaanite, which dwelt in bread. 6 And the Lord sent
the south, heard tell that Is- fiery serpents among the peo-
rael came by the way of the ple, and they bit the people;
spies; then he fought against and much people of Israel
Israel, and took some of died. 7 Therefore the people
them prisoners. 2 And Israel came to Moses, and said, We
vowed a vow unto the Lord, have sinned, for we have spo-
and said, If thou wilt in- ken against the Lord, and
deed deliver this people into against thee; pray unto the
my hand, then I will utterly Lord, that he take away
destroy their cities. 3 And the serpents from us. And
the Lord hearkened to the Moses prayed for the people.
voice of Israel, and delivered 8 And the Lord said unto
thy hand, and all his peo- the Moabites at that time.
ple, and his land; and thou 5 He sent messengers there-
the Lord shall speak unto sent yet again princes, more,
me: and the princes of and more honourable than
Moab abode with Balaam. they. 16 And they came to
9 And God came unto Bal- Balaam, and said to him,
aam, and said, What men are Thus saith Balak the son of
these with thee? 10 And Bal- Zippor, Let nothing, I pray
aam said unto God, Balak thee, hinder thee from com-
the son of Zippor, king of ing unto me: 17 For I will
Moab, hath sent unto me, promote thee unto very great
saying, 11 Behold, there is a honour, and I will do what-
people come out of Egypt, soever thou sayest unto me:
which covereth the face of come therefore, I pray thee,
the earth: come now, curse curse me this people. 18 And
me them; peradventure I Balaam answered and said
shall be able to overcome unto the servants of Balak,
them, and drive them out. If Balak would give me his
12 And God said unto Bal- house full of silver and gold,
aam, Thou shalt not go with I cannot go beyond the word
them; thou shalt not curse of the Lord my God, to do
the people: for they are less or more. 19 Now there-
blessed. 13 And Balaam rose fore, I pray you, tarry ye also
up in the morning, and said here this night, that I may
unto the princes of Balak, know what the Lord will say
Get you into your land: for unto me more. 20 And God
the Lord refuseth to give me came unto Balaam at night,
leave to go with you. 14 And and said unto him, If the men
the princes of Moab rose up, come to call thee, rise up,
and they went unto Balak, and go with them; but yet
and said, Balaam refuseth to the word which I shall say
come with us. 15 And Balak unto thee, that shalt thou do.
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down his head, and fell flat Moab, which is in the bor-
on his face. 32 And the an- der of Arnon, which is in the
gel of the Lord said unto utmost coast. 37 And Balak
him, Wherefore hast thou said unto Balaam, Did I not
smitten thine ass these three earnestly send unto thee to
times? behold, I went out call thee? wherefore camest
to withstand thee, because thou not unto me? am I not
thy way is perverse before able indeed to promote thee
me: 33 And the ass saw me, to honour? 38 And Balaam
and turned from me these said unto Balak, Lo, I am
three times: unless she had come unto thee: have I now
turned from me, surely now any power at all to say any
also I had slain thee, and thing? the word that God
saved her alive. 34 And Bal- putteth in my mouth, that
aam said unto the angel of shall I speak. 39 And Bal-
the Lord, I have sinned; for aam went with Balak, and
I knew not that thou stood- they came unto Kirjathhu-
est in the way against me: zoth. 40 And Balak offered
now therefore, if it displease oxen and sheep, and sent to
thee, I will get me back Balaam, and to the princes
again. 35 And the angel of that were with him. 41 And it
the Lord said unto Balaam, came to pass on the morrow,
Go with the men: but only that Balak took Balaam, and
the word that I shall speak brought him up into the high
unto thee, that thou shalt places of Baal, that thence he
speak. So Balaam went with might see the utmost part of
the princes of Balak. 36 And the people.
when Balak heard that Bal-
aam was come, he went out
to meet him unto a city of
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unto him, Come, I pray thee, should lie; neither the son of
with me unto another place, man, that he should repent:
from whence thou mayest see hath he said, and shall he
them: thou shalt see but the not do it? or hath he spo-
utmost part of them, and ken, and shall he not make
shalt not see them all: and it good? 20 Behold, I have
curse me them from thence. received commandment to
14 And he brought him into bless: and he hath blessed;
the field of Zophim, to the and I cannot reverse it. 21 He
top of Pisgah, and built hath not beheld iniquity in
seven altars, and offered a Jacob, neither hath he seen
bullock and a ram on every perverseness in Israel: the
altar. 15 And he said unto Lord his God is with him,
Balak, Stand here by thy and the shout of a king is
burnt offering, while I meet among them. 22 God brought
the Lord yonder. 16 And the them out of Egypt; he hath
Lord met Balaam, and put as it were the strength of an
a word in his mouth, and unicorn. 23 Surely there is no
said, Go again unto Balak, enchantment against Jacob,
and say thus. 17 And when neither is there any divina-
he came to him, behold, he tion against Israel: accord-
stood by his burnt offering, ing to this time it shall be
and the princes of Moab with said of Jacob and of Israel,
him. And Balak said unto What hath God wrought!
him, What hath the Lord 24 Behold, the people shall
25 And Balak said unto Bal- other times, to seek for en-
aam, Neither curse them at chantments, but he set his
all, nor bless them at all. face toward the wilderness.
26 But Balaam answered and 2 And Balaam lifted up his
said unto Balak, Told not eyes, and he saw Israel abid-
I thee, saying, All that the ing in his tents according to
Lord speaketh, that I must their tribes; and the spirit
do? 27 And Balak said unto of God came upon him.
Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I 3 And he took up his para-
will bring thee unto another ble, and said, Balaam the
place; peradventure it will son of Beor hath said, and
please God that thou mayest the man whose eyes are open
curse me them from thence. hath said: 4 He hath said,
28 And Balak brought Bal- which heard the words of
aam unto the top of Peor, God, which saw the vision of
that looketh toward Jeshi- the Almighty, falling into a
mon. 29 And Balaam said trance, but having his eyes
unto Balak, Build me here open: 5 How goodly are thy
seven altars, and prepare tents, O Jacob, and thy
me here seven bullocks and tabernacles, O Israel! 6 As
seven rams. 30 And Balak did the valleys are they spread
as Balaam had said, and of- forth, as gardens by the
fered a bullock and a ram on river’s side, as the trees of
every altar. lign aloes which the Lord
hath planted, and as cedar
trees beside the waters. 7 He
Chapter 24 shall pour the water out of
his buckets, and his seed
And when Balaam saw that shall be in many waters, and
it pleased the Lord to bless his king shall be higher than
Israel, he went not, as at
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Israel came and brought unto that I consumed not the chil-
his brethren a Midianitish dren of Israel in my jealousy.
woman in the sight of Moses, 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I
her belly. So the plague was anitish woman that was slain
stayed from the children of was Cozbi, the daughter of
Israel. 9 And those that died Zur; he was head over a peo-
in the plague were twenty ple, and of a chief house in
and four thousand. 10 And Midian. 16 And the Lord
the Lord spake unto Moses, spake unto Moses, saying,
saying, 11 Phinehas, the son 17 Vex the Midianites, and
ter the judgment of Urim be- ye shall offer unto the Lord;
fore the Lord: at his word two lambs of the first year
shall they go out, and at his without spot day by day, for
word they shall come in, both a continual burnt offering.
he, and all the children of Is- 4 The one lamb shalt thou of-
rael with him, even all the fer in the morning, and the
congregation. 22 And Moses other lamb shalt thou offer
did as the Lord commanded at even; 5 And a tenth part
him: and he took Joshua, of an ephah of flour for a
and set him before Eleazar meat offering, mingled with
the priest, and before all the fourth part of an hin of
the congregation: 23 And he beaten oil. 6 It is a con-
laid his hands upon him, tinual burnt offering, which
and gave him a charge, as was ordained in mount Sinai
the Lord commanded by the for a sweet savour, a sacri-
hand of Moses. fice made by fire unto the
Lord. 7 And the drink offer-
ing thereof shall be the fourth
Chapter 28 part of an hin for the one
lamb: in the holy place shalt
And the Lord spake unto thou cause the strong wine to
Moses, saying, 2 Command be poured unto the Lord for
the children of Israel, and a drink offering. 8 And the
say unto them, My offering, other lamb shalt thou offer
and my bread for my sacri- at even: as the meat offering
fices made by fire, for a sweet of the morning, and as the
savour unto me, shall ye ob- drink offering thereof, thou
serve to offer unto me in their shalt offer it, a sacrifice made
due season. 3 And thou shalt by fire, of a sweet savour unto
say unto them, This is the the Lord. 9 And on the sab-
offering made by fire which
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bath day two lambs of the the third part of an hin unto
first year without spot, and a ram, and a fourth part of an
two tenth deals of flour for a hin unto a lamb: this is the
meat offering, mingled with burnt offering of every month
oil, and the drink offering throughout the months of
thereof: 10 This is the burnt the year. 15 And one kid of
offering of every sabbath, be- the goats for a sin offering
side the continual burnt of- unto the Lord shall be of-
fering, and his drink offer- fered, beside the continual
ing. 11 And in the begin- burnt offering, and his drink
nings of your months ye shall offering. 16 And in the four-
offer a burnt offering unto teenth day of the first month
the Lord; two young bul- is the passover of the Lord.
locks, and one ram, seven 17 And in the fifteenth day
fer for a bullock, and two for a sweet savour unto the
tenth deals for a ram; 21 A Lord; two young bullocks,
several tenth deal shalt thou one ram, seven lambs of the
offer for every lamb, through- first year; 28 And their meat
out the seven lambs: 22 And offering of flour mingled with
one goat for a sin offer- oil, three tenth deals unto
ing, to make an atonement one bullock, two tenth deals
for you. 23 Ye shall offer unto one ram, 29 A several
these beside the burnt offer- tenth deal unto one lamb,
ing in the morning, which throughout the seven lambs;
is for a continual burnt of- 30 And one kid of the goats,
one ram, and seven lambs of of the first year; they shall
the first year without blem- be unto you without blem-
ish: 3 And their meat offer- ish: 9 And their meat offer-
ing shall be of flour min- ing shall be of flour mingled
gled with oil, three tenth with oil, three tenth deals
deals for a bullock, and two to a bullock, and two tenth
tenth deals for a ram, 4 And deals to one ram, 10 A sev-
one tenth deal for one lamb, eral tenth deal for one lamb,
throughout the seven lambs: throughout the seven lambs:
5 And one kid of the goats 11 One kid of the goats for a
for a sin offering, to make an sin offering; beside the sin of-
atonement for you: 6 Beside fering of atonement, and the
the burnt offering of the continual burnt offering, and
month, and his meat offer- the meat offering of it, and
ing, and the daily burnt of- their drink offerings. 12 And
fering, and his meat offering, on the fifteenth day of the
and their drink offerings, ac- seventh month ye shall have
cording unto their manner, an holy convocation; ye shall
for a sweet savour, a sacri- do no servile work, and ye
fice made by fire unto the shall keep a feast unto the
Lord. 7 And ye shall have Lord seven days: 13 And ye
on the tenth day of this sev- shall offer a burnt offering, a
enth month an holy convo- sacrifice made by fire, of a
cation; and ye shall afflict sweet savour unto the Lord;
your souls: ye shall not do thirteen young bullocks, two
any work therein: 8 But ye rams, and fourteen lambs
shall offer a burnt offering of the first year; they shall
unto the Lord for a sweet be without blemish: 14 And
savour; one young bullock, their meat offering shall be of
one ram, and seven lambs flour mingled with oil, three
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tenth deals unto every bul- drink offerings for the bul-
lock of the thirteen bullocks, locks, for the rams, and for
two tenth deals to each ram the lambs, shall be accord-
of the two rams, 15 And a sev- ing to their number, after
eral tenth deal to each lamb the manner: 22 And one goat
of the fourteen lambs: 16 And for a sin offering; beside the
one kid of the goats for a sin continual burnt offering, and
offering; beside the contin- his meat offering, and his
ual burnt offering, his meat drink offering. 23 And on the
offering, and his drink of- fourth day ten bullocks, two
fering. 17 And on the sec- rams, and fourteen lambs of
ond day ye shall offer twelve the first year without blem-
young bullocks, two rams, ish: 24 Their meat offering
fourteen lambs of the first and their drink offerings for
year without spot: 18 And the bullocks, for the rams,
their meat offering and their and for the lambs, shall be
drink offerings for the bul- according to their number,
locks, for the rams, and for after the manner: 25 And one
the lambs, shall be accord- kid of the goats for a sin of-
ing to their number, after the fering; beside the continual
manner: 19 And one kid of burnt offering, his meat of-
the goats for a sin offering; fering, and his drink offering.
beside the continual burnt of- 26 And on the fifth day nine
fering, and the meat offering bullocks, two rams, and four-
thereof, and their drink offer- teen lambs of the first year
ings. 20 And on the third day without spot: 27 And their
eleven bullocks, two rams, meat offering and their drink
fourteen lambs of the first offerings for the bullocks, for
year without blemish; 21 And the rams, and for the lambs,
their meat offering and their shall be according to their
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ery tribe, them and Phinehas tives, and the prey, and
the son of Eleazar the priest, the spoil, unto Moses, and
to the war, with the holy Eleazar the priest, and unto
instruments, and the trum- the congregation of the chil-
pets to blow in his hand. dren of Israel, unto the camp
7 And they warred against at the plains of Moab, which
the Midianites, as the Lord are by Jordan near Jericho.
commanded Moses; and they 13 And Moses, and Eleazar
slew all the males. 8 And the priest, and all the princes
they slew the kings of Mid- of the congregation, went
ian, beside the rest of them forth to meet them without
that were slain; namely, Evi, the camp. 14 And Moses was
and Rekem, and Zur, and wroth with the officers of the
Hur, and Reba, five kings host, with the captains over
of Midian: Balaam also the thousands, and captains over
son of Beor they slew with hundreds, which came from
the sword. 9 And the chil- the battle. 15 And Moses
enty thousand and five thou- ute, which was the Lord’S
sand sheep, 33 And threescore heave offering, unto Eleazar
and twelve thousand beeves, the priest, as the Lord com-
34 And threescore and one manded Moses. 42 And of
thousand asses, 35 And thirty the children of Israel’s half,
and two thousand persons in which Moses divided from
all, of women that had not the men that warred, 43 (Now
known man by lying with the half that pertained unto
him. 36 And the half, which the congregation was three
was the portion of them that hundred thousand and thirty
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the land of Jazer, and the ing over into the land which
land of Gilead, that, be- the Lord hath given them?
hold, the place was a place 8 Thus did your fathers, when
tance; and half the tribe of niel the son of Ephod. 24 And
Manasseh have received their the prince of the tribe of
inheritance: 15 The two tribes the children of Ephraim, Ke-
and the half tribe have re- muel the son of Shiphtan.
ceived their inheritance on 25 And the prince of the tribe
refuge, which ye shall ap- you cities for refuge from the
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the slayer out of the hand leth any person, the mur-
of the revenger of blood, derer shall be put to death by
and the congregation shall the mouth of witnesses: but
restore him to the city of one witness shall not testify
his refuge, whither he was against any person to cause
fled: and he shall abide in him to die. 31 Moreover ye
it unto the death of the high shall take no satisfaction for
priest, which was anointed the life of a murderer, which
with the holy oil. 26 But is guilty of death: but he
if the slayer shall at any shall be surely put to death.
time come without the bor- 32 And ye shall take no satis-
der of the city of his refuge, faction for him that is fled to
whither he was fled; 27 And the city of his refuge, that he
the revenger of blood find should come again to dwell
him without the borders of in the land, until the death
the city of his refuge, and of the priest. 33 So ye shall
the revenger of blood kill not pollute the land wherein
the slayer; he shall not be ye are: for blood it defileth
guilty of blood: 28 Because the land: and the land can-
he should have remained in not be cleansed of the blood
the city of his refuge until that is shed therein, but by
the death of the high priest: the blood of him that shed
but after the death of the it. 34 Defile not therefore the
high priest the slayer shall land which ye shall inhabit,
return into the land of his wherein I dwell: for I the
possession. 29 So these things Lord dwell among the chil-
shall be for a statute of dren of Israel.
judgment unto you through-
out your generations in all
your dwellings. 30 Whoso kil-
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T which Moses
spake unto all Is-
rael on this side
Jordan in the wilderness, in
the plain over against the
the Amorites, which dwelt in
Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, which dwelt at As-
taroth in Edrei: 5 On this side
Jordan, in the land of Moab,
Red sea, between Paran, began Moses to declare this
and Tophel, and Laban, law, saying, 6 The Lord our
and Hazeroth, and Diza- God spake unto us in Horeb,
hab. 2 (There are eleven saying, Ye have dwelt long
days’ journey from Horeb enough in this mount: 7 Turn
by the way of mount Seir you, and take your journey,
unto Kadeshbarnea.) 3 And and go to the mount of the
it came to pass in the for- Amorites, and unto all the
tieth year, in the eleventh places nigh thereunto, in the
month, on the first day of plain, in the hills, and in
the month, that Moses spake the vale, and in the south,
unto the children of Israel, and by the sea side, to the
according unto all that the land of the Canaanites, and
443
DEUTERONOMY 444
lowed the Lord. 37 Also the me, Say unto them, Go not
Lord was angry with me for up, neither fight; for I am
DEUTERONOMY 447
from our brethren the chil- 13 Now rise up, said I, and
dren of Esau, which dwelt get you over the brook Zered.
in Seir, through the way of And we went over the brook
the plain from Elath, and Zered. 14 And the space in
from Eziongaber, we turned which we came from Kadesh-
and passed by the way of the barnea, until we were come
wilderness of Moab. 9 And over the brook Zered, was
the Lord said unto me, Dis- thirty and eight years; until
tress not the Moabites, nei- all the generation of the men
ther contend with them in of war were wasted out from
battle: for I will not give thee among the host, as the Lord
of their land for a possession; sware unto them. 15 For in-
because I have given Ar unto deed the hand of the Lord
the children of Lot for a pos- was against them, to de-
session. 10 The Emims dwelt stroy them from among the
therein in times past, a peo- host, until they were con-
ple great, and many, and tall, sumed. 16 So it came to pass,
as the Anakims; 11 Which when all the men of war were
also were accounted giants, consumed and dead from
as the Anakims; but the among the people, 17 That
Moabites call them Emims. the Lord spake unto me,
12 The Horims also dwelt in saying, 18 Thou art to pass
Seir beforetime; but the over through Ar, the coast
children of Esau succeeded of Moab, this day: 19 And
them, when they had de- when thou comest nigh over
stroyed them from before against the children of Am-
them, and dwelt in their mon, distress them not, nor
stead; as Israel did unto the meddle with them: for I will
land of his possession, which not give thee of the land
the Lord gave unto them. of the children of Ammon
DEUTERONOMY 449
God giveth us. 30 But Si- from the city that is by the
hon king of Heshbon would river, even unto Gilead, there
not let us pass by him: for was not one city too strong
the Lord thy God hard- for us: the Lord our God
ened his spirit, and made delivered all unto us: 37 Only
his heart obstinate, that he unto the land of the children
might deliver him into thy of Ammon thou camest not,
hand, as appeareth this day. nor unto any place of the
31 And the Lord said unto river Jabbok, nor unto the
me, Behold, I have begun to cities in the mountains, nor
give Sihon and his land be- unto whatsoever the Lord
fore thee: begin to possess, our God forbad us.
that thou mayest inherit his
land. 32 Then Sihon came out
against us, he and all his peo- Chapter 3
ple, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And
the Lord our God delivered Then we turned, and went
him before us; and we smote up the way to Bashan: and
him, and his sons, and all his Og the king of Bashan came
people. 34 And we took all out against us, he and all his
his cities at that time, and people, to battle at Edrei.
2 And the Lord said unto
utterly destroyed the men,
and the women, and the lit- me, Fear him not: for I will
tle ones, of every city, we left deliver him, and all his peo-
none to remain: 35 Only the ple, and his land, into thy
cattle we took for a prey unto hand; and thou shalt do unto
ourselves, and the spoil of the him as thou didst unto Sihon
cities which we took. 36 From king of the Amorites, which
Aroer, which is by the brink dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the
of the river of Arnon, and Lord our God delivered into
our hands Og also, the king
DEUTERONOMY 451
of Bashan, and all his peo- the plain, and all Gilead, and
ple: and we smote him until all Bashan, unto Salchah and
none was left to him remain- Edrei, cities of the kingdom
ing. 4 And we took all his of Og in Bashan. 11 For only
cities at that time, there was Og king of Bashan remained
not a city which we took not of the remnant of giants; be-
from them, threescore cities, hold, his bedstead was a bed-
all the region of Argob, the stead of iron; is it not in Rab-
kingdom of Og in Bashan. bath of the children of Am-
5 All these cities were fenced mon? nine cubits was the
with high walls, gates, and length thereof, and four cu-
bars; beside unwalled towns bits the breadth of it, after
a great many. 6 And we ut- the cubit of a man. 12 And
terly destroyed them, as we this land, which we possessed
did unto Sihon king of Hes- at that time, from Aroer,
hbon, utterly destroying the which is by the river Arnon,
men, women, and children, and half mount Gilead, and
of every city. 7 But all the the cities thereof, gave I unto
cattle, and the spoil of the the Reubenites and to the
cities, we took for a prey to Gadites. 13 And the rest of
ourselves. 8 And we took at Gilead, and all Bashan, be-
that time out of the hand of ing the kingdom of Og, gave
the two kings of the Amor- I unto the half tribe of Man-
ites the land that was on asseh; all the region of Ar-
this side Jordan, from the gob, with all Bashan, which
river of Arnon unto mount was called the land of giants.
Hermon; 9 (Which Hermon 14 Jair the son of Manasseh
sakes, and would not hear shall not add unto the word
me: and the Lord said unto which I command you, nei-
me, Let it suffice thee; speak ther shall ye diminish ought
no more unto me of this from it, that ye may keep
matter. 27 Get thee up into the commandments of the
the top of Pisgah, and lift Lord your God which I
up thine eyes westward, and command you. 3 Your eyes
northward, and southward, have seen what the Lord
and eastward, and behold it did because of Baalpeor: for
with thine eyes: for thou all the men that followed
shalt not go over this Jordan. Baalpeor, the Lord thy God
28 But charge Joshua, and en- hath destroyed them from
courage him, and strengthen among you. 4 But ye that
him: for he shall go over did cleave unto the Lord
before this people, and he your God are alive every one
shall cause them to inherit of you this day. 5 Behold,
the land which thou shalt I have taught you statutes
see. 29 So we abode in the val- and judgments, even as the
ley over against Bethpeor. Lord my God commanded
me, that ye should do so
in the land whither ye go
Chapter 4 to possess it. 6 Keep there-
fore and do them; for this
Now therefore hearken, O Is- is your wisdom and your un-
rael, unto the statutes and derstanding in the sight of
unto the judgments, which I the nations, which shall hear
teach you, for to do them, all these statutes, and say,
that ye may live, and go
DEUTERONOMY 454
not prolong your days upon that are past, which were be-
it, but shall utterly be de- fore thee, since the day that
stroyed. 27 And the Lord God created man upon the
shall scatter you among the earth, and ask from the one
nations, and ye shall be left side of heaven unto the other,
few in number among the whether there hath been any
heathen, whither the Lord such thing as this great thing
shall lead you. 28 And there is, or hath been heard like it?
ye shall serve gods, the work 33 Did ever people hear the
he made thee to hear his long thy days upon the earth,
voice, that he might in- which the Lord thy God
struct thee: and upon earth giveth thee, for ever. 41 Then
he shewed thee his great Moses severed three cities on
fire; and thou heardest his this side Jordan toward the
words out of the midst of sunrising; 42 That the slayer
the fire. 37 And because might flee thither, which
he loved thy fathers, there- should kill his neighbour un-
fore he chose their seed after awares, and hated him not
them, and brought thee out in times past; and that flee-
in his sight with his mighty ing unto one of these cities he
power out of Egypt; 38 To might live: 43 Namely, Bezer
drive out nations from be- in the wilderness, in the plain
fore thee greater and might- country, of the Reubenites;
ier than thou art, to bring and Ramoth in Gilead, of
thee in, to give thee their the Gadites; and Golan in
land for an inheritance, as it Bashan, of the Manassites.
is this day. 39 Know there- 44 And this is the law which
fore this day, and consider Moses set before the children
it in thine heart, that the of Israel: 45 These are the tes-
Lord he is God in heaven timonies, and the statutes,
above, and upon the earth and the judgments, which
beneath: there is none else. Moses spake unto the chil-
40 Thou shalt keep therefore dren of Israel, after they
his statutes, and his com- came forth out of Egypt,
mandments, which I com- 46 On this side Jordan, in
mand thee this day, that it the valley over against Beth-
may go well with thee, and peor, in the land of Sihon
with thy children after thee, king of the Amorites, who
and that thou mayest pro- dwelt at Heshbon, whom
DEUTERONOMY 458
Moses and the children of Is- our fathers, but with us, even
rael smote, after they were us, who are all of us here
come forth out of Egypt: alive this day. 4 The Lord
47 And they possessed his talked with you face to face
land, and the land of Og in the mount out of the midst
king of Bashan, two kings of the fire, 5 (I stood be-
of the Amorites, which were tween the Lord and you at
on this side Jordan toward that time, to shew you the
the sunrising; 48 From Aroer, word of the Lord: for ye
which is by the bank of were afraid by reason of the
the river Arnon, even unto fire, and went not up into
mount Sion, which is Her- the mount;) saying, 6 I am
mon, 49 And all the plain on the Lord thy God, which
this side Jordan eastward, brought thee out of the land
even unto the sea of the of Egypt, from the house of
plain, under the springs of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have
Pisgah. none other gods before me.
8 Thou shalt not make thee
darkness, with a great voice: that the Lord our God shall
and he added no more. And say: and speak thou unto us
he wrote them in two tables all that the Lord our God
of stone, and delivered them shall speak unto thee; and
unto me. 23 And it came we will hear it, and do it.
to pass, when ye heard the 28 And the Lord heard the
thy gates. 10 And it shall stroy thee from off the face
be, when the Lord thy God of the earth. 16 Ye shall not
shall have brought thee into tempt the Lord your God,
the land which he sware unto as ye tempted him in Mas-
thy fathers, to Abraham, to sah. 17 Ye shall diligently
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give keep the commandments of
thee great and goodly cities, the Lord your God, and his
which thou buildedst not, testimonies, and his statutes,
11 And houses full of all good which he hath commanded
things, which thou filledst thee. 18 And thou shalt do
not, and wells digged, which that which is right and good
thou diggedst not, vineyards in the sight of the Lord:
and olive trees, which thou that it may be well with thee,
plantedst not; when thou and that thou mayest go in
shalt have eaten and be full; and possess the good land
12 Then beware lest thou for- which the Lord sware unto
get the Lord, which brought thy fathers, 19 To cast out
thee forth out of the land all thine enemies from before
of Egypt, from the house of thee, as the Lord hath spo-
bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear ken. 20 And when thy son as-
the Lord thy God, and serve keth thee in time to come,
him, and shalt swear by his saying, What mean the tes-
name. 14 Ye shall not go af- timonies, and the statutes,
ter other gods, of the gods of and the judgments, which
the people which are round the Lord our God hath
about you; 15 (For the Lord commanded you? 21 Then
thy God is a jealous God thou shalt say unto thy son,
among you) lest the anger of We were Pharaoh’s bondmen
the Lord thy God be kin- in Egypt; and the Lord
dled against thee, and de- brought us out of Egypt with
DEUTERONOMY 463
unto the Lord thy God: the not be slack to him that
Lord thy God hath chosen hateth him, he will repay him
thee to be a special people to his face. 11 Thou shalt
unto himself, above all peo- therefore keep the command-
ple that are upon the face ments, and the statutes, and
of the earth. 7 The Lord the judgments, which I com-
did not set his love upon mand thee this day, to do
you, nor choose you, be- them. 12 Wherefore it shall
cause ye were more in num- come to pass, if ye hear-
ber than any people; for ye ken to these judgments, and
were the fewest of all peo- keep, and do them, that the
ple: 8 But because the Lord Lord thy God shall keep
loved you, and because he unto thee the covenant and
would keep the oath which he the mercy which he sware
had sworn unto your fathers, unto thy fathers: 13 And he
hath the Lord brought you will love thee, and bless thee,
out with a mighty hand, and multiply thee: he will
and redeemed you out of also bless the fruit of thy
the house of bondmen, from womb, and the fruit of thy
the hand of Pharaoh king land, thy corn, and thy wine,
of Egypt. 9 Know therefore and thine oil, the increase of
that the Lord thy God, he thy kine, and the flocks of
is God, the faithful God, thy sheep, in the land which
which keepeth covenant and he sware unto thy fathers
mercy with them that love to give thee. 14 Thou shalt
him and keep his command- be blessed above all people:
ments to a thousand gener- there shall not be male or fe-
ations; 10 And repayeth them male barren among you, or
that hate him to their face, among your cattle. 15 And
to destroy them: he will the Lord will take away
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from thee all sickness, and Lord thy God will send the
will put none of the evil dis- hornet among them, until
eases of Egypt, which thou they that are left, and hide
knowest, upon thee; but will themselves from thee, be de-
lay them upon all them that stroyed. 21 Thou shalt not
hate thee. 16 And thou shalt be affrighted at them: for
consume all the people which the Lord thy God is among
the Lord thy God shall de- you, a mighty God and ter-
liver thee; thine eye shall rible. 22 And the Lord thy
have no pity upon them: nei- God will put out those na-
ther shalt thou serve their tions before thee by little
gods; for that will be a snare and little: thou mayest not
unto thee. 17 If thou shalt consume them at once, lest
say in thine heart, These the beasts of the field in-
nations are more than I; crease upon thee. 23 But the
how can I dispossess them? Lord thy God shall deliver
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them unto thee, and shall de-
them: but shalt well remem- stroy them with a mighty de-
ber what the Lord thy God struction, until they be de-
did unto Pharaoh, and unto stroyed. 24 And he shall de-
all Egypt; 19 The great temp- liver their kings into thine
tations which thine eyes saw, hand, and thou shalt de-
and the signs, and the won- stroy their name from un-
ders, and the mighty hand, der heaven: there shall no
and the stretched out arm, man be able to stand be-
whereby the Lord thy God fore thee, until thou have de-
brought thee out: so shall stroyed them. 25 The graven
the Lord thy God do unto images of their gods shall ye
all the people of whom thou burn with fire: thou shalt
art afraid. 20 Moreover the not desire the silver or gold
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fore this day, that the Lord the Lord thy God giveth
thy God is he which goeth thee not this good land to
over before thee; as a con- possess it for thy righteous-
suming fire he shall destroy ness; for thou art a stiff-
them, and he shall bring necked people. 7 Remember,
them down before thy face: and forget not, how thou
so shalt thou drive them out, provokedst the Lord thy
and destroy them quickly, as God to wrath in the wilder-
the Lord hath said unto
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ness: from the day that thou stone, even the tables of the
didst depart out of the land covenant. 12 And the Lord
of Egypt, until ye came unto said unto me, Arise, get thee
this place, ye have been re- down quickly from hence; for
bellious against the Lord. thy people which thou hast
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked brought forth out of Egypt
the Lord to wrath, so that have corrupted themselves;
the Lord was angry with they are quickly turned aside
you to have destroyed you. out of the way which I com-
9 When I was gone up into manded them; they have
the mount to receive the ta- made them a molten im-
bles of stone, even the tables age. 13 Furthermore the
to possess it, is not as the thy fields for thy cattle, that
land of Egypt, from whence thou mayest eat and be full.
ye came out, where thou 16 Take heed to yourselves,
sowedst thy seed, and wa- that your heart be not de-
teredst it with thy foot, as ceived, and ye turn aside,
a garden of herbs: 11 But the and serve other gods, and
land, whither ye go to pos- worship them; 17 And then
sess it, is a land of hills and the Lord’S wrath be kin-
valleys, and drinketh water dled against you, and he shut
of the rain of heaven: 12 A up the heaven, that there be
land which the Lord thy no rain, and that the land
God careth for: the eyes of yield not her fruit; and lest
the Lord thy God are al- ye perish quickly from off the
ways upon it, from the be- good land which the Lord
ginning of the year even unto giveth you. 18 Therefore shall
the end of the year. 13 And ye lay up these my words
it shall come to pass, if ye in your heart and in your
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the land whither thou goest terly destroy all the places,
to possess it, that thou shalt wherein the nations which
put the blessing upon mount ye shall possess served their
Gerizim, and the curse upon gods, upon the high moun-
mount Ebal. 30 Are they not tains, and upon the hills,
on the other side Jordan, by and under every green tree:
the way where the sun goeth 3 And ye shall overthrow their
fore the Lord your God, and 12 And ye shall rejoice before
ye shall rejoice in all that ye the Lord your God, ye, and
put your hand unto, ye and your sons, and your daugh-
your households, wherein the ters, and your menservants,
Lord thy God hath blessed and your maidservants, and
thee. 8 Ye shall not do after the Levite that is within your
all the things that we do here gates; forasmuch as he hath
this day, every man whatso- no part nor inheritance with
ever is right in his own eyes. you. 13 Take heed to thyself
9 For ye are not as yet come that thou offer not thy burnt
to the rest and to the inher- offerings in every place that
itance, which the Lord your thou seest: 14 But in the place
God giveth you. 10 But when which the Lord shall choose
ye go over Jordan, and dwell in one of thy tribes, there
in the land which the Lord thou shalt offer thy burnt
your God giveth you to in- offerings, and there thou
herit, and when he giveth shalt do all that I command
you rest from all your ene- thee. 15 Notwithstanding
mies round about, so that ye thou mayest kill and eat flesh
dwell in safety; 11 Then there in all thy gates, whatsoever
shall be a place which the thy soul lusteth after, ac-
Lord your God shall choose cording to the blessing of the
to cause his name to dwell Lord thy God which he hath
there; thither shall ye bring given thee: the unclean and
all that I command you; your the clean may eat thereof,
burnt offerings, and your sac- as of the roebuck, and as of
rifices, your tithes, and the the hart. 16 Only ye shall
heave offering of your hand, not eat the blood; ye shall
and all your choice vows pour it upon the earth as wa-
which ye vow unto the Lord: ter. 17 Thou mayest not eat
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within thy gates the tithe of which the Lord thy God
thy corn, or of thy wine, or of hath chosen to put his name
thy oil, or the firstlings of thy there be too far from thee,
herds or of thy flock, nor any then thou shalt kill of thy
of thy vows which thou vow- herd and of thy flock, which
est, nor thy freewill offerings, the Lord hath given thee, as
or heave offering of thine I have commanded thee, and
hand: 18 But thou must eat thou shalt eat in thy gates
them before the Lord thy whatsoever thy soul lusteth
God in the place which the after. 22 Even as the roebuck
Lord thy God shall choose, and the hart is eaten, so thou
thou, and thy son, and thy shalt eat them: the unclean
daughter, and thy manser- and the clean shall eat of
vant, and thy maidservant, them alike. 23 Only be sure
and the Levite that is within that thou eat not the blood:
thy gates: and thou shalt for the blood is the life; and
rejoice before the Lord thy thou mayest not eat the life
God in all that thou puttest with the flesh. 24 Thou shalt
thine hands unto. 19 Take not eat it; thou shalt pour
heed to thyself that thou for- it upon the earth as wa-
sake not the Levite as long ter. 25 Thou shalt not eat
as thou livest upon the earth. it; that it may go well with
20 When the Lord thy God thee, and with thy children
shall enlarge thy border, as after thee, when thou shalt
he hath promised thee, and do that which is right in the
thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, sight of the Lord. 26 Only
because thy soul longeth to thy holy things which thou
eat flesh; thou mayest eat hast, and thy vows, thou
flesh, whatsoever thy soul shalt take, and go unto the
lusteth after. 21 If the place place which the Lord shall
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the Lord your God with all nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of
your heart and with all your the gods of the people which
soul. 4 Ye shall walk after are round about you, nigh
the Lord your God, and fear unto thee, or far off from
him, and keep his command- thee, from the one end of
ments, and obey his voice, the earth even unto the other
and ye shall serve him, and end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt
cleave unto him. 5 And that not consent unto him, nor
prophet, or that dreamer hearken unto him; neither
of dreams, shall be put to shall thine eye pity him, nei-
death; because he hath spo- ther shalt thou spare, nei-
ken to turn you away from ther shalt thou conceal him:
the Lord your God, which 9 But thou shalt surely kill
beast that parteth the hoof, kite, and the vulture after his
and cleaveth the cleft into kind, 14 And every raven af-
two claws, and cheweth the ter his kind, 15 And the owl,
cud among the beasts, that and the night hawk, and the
ye shall eat. 7 Nevertheless cuckow, and the hawk af-
these ye shall not eat of them ter his kind, 16 The little owl,
that chew the cud, or of them and the great owl, and the
that divide the cloven hoof; swan, 17 And the pelican, and
as the camel, and the hare, the gier eagle, and the cor-
and the coney: for they chew morant, 18 And the stork, and
the cud, but divide not the the heron after her kind, and
hoof; therefore they are un- the lapwing, and the bat.
clean unto you. 8 And the 19 And every creeping thing
you: ye shall not eat of their may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of
flesh, nor touch their dead any thing that dieth of itself:
carcase. 9 These ye shall eat thou shalt give it unto the
of all that are in the waters: stranger that is in thy gates,
all that have fins and scales that he may eat it; or thou
shall ye eat: 10 And whatso- mayest sell it unto an alien:
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thee in all thy works, and in thee this thing to day. 16 And
all that thou puttest thine it shall be, if he say unto
hand unto. 11 For the poor thee, I will not go away from
shall never cease out of the thee; because he loveth thee
land: therefore I command and thine house, because he
thee, saying, Thou shalt is well with thee; 17 Then
open thine hand wide unto thou shalt take an aul, and
thy brother, to thy poor, and thrust it through his ear unto
to thy needy, in thy land. the door, and he shall be thy
12 And if thy brother, an He- servant for ever. And also
brew man, or an Hebrew unto thy maidservant thou
woman, be sold unto thee, shalt do likewise. 18 It shall
and serve thee six years; then not seem hard unto thee,
in the seventh year thou shalt when thou sendest him away
let him go free from thee. free from thee; for he hath
13 And when thou sendest been worth a double hired
him out free from thee, thou servant to thee, in serving
shalt not let him go away thee six years: and the Lord
empty: 14 Thou shalt fur- thy God shall bless thee in
nish him liberally out of thy all that thou doest. 19 All
flock, and out of thy floor, the firstling males that come
and out of thy winepress: of thy herd and of thy flock
of that wherewith the Lord thou shalt sanctify unto the
thy God hath blessed thee Lord thy God: thou shalt
thou shalt give unto him. do no work with the firstling
15 And thou shalt remember of thy bullock, nor shear the
that thou wast a bondman firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou
in the land of Egypt, and shalt eat it before the Lord
the Lord thy God redeemed thy God year by year in the
thee: therefore I command place which the Lord shall
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choose, thou and thy house- it; seven days shalt thou eat
hold. 21 And if there be any unleavened bread therewith,
blemish therein, as if it be even the bread of affliction;
lame, or blind, or have any ill for thou camest forth out of
blemish, thou shalt not sac- the land of Egypt in haste:
rifice it unto the Lord thy that thou mayest remember
God. 22 Thou shalt eat it the day when thou camest
within thy gates: the unclean forth out of the land of Egypt
and the clean person shall all the days of thy life. 4 And
eat it alike, as the roebuck, there shall be no leavened
and as the hart. 23 Only bread seen with thee in all
thou shalt not eat the blood thy coast seven days; neither
thereof; thou shalt pour it shall there any thing of the
upon the ground as water. flesh, which thou sacrificedst
the first day at even, remain
all night until the morning.
Chapter 16 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice
and thou shalt turn in the place which the Lord thy
morning, and go unto thy God hath chosen to place
tents. 8 Six days thou shalt his name there. 12 And thou
eat unleavened bread: and shalt remember that thou
on the seventh day shall be wast a bondman in Egypt:
a solemn assembly to the and thou shalt observe and
Lord thy God: thou shalt do these statutes. 13 Thou
do no work therein. 9 Seven shalt observe the feast of
weeks shalt thou number tabernacles seven days, af-
unto thee: begin to number ter that thou hast gath-
the seven weeks from such ered in thy corn and thy
time as thou beginnest to wine: 14 And thou shalt re-
put the sickle to the corn. joice in thy feast, thou, and
10 And thou shalt keep the thy son, and thy daugh-
feast of weeks unto the Lord ter, and thy manservant, and
thy God with a tribute of thy maidservant, and the
a freewill offering of thine Levite, the stranger, and the
hand, which thou shalt give fatherless, and the widow,
unto the Lord thy God, ac- that are within thy gates.
cording as the Lord thy God 15 Seven days shalt thou keep
Lord thy God in the place grove of any trees near unto
which he shall choose; in the the altar of the Lord thy
feast of unleavened bread, God, which thou shalt make
and in the feast of weeks, thee. 22 Neither shalt thou
and in the feast of taberna- set thee up any image; which
cles: and they shall not ap- the Lord thy God hateth.
pear before the Lord empty:
17 Every man shall give as
even that man shall die: and himself, that his heart turn
thou shalt put away the evil not away: neither shall he
from Israel. 13 And all the greatly multiply to himself
people shall hear, and fear, silver and gold. 18 And it
and do no more presump- shall be, when he sitteth
tuously. 14 When thou art upon the throne of his king-
come unto the land which the dom, that he shall write
Lord thy God giveth thee, him a copy of this law in a
and shalt possess it, and book out of that which is be-
shalt dwell therein, and shalt fore the priests the Levites:
say, I will set a king over me, 19 And it shall be with him,
like as all the nations that and he shall read therein all
are about me; 15 Thou shalt the days of his life: that he
in any wise set him king over may learn to fear the Lord
thee, whom the Lord thy his God, to keep all the
God shall choose: one from words of this law and these
among thy brethren shalt statutes, to do them: 20 That
thou set king over thee: thou his heart be not lifted up
mayest not set a stranger above his brethren, and that
over thee, which is not thy he turn not aside from the
brother. 16 But he shall commandment, to the right
not multiply horses to him- hand, or to the left: to the
self, nor cause the people end that he may prolong his
to return to Egypt, to the days in his kingdom, he, and
end that he should multi- his children, in the midst of
ply horses: forasmuch as the Israel.
Lord hath said unto you,
Ye shall henceforth return no
more that way. 17 Neither
shall he multiply wives to
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all the people that is found stroy them; namely, the Hit-
therein shall be tributaries tites, and the Amorites, the
unto thee, and they shall Canaanites, and the Per-
serve thee. 12 And if it will izzites, the Hivites, and the
make no peace with thee, but Jebusites; as the Lord thy
will make war against thee, God hath commanded thee:
then thou shalt besiege it: 18 That they teach you not to
13 And when the Lord thy do after all their abomina-
God hath delivered it into tions, which they have done
thine hands, thou shalt smite unto their gods; so should ye
every male thereof with the sin against the Lord your
edge of the sword: 14 But the God. 19 When thou shalt be-
women, and the little ones, siege a city a long time, in
and the cattle, and all that making war against it to take
is in the city, even all the it, thou shalt not destroy the
spoil thereof, shalt thou take trees thereof by forcing an
unto thyself; and thou shalt axe against them: for thou
eat the spoil of thine ene- mayest eat of them, and thou
mies, which the Lord thy shalt not cut them down (for
God hath given thee. 15 Thus the tree of the field is man’s
shalt thou do unto all the life) to employ them in the
cities which are very far off siege: 20 Only the trees which
from thee, which are not of thou knowest that they be
the cities of these nations. not trees for meat, thou shalt
16 But of the cities of these destroy and cut them down;
people, which the Lord thy and thou shalt build bul-
God doth give thee for an warks against the city that
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maketh war with thee, until near; for them the Lord thy
it be subdued. God hath chosen to minister
unto him, and to bless in the
name of the Lord; and by
Chapter 21 their word shall every con-
troversy and every stroke be
If one be found slain in the tried: 6 And all the elders of
land which the Lord thy that city, that are next unto
God giveth thee to possess the slain man, shall wash
it, lying in the field, and their hands over the heifer
it be not known who hath that is beheaded in the val-
slain him: 2 Then thy elders ley: 7 And they shall answer
and thy judges shall come and say, Our hands have not
forth, and they shall mea- shed this blood, neither have
sure unto the cities which our eyes seen it. 8 Be merci-
are round about him that ful, O Lord, unto thy peo-
is slain: 3 And it shall be, ple Israel, whom thou hast
that the city which is next redeemed, and lay not inno-
unto the slain man, even cent blood unto thy people
the elders of that city shall of Israel’s charge. And the
take an heifer, which hath blood shall be forgiven them.
not been wrought with, and 9 So shalt thou put away
hands, and thou hast taken born son be hers that was
them captive, 11 And seest hated: 16 Then it shall be,
among the captives a beauti- when he maketh his sons to
ful woman, and hast a desire inherit that which he hath,
unto her, that thou wouldest that he may not make the
have her to thy wife; 12 Then son of the beloved firstborn
thou shalt bring her home before the son of the hated,
to thine house; and she shall which is indeed the firstborn:
shave her head, and pare her 17 But he shall acknowledge
nails; 13 And she shall put the the son of the hated for the
raiment of her captivity from firstborn, by giving him a
off her, and shall remain in double portion of all that he
thine house, and bewail her hath: for he is the beginning
father and her mother a full of his strength; the right of
month: and after that thou the firstborn is his. 18 If a
shalt go in unto her, and be man have a stubborn and re-
her husband, and she shall bellious son, which will not
be thy wife. 14 And it shall obey the voice of his father,
be, if thou have no delight in or the voice of his mother,
her, then thou shalt let her and that, when they have
go whither she will; but thou chastened him, will not hear-
shalt not sell her at all for ken unto them: 19 Then shall
money, thou shalt not make his father and his mother lay
merchandise of her, because hold on him, and bring him
thou hast humbled her. 15 If out unto the elders of his
a man have two wives, one city, and unto the gate of
beloved, and another hated, his place; 20 And they shall
and they have born him chil- say unto the elders of his
dren, both the beloved and city, This our son is stubborn
the hated; and if the first- and rebellious, he will not
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thee, and that thou mayest the damsel, and her mother,
prolong thy days. 8 When take and bring forth the to-
thou buildest a new house, kens of the damsel’s virgin-
then thou shalt make a bat- ity unto the elders of the
tlement for thy roof, that city in the gate: 16 And the
thou bring not blood upon damsel’s father shall say unto
thine house, if any man fall the elders, I gave my daugh-
from thence. 9 Thou shalt ter unto this man to wife,
not sow thy vineyard with and he hateth her; 17 And,
divers seeds: lest the fruit lo, he hath given occasions
of thy seed which thou hast of speech against her, saying,
sown, and the fruit of thy I found not thy daughter a
vineyard, be defiled. 10 Thou maid; and yet these are the
shalt not plow with an ox tokens of my daughter’s vir-
and an ass together. 11 Thou ginity. And they shall spread
shalt not wear a garment of the cloth before the elders
divers sorts, as of woollen of the city. 18 And the el-
and linen together. 12 Thou ders of that city shall take
shalt make thee fringes upon that man and chastise him;
the four quarters of thy ves- 19 And they shall amerce him
father of the damsel, because them both out unto the gate
he hath brought up an evil of that city, and ye shall
name upon a virgin of Israel: stone them with stones that
and she shall be his wife; he they die; the damsel, because
may not put her away all his she cried not, being in the
days. 20 But if this thing be city; and the man, because
true, and the tokens of vir- he hath humbled his neigh-
ginity be not found for the bour’s wife: so thou shalt put
damsel: 21 Then they shall away evil from among you.
bring out the damsel to the 25 But if a man find a be-
give unto the damsel’s father forth out of Egypt; and be-
fifty shekels of silver, and she cause they hired against thee
shall be his wife; because he Balaam the son of Beor of
hath humbled her, he may Pethor of Mesopotamia, to
not put her away all his days. curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the
30 A man shall not take his fa- Lord thy God would not
ther’s wife, nor discover his hearken unto Balaam; but
father’s skirt. the Lord thy God turned
the curse into a blessing unto
thee, because the Lord thy
Chapter 23 God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt
not seek their peace nor their
He that is wounded in the prosperity all thy days for
stones, or hath his privy ever. 7 Thou shalt not ab-
member cut off, shall not en- hor an Edomite; for he is
ter into the congregation of thy brother: thou shalt not
the Lord. 2 A bastard shall abhor an Egyptian; because
not enter into the congrega- thou wast a stranger in his
tion of the Lord; even to land. 8 The children that are
his tenth generation shall he begotten of them shall enter
not enter into the congrega- into the congregation of the
tion of the Lord. 3 An Am- Lord in their third genera-
monite or Moabite shall not tion. 9 When the host goeth
enter into the congregation forth against thine enemies,
of the Lord; even to their then keep thee from every
tenth generation shall they wicked thing. 10 If there be
not enter into the congrega- among you any man, that is
tion of the Lord for ever: not clean by reason of un-
4 Because they met you not
cleanness that chanceth him
with bread and with water by night, then shall he go
in the way, when ye came
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the Lord thy God will surely favour in his eyes, because he
require it of thee; and it hath found some uncleanness
would be sin in thee. 22 But in her: then let him write
if thou shalt forbear to vow, her a bill of divorcement, and
it shall be no sin in thee. give it in her hand, and send
23 That which is gone out her out of his house. 2 And
of thy lips thou shalt keep when she is departed out of
and perform; even a freewill his house, she may go and be
offering, according as thou another man’s wife. 3 And if
hast vowed unto the Lord the latter husband hate her,
thy God, which thou hast and write her a bill of di-
promised with thy mouth. vorcement, and giveth it in
24 When thou comest into thy her hand, and sendeth her
neighbour’s vineyard, then out of his house; or if the lat-
thou mayest eat grapes thy ter husband die, which took
fill at thine own pleasure; but her to be his wife; 4 Her for-
thou shalt not put any in thy mer husband, which sent her
vessel. 25 When thou comest away, may not take her again
into the standing corn of thy to be his wife, after that she
neighbour, then thou mayest is defiled; for that is abomi-
pluck the ears with thine nation before the Lord: and
hand; but thou shalt not thou shalt not cause the land
move a sickle unto thy neigh- to sin, which the Lord thy
bour’s standing corn. God giveth thee for an in-
heritance. 5 When a man
hath taken a new wife, he
Chapter 24 shall not go out to war, nei-
ther shall he be charged with
When a man hath taken a any business: but he shall
wife, and married her, and it be free at home one year,
come to pass that she find no
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bring out the pledge abroad shalt not pervert the judg-
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and have no child, the wife his shoe from off his foot,
of the dead shall not marry and spit in his face, and
without unto a stranger: her shall answer and say, So shall
husband’s brother shall go it be done unto that man
in unto her, and take her that will not build up his
to him to wife, and perform brother’s house. 10 And his
the duty of an husband’s name shall be called in Israel,
brother unto her. 6 And The house of him that hath
it shall be, that the first- his shoe loosed. 11 When men
born which she beareth shall strive together one with an-
succeed in the name of his other, and the wife of the
brother which is dead, that one draweth near for to de-
his name be not put out liver her husband out of the
of Israel. 7 And if the man hand of him that smiteth
like not to take his brother’s him, and putteth forth her
wife, then let his brother’s hand, and taketh him by the
wife go up to the gate unto secrets: 12 Then thou shalt
the elders, and say, My hus- cut off her hand, thine eye
band’s brother refuseth to shall not pity her. 13 Thou
raise up unto his brother a shalt not have in thy bag
name in Israel, he will not divers weights, a great and a
perform the duty of my hus- small. 14 Thou shalt not have
band’s brother. 8 Then the in thine house divers mea-
elders of his city shall call sures, a great and a small.
him, and speak unto him: 15 But thou shalt have a per-
and the fruit of thy ground, of the Lord; and they shall
and the fruit of thy cat- be afraid of thee. 11 And
tle, the increase of thy kine, the Lord shall make thee
and the flocks of thy sheep. plenteous in goods, in the
5 Blessed shall be thy basket fruit of thy body, and in the
and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt fruit of thy cattle, and in the
thou be when thou comest fruit of thy ground, in the
in, and blessed shalt thou be land which the Lord sware
when thou goest out. 7 The unto thy fathers to give thee.
Lord shall cause thine ene- 12 The Lord shall open unto
mies that rise up against thee thee his good treasure, the
to be smitten before thy face: heaven to give the rain unto
they shall come out against thy land in his season, and
thee one way, and flee before to bless all the work of thine
thee seven ways. 8 The Lord hand: and thou shalt lend
shall command the blessing unto many nations, and thou
upon thee in thy storehouses, shalt not borrow. 13 And the
and in all that thou settest Lord shall make thee the
thine hand unto; and he shall head, and not the tail; and
bless thee in the land which thou shalt be above only, and
the Lord thy God giveth thou shalt not be beneath; if
thee. 9 The Lord shall estab- that thou hearken unto the
lish thee an holy people unto commandments of the Lord
himself, as he hath sworn thy God, which I command
unto thee, if thou shalt keep thee this day, to observe and
the commandments of the to do them: 14 And thou shalt
Lord thy God, and walk in not go aside from any of the
his ways. 10 And all people words which I command thee
of the earth shall see that this day, to the right hand,
thou art called by the name or to the left, to go after
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unto all fowls of the air, and away from before thy face,
unto the beasts of the earth, and shall not be restored to
and no man shall fray them thee: thy sheep shall be given
away. 27 The Lord will smite unto thine enemies, and thou
thee with the botch of Egypt, shalt have none to rescue
and with the emerods, and them. 32 Thy sons and thy
with the scab, and with the daughters shall be given unto
itch, whereof thou canst not another people, and thine
be healed. 28 The Lord eyes shall look, and fail with
shall smite thee with mad- longing for them all the day
ness, and blindness, and as- long: and there shall be no
tonishment of heart: 29 And might in thine hand. 33 The
thou shalt grope at noon- fruit of thy land, and all thy
day, as the blind gropeth in labours, shall a nation which
darkness, and thou shalt not thou knowest not eat up; and
prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed
thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: 34 So that
and spoiled evermore, and no thou shalt be mad for the
man shall save thee. 30 Thou sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt betroth a wife, and an- shalt see. 35 The Lord shall
other man shall lie with her: smite thee in the knees, and
thou shalt build an house, in the legs, with a sore botch
and thou shalt not dwell that cannot be healed, from
therein: thou shalt plant the sole of thy foot unto
a vineyard, and shalt not the top of thy head. 36 The
gather the grapes thereof. Lord shall bring thee, and
31 Thine ox shall be slain be- thy king which thou shalt
fore thine eyes, and thou set over thee, unto a na-
shalt not eat thereof: thine tion which neither thou nor
ass shall be violently taken thy fathers have known; and
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there shalt thou serve other lend to thee, and thou shalt
gods, wood and stone. 37 And not lend to him: he shall
thou shalt become an aston- be the head, and thou shalt
ishment, a proverb, and a be the tail. 45 Moreover
but thou shalt not anoint the Lord thy God with joy-
thyself with the oil; for thine fulness, and with gladness
olive shall cast his fruit. of heart, for the abundance
41 Thou shalt beget sons and of all things; 48 Therefore
daughters, but thou shalt not shalt thou serve thine ene-
enjoy them; for they shall go mies which the Lord shall
into captivity. 42 All thy trees send against thee, in hunger,
and fruit of thy land shall and in thirst, and in naked-
the locust consume. 43 The ness, and in want of all
stranger that is within thee things: and he shall put a
shall get up above thee very yoke of iron upon thy neck,
high; and thou shalt come until he have destroyed thee.
down very low. 44 He shall 49 The Lord shall bring a na-
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tion against thee from far, thy God hath given thee, in
from the end of the earth, the siege, and in the strait-
as swift as the eagle fli- ness, wherewith thine ene-
eth; a nation whose tongue mies shall distress thee: 54 So
thou shalt not understand; that the man that is tender
50 A nation of fierce counte- among you, and very deli-
nance, which shall not regard cate, his eye shall be evil
the person of the old, nor toward his brother, and to-
shew favour to the young: ward the wife of his bosom,
51 And he shall eat the fruit and toward the remnant of
of thy cattle, and the fruit of his children which he shall
thy land, until thou be de- leave: 55 So that he will not
stroyed: which also shall not give to any of them of the
leave thee either corn, wine, flesh of his children whom he
or oil, or the increase of thy shall eat: because he hath
kine, or flocks of thy sheep, nothing left him in the siege,
until he have destroyed thee. and in the straitness, where-
52 And he shall besiege thee with thine enemies shall dis-
in all thy gates, until thy tress thee in all thy gates.
high and fenced walls come 56 The tender and delicate
night, and shalt have none Israel, and said unto them,
assurance of thy life: 67 In Ye have seen all that the
the morning thou shalt say, Lord did before your eyes
Would God it were even! and in the land of Egypt unto
at even thou shalt say, Would Pharaoh, and unto all his
God it were morning! for servants, and unto all his
the fear of thine heart where- land; 3 The great temptations
with thou shalt fear, and for which thine eyes have seen,
the sight of thine eyes which the signs, and those great
thou shalt see. 68 And the miracles: 4 Yet the Lord
Lord shall bring thee into hath not given you an heart
Egypt again with ships, by to perceive, and eyes to see,
the way whereof I spake unto and ears to hear, unto this
thee, Thou shalt see it no day. 5 And I have led you
more again: and there ye forty years in the wilderness:
shall be sold unto your ene- your clothes are not waxen
mies for bondmen and bond- old upon you, and thy shoe
women, and no man shall is not waxen old upon thy
buy you. foot. 6 Ye have not eaten
bread, neither have ye drunk
wine or strong drink: that
Chapter 29 ye might know that I am the
Lord your God. 7 And when
These are the words of the ye came unto this place, Si-
covenant, which the Lord hon the king of Heshbon,
commanded Moses to make and Og the king of Bashan,
with the children of Israel came out against us unto
in the land of Moab, be- battle, and we smote them:
side the covenant which he
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cret things belong unto the thy God hath scattered thee.
Lord our God: but those 4 If any of thine be driven
things which are revealed be- out unto the outmost parts
long unto us and to our chil- of heaven, from thence will
dren for ever, that we may do the Lord thy God gather
all the words of this law. thee, and from thence will
he fetch thee: 5 And the
Lord thy God will bring
Chapter 30 thee into the land which thy
fathers possessed, and thou
And it shall come to pass, shalt possess it; and he will
when all these things are do thee good, and multiply
come upon thee, the bless- thee above thy fathers. 6 And
ing and the curse, which I the Lord thy God will cir-
have set before thee, and cumcise thine heart, and the
thou shalt call them to heart of thy seed, to love the
mind among all the nations, Lord thy God with all thine
whither the Lord thy God heart, and with all thy soul,
hath driven thee, 2 And shalt that thou mayest live. 7 And
return unto the Lord thy the Lord thy God will put
God, and shalt obey his voice all these curses upon thine
according to all that I com- enemies, and on them that
mand thee this day, thou hate thee, which persecuted
and thy children, with all thee. 8 And thou shalt re-
thine heart, and with all thy turn and obey the voice of
soul; 3 That then the Lord the Lord, and do all his
thy God will turn thy cap- commandments which I com-
tivity, and have compassion mand thee this day. 9 And
upon thee, and will return the Lord thy God will make
and gather thee from all the thee plenteous in every work
nations, whither the Lord
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over the sea for us, and bring and earth to record this day
it unto us, that we may hear against you, that I have set
it, and do it? 14 But the before you life and death,
word is very nigh unto thee, blessing and cursing: there-
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will not fail thee, neither for- thing, may hear, and learn
sake thee: fear not, neither to fear the Lord your God,
be dismayed. 9 And Moses as long as ye live in the
wrote this law, and deliv- land whither ye go over Jor-
ered it unto the priests the dan to possess it. 14 And
sons of Levi, which bare the the Lord said unto Moses,
ark of the covenant of the Behold, thy days approach
Lord, and unto all the el- that thou must die: call
ders of Israel. 10 And Moses Joshua, and present your-
commanded them, saying, selves in the tabernacle of
At the end of every seven the congregation, that I may
years, in the solemnity of give him a charge. And
the year of release, in the Moses and Joshua went, and
feast of tabernacles, 11 When presented themselves in the
all Israel is come to ap- tabernacle of the congrega-
pear before the Lord thy tion. 15 And the Lord ap-
God in the place which he peared in the tabernacle in
shall choose, thou shalt read a pillar of a cloud: and
this law before all Israel in the pillar of the cloud stood
their hearing. 12 Gather the over the door of the taber-
people together, men, and nacle. 16 And the Lord said
women, and children, and unto Moses, Behold, thou
thy stranger that is within shalt sleep with thy fathers;
thy gates, that they may and this people will rise up,
hear, and that they may and go a whoring after the
learn, and fear the Lord gods of the strangers of the
your God, and observe to land, whither they go to
do all the words of this law: be among them, and will
13 And that their children, forsake me, and break my
which have not known any covenant which I have made
DEUTERONOMY 526
ders, and they will tell thee. sheep, with fat of lambs, and
8 When the most High di- rams of the breed of Bashan,
vided to the nations their and goats, with the fat of
inheritance, when he sepa- kidneys of wheat; and thou
rated the sons of Adam, he didst drink the pure blood of
set the bounds of the peo- the grape. 15 But Jeshurun
ple according to the num- waxed fat, and kicked: thou
ber of the children of Israel. art waxen fat, thou art grown
9 For the Lord’S portion is thick, thou art covered with
his people; Jacob is the lot of fatness; then he forsook God
his inheritance. 10 He found which made him, and lightly
him in a desert land, and esteemed the Rock of his sal-
in the waste howling wilder- vation. 16 They provoked him
ness; he led him about, he to jealousy with strange gods,
instructed him, he kept him with abominations provoked
as the apple of his eye. 11 As they him to anger. 17 They
an eagle stirreth up her nest, sacrificed unto devils, not to
fluttereth over her young, God; to gods whom they
spreadeth abroad her wings, knew not, to new gods that
taketh them, beareth them came newly up, whom your
on her wings: 12 So the Lord fathers feared not. 18 Of the
alone did lead him, and there Rock that begat thee thou
was no strange god with him. art unmindful, and hast for-
13 He made him ride on the gotten God that formed thee.
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19 And when the Lord saw send the teeth of beasts upon
it, he abhorred them, because them, with the poison of ser-
of the provoking of his sons, pents of the dust. 25 The
and of his daughters. 20 And sword without, and terror
he said, I will hide my face within, shall destroy both
from them, I will see what the young man and the vir-
their end shall be: for they gin, the suckling also with
are a very froward genera- the man of gray hairs. 26 I
tion, children in whom is no said, I would scatter them
faith. 21 They have moved me into corners, I would make
to jealousy with that which is the remembrance of them
not God; they have provoked to cease from among men:
me to anger with their van- 27 Were it not that I feared
shut them up? 31 For their the wine of their drink offer-
rock is not as our Rock, even ings? let them rise up and
our enemies themselves being help you, and be your pro-
judges. 32 For their vine is tection. 39 See now that I,
of the vine of Sodom, and even I, am he, and there is
of the fields of Gomorrah: no god with me: I kill, and
their grapes are grapes of I make alive; I wound, and
gall, their clusters are bit- I heal: neither is there any
ter: 33 Their wine is the poi- that can deliver out of my
son of dragons, and the cruel hand. 40 For I lift up my
venom of asps. 34 Is not this hand to heaven, and say, I
laid up in store with me, and live for ever. 41 If I whet my
sealed up among my trea- glittering sword, and mine
sures? 35 To me belongeth hand take hold on judgment;
vengeance, and recompence; I will render vengeance to
their foot shall slide in due mine enemies, and will re-
time: for the day of their ward them that hate me. 42 I
calamity is at hand, and the will make mine arrows drunk
things that shall come upon with blood, and my sword
them make haste. 36 For the shall devour flesh; and that
Lord shall judge his peo- with the blood of the slain
ple, and repent himself for and of the captives, from the
his servants, when he seeth beginning of revenges upon
that their power is gone, and the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O ye
there is none shut up, or nations, with his people: for
left. 37 And he shall say, he will avenge the blood of
Where are their gods, their his servants, and will render
rock in whom they trusted, vengeance to his adversaries,
38 Which did eat the fat of and will be merciful unto
their sacrifices, and drank his land, and to his people.
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3 Yea, he loved the people; all his brethren, nor knew his
his saints are in thy hand: own children: for they have
and they sat down at thy observed thy word, and kept
feet; every one shall receive thy covenant. 10 They shall
of thy words. 4 Moses com- teach Jacob thy judgments,
manded us a law, even the and Israel thy law: they shall
inheritance of the congrega- put incense before thee, and
tion of Jacob. 5 And he was whole burnt sacrifice upon
king in Jeshurun, when the thine altar. 11 Bless, Lord,
heads of the people and the his substance, and accept the
tribes of Israel were gathered work of his hands: smite
together. 6 Let Reuben live, through the loins of them
and not die; and let not his that rise against him, and
men be few. 7 And this is of them that hate him, that
the blessing of Judah: and he they rise not again. 12 And
said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Benjamin he said, The
of Judah, and bring him unto beloved of the Lord shall
his people: let his hands be dwell in safety by him; and
sufficient for him; and be the Lord shall cover him all
thou an help to him from his the day long, and he shall
enemies. 8 And of Levi he dwell between his shoulders.
said, Let thy Thummim and 13 And of Joseph he said,
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JOSHUA 537
things, our hearts did melt, Get you to the mountain, lest
neither did there remain any the pursuers meet you; and
more courage in any man, hide yourselves there three
because of you: for the Lord days, until the pursuers be
your God, he is God in returned: and afterward may
heaven above, and in earth ye go your way. 17 And the
beneath. 12 Now therefore, men said unto her, We will
I pray you, swear unto me be blameless of this thine
by the Lord, since I have oath which thou hast made
shewed you kindness, that us swear. 18 Behold, when
ye will also shew kindness we come into the land, thou
unto my father’s house, and shalt bind this line of scarlet
JOSHUA 540
from above; and they shall dry ground, until all the peo-
stand upon an heap. 14 And ple were passed clean over
it came to pass, when the Jordan.
people removed from their
tents, to pass over Jordan,
and the priests bearing the Chapter 4
ark of the covenant before
the people; 15 And as they And it came to pass, when all
that bare the ark were come the people were clean passed
unto Jordan, and the feet over Jordan, that the Lord
of the priests that bare the spake unto Joshua, saying,
2 Take you twelve men out
ark were dipped in the brim
of the water, (for Jordan of the people, out of every
overfloweth all his banks all tribe a man, 3 And command
the time of harvest,) 16 That ye them, saying, Take you
the waters which came down hence out of the midst of Jor-
from above stood and rose up dan, out of the place where
upon an heap very far from the priests’ feet stood firm,
the city Adam, that is be- twelve stones, and ye shall
side Zaretan: and those that carry them over with you,
came down toward the sea and leave them in the lodging
of the plain, even the salt place, where ye shall lodge
sea, failed, and were cut off: this night. 4 Then Joshua
and the people passed over called the twelve men, whom
right against Jericho. 17 And he had prepared of the chil-
the priests that bare the ark dren of Israel, out of every
of the covenant of the Lord tribe a man: 5 And Joshua
stood firm on dry ground in said unto them, Pass over
the midst of Jordan, and all before the ark of the Lord
the Israelites passed over on your God into the midst of
Jordan, and take ye up ev-
JOSHUA 543
that the Lord had dried up cised. 6 For the children of Is-
the waters of Jordan from be- rael walked forty years in the
fore the children of Israel, un- wilderness, till all the people
til we were passed over, that that were men of war, which
their heart melted, neither came out of Egypt, were con-
was there spirit in them any sumed, because they obeyed
more, because of the chil- not the voice of the Lord:
dren of Israel. 2 At that time unto whom the Lord sware
the Lord said unto Joshua, that he would not shew them
Make thee sharp knives, and the land, which the Lord
circumcise again the chil- sware unto their fathers that
dren of Israel the second he would give us, a land
time. 3 And Joshua made that floweth with milk and
him sharp knives, and cir- honey. 7 And their children,
cumcised the children of Is- whom he raised up in their
rael at the hill of the fore- stead, them Joshua circum-
skins. 4 And this is the cause cised: for they were uncir-
why Joshua did circumcise: cumcised, because they had
All the people that came out not circumcised them by the
of Egypt, that were males, way. 8 And it came to pass,
even all the men of war, when they had done circum-
died in the wilderness by the cising all the people, that
way, after they came out of they abode in their places
Egypt. 5 Now all the peo- in the camp, till they were
ple that came out were cir- whole. 9 And the Lord
cumcised: but all the peo- said unto Joshua, This day
ple that were born in the have I rolled away the re-
wilderness by the way as they proach of Egypt from off you.
came forth out of Egypt, Wherefore the name of the
them they had not circum- place is called Gilgal unto
JOSHUA 546
the city seven times, and the the trumpets: and the ark of
priests shall blow with the the covenant of the Lord fol-
trumpets. 5 And it shall come lowed them. 9 And the armed
to pass, that when they make men went before the priests
a long blast with the ram’s that blew with the trumpets,
horn, and when ye hear the and the rereward came af-
sound of the trumpet, all ter the ark, the priests go-
the people shall shout with ing on, and blowing with the
a great shout; and the wall trumpets. 10 And Joshua had
of the city shall fall down commanded the people, say-
flat, and the people shall as- ing, Ye shall not shout, nor
cend up every man straight make any noise with your
before him. 6 And Joshua the voice, neither shall any word
son of Nun called the priests, proceed out of your mouth,
and said unto them, Take up until the day I bid you shout;
the ark of the covenant, and then shall ye shout. 11 So
let seven priests bear seven the ark of the Lord com-
trumpets of rams’ horns be- passed the city, going about
fore the ark of the Lord. it once: and they came into
7 And he said unto the peo- the camp, and lodged in the
ple, Pass on, and compass camp. 12 And Joshua rose
the city, and let him that early in the morning, and
is armed pass on before the the priests took up the ark
ark of the Lord. 8 And it of the Lord. 13 And seven
came to pass, when Joshua priests bearing seven trum-
had spoken unto the people, pets of rams’ horns before
that the seven priests bear- the ark of the Lord went
ing the seven trumpets of on continually, and blew with
rams’ horns passed on be- the trumpets: and the armed
fore the Lord, and blew with men went before them; but
JOSHUA 548
west of the city, Joshua went into thine hand. And Joshua
that night into the midst of stretched out the spear that
the valley. 14 And it came he had in his hand toward
to pass, when the king of the city. 19 And the ambush
Ai saw it, that they hasted arose quickly out of their
and rose up early, and the place, and they ran as soon
men of the city went out as he had stretched out his
against Israel to battle, he hand: and they entered into
and all his people, at a time the city, and took it, and
appointed, before the plain; hasted and set the city on
but he wist not that there fire. 20 And when the men of
were liers in ambush against Ai looked behind them, they
him behind the city. 15 And saw, and, behold, the smoke
Joshua and all Israel made of the city ascended up to
as if they were beaten before heaven, and they had no
them, and fled by the way of power to flee this way or that
the wilderness. 16 And all the way: and the people that fled
people that were in Ai were to the wilderness turned back
called together to pursue af- upon the pursuers. 21 And
ter them: and they pursued when Joshua and all Israel
after Joshua, and were drawn saw that the ambush had
away from the city. 17 And taken the city, and that the
there was not a man left in smoke of the city ascended,
Ai or Bethel, that went not then they turned again, and
out after Israel: and they left slew the men of Ai. 22 And
the city open, and pursued the other issued out of the
after Israel. 18 And the Lord city against them; so they
said unto Joshua, Stretch out were in the midst of Israel,
the spear that is in thy hand some on this side, and some
toward Ai; for I will give it on that side: and they smote
JOSHUA 555
Gilgal, and said unto him, with you for the journey, and
and to the men of Israel, We go to meet them, and say
be come from a far coun- unto them, We are your ser-
try: now therefore make ye vants: therefore now make ye
a league with us. 7 And a league with us. 12 This our
the men of Israel said unto bread we took hot for our
the Hivites, Peradventure ye provision out of our houses
dwell among us; and how on the day we came forth
shall we make a league with to go unto you; but now,
you? 8 And they said unto behold, it is dry, and it is
Joshua, We are thy servants. mouldy: 13 And these bottles
And Joshua said unto them, of wine, which we filled, were
Who are ye? and from new; and, behold, they be
whence come ye? 9 And they rent: and these our garments
said unto him, From a very and our shoes are become old
far country thy servants are by reason of the very long
come because of the name journey. 14 And the men took
of the Lord thy God: for of their victuals, and asked
we have heard the fame of not counsel at the mouth of
him, and all that he did the Lord. 15 And Joshua
in Egypt, 10 And all that made peace with them, and
he did to the two kings of made a league with them, to
the Amorites, that were be- let them live: and the princes
yond Jordan, to Sihon king of the congregation sware
of Heshbon, and to Og king unto them. 16 And it came to
of Bashan, which was at pass at the end of three days
Ashtaroth. 11 Wherefore our after they had made a league
elders and all the inhabi- with them, that they heard
tants of our country spake that they were their neigh-
to us, saying, Take victuals bours, and that they dwelt
JOSHUA 558
of Israel. And all the congre- and said, Because it was cer-
gation murmured against the tainly told thy servants, how
princes. 19 But all the princes that the Lord thy God com-
said unto all the congrega- manded his servant Moses to
tion, We have sworn unto give you all the land, and
them by the Lord God of Is- to destroy all the inhabitants
rael: now therefore we may of the land from before you,
not touch them. 20 This we therefore we were sore afraid
will do to them; we will even of our lives because of you,
let them live, lest wrath be and have done this thing.
upon us, because of the oath 25 And now, behold, we are
when all these kings were turned back, and took Hazor,
met together, they came and smote the king thereof
and pitched together at the with the sword: for Hazor
waters of Merom, to fight beforetime was the head of
against Israel. 6 And the all those kingdoms. 11 And
Lord said unto Joshua, Be they smote all the souls that
not afraid because of them: were therein with the edge
for to morrow about this of the sword, utterly destroy-
time will I deliver them up ing them: there was not
all slain before Israel: thou any left to breathe: and he
shalt hough their horses, and burnt Hazor with fire. 12 And
burn their chariots with fire. all the cities of those kings,
7 So Joshua came, and all and all the kings of them,
the people of war with him, did Joshua take, and smote
against them by the waters them with the edge of the
of Merom suddenly; and they sword, and he utterly de-
fell upon them. 8 And the stroyed them, as Moses the
Lord delivered them into servant of the Lord com-
the hand of Israel, who smote manded. 13 But as for the
them, and chased them unto cities that stood still in their
great Zidon, and unto Mis- strength, Israel burned none
rephothmaim, and unto the of them, save Hazor only;
valley of Mizpeh eastward; that did Joshua burn. 14 And
JOSHUA 565
all the spoil of these cities, made peace with the children
and the cattle, the children of Israel, save the Hivites the
of Israel took for a prey unto inhabitants of Gibeon: all
themselves; but every man other they took in battle.
they smote with the edge of 20 For it was of the Lord
that the cities were great and shore of the salt sea, from the
fenced: if so be the Lord bay that looketh southward:
will be with me, then I shall 3 And it went out to the south
Jerusalem: and the border the great sea, and the coast
went up to the top of the thereof. This is the coast of
mountain that lieth before the children of Judah round
the valley of Hinnom west- about according to their fam-
ward, which is at the end of ilies. 13 And unto Caleb the
the valley of the giants north- son of Jephunneh he gave
ward: 9 And the border was a part among the children
drawn from the top of the of Judah, according to the
hill unto the fountain of the commandment of the Lord
water of Nephtoah, and went to Joshua, even the city of
out to the cities of mount Arba the father of Anak,
Ephron; and the border which city is Hebron. 14 And
was drawn to Baalah, which Caleb drove thence the three
is Kirjathjearim: 10 And sons of Anak, Sheshai, and
the border compassed from Ahiman, and Talmai, the
Baalah westward unto mount children of Anak. 15 And he
Seir, and passed along unto went up thence to the inhabi-
the side of mount Jearim, tants of Debir: and the name
which is Chesalon, on the of Debir before was Kirjath-
JOSHUA 574
and describe it, and come the border went over from
again to me, that I may thence toward Luz, to the
here cast lots for you before side of Luz, which is Bethel,
the Lord in Shiloh. 9 And southward; and the border
the men went and passed descended to Atarothadar,
through the land, and de- near the hill that lieth on
scribed it by cities into seven the south side of the nether
parts in a book, and came Bethhoron. 14 And the bor-
again to Joshua to the host der was drawn thence, and
at Shiloh. 10 And Joshua cast compassed the corner of the
lots for them in Shiloh be- sea southward, from the hill
fore the Lord: and there that lieth before Bethhoron
Joshua divided the land unto southward; and the goings
the children of Israel accord- out thereof were at Kirjath-
ing to their divisions. 11 And baal, which is Kirjathjearim,
the lot of the tribe of the a city of the children of Ju-
children of Benjamin came dah: this was the west quar-
up according to their fami- ter. 15 And the south quarter
lies: and the coast of their lot was from the end of Kirjath-
came forth between the chil- jearim, and the border went
dren of Judah and the chil- out on the west, and went
dren of Joseph. 12 And their out to the well of waters of
border on the north side was Nephtoah: 16 And the bor-
from Jordan; and the border der came down to the end
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they gave him the city which unto one of those cities shall
he asked, even Timnathserah stand at the entering of the
in mount Ephraim: and he gate of the city, and shall de-
built the city, and dwelt clare his cause in the ears
therein. 51 These are the in- of the elders of that city,
heritances, which Eleazar the they shall take him into the
priest, and Joshua the son of city unto them, and give
Nun, and the heads of the fa- him a place, that he may
thers of the tribes of the chil- dwell among them. 5 And
dren of Israel, divided for an if the avenger of blood pur-
inheritance by lot in Shiloh sue after him, then they
before the Lord, at the door shall not deliver the slayer
of the tabernacle of the con- up into his hand; because
gregation. So they made an he smote his neighbour un-
end of dividing the country. wittingly, and hated him not
beforetime. 6 And he shall
dwell in that city, until he
Chapter 20 stand before the congrega-
tion for judgment, and until
The Lord also spake unto the death of the high priest
Joshua, saying, 2 Speak to the
JOSHUA 586
tali, and out of the half tribe and the villages thereof, gave
of Manasseh in Bashan, thir- they to Caleb the son of Je-
teen cities. 7 The children of phunneh for his possession.
Merari by their families had 13 Thus they gave to the chil-
horon with her suburbs; four Asher, Mishal with her sub-
cities. 23 And out of the urbs, Abdon with her sub-
tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with urbs, 31 Helkath with her sub-
her suburbs, Gibbethon with urbs, and Rehob with her
her suburbs, 24 Aijalon with suburbs; four cities. 32 And
her suburbs, Gathrimmon out of the tribe of Naphtali,
with her suburbs; four cities. Kedesh in Galilee with her
25 And out of the half tribe suburbs, to be a city of refuge
of Manasseh, Tanach with for the slayer; and Ham-
her suburbs, and Gathrim- mothdor with her suburbs,
mon with her suburbs; two and Kartan with her sub-
JOSHUA 589
urbs; three cities. 33 All the were by their lot twelve cities.
cities of the Gershonites ac- 41 All the cities of the Levites
for the slayer; and Mahanaim any good thing which the
with her suburbs, 39 Heshbon Lord had spoken unto the
with her suburbs, Jazer with house of Israel; all came to
her suburbs; four cities in all. pass.
40 So all the cities for the chil-
law, which Moses the ser- and the children of Gad and
vant of the Lord charged the half tribe of Manasseh
you, to love the Lord your returned, and departed from
God, and to walk in all his
JOSHUA 591
sion among us: but rebel not done it for fear of this thing,
against the Lord, nor rebel saying, In time to come your
against us, in building you an children might speak unto
altar beside the altar of the our children, saying, What
Lord our God. 20 Did not have ye to do with the Lord
Achan the son of Zerah com- God of Israel? 25 For the
mit a trespass in the accursed Lord hath made Jordan a
thing, and wrath fell on all border between us and you,
the congregation of Israel? ye children of Reuben and
and that man perished not children of Gad; ye have no
alone in his iniquity. 21 Then part in the Lord: so shall
JOSHUA 593
you great nations and strong: am going the way of all the
but as for you, no man hath earth: and ye know in all
been able to stand before you your hearts and in all your
unto this day. 10 One man souls, that not one thing
of you shall chase a thou- hath failed of all the good
sand: for the Lord your things which the Lord your
God, he it is that fighteth God spake concerning you;
for you, as he hath promised all are come to pass unto
you. 11 Take good heed there- you, and not one thing hath
fore unto yourselves, that ye failed thereof. 15 Therefore it
love the Lord your God. shall come to pass, that as all
12 Else if ye do in any wise good things are come upon
go back, and cleave unto you, which the Lord your
the remnant of these na- God promised you; so shall
tions, even these that re- the Lord bring upon you
main among you, and shall all evil things, until he have
make marriages with them, destroyed you from off this
and go in unto them, and good land which the Lord
they to you: 13 Know for a your God hath given you.
certainty that the Lord your 16 When ye have transgressed
your God, which he com- side of the flood, and led him
manded you, and have gone throughout all the land of
and served other gods, and Canaan, and multiplied his
bowed yourselves to them; seed, and gave him Isaac.
then shall the anger of the 4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob
that ye have chosen you the depart, every man unto his
JOSHUA 599
the days of Joshua, and all Aaron died; and they buried
the days of the elders that him in a hill that pertained to
overlived Joshua, and which Phinehas his son, which was
had known all the works of given him in mount Ephraim.
the Lord, that he had done
Judges
N of Joshua it came
to pass, that the
children of Israel
asked the Lord, saying,
Who shall go up for us
and they slew of them in
Bezek ten thousand men.
5 And they found Adonibezek
600
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with the coast thereof, and will shew thee mercy. 25 And
Ekron with the coast thereof. when he shewed them the
19 And the Lord was with entrance into the city, they
Judah; and he drave out smote the city with the edge
the inhabitants of the moun- of the sword; but they let
tain; but could not drive out go the man and all his fam-
the inhabitants of the val- ily. 26 And the man went into
ley, because they had char- the land of the Hittites, and
iots of iron. 20 And they built a city, and called the
gave Hebron unto Caleb, as name thereof Luz: which is
Moses said: and he ex- the name thereof unto this
pelled thence the three sons day. 27 Neither did Manasseh
of Anak. 21 And the children drive out the inhabitants of
of Benjamin did not drive out Bethshean and her towns,
the Jebusites that inhabited nor Taanach and her towns,
Jerusalem; but the Jebusites nor the inhabitants of Dor
dwell with the children of and her towns, nor the in-
Benjamin in Jerusalem unto habitants of Ibleam and her
this day. 22 And the house towns, nor the inhabitants
of Joseph, they also went of Megiddo and her towns:
up against Bethel: and the but the Canaanites would
Lord was with them. 23 And dwell in that land. 28 And
the house of Joseph sent to it came to pass, when Israel
descry Bethel. (Now the was strong, that they put the
name of the city before was Canaanites to tribute, and
Luz.) 24 And the spies saw did not utterly drive them
a man come forth out of the out. 29 Neither did Ephraim
city, and they said unto him, drive out the Canaanites
Shew us, we pray thee, the that dwelt in Gezer; but the
entrance into the city, and we Canaanites dwelt in Gezer
JUDGES 603
opened not the doors of the day under the hand of Is-
parlour; therefore they took rael. And the land had rest
a key, and opened them: and, fourscore years. 31 And af-
behold, their lord was fallen ter him was Shamgar the son
down dead on the earth. of Anath, which slew of the
26 And Ehud escaped while Philistines six hundred men
they tarried, and passed be- with an ox goad: and he also
yond the quarries, and es- delivered Israel.
caped unto Seirath. 27 And
it came to pass, when he
was come, that he blew a Chapter 4
trumpet in the mountain of
Ephraim, and the children And the children of Israel
again did evil in the sight
JUDGES 609
and pitched his tent unto the Gentiles: and all the host of
plain of Zaanaim, which is by Sisera fell upon the edge of
Kedesh. 12 And they shewed the sword; and there was not
Sisera that Barak the son a man left. 17 Howbeit Sis-
of Abinoam was gone up to era fled away on his feet to
mount Tabor. 13 And Sis- the tent of Jael the wife of
era gathered together all his Heber the Kenite: for there
chariots, even nine hundred was peace between Jabin the
chariots of iron, and all the king of Hazor and the house
people that were with him, of Heber the Kenite. 18 And
from Harosheth of the Gen- Jael went out to meet Sis-
tiles unto the river of Kishon. era, and said unto him, Turn
14 And Deborah said unto in, my lord, turn in to me;
Barak, Up; for this is the fear not. And when he had
day in which the Lord hath turned in unto her into the
delivered Sisera into thine tent, she covered him with a
hand: is not the Lord gone mantle. 19 And he said unto
out before thee? So Barak her, Give me, I pray thee,
went down from mount Ta- a little water to drink; for I
bor, and ten thousand men am thirsty. And she opened
after him. 15 And the Lord a bottle of milk, and gave
discomfited Sisera, and all him drink, and covered him.
his chariots, and all his host, 20 Again he said unto her,
with the edge of the sword Stand in the door of the tent,
before Barak; so that Sisera and it shall be, when any
lighted down off his chariot, man doth come and enquire
and fled away on his feet. of thee, and say, Is there any
16 But Barak pursued after man here? that thou shalt
the chariots, and after the say, No. 21 Then Jael Heber’s
host, unto Harosheth of the wife took a nail of the tent,
JUDGES 611
tude; for both they and their of the Lord, and sat under
camels were without num- an oak which was in Ophrah,
ber: and they entered into
JUDGES 615
from the hand of the Midi- unto him, Take the flesh and
anites: have not I sent thee? the unleavened cakes, and
15 And he said unto him, Oh lay them upon this rock, and
my Lord, wherewith shall I pour out the broth. And he
save Israel? behold, my fam- did so. 21 Then the angel of
ily is poor in Manasseh, and the Lord put forth the end
I am the least in my father’s of the staff that was in his
JUDGES 616
hand, and touched the flesh Lord thy God upon the top
and the unleavened cakes; of this rock, in the ordered
and there rose up fire out place, and take the second
of the rock, and consumed bullock, and offer a burnt
the flesh and the unleavened sacrifice with the wood of the
cakes. Then the angel of grove which thou shalt cut
the Lord departed out of his down. 27 Then Gideon took
sight. 22 And when Gideon ten men of his servants, and
perceived that he was an an- did as the Lord had said
gel of the Lord, Gideon said, unto him: and so it was, be-
Alas, O Lord God! for be- cause he feared his father’s
cause I have seen an angel of household, and the men of
the Lord face to face. 23 And the city, that he could not
the Lord said unto him, do it by day, that he did
Peace be unto thee; fear not: it by night. 28 And when
thou shalt not die. 24 Then the men of the city arose
Gideon built an altar there early in the morning, behold,
unto the Lord, and called the altar of Baal was cast
it Jehovahshalom: unto this down, and the grove was cut
day it is yet in Ophrah of down that was by it, and
the Abiezrites. 25 And it the second bullock was of-
came to pass the same night, fered upon the altar that was
that the Lord said unto him, built. 29 And they said one to
Take thy father’s young bul- another, Who hath done this
lock, even the second bul- thing? And when they en-
lock of seven years old, and quired and asked, they said,
throw down the altar of Baal Gideon the son of Joash hath
that thy father hath, and cut done this thing. 30 Then the
down the grove that is by it: men of the city said unto
26 And build an altar unto the Joash, Bring out thy son,
JUDGES 617
for it was dry upon the fleece sand; and there remained ten
only, and there was dew on thousand. 4 And the Lord
all the ground. said unto Gideon, The peo-
ple are yet too many; bring
them down unto the water,
Chapter 7 and I will try them for thee
there: and it shall be, that of
Then Jerubbaal, who is whom I say unto thee, This
Gideon, and all the people shall go with thee, the same
that were with him, rose shall go with thee; and of
up early, and pitched be- whomsoever I say unto thee,
side the well of Harod: so This shall not go with thee,
that the host of the Mid- the same shall not go. 5 So
ianites were on the north he brought down the peo-
side of them, by the hill of ple unto the water: and the
Moreh, in the valley. 2 And Lord said unto Gideon, Ev-
the Lord said unto Gideon, ery one that lappeth of the
The people that are with water with his tongue, as a
thee are too many for me dog lappeth, him shalt thou
to give the Midianites into set by himself; likewise every
their hands, lest Israel vaunt one that boweth down upon
themselves against me, say- his knees to drink. 6 And the
ing, Mine own hand hath number of them that lapped,
saved me. 3 Now therefore putting their hand to their
go to, proclaim in the ears of mouth, were three hundred
the people, saying, Whoso- men: but all the rest of the
ever is fearful and afraid, people bowed down upon
let him return and depart their knees to drink water.
early from mount Gilead. 7 And the Lord said unto
livered into your hand the the pitchers, and held the
host of Midian. 16 And he lamps in their left hands,
divided the three hundred and the trumpets in their
men into three companies, right hands to blow withal:
and he put a trumpet in ev- and they cried, The sword
ery man’s hand, with empty of the Lord, and of Gideon.
pitchers, and lamps within 21 And they stood every man
said unto him, Why hast said, Are the hands of Ze-
thou served us thus, that bah and Zalmunna now in
thou calledst us not, when thine hand, that we should
thou wentest to fight with give bread unto thine army?
the Midianites? And they 7 And Gideon said, There-
did chide with him sharply. fore when the Lord hath
2 And he said unto them,
delivered Zebah and Zal-
What have I done now in munna into mine hand, then
comparison of you? Is not I will tear your flesh with the
the gleaning of the grapes of thorns of the wilderness and
Ephraim better than the vin- with briers. 8 And he went up
tage of Abiezer? 3 God hath thence to Penuel, and spake
delivered into your hands
JUDGES 622
sand men that drew sword. the city, and thorns of the
11 And Gideon went up by the wilderness and briers, and
way of them that dwelt in with them he taught the men
tents on the east of Nobah of Succoth. 17 And he beat
and Jogbehah, and smote the down the tower of Penuel,
host: for the host was secure. and slew the men of the city.
12 And when Zebah and Zal- 18 Then said he unto Zebah
the men of Shechem gath- said the trees unto the vine,
ered together, and all the Come thou, and reign over
house of Millo, and went, us. 13 And the vine said
that all the men of the tower and gat them up to the top
of Shechem were gathered to- of the tower. 52 And Abim-
gether. 48 And Abimelech gat elech came unto the tower,
him up to mount Zalmon, and fought against it, and
he and all the people that went hard unto the door of
were with him; and Abim- the tower to burn it with fire.
elech took an axe in his hand, 53 And a certain woman cast
cess of time, that the children fore me, shall I be your head?
of Ammon made war against 10 And the elders of Gilead
our God shall drive out from over Mizpeh of Gilead, and
before us, them will we pos- from Mizpeh of Gilead he
sess. 25 And now art thou any passed over unto the children
thing better than Balak the of Ammon. 30 And Jephthah
son of Zippor, king of Moab? vowed a vow unto the Lord,
did he ever strive against Is- and said, If thou shalt with-
rael, or did he ever fight out fail deliver the children
against them, 26 While Israel of Ammon into mine hands,
dwelt in Heshbon and her 31 Then it shall be, that what-
upon thee with fire. 2 And of Gilead said unto him, Art
Jephthah said unto them, I thou an Ephraimite? If he
and my people were at great said, Nay; 6 Then said they
strife with the children of unto him, Say now Shibbo-
Ammon; and when I called leth: and he said Sibboleth:
you, ye delivered me not out for he could not frame to pro-
of their hands. 3 And when I nounce it right. Then they
saw that ye delivered me not, took him, and slew him at
I put my life in my hands, the passages of Jordan: and
and passed over against the there fell at that time of the
children of Ammon, and the Ephraimites forty and two
Lord delivered them into thousand. 7 And Jephthah
my hand: wherefore then are judged Israel six years. Then
ye come up unto me this died Jephthah the Gileadite,
day, to fight against me? and was buried in one of
4 Then Jephthah gathered to- the cities of Gilead. 8 And
gether all the men of Gilead, after him Ibzan of Bethle-
and fought with Ephraim: hem judged Israel. 9 And he
and the men of Gilead had thirty sons, and thirty
smote Ephraim, because daughters, whom he sent
they said, Ye Gileadites are abroad, and took in thirty
fugitives of Ephraim among daughters from abroad for
the Ephraimites, and among his sons. And he judged
the Manassites. 5 And the Israel seven years. 10 Then
Gileadites took the pas- died Ibzan, and was buried
sages of Jordan before the at Bethlehem. 11 And af-
her for me; for she pleaseth 9 And he took thereof in his
me well. 4 But his father and hands, and went on eating,
his mother knew not that it and came to his father and
was of the Lord, that he mother, and he gave them,
sought an occasion against and they did eat: but he
the Philistines: for at that told not them that he had
time the Philistines had do- taken the honey out of the
minion over Israel. 5 Then carcase of the lion. 10 So his
went Samson down, and his father went down unto the
father and his mother, to woman: and Samson made
Timnath, and came to the there a feast; for so used the
vineyards of Timnath: and, young men to do. 11 And
behold, a young lion roared it came to pass, when they
against him. 6 And the Spirit saw him, that they brought
of the Lord came might- thirty companions to be with
ily upon him, and he rent him. 12 And Samson said
him as he would have rent unto them, I will now put
a kid, and he had nothing forth a riddle unto you: if
in his hand: but he told ye can certainly declare it me
not his father or his mother within the seven days of the
what he had done. 7 And feast, and find it out, then
he went down, and talked I will give you thirty sheets
with the woman; and she and thirty change of gar-
pleased Samson well. 8 And ments: 13 But if ye cannot de-
after a time he returned to clare it me, then shall ye give
take her, and he turned aside me thirty sheets and thirty
to see the carcase of the change of garments. And
lion: and, behold, there was they said unto him, Put forth
a swarm of bees and honey thy riddle, that we may hear
in the carcase of the lion. it. 14 And he said unto them,
JUDGES 641
Out of the eater came forth dle to the children of her peo-
meat, and out of the strong ple. 18 And the men of the
came forth sweetness. And city said unto him on the
they could not in three days seventh day before the sun
expound the riddle. 15 And went down, What is sweeter
it came to pass on the sev- than honey? and what is
enth day, that they said unto stronger than a lion? And
Samson’s wife, Entice thy he said unto them, If ye had
husband, that he may de- not plowed with my heifer, ye
clare unto us the riddle, lest had not found out my riddle.
we burn thee and thy fa- 19 And the Spirit of the Lord
ther’s house with fire: have came upon him, and he went
ye called us to take that we down to Ashkelon, and slew
have? is it not so? 16 And thirty men of them, and took
Samson’s wife wept before their spoil, and gave change
him, and said, Thou dost but of garments unto them which
hate me, and lovest me not: expounded the riddle. And
thou hast put forth a riddle his anger was kindled, and
unto the children of my peo- he went up to his father’s
ple, and hast not told it me. house. 20 But Samson’s wife
And he said unto her, Be- was given to his companion,
hold, I have not told it my whom he had used as his
father nor my mother, and friend.
shall I tell it thee? 17 And she
wept before him the seven
days, while their feast lasted: Chapter 15
and it came to pass on the
seventh day, that he told her, But it came to pass within
because she lay sore upon a while after, in the time
him: and she told the rid- of wheat harvest, that Sam-
son visited his wife with a
JUDGES 642
hast done unto us? And he took it, and slew a thou-
said unto them, As they did sand men therewith. 16 And
unto me, so have I done unto Samson said, With the jaw-
them. 12 And they said unto bone of an ass, heaps upon
him, We are come down to heaps, with the jaw of an
bind thee, that we may de- ass have I slain a thousand
liver thee into the hand of men. 17 And it came to pass,
the Philistines. And Sam- when he had made an end
son said unto them, Swear of speaking, that he cast
unto me, that ye will not fall away the jawbone out of his
upon me yourselves. 13 And hand, and called that place
they spake unto him, say- Ramathlehi. 18 And he was
ing, No; but we will bind sore athirst, and called on
thee fast, and deliver thee the Lord, and said, Thou
into their hand: but surely hast given this great deliv-
we will not kill thee. And erance into the hand of thy
they bound him with two servant: and now shall I die
new cords, and brought him for thirst, and fall into the
up from the rock. 14 And hand of the uncircumcised?
when he came unto Lehi, the 19 But God clave an hollow
me lies: now tell me, I pray 15 And she said unto him,
thee, wherewith thou might- How canst thou say, I love
est be bound. 11 And he said thee, when thine heart is not
unto her, If they bind me fast with me? thou hast mocked
with new ropes that never me these three times, and
were occupied, then shall I hast not told me wherein thy
be weak, and be as another great strength lieth. 16 And
man. 12 Delilah therefore it came to pass, when she
took new ropes, and bound pressed him daily with her
him therewith, and said unto words, and urged him, so
him, The Philistines be upon that his soul was vexed unto
thee, Samson. And there death; 17 That he told her all
were liers in wait abiding his heart, and said unto her,
in the chamber. And he There hath not come a razor
brake them from off his upon mine head; for I have
arms like a thread. 13 And been a Nazarite unto God
Delilah said unto Samson, from my mother’s womb: if I
Hitherto thou hast mocked be shaven, then my strength
me, and told me lies: tell will go from me, and I shall
me wherewith thou might- become weak, and be like
est be bound. And he said any other man. 18 And when
unto her, If thou weavest the Delilah saw that he had told
seven locks of my head with her all his heart, she sent
the web. 14 And she fastened and called for the lords of the
it with the pin, and said Philistines, saying, Come up
unto him, The Philistines be this once, for he hath shewed
upon thee, Samson. And he me all his heart. Then the
awaked out of his sleep, and lords of the Philistines came
went away with the pin of up unto her, and brought
the beam, and with the web. money in their hand. 19 And
JUDGES 646
she made him sleep upon her when the people saw him,
knees; and she called for a they praised their god: for
man, and she caused him to they said, Our god hath de-
shave off the seven locks of livered into our hands our en-
his head; and she began to emy, and the destroyer of our
afflict him, and his strength country, which slew many
went from him. 20 And she of us. 25 And it came to
said, The Philistines be upon pass, when their hearts were
thee, Samson. And he awoke merry, that they said, Call
out of his sleep, and said, for Samson, that he may
I will go out as at other make us sport. And they
times before, and shake my- called for Samson out of the
self. And he wist not that prison house; and he made
the Lord was departed from them sport: and they set him
him. 21 But the Philistines between the pillars. 26 And
took him, and put out his Samson said unto the lad
eyes, and brought him down that held him by the hand,
to Gaza, and bound him with Suffer me that I may feel
fetters of brass; and he did the pillars whereupon the
grind in the prison house. house standeth, that I may
22 Howbeit the hair of his lean upon them. 27 Now the
head began to grow again af- house was full of men and
ter he was shaven. 23 Then women; and all the lords of
the lords of the Philistines the Philistines were there;
gathered them together for and there were upon the
to offer a great sacrifice unto roof about three thousand
Dagon their god, and to re- men and women, that beheld
joice: for they said, Our god while Samson made sport.
hath delivered Samson our 28 And Samson called unto
enemy into our hand. 24 And the Lord, and said, O Lord
JUDGES 647
that which was right in his Levite; and the young man
own eyes. 7 And there was became his priest, and was in
a young man out of Bethle- the house of Micah. 13 Then
hemjudah of the family of Ju- said Micah, Now know I that
dah, who was a Levite, and the Lord will do me good,
he sojourned there. 8 And seeing I have a Levite to my
the man departed out of the priest.
city from Bethlehemjudah to
sojourn where he could find
a place: and he came to Chapter 18
mount Ephraim to the house
of Micah, as he journeyed. In those days there was no
9 And Micah said unto him, king in Israel: and in those
Whence comest thou? And days the tribe of the Danites
he said unto him, I am a sought them an inheritance
Levite of Bethlehemjudah, to dwell in; for unto that
and I go to sojourn where day all their inheritance had
I may find a place. 10 And not fallen unto them among
Micah said unto him, Dwell the tribes of Israel. 2 And
with me, and be unto me the children of Dan sent of
a father and a priest, and their family five men from
I will give thee ten shekels their coasts, men of valour,
of silver by the year, and a from Zorah, and from Esh-
taol, to spy out the land,
JUDGES 649
man which is with thy ser- ter a maiden, and his con-
vants: there is no want of cubine; them I will bring
any thing. 20 And the old out now, and humble ye
man said, Peace be with thee; them, and do with them
howsoever let all thy wants what seemeth good unto you:
lie upon me; only lodge but unto this man do not so
not in the street. 21 So he vile a thing. 25 But the men
brought him into his house, would not hearken to him: so
and gave provender unto the the man took his concubine,
asses: and they washed their and brought her forth unto
feet, and did eat and drink. them; and they knew her,
22 Now as they were mak- and abused her all the night
ing their hearts merry, be- until the morning: and when
hold, the men of the city, the day began to spring, they
certain sons of Belial, be- let her go. 26 Then came
set the house round about, the woman in the dawning
JUDGES 655
of the day, and fell down at day: consider of it, take ad-
the door of the man’s house vice, and speak your minds.
where her lord was, till it was
light. 27 And her lord rose up
in the morning, and opened Chapter 20
the doors of the house, and
went out to go his way: and, Then all the children of Is-
behold, the woman his con- rael went out, and the con-
cubine was fallen down at the gregation was gathered to-
door of the house, and her gether as one man, from
hands were upon the thresh- Dan even to Beersheba, with
old. 28 And he said unto the land of Gilead, unto the
her, Up, and let us be go- Lord in Mizpeh. 2 And the
ing. But none answered. chief of all the people, even
Then the man took her up of all the tribes of Israel,
upon an ass, and the man presented themselves in the
rose up, and gat him unto assembly of the people of
his place. 29 And when he God, four hundred thousand
was come into his house, he footmen that drew sword.
3 (Now the children of Ben-
took a knife, and laid hold on
his concubine, and divided jamin heard that the chil-
her, together with her bones, dren of Israel were gone up to
into twelve pieces, and sent Mizpeh.) Then said the chil-
her into all the coasts of Is- dren of Israel, Tell us, how
rael. 30 And it was so, that all was this wickedness? 4 And
that saw it said, There was the Levite, the husband of
no such deed done nor seen the woman that was slain,
from the day that the chil- answered and said, I came
dren of Israel came up out of into Gibeah that belongeth to
the land of Egypt unto this Benjamin, I and my concu-
bine, to lodge. 5 And the men
JUDGES 656
Israel turned again upon the said, Who is there among all
children of Benjamin, and the tribes of Israel that came
smote them with the edge of not up with the congregation
the sword, as well the men of unto the Lord? For they
every city, as the beast, and had made a great oath con-
all that came to hand: also cerning him that came not
they set on fire all the cities up to the Lord to Mizpeh,
that they came to. saying, He shall surely be put
to death. 6 And the chil-
dren of Israel repented them
Chapter 21 for Benjamin their brother,
and said, There is one tribe
Now the men of Israel had cut off from Israel this day.
sworn in Mizpeh, saying, 7 How shall we do for wives
There shall not any of us give for them that remain, seeing
his daughter unto Benjamin
JUDGES 661
663
RUTH 664
have dealt with the dead, voice, and wept again: and
and with me. 9 The Lord Orpah kissed her mother in
grant you that ye may find law; but Ruth clave unto her.
rest, each of you in the house 15 And she said, Behold, thy
hath dealt very bitterly with and gleaned in the field after
me. 21 I went out full, and the reapers: and her hap was
the Lord hath brought me to light on a part of the field
home again empty: why belonging unto Boaz, who
then call ye me Naomi, see- was of the kindred of Elim-
ing the Lord hath testi- elech. 4 And, behold, Boaz
fied against me, and the came from Bethlehem, and
Almighty hath afflicted me? said unto the reapers, The
22 So Naomi returned, and Lord be with you. And they
Ruth the Moabitess, her answered him, The Lord
daughter in law, with her, bless thee. 5 Then said Boaz
which returned out of the unto his servant that was
country of Moab: and they set over the reapers, Whose
came to Bethlehem in the be- damsel is this? 6 And the ser-
ginning of barley harvest. vant that was set over the
reapers answered and said,
It is the Moabitish damsel
Chapter 2 that came back with Naomi
out of the country of Moab:
And Naomi had a kinsman 7 And she said, I pray you,
let me glean and gather af- all that thou hast done unto
ter the reapers among the thy mother in law since the
sheaves: so she came, and death of thine husband: and
hath continued even from the how thou hast left thy fa-
morning until now, that she ther and thy mother, and the
tarried a little in the house. land of thy nativity, and art
8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, come unto a people which
Hearest thou not, my daugh- thou knewest not heretofore.
ter? Go not to glean in an- 12 The Lord recompense thy
a kinsman, well; let him do matter will fall: for the man
the kinsman’s part: but if he will not be in rest, until he
will not do the part of a kins- have finished the thing this
man to thee, then will I do day.
the part of a kinsman to thee,
as the Lord liveth: lie down
until the morning. 14 And Chapter 4
she lay at his feet until the
morning: and she rose up be- Then went Boaz up to the
fore one could know another. gate, and sat him down
And he said, Let it not be there: and, behold, the kins-
known that a woman came man of whom Boaz spake
into the floor. 15 Also he said, came by; unto whom he said,
Bring the vail that thou hast Ho, such a one! turn aside,
upon thee, and hold it. And sit down here. And he turned
when she held it, he mea- aside, and sat down. 2 And
sured six measures of barley, he took ten men of the el-
and laid it on her: and she ders of the city, and said, Sit
went into the city. 16 And ye down here. And they sat
when she came to her mother down. 3 And he said unto
in law, she said, Who art the kinsman, Naomi, that is
thou, my daughter? And she come again out of the coun-
told her all that the man had try of Moab, selleth a par-
done to her. 17 And she said, cel of land, which was our
These six measures of bar- brother Elimelech’s: 4 And
ley gave he me; for he said I thought to advertise thee,
to me, Go not empty unto saying, Buy it before the in-
thy mother in law. 18 Then habitants, and before the el-
said she, Sit still, my daugh- ders of my people. If thou
ter, until thou know how the wilt redeem it, redeem it:
but if thou wilt not redeem
RUTH 670
it, then tell me, that I may nesses this day, that I have
know: for there is none to re- bought all that was Elim-
deem it beside thee; and I am elech’s, and all that was Chil-
after thee. And he said, I will ion’s and Mahlon’s, of the
redeem it. 5 Then said Boaz, hand of Naomi. 10 Moreover
What day thou buyest the Ruth the Moabitess, the wife
field of the hand of Naomi, of Mahlon, have I purchased
thou must buy it also of Ruth to be my wife, to raise up the
the Moabitess, the wife of the name of the dead upon his
dead, to raise up the name inheritance, that the name
of the dead upon his inher- of the dead be not cut off
itance. 6 And the kinsman from among his brethren,
said, I cannot redeem it for and from the gate of his
myself, lest I mar mine own place: ye are witnesses this
inheritance: redeem thou my day. 11 And all the people
right to thyself; for I cannot that were in the gate, and
redeem it. 7 Now this was the elders, said, We are wit-
the manner in former time nesses. The Lord make
in Israel concerning redeem- the woman that is come
ing and concerning changing, into thine house like Rachel
for to confirm all things; a and like Leah, which two
man plucked off his shoe, and did build the house of Is-
gave it to his neighbour: and rael: and do thou worthily
this was a testimony in Is- in Ephratah, and be famous
rael. 8 Therefore the kins- in Bethlehem: 12 And let thy
man said unto Boaz, Buy it house be like the house of
for thee. So he drew off Pharez, whom Tamar bare
his shoe. 9 And Boaz said unto Judah, of the seed
unto the elders, and unto which the Lord shall give
all the people, Ye are wit- thee of this young woman.
RUTH 671
N a certain man
of Ramathaim-
zophim, of mount
Ephraim, and his name was
Elkanah, the son of Jeroham,
time was that Elkanah of-
fered, he gave to Peninnah
his wife, and to all her sons
and her daughters, portions:
5 But unto Hannah he gave a
672
I SAMUEL 673
did in Shiloh unto all the and his wife, and said, The
Israelites that came thither. Lord give thee seed of this
15 Also before they burnt the woman for the loan which
fat, the priest’s servant came, is lent to the Lord. And
and said to the man that sac- they went unto their own
rificed, Give flesh to roast home. 21 And the Lord vis-
for the priest; for he will ited Hannah, so that she con-
not have sodden flesh of thee, ceived, and bare three sons
but raw. 16 And if any man and two daughters. And the
said unto him, Let them not child Samuel grew before the
fail to burn the fat presently, Lord. 22 Now Eli was very
and then take as much as old, and heard all that his
thy soul desireth; then he sons did unto all Israel; and
would answer him, Nay; but how they lay with the women
thou shalt give it me now: that assembled at the door
and if not, I will take it by of the tabernacle of the con-
force. 17 Wherefore the sin gregation. 23 And he said
of the young men was very unto them, Why do ye such
great before the Lord: for things? for I hear of your
men abhorred the offering of evil dealings by all this peo-
the Lord. 18 But Samuel ple. 24 Nay, my sons; for
ministered before the Lord, it is no good report that I
being a child, girded with hear: ye make the Lord’S
a linen ephod. 19 Moreover people to transgress. 25 If
his mother made him a little one man sin against another,
I SAMUEL 677
this shall be a sign unto thee, at that time, when Eli was
that shall come upon thy two laid down in his place, and
sons, on Hophni and Phine- his eyes began to wax dim,
has; in one day they shall that he could not see; 3 And
die both of them. 35 And ere the lamp of God went out
I will raise me up a faith- in the temple of the Lord,
ful priest, that shall do ac- where the ark of God was,
cording to that which is in and Samuel was laid down
mine heart and in my mind: to sleep; 4 That the Lord
and I will build him a sure called Samuel: and he an-
house; and he shall walk be- swered, Here am I. 5 And he
fore mine anointed for ever. ran unto Eli, and said, Here
36 And it shall come to pass, am I; for thou calledst me.
that every one that is left in And he said, I called not;
thine house shall come and lie down again. And he
crouch to him for a piece of went and lay down. 6 And
silver and a morsel of bread, the Lord called yet again,
and shall say, Put me, I pray Samuel. And Samuel arose
thee, into one of the priests’ and went to Eli, and said,
offices, that I may eat a piece Here am I; for thou didst
of bread. call me. And he answered, I
called not, my son; lie down
again. 7 Now Samuel did not
Chapter 3 yet know the Lord, neither
was the word of the Lord yet
And the child Samuel minis- revealed unto him. 8 And the
tered unto the Lord before Lord called Samuel again
Eli. And the word of the the third time. And he
Lord was precious in those arose and went to Eli, and
days; there was no open vi- said, Here am I; for thou
sion. 2 And it came to pass
I SAMUEL 679
didst call me. And Eli per- therefore I have sworn unto
ceived that the Lord had the house of Eli, that the
called the child. 9 Therefore iniquity of Eli’s house shall
Eli said unto Samuel, Go, not be purged with sacrifice
lie down: and it shall be, nor offering for ever. 15 And
if he call thee, that thou Samuel lay until the morn-
shalt say, Speak, Lord; for ing, and opened the doors of
thy servant heareth. So the house of the Lord. And
Samuel went and lay down in Samuel feared to shew Eli
his place. 10 And the Lord the vision. 16 Then Eli called
came, and stood, and called Samuel, and said, Samuel,
as at other times, Samuel, my son. And he answered,
Samuel. Then Samuel an- Here am I. 17 And he said,
swered, Speak; for thy ser- What is the thing that the
vant heareth. 11 And the Lord hath said unto thee?
Lord said to Samuel, Be- I pray thee hide it not from
hold, I will do a thing in Is- me: God do so to thee,
rael, at which both the ears and more also, if thou hide
of every one that heareth it any thing from me of all the
shall tingle. 12 In that day I things that he said unto thee.
will perform against Eli all 18 And Samuel told him ev-
brews, as they have been eight years old; and his eyes
to you: quit yourselves like were dim, that he could not
men, and fight. 10 And the see. 16 And the man said unto
Philistines fought, and Is- Eli, I am he that came out
rael was smitten, and they of the army, and I fled to
fled every man into his tent: day out of the army. And
and there was a very great he said, What is there done,
slaughter; for there fell of my son? 17 And the messen-
Israel thirty thousand foot- ger answered and said, Israel
men. 11 And the ark of God is fled before the Philistines,
was taken; and the two sons and there hath been also a
of Eli, Hophni and Phine- great slaughter among the
has, were slain. 12 And there people, and thy two sons
ran a man of Benjamin out of also, Hophni and Phinehas,
the army, and came to Shiloh are dead, and the ark of God
the same day with his clothes is taken. 18 And it came to
rent, and with earth upon his pass, when he made mention
head. 13 And when he came, of the ark of God, that he fell
lo, Eli sat upon a seat by from off the seat backward
I SAMUEL 682
not abide with us: for his together all the lords of the
hand is sore upon us, and Philistines, and said, Send
upon Dagon our god. 8 They away the ark of the God of
sent therefore and gathered Israel, and let it go again to
all the lords of the Philistines his own place, that it slay
unto them, and said, What us not, and our people: for
shall we do with the ark there was a deadly destruc-
of the God of Israel? And tion throughout all the city;
they answered, Let the ark of the hand of God was very
the God of Israel be carried heavy there. 12 And the men
about unto Gath. And they that died not were smitten
carried the ark of the God of with the emerods: and the
Israel about thither. 9 And it cry of the city went up to
was so, that, after they had heaven.
carried it about, the hand
of the Lord was against the
city with a very great de- Chapter 6
struction: and he smote the
men of the city, both small And the ark of the Lord
and great, and they had was in the country of the
emerods in their secret parts. Philistines seven months.
10 Therefore they sent the ark 2 And the Philistines called
for there was his house; and us. And Samuel prayed unto
there he judged Israel; and the Lord. 7 And the Lord
there he built an altar unto said unto Samuel, Hearken
the Lord. unto the voice of the peo-
ple in all that they say unto
thee: for they have not re-
Chapter 8 jected thee, but they have re-
jected me, that I should not
And it came to pass, when reign over them. 8 According
Samuel was old, that he to all the works which they
made his sons judges over Is- have done since the day that
rael. 2 Now the name of his I brought them up out of
firstborn was Joel; and the Egypt even unto this day,
name of his second, Abiah: wherewith they have for-
they were judges in Beer- saken me, and served other
sheba. 3 And his sons walked gods, so do they also unto
not in his ways, but turned thee. 9 Now therefore hear-
aside after lucre, and took ken unto their voice: howbeit
bribes, and perverted judg- yet protest solemnly unto
ment. 4 Then all the el-
them, and shew them the
ders of Israel gathered them- manner of the king that shall
selves together, and came reign over them. 10 And
self, for his chariots, and to ye shall cry out in that day
be his horsemen; and some because of your king which
shall run before his chariots. ye shall have chosen you; and
12 And he will appoint him the Lord will not hear you
captains over thousands, and in that day. 19 Nevertheless
captains over fifties; and will the people refused to obey
set them to ear his ground, the voice of Samuel; and they
and to reap his harvest, and said, Nay; but we will have
to make his instruments of a king over us; 20 That we
war, and instruments of his also may be like all the na-
chariots. 13 And he will take tions; and that our king may
your daughters to be confec- judge us, and go out be-
tionaries, and to be cooks, fore us, and fight our battles.
and to be bakers. 14 And he 21 And Samuel heard all the
will take your fields, and your words of the people, and he
vineyards, and your olive- rehearsed them in the ears of
yards, even the best of them, the Lord. 22 And the Lord
and give them to his ser- said to Samuel, Hearken unto
vants. 15 And he will take their voice, and make them a
the tenth of your seed, and king. And Samuel said unto
of your vineyards, and give the men of Israel, Go ye ev-
to his officers, and to his ery man unto his city.
servants. 16 And he will
son, whose name was Saul, hold now, there is in this city
a choice young man, and a a man of God, and he is an
goodly: and there was not honourable man; all that he
among the children of Israel saith cometh surely to pass:
a goodlier person than he: now let us go thither; per-
from his shoulders and up- adventure he can shew us
ward he was higher than any our way that we should go.
of the people. 3 And the 7 Then said Saul to his ser-
said; come, let us go. So they 15 Now the Lord had told
went unto the city where the Samuel in his ear a day be-
man of God was. 11 And as fore Saul came, saying, 16 To
they went up the hill to the morrow about this time I
city, they found young maid- will send thee a man out of
ens going out to draw water, the land of Benjamin, and
and said unto them, Is the thou shalt anoint him to be
seer here? 12 And they an- captain over my people Is-
swered them, and said, He rael, that he may save my
is; behold, he is before you: people out of the hand of
make haste now, for he came the Philistines: for I have
to day to the city; for there looked upon my people, be-
is a sacrifice of the people cause their cry is come unto
to day in the high place: me. 17 And when Samuel saw
13 As soon as ye be come into Saul, the Lord said unto
the city, ye shall straight- him, Behold the man whom
way find him, before he go I spake to thee of! this same
up to the high place to eat: shall reign over my people.
for the people will not eat 18 Then Saul drew near to
asses that were lost three eat: for unto this time hath
days ago, set not thy mind it been kept for thee since I
on them; for they are found. said, I have invited the peo-
And on whom is all the de- ple. So Saul did eat with
sire of Israel? Is it not on Samuel that day. 25 And
thee, and on all thy father’s when they were come down
house? 21 And Saul answered from the high place into the
and said, Am not I a Ben- city, Samuel communed with
jamite, of the smallest of the Saul upon the top of the
tribes of Israel? and my fam- house. 26 And they arose
ily the least of all the fami- early: and it came to pass
lies of the tribe of Benjamin? about the spring of the day,
wherefore then speakest thou that Samuel called Saul to
so to me? 22 And Samuel the top of the house, say-
took Saul and his servant, ing, Up, that I may send
and brought them into the thee away. And Saul arose,
parlour, and made them and they went out both
sit in the chiefest place of them, he and Samuel,
among them that were bid- abroad. 27 And as they were
den, which were about thirty going down to the end of the
persons. 23 And Samuel said city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid
unto the cook, Bring the por- the servant pass on before
tion which I gave thee, of us, (and he passed on,) but
which I said unto thee, Set it stand thou still a while, that
by thee. 24 And the cook took I may shew thee the word of
up the shoulder, and that God.
which was upon it, and set
it before Saul. And Samuel
said, Behold that which is
left! set it before thee, and
I SAMUEL 693
oil, and poured it upon his thou shalt come to the hill of
head, and kissed him, and God, where is the garrison of
said, Is it not because the the Philistines: and it shall
Lord hath anointed thee to come to pass, when thou art
be captain over his inher- come thither to the city, that
itance? 2 When thou art
thou shalt meet a company
departed from me to day, of prophets coming down
then thou shalt find two from the high place with a
men by Rachel’s sepulchre psaltery, and a tabret, and
in the border of Benjamin a pipe, and a harp, before
at Zelzah; and they will say them; and they shall proph-
unto thee, The asses which esy: 6 And the Spirit of the
thou wentest to seek are Lord will come upon thee,
found: and, lo, thy father and thou shalt prophesy with
hath left the care of the asses, them, and shalt be turned
and sorroweth for you, say- into another man. 7 And let
ing, What shall I do for my it be, when these signs are
son? 3 Then shalt thou go come unto thee, that thou
on forward from thence, and do as occasion serve thee;
thou shalt come to the plain for God is with thee. 8 And
of Tabor, and there shall thou shalt go down before
meet thee three men going me to Gilgal; and, behold,
up to God to Bethel, one I will come down unto thee,
carrying three kids, and an- to offer burnt offerings, and
other carrying three loaves to sacrifice sacrifices of peace
of bread, and another carry- offerings: seven days shalt
ing a bottle of wine: 4 And thou tarry, till I come to
they will salute thee, and
I SAMUEL 694
king over us. Now there- ple? And all the people
fore present yourselves before shouted, and said, God save
the Lord by your tribes, and the king. 25 Then Samuel
by your thousands. 20 And told the people the manner
when Samuel had caused all of the kingdom, and wrote
the tribes of Israel to come it in a book, and laid it
near, the tribe of Benjamin up before the Lord. And
was taken. 21 When he had Samuel sent all the peo-
caused the tribe of Benjamin ple away, every man to his
to come near by their fami- house. 26 And Saul also went
lies, the family of Matri was home to Gibeah; and there
taken, and Saul the son of went with him a band of
Kish was taken: and when men, whose hearts God had
they sought him, he could touched. 27 But the children
not be found. 22 Therefore of Belial said, How shall this
they enquired of the Lord man save us? And they de-
further, if the man should yet spised him, and brought him
come thither. And the Lord no presents. But he held his
answered, Behold, he hath peace.
hid himself among the stuff.
23 And they ran and fetched
king that reigneth over you have added unto all our sins
continue following the Lord this evil, to ask us a king.
your God: 15 But if ye will 20 And Samuel said unto the
cause I saw that the peo- Samuel arose, and gat him
ple were scattered from me, up from Gilgal unto Gibeah
and that thou camest not of Benjamin. And Saul
within the days appointed, numbered the people that
and that the Philistines gath- were present with him, about
ered themselves together at six hundred men. 16 And
will stand still in our place, which Jonathan and his ar-
and will not go up unto them. mourbearer made, was about
10 But if they say thus, Come twenty men, within as it
up unto us; then we will go were an half acre of land,
up: for the Lord hath de- which a yoke of oxen might
livered them into our hand: plow. 15 And there was trem-
I SAMUEL 704
bling in the host, in the all the people that were with
field, and among all the peo- him assembled themselves,
ple: the garrison, and the and they came to the bat-
spoilers, they also trembled, tle: and, behold, every man’s
and the earth quaked: so sword was against his fellow,
it was a very great trem- and there was a very great
bling. 16 And the watchmen discomfiture. 21 Moreover the
of Saul in Gibeah of Ben- Hebrews that were with the
jamin looked; and, behold, Philistines before that time,
the multitude melted away, which went up with them
and they went on beating into the camp from the coun-
down one another. 17 Then try round about, even they
said Saul unto the people also turned to be with the Is-
that were with him, Num- raelites that were with Saul
ber now, and see who is gone and Jonathan. 22 Likewise
from us. And when they had all the men of Israel which
numbered, behold, Jonathan had hid themselves in mount
and his armourbearer were Ephraim, when they heard
not there. 18 And Saul said that the Philistines fled, even
unto Ahiah, Bring hither the they also followed hard af-
ark of God. For the ark of ter them in the battle. 23 So
God was at that time with the Lord saved Israel that
the children of Israel. 19 And day: and the battle passed
it came to pass, while Saul over unto Bethaven. 24 And
talked unto the priest, that the men of Israel were dis-
the noise that was in the host tressed that day: for Saul
of the Philistines went on had adjured the people, say-
and increased: and Saul said ing, Cursed be the man
unto the priest, Withdraw that eateth any food un-
thine hand. 20 And Saul and til evening, that I may be
I SAMUEL 705
the kingdom over Israel, and there was sore war against
fought against all his ene- the Philistines all the days of
mies on every side, against Saul: and when Saul saw any
Moab, and against the chil- strong man, or any valiant
dren of Ammon, and against man, he took him unto him.
Edom, and against the kings
of Zobah, and against the
Philistines: and whitherso- Chapter 15
ever he turned himself, he
vexed them. 48 And he gath- Samuel also said unto Saul,
ered an host, and smote The Lord sent me to anoint
the Amalekites, and deliv- thee to be king over his peo-
ered Israel out of the hands ple, over Israel: now there-
of them that spoiled them. fore hearken thou unto the
49 Now the sons of Saul were voice of the words of the
2 Thus saith the
Jonathan, and Ishui, and Lord.
Lord of hosts, I remem-
I SAMUEL 708
and utterly destroy all that and the people spared Agag,
they have, and spare them and the best of the sheep,
not; but slay both man and and of the oxen, and of
woman, infant and suckling, the fatlings, and the lambs,
ox and sheep, camel and ass. and all that was good, and
4 And Saul gathered the peo- would not utterly destroy
ple together, and numbered them: but every thing that
them in Telaim, two hun- was vile and refuse, that they
dred thousand footmen, and destroyed utterly. 10 Then
ten thousand men of Judah. came the word of the Lord
5 And Saul came to a city unto Samuel, saying, 11 It re-
of Amalek, and laid wait in penteth me that I have set
the valley. 6 And Saul said up Saul to be king: for he
unto the Kenites, Go, depart, is turned back from follow-
get you down from among ing me, and hath not per-
the Amalekites, lest I destroy formed my commandments.
you with them: for ye shewed And it grieved Samuel; and
kindness to all the children he cried unto the Lord all
of Israel, when they came up night. 12 And when Samuel
out of Egypt. So the Ken- rose early to meet Saul in the
ites departed from among morning, it was told Samuel,
the Amalekites. 7 And Saul saying, Saul came to Carmel,
smote the Amalekites from and, behold, he set him up a
Havilah until thou comest to place, and is gone about, and
Shur, that is over against passed on, and gone down
I SAMUEL 709
for you, and let him come was the youngest: and the
down to me. 9 If he be able three eldest followed Saul.
to fight with me, and to kill 15 But David went and re-
me, then will we be your ser- turned from Saul to feed his
vants: but if I prevail against father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
him, and kill him, then shall 16 And the Philistine drew
and the man went among all the men of Israel, were in
men for an old man in the the valley of Elah, fighting
I SAMUEL 715
his forehead, that the stone David took the head of the
sunk into his forehead; and Philistine, and brought it to
he fell upon his face to the Jerusalem; but he put his
earth. 50 So David prevailed armour in his tent. 55 And
over the Philistine with a when Saul saw David go
sling and with a stone, and forth against the Philistine,
smote the Philistine, and he said unto Abner, the
slew him; but there was no captain of the host, Abner,
sword in the hand of David. whose son is this youth?
51 Therefore David ran, and And Abner said, As thy soul
stood upon the Philistine, liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
and took his sword, and drew 56 And the king said, Enquire
ersoever Saul sent him, and the morrow, that the evil
behaved himself wisely: and spirit from God came upon
Saul set him over the men Saul, and he prophesied in
of war, and he was accepted the midst of the house: and
in the sight of all the people, David played with his hand,
and also in the sight of Saul’s as at other times: and there
servants. 6 And it came to was a javelin in Saul’s hand.
pass as they came, when 11 And Saul cast the javelin;
David was returned from the for he said, I will smite David
slaughter of the Philistine, even to the wall with it.
that the women came out of And David avoided out of
all cities of Israel, singing and his presence twice. 12 And
dancing, to meet king Saul, Saul was afraid of David, be-
with tabrets, with joy, and cause the Lord was with
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him, and was departed from pass at the time when Merab
Saul. 13 Therefore Saul re- Saul’s daughter should have
moved him from him, and been given to David, that
made him his captain over she was given unto Adriel the
a thousand; and he went Meholathite to wife. 20 And
out and came in before the Michal Saul’s daughter loved
people. 14 And David be- David: and they told Saul,
haved himself wisely in all and the thing pleased him.
his ways; and the Lord was 21 And Saul said, I will give
vants of Saul told him, say- afraid of David; and Saul be-
ing, On this manner spake came David’s enemy contin-
David. 25 And Saul said, ually. 30 Then the princes
Thus shall ye say to David, of the Philistines went forth:
The king desireth not any and it came to pass, after
dowry, but an hundred fore- they went forth, that David
skins of the Philistines, to behaved himself more wisely
be avenged of the king’s en- than all the servants of Saul;
emies. But Saul thought to so that his name was much
make David fall by the hand set by.
of the Philistines. 26 And
when his servants told David
these words, it pleased David Chapter 19
well to be the king’s son
in law: and the days were And Saul spake to Jonathan
not expired. 27 Wherefore his son, and to all his
David arose and went, he servants, that they should
and his men, and slew of kill David. 2 But Jonathan
the Philistines two hundred Saul’s son delighted much in
men; and David brought David: and Jonathan told
their foreskins, and they gave David, saying, Saul my fa-
them in full tale to the king, ther seeketh to kill thee:
that he might be the king’s now therefore, I pray thee,
son in law. And Saul gave take heed to thyself until the
him Michal his daughter to morning, and abide in a se-
wife. 28 And Saul saw and cret place, and hide thyself:
3 And I will go out and stand
knew that the Lord was
with David, and that Michal beside my father in the field
Saul’s daughter loved him. where thou art, and I will
29 And Saul was yet the more commune with my father of
thee; and what I see, that I
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moreover, and said, Thy fa- kindly with thy servant; for
ther certainly knoweth that thou hast brought thy ser-
I have found grace in thine vant into a covenant of the
eyes; and he saith, Let not Lord with thee: notwith-
Jonathan know this, lest he standing, if there be in me
be grieved: but truly as iniquity, slay me thyself; for
the Lord liveth, and as thy why shouldest thou bring
soul liveth, there is but a me to thy father? 9 And
shalt not cut off thy kind- lad, saying, Go, find out the
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them: and there were with ery one of you fields and vine-
him about four hundred men. yards, and make you all cap-
3 And David went thence to tains of thousands, and cap-
Mizpeh of Moab: and he said tains of hundreds; 8 That all
unto the king of Moab, Let of you have conspired against
my father and my mother, I me, and there is none that
pray thee, come forth, and sheweth me that my son hath
be with you, till I know what made a league with the son
God will do for me. 4 And he of Jesse, and there is none
brought them before the king of you that is sorry for me,
of Moab: and they dwelt or sheweth unto me that my
with him all the while that son hath stirred up my ser-
David was in the hold. 5 And vant against me, to lie in
the prophet Gad said unto wait, as at this day? 9 Then
David, Abide not in the hold; answered Doeg the Edomite,
depart, and get thee into the which was set over the ser-
land of Judah. Then David vants of Saul, and said, I saw
departed, and came into the the son of Jesse coming to
forest of Hareth. 6 When Saul Nob, to Ahimelech the son of
heard that David was discov- Ahitub. 10 And he enquired
ered, and the men that were of the Lord for him, and
with him, (now Saul abode gave him victuals, and gave
in Gibeah under a tree in him the sword of Goliath the
Ramah, having his spear in Philistine. 11 Then the king
his hand, and all his servants sent to call Ahimelech the
were standing about him;) priest, the son of Ahitub,
7 Then Saul said unto his ser- and all his father’s house,
vants that stood about him, the priests that were in Nob:
Hear now, ye Benjamites; and they came all of them to
will the son of Jesse give ev- the king. 12 And Saul said,
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Hear now, thou son of Ahi- men that stood about him,
tub. And he answered, Here Turn, and slay the priests
I am, my lord. 13 And Saul of the Lord; because their
said unto him, Why have ye hand also is with David,
conspired against me, thou and because they knew when
and the son of Jesse, in that he fled, and did not shew
thou hast given him bread, it to me. But the servants
and a sword, and hast en- of the king would not put
quired of God for him, that forth their hand to fall upon
he should rise against me, to the priests of the Lord.
lie in wait, as at this day? 18 And the king said to Doeg,
14 Then Ahimelech answered Turn thou, and fall upon
the king, and said, And who the priests. And Doeg the
is so faithful among all thy Edomite turned, and he fell
servants as David, which is upon the priests, and slew
the king’s son in law, and on that day fourscore and
goeth at thy bidding, and is five persons that did wear a
honourable in thine house? linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the
15 Did I then begin to en- city of the priests, smote he
quire of God for him? be with the edge of the sword,
it far from me: let not the both men and women, chil-
king impute any thing unto dren and sucklings, and oxen,
his servant, nor to all the and asses, and sheep, with
house of my father: for thy the edge of the sword. 20 And
servant knew nothing of all one of the sons of Ahimelech
this, less or more. 16 And the the son of Ahitub, named
king said, Thou shalt surely Abiathar, escaped, and fled
die, Ahimelech, thou, and all after David. 21 And Abi-
thy servant. And the Lord said unto him, Fear not: for
said, He will come down. the hand of Saul my father
12 Then said David, Will the shall not find thee; and thou
men of Keilah deliver me and shalt be king over Israel, and
my men into the hand of I shall be next unto thee;
Saul? And the Lord said, and that also Saul my fa-
They will deliver thee up. ther knoweth. 18 And they
13 Then David and his men, two made a covenant before
which were about six hun- the Lord: and David abode
dred, arose and departed out in the wood, and Jonathan
of Keilah, and went whither- went to his house. 19 Then
soever they could go. And came up the Ziphites to Saul
it was told Saul that David to Gibeah, saying, Doth not
was escaped from Keilah; David hide himself with us
and he forbare to go forth. in strong holds in the wood,
14 And David abode in the in the hill of Hachilah, which
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thou huntest my soul to take day how that thou hast dealt
it. 12 The Lord judge be- well with me: forasmuch as
tween me and thee, and the when the Lord had deliv-
Lord avenge me of thee: but ered me into thine hand,
mine hand shall not be upon thou killedst me not. 19 For if
thee. 13 As saith the proverb a man find his enemy, will he
of the ancients, Wickedness let him go well away? where-
proceedeth from the wicked: fore the Lord reward thee
but mine hand shall not be good for that thou hast done
upon thee. 14 After whom is unto me this day. 20 And
the king of Israel come out? now, behold, I know well that
after whom dost thou pur- thou shalt surely be king,
sue? after a dead dog, af- and that the kingdom of Is-
ter a flea. 15 The Lord there- rael shall be established in
fore be judge, and judge be- thine hand. 21 Swear now
tween me and thee, and see, therefore unto me by the
and plead my cause, and de- Lord, that thou wilt not cut
liver me out of thine hand. off my seed after me, and
16 And it came to pass, when that thou wilt not destroy
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churlish and evil in his do- men came, they spake to Na-
ings; and he was of the house
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his sword. And they girded and took two hundred loaves,
on every man his sword; and two bottles of wine,
and David also girded on his and five sheep ready dressed,
sword: and there went up and five measures of parched
after David about four hun- corn, and an hundred clus-
dred men; and two hundred ters of raisins, and two hun-
abode by the stuff. 14 But dred cakes of figs, and laid
one of the young men told them on asses. 19 And she
Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, said unto her servants, Go on
Behold, David sent messen- before me; behold, I come af-
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ter you. But she told not the words of thine handmaid.
her husband Nabal. 20 And it 25 Let not my lord, I pray
was so, as she rode on the thee, regard this man of Be-
ass, that she came down by lial, even Nabal: for as his
the covert of the hill, and, name is, so is he; Nabal is
behold, David and his men his name, and folly is with
came down against her; and him: but I thine handmaid
she met them. 21 Now David saw not the young men of
had said, Surely in vain have my lord, whom thou didst
I kept all that this fellow send. 26 Now therefore, my
hath in the wilderness, so lord, as the Lord liveth, and
that nothing was missed of as thy soul liveth, seeing the
all that pertained unto him: Lord hath withholden thee
and he hath requited me evil from coming to shed blood,
for good. 22 So and more and from avenging thyself
also do God unto the ene- with thine own hand, now
mies of David, if I leave of let thine enemies, and they
all that pertain to him by the that seek evil to my lord, be
morning light any that pis- as Nabal. 27 And now this
seth against the wall. 23 And blessing which thine hand-
when Abigail saw David, she maid hath brought unto my
hasted, and lighted off the lord, let it even be given
ass, and fell before David on unto the young men that fol-
her face, and bowed herself low my lord. 28 I pray thee,
to the ground, 24 And fell at forgive the trespass of thine
his feet, and said, Upon me, handmaid: for the Lord will
my lord, upon me let this certainly make my lord a sure
iniquity be: and let thine house; because my lord fight-
handmaid, I pray thee, speak eth the battles of the Lord,
in thine audience, and hear and evil hath not been found
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in thee all thy days. 29 Yet a which hast kept me this day
man is risen to pursue thee, from coming to shed blood,
and to seek thy soul: but and from avenging myself
the soul of my lord shall be with mine own hand. 34 For
bound in the bundle of life in very deed, as the Lord
with the Lord thy God; and God of Israel liveth, which
the souls of thine enemies, hath kept me back from hurt-
them shall he sling out, as ing thee, except thou hadst
out of the middle of a sling. hasted and come to meet me,
30 And it shall come to pass, surely there had not been left
when the Lord shall have unto Nabal by the morning
done to my lord according light any that pisseth against
to all the good that he hath the wall. 35 So David received
spoken concerning thee, and of her hand that which she
shall have appointed thee had brought him, and said
ruler over Israel; 31 That this unto her, Go up in peace
shall be no grief unto thee, to thine house; see, I have
nor offence of heart unto my hearkened to thy voice, and
lord, either that thou hast have accepted thy person.
shed blood causeless, or that 36 And Abigail came to Na-
good that thou hast done. As blood fall to the earth be-
the Lord liveth, ye are wor- fore the face of the Lord:
thy to die, because ye have for the king of Israel is come
not kept your master, the out to seek a flea, as when
Lord’S anointed. And now one doth hunt a partridge
see where the king’s spear is, in the mountains. 21 Then
and the cruse of water that said Saul, I have sinned: re-
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shalt know what thy servant his servants said to him, Be-
can do. And Achish said hold, there is a woman that
to David, Therefore will I hath a familiar spirit at En-
make thee keeper of mine dor. 8 And Saul disguised
head for ever. 3 Now Samuel himself, and put on other
was dead, and all Israel had raiment, and he went, and
lamented him, and buried two men with him, and they
him in Ramah, even in his came to the woman by night:
own city. And Saul had put and he said, I pray thee, di-
away those that had famil- vine unto me by the familiar
iar spirits, and the wizards, spirit, and bring me him up,
out of the land. 4 And the whom I shall name unto thee.
Philistines gathered them- 9 And the woman said unto
all the day, nor all the night. before his servants; and they
21 And the woman came unto did eat. Then they rose up,
Saul, and saw that he was and went away that night.
sore troubled, and said unto
him, Behold, thine handmaid
hath obeyed thy voice, and Chapter 29
I have put my life in my
hand, and have hearkened Now the Philistines gath-
unto thy words which thou ered together all their armies
spakest unto me. 22 Now to Aphek: and the Is-
therefore, I pray thee, hear- raelites pitched by a fountain
ken thou also unto the voice which is in Jezreel. 2 And
of thine handmaid, and let the lords of the Philistines
me set a morsel of bread be- passed on by hundreds, and
fore thee; and eat, that thou by thousands: but David
mayest have strength, when and his men passed on in
thou goest on thy way. 23 But the rereward with Achish.
3 Then said the princes of the
he refused, and said, I will
not eat. But his servants, to- Philistines, What do these
gether with the woman, com- Hebrews here? And Achish
pelled him; and he hearkened said unto the princes of the
unto their voice. So he arose Philistines, Is not this David,
from the earth, and sat upon the servant of Saul the king
the bed. 24 And the woman of Israel, which hath been
had a fat calf in the house; with me these days, or these
and she hasted, and killed it, years, and I have found no
and took flour, and kneaded fault in him since he fell unto
it, and did bake unleavened me unto this day? 4 And
bread thereof: 25 And she the princes of the Philistines
brought it before Saul, and were wroth with him; and
the princes of the Philistines
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said unto him, Make this fel- David said unto Achish, But
low return, that he may go what have I done? and what
again to his place which thou hast thou found in thy ser-
hast appointed him, and let vant so long as I have been
him not go down with us with thee unto this day, that
to battle, lest in the battle I may not go fight against
he be an adversary to us: the enemies of my lord the
for wherewith should he rec- king? 9 And Achish answered
oncile himself unto his mas- and said to David, I know
ter? should it not be with that thou art good in my
the heads of these men? 5 Is sight, as an angel of God:
not this David, of whom notwithstanding the princes
they sang one to another in of the Philistines have said,
dances, saying, Saul slew his He shall not go up with us to
thousands, and David his ten the battle. 10 Wherefore now
thousands? 6 Then Achish rise up early in the morn-
called David, and said unto ing with thy master’s ser-
him, Surely, as the Lord vants that are come with
liveth, thou hast been up- thee: and as soon as ye
right, and thy going out and be up early in the morn-
thy coming in with me in ing, and have light, depart.
the host is good in my sight: 11 So David and his men rose
tressed; for the people spake tian in the field, and brought
of stoning him, because the
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fore those other cattle, and will hearken unto you in this
said, This is David’s spoil. matter? but as his part is
21 And David came to the two that goeth down to the bat-
hundred men, which were so tle, so shall his part be that
faint that they could not fol- tarrieth by the stuff: they
low David, whom they had shall part alike. 25 And it was
made also to abide at the so from that day forward,
brook Besor: and they went that he made it a statute and
forth to meet David, and to an ordinance for Israel unto
meet the people that were this day. 26 And when David
with him: and when David came to Ziklag, he sent of
came near to the people, he the spoil unto the elders of
saluted them. 22 Then an- Judah, even to his friends,
swered all the wicked men saying, Behold a present for
and men of Belial, of those you of the spoil of the ene-
that went with David, and mies of the Lord; 27 To them
said, Because they went not which were in Bethel, and
with us, we will not give to them which were in south
them ought of the spoil Ramoth, and to them which
that we have recovered, save were in Jattir, 28 And to them
to every man his wife and which were in Aroer, and
his children, that they may to them which were in Siph-
lead them away, and depart. moth, and to them which
23 Then said David, Ye shall were in Eshtemoa, 29 And to
not do so, my brethren, with them which were in Rachal,
that which the Lord hath and to them which were in
given us, who hath preserved the cities of the Jerahmeel-
us, and delivered the com- ites, and to them which were
pany that came against us in the cities of the Kenites,
into our hand. 24 For who 30 And to them which were in
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755
II SAMUEL 756
called unto me. And I an- man that told him, Whence
swered, Here am I. 8 And art thou? And he answered,
he said unto me, Who art I am the son of a stranger,
thou? And I answered him, an Amalekite. 14 And David
I am an Amalekite. 9 He said unto him, How wast
said unto me again, Stand, thou not afraid to stretch
I pray thee, upon me, and forth thine hand to destroy
slay me: for anguish is come the Lord’S anointed? 15 And
upon me, because my life David called one of the young
is yet whole in me. 10 So I men, and said, Go near, and
stood upon him, and slew fall upon him. And he smote
him, because I was sure that him that he died. 16 And
he could not live after that David said unto him, Thy
he was fallen: and I took blood be upon thy head;
the crown that was upon for thy mouth hath testified
his head, and the bracelet against thee, saying, I have
that was on his arm, and slain the Lord’S anointed.
have brought them hither 17 And David lamented with
the men that were with him: the children of Judah the
12 And they mourned, and use of the bow: behold, it
wept, and fasted until even, is written in the book of
for Saul, and for Jonathan Jasher.) 19 The beauty of Is-
his son, and for the people of rael is slain upon thy high
the Lord, and for the house places: how are the mighty
of Israel; because they were fallen! 20 Tell it not in Gath,
fallen by the sword. 13 And publish it not in the streets
David said unto the young of Askelon; lest the daugh-
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to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, men, and take thee his ar-
and twelve of the servants of mour. But Asahel would not
David. 16 And they caught turn aside from following of
every one his fellow by the him. 22 And Abner said again
head, and thrust his sword to Asahel, Turn thee aside
in his fellow’s side; so they from following me: wherefore
fell down together: where- should I smite thee to the
fore that place was called ground? how then should I
Helkathhazzurim, which is hold up my face to Joab thy
in Gibeon. 17 And there brother? 23 Howbeit he re-
was a very sore battle that fused to turn aside: where-
day; and Abner was beaten, fore Abner with the hinder
and the men of Israel, be- end of the spear smote him
fore the servants of David. under the fifth rib, that the
18 And there were three sons spear came out behind him;
of Zeruiah there, Joab, and and he fell down there, and
Abishai, and Asahel: and died in the same place: and
Asahel was as light of foot it came to pass, that as many
as a wild roe. 19 And Asa- as came to the place where
hel pursued after Abner; and Asahel fell down and died
in going he turned not to stood still. 24 Joab also and
the right hand nor to the Abishai pursued after Abner:
left from following Abner. and the sun went down when
20 Then Abner looked behind they were come to the hill
him, and said, Art thou Asa- of Ammah, that lieth be-
hel? And he answered, I am. fore Giah by the way of the
21 And Abner said to him, wilderness of Gibeon. 25 And
Turn thee aside to thy right the children of Benjamin
hand or to thy left, and lay gathered themselves together
thee hold on one of the young after Abner, and became one
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troop, and stood on the top vants nineteen men and Asa-
of an hill. 26 Then Abner hel. 31 But the servants of
called to Joab, and said, David had smitten of Ben-
Shall the sword devour for jamin, and of Abner’s men,
ever? knowest thou not that so that three hundred and
it will be bitterness in the threescore men died. 32 And
latter end? how long shall they took up Asahel, and
it be then, ere thou bid the buried him in the sepul-
people return from follow- chre of his father, which was
ing their brethren? 27 And in Bethlehem. And Joab
Joab said, As God liveth, and his men went all night,
unless thou hadst spoken, and they came to Hebron at
surely then in the morning break of day.
the people had gone up ev-
ery one from following his
brother. 28 So Joab blew a Chapter 3
trumpet, and all the people
stood still, and pursued af- Now there was long war
ter Israel no more, neither between the house of Saul
fought they any more. 29 And and the house of David:
Abner and his men walked but David waxed stronger
all that night through the and stronger, and the house
plain, and passed over Jor- of Saul waxed weaker and
dan, and went through all weaker. 2 And unto David
Bithron, and they came to were sons born in Hebron:
Mahanaim. 30 And Joab re- and his firstborn was Am-
turned from following Ab- non, of Ahinoam the Jezreel-
ner: and when he had gath- itess; 3 And his second,
ered all the people together, Chileab, of Abigail the wife
there lacked of David’s ser- of Nabal the Carmelite; and
the third, Absalom the son
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hast thou done? behold, Ab- the house of Joab one that
ner came unto thee; why is hath an issue, or that is a
it that thou hast sent him leper, or that leaneth on a
away, and he is quite gone? staff, or that falleth on the
25 Thou knowest Abner the sword, or that lacketh bread.
son of Ner, that he came to 30 So Joab and Abishai his
shalt thou say unto my ser- with thy fathers, I will set
vant David, Thus saith the up thy seed after thee, which
Lord of hosts, I took thee shall proceed out of thy bow-
from the sheepcote, from fol- els, and I will establish his
lowing the sheep, to be ruler kingdom. 13 He shall build
over my people, over Israel: an house for my name, and
9 And I was with thee whith- I will stablish the throne of
ersoever thou wentest, and his kingdom for ever. 14 I will
have cut off all thine enemies be his father, and he shall be
out of thy sight, and have my son. If he commit iniq-
made thee a great name, uity, I will chasten him with
like unto the name of the the rod of men, and with
great men that are in the the stripes of the children
earth. 10 Moreover I will ap- of men: 15 But my mercy
point a place for my people shall not depart away from
Israel, and will plant them, him, as I took it from Saul,
that they may dwell in a whom I put away before thee.
place of their own, and move 16 And thine house and thy
the Lord telleth thee that and sat before the Lord,
he will make thee an house. and he said, Who am I, O
12 And when thy days be ful- Lord God? and what is
filled, and thou shalt sleep my house, that thou hast
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unto him, Art thou Ziba? thee all the land of Saul thy
And he said, Thy servant is father; and thou shalt eat
he. 3 And the king said, Is bread at my table continu-
there not yet any of the house ally. 8 And he bowed him-
of Saul, that I may shew self, and said, What is thy
the kindness of God unto servant, that thou shouldest
him? And Ziba said unto look upon such a dead dog as
the king, Jonathan hath yet I am? 9 Then the king called
a son, which is lame on his to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and
feet. 4 And the king said unto said unto him, I have given
him, Where is he? And Ziba unto thy master’s son all that
said unto the king, Behold, pertained to Saul and to all
he is in the house of Machir, his house. 10 Thou therefore,
the son of Ammiel, in Lode- and thy sons, and thy ser-
bar. 5 Then king David sent, vants, shall till the land for
and fetched him out of the him, and thou shalt bring in
house of Machir, the son the fruits, that thy master’s
of Ammiel, from Lodebar. son may have food to eat:
6 Now when Mephibosheth, but Mephibosheth thy mas-
the son of Jonathan, the ter’s son shall eat bread al-
son of Saul, was come unto way at my table. Now Ziba
David, he fell on his face, had fifteen sons and twenty
and did reverence. And servants. 11 Then said Ziba
David said, Mephibosheth. unto the king, According to
And he answered, Behold thy all that my lord the king
servant! 7 And David said hath commanded his servant,
unto him, Fear not: for I so shall thy servant do. As
will surely shew thee kind- for Mephibosheth, said the
ness for Jonathan thy fa- king, he shall eat at my ta-
ther’s sake, and will restore ble, as one of the king’s sons.
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nun the son of Nahash, as his Ammon saw that they stank
father shewed kindness unto before David, the children of
me. And David sent to com- Ammon sent and hired the
fort him by the hand of his Syrians of Bethrehob, and
servants for his father. And the Syrians of Zoba, twenty
David’s servants came into thousand footmen, and of
the land of the children of king Maacah a thousand
Ammon. 3 And the princes men, and of Ishtob twelve
of the children of Ammon thousand men. 7 And when
said unto Hanun their lord, David heard of it, he sent
Thinkest thou that David
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Joab, and all the host of the seemeth him good. 13 And
mighty men. 8 And the chil- Joab drew nigh, and the peo-
dren of Ammon came out, ple that were with him, unto
and put the battle in array the battle against the Syr-
at the entering in of the gate: ians: and they fled before
and the Syrians of Zoba, and him. 14 And when the chil-
of Rehob, and Ishtob, and dren of Ammon saw that the
Maacah, were by themselves Syrians were fled, then fled
in the field. 9 When Joab they also before Abishai, and
saw that the front of the bat- entered into the city. So
tle was against him before Joab returned from the chil-
and behind, he chose of all dren of Ammon, and came
the choice men of Israel, and to Jerusalem. 15 And when
put them in array against the Syrians saw that they
the Syrians: 10 And the rest were smitten before Israel,
of the people he delivered they gathered themselves to-
into the hand of Abishai his gether. 16 And Hadarezer
the Syrians fled before Is- his bed, and walked upon
rael; and David slew the men the roof of the king’s house:
of seven hundred chariots of and from the roof he saw a
the Syrians, and forty thou- woman washing herself; and
sand horsemen, and smote the woman was very beau-
Shobach the captain of their tiful to look upon. 3 And
host, who died there. 19 And David sent and enquired af-
when all the kings that were ter the woman. And one
servants to Hadarezer saw said, Is not this Bathsheba,
that they were smitten be- the daughter of Eliam, the
fore Israel, they made peace wife of Uriah the Hittite?
with Israel, and served them. 4 And David sent messengers,
So the Syrians feared to help and took her; and she came
the children of Ammon any in unto him, and he lay
more. with her; for she was pu-
rified from her uncleanness:
and she returned unto her
Chapter 11 house. 5 And the woman con-
ceived, and sent and told
And it came to pass, after David, and said, I am with
the year was expired, at the child. 6 And David sent to
time when kings go forth to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah
battle, that David sent Joab, the Hittite. And Joab sent
and his servants with him, Uriah to David. 7 And when
and all Israel; and they de- Uriah was come unto him,
stroyed the children of Am- David demanded of him how
mon, and besieged Rabbah. Joab did, and how the peo-
But David tarried still at ple did, and how the war
Jerusalem. 2 And it came prospered. 8 And David said
to pass in an eveningtide, to Uriah, Go down to thy
that David arose from off
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ing the war; 19 And charged upon thy servants; and some
the messenger, saying, When of the king’s servants be
thou hast made an end of dead, and thy servant Uriah
telling the matters of the war the Hittite is dead also.
unto the king, 20 And if so be 25 Then David said unto the
city; the one rich, and the because he had no pity. 7 And
other poor. 2 The rich man Nathan said to David, Thou
had exceeding many flocks art the man. Thus saith
and herds: 3 But the poor the Lord God of Israel, I
man had nothing, save one anointed thee king over Is-
little ewe lamb, which he had rael, and I delivered thee out
bought and nourished up: of the hand of Saul; 8 And I
and it grew up together with gave thee thy master’s house,
him, and with his children; and thy master’s wives into
it did eat of his own meat, thy bosom, and gave thee the
and drank of his own cup, house of Israel and of Judah;
and lay in his bosom, and and if that had been too lit-
was unto him as a daugh- tle, I would moreover have
ter. 4 And there came a trav- given unto thee such and
eller unto the rich man, and such things. 9 Wherefore hast
he spared to take of his own thou despised the command-
flock and of his own herd, to ment of the Lord, to do
dress for the wayfaring man evil in his sight? thou hast
that was come unto him; but killed Uriah the Hittite with
took the poor man’s lamb, the sword, and hast taken
and dressed it for the man his wife to be thy wife, and
that was come to him. 5 And hast slain him with the sword
David’s anger was greatly of the children of Ammon.
kindled against the man; and 10 Now therefore the sword
and the Lord loved him. people that were therein, and
25 And he sent by the hand put them under saws, and
of Nathan the prophet; and under harrows of iron, and
he called his name Jedidiah, under axes of iron, and made
because of the Lord. 26 And them pass through the brick-
Joab fought against Rab- kiln: and thus did he unto
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all the cities of the children down on thy bed, and make
of Ammon. So David and thyself sick: and when thy
all the people returned unto father cometh to see thee,
Jerusalem. say unto him, I pray thee,
let my sister Tamar come,
and give me meat, and dress
Chapter 13 the meat in my sight, that
I may see it, and eat it at
And it came to pass after her hand. 6 So Amnon lay
this, that Absalom the son of down, and made himself sick:
David had a fair sister, whose and when the king was come
name was Tamar; and Am- to see him, Amnon said unto
non the son of David loved the king, I pray thee, let
her. 2 And Amnon was so Tamar my sister come, and
vexed, that he fell sick for make me a couple of cakes
his sister Tamar; for she in my sight, that I may eat
was a virgin; and Amnon at her hand. 7 Then David
thought it hard for him to sent home to Tamar, saying,
do any thing to her. 3 But Go now to thy brother Am-
Amnon had a friend, whose non’s house, and dress him
name was Jonadab, the son meat. 8 So Tamar went to
of Shimeah David’s brother: her brother Amnon’s house;
and Jonadab was a very sub- and he was laid down. And
til man. 4 And he said unto she took flour, and kneaded
him, Why art thou, being the it, and made cakes in his
king’s son, lean from day to sight, and did bake the cakes.
day? wilt thou not tell me? 9 And she took a pan, and
And Amnon said unto him, I poured them out before him;
love Tamar, my brother Ab- but he refused to eat. And
salom’s sister. 5 And Jon- Amnon said, Have out all
adab said unto him, Lay thee
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men from me. And they 15 Then Amnon hated her ex-
went out every man from ceedingly; so that the hatred
him. 10 And Amnon said wherewith he hated her was
unto Tamar, Bring the meat greater than the love where-
into the chamber, that I may with he had loved her. And
eat of thine hand. And Amnon said unto her, Arise,
Tamar took the cakes which be gone. 16 And she said
she had made, and brought unto him, There is no cause:
them into the chamber to this evil in sending me away
Amnon her brother. 11 And is greater than the other
when she had brought them that thou didst unto me.
unto him to eat, he took But he would not hearken
hold of her, and said unto unto her. 17 Then he called
her, Come lie with me, my his servant that ministered
sister. 12 And she answered unto him, and said, Put now
him, Nay, my brother, do this woman out from me,
not force me; for no such and bolt the door after her.
thing ought to be done in Is- 18 And she had a garment
will not withhold me from her head, and rent her gar-
thee. 14 Howbeit he would ment of divers colours that
not hearken unto her voice: was on her, and laid her hand
but, being stronger than she, on her head, and went on
forced her, and lay with her. crying. 20 And Absalom her
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anoint not thyself with oil, which is left, and shall not
but be as a woman that had leave to my husband neither
a long time mourned for the name nor remainder upon
dead: 3 And come to the king, the earth. 8 And the king said
and speak on this manner unto the woman, Go to thine
unto him. So Joab put the house, and I will give charge
words in her mouth. 4 And concerning thee. 9 And the
when the woman of Tekoah woman of Tekoah said unto
spake to the king, she fell the king, My lord, O king,
on her face to the ground, the iniquity be on me, and on
and did obeisance, and said, my father’s house: and the
Help, O king. 5 And the king king and his throne be guilt-
said unto her, What aileth less. 10 And the king said,
thee? And she answered, I Whosoever saith ought unto
am indeed a widow woman, thee, bring him to me, and
and mine husband is dead. he shall not touch thee any
6 And thy handmaid had two more. 11 Then said she, I
sons, and they two strove to- pray thee, let the king re-
gether in the field, and there member the Lord thy God,
was none to part them, but that thou wouldest not suffer
the one smote the other, and the revengers of blood to de-
slew him. 7 And, behold, the stroy any more, lest they de-
whole family is risen against stroy my son. And he said,
thine handmaid, and they As the Lord liveth, there
said, Deliver him that smote shall not one hair of thy son
his brother, that we may kill fall to the earth. 12 Then the
him, for the life of his brother woman said, Let thine hand-
whom he slew; and we will maid, I pray thee, speak one
destroy the heir also: and word unto my lord the king.
so they shall quench my coal And he said, Say on. 13 And
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the ground before the king: any man came nigh to him
and the king kissed Absalom. to do him obeisance, he put
forth his hand, and took him,
and kissed him. 6 And on
Chapter 15 this manner did Absalom to
all Israel that came to the
And it came to pass after king for judgment: so Absa-
this, that Absalom prepared lom stole the hearts of the
him chariots and horses, and men of Israel. 7 And it came
fifty men to run before him. to pass after forty years, that
2 And Absalom rose up early,
Absalom said unto the king,
and stood beside the way of I pray thee, let me go and
the gate: and it was so, that pay my vow, which I have
when any man that had a vowed unto the Lord, in
controversy came to the king Hebron. 8 For thy servant
for judgment, then Absalom
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vowed a vow while I abode 14 And David said unto all his
at Geshur in Syria, saying, servants that were with him
If the Lord shall bring me at Jerusalem, Arise, and let
again indeed to Jerusalem, us flee; for we shall not else
then I will serve the Lord. escape from Absalom: make
9 And the king said unto him, speed to depart, lest he over-
Go in peace. So he arose, and take us suddenly, and bring
went to Hebron. 10 But Ab- evil upon us, and smite the
salom sent spies throughout city with the edge of the
all the tribes of Israel, saying, sword. 15 And the king’s ser-
As soon as ye hear the sound vants said unto the king, Be-
of the trumpet, then ye shall hold, thy servants are ready
say, Absalom reigneth in He- to do whatsoever my lord the
bron. 11 And with Absalom king shall appoint. 16 And
went two hundred men out of the king went forth, and
Jerusalem, that were called; all his household after him.
and they went in their sim- And the king left ten women,
plicity, and they knew not which were concubines, to
any thing. 12 And Absa- keep the house. 17 And the
lom sent for Ahithophel the king went forth, and all the
Gilonite, David’s counsellor, people after him, and tar-
from his city, even from ried in a place that was far
Giloh, while he offered sac- off. 18 And all his servants
rifices. And the conspiracy passed on beside him; and all
was strong; for the people in- the Cherethites, and all the
creased continually with Ab- Pelethites, and all the Git-
salom. 13 And there came tites, six hundred men which
a messenger to David, say- came after him from Gath,
ing, The hearts of the men passed on before the king.
of Israel are after Absalom. 19 Then said the king to Ittai
II SAMUEL 793
ward the way of the wilder- athar carried the ark of God
II SAMUEL 794
foot: and all the people that with thee Zadok and Abi-
was with him covered every athar the priests? therefore
man his head, and they went it shall be, that what thing
up, weeping as they went up. soever thou shalt hear out of
31 And one told David, say- the king’s house, thou shalt
ing, Ahithophel is among the tell it to Zadok and Abi-
conspirators with Absalom. athar the priests. 36 Behold,
And David said, O Lord, they have there with them
I pray thee, turn the coun- their two sons, Ahimaaz
sel of Ahithophel into fool- Zadok’s son, and Jonathan
ishness. 32 And it came to Abiathar’s son; and by them
pass, that when David was ye shall send unto me every
come to the top of the mount, thing that ye can hear. 37 So
where he worshipped God, Hushai David’s friend came
behold, Hushai the Archite into the city, and Absalom
came to meet him with his came into Jerusalem.
coat rent, and earth upon his
head: 33 Unto whom David
said, If thou passest on with Chapter 16
me, then thou shalt be a
burden unto me: 34 But if And when David was a lit-
thou return to the city, and tle past the top of the hill,
say unto Absalom, I will be behold, Ziba the servant of
thy servant, O king; as I Mephibosheth met him, with
a couple of asses saddled,
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and upon them two hun- hold, thence came out a man
dred loaves of bread, and an of the family of the house
hundred bunches of raisins, of Saul, whose name was
and an hundred of summer Shimei, the son of Gera: he
fruits, and a bottle of wine. came forth, and cursed still
2 And the king said unto as he came. 6 And he cast
Ziba, What meanest thou by stones at David, and at all
these? And Ziba said, The the servants of king David:
asses be for the king’s house- and all the people and all the
hold to ride on; and the mighty men were on his right
bread and summer fruit for hand and on his left. 7 And
the young men to eat; and thus said Shimei when he
the wine, that such as be cursed, Come out, come out,
faint in the wilderness may thou bloody man, and thou
drink. 3 And the king said, man of Belial: 8 The Lord
And where is thy master’s hath returned upon thee all
son? And Ziba said unto the blood of the house of
the king, Behold, he abideth Saul, in whose stead thou
at Jerusalem: for he said, hast reigned; and the Lord
To day shall the house of hath delivered the kingdom
Israel restore me the king- into the hand of Absalom
dom of my father. 4 Then thy son: and, behold, thou
said the king to Ziba, Be- art taken in thy mischief, be-
hold, thine are all that per- cause thou art a bloody man.
tained unto Mephibosheth. 9 Then said Abishai the son of
And Ziba said, I humbly be- Zeruiah unto the king, Why
seech thee that I may find should this dead dog curse
grace in thy sight, my lord, my lord the king? let me go
O king. 5 And when king over, I pray thee, and take
David came to Bahurim, be- off his head. 10 And the king
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and all Israel shall hear that and I will smite the king
thou art abhorred of thy fa- only: 3 And I will bring back
ther: then shall the hands all the people unto thee: the
of all that are with thee be man whom thou seekest is as
strong. 22 So they spread Ab- if all returned: so all the peo-
salom a tent upon the top ple shall be in peace. 4 And
of the house; and Absalom the saying pleased Absalom
went in unto his father’s con- well, and all the elders of Is-
cubines in the sight of all Is- rael. 5 Then said Absalom,
rael. 23 And the counsel of Call now Hushai the Archite
Ahithophel, which he coun- also, and let us hear likewise
selled in those days, was as what he saith. 6 And when
if a man had enquired at the Hushai was come to Absa-
oracle of God: so was all the lom, Absalom spake unto
counsel of Ahithophel both him, saying, Ahithophel hath
with David and with Absa- spoken after this manner:
lom. shall we do after his saying?
if not; speak thou. 7 And
Hushai said unto Absalom,
Chapter 17 The counsel that Ahithophel
hath given is not good at
Moreover Ahithophel said this time. 8 For, said Hushai,
unto Absalom, Let me now thou knowest thy father and
choose out twelve thousand his men, that they be mighty
men, and I will arise and pur- men, and they be chafed in
sue after David this night: their minds, as a bear robbed
2 And I will come upon him
of her whelps in the field:
while he is weary and weak and thy father is a man of
handed, and will make him war, and will not lodge with
afraid: and all the people the people. 9 Behold, he is
that are with him shall flee;
II SAMUEL 798
ter among the people that men of Israel said, The coun-
follow Absalom. 10 And he sel of Hushai the Archite is
also that is valiant, whose better than the counsel of
heart is as the heart of a lion, Ahithophel. For the Lord
shall utterly melt: for all Is- had appointed to defeat the
rael knoweth that thy father good counsel of Ahithophel,
is a mighty man, and they to the intent that the Lord
which be with him are valiant might bring evil upon Ab-
men. 11 Therefore I coun- salom. 15 Then said Hushai
sel that all Israel be gener- unto Zadok and to Abiathar
ally gathered unto thee, from the priests, Thus and thus
Dan even to Beersheba, as did Ahithophel counsel Ab-
the sand that is by the sea salom and the elders of Is-
for multitude; and that thou rael; and thus and thus have
go to battle in thine own per- I counselled. 16 Now there-
son. 12 So shall we come upon fore send quickly, and tell
him in some place where he David, saying, Lodge not
shall be found, and we will this night in the plains of
light upon him as the dew the wilderness, but speedily
falleth on the ground: and pass over; lest the king be
of him and of all the men swallowed up, and all the
that are with him there shall people that are with him.
not be left so much as one. 17 Now Jonathan and Ahi-
13 Moreover, if he be got- maaz stayed by Enrogel; for
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down. 19 And the woman that his counsel was not fol-
took and spread a covering lowed, he saddled his ass,
over the well’s mouth, and and arose, and gat him home
spread ground corn thereon; to his house, to his city,
and the thing was not known. and put his household in
20 And when Absalom’s ser- order, and hanged himself,
vants came to the woman to and died, and was buried
the house, they said, Where in the sepulchre of his fa-
is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? ther. 24 Then David came
And the woman said unto to Mahanaim. And Absa-
them, They be gone over the lom passed over Jordan, he
brook of water. And when and all the men of Israel with
they had sought and could him. 25 And Absalom made
not find them, they returned Amasa captain of the host in-
to Jerusalem. 21 And it came stead of Joab: which Amasa
to pass, after they were de- was a man’s son, whose
parted, that they came up name was Ithra an Israelite,
out of the well, and went that went in to Abigail the
and told king David, and said daughter of Nahash, sister to
II SAMUEL 800
sels, and wheat, and barley, Thou shalt not go forth: for
and flour, and parched corn, if we flee away, they will not
and beans, and lentiles, and care for us; neither if half
parched pulse, 29 And honey, of us die, will they care for
and butter, and sheep, and us: but now thou art worth
cheese of kine, for David, and ten thousand of us: there-
for the people that were with fore now it is better that
him, to eat: for they said, thou succour us out of the
The people is hungry, and city. 4 And the king said unto
weary, and thirsty, in the them, What seemeth you
wilderness. best I will do. And the king
stood by the gate side, and
all the people came out by
Chapter 18 hundreds and by thousands.
5 And the king commanded
between the heaven and the said Joab, I may not tarry
earth; and the mule that was thus with thee. And he
under him went away. 10 And took three darts in his hand,
a certain man saw it, and and thrust them through the
told Joab, and said, Behold, heart of Absalom, while he
I saw Absalom hanged in an was yet alive in the midst of
II SAMUEL 802
the oak. 15 And ten young not bear tidings this day, but
men that bare Joab’s ar- thou shalt bear tidings an-
mour compassed about and other day: but this day thou
smote Absalom, and slew shalt bear no tidings, be-
him. 16 And Joab blew the cause the king’s son is dead.
trumpet, and the people re- 21 Then said Joab to Cushi,
is called unto this day, Ab- two gates: and the watch-
salom’s place. 19 Then said man went up to the roof over
Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, the gate unto the wall, and
Let me now run, and bear lifted up his eyes, and looked,
the king tidings, how that and behold a man running
the Lord hath avenged him alone. 25 And the watch-
of his enemies. 20 And Joab man cried, and told the king.
said unto him, Thou shalt And the king said, If he be
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and Ziba divide the land. more the voice of singing men
30 And Mephibosheth said and singing women? where-
unto the king, Yea, let him fore then should thy servant
take all, forasmuch as my be yet a burden unto my
lord the king is come again lord the king? 36 Thy ser-
in peace unto his own house. vant will go a little way over
31 And Barzillai the Gilea- Jordan with the king: and
dite came down from Roge- why should the king recom-
lim, and went over Jordan pense it me with such a re-
with the king, to conduct ward? 37 Let thy servant, I
him over Jordan. 32 Now pray thee, turn back again,
Barzillai was a very aged that I may die in mine own
man, even fourscore years city, and be buried by the
old: and he had provided the grave of my father and of my
king of sustenance while he mother. But behold thy ser-
lay at Mahanaim; for he was vant Chimham; let him go
a very great man. 33 And over with my lord the king;
the king said unto Barzil- and do to him what shall
lai, Come thou over with me, seem good unto thee. 38 And
and I will feed thee with me the king answered, Chimham
in Jerusalem. 34 And Barzil- shall go over with me, and I
lai said unto the king, How will do to him that which
long have I to live, that I shall seem good unto thee:
should go up with the king and whatsoever thou shalt
unto Jerusalem? 35 I am this require of me, that will I do
day fourscore years old: and for thee. 39 And all the peo-
can I discern between good ple went over Jordan. And
and evil? can thy servant when the king was come over,
taste what I eat or what the king kissed Barzillai, and
I drink? can I hear any blessed him; and he returned
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unto his own place. 40 Then And the words of the men of
the king went on to Gilgal, Judah were fiercer than the
and Chimham went on with words of the men of Israel.
him: and all the people of Ju-
dah conducted the king, and
also half the people of Israel. Chapter 20
41 And, behold, all the men
will give them. 7 But the king of heaven, and suffered nei-
spared Mephibosheth, the ther the birds of the air to
son of Jonathan the son of rest on them by day, nor the
Saul, because of the Lord’S beasts of the field by night.
oath that was between them, 11 And it was told David
Lord, I have sinned greatly let me not fall into the hand
in that I have done: and of man. 15 So the Lord
823
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Judah the king’s servants: went in unto the king into the
10 But Nathan the prophet, chamber: and the king was
and Benaiah, and the very old; and Abishag the
mighty men, and Solomon Shunammite ministered unto
his brother, he called not. the king. 16 And Bathsheba
11 Wherefore Nathan spake bowed, and did obeisance
unto Bathsheba the mother unto the king. And the king
of Solomon, saying, Hast said, What wouldest thou?
thou not heard that Adoni- 17 And she said unto him,
those that eat at thy table: the throne of David his fa-
for so they came to me when ther; and his kingdom was
I fled because of Absalom established greatly. 13 And
thy brother. 8 And, behold, Adonijah the son of Hag-
thou hast with thee Shimei gith came to Bathsheba the
the son of Gera, a Ben- mother of Solomon. And
jamite of Bahurim, which she said, Comest thou peace-
cursed me with a grievous ably? And he said, Peace-
curse in the day when I went ably. 14 He said moreover, I
to Mahanaim: but he came have somewhat to say unto
down to meet me at Jor- thee. And she said, Say on.
dan, and I sware to him 15 And he said, Thou knowest
unto Solomon the king, (for brother; even for him, and
he will not say thee nay,) for Abiathar the priest, and
that he give me Abishag the for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
Shunammite to wife. 18 And 23 Then king Solomon sware
brought the king word again, the son of Jehoiada went up,
saying, Thus said Joab, and and fell upon him, and slew
thus he answered me. 31 And him: and he was buried in
I KINGS 832
little child: I know not how ter thee shall any arise like
to go out or come in. 8 And unto thee. 13 And I have also
thy servant is in the midst given thee that which thou
of thy people which thou hast not asked, both riches,
hast chosen, a great people, and honour: so that there
that cannot be numbered nor shall not be any among the
counted for multitude. 9 Give kings like unto thee all thy
therefore thy servant an un- days. 14 And if thou wilt
derstanding heart to judge walk in my ways, to keep my
thy people, that I may dis- statutes and my command-
cern between good and bad: ments, as thy father David
for who is able to judge did walk, then I will lengthen
this thy so great a people? thy days. 15 And Solomon
10 And the speech pleased awoke; and, behold, it was
the Lord, that Solomon had a dream. And he came to
asked this thing. 11 And God Jerusalem, and stood before
said unto him, Because thou the ark of the covenant of the
hast asked this thing, and Lord, and offered up burnt
hast not asked for thyself offerings, and offered peace
long life; neither hast asked offerings, and made a feast
riches for thyself, nor hast to all his servants. 16 Then
asked the life of thine ene- came there two women, that
mies; but hast asked for thy- were harlots, unto the king,
self understanding to discern and stood before him. 17 And
judgment; 12 Behold, I have the one woman said, O my
done according to thy words: lord, I and this woman dwell
lo, I have given thee a wise in one house; and I was de-
and an understanding heart; livered of a child with her in
so that there was none like the house. 18 And it came
thee before thee, neither af- to pass the third day after
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that I was delivered, that this saith, Nay; but thy son is
woman was delivered also: the dead, and my son is the
and we were together; there living. 24 And the king said,
was no stranger with us in Bring me a sword. And they
the house, save we two in the brought a sword before the
house. 19 And this woman’s king. 25 And the king said,
child died in the night; be- Divide the living child in two,
cause she overlaid it. 20 And and give half to the one, and
she arose at midnight, and half to the other. 26 Then
took my son from beside me, spake the woman whose the
while thine handmaid slept, living child was unto the
and laid it in her bosom, and king, for her bowels yearned
laid her dead child in my bo- upon her son, and she said,
som. 21 And when I rose in O my lord, give her the liv-
the morning to give my child ing child, and in no wise slay
suck, behold, it was dead: it. But the other said, Let
but when I had considered it be neither mine nor thine,
it in the morning, behold, but divide it. 27 Then the
it was not my son, which I king answered and said, Give
did bear. 22 And the other her the living child, and in
woman said, Nay; but the no wise slay it: she is the
living is my son, and the mother thereof. 28 And all Is-
dead is thy son. And this rael heard of the judgment
said, No; but the dead is thy which the king had judged;
son, and the living is my son. and they feared the king: for
Thus they spake before the they saw that the wisdom of
king. 23 Then said the king, God was in him, to do judg-
The one saith, This is my ment.
son that liveth, and thy son
is the dead: and the other
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from the river unto the land victual for king Solomon,
of the Philistines, and unto and for all that came unto
the border of Egypt: they king Solomon’s table, ev-
brought presents, and served ery man in his month: they
Solomon all the days of his lacked nothing. 28 Barley also
life. 22 And Solomon’s provi- and straw for the horses and
sion for one day was thirty dromedaries brought they
measures of fine flour, and unto the place where the of-
threescore measures of meal, ficers were, every man ac-
23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty cording to his charge. 29 And
oxen out of the pastures, God gave Solomon wisdom
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dle chamber was in the right the house within with boards
side of the house: and they of cedar, both the floor of the
went up with winding stairs house, and the walls of the
into the middle chamber, and cieling: and he covered them
out of the middle into the on the inside with wood, and
third. 9 So he built the house, covered the floor of the house
and finished it; and covered with planks of fir. 16 And
the house with beams and he built twenty cubits on
boards of cedar. 10 And then the sides of the house, both
he built chambers against the floor and the walls with
all the house, five cubits boards of cedar: he even
high: and they rested on built them for it within, even
the house with timber of for the oracle, even for the
cedar. 11 And the word of the most holy place. 17 And the
Lord came to Solomon, say- house, that is, the temple
ing, 12 Concerning this house before it, was forty cubits
which thou art in build- long. 18 And the cedar of
ing, if thou wilt walk in the house within was carved
my statutes, and execute my with knops and open flow-
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three ranks. 5 And all the tion unto the coping, and so
doors and posts were square, on the outside toward the
with the windows: and light great court. 10 And the foun-
was against light in three dation was of costly stones,
ranks. 6 And he made a even great stones, stones of
porch of pillars; the length ten cubits, and stones of
thereof was fifty cubits, and eight cubits. 11 And above
the breadth thereof thirty cu- were costly stones, after the
bits: and the porch was be- measures of hewed stones,
fore them: and the other and cedars. 12 And the great
pillars and the thick beam court round about was with
were before them. 7 Then three rows of hewed stones,
he made a porch for the and a row of cedar beams,
throne where he might judge, both for the inner court of
even the porch of judgment: the house of the Lord, and
and it was covered with for the porch of the house.
cedar from one side of the 13 And king Solomon sent and
their hinder parts were in- the chapiter and above was a
ward. 26 And it was an hand cubit: but the mouth thereof
breadth thick, and the brim was round after the work of
thereof was wrought like the the base, a cubit and an half:
brim of a cup, with flowers of and also upon the mouth of it
lilies: it contained two thou- were gravings with their bor-
sand baths. 27 And he made ders, foursquare, not round.
ten bases of brass; four cubits 32 And under the borders
was the length of one base, were four wheels; and the
and four cubits the breadth axletrees of the wheels were
thereof, and three cubits the joined to the base: and the
height of it. 28 And the work height of a wheel was a cu-
of the bases was on this man- bit and half a cubit. 33 And
ner: they had borders, and the work of the wheels was
the borders were between the like the work of a chariot
ledges: 29 And on the borders wheel: their axletrees, and
that were between the ledges their naves, and their fel-
were lions, oxen, and cheru- loes, and their spokes, were
bims: and upon the ledges all molten. 34 And there were
there was a base above: and four undersetters to the four
beneath the lions and oxen corners of one base: and the
were certain additions made undersetters were of the very
of thin work. 30 And every base itself. 35 And in the
base had four brasen wheels, top of the base was there a
and plates of brass: and the round compass of half a cu-
four corners thereof had un- bit high: and on the top of
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the base the ledges thereof of the Lord: 41 The two pil-
and the borders thereof were lars, and the two bowls of the
of the same. 36 For on the chapiters that were on the
plates of the ledges thereof, top of the two pillars; and the
and on the borders thereof, two networks, to cover the
he graved cherubims, lions, two bowls of the chapiters
and palm trees, according to which were upon the top of
the proportion of every one, the pillars; 42 And four hun-
and additions round about. dred pomegranates for the
37 After this manner he made two networks, even two rows
the ten bases: all of them had of pomegranates for one net-
one casting, one measure, work, to cover the two bowls
and one size. 38 Then made of the chapiters that were
he ten lavers of brass: one upon the pillars; 43 And the
laver contained forty baths: ten bases, and ten lavers on
and every laver was four cu- the bases; 44 And one sea,
bits: and upon every one and twelve oxen under the
of the ten bases one laver. sea; 45 And the pots, and the
39 And he put five bases on shovels, and the basons: and
the right side of the house, all these vessels, which Hi-
and five on the left side of ram made to king Solomon
the house: and he set the for the house of the Lord,
sea on the right side of the were of bright brass. 46 In
house eastward over against the plain of Jordan did the
the south. 40 And Hiram king cast them, in the clay
made the lavers, and the ground between Succoth and
shovels, and the basons. So Zarthan. 47 And Solomon
and oxen, that could not be place, that the cloud filled
told nor numbered for mul- the house of the Lord, 11 So
titude. 6 And the priests that the priests could not
brought in the ark of the stand to minister because
covenant of the Lord unto of the cloud: for the glory
his place, into the oracle of of the Lord had filled the
the house, to the most holy house of the Lord. 12 Then
place, even under the wings spake Solomon, The Lord
of the cherubims. 7 For the said that he would dwell in
cherubims spread forth their the thick darkness. 13 I have
two wings over the place surely built thee an house
of the ark, and the cheru- to dwell in, a settled place
bims covered the ark and the for thee to abide in for ever.
staves thereof above. 8 And 14 And the king turned his
they drew out the staves, face about, and blessed all
that the ends of the staves the congregation of Israel:
were seen out in the holy (and all the congregation of
place before the oracle, and Israel stood;) 15 And he said,
they were not seen without: Blessed be the Lord God of
and there they are unto this Israel, which spake with his
day. 9 There was nothing mouth unto David my father,
in the ark save the two ta- and hath with his hand ful-
bles of stone, which Moses filled it, saying, 16 Since the
put there at Horeb, when the day that I brought forth my
Lord made a covenant with people Israel out of Egypt, I
the children of Israel, when chose no city out of all the
they came out of the land tribes of Israel to build an
of Egypt. 10 And it came house, that my name might
to pass, when the priests be therein; but I chose David
were come out of the holy to be over my people Israel.
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from their sin, when thou af- thou only, knowest the hearts
flictest them: 36 Then hear of all the children of men;)
thou in heaven, and forgive 40 That they may fear thee
the sin of thy servants, and of all the days that they live in
thy people Israel, that thou the land which thou gavest
teach them the good way unto our fathers. 41 Moreover
wherein they should walk, concerning a stranger, that
and give rain upon thy land, is not of thy people Is-
which thou hast given to rael, but cometh out of a
thy people for an inheritance. far country for thy name’s
37 If there be in the land sake; 42 (For they shall hear
famine, if there be pestilence, of thy great name, and of
blasting, mildew, locust, or thy strong hand, and of thy
if there be caterpiller; if their stretched out arm;) when he
enemy besiege them in the shall come and pray toward
land of their cities; whatso- this house; 43 Hear thou in
ever plague, whatsoever sick- heaven thy dwelling place,
ness there be; 38 What prayer and do according to all that
and supplication soever be the stranger calleth to thee
made by any man, or by all for: that all people of the
thy people Israel, which shall earth may know thy name,
know every man the plague to fear thee, as do thy peo-
of his own heart, and spread ple Israel; and that they may
forth his hands toward this know that this house, which
house: 39 Then hear thou in I have builded, is called by
heaven thy dwelling place, thy name. 44 If thy peo-
toward the city which thou their land, which thou gavest
hast chosen, and toward the unto their fathers, the city
house that I have built for which thou hast chosen, and
thy name: 45 Then hear the house which I have built
thou in heaven their prayer for thy name: 49 Then hear
and their supplication, and thou their prayer and their
maintain their cause. 46 If supplication in heaven thy
they sin against thee, (for dwelling place, and maintain
there is no man that sin- their cause, 50 And forgive
neth not,) and thou be an- thy people that have sinned
gry with them, and deliver against thee, and all their
them to the enemy, so that transgressions wherein they
they carry them away cap- have transgressed against
tives unto the land of the thee, and give them compas-
enemy, far or near; 47 Yet sion before them who carried
if they shall bethink them- them captive, that they may
selves in the land whither have compassion on them:
they were carried captives, 51 For they be thy people,
hiss; and they shall say, Why he said, What cities are
hath the Lord done thus these which thou hast given
unto this land, and to this me, my brother? And he
house? 9 And they shall an- called them the land of Cabul
swer, Because they forsook unto this day. 14 And Hi-
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oboam arose, and fled into 3 That they sent and called
Egypt, unto Shishak king him. And Jeroboam and
of Egypt, and was in Egypt all the congregation of Is-
until the death of Solomon. rael came, and spake unto
41 And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, saying, 4 Thy fa-
Solomon, and all that he did, ther made our yoke grievous:
and his wisdom, are they not now therefore make thou the
written in the book of the grievous service of thy father,
acts of Solomon? 42 And the and his heavy yoke which he
time that Solomon reigned in put upon us, lighter, and we
Jerusalem over all Israel was will serve thee. 5 And he
forty years. 43 And Solomon said unto them, Depart yet
slept with his fathers, and for three days, then come
was buried in the city of again to me. And the peo-
David his father: and Re- ple departed. 6 And king Re-
hoboam his son reigned in hoboam consulted with the
his stead. old men, that stood before
Solomon his father while he
yet lived, and said, How do
Chapter 12 ye advise that I may an-
swer this people? 7 And
they had given him, and con- king had appointed, saying,
sulted with the young men Come to me again the third
that were grown up with day. 13 And the king an-
him, and which stood be- swered the people roughly,
fore him: 9 And he said unto and forsook the old men’s
them, What counsel give ye counsel that they gave him;
that we may answer this peo- 14 And spake to them after
my father did lade you with a the king hearkened not unto
heavy yoke, I will add to your them, the people answered
yoke: my father hath chas- the king, saying, What por-
tised you with whips, but I tion have we in David? nei-
will chastise you with scor- ther have we inheritance in
pions. 12 So Jeroboam and the son of Jesse: to your
all the people came to Re- tents, O Israel: now see
hoboam the third day, as the to thine own house, David.
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name; and upon thee shall God, and pray for me, that
he offer the priests of the my hand may be restored me
high places that burn incense again. And the man of God
upon thee, and men’s bones besought the Lord, and the
shall be burnt upon thee. king’s hand was restored him
3 And he gave a sign the same again, and became as it was
day, saying, This is the sign before. 7 And the king said
which the Lord hath spo- unto the man of God, Come
ken; Behold, the altar shall home with me, and refresh
be rent, and the ashes that thyself, and I will give thee
are upon it shall be poured a reward. 8 And the man of
out. 4 And it came to pass, God said unto the king, If
when king Jeroboam heard thou wilt give me half thine
the saying of the man of God, house, I will not go in with
which had cried against the thee, neither will I eat bread
altar in Bethel, that he put nor drink water in this place:
forth his hand from the al- 9 For so was it charged me
prince over my people Israel, shall the fowls of the air eat:
8 And rent the kingdom away for the Lord hath spoken
from the house of David, and it. 12 Arise thou therefore,
gave it thee: and yet thou get thee to thine own house:
hast not been as my servant and when thy feet enter into
David, who kept my com- the city, the child shall die.
mandments, and who fol- 13 And all Israel shall mourn
lowed me with all his heart, for him, and bury him: for
to do that only which was he only of Jeroboam shall
right in mine eyes; 9 But come to the grave, because
hast done evil above all that in him there is found some
were before thee: for thou good thing toward the Lord
hast gone and made thee God of Israel in the house of
other gods, and molten im- Jeroboam. 14 Moreover the
ages, to provoke me to anger, Lord shall raise him up a
and hast cast me behind king over Israel, who shall
thy back: 10 Therefore, be- cut off the house of Jer-
hold, I will bring evil upon oboam that day: but what?
the house of Jeroboam, and even now. 15 For the Lord
will cut off from Jeroboam shall smite Israel, as a reed
him that pisseth against the is shaken in the water, and
wall, and him that is shut he shall root up Israel out
up and left in Israel, and of this good land, which he
will take away the remnant gave to their fathers, and
of the house of Jeroboam, shall scatter them beyond
as a man taketh away dung, the river, because they have
till it be all gone. 11 Him made their groves, provoking
that dieth of Jeroboam in the the Lord to anger. 16 And he
city shall the dogs eat; and shall give Israel up because
him that dieth in the field of the sins of Jeroboam, who
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did sin, and who made Is- choose out of all the tribes
rael to sin. 17 And Jer- of Israel, to put his name
oboam’s wife arose, and de- there. And his mother’s
parted, and came to Tirzah: name was Naamah an Am-
and when she came to the monitess. 22 And Judah did
threshold of the door, the evil in the sight of the
child died; 18 And they buried Lord, and they provoked
him; and all Israel mourned him to jealousy with their
for him, according to the sins which they had commit-
word of the Lord, which ted, above all that their fa-
he spake by the hand of his thers had done. 23 For they
servant Ahijah the prophet. also built them high places,
19 And the rest of the acts and images, and groves, on
of Jeroboam, how he warred, every high hill, and under ev-
and how he reigned, be- ery green tree. 24 And there
hold, they are written in were also sodomites in the
the book of the chronicles of land: and they did according
the kings of Israel. 20 And to all the abominations of the
the days which Jeroboam nations which the Lord cast
reigned were two and twenty out before the children of Is-
years: and he slept with rael. 25 And it came to pass
his fathers, and Nadab his in the fifth year of king Re-
son reigned in his stead. hoboam, that Shishak king
21 And Rehoboam the son of of Egypt came up against
Solomon reigned in Judah. Jerusalem: 26 And he took
Rehoboam was forty and one away the treasures of the
years old when he began to house of the Lord, and the
reign, and he reigned sev- treasures of the king’s house;
enteen years in Jerusalem, he even took away all: and
the city which the Lord did he took away all the shields
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ing, 19 There is a league be- rest of all the acts of Asa, and
tween me and thee, and be- all his might, and all that he
tween my father and thy fa- did, and the cities which he
ther: behold, I have sent built, are they not written in
unto thee a present of sil- the book of the chronicles of
ver and gold; come and break the kings of Judah? Never-
thy league with Baasha king theless in the time of his old
of Israel, that he may de- age he was diseased in his
part from me. 20 So Ben- feet. 24 And Asa slept with
hadad hearkened unto king his fathers, and was buried
Asa, and sent the captains with his fathers in the city
of the hosts which he had of David his father: and Je-
against the cities of Israel, hoshaphat his son reigned in
and smote Ijon, and Dan, his stead. 25 And Nadab the
and Abelbethmaachah, and son of Jeroboam began to
all Cinneroth, with all the reign over Israel in the sec-
land of Naphtali. 21 And it ond year of Asa king of Ju-
came to pass, when Baasha dah, and reigned over Israel
heard thereof, that he left two years. 26 And he did evil
off building of Ramah, and in the sight of the Lord, and
dwelt in Tirzah. 22 Then walked in the way of his fa-
king Asa made a proclama- ther, and in his sin where-
tion throughout all Judah; with he made Israel to sin.
none was exempted: and 27 And Baasha the son of Ahi-
the air eat. 5 Now the rest Arza steward of his house in
of the acts of Baasha, and Tirzah. 10 And Zimri went
what he did, and his might, in and smote him, and killed
are they not written in the him, in the twenty and sev-
book of the chronicles of the enth year of Asa king of Ju-
kings of Israel? 6 So Baasha dah, and reigned in his stead.
slept with his fathers, and 11 And it came to pass, when
waste, neither shall the cruse unto the Lord, and said, O
of oil fail, until the day that Lord my God, hast thou
the Lord sendeth rain upon also brought evil upon the
the earth. 15 And she went widow with whom I sojourn,
and did according to the say- by slaying her son? 21 And
ing of Elijah: and she, and he stretched himself upon the
he, and her house, did eat child three times, and cried
many days. 16 And the bar- unto the Lord, and said, O
rel of meal wasted not, nei- Lord my God, I pray thee,
ther did the cruse of oil fail, let this child’s soul come into
according to the word of the him again. 22 And the Lord
Lord, which he spake by Eli- heard the voice of Elijah; and
jah. 17 And it came to pass the soul of the child came
after these things, that the into him again, and he re-
son of the woman, the mis- vived. 23 And Elijah took
tress of the house, fell sick; the child, and brought him
and his sickness was so sore, down out of the chamber into
that there was no breath left the house, and delivered him
in him. 18 And she said unto unto his mother: and Eli-
Elijah, What have I to do jah said, See, thy son liveth.
with thee, O thou man of 24 And the woman said to Eli-
God? art thou come unto jah, Now by this I know that
me to call my sin to remem- thou art a man of God, and
brance, and to slay my son? that the word of the Lord in
19 And he said unto her, Give thy mouth is truth.
me thy son. And he took him
out of her bosom, and car-
ried him up into a loft, where Chapter 18
he abode, and laid him upon
his own bed. 20 And he cried And it came to pass after
many days, that the word
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they cried aloud, and cut der, and cut the bullock in
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pieces, and laid him on the rifice, and the wood, and the
wood, and said, Fill four bar- stones, and the dust, and
rels with water, and pour it licked up the water that was
on the burnt sacrifice, and in the trench. 39 And when
on the wood. 34 And he said, all the people saw it, they fell
Do it the second time. And on their faces: and they said,
they did it the second time. The Lord, he is the God;
And he said, Do it the third the Lord, he is the God.
time. And they did it the 40 And Elijah said unto them,
8 And he arose, and did eat but the Lord was not in
and drink, and went in the the earthquake: 12 And af-
strength of that meat forty ter the earthquake a fire; but
days and forty nights unto the Lord was not in the
Horeb the mount of God. fire: and after the fire a
9 And he came thither unto still small voice. 13 And it
a cave, and lodged there; was so, when Elijah heard
and, behold, the word of the it, that he wrapped his face
Lord came to him, and he in his mantle, and went out,
said unto him, What doest and stood in the entering
thou here, Elijah? 10 And in of the cave. And, be-
he said, I have been very hold, there came a voice unto
jealous for the Lord God him, and said, What doest
of hosts: for the children thou here, Elijah? 14 And he
of Israel have forsaken thy said, I have been very jeal-
covenant, thrown down thine ous for the Lord God of
altars, and slain thy prophets hosts: because the children
with the sword; and I, even of Israel have forsaken thy
I only, am left; and they covenant, thrown down thine
seek my life, to take it away. altars, and slain thy prophets
11 And he said, Go forth, and with the sword; and I, even
stand upon the mount be- I only, am left; and they
fore the Lord. And, behold, seek my life, to take it away.
the Lord passed by, and a 15 And the Lord said unto
great and strong wind rent him, Go, return on thy way
the mountains, and brake in to the wilderness of Damas-
pieces the rocks before the cus: and when thou comest,
Lord; but the Lord was anoint Hazael to be king over
not in the wind: and af- Syria: 16 And Jehu the son
ter the wind an earthquake; of Nimshi shalt thou anoint
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messengers came again, and All that thou didst send for
said, Thus speaketh Ben- to thy servant at the first I
hadad, saying, Although I will do: but this thing I may
have sent unto thee, saying, not do. And the messen-
Thou shalt deliver me thy sil- gers departed, and brought
ver, and thy gold, and thy him word again. 10 And Ben-
wives, and thy children; 6 Yet hadad sent unto him, and
I will send my servants unto said, The gods do so unto
thee to morrow about this me, and more also, if the
time, and they shall search dust of Samaria shall suffice
thine house, and the houses for handfuls for all the peo-
of thy servants; and it shall ple that follow me. 11 And
be, that whatsoever is pleas- the king of Israel answered
ant in thine eyes, they shall and said, Tell him, Let not
put it in their hand, and him that girdeth on his har-
take it away. 7 Then the king ness boast himself as he that
of Israel called all the el- putteth it off. 12 And it
two: and after them he num- out, and smote the horses
bered all the people, even all and chariots, and slew the
the children of Israel, being Syrians with a great slaugh-
seven thousand. 16 And they ter. 22 And the prophet came
went out at noon. But Ben- to the king of Israel, and said
hadad was drinking himself unto him, Go, strengthen
drunk in the pavilions, he thyself, and mark, and see
and the kings, the thirty and what thou doest: for at the
two kings that helped him. return of the year the king
17 And the young men of of Syria will come up against
the princes of the provinces thee. 23 And the servants of
went out first; and Ben- the king of Syria said unto
hadad sent out, and they him, Their gods are gods of
told him, saying, There are the hills; therefore they were
men come out of Samaria. stronger than we; but let
18 And he said, Whether they us fight against them in the
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shalt make streets for thee he cried unto the king: and
in Damascus, as my father he said, Thy servant went out
made in Samaria. Then said into the midst of the battle;
Ahab, I will send thee away and, behold, a man turned
with this covenant. So he aside, and brought a man
made a covenant with him, unto me, and said, Keep this
and sent him away. 35 And man: if by any means he be
a certain man of the sons missing, then shall thy life be
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for his life, or else thou shalt Samaria. 2 And Ahab spake
pay a talent of silver. 40 And unto Naboth, saying, Give
as thy servant was busy here me thy vineyard, that I may
and there, he was gone. And have it for a garden of herbs,
the king of Israel said unto because it is near unto my
him, So shall thy judgment house: and I will give thee
be; thyself hast decided it. for it a better vineyard than
41 And he hasted, and took it; or, if it seem good to thee,
the ashes away from his face; I will give thee the worth of
and the king of Israel dis- it in money. 3 And Naboth
cerned him that he was of the said to Ahab, The Lord for-
prophets. 42 And he said unto bid it me, that I should give
him, Thus saith the Lord, the inheritance of my fathers
Because thou hast let go out unto thee. 4 And Ahab came
of thy hand a man whom I into his house heavy and dis-
appointed to utter destruc- pleased because of the word
tion, therefore thy life shall which Naboth the Jezreelite
go for his life, and thy peo- had spoken to him: for he
ple for his people. 43 And had said, I will not give thee
the king of Israel went to his the inheritance of my fathers.
house heavy and displeased, And he laid him down upon
and came to Samaria. his bed, and turned away
his face, and would eat no
bread. 5 But Jezebel his wife
Chapter 21 came to him, and said unto
him, Why is thy spirit so sad,
And it came to pass after that thou eatest no bread?
these things, that Naboth 6 And he said unto her, Be-
shalt speak unto him, say- the Lord, saying, The dogs
ing, Thus saith the Lord, shall eat Jezebel by the wall
Hast thou killed, and also of Jezreel. 24 Him that dieth
taken possession? And thou of Ahab in the city the dogs
shalt speak unto him, say- shall eat; and him that di-
ing, Thus saith the Lord, In eth in the field shall the fowls
the place where dogs licked of the air eat. 25 But there
the blood of Naboth shall was none like unto Ahab,
dogs lick thy blood, even which did sell himself to work
thine. 20 And Ahab said to wickedness in the sight of the
Elijah, Hast thou found me, Lord, whom Jezebel his wife
O mine enemy? And he an- stirred up. 26 And he did
swered, I have found thee: very abominably in following
because thou hast sold thy- idols, according to all things
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man, Micaiah the son of Im- that was gone to call Micaiah
lah, by whom we may en- spake unto him, saying, Be-
quire of the Lord: but I hate hold now, the words of the
him; for he doth not proph- prophets declare good unto
esy good concerning me, the king with one mouth:
but evil. And Jehoshaphat let thy word, I pray thee,
said, Let not the king say be like the word of one of
so. 9 Then the king of Israel them, and speak that which
called an officer, and said, is good. 14 And Micaiah said,
Hasten hither Micaiah the As the Lord liveth, what
son of Imlah. 10 And the king the Lord saith unto me,
of Israel and Jehoshaphat that will I speak. 15 So he
the king of Judah sat each came to the king. And the
on his throne, having put king said unto him, Micaiah,
on their robes, in a void shall we go against Ramoth-
place in the entrance of the gilead to battle, or shall we
gate of Samaria; and all the forbear? And he answered
prophets prophesied before him, Go, and prosper: for
them. 11 And Zedekiah the the Lord shall deliver it into
son of Chenaanah made him the hand of the king. 16 And
horns of iron: and he said, the king said unto him, How
Thus saith the Lord, With many times shall I adjure
these shalt thou push the thee that thou tell me noth-
Syrians, until thou have con- ing but that which is true
sumed them. 12 And all the in the name of the Lord?
prophets prophesied so, say- 17 And he said, I saw all Israel
the king of Israel and Je- and smote the king of Is-
hoshaphat the king of Judah rael between the joints of the
went up to Ramothgilead. harness: wherefore he said
30 And the king of Israel said unto the driver of his chariot,
unto Jehoshaphat, I will dis- Turn thine hand, and carry
guise myself, and enter into me out of the host; for I am
the battle; but put thou on wounded. 35 And the battle
thy robes. And the king of increased that day: and the
Israel disguised himself, and king was stayed up in his
went into the battle. 31 But chariot against the Syrians,
the king of Syria commanded and died at even: and the
his thirty and two captains blood ran out of the wound
that had rule over his char- into the midst of the chariot.
iots, saying, Fight neither 36 And there went a procla-
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down from that bed on which swered and said unto him,
thou art gone up, but shalt O man of God, thus hath
surely die. 7 And he said the king said, Come down
unto them, What manner quickly. 12 And Elijah an-
of man was he which came swered and said unto them,
up to meet you, and told If I be a man of God, let
you these words? 8 And they fire come down from heaven,
answered him, He was an and consume thee and thy
hairy man, and girt with a fifty. And the fire of God
girdle of leather about his came down from heaven, and
loins. And he said, It is Eli- consumed him and his fifty.
jah the Tishbite. 9 Then the 13 And he sent again a cap-
king sent unto him a captain tain of the third fifty with his
of fifty with his fifty. And fifty. And the third captain
he went up to him: and, be- of fifty went up, and came
hold, he sat on the top of and fell on his knees before
an hill. And he spake unto Elijah, and besought him,
him, Thou man of God, the and said unto him, O man
king hath said, Come down. of God, I pray thee, let my
10 And Elijah answered and life, and the life of these fifty
said to the captain of fifty, If thy servants, be precious in
I be a man of God, then let thy sight. 14 Behold, there
fire come down from heaven, came fire down from heaven,
and consume thee and thy and burnt up the two cap-
fifty. And there came down tains of the former fifties
fire from heaven, and con- with their fifties: therefore
sumed him and his fifty. let my life now be precious
11 Again also he sent unto in thy sight. 15 And the angel
him another captain of fifty of the Lord said unto Eli-
with his fifty. And he an- jah, Go down with him: be
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the Lord will take away thy hast asked a hard thing: nev-
master from thy head to day? ertheless, if thou see me when
And he answered, Yea, I I am taken from thee, it shall
know it; hold ye your peace. be so unto thee; but if not,
6 And Elijah said unto him, it shall not be so. 11 And
Tarry, I pray thee, here; for it came to pass, as they
the Lord hath sent me to still went on, and talked,
Jordan. And he said, As that, behold, there appeared
the Lord liveth, and as thy a chariot of fire, and horses
soul liveth, I will not leave of fire, and parted them both
thee. And they two went asunder; and Elijah went up
on. 7 And fifty men of the by a whirlwind into heaven.
sons of the prophets went, 12 And Elisha saw it, and he
they two went over on dry of Elijah that fell from him,
ground. 9 And it came to and went back, and stood by
pass, when they were gone the bank of Jordan; 14 And
over, that Elijah said unto he took the mantle of Elijah
Elisha, Ask what I shall do that fell from him, and smote
for thee, before I be taken the waters, and said, Where
away from thee. And Elisha is the Lord God of Elijah?
said, I pray thee, let a double and when he also had smit-
portion of thy spirit be upon ten the waters, they parted
me. 10 And he said, Thou hither and thither: and El-
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unto him, Behold now, there spring of the waters, and cast
be with thy servants fifty the salt in there, and said,
strong men; let them go, Thus saith the Lord, I have
we pray thee, and seek thy healed these waters; there
master: lest peradventure shall not be from thence any
the Spirit of the Lord hath more death or barren land.
taken him up, and cast him 22 So the waters were healed
two she bears out of the sand rams, with the wool.
wood, and tare forty and two 5 But it came to pass, when
Alas! that the Lord hath stand, surely, were it not that
called these three kings to- I regard the presence of Je-
gether, to deliver them into hoshaphat the king of Ju-
the hand of Moab! 11 But Je- dah, I would not look toward
hoshaphat said, Is there not thee, nor see thee. 15 But now
here a prophet of the Lord, bring me a minstrel. And it
that we may enquire of the came to pass, when the min-
Lord by him? And one of strel played, that the hand
the king of Israel’s servants of the Lord came upon him.
answered and said, Here is 16 And he said, Thus saith
ing was offered, that, behold, filled it; and they stopped
there came water by the way all the wells of water, and
of Edom, and the country felled all the good trees: only
was filled with water. 21 And in Kirharaseth left they the
when all the Moabites heard stones thereof; howbeit the
that the kings were come up slingers went about it, and
to fight against them, they smote it. 26 And when the
gathered all that were able to king of Moab saw that the
put on armour, and upward, battle was too sore for him,
and stood in the border. he took with him seven hun-
22 And they rose up early in dred men that drew swords,
the morning, and the sun to break through even unto
shone upon the water, and the king of Edom: but they
the Moabites saw the water could not. 27 Then he took
on the other side as red as his eldest son that should
blood: 23 And they said, This have reigned in his stead, and
is blood: the kings are surely offered him for a burnt offer-
slain, and they have smitten ing upon the wall. And there
one another: now therefore, was great indignation against
Moab, to the spoil. 24 And Israel: and they departed
when they came to the camp from him, and returned to
of Israel, the Israelites rose their own land.
up and smote the Moabites,
so that they fled before them:
but they went forward smit- Chapter 4
ing the Moabites, even in
their country. 25 And they Now there cried a certain
beat down the cities, and woman of the wives of the
on every good piece of land sons of the prophets unto El-
cast every man his stone, and isha, saying, Thy servant my
husband is dead; and thou
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knowest that thy servant did 7 Then she came and told the
fear the Lord: and the cred- man of God. And he said,
itor is come to take unto him Go, sell the oil, and pay thy
my two sons to be bondmen. debt, and live thou and thy
2 And Elisha said unto her, children of the rest. 8 And
What shall I do for thee? tell it fell on a day, that Elisha
me, what hast thou in the passed to Shunem, where was
house? And she said, Thine a great woman; and she con-
handmaid hath not any thing strained him to eat bread.
in the house, save a pot of oil. And so it was, that as oft as
3 Then he said, Go, borrow he passed by, he turned in
thee vessels abroad of all thy thither to eat bread. 9 And
neighbours, even empty ves- she said unto her husband,
sels; borrow not a few. 4 And Behold now, I perceive that
when thou art come in, thou this is an holy man of God,
shalt shut the door upon thee which passeth by us contin-
and upon thy sons, and shalt ually. 10 Let us make a lit-
pour out into all those ves- tle chamber, I pray thee, on
sels, and thou shalt set aside the wall; and let us set for
that which is full. 5 So she him there a bed, and a table,
went from him, and shut the and a stool, and a candle-
door upon her and upon her stick: and it shall be, when
sons, who brought the vessels he cometh to us, that he shall
to her; and she poured out. turn in thither. 11 And it
6 And it came to pass, when fell on a day, that he came
the vessels were full, that she thither, and he turned into
said unto her son, Bring me the chamber, and lay there.
yet a vessel. And he said 12 And he said to Gehazi his
and fro; and went up, and it came to pass, as they were
stretched himself upon him: eating of the pottage, that
and the child sneezed seven they cried out, and said, O
times, and the child opened thou man of God, there is
his eyes. 36 And he called Ge- death in the pot. And they
hazi, and said, Call this Shu- could not eat thereof. 41 But
nammite. So he called her. he said, Then bring meal.
And when she was come in And he cast it into the pot;
unto him, he said, Take up and he said, Pour out for
thy son. 37 Then she went the people, that they may
in, and fell at his feet, and eat. And there was no harm
bowed herself to the ground, in the pot. 42 And there
with his horses and with his and be clean? 14 Then went
chariot, and stood at the he down, and dipped him-
door of the house of Elisha. self seven times in Jordan,
10 And Elisha sent a messen- according to the saying of
ger unto him, saying, Go the man of God: and his
and wash in Jordan seven flesh came again like unto
times, and thy flesh shall the flesh of a little child,
come again to thee, and thou and he was clean. 15 And
shalt be clean. 11 But Naa- he returned to the man of
man was wroth, and went God, he and all his com-
away, and said, Behold, I pany, and came, and stood
thought, He will surely come before him: and he said, Be-
out to me, and stand, and hold, now I know that there
call on the name of the Lord is no God in all the earth,
his God, and strike his hand but in Israel: now therefore,
over the place, and recover I pray thee, take a bless-
the leper. 12 Are not Abana ing of thy servant. 16 But he
and Pharpar, rivers of Dam- said, As the Lord liveth, be-
ascus, better than all the wa- fore whom I stand, I will re-
ters of Israel? may I not ceive none. And he urged
wash in them, and be clean? him to take it; but he re-
So he turned and went away fused. 17 And Naaman said,
in a rage. 13 And his ser- Shall there not then, I pray
vants came near, and spake thee, be given to thy servant
unto him, and said, My fa- two mules’ burden of earth?
ther, if the prophet had bid for thy servant will hence-
thee do some great thing, forth offer neither burnt of-
wouldest thou not have done fering nor sacrifice unto other
it? how much rather then, gods, but unto the Lord.
when he saith to thee, Wash, 18 In this thing the Lord par-
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Syria gathered all his host, the king heard the words of
and went up, and besieged the woman, that he rent his
Samaria. 25 And there was clothes; and he passed by
a great famine in Samaria: upon the wall, and the peo-
and, behold, they besieged it, ple looked, and, behold, he
until an ass’s head was sold had sackcloth within upon
for fourscore pieces of silver, his flesh. 31 Then he said,
and the fourth part of a cab God do so and more also to
of dove’s dung for five pieces me, if the head of Elisha the
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no man there. 6 For the Lord the morning light, some mis-
had made the host of the Syr- chief will come upon us: now
ians to hear a noise of char- therefore come, that we may
iots, and a noise of horses, go and tell the king’s house-
even the noise of a great host: hold. 10 So they came and
and they said one to another, called unto the porter of the
Lo, the king of Israel hath city: and they told them,
hired against us the kings of saying, We came to the camp
the Hittites, and the kings of the Syrians, and, behold,
of the Egyptians, to come there was no man there, nei-
upon us. 7 Wherefore they ther voice of man, but horses
arose and fled in the twilight, tied, and asses tied, and the
and left their tents, and their tents as they were. 11 And he
horses, and their asses, even called the porters; and they
the camp as it was, and fled told it to the king’s house
for their life. 8 And when within. 12 And the king arose
these lepers came to the ut- in the night, and said unto
termost part of the camp, his servants, I will now shew
they went into one tent, and you what the Syrians have
did eat and drink, and car- done to us. They know that
ried thence silver, and gold, we be hungry; therefore are
and raiment, and went and they gone out of the camp to
hid it; and came again, and hide themselves in the field,
entered into another tent, saying, When they come out
and carried thence also, and of the city, we shall catch
went and hid it. 9 Then they them alive, and get into the
said one to another, We do city. 13 And one of his ser-
not well: this day is a day vants answered and said, Let
of good tidings, and we hold some take, I pray thee, five
our peace: if we tarry till of the horses that remain,
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which are left in the city, (be- as the man of God had said,
hold, they are as all the mul- who spake when the king
titude of Israel that are left came down to him. 18 And
in it: behold, I say, they are it came to pass as the man
even as all the multitude of of God had spoken to the
the Israelites that are con- king, saying, Two measures
sumed:) and let us send and of barley for a shekel, and
see. 14 They took therefore a measure of fine flour for
two chariot horses; and the a shekel, shall be to morrow
king sent after the host of the about this time in the gate
Syrians, saying, Go and see. of Samaria: 19 And that lord
15 And they went after them answered the man of God,
unto Jordan: and, lo, all and said, Now, behold, if
the way was full of garments the Lord should make win-
and vessels, which the Syr- dows in heaven, might such
ians had cast away in their a thing be? And he said, Be-
haste. And the messengers hold, thou shalt see it with
returned, and told the king. thine eyes, but shalt not eat
16 And the people went out, thereof. 20 And so it fell out
and spoiled the tents of the unto him: for the people
Syrians. So a measure of fine trode upon him in the gate,
flour was sold for a shekel, and he died.
and two measures of barley
for a shekel, according to the
word of the Lord. 17 And Chapter 8
the king appointed the lord
on whose hand he leaned to Then spake Elisha unto the
have the charge of the gate: woman, whose son he had re-
and the people trode upon stored to life, saying, Arise,
him in the gate, and he died, and go thou and thine house-
hold, and sojourn whereso-
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ever thou canst sojourn: for woman, and this is her son,
the Lord hath called for a whom Elisha restored to life.
famine; and it shall also come 6 And when the king asked
upon the land seven years. the woman, she told him. So
2 And the woman arose, and the king appointed unto her
did after the saying of the a certain officer, saying, Re-
man of God: and she went store all that was hers, and
with her household, and so- all the fruits of the field since
journed in the land of the the day that she left the land,
Philistines seven years. 3 And even until now. 7 And El-
it came to pass at the seven isha came to Damascus; and
years’ end, that the woman Benhadad the king of Syria
returned out of the land of was sick; and it was told
the Philistines: and she went him, saying, The man of God
forth to cry unto the king is come hither. 8 And the
for her house and for her king said unto Hazael, Take
land. 4 And the king talked a present in thine hand, and
with Gehazi the servant of go, meet the man of God,
the man of God, saying, Tell and enquire of the Lord by
me, I pray thee, all the great him, saying, Shall I recover
things that Elisha hath done. of this disease? 9 So Hazael
5 And it came to pass, as he went to meet him, and took a
was telling the king how he present with him, even of ev-
had restored a dead body ery good thing of Damascus,
to life, that, behold, the forty camels’ burden, and
woman, whose son he had re- came and stood before him,
stored to life, cried to the and said, Thy son Benhadad
king for her house and for king of Syria hath sent me to
her land. And Gehazi said, thee, saying, Shall I recover
My lord, O king, this is the of this disease? 10 And Elisha
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out there Jehu the son of Je- house of Ahab thy master,
hoshaphat the son of Nimshi, that I may avenge the blood
and go in, and make him of my servants the prophets,
arise up from among his and the blood of all the ser-
brethren, and carry him to vants of the Lord, at the
an inner chamber; 3 Then hand of Jezebel. 8 For the
take the box of oil, and whole house of Ahab shall
pour it on his head, and perish: and I will cut off
say, Thus saith the Lord, from Ahab him that pis-
I have anointed thee king seth against the wall, and
over Israel. Then open the him that is shut up and left
door, and flee, and tarry not. in Israel: 9 And I will make
4 So the young man, even the house of Ahab like the
the young man the prophet, house of Jeroboam the son
went to Ramothgilead. 5 And of Nebat, and like the house
when he came, behold, the of Baasha the son of Ahi-
captains of the host were jah: 10 And the dogs shall
sitting; and he said, I have eat Jezebel in the portion of
an errand to thee, O cap- Jezreel, and there shall be
tain. And Jehu said, Unto none to bury her. And he
which of all us? And he said, opened the door, and fled.
To thee, O captain. 6 And 11 Then Jehu came forth to
he arose, and went into the the servants of his lord: and
house; and he poured the oil one said unto him, Is all
on his head, and said unto well? wherefore came this
him, Thus saith the Lord mad fellow to thee? And
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up, and cast him in the por- of Joram the son of Ahab
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the gate, she said, Had Zimri shall be as dung upon the
peace, who slew his master? face of the field in the por-
32 And he lifted up his face to tion of Jezreel; so that they
the window, and said, Who shall not say, This is Jezebel.
is on my side? who? And
there looked out to him two
or three eunuchs. 33 And he Chapter 10
said, Throw her down. So
they threw her down: and And Ahab had seventy sons
some of her blood was sprin- in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
kled on the wall, and on the letters, and sent to Samaria,
horses: and he trode her unto the rulers of Jezreel, to
under foot. 34 And when the elders, and to them that
he was come in, he did eat brought up Ahab’s children,
and drink, and said, Go, see saying, 2 Now as soon as this
now this cursed woman, and letter cometh to you, see-
bury her: for she is a king’s ing your master’s sons are
daughter. 35 And they went with you, and there are with
to bury her: but they found you chariots and horses, a
no more of her than the skull, fenced city also, and ar-
and the feet, and the palms mour; 3 Look even out the
of her hands. 36 Wherefore best and meetest of your
they came again, and told master’s sons, and set him
on his father’s throne, and
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fight for your master’s house. and put their heads in bas-
4 But they were exceedingly kets, and sent him them to
afraid, and said, Behold, two Jezreel. 8 And there came
kings stood not before him: a messenger, and told him,
how then shall we stand? saying, They have brought
5 And he that was over the the heads of the king’s sons.
house, and he that was over And he said, Lay ye them in
the city, the elders also, and two heaps at the entering in
the bringers up of the chil- of the gate until the morn-
dren, sent to Jehu, saying, ing. 9 And it came to pass
We are thy servants, and will in the morning, that he went
do all that thou shalt bid out, and stood, and said to
us; we will not make any all the people, Ye be righ-
king: do thou that which is teous: behold, I conspired
good in thine eyes. 6 Then against my master, and slew
he wrote a letter the second him: but who slew all these?
time to them, saying, If ye be 10 Know now that there shall
at the gate behind the guard: man with his weapons in his
so shall ye keep the watch of hand, round about the king,
the house, that it be not bro- from the right corner of the
ken down. 7 And two parts temple to the left corner of
of all you that go forth on the temple, along by the al-
the sabbath, even they shall tar and the temple. 12 And
keep the watch of the house he brought forth the king’s
of the Lord about the king. son, and put the crown upon
8 And ye shall compass the him, and gave him the tes-
king round about, every man timony; and they made him
with his weapons in his hand: king, and anointed him; and
and he that cometh within they clapped their hands,
the ranges, let him be slain: and said, God save the king.
and be ye with the king as he 13 And when Athaliah heard
lar, as the manner was, and it down; his altars and his
the princes and the trum- images brake they in pieces
peters by the king, and all thoroughly, and slew Mat-
the people of the land re- tan the priest of Baal before
joiced, and blew with trum- the altars. And the priest
pets: and Athaliah rent her appointed officers over the
clothes, and cried, Treason, house of the Lord. 19 And
Treason. 15 But Jehoiada the he took the rulers over hun-
priest commanded the cap- dreds, and the captains, and
tains of the hundreds, the the guard, and all the people
officers of the host, and said of the land; and they brought
unto them, Have her forth down the king from the house
without the ranges: and him of the Lord, and came by
that followeth her kill with the way of the gate of the
the sword. For the priest guard to the king’s house.
had said, Let her not be slain And he sat on the throne
in the house of the Lord. of the kings. 20 And all the
16 And they laid hands on people of the land rejoiced,
her; and she went by the way and the city was in quiet:
by the which the horses came and they slew Athaliah with
into the king’s house: and the sword beside the king’s
there was she slain. 17 And house. 21 Seven years old was
Jehoiada made a covenant Jehoash when he began to
between the Lord and the reign.
king and the people, that
they should be the Lord’S
people; between the king also Chapter 12
and the people. 18 And all the
people of the land went into In the seventh year of Jehu
the house of Baal, and brake Jehoash began to reign; and
forty years reigned he in
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In the three and twentieth not from the sins of the house
year of Joash the son of of Jeroboam, who made Is-
Ahaziah king of Judah Je- rael sin, but walked therein:
hoahaz the son of Jehu be- and there remained the grove
gan to reign over Israel in also in Samaria.) 7 Neither
Samaria, and reigned seven- did he leave of the people
teen years. 2 And he did that to Jehoahaz but fifty horse-
which was evil in the sight of men, and ten chariots, and
the Lord, and followed the ten thousand footmen; for
sins of Jeroboam the son of the king of Syria had de-
Nebat, which made Israel to stroyed them, and had made
sin; he departed not there- them like the dust by thresh-
from. 3 And the anger of the ing. 8 Now the rest of the acts
Lord was kindled against Is- of Jehoahaz, and all that he
rael, and he delivered them did, and his might, are they
into the hand of Hazael king not written in the book of the
of Syria, and into the hand of chronicles of the kings of Is-
Benhadad the son of Hazael,
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Judah began Jehoash the son Take bow and arrows. And
of Jehoahaz to reign over Is- he took unto him bow and
rael in Samaria, and reigned arrows. 16 And he said to the
sixteen years. 11 And he did king of Israel, Put thine hand
that which was evil in the upon the bow. And he put
sight of the Lord; he de- his hand upon it: and El-
parted not from all the sins of isha put his hands upon the
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, king’s hands. 17 And he said,
who made Israel sin: but he Open the window eastward.
walked therein. 12 And the And he opened it. Then El-
rest of the acts of Joash, and isha said, Shoot. And he
all that he did, and his might shot. And he said, The ar-
wherewith he fought against row of the Lord’S deliver-
Amaziah king of Judah, are ance, and the arrow of deliv-
they not written in the book erance from Syria: for thou
of the chronicles of the kings shalt smite the Syrians in
of Israel? 13 And Joash slept Aphek, till thou have con-
with his fathers; and Jer- sumed them. 18 And he said,
oboam sat upon his throne: Take the arrows. And he
and Joash was buried in took them. And he said unto
Samaria with the kings of Is- the king of Israel, Smite upon
rael. 14 Now Elisha was fallen the ground. And he smote
sick of his sickness whereof he thrice, and stayed. 19 And
died. And Joash the king of the man of God was wroth
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ther did. 4 Howbeit the high face. 9 And Jehoash the king
places were not taken away: of Israel sent to Amaziah
as yet the people did sacri- king of Judah, saying, The
fice and burnt incense on the thistle that was in Lebanon
high places. 5 And it came to sent to the cedar that was
pass, as soon as the kingdom in Lebanon, saying, Give thy
was confirmed in his hand, daughter to my son to wife:
that he slew his servants and there passed by a wild
which had slain the king his beast that was in Lebanon,
father. 6 But the children of and trode down the thistle.
the murderers he slew not: 10 Thou hast indeed smitten
the rest of the acts of Je- dah took Azariah, which was
hoash which he did, and his sixteen years old, and made
might, and how he fought him king instead of his fa-
with Amaziah king of Ju- ther Amaziah. 22 He built
dah, are they not written Elath, and restored it to Ju-
in the book of the chroni- dah, after that the king slept
cles of the kings of Israel? with his fathers. 23 In the fif-
16 And Jehoash slept with his teenth year of Amaziah the
fathers, and was buried in son of Joash king of Judah
Samaria with the kings of Is- Jeroboam the son of Joash
rael; and Jeroboam his son king of Israel began to reign
reigned in his stead. 17 And in Samaria, and reigned forty
Amaziah the son of Joash and one years. 24 And he
king of Judah lived after the did that which was evil in
death of Jehoash son of Je- the sight of the Lord: he
hoahaz king of Israel fifteen departed not from all the
years. 18 And the rest of the sins of Jeroboam the son of
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king of Judah Pekah the son the second year of Pekah the
of Remaliah began to reign son of Remaliah king of Is-
over Israel in Samaria, and rael began Jotham the son
reigned twenty years. 28 And of Uzziah king of Judah to
he did that which was evil reign. 33 Five and twenty
from the doors of the temple but vain words,) I have coun-
of the Lord, and from the sel and strength for the war.
pillars which Hezekiah king Now on whom dost thou
of Judah had overlaid, and trust, that thou rebellest
gave it to the king of Assyria. against me? 21 Now, behold,
17 And the king of Assyria thou trustest upon the staff
sent Tartan and Rabsaris of this bruised reed, even
and Rabshakeh from Lachish upon Egypt, on which if a
to king Hezekiah with a great man lean, it will go into his
host against Jerusalem. And hand, and pierce it: so is
they went up and came to Pharaoh king of Egypt unto
Jerusalem. And when they all that trust on him. 22 But
were come up, they came if ye say unto me, We trust
and stood by the conduit of in the Lord our God: is not
the upper pool, which is in that he, whose high places
the highway of the fuller’s and whose altars Hezekiah
field. 18 And when they had hath taken away, and hath
called to the king, there came said to Judah and Jerusalem,
out to them Eliakim the son Ye shall worship before this
of Hilkiah, which was over altar in Jerusalem? 23 Now
the household, and Shebna therefore, I pray thee, give
the scribe, and Joah the pledges to my lord the king
son of Asaph the recorder. of Assyria, and I will deliver
19 And Rabshakeh said unto thee two thousand horses, if
them, Speak ye now to thou be able on thy part to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the set riders upon them. 24 How
great king, the king of As- then wilt thou turn away the
syria, What confidence is face of one captain of the
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thou hast made heaven and ing him; The virgin the
earth. 16 Lord, bow down daughter of Zion hath de-
thine ear, and hear: open, spised thee, and laughed thee
Lord, thine eyes, and see: to scorn; the daughter of
and hear the words of Sen- Jerusalem hath shaken her
nacherib, which hath sent head at thee. 22 Whom hast
him to reproach the living thou reproached and blas-
God. 17 Of a truth, Lord, phemed? and against whom
the kings of Assyria have hast thou exalted thy voice,
destroyed the nations and and lifted up thine eyes on
their lands, 18 And have cast high? even against the Holy
their gods into the fire: for One of Israel. 23 By thy mes-
they were no gods, but the sengers thou hast reproached
work of men’s hands, wood the Lord, and hast said,
and stone: therefore they With the multitude of my
have destroyed them. 19 Now chariots I am come up to
therefore, O Lord our God, the height of the mountains,
I beseech thee, save thou us to the sides of Lebanon, and
out of his hand, that all the will cut down the tall cedar
kingdoms of the earth may trees thereof, and the choice
know that thou art the Lord fir trees thereof: and I will
God, even thou only. 20 Then enter into the lodgings of his
Isaiah the son of Amoz sent borders, and into the for-
to Hezekiah, saying, Thus est of his Carmel. 24 I have
saith the Lord God of Israel, digged and drunk strange
That which thou hast prayed waters, and with the sole
to me against Sennacherib of my feet have I dried up
king of Assyria I have heard. all the rivers of besieged
21 This is the word that the places. 25 Hast thou not
done it, and of ancient times sow ye, and reap, and plant
that I have formed it? now vineyards, and eat the fruits
have I brought it to pass, thereof. 30 And the remnant
that thou shouldest be to that is escaped of the house
lay waste fenced cities into of Judah shall yet again take
ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore root downward, and bear
their inhabitants were of fruit upward. 31 For out of
small power, they were dis- Jerusalem shall go forth a
mayed and confounded; they remnant, and they that es-
were as the grass of the field, cape out of mount Zion: the
and as the green herb, as the zeal of the Lord of hosts
grass on the housetops, and shall do this. 32 Therefore
as corn blasted before it be thus saith the Lord concern-
grown up. 27 But I know thy ing the king of Assyria, He
abode, and thy going out, shall not come into this city,
and thy coming in, and thy nor shoot an arrow there, nor
rage against me. 28 Because come before it with shield,
thy rage against me and thy nor cast a bank against it.
tumult is come up into mine 33 By the way that he came,
and five thousand: and when ber now how I have walked
they arose early in the morn- before thee in truth and with
ing, behold, they were all a perfect heart, and have
dead corpses. 36 So Sen- done that which is good in
nacherib king of Assyria de- thy sight. And Hezekiah
parted, and went and re- wept sore. 4 And it came to
turned, and dwelt at Nin- pass, afore Isaiah was gone
eveh. 37 And it came to out into the middle court,
pass, as he was worshipping that the word of the Lord
in the house of Nisroch his came to him, saying, 5 Turn
god, that Adrammelech and again, and tell Hezekiah the
Sharezer his sons smote him captain of my people, Thus
with the sword: and they es- saith the Lord, the God
caped into the land of Arme- of David thy father, I have
nia. And Esarhaddon his son heard thy prayer, I have seen
reigned in his stead. thy tears: behold, I will heal
thee: on the third day thou
shalt go up unto the house of
Chapter 20 the Lord. 6 And I will add
unto thy days fifteen years;
In those days was Hezekiah and I will deliver thee and
sick unto death. And the this city out of the hand of
prophet Isaiah the son of the king of Assyria; and I
Amoz came to him, and said will defend this city for mine
unto him, Thus saith the own sake, and for my ser-
Lord, Set thine house in or- vant David’s sake. 7 And Isa-
der; for thou shalt die, and iah said, Take a lump of figs.
not live. 2 Then he turned his And they took and laid it on
face to the wall, and prayed the boil, and he recovered.
unto the Lord, saying, 3 I be- 8 And Hezekiah said unto Isa-
iah, What shall be the sign things, the silver, and the
that the Lord will heal me, gold, and the spices, and
and that I shall go up into the precious ointment, and
the house of the Lord the all the house of his armour,
third day? 9 And Isaiah said, and all that was found in his
This sign shalt thou have of treasures: there was noth-
the Lord, that the Lord ing in his house, nor in all
will do the thing that he hath his dominion, that Hezekiah
spoken: shall the shadow go shewed them not. 14 Then
forward ten degrees, or go came Isaiah the prophet unto
back ten degrees? 10 And king Hezekiah, and said unto
Hezekiah answered, It is a him, What said these men?
light thing for the shadow and from whence came they
to go down ten degrees: unto thee? And Hezekiah
nay, but let the shadow re- said, They are come from
turn backward ten degrees. a far country, even from
11 And Isaiah the prophet Babylon. 15 And he said,
cried unto the Lord: and he What have they seen in thine
brought the shadow ten de- house? And Hezekiah an-
grees backward, by which it swered, All the things that
had gone down in the dial of are in mine house have they
Ahaz. 12 At that time Bero- seen: there is nothing among
dachbaladan, the son of Bal- my treasures that I have not
adan, king of Babylon, sent shewed them. 16 And Isaiah
letters and a present unto said unto Hezekiah, Hear the
Hezekiah: for he had heard word of the Lord. 17 Behold,
that Hezekiah had been sick. the days come, that all that
13 And Hezekiah hearkened is in thine house, and that
unto them, and shewed them which thy fathers have laid
all the house of his precious up in store unto this day,
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ter into the city, are they not house of the Lord, of which
written in the book of the the Lord said, In Jerusalem
chronicles of the kings of Ju- will I put my name. 5 And he
dah? 21 And Hezekiah slept built altars for all the host
with his fathers: and Man- of heaven in the two courts
asseh his son reigned in his of the house of the Lord.
stead. 6 And he made his son pass
innocent blood very much, in, and served the idols that
till he had filled Jerusalem his father served, and wor-
from one end to another; shipped them: 22 And he for-
beside his sin wherewith sook the Lord God of his
he made Judah to sin, in fathers, and walked not in
doing that which was evil the way of the Lord. 23 And
in the sight of the Lord. the servants of Amon con-
17 Now the rest of the acts spired against him, and slew
of Manasseh, and all that the king in his own house.
he did, and his sin that he 24 And the people of the land
sinned, are they not written slew all them that had con-
in the book of the chroni- spired against king Amon;
cles of the kings of Judah? and the people of the land
18 And Manasseh slept with made Josiah his son king in
his fathers, and was buried his stead. 25 Now the rest of
in the garden of his own the acts of Amon which he
house, in the garden of Uzza: did, are they not written in
and Amon his son reigned the book of the chronicles of
in his stead. 19 Amon was the kings of Judah? 26 And
twenty and two years old he was buried in his sepul-
when he began to reign, chre in the garden of Uzza:
and he reigned two years in and Josiah his son reigned in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s his stead.
name was Meshullemeth, the
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did that which was Chapter 22
evil in the sight of the Lord,
as his father Manasseh did. Josiah was eight years old
21 And he walked in all the when he began to reign, and
way that his father walked he reigned thirty and one
years in Jerusalem. And his
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thy clothes, and wept before lar, and made a covenant be-
me; I also have heard thee, fore the Lord, to walk after
saith the Lord. 20 Behold the Lord, and to keep his
therefore, I will gather thee commandments and his testi-
unto thy fathers, and thou monies and his statutes with
shalt be gathered into thy all their heart and all their
grave in peace; and thine soul, to perform the words of
eyes shall not see all the evil this covenant that were writ-
which I will bring upon this ten in this book. And all the
place. And they brought the people stood to the covenant.
king word again. 4 And the king commanded
tion of the Zidonians, and that that I see? And the men
for Chemosh the abomina- of the city told him, It is the
tion of the Moabites, and for sepulchre of the man of God,
Milcom the abomination of which came from Judah, and
the children of Ammon, did proclaimed these things that
the king defile. 14 And he thou hast done against the
brake in pieces the images, altar of Bethel. 18 And he
and cut down the groves, and said, Let him alone; let no
filled their places with the man move his bones. So
bones of men. 15 Moreover they let his bones alone, with
the altar that was at Bethel, the bones of the prophet that
and the high place which Jer- came out of Samaria. 19 And
oboam the son of Nebat, who all the houses also of the
made Israel to sin, had made, high places that were in the
both that altar and the high cities of Samaria, which the
place he brake down, and kings of Israel had made to
burned the high place, and provoke the Lord to anger,
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Josiah took away, and did put away, that he might per-
to them according to all the form the words of the law
acts that he had done in which were written in the
Bethel. 20 And he slew all book that Hilkiah the priest
the priests of the high places found in the house of the
that were there upon the al- Lord. 25 And like unto him
tars, and burned men’s bones was there no king before him,
upon them, and returned to that turned to the Lord
Jerusalem. 21 And the king with all his heart, and with
commanded all the people, all his soul, and with all
saying, Keep the passover his might, according to all
unto the Lord your God, the law of Moses; neither
as it is written in the book after him arose there any
of this covenant. 22 Surely like him. 26 Notwithstanding
there was not holden such the Lord turned not from
a passover from the days of the fierceness of his great
the judges that judged Is- wrath, wherewith his anger
rael, nor in all the days of was kindled against Judah,
the kings of Israel, nor of because of all the provoca-
the kings of Judah; 23 But in tions that Manasseh had pro-
the eighteenth year of king voked him withal. 27 And
Josiah, wherein this passover the Lord said, I will re-
was holden to the Lord in move Judah also out of my
Jerusalem. 24 Moreover the sight, as I have removed Is-
workers with familiar spirits, rael, and will cast off this city
and the wizards, and the im- Jerusalem which I have cho-
ages, and the idols, and all sen, and the house of which
the abominations that were I said, My name shall be
spied in the land of Judah there. 28 Now the rest of the
and in Jerusalem, did Josiah acts of Josiah, and all that
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the king’s house, and all the they ministered, took they
houses of Jerusalem, and ev- away. 15 And the firepans,
ery great man’s house burnt and the bowls, and such
he with fire. 10 And all the things as were of gold, in
army of the Chaldees, that gold, and of silver, in sil-
were with the captain of the ver, the captain of the guard
guard, brake down the walls took away. 16 The two pillars,
of Jerusalem round about. one sea, and the bases which
11 Now the rest of the people Solomon had made for the
that were left in the city, and house of the Lord; the brass
the fugitives that fell away of all these vessels was with-
to the king of Babylon, with out weight. 17 The height of
the remnant of the multi- the one pillar was eighteen
tude, did Nebuzaradan the cubits, and the chapiter upon
captain of the guard carry it was brass: and the height
away. 12 But the captain of of the chapiter three cu-
the guard left of the poor of bits; and the wreathen work,
the land to be vinedressers and pomegranates upon the
and husbandmen. 13 And the chapiter round about, all of
pillars of brass that were in brass: and like unto these
the house of the Lord, and had the second pillar with
the bases, and the brasen wreathen work. 18 And the
sea that was in the house of captain of the guard took
the Lord, did the Chaldees Seraiah the chief priest, and
break in pieces, and carried Zephaniah the second priest,
the brass of them to Baby- and the three keepers of
lon. 14 And the pots, and the door: 19 And out of the
the shovels, and the snuffers, city he took an officer that
and the spoons, and all the was set over the men of
vessels of brass wherewith war, and five men of them
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A Enosh, 2 Kenan,
Mahalaleel,
Jered, 3 Henoch,
Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Sheba, and Dedan. 10 And
Cush begat Nimrod: he be-
gan to be mighty upon the
earth. 11 And Mizraim be-
gat Ludim, and Anamim,
5 The sons of Japheth; and Lehabim, and Naph-
Gomer, and Magog, and tuhim, 12 And Pathrusim,
Madai, and Javan, and and Casluhim, (of whom
Tubal, and Meshech, and came the Philistines,) and
Tiras. 6 And the sons of Caphthorim. 13 And Canaan
Gomer; Ashchenaz, and begat Zidon his firstborn,
Riphath, and Togarmah. and Heth, 14 The Jebusite
7 And the sons of Javan; El- also, and the Amorite, and
ishah, and Tarshish, Kit- the Girgashite, 15 And the
tim, and Dodanim. 8 The Hivite, and the Arkite, and
sons of Ham; Cush, and the Sinite, 16 And the Arva-
Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. dite, and the Zemarite, and
9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, the Hamathite. 17 The sons
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gat Uri, and Uri begat Beza- sons of Ram the firstborn of
leel. 21 And afterward Hezron Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and
went in to the daughter of Jamin, and Eker. 28 And the
Machir the father of Gilead, sons of Onam were, Sham-
whom he married when he mai, and Jada. And the sons
was threescore years old; of Shammai; Nadab, and
and she bare him Segub. Abishur. 29 And the name
22 And Segub begat Jair, of the wife of Abishur was
who had three and twenty Abihail, and she bare him
cities in the land of Gilead. Ahban, and Molid. 30 And
23 And he took Geshur, and the sons of Nadab; Seled,
Aram, with the towns of and Appaim: but Seled died
Jair, from them, with Ke- without children. 31 And the
nath, and the towns thereof, sons of Appaim; Ishi. And
even threescore cities. All the sons of Ishi; Sheshan.
these belonged to the sons of And the children of Sheshan;
Machir the father of Gilead. Ahlai. 32 And the sons of
24 And after that Hezron was Jada the brother of Sham-
dead in Calebephratah, then mai; Jether, and Jonathan:
Abiah Hezron’s wife bare and Jether died without chil-
him Ashur the father of dren. 33 And the sons of
gat Zabad, 37 And Zabad be- Regem, and Jotham, and Ge-
gat Ephlal, and Ephlal be- shan, and Pelet, and Ephah,
gat Obed, 38 And Obed be- and Shaaph. 48 Maachah,
Zadok, and Zadok begat asaph his son, and Assir his
Shallum, 13 And Shallum be- son, 24 Tahath his son, Uriel
gat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah be- his son, Uzziah his son, and
gat Azariah, 14 And Azariah Shaul his son. 25 And the
begat Seraiah, and Seraiah sons of Elkanah; Amasai,
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urbs, and Anem with her her suburbs, and Jazer with
suburbs: 74 And out of the her suburbs.
tribe of Asher; Mashal with
her suburbs, and Abdon with
her suburbs, 75 And Hukok Chapter 7
with her suburbs, and Re-
hob with her suburbs: 76 And Now the sons of Issachar
out of the tribe of Naphtali; were, Tola, and Puah,
Kedesh in Galilee with her Jashub, and Shimron, four.
2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi,
suburbs, and Hammon with
her suburbs, and Kirjathaim and Rephaiah, and Jeriel,
with her suburbs. 77 Unto and Jahmai, and Jibsam,
the rest of the children of and Shemuel, heads of their
Merari were given out of the father’s house, to wit, of
tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon Tola: they were valiant men
with her suburbs, Tabor with of might in their genera-
her suburbs: 78 And on the tions; whose number was
other side Jordan by Jericho, in the days of David two
on the east side of Jordan, and twenty thousand and six
were given them out of the hundred. 3 And the sons of
tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons
wilderness with her suburbs, of Izrahiah; Michael, and
and Jahzah with her sub- Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah,
urbs, 79 Kedemoth also with five: all of them chief men.
4 And with them, by their
her suburbs, and Mephaath
with her suburbs: 80 And out generations, after the house
of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth of their fathers, were bands
in Gilead with her suburbs, of soldiers for war, six and
and Mahanaim with her sub- thirty thousand men: for
urbs, 81 And Heshbon with they had many wives and
sons. 5 And their brethren
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over the work of the ser- were to come after seven days
vice, keepers of the gates of from time to time with them.
the tabernacle: and their fa- 26 For these Levites, the four
over the things that were gat Saul; and Saul begat
made in the pans. 32 And Jonathan, and Malchishua,
other of their brethren, of and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
the sons of the Kohathites, 40 And the son of Jonathan
not, and also for asking coun- Samuel. 4 And David and
sel of one that had a famil- all Israel went to Jerusalem,
iar spirit, to enquire of it; which is Jebus; where the Je-
14 And enquired not of the busites were, the inhabitants
Lord: therefore he slew him, of the land. 5 And the inhab-
and turned the kingdom unto itants of Jebus said to David,
David the son of Jesse. Thou shalt not come hither.
Nevertheless David took the
castle of Zion, which is the
Chapter 11 city of David. 6 And David
said, Whosoever smiteth the
Then all Israel gathered Jebusites first shall be chief
themselves to David unto and captain. So Joab the
Hebron, saying, Behold, we son of Zeruiah went first up,
are thy bone and thy flesh. and was chief. 7 And David
2 And moreover in time past,
dwelt in the castle; there-
even when Saul was king, fore they called it the city
thou wast he that leddest of David. 8 And he built
out and broughtest in Israel: the city round about, even
and the Lord thy God said from Millo round about: and
unto thee, Thou shalt feed Joab repaired the rest of
my people Israel, and thou the city. 9 So David waxed
shalt be ruler over my peo- greater and greater: for the
ple Israel. 3 Therefore came Lord of hosts was with him.
all the elders of Israel to the 10 These also are the chief
abroad unto our brethren ev- nadab: and Uzza and Ahio
ery where, that are left in all drave the cart. 8 And David
the land of Israel, and with and all Israel played before
them also to the priests and God with all their might,
Levites which are in their and with singing, and with
cities and suburbs, that they harps, and with psalteries,
may gather themselves unto and with timbrels, and with
us: 3 And let us bring again cymbals, and with trumpets.
the ark of our God to us: for 9 And when they came unto
burned with fire. 13 And the pared a place for the ark
Philistines yet again spread of God, and pitched for it
themselves abroad in the val- a tent. 2 Then David said,
ley. 14 Therefore David en- None ought to carry the ark
quired again of God; and of God but the Levites: for
God said unto him, Go not them hath the Lord cho-
up after them; turn away sen to carry the ark of God,
from them, and come upon and to minister unto him
them over against the mul- for ever. 3 And David gath-
berry trees. 15 And it shall ered all Israel together to
be, when thou shalt hear a Jerusalem, to bring up the
sound of going in the tops ark of the Lord unto his
of the mulberry trees, that place, which he had prepared
then thou shalt go out to for it. 4 And David assembled
battle: for God is gone forth the children of Aaron, and
before thee to smite the host the Levites: 5 Of the sons of
of the Philistines. 16 David Kohath; Uriel the chief, and
therefore did as God com- his brethren an hundred and
manded him: and they smote twenty: 6 Of the sons of Mer-
the host of the Philistines ari; Asaiah the chief, and his
from Gibeon even to Gazer. brethren two hundred and
17 And the fame of David twenty: 7 Of the sons of Ger-
went out into all lands; and shom; Joel the chief, and
the Lord brought the fear of his brethren an hundred and
him upon all nations. thirty: 8 Of the sons of Eliza-
phan; Shemaiah the chief,
and his brethren two hun-
Chapter 15 dred: 9 Of the sons of He-
bron; Eliel the chief, and his
And David made him houses brethren fourscore: 10 Of the
in the city of David, and pre-
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in thine heart; for God is walked, and have cut off all
with thee. 3 And it came thine enemies from before
to pass the same night, that thee, and have made thee a
the word of God came to name like the name of the
Nathan, saying, 4 Go and great men that are in the
tell David my servant, Thus earth. 9 Also I will ordain
saith the Lord, Thou shalt a place for my people Is-
not build me an house to rael, and will plant them,
dwell in: 5 For I have not and they shall dwell in their
dwelt in an house since the place, and shall be moved
day that I brought up Is- no more; neither shall the
rael unto this day; but have children of wickedness waste
gone from tent to tent, and them any more, as at the be-
from one tabernacle to an- ginning, 10 And since the time
other. 6 Wheresoever I have that I commanded judges to
walked with all Israel, spake I be over my people Israel.
a word to any of the judges of Moreover I will subdue all
Israel, whom I commanded thine enemies. Furthermore
to feed my people, saying, I tell thee that the Lord will
Why have ye not built me build thee an house. 11 And it
an house of cedars? 7 Now shall come to pass, when thy
therefore thus shalt thou say days be expired that thou
unto my servant David, Thus must go to be with thy fa-
saith the Lord of hosts, I thers, that I will raise up thy
took thee from the sheep- seed after thee, which shall
cote, even from following the be of thy sons; and I will es-
sheep, that thou shouldest tablish his kingdom. 12 He
be ruler over my people Is- shall build me an house, and
rael: 8 And I have been with I will stablish his throne for
thee whithersoever thou hast ever. 13 I will be his father,
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hind, he chose out of all the the Syrians saw that they
choice of Israel, and put them were put to the worse be-
in array against the Syrians. fore Israel, they sent messen-
11 And the rest of the people gers, and drew forth the Syr-
he delivered unto the hand ians that were beyond the
of Abishai his brother, and river: and Shophach the cap-
they set themselves in array tain of the host of Hadarezer
against the children of Am- went before them. 17 And it
mon. 12 And he said, If the was told David; and he gath-
Syrians be too strong for me, ered all Israel, and passed
then thou shalt help me: but over Jordan, and came upon
if the children of Ammon be them, and set the battle in ar-
too strong for thee, then I ray against them. So when
will help thee. 13 Be of good David had put the battle
courage, and let us behave in array against the Syrians,
ourselves valiantly for our they fought with him. 18 But
people, and for the cities of the Syrians fled before Is-
our God: and let the Lord rael; and David slew of the
do that which is good in his Syrians seven thousand men
sight. 14 So Joab and the peo- which fought in chariots, and
ple that were with him drew forty thousand footmen, and
nigh before the Syrians unto killed Shophach the captain
the battle; and they fled be- of the host. 19 And when
fore him. 15 And when the the servants of Hadarezer
children of Ammon saw that saw that they were put to
the Syrians were fled, they the worse before Israel, they
likewise fled before Abishai made peace with David, and
his brother, and entered into became his servants: nei-
the city. Then Joab came ther would the Syrians help
to Jerusalem. 16 And when the children of Ammon any
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days the sword of the Lord, stand between the earth and
even the pestilence, in the the heaven, having a drawn
land, and the angel of the sword in his hand stretched
Lord destroying throughout out over Jerusalem. Then
all the coasts of Israel. Now David and the elders of Is-
therefore advise thyself what rael, who were clothed in
word I shall bring again to sackcloth, fell upon their
him that sent me. 13 And faces. 17 And David said
gel; and his four sons with burnt offerings without cost.
him hid themselves. Now 25 So David gave to Ornan for
son, the Lord be with thee; and timber, and all man-
and prosper thou, and build ner of cunning men for ev-
the house of the Lord thy ery manner of work. 16 Of
God, as he hath said of thee. the gold, the silver, and the
12 Only the Lord give thee brass, and the iron, there is
wisdom and understanding, no number. Arise therefore,
and give thee charge concern- and be doing, and the Lord
ing Israel, that thou mayest be with thee. 17 David also
keep the law of the Lord commanded all the princes
thy God. 13 Then shalt thou of Israel to help Solomon
prosper, if thou takest heed his son, saying, 18 Is not the
to fulfil the statutes and Lord your God with you?
judgments which the Lord and hath he not given you
charged Moses with concern- rest on every side? for he
ing Israel: be strong, and hath given the inhabitants
of good courage; dread not, of the land into mine hand;
nor be dismayed. 14 Now, be- and the land is subdued be-
hold, in my trouble I have fore the Lord, and before his
prepared for the house of people. 19 Now set your heart
the Lord an hundred thou- and your soul to seek the
sand talents of gold, and Lord your God; arise there-
a thousand thousand talents fore, and build ye the sanc-
of silver; and of brass and tuary of the Lord God, to
iron without weight; for it bring the ark of the covenant
is in abundance: timber also of the Lord, and the holy
and stone have I prepared; vessels of God, into the house
and thou mayest add thereto. that is to be built to the
15 Moreover there are work- name of the Lord.
men with thee in abundance,
hewers and workers of stone
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15 The sons of Moses were, polls, that did the work for
Gershom, and Eliezer. 16 Of the service of the house of the
the sons of Gershom, She- Lord, from the age of twenty
buel was the chief. 17 And years and upward. 25 For
the sons of Eliezer were, Re- David said, The Lord God
habiah the chief. And Eliezer of Israel hath given rest unto
had none other sons; but the his people, that they may
sons of Rehabiah were very dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
many. 18 Of the sons of Izhar; 26 And also unto the Levites;
of the Lord, with cymbals, sharelah, he, his sons, and his
psalteries, and harps, for the brethren, were twelve: 15 The
service of the house of God, eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his
according to the king’s or- sons, and his brethren, were
der to Asaph, Jeduthun, and twelve: 16 The ninth to Mat-
Heman. 7 So the number of taniah, he, his sons, and his
them, with their brethren brethren, were twelve: 17 The
that were instructed in the tenth to Shimei, he, his
songs of the Lord, even sons, and his brethren, were
all that were cunning, was twelve: 18 The eleventh to
two hundred fourscore and Azareel, he, his sons, and his
eight. 8 And they cast lots, brethren, were twelve: 19 The
ward against ward, as well twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his
the small as the great, the sons, and his brethren, were
teacher as the scholar. 9 Now twelve: 20 The thirteenth to
the first lot came forth for Shubael, he, his sons, and
Asaph to Joseph: the sec- his brethren, were twelve:
ond to Gedaliah, who with 21 The fourteenth to Mat-
his brethren and sons were tithiah, he, his sons, and his
twelve: 10 The third to Za- brethren, were twelve: 22 The
ccur, he, his sons, and fifteenth to Jeremoth, he,
his brethren, were twelve: his sons, and his brethren,
11 The fourth to Izri, he, his were twelve: 23 The six-
iah his son, and Joram his Israel on this side Jordan
son, and Zichri his son, and westward in all the business
Shelomith his son. 26 Which of the Lord, and in the ser-
Shelomith and his brethren vice of the king. 31 Among
were over all the treasures of the Hebronites was Jerijah
the dedicated things, which the chief, even among the
David the king, and the chief Hebronites, according to the
fathers, the captains over generations of his fathers. In
thousands and hundreds, the fortieth year of the reign
and the captains of the host, of David they were sought
had dedicated. 27 Out of the for, and there were found
spoils won in battles did they among them mighty men of
dedicate to maintain the valour at Jazer of Gilead.
house of the Lord. 28 And 32 And his brethren, men
all that Samuel the seer, and of valour, were two thou-
Saul the son of Kish, and Ab- sand and seven hundred chief
ner the son of Ner, and Joab fathers, whom king David
the son of Zeruiah, had ded- made rulers over the Reuben-
icated; and whosoever had ites, the Gadites, and the
dedicated any thing, it was half tribe of Manasseh, for
under the hand of Shelomith, every matter pertaining to
and of his brethren. 29 Of the God, and affairs of the king.
Izharites, Chenaniah and his
sons were for the outward
business over Israel, for offi- Chapter 27
cers and judges. 30 And of the
Hebronites, Hashabiah and Now the children of Israel
his brethren, men of valour, a after their number, to wit,
thousand and seven hundred, the chief fathers and captains
were officers among them of of thousands and hundreds,
and their officers that served
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the king in any matter of the for the fourth month was
courses, which came in and Asahel the brother of Joab,
went out month by month and Zebadiah his son after
throughout all the months of him: and in his course were
the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
twenty and four thousand. 8 The fifth captain for the
2 Over the first course for the fifth month was Shamhuth
first month was Jashobeam the Izrahite: and in his
the son of Zabdiel: and in course were twenty and four
his course were twenty and thousand. 9 The sixth cap-
four thousand. 3 Of the chil- tain for the sixth month was
dren of Perez was the chief Ira the son of Ikkesh the
of all the captains of the host Tekoite: and in his course
for the first month. 4 And were twenty and four thou-
over the course of the second sand. 10 The seventh captain
month was Dodai an Aho- for the seventh month was
hite, and of his course was Helez the Pelonite, of the
Mikloth also the ruler: in his children of Ephraim: and in
course likewise were twenty his course were twenty and
and four thousand. 5 The four thousand. 11 The eighth
third captain of the host for captain for the eighth month
the third month was Benaiah was Sibbecai the Hushathite,
the son of Jehoiada, a chief of the Zarhites: and in his
priest: and in his course were course were twenty and four
twenty and four thousand. thousand. 12 The ninth cap-
6 This is that Benaiah, who tain for the ninth month was
was mighty among the thirty, Abiezer the Anetothite, of
and above the thirty: and in the Benjamites: and in his
his course was Ammizabad course were twenty and four
his son. 7 The fourth captain thousand. 13 The tenth cap-
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tain for the tenth month was dren of Ephraim, Hoshea the
Maharai the Netophathite, son of Azaziah: of the half
of the Zarhites: and in his tribe of Manasseh, Joel the
course were twenty and four son of Pedaiah: 21 Of the half
thousand. 14 The eleventh tribe of Manasseh in Gilead,
captain for the eleventh Iddo the son of Zechariah:
month was Benaiah the Pi- of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son
rathonite, of the children of of Abner: 22 Of Dan, Azareel
Ephraim: and in his course the son of Jeroham. These
were twenty and four thou- were the princes of the tribes
sand. 15 The twelfth captain of Israel. 23 But David took
for the twelfth month was not the number of them from
Heldai the Netophathite, of twenty years old and under:
Othniel: and in his course because the Lord had said
were twenty and four thou- he would increase Israel like
sand. 16 Furthermore over to the stars of the heavens.
the tribes of Israel: the ruler 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah
them that did the work of the with the king’s sons: 33 And
field for tillage of the ground Ahithophel was the king’s
was Ezri the son of Chelub: counsellor: and Hushai
27 And over the vineyards the Archite was the king’s
was Shimei the Ramathite: companion: 34 And after
the princes, and the mighty age, full of days, riches, and
men, and all the sons like- honour: and Solomon his son
wise of king David, submit- reigned in his stead. 29 Now
ted themselves unto Solomon the acts of David the king,
the king. 25 And the Lord first and last, behold, they
magnified Solomon exceed- are written in the book of
ingly in the sight of all Is- Samuel the seer, and in the
rael, and bestowed upon him book of Nathan the prophet,
such royal majesty as had and in the book of Gad the
not been on any king before seer, 30 With all his reign and
him in Israel. 26 Thus David his might, and the times that
the son of Jesse reigned went over him, and over Is-
over all Israel. 27 And the rael, and over all the king-
time that he reigned over Is- doms of the countries.
II Chronicles
1053
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him, Ask what I shall give riches, and wealth, and hon-
thee. 8 And Solomon said our, such as none of the kings
unto God, Thou hast shewed have had that have been
great mercy unto David my before thee, neither shall
father, and hast made me to there any after thee have the
reign in his stead. 9 Now, O like. 13 Then Solomon came
Lord God, let thy promise from his journey to the high
unto David my father be place that was at Gibeon to
established: for thou hast Jerusalem, from before the
made me king over a people tabernacle of the congrega-
like the dust of the earth in tion, and reigned over Is-
multitude. 10 Give me now rael. 14 And Solomon gath-
wisdom and knowledge, that ered chariots and horsemen:
I may go out and come in and he had a thousand and
before this people: for who four hundred chariots, and
can judge this thy people, twelve thousand horsemen,
that is so great? 11 And God which he placed in the char-
said to Solomon, Because iot cities, and with the king
this was in thine heart, and at Jerusalem. 15 And the
thou hast not asked riches, king made silver and gold
wealth, or honour, nor the at Jerusalem as plenteous
life of thine enemies, nei- as stones, and cedar trees
ther yet hast asked long life; made he as the sycomore
but hast asked wisdom and trees that are in the vale for
knowledge for thyself, that abundance. 16 And Solomon
thou mayest judge my peo- had horses brought out of
ple, over whom I have made Egypt, and linen yarn: the
thee king: 12 Wisdom and king’s merchants received the
knowledge is granted unto linen yarn at a price. 17 And
thee; and I will give thee they fetched up, and brought
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peared unto David his fa- the house, the beams, the
ther, in the place that David posts, and the walls thereof,
had prepared in the thresh- and the doors thereof, with
ingfloor of Ornan the Je- gold; and graved cherubims
busite. 2 And he began to on the walls. 8 And he made
build in the second day of the the most holy house, the
second month, in the fourth
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oxen were cast, when it was and placed them in the tem-
cast. 4 It stood upon twelve ple, five on the right side, and
oxen, three looking toward five on the left. And he made
the north, and three looking an hundred basons of gold.
toward the west, and three 9 Furthermore he made the
were on the top of the two vessels that were for the
pillars, and the two wreaths house of God, the golden
to cover the two pommels of altar also, and the tables
the chapiters which were on whereon the shewbread was
the top of the pillars; 13 And set; 20 Moreover the candle-
four hundred pomegranates sticks with their lamps, that
on the two wreaths; two they should burn after the
rows of pomegranates on manner before the oracle, of
each wreath, to cover the pure gold; 21 And the flow-
two pommels of the chapiters ers, and the lamps, and the
which were upon the pil- tongs, made he of gold, and
lars. 14 He made also bases, that perfect gold; 22 And the
and lavers made he upon snuffers, and the basons, and
the bases; 15 One sea, and the spoons, and the censers,
twelve oxen under it. 16 The of pure gold: and the en-
pots also, and the shovels, try of the house, the inner
and the fleshhooks, and all doors thereof for the most
their instruments, did Hu- holy place, and the doors of
ram his father make to king the house of the temple, were
Solomon for the house of of gold.
the Lord of bright brass.
17 In the plain of Jordan did
score and six talents of gold; the like made in any king-
14 Beside that which chap- dom. 20 And all the drink-
men and merchants brought. ing vessels of king Solomon
And all the kings of Arabia were of gold, and all the
and governors of the coun- vessels of the house of the
try brought gold and silver forest of Lebanon were of
to Solomon. 15 And king pure gold: none were of sil-
Solomon made two hundred ver; it was not any thing
targets of beaten gold: six accounted of in the days of
hundred shekels of beaten Solomon. 21 For the king’s
gold went to one target. ships went to Tarshish with
16 And three hundred shields the servants of Huram: ev-
made he of beaten gold: ery three years once came the
three hundred shekels of gold ships of Tarshish bringing
went to one shield. And the gold, and silver, ivory, and
king put them in the house apes, and peacocks. 22 And
of the forest of Lebanon. king Solomon passed all the
17 Moreover the king made a kings of the earth in riches
great throne of ivory, and and wisdom. 23 And all the
overlaid it with pure gold. kings of the earth sought
18 And there were six steps to the presence of Solomon,
the throne, with a footstool to hear his wisdom, that
of gold, which were fastened God had put in his heart.
to the throne, and stays on 24 And they brought every
stalls for horses and chariots, in the city of David his fa-
and twelve thousand horse- ther: and Rehoboam his son
men; whom he bestowed in reigned in his stead.
the chariot cities, and with
the king at Jerusalem. 26 And
he reigned over all the kings Chapter 10
from the river even unto
the land of the Philistines, And Rehoboam went to
and to the border of Egypt. Shechem: for to Shechem
27 And the king made sil- were all Israel come to make
ver in Jerusalem as stones, him king. 2 And it came to
and cedar trees made he as pass, when Jeroboam the son
the sycomore trees that are of Nebat, who was in Egypt,
in the low plains in abun- whither he had fled from
dance. 28 And they brought the presence of Solomon the
unto Solomon horses out of king, heard it, that Jeroboam
Egypt, and out of all lands. returned out of Egypt. 3 And
29 Now the rest of the acts they sent and called him. So
of Solomon, first and last, Jeroboam and all Israel came
are they not written in the and spake to Rehoboam, say-
book of Nathan the prophet, ing, 4 Thy father made our
and in the prophecy of Ahi- yoke grievous: now there-
jah the Shilonite, and in fore ease thou somewhat the
the visions of Iddo the seer grievous servitude of thy fa-
against Jeroboam the son ther, and his heavy yoke that
of Nebat? 30 And Solomon he put upon us, and we will
reigned in Jerusalem over all serve thee. 5 And he said
Israel forty years. 31 And unto them, Come again unto
Solomon slept with his fa- me after three days. And
thers, and he was buried the people departed. 6 And
king Rehoboam took counsel
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with the old men that had lighter for us; thus shalt thou
stood before Solomon his fa- say unto them, My little fin-
ther while he yet lived, say- ger shall be thicker than my
ing, What counsel give ye me father’s loins. 11 For whereas
to return answer to this peo- my father put a heavy yoke
ple? 7 And they spake unto upon you, I will put more to
him, saying, If thou be kind your yoke: my father chas-
to this people, and please tised you with whips, but I
them, and speak good words will chastise you with scor-
to them, they will be thy ser- pions. 12 So Jeroboam and
vants for ever. 8 But he for- all the people came to Re-
sook the counsel which the hoboam on the third day, as
old men gave him, and took the king bade, saying, Come
counsel with the young men again to me on the third day.
that were brought up with 13 And the king answered
him, that stood before him. them roughly; and king Re-
9 And he said unto them, hoboam forsook the counsel
What advice give ye that we of the old men, 14 And an-
may return answer to this swered them after the advice
people, which have spoken of the young men, saying,
to me, saying, Ease some- My father made your yoke
what the yoke that thy fa- heavy, but I will add thereto:
ther did put upon us? 10 And my father chastised you with
the young men that were whips, but I will chastise you
brought up with him spake with scorpions. 15 So the king
unto him, saying, Thus shalt hearkened not unto the peo-
thou answer the people that ple: for the cause was of
spake unto thee, saying, Thy God, that the Lord might
father made our yoke heavy, perform his word, which he
but make thou it somewhat spake by the hand of Ahijah
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David: and Abijah his son David for ever, even to him
reigned in his stead. and to his sons by a covenant
of salt? 6 Yet Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, the servant of
Chapter 13 Solomon the son of David, is
risen up, and hath rebelled
Now in the eighteenth year against his lord. 7 And there
of king Jeroboam began Abi- are gathered unto him vain
jah to reign over Judah. men, the children of Belial,
2 He reigned three years in
and have strengthened them-
Jerusalem. His mother’s selves against Rehoboam the
name also was Michaiah the son of Solomon, when Re-
daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. hoboam was young and ten-
And there was war between derhearted, and could not
Abijah and Jeroboam. 3 And withstand them. 8 And now
Abijah set the battle in ar- ye think to withstand the
ray with an army of valiant kingdom of the Lord in the
men of war, even four hun- hand of the sons of David;
dred thousand chosen men: and ye be a great multi-
Jeroboam also set the bat- tude, and there are with you
tle in array against him with golden calves, which Jer-
eight hundred thousand cho- oboam made you for gods.
sen men, being mighty men 9 Have ye not cast out the
from him, Bethel with the and the high places, and
towns thereof, and Jeshanah brake down the images, and
with the towns thereof, and cut down the groves: 4 And
Ephrain with the towns commanded Judah to seek
thereof. 20 Neither did Jer- the Lord God of their fa-
oboam recover strength thers, and to do the law and
again in the days of Abijah: the commandment. 5 Also he
and the Lord struck him, took away out of all the cities
and he died. 21 But Abijah of Judah the high places and
waxed mighty, and married the images: and the kingdom
fourteen wives, and begat was quiet before him. 6 And
twenty and two sons, and he built fenced cities in Ju-
sixteen daughters. 22 And dah: for the land had rest,
the rest of the acts of Abi- and he had no war in those
jah, and his ways, and his years; because the Lord had
sayings, are written in the given him rest. 7 Therefore
story of the prophet Iddo. he said unto Judah, Let us
build these cities, and make
about them walls, and tow-
Chapter 14 ers, gates, and bars, while the
land is yet before us; because
So Abijah slept with his fa- we have sought the Lord
thers, and they buried him in our God, we have sought
the city of David: and Asa him, and he hath given us
his son reigned in his stead. rest on every side. So they
In his days the land was quiet built and prospered. 8 And
ten years. 2 And Asa did that Asa had an army of men
which was good and right that bare targets and spears,
in the eyes of the Lord his out of Judah three hundred
God: 3 For he took away the thousand; and out of Ben-
altars of the strange gods,
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jamin, that bare shields and them unto Gerar: and the
drew bows, two hundred and Ethiopians were overthrown,
fourscore thousand: all these that they could not recover
were mighty men of valour. themselves; for they were
9 And there came out against destroyed before the Lord,
them Zerah the Ethiopian and before his host; and
with an host of a thousand they carried away very much
thousand, and three hun- spoil. 14 And they smote
dred chariots; and came unto all the cities round about
Mareshah. 10 Then Asa went Gerar; for the fear of the
out against him, and they Lord came upon them: and
set the battle in array in they spoiled all the cities;
the valley of Zephathah at for there was exceeding much
Mareshah. 11 And Asa cried spoil in them. 15 They
unto the Lord his God, and smote also the tents of cattle,
said, Lord, it is nothing and carried away sheep and
with thee to help, whether camels in abundance, and re-
with many, or with them turned to Jerusalem.
that have no power: help
us, O Lord our God; for
we rest on thee, and in thy Chapter 15
name we go against this mul-
titude. O Lord, thou art And the Spirit of God came
our God; let not man pre- upon Azariah the son of
vail against thee. 12 So the Oded: 2 And he went out
Lord smote the Ethiopians to meet Asa, and said unto
before Asa, and before Ju- him, Hear ye me, Asa, and
dah; and the Ethiopians fled. all Judah and Benjamin; The
13 And Asa and the people Lord is with you, while
that were with him pursued ye be with him; and if ye
seek him, he will be found
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king took all Judah; and the seer, and put him in a
they carried away the stones prison house; for he was in
of Ramah, and the timber a rage with him because of
thereof, wherewith Baasha this thing. And Asa op-
was building; and he built pressed some of the people
therewith Geba and Mizpah. the same time. 11 And, be-
7 And at that time Hanani hold, the acts of Asa, first
the seer came to Asa king and last, lo, they are written
of Judah, and said unto him, in the book of the kings of
Because thou hast relied on Judah and Israel. 12 And Asa
the king of Syria, and not re- in the thirty and ninth year
lied on the Lord thy God, of his reign was diseased in
therefore is the host of the his feet, until his disease was
king of Syria escaped out of exceeding great: yet in his
thine hand. 8 Were not the disease he sought not to the
Ethiopians and the Lubims Lord, but to the physicians.
a huge host, with very many 13 And Asa slept with his fa-
city of David, and laid him hand; and all Judah brought
in the bed which was filled to Jehoshaphat presents; and
with sweet odours and divers he had riches and honour
kinds of spices prepared by in abundance. 6 And his
and sought not unto Baalim; taught in Judah, and had the
4 But sought to the Lord
book of the law of the Lord
God of his father, and walked with them, and went about
in his commandments, and throughout all the cities of
not after the doings of Is- Judah, and taught the peo-
rael. 5 Therefore the Lord ple. 10 And the fear of the
stablished the kingdom in his
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Lord fell upon all the king- dred and fourscore thou-
doms of the lands that were sand. 16 And next him was
round about Judah, so that Amasiah the son of Zichri,
they made no war against who willingly offered himself
Jehoshaphat. 11 Also some unto the Lord; and with
of the Philistines brought him two hundred thousand
Jehoshaphat presents, and mighty men of valour. 17 And
tribute silver; and the Arabi- of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty
ans brought him flocks, seven man of valour, and with
thousand and seven hundred him armed men with bow
rams, and seven thousand and shield two hundred thou-
and seven hundred he goats. sand. 18 And next him was
12 And Jehoshaphat waxed Jehozabad, and with him an
great exceedingly; and he hundred and fourscore thou-
built in Judah castles, and sand ready prepared for the
cities of store. 13 And he war. 19 These waited on the
had much business in the king, beside those whom the
cities of Judah: and the king put in the fenced cities
men of war, mighty men of throughout all Judah.
valour, were in Jerusalem.
14 And these are the num-
ple that he had with him, quire of the Lord: but I hate
and persuaded him to go up him; for he never prophesied
with him to Ramothgilead. good unto me, but always
3 And Ahab king of Israel said evil: the same is Micaiah
unto Jehoshaphat king of Ju- the son of Imla. And Je-
dah, Wilt thou go with me to hoshaphat said, Let not the
Ramothgilead? And he an- king say so. 8 And the king
swered him, I am as thou art, of Israel called for one of
and my people as thy people; his officers, and said, Fetch
and we will be with thee in quickly Micaiah the son of
the war. 4 And Jehoshaphat Imla. 9 And the king of Is-
said unto the king of Is- rael and Jehoshaphat king of
rael, Enquire, I pray thee, Judah sat either of them on
at the word of the Lord his throne, clothed in their
to day. 5 Therefore the king robes, and they sat in a void
of Israel gathered together place at the entering in of
of prophets four hundred the gate of Samaria; and all
men, and said unto them, the prophets prophesied be-
Shall we go to Ramothgilead fore them. 10 And Zedekiah
to battle, or shall I for- the son of Chenaanah had
bear? And they said, Go made him horns of iron,
up; for God will deliver it and said, Thus saith the
into the king’s hand. 6 But Lord, With these thou shalt
Jehoshaphat said, Is there push Syria until they be
not here a prophet of the consumed. 11 And all the
Lord besides, that we might prophets prophesied so, say-
enquire of him? 7 And the ing, Go up to Ramothgilead,
king of Israel said unto Je- and prosper: for the Lord
hoshaphat, There is yet one shall deliver it into the hand
man, by whom we may en- of the king. 12 And the mes-
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the king, the king said unto shall entice Ahab king of Is-
him, Micaiah, shall we go rael, that he may go up and
to Ramothgilead to battle, fall at Ramothgilead? And
or shall I forbear? And he one spake saying after this
said, Go ye up, and prosper, manner, and another saying
and they shall be delivered after that manner. 20 Then
into your hand. 15 And the there came out a spirit, and
king said to him, How many stood before the Lord, and
times shall I adjure thee that said, I will entice him. And
thou say nothing but the the Lord said unto him,
truth to me in the name Wherewith? 21 And he said,
of the Lord? 16 Then he I will go out, and be a ly-
said, I did see all Israel scat- ing spirit in the mouth of
tered upon the mountains, as all his prophets. And the
sheep that have no shepherd: Lord said, Thou shalt en-
and the Lord said, These tice him, and thou shalt also
have no master; let them re- prevail: go out, and do even
turn therefore every man to so. 22 Now therefore, behold,
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dwelt therein, and have built the Lord, with their little
thee a sanctuary therein for ones, their wives, and their
thy name, saying, 9 If, when children. 14 Then upon Ja-
evil cometh upon us, as the haziel the son of Zechariah,
sword, judgment, or pesti- the son of Benaiah, the son
lence, or famine, we stand of Jeiel, the son of Matta-
before this house, and in niah, a Levite of the sons
thy presence, (for thy name of Asaph, came the Spirit of
is in this house,) and cry the Lord in the midst of the
unto thee in our affliction, congregation; 15 And he said,
then thou wilt hear and help. Hearken ye, all Judah, and
10 And now, behold, the chil- ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,
dren of Ammon and Moab and thou king Jehoshaphat,
and mount Seir, whom thou Thus saith the Lord unto
wouldest not let Israel in- you, Be not afraid nor dis-
vade, when they came out of mayed by reason of this great
the land of Egypt, but they multitude; for the battle is
turned from them, and de- not yours, but God’s. 16 To
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were broken, that they were thirty and two years old
not able to go to Tarshish. when he began to reign,
and he reigned eight years
in Jerusalem. 6 And he
God six years: and Athaliah bath, of the priests and of the
reigned over the land. Levites, shall be porters of
the doors; 5 And a third part
shall be at the king’s house;
Chapter 23 and a third part at the gate
of the foundation: and all the
And in the seventh year Je- people shall be in the courts
hoiada strengthened himself, of the house of the Lord.
and took the captains of 6 But let none come into the
and made him king. And Je- and when she was come to
hoiada and his sons anointed the entering of the horse gate
him, and said, God save the by the king’s house, they
king. 12 Now when Athaliah slew her there. 16 And Je-
heard the noise of the peo- hoiada made a covenant be-
ple running and praising the tween him, and between all
king, she came to the people the people, and between the
into the house of the Lord: king, that they should be the
13 And she looked, and, be- Lord’S people. 17 Then all
hold, the king stood at his the people went to the house
pillar at the entering in, and of Baal, and brake it down,
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and brake his altars and his ple of the land rejoiced: and
images in pieces, and slew the city was quiet, after that
Mattan the priest of Baal be- they had slain Athaliah with
fore the altars. 18 Also Je- the sword.
hoiada appointed the offices
of the house of the Lord
by the hand of the priests Chapter 24
the Levites, whom David had
distributed in the house of Joash was seven years old
the Lord, to offer the burnt when he began to reign,
offerings of the Lord, as and he reigned forty years
it is written in the law of in Jerusalem. His mother’s
Moses, with rejoicing and name also was Zibiah of
with singing, as it was or- Beersheba. 2 And Joash did
dained by David. 19 And he that which was right in the
set the porters at the gates sight of the Lord all the
of the house of the Lord, days of Jehoiada the priest.
3 And Jehoiada took for him
that none which was unclean
in any thing should enter in. two wives; and he begat sons
20 And he took the captains and daughters. 4 And it came
of hundreds, and the nobles, to pass after this, that Joash
and the governors of the peo- was minded to repair the
ple, and all the people of house of the Lord. 5 And he
the land, and brought down gathered together the priests
the king from the house of and the Levites, and said
the Lord: and they came to them, Go out unto the
through the high gate into cities of Judah, and gather
the king’s house, and set the of all Israel money to repair
king upon the throne of the the house of your God from
kingdom. 21 And all the peo- year to year, and see that
ye hasten the matter. How-
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they brought the rest of the for this their trespass. 19 Yet
money before the king and he sent prophets to them,
Jehoiada, whereof were made to bring them again unto
vessels for the house of the the Lord; and they tes-
Lord, even vessels to minis- tified against them: but
ter, and to offer withal, and they would not give ear.
spoons, and vessels of gold 20 And the Spirit of God came
and cast them down from the with him, that the king said
top of the rock, that they unto him, Art thou made
all were broken in pieces. of the king’s counsel? for-
13 But the soldiers of the bear; why shouldest thou be
army which Amaziah sent smitten? Then the prophet
back, that they should not go forbare, and said, I know
with him to battle, fell upon that God hath determined to
the cities of Judah, from destroy thee, because thou
Samaria even unto Beth- hast done this, and hast not
horon, and smote three thou- hearkened unto my counsel.
sand of them, and took much 17 Then Amaziah king of Ju-
ber of the chief of the fa- cense upon the altar of in-
thers of the mighty men of cense. 17 And Azariah the
valour were two thousand priest went in after him, and
and six hundred. 13 And with him fourscore priests of
under their hand was an the Lord, that were valiant
army, three hundred thou- men: 18 And they withstood
sand and seven thousand and Uzziah the king, and said
five hundred, that made war unto him, It appertaineth not
with mighty power, to help unto thee, Uzziah, to burn
the king against the enemy. incense unto the Lord, but
14 And Uzziah prepared for to the priests the sons of
them throughout all the host Aaron, that are consecrated
shields, and spears, and hel- to burn incense: go out of
mets, and habergeons, and the sanctuary; for thou hast
bows, and slings to cast trespassed; neither shall it
stones. 15 And he made in be for thine honour from the
Jerusalem engines, invented Lord God. 19 Then Uzziah
by cunning men, to be on was wroth, and had a censer
the towers and upon the bul- in his hand to burn incense:
warks, to shoot arrows and and while he was wroth with
great stones withal. And his the priests, the leprosy even
name spread far abroad; for rose up in his forehead be-
he was marvellously helped, fore the priests in the house
till he was strong. 16 But of the Lord, from beside
when he was strong, his heart the incense altar. 20 And
had the charge of the killing fortably unto all the Levites
of the passovers for every one that taught the good knowl-
that was not clean, to sanc- edge of the Lord: and they
tify them unto the Lord. did eat throughout the feast
18 For a multitude of the peo- seven days, offering peace
ple, even many of Ephraim, offerings, and making con-
and Manasseh, Issachar, and fession to the Lord God
Zebulun, had not cleansed of their fathers. 23 And the
themselves, yet did they eat whole assembly took coun-
the passover otherwise than sel to keep other seven days:
it was written. But Hezekiah and they kept other seven
prayed for them, saying, The days with gladness. 24 For
good Lord pardon every one Hezekiah king of Judah did
19 That prepareth his heart give to the congregation a
to seek God, the Lord God thousand bullocks and seven
of his fathers, though he be thousand sheep; and the
not cleansed according to the princes gave to the congre-
purification of the sanctuary. gation a thousand bullocks
20 And the Lord hearkened and ten thousand sheep: and
to Hezekiah, and healed the a great number of priests
people. 21 And the children sanctified themselves. 25 And
of Israel that were present at all the congregation of Ju-
Jerusalem kept the feast of dah, with the priests and the
unleavened bread seven days Levites, and all the congre-
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gation that came out of Is- all. Then all the children
rael, and the strangers that of Israel returned, every man
came out of the land of Is- to his possession, into their
rael, and that dwelt in Ju- own cities. 2 And Hezekiah
dah, rejoiced. 26 So there was appointed the courses of the
great joy in Jerusalem: for priests and the Levites af-
since the time of Solomon ter their courses, every man
the son of David king of Is- according to his service, the
rael there was not the like priests and Levites for burnt
in Jerusalem. 27 Then the offerings and for peace of-
priests the Levites arose and ferings, to minister, and to
blessed the people: and their give thanks, and to praise in
voice was heard, and their the gates of the tents of the
prayer came up to his holy Lord. 3 He appointed also
dwelling place, even unto the king’s portion of his sub-
heaven. stance for the burnt offer-
ings, to wit, for the morn-
ing and evening burnt offer-
Chapter 31 ings, and the burnt offerings
for the sabbaths, and for the
Now when all this was fin- new moons, and for the set
ished, all Israel that were feasts, as it is written in the
present went out to the cities law of the Lord. 4 Moreover
of Judah, and brake the im- he commanded the people
ages in pieces, and cut down that dwelt in Jerusalem to
the groves, and threw down give the portion of the priests
the high places and the al- and the Levites, that they
tars out of all Judah and might be encouraged in the
Benjamin, in Ephraim also law of the Lord. 5 And as
and Manasseh, until they soon as the commandment
had utterly destroyed them
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oxen and sheep, and the tithe ings and the tithes and the
of holy things which were dedicated things faithfully:
consecrated unto the Lord over which Cononiah the
their God, and laid them by Levite was ruler, and Shimei
heaps. 7 In the third month his brother was the next.
they began to lay the foun- 13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah,
dation of the heaps, and fin- and Nahath, and Asahel, and
ished them in the seventh Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and
month. 8 And when Hezekiah Eliel, and Ismachiah, and
and the princes came and Mahath, and Benaiah, were
saw the heaps, they blessed overseers under the hand of
the Lord, and his people Is- Cononiah and Shimei his
rael. 9 Then Hezekiah ques- brother, at the command-
tioned with the priests and ment of Hezekiah the king,
the Levites concerning the and Azariah the ruler of
heaps. 10 And Azariah the the house of God. 14 And
chief priest of the house of Kore the son of Imnah the
Zadok answered him, and Levite, the porter toward the
said, Since the people began east, was over the freewill
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among all the gods of those with a loud voice in the Jews’
nations that my fathers ut- speech unto the people of
terly destroyed, that could Jerusalem that were on the
deliver his people out of mine wall, to affright them, and
hand, that your God should to trouble them; that they
be able to deliver you out might take the city. 19 And
of mine hand? 15 Now there- they spake against the God
fore let not Hezekiah deceive of Jerusalem, as against the
you, nor persuade you on this gods of the people of the
manner, neither yet believe earth, which were the work
him: for no god of any na- of the hands of man. 20 And
tion or kingdom was able to for this cause Hezekiah the
deliver his people out of mine king, and the prophet Isaiah
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face to his own land. And humbled himself for the pride
when he was come into the of his heart, both he and
house of his god, they that the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
came forth of his own bow- so that the wrath of the
els slew him there with the Lord came not upon them
sword. 22 Thus the Lord in the days of Hezekiah.
saved Hezekiah and the in- 27 And Hezekiah had exceed-
the valley of the son of Hin- than the heathen, whom the
nom: also he observed times, Lord had destroyed before
and used enchantments, and the children of Israel. 10 And
used witchcraft, and dealt the Lord spake to Man-
with a familiar spirit, and asseh, and to his people:
with wizards: he wrought but they would not hear-
much evil in the sight of the ken. 11 Wherefore the Lord
Lord, to provoke him to brought upon them the cap-
anger. 7 And he set a carved tains of the host of the
image, the idol which he had king of Assyria, which took
made, in the house of God, of Manasseh among the thorns,
which God had said to David and bound him with fetters,
and to Solomon his son, In and carried him to Babylon.
this house, and in Jerusalem, 12 And when he was in afflic-
and Joah the son of Joahaz diah, the Levites, of the sons
the recorder, to repair the of Merari; and Zechariah and
house of the Lord his God. Meshullam, of the sons of the
9 And when they came to Kohathites, to set it forward;
Hilkiah the high priest, they and other of the Levites,
delivered the money that was all that could skill of in-
brought into the house of struments of musick. 13 Also
God, which the Levites that they were over the bearers
kept the doors had gathered of burdens, and were over-
of the hand of Manasseh and seers of all that wrought the
Ephraim, and of all the rem- work in any manner of ser-
nant of Israel, and of all vice: and of the Levites there
Judah and Benjamin; and were scribes, and officers,
they returned to Jerusalem. and porters. 14 And when
10 And they put it in the hand they brought out the money
of the workmen that had the that was brought into the
oversight of the house of the house of the Lord, Hilkiah
Lord, and they gave it to the priest found a book of
the workmen that wrought in the law of the Lord given
the house of the Lord, to re- by Moses. 15 And Hilkiah an-
pair and amend the house: swered and said to Shaphan
11 Even to the artificers and the scribe, I have found
builders gave they it, to buy the book of the law in the
hewn stone, and timber for house of the Lord. And
couplings, and to floor the Hilkiah delivered the book to
houses which the kings of Ju- Shaphan. 16 And Shaphan
dah had destroyed. 12 And carried the book to the king,
the men did the work faith- and brought the king word
fully: and the overseers of back again, saying, All that
them were Jahath and Oba- was committed to thy ser-
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26 And as for the king of Ju- house of the Lord, and all
dah, who sent you to en- the men of Judah, and the in-
quire of the Lord, so shall ye habitants of Jerusalem, and
say unto him, Thus saith the the priests, and the Levites,
Lord God of Israel concern- and all the people, great and
ing the words which thou small: and he read in their
hast heard; 27 Because thine ears all the words of the
heart was tender, and thou book of the covenant that
didst humble thyself before was found in the house of
God, when thou heardest the Lord. 31 And the king
his words against this place, stood in his place, and made
and against the inhabitants a covenant before the Lord,
thereof, and humbledst thy- to walk after the Lord, and
self before me, and didst rend to keep his commandments,
thy clothes, and weep be- and his testimonies, and his
fore me; I have even heard statutes, with all his heart,
thee also, saith the Lord. and with all his soul, to
28 Behold, I will gather thee perform the words of the
to thy fathers, and thou shalt covenant which are written
be gathered to thy grave in this book. 32 And he
gave unto the priests for the with fire according to the or-
passover offerings two thou- dinance: but the other holy
sand and six hundred small offerings sod they in pots,
cattle, and three hundred and in caldrons, and in pans,
oxen. 9 Conaniah also, and and divided them speedily
Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his among all the people. 14 And
brethren, and Hashabiah and afterward they made ready
Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of for themselves, and for the
the Levites, gave unto the priests: because the priests
Levites for passover offerings the sons of Aaron were bus-
five thousand small cattle, ied in offering of burnt offer-
and five hundred oxen. 10 So ings and the fat until night;
the service was prepared, therefore the Levites pre-
and the priests stood in pared for themselves, and
their place, and the Levites for the priests the sons of
in their courses, accord- Aaron. 15 And the singers
ing to the king’s command- the sons of Asaph were in
ment. 11 And they killed their place, according to the
the passover, and the priests commandment of David, and
sprinkled the blood from their Asaph, and Heman, and Je-
hands, and the Levites flayed duthun the king’s seer; and
them. 12 And they removed the porters waited at every
the burnt offerings, that they gate; they might not de-
might give according to the part from their service; for
divisions of the families of their brethren the Levites
the people, to offer unto the prepared for them. 16 So all
Lord, as it is written in the the service of the Lord was
book of Moses. And so did prepared the same day, to
they with the oxen. 13 And keep the passover, and to of-
they roasted the passover fer burnt offerings upon the
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gave them all into his hand. lay desolate she kept sab-
18 And all the vessels of the bath, to fulfil threescore and
house of God, great and ten years. 22 Now in the first
small, and the treasures of year of Cyrus king of Per-
the house of the Lord, and sia, that the word of the
the treasures of the king, and Lord spoken by the mouth
of his princes; all these he of Jeremiah might be accom-
brought to Babylon. 19 And plished, the Lord stirred
they burnt the house of God, up the spirit of Cyrus king
and brake down the wall of of Persia, that he made a
Jerusalem, and burnt all the proclamation throughout all
palaces thereof with fire, and his kingdom, and put it also
destroyed all the goodly ves- in writing, saying, 23 Thus
sels thereof. 20 And them saith Cyrus king of Per-
that had escaped from the sia, All the kingdoms of the
sword carried he away to earth hath the Lord God
Babylon; where they were of heaven given me; and he
servants to him and his sons hath charged me to build him
until the reign of the king- an house in Jerusalem, which
dom of Persia: 21 To fulfil is in Judah. Who is there
the word of the Lord by among you of all his people?
the mouth of Jeremiah, un- The Lord his God be with
til the land had enjoyed her him, and let him go up.
sabbaths: for as long as she
Ezra
N of Cyrus king of
Persia, that the
word of the Lord
by the mouth of Jeremiah
might be fulfilled, the Lord
dah, and build the house
of the Lord God of Israel,
(he is the God,) which is in
Jerusalem. 4 And whosoever
remaineth in any place where
stirred up the spirit of Cyrus he sojourneth, let the men of
king of Persia, that he made his place help him with sil-
a proclamation throughout ver, and with gold, and with
all his kingdom, and put it goods, and with beasts, be-
also in writing, saying, 2 Thus side the freewill offering for
saith Cyrus king of Persia, the house of God that is in
The Lord God of heaven Jerusalem. 5 Then rose up
hath given me all the king- the chief of the fathers of
doms of the earth; and he Judah and Benjamin, and
hath charged me to build the priests, and the Levites,
him an house at Jerusalem, with all them whose spirit
which is in Judah. 3 Who is God had raised, to go up to
there among you of all his build the house of the Lord
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dred sixty and six. 14 The Bethel and Ai, two hundred
children of Bigvai, two thou- twenty and three. 29 The chil-
sand fifty and six. 15 The dren of Nebo, fifty and two.
children of Adin, four hun- 30 The children of Magbish,
gave after their ability unto they set the altar upon his
the treasure of the work bases; for fear was upon
threescore and one thousand them because of the peo-
drams of gold, and five thou- ple of those countries: and
sand pound of silver, and one they offered burnt offerings
hundred priests’ garments. thereon unto the Lord, even
70 So the priests, and the burnt offerings morning and
Levites, and some of the peo- evening. 4 They kept also
ple, and the singers, and the the feast of tabernacles, as
porters, and the Nethinims, it is written, and offered the
dwelt in their cities, and all daily burnt offerings by num-
Israel in their cities. ber, according to the cus-
tom, as the duty of ev-
ery day required; 5 And af-
Chapter 3 terward offered the contin-
ual burnt offering, both of
And when the seventh month the new moons, and of all
was come, and the children the set feasts of the Lord
of Israel were in the cities, that were consecrated, and of
the people gathered them- every one that willingly of-
selves together as one man to
EZRA 1148
taxerxes king of Persia; and unto the king, that the Jews
the writing of the letter was which came up from thee to
written in the Syrian tongue, us are come unto Jerusalem,
and interpreted in the Syr- building the rebellious and
ian tongue. 8 Rehum the the bad city, and have set up
chancellor and Shimshai the the walls thereof, and joined
scribe wrote a letter against the foundations. 13 Be it
unto them after this manner, ders, and said unto them
What are the names of the thus, Who commanded you
men that make this build- to build this house, and to
ing? 5 But the eye of their make up these walls? 10 We
God was upon the elders of asked their names also, to
the Jews, that they could certify thee, that we might
not cause them to cease, till write the names of the men
the matter came to Darius: that were the chief of them.
and then they returned an- 11 And thus they returned
and set up. 12 But after his place. 16 Then came the
that our fathers had pro- same Sheshbazzar, and laid
voked the God of heaven the foundation of the house
unto wrath, he gave them of God which is in Jerusalem:
into the hand of Nebuchad- and since that time even un-
nezzar the king of Babylon, til now hath it been in build-
the Chaldean, who destroyed ing, and yet it is not fin-
this house, and carried the ished. 17 Now therefore, if it
people away into Babylon. seem good to the king, let
13 But in the first year of there be search made in the
Cyrus the king of Babylon king’s treasure house, which
the same king Cyrus made a is there at Babylon, whether
decree to build this house of it be so, that a decree was
God. 14 And the vessels also made of Cyrus the king to
of gold and silver of the house build this house of God at
of God, which Nebuchadnez- Jerusalem, and let the king
zar took out of the temple send his pleasure to us con-
that was in Jerusalem, and cerning this matter.
brought them into the tem-
ple of Babylon, those did
Cyrus the king take out of Chapter 6
the temple of Babylon, and
they were delivered unto one, Then Darius the king made a
whose name was Sheshbaz- decree, and search was made
zar, whom he had made gov- in the house of the rolls,
ernor; 15 And said unto him, where the treasures were laid
Take these vessels, go, carry up in Babylon. 2 And there
them into the temple that was found at Achmetha, in
is in Jerusalem, and let the the palace that is in the
house of God be builded in province of the Medes, a roll,
and therein was a record thus
EZRA 1154
that hath caused his name to the priests, and the Levites,
dwell there destroy all kings and the rest of the children of
and people, that shall put the captivity, kept the ded-
to their hand to alter and ication of this house of God
to destroy this house of God with joy, 17 And offered at
which is at Jerusalem. I Dar- the dedication of this house
ius have made a decree; let it of God an hundred bullocks,
be done with speed. 13 Then two hundred rams, four hun-
Tatnai, governor on this side dred lambs; and for a sin of-
the river, Shetharboznai, and fering for all Israel, twelve he
their companions, according goats, according to the num-
to that which Darius the king ber of the tribes of Israel.
had sent, so they did speed- 18 And they set the priests
copy of the letter that the gold that thou canst find
king Artaxerxes gave unto in all the province of Baby-
Ezra the priest, the scribe, lon, with the freewill offer-
even a scribe of the words ing of the people, and of the
of the commandments of the priests, offering willingly for
Lord, and of his statutes to the house of their God which
Israel. 12 Artaxerxes, king of is in Jerusalem: 17 That thou
kings, unto Ezra the priest, mayest buy speedily with
a scribe of the law of the this money bullocks, rams,
God of heaven, perfect peace, lambs, with their meat offer-
and at such a time. 13 I ings and their drink offerings,
make a decree, that all they and offer them upon the al-
of the people of Israel, and tar of the house of your God
of his priests and Levites, in which is in Jerusalem. 18 And
my realm, which are minded whatsoever shall seem good
of their own freewill to go to thee, and to thy brethren,
up to Jerusalem, go with to do with the rest of the
thee. 14 Forasmuch as thou silver and the gold, that do
art sent of the king, and of after the will of your God.
his seven counsellors, to en- 19 The vessels also that are
EZRA 1158
of our God is upon all them and the gold are a freewill
for good that seek him; but offering unto the Lord God
his power and his wrath is of your fathers. 29 Watch
against all them that forsake ye, and keep them, until ye
him. 23 So we fasted and weigh them before the chief
besought our God for this: of the priests and the Levites,
and he was intreated of us. and chief of the fathers of
24 Then I separated twelve Israel, at Jerusalem, in the
of the chief of the priests, chambers of the house of the
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and Lord. 30 So took the priests
ten of their brethren with and the Levites the weight of
them, 25 And weighed unto the silver, and the gold, and
them the silver, and the gold, the vessels, to bring them
and the vessels, even the of- to Jerusalem unto the house
fering of the house of our of our God. 31 Then we
per, precious as gold. 28 And the silver and the gold and
I said unto them, Ye are holy the vessels weighed in the
unto the Lord; the vessels house of our God by the
are holy also; and the silver hand of Meremoth the son
EZRA 1162
the heavens. 7 Since the days shall we say after this? for
of our fathers have we been we have forsaken thy com-
in a great trespass unto this mandments, 11 Which thou
day; and for our iniquities hast commanded by thy ser-
have we, our kings, and our vants the prophets, saying,
priests, been delivered into The land, unto which ye go
the hand of the kings of the to possess it, is an unclean
lands, to the sword, to cap- land with the filthiness of
tivity, and to a spoil, and the people of the lands, with
to confusion of face, as it is their abominations, which
this day. 8 And now for a have filled it from one end
little space grace hath been to another with their un-
shewed from the Lord our cleanness. 12 Now therefore
EZRA 1164
to the law. 4 Arise; for this self separated from the con-
matter belongeth unto thee: gregation of those that had
we also will be with thee: be been carried away. 9 Then all
of good courage, and do it. the men of Judah and Ben-
5 Then arose Ezra, and made jamin gathered themselves
the chief priests, the Levites, together unto Jerusalem
and all Israel, to swear that within three days. It was the
they should do according to ninth month, on the twenti-
this word. And they sware. eth day of the month; and all
6 Then Ezra rose up from be- the people sat in the street
fore the house of God, and of the house of God, trem-
went into the chamber of Jo- bling because of this mat-
hanan the son of Eliashib: ter, and for the great rain.
and when he came thither, 10 And Ezra the priest stood
rain, and we are not able to made an end with all the men
stand without, neither is this that had taken strange wives
a work of one day or two: by the first day of the first
for we are many that have month. 18 And among the
transgressed in this thing. sons of the priests there were
14 Let now our rulers of all found that had taken strange
the congregation stand, and wives: namely, of the sons of
let all them which have taken Jeshua the son of Jozadak,
strange wives in our cities and his brethren; Maaseiah,
come at appointed times, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and
and with them the elders of Gedaliah. 19 And they gave
every city, and the judges their hands that they would
thereof, until the fierce wrath put away their wives; and be-
of our God for this matter ing guilty, they offered a ram
be turned from us. 15 Only of the flock for their trespass.
Jonathan the son of Asa- 20 And of the sons of Im-
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the sins of the children of Is- thee, let now thine ear be at-
rael, which we have sinned tentive to the prayer of thy
against thee: both I and my servant, and to the prayer of
father’s house have sinned. thy servants, who desire to
7 We have dealt very cor- fear thy name: and prosper,
ruptly against thee, and have I pray thee, thy servant this
not kept the commandments, day, and grant him mercy in
nor the statutes, nor the the sight of this man. For I
judgments, which thou com- was the king’s cupbearer.
mandedst thy servant Moses.
8 Remember, I beseech thee,
over against their house. Af- the son of Immer over against
ter him repaired Azariah the his house. After him re-
son of Maaseiah the son paired also Shemaiah the son
of Ananiah by his house. of Shechaniah, the keeper
24 After him repaired Bin- of the east gate. 30 After
nui the son of Henadad an- him repaired Hananiah the
other piece, from the house son of Shelemiah, and Ha-
of Azariah unto the turning nun the sixth son of Za-
of the wall, even unto the laph, another piece. After
corner. 25 Palal the son of him repaired Meshullam the
Uzai, over against the turn- son of Berechiah over against
ing of the wall, and the tower his chamber. 31 After him
which lieth out from the repaired Malchiah the gold-
king’s high house, that was smith’s son unto the place
by the court of the prison. of the Nethinims, and of the
After him Pedaiah the son merchants, over against the
of Parosh. 26 Moreover the gate Miphkad, and to the go-
Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, ing up of the corner. 32 And
unto the place over against between the going up of the
the water gate toward the corner unto the sheep gate
east, and the tower that repaired the goldsmiths and
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and he said, Even that which prayer unto our God, and
they build, if a fox go up, he set a watch against them
shall even break down their day and night, because of
stone wall. 4 Hear, O our them. 10 And Judah said,
God; for we are despised: The strength of the bear-
and turn their reproach upon ers of burdens is decayed,
their own head, and give and there is much rubbish;
them for a prey in the land so that we are not able to
of captivity: 5 And cover not build the wall. 11 And our
their iniquity, and let not
NEHEMIAH 1176
hear the sound of the trum- them, that we may eat, and
pet, resort ye thither unto live. 3 Some also there were
us: our God shall fight for that said, We have mort-
us. 21 So we laboured in gaged our lands, vineyards,
the work: and half of them and houses, that we might
held the spears from the ris- buy corn, because of the
ing of the morning till the dearth. 4 There were also
stars appeared. 22 Likewise that said, We have borrowed
at the same time said I unto money for the king’s trib-
the people, Let every one ute, and that upon our lands
with his servant lodge within and vineyards. 5 Yet now
Jerusalem, that in the night our flesh is as the flesh of
they may be a guard to us, our brethren, our children
and labour on the day. 23 So as their children: and, lo,
neither I, nor my brethren, we bring into bondage our
nor my servants, nor the men sons and our daughters to
of the guard which followed be servants, and some of our
me, none of us put off our daughters are brought unto
clothes, saving that every one bondage already: neither is
put them off for washing. it in our power to redeem
them; for other men have our
lands and vineyards. 6 And I
Chapter 5 was very angry when I heard
their cry and these words.
And there was a great cry of 7 Then I consulted with my-
the people and of their wives self, and I rebuked the no-
against their brethren the bles, and the rulers, and said
Jews. 2 For there were that unto them, Ye exact usury,
said, We, our sons, and our every one of his brother. And
daughters, are many: there- I set a great assembly against
fore we take up corn for
NEHEMIAH 1178
tion together was forty and the people gave was twenty
two thousand three hundred thousand drams of gold, and
and threescore, 67 Beside two thousand pound of sil-
their manservants and their ver, and threescore and seven
maidservants, of whom there priests’ garments. 73 So the
were seven thousand three priests, and the Levites, and
hundred thirty and seven: the porters, and the singers,
and they had two hun- and some of the people, and
dred forty and five singing the Nethinims, and all Is-
men and singing women. rael, dwelt in their cities;
68 Their horses, seven hun- and when the seventh month
dred thirty and six: their came, the children of Israel
mules, two hundred forty were in their cities.
and five: 69 Their camels,
four hundred thirty and five:
six thousand seven hundred Chapter 8
and twenty asses. 70 And
some of the chief of the fa- And all the people gath-
thers gave unto the work. ered themselves together as
The Tirshatha gave to the one man into the street that
treasure a thousand drams was before the water gate;
of gold, fifty basons, five and they spake unto Ezra
hundred and thirty priests’ the scribe to bring the book
of the law of Moses, which
NEHEMIAH 1186
so. And there was very great stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua,
gladness. 18 Also day by day, and Bani, Kadmiel, She-
from the first day unto the baniah, Bunni, Sherebiah,
last day, he read in the book Bani, and Chenani, and cried
of the law of God. And they with a loud voice unto the
kept the feast seven days; Lord their God. 5 Then
they had rest, they did evil mercies’ sake thou didst not
again before thee: therefore utterly consume them, nor
leftest thou them in the hand forsake them; for thou art a
of their enemies, so that they gracious and merciful God.
NEHEMIAH 1192
the new wine, and the oil, the children of Judah, and
unto the chambers, where are of the children of Benjamin.
the vessels of the sanctuary, Of the children of Judah;
and the priests that minis- Athaiah the son of Uzziah,
ter, and the porters, and the the son of Zechariah, the
singers: and we will not for- son of Amariah, the son of
sake the house of our God. Shephatiah, the son of Ma-
halaleel, of the children of
Perez; 5 And Maaseiah the
Chapter 11 son of Baruch, the son of Col-
hozeh, the son of Hazaiah,
And the rulers of the peo- the son of Adaiah, the son of
ple dwelt at Jerusalem: the Joiarib, the son of Zechariah,
rest of the people also cast the son of Shiloni. 6 All the
lots, to bring one of ten to sons of Perez that dwelt at
dwell in Jerusalem the holy Jerusalem were four hundred
city, and nine parts to dwell threescore and eight valiant
in other cities. 2 And the men. 7 And these are the
people blessed all the men, sons of Benjamin; Sallu the
that willingly offered them- son of Meshullam, the son of
selves to dwell at Jerusalem. Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the
3 Now these are the chief of
son of Kolaiah, the son of
the province that dwelt in Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel,
Jerusalem: but in the cities the son of Jesaiah. 8 And af-
of Judah dwelt every one in ter him Gabbai, Sallai, nine
his possession in their cities, hundred twenty and eight.
to wit, Israel, the priests, 9 And Joel the son of Zichri
and the Levites, and the was their overseer: and Ju-
Nethinims, and the children dah the son of Senuah was
of Solomon’s servants. 4 And second over the city. 10 Of
at Jerusalem dwelt certain of
NEHEMIAH 1196
the villages, with their fields, 35 Lod, and Ono, the valley
of the evil that Eliashib did priest, and Zadok the scribe,
for Tobiah, in preparing him and of the Levites, Peda-
a chamber in the courts of iah: and next to them was
the house of God. 8 And it Hanan the son of Zaccur,
grieved me sore: therefore the son of Mattaniah: for
I cast forth all the house- they were counted faithful,
hold stuff of Tobiah out of and their office was to dis-
the chamber. 9 Then I com- tribute unto their brethren.
manded, and they cleansed 14 Remember me, O my God,
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ESTHER 1206
this deed of the queen shall is great,) all the wives shall
come abroad unto all women, give to their husbands hon-
so that they shall despise our, both to great and small.
their husbands in their eyes, 21 And the saying pleased the
tain Jew, whose name was him, and she obtained kind-
Mordecai, the son of Jair, ness of him; and he speedily
the son of Shimei, the son gave her her things for purifi-
of Kish, a Benjamite; 6 Who cation, with such things as
had been carried away from belonged to her, and seven
Jerusalem with the captivity maidens, which were meet to
which had been carried away be given her, out of the king’s
with Jeconiah king of Ju- house: and he preferred her
dah, whom Nebuchadnezzar and her maids unto the best
the king of Babylon had car- place of the house of the
ried away. 7 And he brought women. 10 Esther had not
up Hadassah, that is, Es- shewed her people nor her
ther, his uncle’s daughter: kindred: for Mordecai had
ESTHER 1209
berlain, which kept the con- feast unto all his princes and
ESTHER 1210
month, that is, the month the king said unto Haman,
Nisan, in the twelfth year The silver is given to thee,
of king Ahasuerus, they cast the people also, to do with
Pur, that is, the lot, before them as it seemeth good to
Haman from day to day, and thee. 12 Then were the king’s
from month to month, to the scribes called on the thir-
twelfth month, that is, the teenth day of the first month,
month Adar. 8 And Haman and there was written ac-
said unto king Ahasuerus, cording to all that Haman
There is a certain people had commanded unto the
scattered abroad and dis- king’s lieutenants, and to
persed among the people in the governors that were over
all the provinces of thy king- every province, and to the
dom; and their laws are di- rulers of every people of ev-
verse from all people; neither ery province according to the
keep they the king’s laws: writing thereof, and to every
ESTHER 1212
upon her, and gave him a and the people of the king’s
commandment to Mordecai, provinces, do know, that
to know what it was, and whosoever, whether man or
why it was. 6 So Hatach went woman, shall come unto the
forth to Mordecai unto the king into the inner court,
street of the city, which was who is not called, there is
before the king’s gate. 7 And one law of his to put him
Mordecai told him of all that to death, except such to
had happened unto him, and whom the king shall hold out
of the sum of the money the golden sceptre, that he
that Haman had promised may live: but I have not
to pay to the king’s trea- been called to come in unto
suries for the Jews, to de- the king these thirty days.
stroy them. 8 Also he gave 12 And they told to Morde-
lains, the keepers of the door, king, For the man whom
who sought to lay hand on the king delighteth to hon-
the king Ahasuerus. 3 And our, 8 Let the royal apparel
the king said, What hon- be brought which the king
our and dignity hath been useth to wear, and the horse
done to Mordecai for this? that the king rideth upon,
Then said the king’s ser- and the crown royal which
vants that ministered unto is set upon his head: 9 And
him, There is nothing done let this apparel and horse
for him. 4 And the king said, be delivered to the hand of
Who is in the court? Now one of the king’s most no-
Haman was come into the ble princes, that they may
outward court of the king’s array the man withal whom
house, to speak unto the king the king delighteth to hon-
to hang Mordecai on the gal- our, and bring him on horse-
lows that he had prepared back through the street of
for him. 5 And the king’s the city, and proclaim before
servants said unto him, Be- him, Thus shall it be done to
hold, Haman standeth in the the man whom the king de-
court. And the king said, lighteth to honour. 10 Then
Let him come in. 6 So Haman the king said to Haman,
came in. And the king said Make haste, and take the ap-
unto him, What shall be parel and the horse, as thou
done unto the man whom hast said, and do even so to
the king delighteth to hon- Mordecai the Jew, that sit-
our? Now Haman thought teth at the king’s gate: let
in his heart, To whom would nothing fail of all that thou
ESTHER 1217
the king held out the golden it with the king’s ring: for
sceptre toward Esther. So the writing which is writ-
Esther arose, and stood be- ten in the king’s name, and
fore the king, 5 And said, If it sealed with the king’s ring,
please the king, and if I have may no man reverse. 9 Then
found favour in his sight, and were the king’s scribes called
the thing seem right before at that time in the third
the king, and I be pleasing in month, that is, the month
his eyes, let it be written to Sivan, on the three and twen-
reverse the letters devised by tieth day thereof; and it was
Haman the son of Hamme- written according to all that
datha the Agagite, which he Mordecai commanded unto
wrote to destroy the Jews the Jews, and to the lieu-
which are in all the king’s tenants, and the deputies
provinces: 6 For how can I and rulers of the provinces
endure to see the evil that which are from India unto
shall come unto my people? Ethiopia, an hundred twenty
or how can I endure to see and seven provinces, unto ev-
the destruction of my kin- ery province according to the
dred? 7 Then the king Aha- writing thereof, and unto ev-
suerus said unto Esther the ery people after their lan-
queen and to Mordecai the guage, and to the Jews
Jew, Behold, I have given according to their writing,
Esther the house of Haman, and according to their lan-
and him they have hanged guage. 10 And he wrote in the
upon the gallows, because king Ahasuerus’ name, and
he laid his hand upon the sealed it with the king’s ring,
Jews. 8 Write ye also for and sent letters by posts
the Jews, as it liketh you, on horseback, and riders on
in the king’s name, and seal mules, camels, and young
ESTHER 1220
joy, and from mourning into this matter, and which had
a good day: that they should come unto them, 27 The Jews
make them days of feasting ordained, and took upon
and joy, and of sending por- them, and upon their seed,
tions one to another, and and upon all such as joined
gifts to the poor. 23 And the themselves unto them, so
Jews undertook to do as they as it should not fail, that
had begun, and as Morde- they would keep these two
cai had written unto them; days according to their writ-
24 Because Haman the son of ing, and according to their
Hammedatha, the Agagite, appointed time every year;
the enemy of all the Jews, 28 And that these days should
ter the name of Pur. There- unto all the Jews, to the
fore for all the words of this hundred twenty and seven
letter, and of that which provinces of the kingdom of
they had seen concerning Ahasuerus, with words of
ESTHER 1224
1225
JOB 1226
Satan, Hast thou considered ger unto Job, and said, The
my servant Job, that there is oxen were plowing, and the
none like him in the earth, a asses feeding beside them:
perfect and an upright man, 15 And the Sabeans fell upon
one that feareth God, and them, and took them away;
escheweth evil? 9 Then Sa- yea, they have slain the ser-
tan answered the Lord, and vants with the edge of the
said, Doth Job fear God for sword; and I only am es-
nought? 10 Hast not thou caped alone to tell thee.
made an hedge about him, 16 While he was yet speak-
and about his house, and ing, there came also another,
about all that he hath on ev- and said, The fire of God
ery side? thou hast blessed is fallen from heaven, and
the work of his hands, and hath burned up the sheep,
his substance is increased in and the servants, and con-
the land. 11 But put forth sumed them; and I only am
thine hand now, and touch escaped alone to tell thee.
all that he hath, and he will 17 While he was yet speaking,
curse thee to thy face. 12 And there came also another, and
the Lord said unto Satan, said, The Chaldeans made
Behold, all that he hath is out three bands, and fell
in thy power; only upon him- upon the camels, and have
self put not forth thine hand. carried them away, yea, and
So Satan went forth from the slain the servants with the
presence of the Lord. 13 And edge of the sword; and I only
JOB 1227
self withal; and he sat down upon the ground seven days
among the ashes. 9 Then said and seven nights, and none
his wife unto him, Dost thou spake a word unto him: for
still retain thine integrity? they saw that his grief was
curse God, and die. 10 But he very great.
said unto her, Thou speakest
as one of the foolish women
speaketh. What? shall we Chapter 3
receive good at the hand of
God, and shall we not receive After this opened Job his
evil? In all this did not Job mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job spake, and said,
sin with his lips. 11 Now when
3 Let the day perish wherein
Job’s three friends heard of
all this evil that was come I was born, and the night in
upon him, they came every which it was said, There is
one from his own place; Elip- a man child conceived. 4 Let
haz the Temanite, and Bil- that day be darkness; let not
dad the Shuhite, and Zophar God regard it from above,
the Naamathite: for they neither let the light shine
upon it. 5 Let darkness and
JOB 1229
could not discern the form envy slayeth the silly one. 3 I
thereof: an image was be- have seen the foolish taking
fore mine eyes, there was si- root: but suddenly I cursed
lence, and I heard a voice, his habitation. 4 His chil-
saying, 17 Shall mortal man dren are far from safety, and
be more just than God? shall they are crushed in the gate,
a man be more pure than neither is there any to de-
his maker? 18 Behold, he put liver them. 5 Whose harvest
no trust in his servants; and the hungry eateth up, and
his angels he charged with taketh it even out of the
folly: 19 How much less in thorns, and the robber swal-
them that dwell in houses of loweth up their substance.
clay, whose foundation is in 6 Although affliction cometh
the dust, which are crushed not forth of the dust, nei-
before the moth? 20 They ther doth trouble spring out
are destroyed from morning of the ground; 7 Yet man is
to evening: they perish for born unto trouble, as the
ever without any regarding sparks fly upward. 8 I would
it. 21 Doth not their excel- seek unto God, and unto God
lency which is in them go would I commit my cause:
away? they die, even with- 9 Which doeth great things
more: thine eyes are upon thou shouldest visit him ev-
me, and I am not. 9 As the ery morning, and try him ev-
cloud is consumed and van- ery moment? 19 How long
isheth away: so he that goeth wilt thou not depart from
down to the grave shall come me, nor let me alone till I
up no more. 10 He shall re- swallow down my spittle? 20 I
turn no more to his house, have sinned; what shall I do
neither shall his place know unto thee, O thou preserver
him any more. 11 Therefore of men? why hast thou set
I will not refrain my mouth; me as a mark against thee,
I will speak in the anguish so that I am a burden to my-
of my spirit; I will complain self? 21 And why dost thou
in the bitterness of my soul. not pardon my transgression,
12 Am I a sea, or a whale, and take away mine iniquity?
that thou settest a watch for now shall I sleep in the
over me? 13 When I say, dust; and thou shalt seek me
My bed shall comfort me, in the morning, but I shall
my couch shall ease my com- not be.
plaint; 14 Then thou scarest
me with dreams, and terrifi-
est me through visions: 15 So Chapter 8
that my soul chooseth stran-
gling, and death rather than Then answered Bildad the
my life. 16 I loathe it; I Shuhite, and said, 2 How
would not live alway: let me long wilt thou speak these
alone; for my days are vanity. things? and how long shall
17 What is man, that thou the words of thy mouth be
shouldest magnify him? and like a strong wind? 3 Doth
that thou shouldest set thine God pervert judgment? or
heart upon him? 18 And that doth the Almighty pervert
justice? 4 If thy children
JOB 1236
have sinned against him, and all that forget God; and the
he have cast them away for hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
their transgression; 5 If thou 14 Whose hope shall be cut
wouldest seek unto God be- off, and whose trust shall be
times, and make thy sup- a spider’s web. 15 He shall
plication to the Almighty; lean upon his house, but it
6 If thou wert pure and up- shall not stand: he shall
right; surely now he would hold it fast, but it shall not
awake for thee, and make the endure. 16 He is green be-
habitation of thy righteous- fore the sun, and his branch
ness prosperous. 7 Though shooteth forth in his gar-
thy beginning was small, yet den. 17 His roots are wrapped
thy latter end should greatly about the heap, and seeth
increase. 8 For enquire, I the place of stones. 18 If he
pray thee, of the former destroy him from his place,
age, and prepare thyself to then it shall deny him, say-
the search of their fathers: ing, I have not seen thee.
9 (For we are but of yester- 19 Behold, this is the joy of
day, and know nothing, be- his way, and out of the earth
cause our days upon earth shall others grow. 20 Behold,
are a shadow:) 10 Shall not God will not cast away a
they teach thee, and tell perfect man, neither will he
thee, and utter words out of help the evil doers: 21 Till
their heart? 11 Can the rush he fill thy mouth with laugh-
grow up without mire? can ing, and thy lips with rejoic-
the flag grow without wa- ing. 22 They that hate thee
ter? 12 Whilst it is yet in his shall be clothed with shame;
greenness, and not cut down, and the dwelling place of the
it withereth before any other wicked shall come to nought.
herb. 13 So are the paths of
JOB 1237
that pass away: 17 And thine swereth him: the just upright
age shall be clearer than the man is laughed to scorn. 5 He
noonday; thou shalt shine that is ready to slip with his
forth, thou shalt be as the feet is as a lamp despised
morning. 18 And thou shalt in the thought of him that
be secure, because there is is at ease. 6 The taberna-
hope; yea, thou shalt dig cles of robbers prosper, and
about thee, and thou shalt they that provoke God are
take thy rest in safety. 19 Also secure; into whose hand God
thou shalt lie down, and none bringeth abundantly. 7 But
shall make thee afraid; yea, ask now the beasts, and they
many shall make suit unto shall teach thee; and the
thee. 20 But the eyes of the fowls of the air, and they
wicked shall fail, and they shall tell thee: 8 Or speak
shall not escape, and their to the earth, and it shall
hope shall be as the giving teach thee: and the fishes
up of the ghost. of the sea shall declare unto
thee. 9 Who knoweth not in
all these that the hand of
Chapter 12 the Lord hath wrought this?
10 In whose hand is the soul
with you. 3 But I have under- words? and the mouth taste
standing as well as you; I am his meat? 12 With the ancient
not inferior to you: yea, who is wisdom; and in length of
knoweth not such things as days understanding. 13 With
these? 4 I am as one mocked him is wisdom and strength,
of his neighbour, who cal- he hath counsel and un-
leth upon God, and he an-
JOB 1242
teth up a man, and there can away the heart of the chief
be no opening. 15 Behold, he of the people of the earth,
withholdeth the waters, and and causeth them to wander
they dry up: also he sendeth in a wilderness where there
them out, and they overturn is no way. 25 They grope in
the earth. 16 With him is the dark without light, and
strength and wisdom: the he maketh them to stagger
deceived and the deceiver are like a drunken man.
his. 17 He leadeth counsellors
away spoiled, and maketh
the judges fools. 18 He Chapter 13
looseth the bond of kings,
and girdeth their loins with a Lo, mine eye hath seen all
girdle. 19 He leadeth princes this, mine ear hath heard
away spoiled, and over- and understood it. 2 What
throweth the mighty. 20 He ye know, the same do I know
removeth away the speech also: I am not inferior unto
of the trusty, and taketh you. 3 Surely I would speak
away the understanding of to the Almighty, and I desire
the aged. 21 He poureth to reason with God. 4 But ye
contempt upon princes, and are forgers of lies, ye are all
weakeneth the strength of physicians of no value. 5 O
the mighty. 22 He discovereth that ye would altogether hold
deep things out of darkness, your peace! and it should
and bringeth out to light the be your wisdom. 6 Hear now
shadow of death. 23 He in- my reasoning, and hearken
creaseth the nations, and de- to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for
JOB 1243
hands. 16 For now thou num- a wise man utter vain knowl-
berest my steps: dost thou edge, and fill his belly with
not watch over my sin? 17 My the east wind? 3 Should
will shew thee, hear me; and upon him, even on his neck,
that which I have seen I upon the thick bosses of his
will declare; 18 Which wise bucklers: 27 Because he cov-
men have told from their fa- ereth his face with his fat-
thers, and have not hid it: ness, and maketh collops of
19 Unto whom alone the earth fat on his flanks. 28 And
was given, and no stranger he dwelleth in desolate cities,
passed among them. 20 The and in houses which no man
wicked man travaileth with inhabiteth, which are ready
pain all his days, and the to become heaps. 29 He shall
number of years is hidden to not be rich, neither shall his
the oppressor. 21 A dread- substance continue, neither
ful sound is in his ears: in shall he prolong the perfec-
prosperity the destroyer shall tion thereof upon the earth.
JOB 1247
his belly, God shall cast the But Job answered and said,
2 Hear diligently my speech,
JOB 1254
ber of his months is cut off pay him what he hath done?
in the midst? 22 Shall any 32 Yet shall he be brought to
thy brother for nought, and den? 16 Which were cut down
stripped the naked of their out of time, whose founda-
clothing. 7 Thou hast not tion was overflown with a
given water to the weary to flood: 17 Which said unto
drink, and thou hast with- God, Depart from us: and
holden bread from the hun- what can the Almighty do for
gry. 8 But as for the mighty them? 18 Yet he filled their
man, he had the earth; and houses with good things: but
the honourable man dwelt in the counsel of the wicked is
it. 9 Thou hast sent widows far from me. 19 The righ-
away empty, and the arms of teous see it, and are glad:
the fatherless have been bro- and the innocent laugh them
ken. 10 Therefore snares are to scorn. 20 Whereas our sub-
round about thee, and sud- stance is not cut down, but
den fear troubleth thee; 11 Or the remnant of them the fire
darkness, that thou canst not consumeth. 21 Acquaint now
see; and abundance of wa- thyself with him, and be at
ters cover thee. 12 Is not peace: thereby good shall
God in the height of heaven? come unto thee. 22 Receive,
and behold the height of I pray thee, the law from his
the stars, how high they mouth, and lay up his words
are! 13 And thou sayest, in thine heart. 23 If thou re-
How doth God know? can turn to the Almighty, thou
he judge through the dark shalt be built up, thou shalt
cloud? 14 Thick clouds are put away iniquity far from
a covering to him, that he thy tabernacles. 24 Then
hear thee, and thou shalt pay with his great power? No;
thy vows. 28 Thou shalt also but he would put strength
decree a thing, and it shall be in me. 7 There the righteous
established unto thee: and might dispute with him; so
the light shall shine upon thy should I be delivered for ever
ways. 29 When men are cast from my judge. 8 Behold, I go
down, then thou shalt say, forward, but he is not there;
There is lifting up; and he and backward, but I cannot
shall save the humble person. perceive him: 9 On the left
30 He shall deliver the island hand, where he doth work,
of the innocent: and it is but I cannot behold him: he
delivered by the pureness of hideth himself on the right
thine hands. hand, that I cannot see him:
10 But he knoweth the way
him? and what his soul de- as wild asses in the desert,
sireth, even that he doeth. go they forth to their work;
14 For he performeth the thing rising betimes for a prey:
that is appointed for me: and the wilderness yieldeth food
many such things are with for them and for their chil-
him. 15 Therefore am I trou- dren. 6 They reap every one
bled at his presence: when I his corn in the field: and
consider, I am afraid of him. they gather the vintage of
16 For God maketh my heart the wicked. 7 They cause the
soft, and the Almighty trou- naked to lodge without cloth-
bleth me: 17 Because I was ing, that they have no cov-
not cut off before the dark- ering in the cold. 8 They
ness, neither hath he covered are wet with the showers
the darkness from my face. of the mountains, and em-
brace the rock for want of
a shelter. 9 They pluck the
Chapter 24 fatherless from the breast,
and take a pledge of the
Why, seeing times are not poor. 10 They cause him to
hidden from the Almighty, go naked without clothing,
do they that know him not and they take away the sheaf
2 Some re-
see his days? from the hungry; 11 Which
move the landmarks; they vi- make oil within their walls,
olently take away flocks, and and tread their winepresses,
feed thereof. 3 They drive and suffer thirst. 12 Men
away the ass of the father- groan from out of the city,
less, they take the widow’s and the soul of the wounded
ox for a pledge. 4 They turn crieth out: yet God layeth
the needy out of the way: the
JOB 1259
had marked for themselves in tle while, but are gone and
the daytime: they know not brought low; they are taken
the light. 17 For the morn- out of the way as all other,
ing is to them even as the and cut off as the tops of
shadow of death: if one know the ears of corn. 25 And if
them, they are in the ter- it be not so now, who will
rors of the shadow of death. make me a liar, and make my
18 He is swift as the wa- speech nothing worth?
ters; their portion is cursed
in the earth: he beholdeth
not the way of the vineyards. Chapter 25
19 Drought and heat consume
place. 22 For God shall cast fowl knoweth, and which the
upon him, and not spare: vulture’s eye hath not seen:
he would fain flee out of his 8 The lion’s whelps have not
hand. 23 Men shall clap their trodden it, nor the fierce lion
hands at him, and shall hiss passed by it. 9 He putteth
him out of his place. forth his hand upon the rock;
he overturneth the moun-
tains by the roots. 10 He cut-
Chapter 28 teth out rivers among the
rocks; and his eye seeth ev-
Surely there is a vein for the ery precious thing. 11 He
silver, and a place for gold bindeth the floods from over-
where they fine it. 2 Iron is flowing; and the thing that
taken out of the earth, and is hid bringeth he forth to
brass is molten out of the light. 12 But where shall wis-
stone. 3 He setteth an end to dom be found? and where
darkness, and searcheth out is the place of understand-
all perfection: the stones of ing? 13 Man knoweth not the
darkness, and the shadow of price thereof; neither is it
death. 4 The flood breaketh found in the land of the liv-
out from the inhabitant; even ing. 14 The depth saith, It is
the waters forgotten of the not in me: and the sea saith,
foot: they are dried up, they It is not with me. 15 It cannot
are gone away from men. be gotten for gold, neither
5 As for the earth, out of
shall silver be weighed for
it cometh bread: and un-
JOB 1263
hand on their mouth. 10 The the waters, and the dew lay
nobles held their peace, and all night upon my branch.
their tongue cleaved to the 20 My glory was fresh in me,
hath turned out of the way, held the poor from their de-
and mine heart walked after sire, or have caused the eyes
mine eyes, and if any blot of the widow to fail; 17 Or
hath cleaved to mine hands; have eaten my morsel my-
8 Then let me sow, and let self alone, and the father-
another eat; yea, let my off- less hath not eaten thereof;
spring be rooted out. 9 If 18 (For from my youth he
than God. 3 Also against his for your words; I gave ear
three friends was his wrath to your reasons, whilst ye
kindled, because they had searched out what to say.
found no answer, and yet 12 Yea, I attended unto you,
Elihu saw that there was have found out wisdom: God
no answer in the mouth of thrusteth him down, not
these three men, then his man. 14 Now he hath not
wrath was kindled. 6 And directed his words against
Elihu the son of Barachel the me: neither will I answer him
Buzite answered and said, with your speeches. 15 They
I am young, and ye are were amazed, they answered
very old; wherefore I was no more: they left off speak-
afraid, and durst not shew ing. 16 When I had waited,
you mine opinion. 7 I said, (for they spake not, but
Days should speak, and mul- stood still, and answered no
titude of years should teach more;) 17 I said, I will an-
wisdom. 8 But there is a swer also my part, I also will
spirit in man: and the inspi- shew mine opinion. 18 For I
ration of the Almighty giveth am full of matter, the spirit
them understanding. 9 Great within me constraineth me.
men are not always wise: 19 Behold, my belly is as wine
JOB 1270
for they all are the work of him, and he heareth the cry
his hands. 20 In a moment of the afflicted. 29 When he
shall they die, and the peo- giveth quietness, who then
ple shall be troubled at mid- can make trouble? and when
night, and pass away: and he hideth his face, who then
the mighty shall be taken can behold him? whether
away without hand. 21 For it be done against a na-
his eyes are upon the ways of tion, or against a man only:
man, and he seeth all his go- 30 That the hypocrite reign
striketh them as wicked men tell me, and let a wise man
in the open sight of oth- hearken unto me. 35 Job hath
ers; 27 Because they turned spoken without knowledge,
back from him, and would and his words were without
not consider any of his ways: wisdom. 36 My desire is that
28 So that they cause the cry Job may be tried unto the
of the poor to come unto end because of his answers
JOB 1274
for wicked men. 37 For he ad- man as thou art; and thy
deth rebellion unto his sin, righteousness may profit the
he clappeth his hands among son of man. 9 By reason of
us, and multiplieth his words the multitude of oppressions
against God. they make the oppressed to
cry: they cry out by reason of
the arm of the mighty. 10 But
Chapter 35 none saith, Where is God my
maker, who giveth songs in
Elihu spake moreover, and the night; 11 Who teacheth us
said, 2 Thinkest thou this to more than the beasts of the
be right, that thou saidst, My earth, and maketh us wiser
righteousness is more than than the fowls of heaven?
God’s? 3 For thou saidst, 12 There they cry, but none
great things doeth he, which 15 Dost thou know when God
we cannot comprehend. 6 For disposed them, and caused
he saith to the snow, Be thou the light of his cloud to
on the earth; likewise to the shine? 16 Dost thou know
small rain, and to the great the balancings of the clouds,
rain of his strength. 7 He the wondrous works of him
sealeth up the hand of every which is perfect in knowl-
man; that all men may know edge? 17 How thy garments
his work. 8 Then the beasts are warm, when he qui-
go into dens, and remain in eteth the earth by the south
their places. 9 Out of the wind? 18 Hast thou with him
south cometh the whirlwind: spread out the sky, which
and cold out of the north. is strong, and as a molten
10 By the breath of God frost looking glass? 19 Teach us
is given: and the breadth what we shall say unto him;
of the waters is straitened. for we cannot order our
11 Also by watering he wea- speech by reason of darkness.
rieth the thick cloud: he 20 Shall it be told him that
fill the appetite of the young the wilderness, and the bar-
lions, 40 When they couch in ren land his dwellings. 7 He
their dens, and abide in the scorneth the multitude of the
covert to lie in wait? 41 Who city, neither regardeth he the
provideth for the raven his crying of the driver. 8 The
food? when his young ones range of the mountains is his
cry unto God, they wander pasture, and he searcheth af-
for lack of meat. ter every green thing. 9 Will
the unicorn be willing to
serve thee, or abide by thy
Chapter 39 crib? 10 Canst thou bind
swered Job, and said, 2 Shall proud, and bring him low;
he that contendeth with the and tread down the wicked in
Almighty instruct him? he their place. 13 Hide them in
that reproveth God, let him the dust together; and bind
answer it. 3 Then Job an- their faces in secret. 14 Then
swered the Lord, and said, will I also confess unto thee
4 Behold, I am vile; what
that thine own right hand
shall I answer thee? I will lay can save thee. 15 Behold
thou unto me. 8 Wilt thou pieces of brass; his bones are
also disannul my judgment? like bars of iron. 19 He is
wilt thou condemn me, that the chief of the ways of God:
thou mayest be righteous? he that made him can make
9 Hast thou an arm like God?
his sword to approach unto
or canst thou thunder with a him. 20 Surely the mountains
voice like him? 10 Deck thy- bring him forth food, where
self now with majesty and all the beasts of the field play.
excellency; and array thy- 21 He lieth under the shady
called the name of the first, dred and forty years, and saw
Jemima; and the name of the his sons, and his sons’ sons,
second, Kezia; and the name even four generations. 17 So
of the third, Kerenhappuch. Job died, being old and full
15 And in all the land were of days.
Psalms
1287
PSALMS 1288
have rewarded evil unto him and God is angry with the
that was at peace with me; wicked every day. 12 If he
(yea, I have delivered him turn not, he will whet his
that without cause is mine sword; he hath bent his bow,
enemy:) 5 Let the enemy per- and made it ready. 13 He
secute my soul, and take it; hath also prepared for him
yea, let him tread down my the instruments of death; he
life upon the earth, and lay ordaineth his arrows against
mine honour in the dust. Se- the persecutors. 14 Behold,
lah. 6 Arise, O Lord, in
PSALMS 1292
poor shall not perish for ever. I shall not be moved: for
19 Arise, O Lord; let not I shall never be in adver-
man prevail: let the heathen sity. 7 His mouth is full of
be judged in thy sight. 20 Put cursing and deceit and fraud:
them in fear, O Lord: that under his tongue is mischief
the nations may know them- and vanity. 8 He sitteth in
selves to be but men. Selah. the lurking places of the vil-
lages: in the secret places
doth he murder the inno-
Chapter 10 cent: his eyes are privily set
against the poor. 9 He lieth in
Why standest thou afar off, wait secretly as a lion in his
O Lord? why hidest thou den: he lieth in wait to catch
thyself in times of trouble? the poor: he doth catch the
2 The wicked in his pride
poor, when he draweth him
doth persecute the poor: let into his net. 10 He croucheth,
them be taken in the de- and humbleth himself, that
vices that they have imag- the poor may fall by his
ined. 3 For the wicked boast- strong ones. 11 He hath said
eth of his heart’s desire, and in his heart, God hath for-
blesseth the covetous, whom gotten: he hideth his face;
the Lord abhorreth. 4 The he will never see it. 12 Arise,
wicked, through the pride O Lord; O God, lift up
of his countenance, will not thine hand: forget not the
seek after God: God is not humble. 13 Wherefore doth
in all his thoughts. 5 His the wicked contemn God?
ways are always grievous; thy he hath said in his heart,
judgments are far above out Thou wilt not require it.
of his sight: as for all his
PSALMS 1295
14 Thou hast seen it; for upon the string, that they
thou beholdest mischief and may privily shoot at the up-
spite, to requite it with thy right in heart. 3 If the foun-
hand: the poor committeth dations be destroyed, what
himself unto thee; thou art can the righteous do? 4 The
the helper of the fatherless. Lord is in his holy tem-
15 Break thou the arm of the ple, the Lord’S throne is
wicked and the evil man: in heaven: his eyes behold,
seek out his wickedness till his eyelids try, the children
thou find none. 16 The Lord of men. 5 The Lord trieth
is King for ever and ever: the the righteous: but the wicked
heathen are perished out of and him that loveth vio-
his land. 17 Lord, thou hast lence his soul hateth. 6 Upon
heard the desire of the hum- the wicked he shall rain
ble: thou wilt prepare their snares, fire and brimstone,
heart, thou wilt cause thine and an horrible tempest: this
ear to hear: 18 To judge the shall be the portion of their
fatherless and the oppressed, cup. 7 For the righteous
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
To the chief Musician, A
Psalm of David. In the Lord To the chief Musician upon
put I my trust: how say ye Sheminith, A Psalm of
to my soul, Flee as a bird David. Help, Lord; for
to your mountain? 2 For, lo, the godly man ceaseth; for
the wicked bend their bow, the faithful fail from among
they make ready their arrow the children of men. 2 They
PSALMS 1296
speak vanity every one with long wilt thou forget me,
his neighbour: with flatter- O Lord? for ever? how
ing lips and with a double long wilt thou hide thy face
heart do they speak. 3 The from me? 2 How long shall
Lord shall cut off all flat- I take counsel in my soul,
tering lips, and the tongue having sorrow in my heart
that speaketh proud things: daily? how long shall mine
4 Who have said, With our enemy be exalted over me?
tongue will we prevail; our 3 Consider and hear me, O
lips are our own: who is lord Lord my God: lighten mine
over us? 5 For the oppression eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of
of the poor, for the sighing death; 4 Lest mine enemy say,
of the needy, now will I arise, I have prevailed against him;
saith the Lord; I will set and those that trouble me re-
him in safety from him that joice when I am moved. 5 But
puffeth at him. 6 The words I have trusted in thy mercy;
of the Lord are pure words: my heart shall rejoice in thy
as silver tried in a furnace of salvation. 6 I will sing unto
earth, purified seven times. the Lord, because he hath
7 Thou shalt keep them, O dealt bountifully with me.
Lord, thou shalt preserve
them from this generation
for ever. 8 The wicked walk Chapter 14
on every side, when the vilest
men are exalted. To the chief Musician, A
Psalm of David. The fool
hath said in his heart, There
Chapter 13 is no God. They are cor-
rupt, they have done abom-
To the chief Musician, A inable works, there is none
Psalm of David. How that doeth good. 2 The Lord
PSALMS 1297
God. 3 They are all gone that backbiteth not with his
aside, they are all together tongue, nor doeth evil to his
become filthy: there is none neighbour, nor taketh up a
that doeth good, no, not one. reproach against his neigh-
4 Have all the workers of in- bour. 4 In whose eyes a vile
iquity no knowledge? who person is contemned; but he
eat up my people as they eat honoureth them that fear the
bread, and call not upon the Lord. He that sweareth to
Lord. 5 There were they in his own hurt, and changeth
great fear: for God is in the not. 5 He that putteth not
generation of the righteous. out his money to usury, nor
6 Ye have shamed the coun- taketh reward against the in-
sel of the poor, because the nocent. He that doeth these
Lord is his refuge. 7 Oh that things shall never be moved.
the salvation of Israel were
come out of Zion! when the
Lord bringeth back the cap- Chapter 16
tivity of his people, Jacob
shall rejoice, and Israel shall Michtam of David. Pre-
be glad. serve me, O God: for in
thee do I put my trust. 2 O
my soul, thou hast said unto
Chapter 15 the Lord, Thou art my
Lord: my goodness exten-
A Psalm of David. Lord, deth not to thee; 3 But to
who shall abide in thy taber- the saints that are in the
nacle? who shall dwell in thy earth, and to the excellent,
PSALMS 1298
from his holy heaven with the glory is great in thy salva-
saving strength of his right tion: honour and majesty
hand. 7 Some trust in char- hast thou laid upon him.
iots, and some in horses: but 6 For thou hast made him
why hast thou forsaken me? the womb: thou art my God
why art thou so far from from my mother’s belly. 11 Be
helping me, and from the not far from me; for trou-
words of my roaring? 2 O ble is near; for there is none
my God, I cry in the day- to help. 12 Many bulls have
time, but thou hearest not; compassed me: strong bulls
and in the night season, and of Bashan have beset me
am not silent. 3 But thou round. 13 They gaped upon
art holy, O thou that in- me with their mouths, as a
habitest the praises of Israel.
PSALMS 1306
fear no evil: for thou art with ing from the Lord, and righ-
me; thy rod and thy staff teousness from the God of his
they comfort me. 5 Thou pre- salvation. 6 This is the gener-
parest a table before me in ation of them that seek him,
the presence of mine enemies: that seek thy face, O Jacob.
thou anointest my head with Selah. 7 Lift up your heads,
oil; my cup runneth over. O ye gates; and be ye lift
PSALMS 1308
ever toward the Lord; for Lord, and prove me; try my
he shall pluck my feet out of reins and my heart. 3 For
the net. 16 Turn thee unto thy lovingkindness is before
me, and have mercy upon mine eyes: and I have walked
me; for I am desolate and af- in thy truth. 4 I have not
flicted. 17 The troubles of my sat with vain persons, nei-
heart are enlarged: O bring ther will I go in with dissem-
thou me out of my distresses. blers. 5 I have hated the con-
18 Look upon mine affliction gregation of evil doers; and
and my pain; and forgive all will not sit with the wicked.
my sins. 19 Consider mine 6 I will wash mine hands in
bless the Lord at all times: ken unto me: I will teach
his praise shall continually be you the fear of the Lord.
in my mouth. 2 My soul shall 12 What man is he that de-
make her boast in the Lord: sireth life, and loveth many
the humble shall hear thereof, days, that he may see good?
and be glad. 3 O magnify 13 Keep thy tongue from evil,
the Lord with me, and let and thy lips from speaking
us exalt his name together. guile. 14 Depart from evil,
4 I sought the Lord, and he
and do good; seek peace, and
heard me, and delivered me pursue it. 15 The eyes of
from all my fears. 5 They the Lord are upon the righ-
looked unto him, and were teous, and his ears are open
lightened: and their faces unto their cry. 16 The face
were not ashamed. 6 This of the Lord is against them
poor man cried, and the that do evil, to cut off the
Lord heard him, and saved remembrance of them from
him out of all his troubles. the earth. 17 The righteous
7 The angel of the Lord en-
cry, and the Lord heareth,
campeth round about them and delivereth them out of all
that fear him, and delivereth their troubles. 18 The Lord
them. 8 O taste and see that is nigh unto them that are
the Lord is good: blessed of a broken heart; and saveth
is the man that trusteth in such as be of a contrite spirit.
him. 9 O fear the Lord, ye 19 Many are the afflictions of
broken. 21 Evil shall slay the slippery: and let the an-
wicked: and they that hate gel of the Lord persecute
the righteous shall be deso- them. 7 For without cause
late. 22 The Lord redeemeth have they hid for me their
the soul of his servants: and net in a pit, which without
none of them that trust in cause they have digged for
him shall be desolate. my soul. 8 Let destruction
come upon him at unawares;
and let his net that he hath
Chapter 35 hid catch himself: into that
very destruction let him fall.
A Psalm of David. Plead 9 And my soul shall be joy-
neither let them wink with them shout for joy, and
the eye that hate me with- be glad, that favour my
PSALMS 1320
of God before his eyes. 2 For ness unto them that know
he flattereth himself in his thee; and thy righteousness
own eyes, until his iniquity to the upright in heart. 11 Let
be found to be hateful. 3 The not the foot of pride come
words of his mouth are in- against me, and let not the
iquity and deceit: he hath hand of the wicked remove
left off to be wise, and to do me. 12 There are the workers
good. 4 He deviseth mischief of iniquity fallen: they are
upon his bed; he setteth him- cast down, and shall not be
self in a way that is not good; able to rise.
he abhorreth not evil. 5 Thy
mercy, O Lord, is in the
heavens; and thy faithfulness
reacheth unto the clouds.
PSALMS 1321
and wait patiently for him: their own heart, and their
fret not thyself because of bows shall be broken. 16 A
him who prospereth in his little that a righteous man
way, because of the man who hath is better than the riches
bringeth wicked devices to of many wicked. 17 For the
pass. 8 Cease from anger, arms of the wicked shall be
and forsake wrath: fret not broken: but the Lord up-
thyself in any wise to do
PSALMS 1322
with them to the house of while they say daily unto me,
God, with the voice of joy Where is thy God? 11 Why
and praise, with a multitude art thou cast down, O my
that kept holyday. 5 Why art soul? and why art thou dis-
thou cast down, O my soul? quieted within me? hope
and why art thou disquieted thou in God: for I shall yet
in me? hope thou in God: praise him, who is the health
for I shall yet praise him for of my countenance, and my
the help of his countenance. God.
6 O my God, my soul is cast
soul? and why art thou dis- down our enemies: through
quieted within me? hope in thy name will we tread them
God: for I shall yet praise under that rise up against us.
him, who is the health of my 6 For I will not trust in my
sword, neither did their own people for nought, and dost
arm save them: but thy not increase thy wealth by
right hand, and thine arm, their price. 13 Thou makest
and the light of thy coun- us a reproach to our neigh-
tenance, because thou hadst bours, a scorn and a deri-
a favour unto them. 4 Thou sion to them that are round
art my King, O God: com- about us. 14 Thou makest
mand deliverances for Jacob. us a byword among the hea-
5 Through thee will we push
PSALMS 1330
anointed thee with the oil of ness and rejoicing shall they
gladness above thy fellows. be brought: they shall en-
8 All thy garments smell of ter into the king’s palace.
myrrh, and aloes, and cas- 16 Instead of thy fathers shall
ing. 4 I will incline mine ear folly: yet their posterity ap-
to a parable: I will open my prove their sayings. Selah.
dark saying upon the harp. 14 Like sheep they are laid in
5 Wherefore should I fear in
the grave; death shall feed on
the days of evil, when the in- them; and the upright shall
iquity of my heels shall com- have dominion over them
pass me about? 6 They that in the morning; and their
trust in their wealth, and beauty shall consume in the
boast themselves in the mul- grave from their dwelling.
titude of their riches; 7 None 15 But God will redeem my
of them can by any means re- soul from the power of the
deem his brother, nor give to grave: for he shall receive
God a ransom for him: 8 (For me. Selah. 16 Be not thou
the redemption of their soul afraid when one is made rich,
is precious, and it ceaseth for when the glory of his house
ever:) 9 That he should still is increased; 17 For when he
live for ever, and not see cor-
PSALMS 1335
Chapter 55
Chapter 54
To the chief Musician on
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm
Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my
of David, when the Ziphims prayer, O God; and hide not
came and said to Saul, Doth thyself from my supplication.
not David hide himself with 2 Attend unto me, and hear
set God before them. Selah. within me: and the terrors
4 Behold, God is mine helper: of death are fallen upon me.
the Lord is with them that 5 Fearfulness and trembling
ter thee: thy right hand up- in an evil matter: they com-
holdeth me. 9 But those that mune of laying snares priv-
seek my soul, to destroy it, ily; they say, Who shall
see them? 6 They search
shall go into the lower parts
of the earth. 10 They shall fall out iniquities; they accom-
by the sword: they shall be a plish a diligent search: both
portion for foxes. 11 But the the inward thought of every
king shall rejoice in God; ev- one of them, and the heart,
ery one that sweareth by him is deep. 7 But God shall
shall glory: but the mouth of shoot at them with an ar-
them that speak lies shall be row; suddenly shall they be
wounded. 8 So they shall
stopped.
make their own tongue to fall
PSALMS 1348
ery side. 13 The pastures are ever; his eyes behold the na-
clothed with flocks; the val- tions: let not the rebellious
leys also are covered over exalt themselves. Selah. 8 O
with corn; they shout for joy, bless our God, ye people,
they also sing. and make the voice of his
praise to be heard: 9 Which
holdeth our soul in life, and
Chapter 66 suffereth not our feet to be
moved. 10 For thou, O God,
To the chief Musician, A hast proved us: thou hast
Song or Psalm. Make a joy- tried us, as silver is tried.
ful noise unto God, all ye 11 Thou broughtest us into
lands: 2 Sing forth the hon- the net; thou laidst afflic-
our of his name: make his tion upon our loins. 12 Thou
praise glorious. 3 Say unto hast caused men to ride over
God, How terrible art thou our heads; we went through
in thy works! through the fire and through water: but
greatness of thy power shall thou broughtest us out into
thine enemies submit them- a wealthy place. 13 I will go
selves unto thee. 4 All the into thy house with burnt of-
earth shall worship thee, and ferings: I will pay thee my
shall sing unto thee; they vows, 14 Which my lips have
shall sing to thy name. Se- uttered, and my mouth hath
lah. 5 Come and see the
spoken, when I was in trou-
works of God: he is terrible
PSALMS 1350
ble. 15 I will offer unto thee O God; let all the people
burnt sacrifices of fatlings, praise thee. 4 O let the na-
with the incense of rams; I tions be glad and sing for joy:
will offer bullocks with goats. for thou shalt judge the peo-
Selah. 16 Come and hear, all ple righteously, and govern
ye that fear God, and I will the nations upon earth. Se-
declare what he hath done lah. 5 Let the people praise
for my soul. 17 I cried unto thee, O God; let all the peo-
him with my mouth, and he ple praise thee. 6 Then shall
was extolled with my tongue. the earth yield her increase;
18 If I regard iniquity in my and God, even our own God,
heart, the Lord will not hear shall bless us. 7 God shall
me: 19 But verily God hath bless us; and all the ends of
heard me; he hath attended the earth shall fear him.
to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, which hath
joice. 4 Sing unto God, sing word: great was the com-
praises to his name: extol pany of those that published
him that rideth upon the it. 12 Kings of armies did flee
heavens by his name JAH, apace: and she that tarried
and rejoice before him. 5 A at home divided the spoil.
father of the fatherless, and a 13 Though ye have lien among
strength unto God: his excel- ishness; and my sins are not
lency is over Israel, and his hid from thee. 6 Let not them
strength is in the clouds. 35 O that wait on thee, O Lord
God, thou art terrible out God of hosts, be ashamed
of thy holy places: the God for my sake: let not those
of Israel is he that giveth that seek thee be confounded
strength and power unto his for my sake, O God of Is-
people. Blessed be God. rael. 7 Because for thy sake I
have borne reproach; shame
hath covered my face. 8 I
Chapter 69 am become a stranger unto
my brethren, and an alien
To the chief Musician upon unto my mother’s children.
Shoshannim, A Psalm of 9 For the zeal of thine house
David. Save me, O God; for hath eaten me up; and the
the waters are come in unto reproaches of them that re-
my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, proached thee are fallen upon
where there is no standing: me. 10 When I wept, and
I am come into deep waters, chastened my soul with fast-
where the floods overflow me. ing, that was to my reproach.
3 I am weary of my crying: 11 I made sackcloth also my
that hate me, and out of the snare before them: and that
deep waters. 15 Let not the which should have been for
waterflood overflow me, nei- their welfare, let it become
ther let the deep swallow me a trap. 23 Let their eyes be
up, and let not the pit shut darkened, that they see not;
her mouth upon me. 16 Hear and make their loins contin-
me, O Lord; for thy lov- ually to shake. 24 Pour out
ingkindness is good: turn thine indignation upon them,
unto me according to the and let thy wrathful anger
multitude of thy tender mer- take hold of them. 25 Let
cies. 17 And hide not thy their habitation be desolate;
face from thy servant; for and let none dwell in their
I am in trouble: hear me tents. 26 For they persecute
speedily. 18 Draw nigh unto him whom thou hast smit-
my soul, and redeem it: de- ten; and they talk to the
liver me because of mine en- grief of those whom thou
emies. 19 Thou hast known hast wounded. 27 Add iniq-
my reproach, and my shame, uity unto their iniquity: and
and my dishonour: mine ad- let them not come into thy
versaries are all before thee. righteousness. 28 Let them be
20 Reproach hath broken my blotted out of the book of
heart; and I am full of heav- the living, and not be writ-
iness: and I looked for some ten with the righteous. 29 But
to take pity, but there was I am poor and sorrowful: let
none; and for comforters, thy salvation, O God, set me
but I found none. 21 They up on high. 30 I will praise
PSALMS 1355
me; for thou art my rock God, make haste for my help.
and my fortress. 4 Deliver 13 Let them be confounded
thou art my trust from my ally, and will yet praise thee
youth. 6 By thee have I been more and more. 15 My mouth
holden up from the womb: shall shew forth thy righ-
thou art he that took me teousness and thy salvation
out of my mother’s bowels: all the day; for I know not
my praise shall be contin- the numbers thereof. 16 I
thy praise and with thy hon- God, thou hast taught me
our all the day. 9 Cast me from my youth: and hitherto
not off in the time of old have I declared thy wondrous
age; forsake me not when works. 18 Now also when I
my strength faileth. 10 For am old and grayheaded, O
mine enemies speak against God, forsake me not; until
me; and they that lay wait I have shewed thy strength
for my soul take counsel to- unto this generation, and thy
gether, 11 Saying, God hath power to every one that is
forsaken him: persecute and to come. 19 Thy righteous-
take him; for there is none ness also, O God, is very
to deliver him. 12 O God, high, who hast done great
be not far from me: O my things: O God, who is like
PSALMS 1357
kings shall fall down before Lord God, the God of Is-
him: all nations shall serve rael, who only doeth won-
him. 12 For he shall deliver drous things. 19 And blessed
the needy when he crieth; be his glorious name for ever:
the poor also, and him that and let the whole earth be
hath no helper. 13 He shall filled with his glory; Amen,
spare the poor and needy, and Amen. 20 The prayers of
and shall save the souls of David the son of Jesse are
the needy. 14 He shall redeem ended.
their soul from deceit and
violence: and precious shall
their blood be in his sight. Chapter 73
15 And he shall live, and to
they that are far from thee as he had lifted up axes upon
shall perish: thou hast de- the thick trees. 6 But now
stroyed all them that go a they break down the carved
whoring from thee. 28 But it work thereof at once with
is good for me to draw near axes and hammers. 7 They
to God: I have put my trust have cast fire into thy sanc-
in the Lord God, that I may tuary, they have defiled by
declare all thy works. casting down the dwelling
place of thy name to the
ground. 8 They said in their
Chapter 74 hearts, Let us destroy them
together: they have burned
Maschil of Asaph. O God, up all the synagogues of
why hast thou cast us off for God in the land. 9 We see
ever? why doth thine anger not our signs: there is no
smoke against the sheep of more any prophet: neither
thy pasture? 2 Remember
is there among us any that
thy congregation, which thou knoweth how long. 10 O God,
hast purchased of old; the how long shall the adver-
rod of thine inheritance, sary reproach? shall the en-
which thou hast redeemed; emy blaspheme thy name for
this mount Zion, wherein ever? 11 Why withdrawest
thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy thou thy hand, even thy right
feet unto the perpetual deso- hand? pluck it out of thy
lations; even all that the en- bosom. 12 For God is my
emy hath done wickedly in King of old, working salva-
the sanctuary. 4 Thine en- tion in the midst of the earth.
emies roar in the midst of 13 Thou didst divide the sea
the south. 7 But God is the art more glorious and excel-
judge: he putteth down one, lent than the mountains of
and setteth up another. 8 For prey. 5 The stouthearted are
in the hand of the Lord spoiled, they have slept their
there is a cup, and the wine sleep: and none of the men
is red; it is full of mixture; of might have found their
and he poureth out of the hands. 6 At thy rebuke, O
same: but the dregs thereof, God of Jacob, both the char-
all the wicked of the earth iot and horse are cast into
shall wring them out, and a dead sleep. 7 Thou, even
drink them. 9 But I will de- thou, art to be feared: and
clare for ever; I will sing who may stand in thy sight
praises to the God of Jacob. when once thou art angry?
10 All the horns of the wicked 8 Thou didst cause judgment
also will I cut off; but the to be heard from heaven; the
horns of the righteous shall earth feared, and was still,
be exalted. 9 When God arose to judg-
lah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes doest wonders: thou hast de-
waking: I am so troubled clared thy strength among
that I cannot speak. 5 I have the people. 15 Thou hast with
considered the days of old, thine arm redeemed thy peo-
the years of ancient times. ple, the sons of Jacob and
6 I call to remembrance my
Joseph. Selah. 16 The waters
song in the night: I com- saw thee, O God, the waters
mune with mine own heart: saw thee; they were afraid:
and my spirit made diligent the depths also were trou-
search. 7 Will the Lord cast bled. 17 The clouds poured
off for ever? and will he be out water: the skies sent out
favourable no more? 8 Is his a sound: thine arrows also
mercy clean gone for ever? went abroad. 18 The voice
doth his promise fail for ev- of thy thunder was in the
ermore? 9 Hath God forgot- heaven: the lightnings light-
ten to be gracious? hath
PSALMS 1364
stroyed them not: yea, many with hail, and their syco-
a time turned he his anger more trees with frost. 48 He
away, and did not stir up gave up their cattle also to
all his wrath. 39 For he re- the hail, and their flocks
membered that they were to hot thunderbolts. 49 He
but flesh; a wind that pas- cast upon them the fierce-
seth away, and cometh not ness of his anger, wrath,
again. 40 How oft did they and indignation, and trou-
PSALMS 1367
let us cut them off from be- and as the flame setteth the
ing a nation; that the name mountains on fire; 15 So per-
of Israel may be no more secute them with thy tem-
in remembrance. 5 For they pest, and make them afraid
have consulted together with with thy storm. 16 Fill their
one consent: they are con- faces with shame; that they
federate against thee: 6 The may seek thy name, O Lord.
tabernacles of Edom, and 17 Let them be confounded
Lord our God be upon us: side, and ten thousand at thy
and establish thou the work right hand; but it shall not
of our hands upon us; yea, come nigh thee. 8 Only with
the work of our hands estab- thine eyes shalt thou behold
lish thou it. and see the reward of the
wicked. 9 Because thou hast
made the Lord, which is my
Chapter 91 refuge, even the most High,
thy habitation; 10 There shall
He that dwelleth in the se- no evil befall thee, neither
cret place of the most High shall any plague come nigh
shall abide under the shadow thy dwelling. 11 For he shall
of the Almighty. 2 I will say give his angels charge over
of the Lord, He is my refuge thee, to keep thee in all thy
and my fortress: my God; ways. 12 They shall bear
call upon me, and I will an- wicked spring as the grass,
swer him: I will be with him and when all the workers
in trouble; I will deliver him, of iniquity do flourish; it is
and honour him. 16 With that they shall be destroyed
long life will I satisfy him, for ever: 8 But thou, Lord,
and shew him my salvation. art most high for evermore.
9 For, lo, thine enemies, O
he made it: and his hands shew forth his salvation from
formed the dry land. 6 O day to day. 3 Declare his
come, let us worship and glory among the heathen, his
bow down: let us kneel be- wonders among all people.
fore the Lord our maker. 4 For the Lord is great, and
7 For he is our God; and we greatly to be praised: he
are the people of his pas- is to be feared above all
ture, and the sheep of his gods. 5 For all the gods of
hand. To day if ye will the nations are idols: but
hear his voice, 8 Harden not the Lord made the heav-
your heart, as in the provo- ens. 6 Honour and majesty
cation, and as in the day of are before him: strength and
temptation in the wilderness: beauty are in his sanctuary.
9 When your fathers tempted 7 Give unto the Lord, O ye
roar, and the fulness thereof. and all the people see his
12 Let the field be joyful, and glory. 7 Confounded be all
all that is therein: then shall they that serve graven im-
all the trees of the wood re- ages, that boast themselves
joice 13 Before the Lord: for of idols: worship him, all
he cometh, for he cometh ye gods. 8 Zion heard, and
to judge the earth: he shall was glad; and the daugh-
judge the world with righ- ters of Judah rejoiced be-
teousness, and the people cause of thy judgments, O
with his truth. Lord. 9 For thou, Lord,
art high above all the earth:
thou art exalted far above
Chapter 97 all gods. 10 Ye that love the
Lord, hate evil: he pre-
The Lord reigneth; let the serveth the souls of his saints;
earth rejoice; let the multi- he delivereth them out of the
tude of isles be glad thereof. hand of the wicked. 11 Light
2 Clouds and darkness are
is sown for the righteous,
round about him: righ- and gladness for the upright
teousness and judgment are in heart. 12 Rejoice in the
the habitation of his throne. Lord, ye righteous; and give
3 A fire goeth before him,
thanks at the remembrance
and burneth up his enemies of his holiness.
round about. 4 His light-
looked down from the height continue, and their seed shall
of his sanctuary; from heaven be established before thee.
did the Lord behold the
earth; 20 To hear the groan-
ing of the prisoner; to loose Chapter 103
those that are appointed to
death; 21 To declare the name A Psalm of David. Bless
of the Lord in Zion, and his the Lord, O my soul: and
praise in Jerusalem; 22 When all that is within me, bless
the people are gathered to- his holy name. 2 Bless the
gether, and the kingdoms, to Lord, O my soul, and for-
serve the Lord. 23 He weak- get not all his benefits: 3 Who
ened my strength in the way; forgiveth all thine iniqui-
he shortened my days. 24 I ties; who healeth all thy
said, O my God, take me diseases; 4 Who redeemeth
not away in the midst of my thy life from destruction;
days: thy years are through- who crowneth thee with lov-
out all generations. 25 Of old ingkindness and tender mer-
hast thou laid the founda- cies; 5 Who satisfieth thy
tion of the earth: and the mouth with good things; so
heavens are the work of thy that thy youth is renewed
hands. 26 They shall perish, like the eagle’s. 6 The Lord
but thou shalt endure: yea, executeth righteousness and
all of them shall wax old like judgment for all that are op-
a garment; as a vesture shalt pressed. 7 He made known
thou change them, and they his ways unto Moses, his acts
shall be changed: 27 But thou unto the children of Israel.
8 The Lord is merciful and
art the same, and thy years
shall have no end. 28 The gracious, slow to anger, and
children of thy servants shall plenteous in mercy. 9 He will
not always chide: neither will
PSALMS 1391
he keep his anger for ever. them. 19 The Lord hath pre-
10 He hath not dealt with us pared his throne in the heav-
after our sins; nor rewarded ens; and his kingdom ruleth
us according to our iniqui- over all. 20 Bless the Lord,
ties. 11 For as the heaven ye his angels, that excel in
is high above the earth, so strength, that do his com-
great is his mercy toward mandments, hearkening unto
them that fear him. 12 As the voice of his word. 21 Bless
far as the east is from the ye the Lord, all ye his hosts;
west, so far hath he removed ye ministers of his, that do
our transgressions from us. his pleasure. 22 Bless the
13 Like as a father pitieth his Lord, all his works in all
children, so the Lord pitieth places of his dominion: bless
them that fear him. 14 For the Lord, O my soul.
he knoweth our frame; he re-
membereth that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as Chapter 104
grass: as a flower of the field,
so he flourisheth. 16 For the Bless the Lord, O my soul.
wind passeth over it, and it O Lord my God, thou art
is gone; and the place thereof very great; thou art clothed
shall know it no more. 17 But with honour and majesty.
2 Who coverest thyself with
the mercy of the Lord is
from everlasting to everlast- light as with a garment: who
ing upon them that fear stretchest out the heavens
him, and his righteousness like a curtain: 3 Who layeth
unto children’s children; 18 To the beams of his chambers
such as keep his covenant, in the waters: who maketh
and to those that remem- the clouds his chariot: who
ber his commandments to do walketh upon the wings of
the wind: 4 Who maketh his
PSALMS 1392
the valleys, which run among seasons: the sun knoweth his
the hills. 11 They give drink going down. 20 Thou mak-
to every beast of the field: est darkness, and it is night:
the wild asses quench their wherein all the beasts of the
thirst. 12 By them shall the forest do creep forth. 21 The
fowls of the heaven have young lions roar after their
their habitation, which sing prey, and seek their meat
among the branches. 13 He from God. 22 The sun ariseth,
watereth the hills from his they gather themselves to-
chambers: the earth is sat- gether, and lay them down
isfied with the fruit of thy in their dens. 23 Man goeth
PSALMS 1393
forth all his praise? 3 Blessed the hand of him that hated
are they that keep judgment, them, and redeemed them
and he that doeth righteous- from the hand of the en-
ness at all times. 4 Remember emy. 11 And the waters cov-
me, O Lord, with the favour ered their enemies: there was
that thou bearest unto thy not one of them left. 12 Then
people: O visit me with thy believed they his words; they
salvation; 5 That I may see sang his praise. 13 They
the good of thy chosen, that soon forgat his works; they
I may rejoice in the glad- waited not for his counsel:
ness of thy nation, that I 14 But lusted exceedingly in
seed also among the nations, they sacrificed their sons and
and to scatter them in the their daughters unto dev-
lands. 28 They joined them- ils, 38 And shed innocent
selves also unto Baalpeor, blood, even the blood of
and ate the sacrifices of the their sons and of their daugh-
dead. 29 Thus they pro- ters, whom they sacrificed
PSALMS 1398
them; but they provoked him Lord say so, whom he hath
with their counsel, and were redeemed from the hand of
brought low for their iniq- the enemy; 3 And gathered
uity. 44 Nevertheless he re- them out of the lands, from
garded their affliction, when the east, and from the west,
he heard their cry: 45 And from the north, and from
he remembered for them his the south. 4 They wandered
covenant, and repented ac- in the wilderness in a soli-
cording to the multitude of tary way; they found no city
his mercies. 46 He made them to dwell in. 5 Hungry and
also to be pitied of all those thirsty, their soul fainted in
that carried them captives. them. 6 Then they cried unto
the Lord in their trouble,
PSALMS 1399
their heart with labour; they the Lord for his good-
fell down, and there was none ness, and for his wonder-
to help. 13 Then they cried ful works to the children of
unto the Lord in their trou- men! 22 And let them sacri-
ble, and he saved them out fice the sacrifices of thanks-
of their distresses. 14 He giving, and declare his works
brought them out of darkness with rejoicing. 23 They that
and the shadow of death, go down to the sea in ships,
and brake their bands in that do business in great wa-
sunder. 15 Oh that men ters; 24 These see the works
PSALMS 1400
bringeth them unto their de- and brought low through op-
sired haven. 31 Oh that men pression, affliction, and sor-
would praise the Lord for row. 40 He poureth con-
teous shall see it, and re- Shechem, and mete out the
joice: and all iniquity shall valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead
stop her mouth. 43 Whoso is is mine; Manasseh is mine;
wise, and will observe these Ephraim also is the strength
things, even they shall under- of mine head; Judah is my
stand the lovingkindness of lawgiver; 9 Moab is my wash-
the Lord. pot; over Edom will I cast
out my shoe; over Philis-
tia will I triumph. 10 Who
Chapter 108 will bring me into the strong
city? who will lead me into
A Song or Psalm of David. Edom? 11 Wilt not thou,
self will awake early. 3 I will for vain is the help of man.
praise thee, O Lord, among 13 Through God we shall do
will praise thee with upright- mine eyes, that I may be-
ness of heart, when I shall hold wondrous things out
have learned thy righteous of thy law. 19 I am a
heart is as fat as grease; but turn unto me, and those that
I delight in thy law. 71 It have known thy testimonies.
is good for me that I have 80 Let my heart be sound
when they see me; because thy servant? when wilt thou
I have hoped in thy word. execute judgment on them
75 I know, O Lord, that thy that persecute me? 85 The
judgments are right, and that proud have digged pits for
PSALMS 1414
me, which are not after thy end of all perfection: but thy
law. 86 All thy command- commandment is exceeding
ments are faithful: they per- broad. 97 MEM. O how love
secute me wrongfully; help I thy law! it is my medi-
thou me. 87 They had almost tation all the day. 98 Thou
consumed me upon earth; through thy commandments
but I forsook not thy pre- hast made me wiser than
cepts. 88 Quicken me after mine enemies: for they are
thy lovingkindness; so shall ever with me. 99 I have more
I keep the testimony of thy understanding than all my
mouth. 89 LAMED. For ever, teachers: for thy testimonies
O Lord, thy word is settled are my meditation. 100 I un-
in heaven. 90 Thy faithfulness derstand more than the an-
is unto all generations: thou cients, because I keep thy
hast established the earth, precepts. 101 I have refrained
and it abideth. 91 They con- my feet from every evil way,
tinue this day according to that I might keep thy word.
thine ordinances: for all are 102 I have not departed from
seech thee, the freewill offer- all them that err from thy
ings of my mouth, O Lord, statutes: for their deceit is
and teach me thy judgments. falsehood. 119 Thou puttest
109 My soul is continually in away all the wicked of the
my hand: yet do I not for- earth like dross: therefore I
get thy law. 110 The wicked love thy testimonies. 120 My
have laid a snare for me: yet flesh trembleth for fear of
I erred not from thy pre- thee; and I am afraid of thy
cepts. 111 Thy testimonies judgments. 121 AIN. I have
have I taken as an heritage done judgment and justice:
for ever: for they are the re- leave me not to mine op-
joicing of my heart. 112 I have pressors. 122 Be surety for
inclined mine heart to per- thy servant for good: let
form thy statutes alway, even not the proud oppress me.
unto the end. 113 SAMECH. 123 Mine eyes fail for thy sal-
Chapter 123
Chapter 122
A Song of degrees. Unto thee
A Song of degrees of David. lift I up mine eyes, O thou
I was glad when they said that dwellest in the heavens.
unto me, Let us go into the 2 Behold, as the eyes of ser-
house of the Lord. 2 Our feet vants look unto the hand of
shall stand within thy gates, their masters, and as the eyes
O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is of a maiden unto the hand of
builded as a city that is com- her mistress; so our eyes wait
pact together: 4 Whither the upon the Lord our God, un-
tribes go up, the tribes of til that he have mercy upon
the Lord, unto the testi- us. 3 Have mercy upon us, O
mony of Israel, to give thanks Lord, have mercy upon us:
unto the name of the Lord. for we are exceedingly filled
5 For there are set thrones of with contempt. 4 Our soul
judgment, the thrones of the is exceedingly filled with the
house of David. 6 Pray for scorning of those that are at
the peace of Jerusalem: they ease, and with the contempt
shall prosper that love thee. of the proud.
PSALMS 1420
Chapter 129
too high for me. 2 Surely rest; thou, and the ark of thy
I have behaved and quieted strength. 9 Let thy priests
myself, as a child that is be clothed with righteous-
weaned of his mother: my ness; and let thy saints shout
soul is even as a weaned for joy. 10 For thy servant
child. 3 Let Israel hope in the David’s sake turn not away
Lord from henceforth and the face of thine anointed.
for ever. 11 The Lord hath sworn in
Chapter 135
Chapter 133
Praise ye the Lord. Praise
A Song of degrees of David. ye the name of the Lord;
Behold, how good and how praise him, O ye servants
pleasant it is for brethren of the Lord. 2 Ye that
Lord pleased, that did he are silver and gold, the work
in heaven, and in earth, in of men’s hands. 16 They
the seas, and all deep places. have mouths, but they speak
7 He causeth the vapours to not; eyes have they, but they
ascend from the ends of the see not; 17 They have ears,
earth; he maketh lightnings but they hear not; neither
for the rain; he bringeth is there any breath in their
the wind out of his trea- mouths. 18 They that make
suries. 8 Who smote the first- them are like unto them: so
born of Egypt, both of man is every one that trusteth
and beast. 9 Who sent to- in them. 19 Bless the Lord,
kens and wonders into the O house of Israel: bless the
midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Lord, O house of Aaron:
Pharaoh, and upon all his 20 Bless the Lord, O house of
dureth for ever: 8 The sun to his mercy endureth for ever:
rule by day: for his mercy 19 Sihon king of the Amor-
with a stretched out arm: low estate: for his mercy en-
for his mercy endureth for dureth for ever: 24 And hath
ever. 13 To him which di- redeemed us from our ene-
vided the Red sea into parts: mies: for his mercy endureth
for his mercy endureth for for ever. 25 Who giveth
not hid from thee, when I know my heart: try me, and
was made in secret, and cu- know my thoughts: 24 And
riously wrought in the lowest see if there be any wicked way
parts of the earth. 16 Thine in me, and lead me in the
eyes did see my substance, way everlasting.
yet being unperfect; and
in thy book all my mem-
bers were written, which in Chapter 140
continuance were fashioned,
when as yet there was none To the chief Musician, A
of them. 17 How precious also Psalm of David. Deliver
are thy thoughts unto me, O me, O Lord, from the evil
God! how great is the sum man: preserve me from the
of them! 18 If I should count violent man; 2 Which imag-
them, they are more in num- ine mischiefs in their heart;
ber than the sand: when I continually are they gathered
together for war. 3 They
awake, I am still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the have sharpened their tongues
wicked, O God: depart from like a serpent; adders’ poi-
me therefore, ye bloody men. son is under their lips. Se-
20 For they speak against thee lah. 4 Keep me, O Lord,
wickedly, and thine enemies from the hands of the wicked;
take thy name in vain. 21 Do preserve me from the violent
not I hate them, O Lord, man; who have purposed to
that hate thee? and am not overthrow my goings. 5 The
I grieved with those that rise proud have hid a snare for
up against thee? 22 I hate me, and cords; they have
spread a net by the wayside;
PSALMS 1430
praise thee, O Lord; and them that love him: but all
thy saints shall bless thee. the wicked will he destroy.
11 They shall speak of the 21 My mouth shall speak the
and maidens; old men, and upon their beds. 6 Let the
children: 13 Let them praise high praises of God be in
the name of the Lord: for their mouth, and a twoedged
his name alone is excellent; sword in their hand; 7 To exe-
his glory is above the earth cute vengeance upon the hea-
and heaven. 14 He also exal- then, and punishments upon
teth the horn of his people, the people; 8 To bind their
the praise of all his saints; kings with chains, and their
even of the children of Is- nobles with fetters of iron;
rael, a people near unto him. 9 To execute upon them the
praise him upon the high ery thing that hath breath
sounding cymbals. 6 Let ev- praise the Lord. Praise ye
the Lord.
Proverbs
1439
PROVERBS 1440
the things thou canst desire den fear, neither of the des-
are not to be compared unto olation of the wicked, when
her. 16 Length of days is in it cometh. 26 For the Lord
her right hand; and in her shall be thy confidence, and
left hand riches and honour. shall keep thy foot from be-
17 Her ways are ways of pleas- ing taken. 27 Withhold not
antness, and all her paths good from them to whom it
are peace. 18 She is a tree is due, when it is in the power
of life to them that lay hold of thine hand to do it. 28 Say
upon her: and happy is ev- not unto thy neighbour, Go,
ery one that retaineth her. and come again, and to mor-
19 The Lord by wisdom hath row I will give; when thou
founded the earth; by under- hast it by thee. 29 Devise
standing hath he established not evil against thy neigh-
the heavens. 20 By his knowl- bour, seeing he dwelleth se-
edge the depths are bro- curely by thee. 30 Strive not
ken up, and the clouds drop with a man without cause, if
down the dew. 21 My son, let he have done thee no harm.
not them depart from thine 31 Envy thou not the oppres-
eyes: keep sound wisdom and sor, and choose none of his
discretion: 22 So shall they ways. 32 For the froward is
be life unto thy soul, and abomination to the Lord:
grace to thy neck. 23 Then but his secret is with the
shalt thou walk in thy way righteous. 33 The curse of
safely, and thy foot shall not the Lord is in the house
stumble. 24 When thou li- of the wicked: but he bles-
est down, thou shalt not be seth the habitation of the
afraid: yea, thou shalt lie just. 34 Surely he scorneth
down, and thy sleep shall be the scorners: but he giveth
sweet. 25 Be not afraid of sud- grace unto the lowly. 35 The
PROVERBS 1444
wise shall inherit glory: but our, when thou dost embrace
shame shall be the promotion her. 9 She shall give to thine
of fools. head an ornament of grace:
a crown of glory shall she de-
liver to thee. 10 Hear, O my
Chapter 4 son, and receive my sayings;
and the years of thy life shall
Hear, ye children, the in- be many. 11 I have taught
struction of a father, and at- thee in the way of wisdom; I
tend to know understanding. have led thee in right paths.
2 For I give you good doc- 12 When thou goest, thy steps
say, How have I hated in- and he pondereth all his go-
struction, and my heart de- ings. 22 His own iniquities
spised reproof; 13 And have shall take the wicked himself,
not obeyed the voice of my and he shall be holden with
teachers, nor inclined mine the cords of his sins. 23 He
ear to them that instructed shall die without instruction;
me! 14 I was almost in all evil and in the greatness of his
in the midst of the congrega- folly he shall go astray.
tion and assembly. 15 Drink
waters out of thine own cis-
tern, and running waters out Chapter 6
of thine own well. 16 Let
thy fountains be dispersed My son, if thou be surety
abroad, and rivers of waters for thy friend, if thou hast
in the streets. 17 Let them stricken thy hand with a
be only thine own, and not stranger, 2 Thou art snared
strangers’ with thee. 18 Let with the words of thy mouth,
thy fountain be blessed: and thou art taken with the
rejoice with the wife of thy words of thy mouth. 3 Do
youth. 19 Let her be as the this now, my son, and de-
loving hind and pleasant roe; liver thyself, when thou art
let her breasts satisfy thee at come into the hand of thy
all times; and be thou rav- friend; go, humble thyself,
ished always with her love. and make sure thy friend.
20 And why wilt thou, my 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes,
them. 9 They are all plain ter than gold, yea, than fine
to him that understandeth, gold; and my revenue than
and right to them that find choice silver. 20 I lead in the
knowledge. 10 Receive my way of righteousness, in the
instruction, and not silver; midst of the paths of judg-
and knowledge rather than ment: 21 That I may cause
choice gold. 11 For wisdom those that love me to in-
is better than rubies; and herit substance; and I will fill
all the things that may be their treasures. 22 The Lord
desired are not to be com- possessed me in the begin-
pared to it. 12 I wisdom dwell ning of his way, before his
PROVERBS 1451
olence covereth the mouth of feed many: but fools die for
the wicked. 12 Hatred stirreth want of wisdom. 22 The bless-
up strifes: but love covereth ing of the Lord, it maketh
all sins. 13 In the lips of him rich, and he addeth no sor-
that hath understanding wis- row with it. 23 It is as sport
PROVERBS 1454
but the end thereof are the vise evil? but mercy and
ways of death. 13 Even in truth shall be to them that
laughter the heart is sorrow- devise good. 23 In all labour
ful; and the end of that mirth there is profit: but the talk
is heaviness. 14 The back- of the lips tendeth only to
slider in heart shall be filled penury. 24 The crown of the
with his own ways: and a wise is their riches: but the
good man shall be satisfied foolishness of fools is folly.
from himself. 15 The simple 25 A true witness delivereth
that hateth gifts shall live. the Lord, and thy thoughts
28 The heart of the righteous shall be established. 4 The
studieth to answer: but the Lord hath made all things
mouth of the wicked poureth for himself: yea, even the
out evil things. 29 The Lord wicked for the day of evil.
is far from the wicked: but 5 Every one that is proud in
that loveth pleasure shall be the day long: but the righ-
a poor man: he that loveth teous giveth and spareth not.
PROVERBS 1473
thine eyes upon that which the rod, and shalt deliver
is not? for riches certainly his soul from hell. 15 My
make themselves wings; they son, if thine heart be wise,
fly away as an eagle toward my heart shall rejoice, even
heaven. 6 Eat thou not the mine. 16 Yea, my reins shall
bread of him that hath an rejoice, when thy lips speak
evil eye, neither desire thou right things. 17 Let not thine
his dainty meats: 7 For as heart envy sinners: but be
he thinketh in his heart, so thou in the fear of the Lord
is he: Eat and drink, saith all the day long. 18 For surely
he to thee; but his heart is there is an end; and thine
not with thee. 8 The morsel expectation shall not be cut
which thou hast eaten shalt off. 19 Hear thou, my son,
thou vomit up, and lose thy and be wise, and guide thine
sweet words. 9 Speak not in heart in the way. 20 Be not
the ears of a fool: for he among winebibbers; among
will despise the wisdom of riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For
thy words. 10 Remove not the the drunkard and the glutton
old landmark; and enter not shall come to poverty: and
into the fields of the father- drowsiness shall clothe a man
less: 11 For their redeemer is with rags. 22 Hearken unto
mighty; he shall plead their thy father that begat thee,
cause with thee. 12 Apply and despise not thy mother
thine heart unto instruction, when she is old. 23 Buy the
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ery man according to his son, fear thou the Lord and
works? 13 My son, eat thou the king: and meddle not
honey, because it is good; with them that are given to
and the honeycomb, which change: 22 For their calamity
is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall rise suddenly; and who
shall the knowledge of wis- knoweth the ruin of them
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both? 23 These things also be- and the stone wall thereof
long to the wise. It is not was broken down. 32 Then I
good to have respect of per- saw, and considered it well: I
sons in judgment. 24 He that looked upon it, and received
saith unto the wicked, Thou instruction. 33 Yet a little
art righteous; him shall the sleep, a little slumber, a little
people curse, nations shall folding of the hands to sleep:
abhor him: 25 But to them 34 So shall thy poverty come
coals of fire upon his head, the curse causeless shall not
and the Lord shall reward come. 3 A whip for the horse,
thee. 23 The north wind driv- a bridle for the ass, and a rod
eth away rain: so doth an an- for the fool’s back. 4 Answer
gry countenance a backbit- not a fool according to his
ing tongue. 24 It is better folly, lest thou also be like
to dwell in the corner of the unto him. 5 Answer a fool ac-
housetop, than with a brawl- cording to his folly, lest he
ing woman and in a wide be wise in his own conceit.
house. 25 As cold waters to a 6 He that sendeth a message
to his mouth. 16 The slug- lieve him not: for there are
gard is wiser in his own con- seven abominations in his
ceit than seven men that can heart. 26 Whose hatred is
render a reason. 17 He that covered by deceit, his wicked-
passeth by, and meddleth ness shall be shewed be-
with strife belonging not to fore the whole congregation.
him, is like one that taketh 27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall
and look well to thy herds. praise the wicked: but such
24 For riches are not for ever: as keep the law contend with
and doth the crown endure them. 5 Evil men understand
to every generation? 25 The not judgment: but they that
hay appeareth, and the ten- seek the Lord understand
der grass sheweth itself, and all things. 6 Better is the
herbs of the mountains are poor that walketh in his up-
gathered. 26 The lambs are rightness, than he that is per-
for thy clothing, and the verse in his ways, though
goats are the price of the he be rich. 7 Whoso keep-
field. 27 And thou shalt have eth the law is a wise son:
goats’ milk enough for thy but he that is a companion
food, for the food of thy of riotous men shameth his
household, and for the main- father. 8 He that by usury
tenance for thy maidens. and unjust gain increaseth
his substance, he shall gather
it for him that will pity
Chapter 28 the poor. 9 He that turneth
away his ear from hearing
The wicked flee when no man the law, even his prayer shall
pursueth: but the righteous
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shall fall himself into his own shall be saved: but he that
pit: but the upright shall is perverse in his ways shall
have good things in posses- fall at once. 19 He that tilleth
sion. 11 The rich man is his land shall have plenty of
wise in his own conceit; but bread: but he that followeth
the poor that hath under- after vain persons shall have
standing searcheth him out. poverty enough. 20 A faithful
12 When righteous men do re- man shall abound with bless-
joice, there is great glory: ings: but he that maketh
but when the wicked rise, a haste to be rich shall not be
man is hidden. 13 He that innocent. 21 To have respect
covereth his sins shall not of persons is not good: for
prosper: but whoso confes- for a piece of bread that man
seth and forsaketh them shall will transgress. 22 He that
have mercy. 14 Happy is the hasteth to be rich hath an
man that feareth alway: but evil eye, and considereth not
he that hardeneth his heart that poverty shall come upon
shall fall into mischief. 15 As him. 23 He that rebuketh
with food convenient for me: womb; the earth that is not
9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, filled with water; and the fire
and say, Who is the Lord? that saith not, It is enough.
or lest I be poor, and steal, 17 The eye that mocketh at
nor for princes strong drink: yet night, and giveth meat to
5 Lest they drink, and for- her household, and a portion
get the law, and pervert the to her maidens. 16 She con-
judgment of any of the af- sidereth a field, and buyeth
flicted. 6 Give strong drink it: with the fruit of her
unto him that is ready to per- hands she planteth a vine-
ish, and wine unto those that yard. 17 She girdeth her loins
be of heavy hearts. 7 Let him with strength, and strength-
drink, and forget his poverty, eneth her arms. 18 She per-
and remember his misery no ceiveth that her merchandise
more. 8 Open thy mouth for is good: her candle goeth
the dumb in the cause of all not out by night. 19 She
her clothing; and she shall re- virtuously, but thou excellest
joice in time to come. 26 She them all. 30 Favour is de-
openeth her mouth with wis- ceitful, and beauty is vain:
dom; and in her tongue is but a woman that feareth the
the law of kindness. 27 She Lord, she shall be praised.
looketh well to the ways of 31 Give her of the fruit of her
her household, and eateth hands; and let her own works
not the bread of idleness. praise her in the gates.
28 Her children arise up, and
Ecclesiastes
T Preacher,
son of David,
the
king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith
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ECCLESIASTES 1492
there. 17 I said in mine heart, for who shall bring him to see
God shall judge the righteous what shall be after him?
and the wicked: for there is
a time there for every pur-
pose and for every work. 18 I Chapter 4
said in mine heart concern-
ing the estate of the sons of So I returned, and considered
men, that God might man- all the oppressions that are
ifest them, and that they done under the sun: and be-
might see that they them- hold the tears of such as were
selves are beasts. 19 For that oppressed, and they had no
which befalleth the sons of comforter; and on the side
men befalleth beasts; even of their oppressors there was
one thing befalleth them: as power; but they had no com-
the one dieth, so dieth the forter. 2 Wherefore I praised
other; yea, they have all the dead which are already
one breath; so that a man dead more than the living
hath no preeminence above a which are yet alive. 3 Yea,
beast: for all is vanity. 20 All better is he than both they,
go unto one place; all are of which hath not yet been, who
the dust, and all turn to dust hath not seen the evil work
again. 21 Who knoweth the that is done under the sun.
4 Again, I considered all tra-
spirit of man that goeth up-
ward, and the spirit of the vail, and every right work,
beast that goeth downward that for this a man is envied
to the earth? 22 Wherefore I of his neighbour. This is also
perceive that there is noth- vanity and vexation of spirit.
5 The fool foldeth his hands
ing better, than that a man
should rejoice in his own together, and eateth his own
works; for that is his portion: flesh. 6 Better is an handful
with quietness, than both the
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the bosom of fools. 10 Say not over much; neither make thy-
thou, What is the cause that self over wise: why shouldest
the former days were better thou destroy thyself? 17 Be
than these? for thou dost not over much wicked, nei-
not enquire wisely concern- ther be thou foolish: why
ing this. 11 Wisdom is good shouldest thou die before thy
with an inheritance: and by time? 18 It is good that
ity: for that is thy portion a great king against it, and
in this life, and in thy labour besieged it, and built great
which thou takest under the bulwarks against it: 15 Now
sun. 10 Whatsoever thy hand there was found in it a poor
findeth to do, do it with thy wise man, and he by his
might; for there is no work, wisdom delivered the city;
nor device, nor knowledge, yet no man remembered that
nor wisdom, in the grave, same poor man. 16 Then said
whither thou goest. 11 I re- I, Wisdom is better than
turned, and saw under the strength: nevertheless the
sun, that the race is not to poor man’s wisdom is de-
the swift, nor the battle to spised, and his words are
the strong, neither yet bread not heard. 17 The words
but a fool’s heart at his left. 11 Surely the serpent will bite
3 Yea also, when he that is without enchantment; and a
a fool walketh by the way, babbler is no better. 12 The
his wisdom faileth him, and words of a wise man’s mouth
he saith to every one that he are gracious; but the lips of
is a fool. 4 If the spirit of a fool will swallow up him-
the ruler rise up against thee, self. 13 The beginning of the
leave not thy place; for yield- words of his mouth is fool-
ing pacifieth great offences. ishness: and the end of his
5 There is an evil which I have talk is mischievous madness.
seen under the sun, as an 14 A fool also is full of words:
put away evil from thy flesh: they shall be afraid of that
for childhood and youth are which is high, and fears shall
vanity. be in the way, and the al-
mond tree shall flourish, and
the grasshopper shall be a
Chapter 12 burden, and desire shall fail:
because man goeth to his
Remember now thy Creator long home, and the mourn-
in the days of thy youth, ers go about the streets: 6 Or
while the evil days come not, ever the silver cord be loosed,
nor the years draw nigh, or the golden bowl be bro-
when thou shalt say, I have ken, or the pitcher be bro-
no pleasure in them; 2 While ken at the fountain, or the
the sun, or the light, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
moon, or the stars, be not 7 Then shall the dust return
T songs, which is
Solomon’s. 2 Let
him kiss me with
the kisses of his mouth: for
thy love is better than wine.
I am black, because the sun
hath looked upon me: my
mother’s children were angry
with me; they made me the
keeper of the vineyards; but
3 Because of the savour of thy mine own vineyard have I not
good ointments thy name is kept. 7 Tell me, O thou whom
as ointment poured forth, my soul loveth, where thou
therefore do the virgins love feedest, where thou makest
thee. 4 Draw me, we will run thy flock to rest at noon:
after thee: the king hath for why should I be as one
brought me into his cham- that turneth aside by the
bers: we will be glad and flocks of thy companions?
8 If thou know not, O thou
rejoice in thee, we will re-
member thy love more than fairest among women, go thy
wine: the upright love thee. way forth by the footsteps
5 I am black, but comely, O of the flock, and feed thy
ye daughters of Jerusalem, kids beside the shepherds’
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ISAIAH 1521
law of our God, ye people of put away the evil of your do-
Gomorrah. 11 To what pur- ings from before mine eyes;
pose is the multitude of your cease to do evil; 17 Learn to
sacrifices unto me? saith the do well; seek judgment, re-
Lord: I am full of the burnt lieve the oppressed, judge
offerings of rams, and the the fatherless, plead for the
fat of fed beasts; and I de- widow. 18 Come now, and let
light not in the blood of bul- us reason together, saith the
locks, or of lambs, or of he Lord: though your sins be
goats. 12 When ye come to as scarlet, they shall be as
appear before me, who hath white as snow; though they
required this at your hand, be red like crimson, they
to tread my courts? 13 Bring shall be as wool. 19 If ye
no more vain oblations; in- be willing and obedient, ye
cense is an abomination unto shall eat the good of the land:
me; the new moons and sab- 20 But if ye refuse and rebel,
ISAIAH 1522
beat their swords into plow- hide thee in the dust, for
shares, and their spears into fear of the Lord, and for the
pruninghooks: nation shall glory of his majesty. 11 The
not lift up sword against lofty looks of man shall be
nation, neither shall they humbled, and the haughti-
learn war any more. 5O ness of men shall be bowed
house of Jacob, come ye, and down, and the Lord alone
let us walk in the light of shall be exalted in that day.
the Lord. 6 Therefore thou 12 For the day of the Lord of
hast forsaken thy people the hosts shall be upon every one
house of Jacob, because they that is proud and lofty, and
be replenished from the east, upon every one that is lifted
and are soothsayers like the up; and he shall be brought
ISAIAH 1524
low: 13 And upon all the clefts of the rocks, and into
cedars of Lebanon, that are the tops of the ragged rocks,
high and lifted up, and upon for fear of the Lord, and
all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And for the glory of his majesty,
upon all the high mountains, when he ariseth to shake ter-
and upon all the hills that ribly the earth. 22 Cease ye
are lifted up, 15 And upon ev- from man, whose breath is in
ery high tower, and upon ev- his nostrils: for wherein is he
ery fenced wall, 16 And upon to be accounted of?
all the ships of Tarshish, and
upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man Chapter 3
shall be bowed down, and
the haughtiness of men shall For, behold, the Lord, the
be made low: and the Lord Lord of hosts, doth take
alone shall be exalted in that away from Jerusalem and
day. 18 And the idols he shall from Judah the stay and the
utterly abolish. 19 And they staff, the whole stay of bread,
shall go into the holes of the and the whole stay of water,
2 The mighty man, and the
rocks, and into the caves of
the earth, for fear of the man of war, the judge, and
Lord, and for the glory of the prophet, and the pru-
his majesty, when he ariseth dent, and the ancient, 3 The
to shake terribly the earth. captain of fifty, and the hon-
20 In that day a man shall ourable man, and the coun-
cast his idols of silver, and sellor, and the cunning artifi-
his idols of gold, which they cer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be
made each one for himself to
worship, to the moles and to their princes, and babes shall
the bats; 21 To go into the rule over them. 5 And the
people shall be oppressed,
ISAIAH 1525
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, and vex it, and let us make
king of Judah, that Rezin a breach therein for us, and
the king of Syria, and Pekah set a king in the midst of
the son of Remaliah, king it, even the son of Tabeal:
of Israel, went up toward
ISAIAH 1532
all his channels, and go over himself; and let him be your
all his banks: 8 And he shall fear, and let him be your
pass through Judah; he shall dread. 14 And he shall be
overflow and go over, he for a sanctuary; but for a
shall reach even to the neck; stone of stumbling and for a
and the stretching out of his rock of offence to both the
wings shall fill the breadth houses of Israel, for a gin and
of thy land, O Immanuel. for a snare to the inhabitants
9 Associate yourselves, O ye of Jerusalem. 15 And many
people, and ye shall be bro- among them shall stumble,
ken in pieces; and give ear, and fall, and be broken, and
all ye of far countries: gird be snared, and be taken.
yourselves, and ye shall be 16 Bind up the testimony, seal
for God is with us. 11 For whom the Lord hath given
the Lord spake thus to me me are for signs and for won-
with a strong hand, and in- ders in Israel from the Lord
structed me that I should not of hosts, which dwelleth in
walk in the way of this peo- mount Zion. 19 And when
ISAIAH 1535
they shall say unto you, Seek land of Zebulun and the land
unto them that have famil- of Naphtali, and afterward
iar spirits, and unto wizards did more grievously afflict
that peep, and that mutter: her by the way of the sea,
should not a people seek unto beyond Jordan, in Galilee
their God? for the living of the nations. 2 The peo-
to the dead? 20 To the law ple that walked in darkness
and to the testimony: if they have seen a great light: they
speak not according to this that dwell in the land of the
word, it is because there is shadow of death, upon them
no light in them. 21 And hath the light shined. 3 Thou
they shall pass through it, hast multiplied the nation,
hardly bestead and hungry: and not increased the joy:
and it shall come to pass, they joy before thee accord-
that when they shall be hun- ing to the joy in harvest,
gry, they shall fret them- and as men rejoice when
selves, and curse their king they divide the spoil. 4 For
and their God, and look up- thou hast broken the yoke of
ward. 22 And they shall look his burden, and the staff of
unto the earth; and behold his shoulder, the rod of his
trouble and darkness, dim- oppressor, as in the day of
ness of anguish; and they Midian. 5 For every battle
shall be driven to darkness. of the warrior is with con-
fused noise, and garments
rolled in blood; but this shall
Chapter 9 be with burning and fuel of
fire. 6 For unto us a child is
Nevertheless the dimness born, unto us a son is given:
shall not be such as was in and the government shall be
her vexation, when at the upon his shoulder: and his
first he lightly afflicted the
ISAIAH 1536
even Ephraim and the in- ple cause them to err; and
habitant of Samaria, that they that are led of them
say in the pride and stout- are destroyed. 17 Therefore
ness of heart, 10 The bricks the Lord shall have no joy
are fallen down, but we will in their young men, neither
build with hewn stones: the shall have mercy on their fa-
sycomores are cut down, therless and widows: for ev-
but we will change them ery one is an hypocrite and
into cedars. 11 Therefore the an evildoer, and every mouth
Lord shall set up the ad- speaketh folly. For all this
versaries of Rezin against his anger is not turned away,
him, and join his enemies but his hand is stretched out
together; 12 The Syrians be- still. 18 For wickedness bur-
ISAIAH 1537
neth as the fire: it shall de- turn aside the needy from
vour the briers and thorns, judgment, and to take away
and shall kindle in the thick- the right from the poor of
ets of the forest, and they my people, that widows may
shall mount up like the lift- be their prey, and that they
ing up of smoke. 19 Through may rob the fatherless! 3 And
the wrath of the Lord of what will ye do in the day of
hosts is the land darkened, visitation, and in the desola-
and the people shall be as the tion which shall come from
fuel of the fire: no man shall far? to whom will ye flee
spare his brother. 20 And for help? and where will ye
he shall snatch on the right leave your glory? 4 Without
hand, and be hungry; and me they shall bow down un-
he shall eat on the left hand, der the prisoners, and they
and they shall not be sat- shall fall under the slain.
isfied: they shall eat every For all this his anger is not
man the flesh of his own arm: turned away, but his hand is
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and stretched out still. 5 O Assyr-
Ephraim, Manasseh: and ian, the rod of mine anger,
they together shall be against and the staff in their hand
Judah. For all this his anger is mine indignation. 6 I will
is not turned away, but his send him against an hypo-
hand is stretched out still. critical nation, and against
the people of my wrath will I
give him a charge, to take the
Chapter 10 spoil, and to take the prey,
and to tread them down
Woe unto them that de- like the mire of the streets.
cree unrighteous decrees, and 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so,
shall put his hand on the shall depart, and the adver-
cockatrice’ den. 9 They shall saries of Judah shall be cut
not hurt nor destroy in all my off: Ephraim shall not envy
holy mountain: for the earth Judah, and Judah shall not
shall be full of the knowl- vex Ephraim. 14 But they
edge of the Lord, as the wa- shall fly upon the shoulders
ters cover the sea. 10 And in of the Philistines toward the
that day there shall be a root west; they shall spoil them of
of Jesse, which shall stand the east together: they shall
for an ensign of the people; lay their hand upon Edom
to it shall the Gentiles seek: and Moab; and the children
and his rest shall be glorious. of Ammon shall obey them.
11 And it shall come to pass 15 And the Lord shall utterly
shall melt: 8 And they shall the earth shall remove out of
be afraid: pangs and sor- her place, in the wrath of the
rows shall take hold of them; Lord of hosts, and in the
they shall be in pain as a day of his fierce anger. 14 And
woman that travaileth: they it shall be as the chased roe,
shall be amazed one at an- and as a sheep that no man
other; their faces shall be as taketh up: they shall every
flames. 9 Behold, the day of man turn to his own peo-
the Lord cometh, cruel both ple, and flee every one into
with wrath and fierce anger, his own land. 15 Every one
to lay the land desolate: and that is found shall be thrust
he shall destroy the sinners through; and every one that
thereof out of it. 10 For the is joined unto them shall fall
stars of heaven and the con- by the sword. 16 Their chil-
stellations thereof shall not dren also shall be dashed
give their light: the sun to pieces before their eyes;
shall be darkened in his go- their houses shall be spoiled,
ing forth, and the moon shall and their wives ravished.
not cause her light to shine. 17 Behold, I will stir up the
11 And I will punish the world Medes against them, which
for their evil, and the wicked shall not regard silver; and as
for their iniquity; and I will for gold, they shall not de-
cause the arrogancy of the light in it. 18 Their bows also
proud to cease, and will lay shall dash the young men to
low the haughtiness of the pieces; and they shall have
terrible. 12 I will make a man no pity on the fruit of the
more precious than fine gold; womb; their eye shall not
even a man than the golden spare children. 19 And Baby-
wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore lon, the glory of kingdoms,
I will shake the heavens, and the beauty of the Chaldees’
ISAIAH 1544
for thee, even all the chief narrowly look upon thee, and
ones of the earth; it hath consider thee, saying, Is this
raised up from their thrones the man that made the earth
all the kings of the nations. to tremble, that did shake
10 All they shall speak and kingdoms; 17 That made the
say unto thee, Art thou also world as a wilderness, and
become weak as we? art destroyed the cities thereof;
thou become like unto us? that opened not the house
11 Thy pomp is brought down of his prisoners? 18 All the
to the grave, and the noise kings of the nations, even
of thy viols: the worm is all of them, lie in glory, ev-
spread under thee, and the ery one in his own house.
worms cover thee. 12 How art 19 But thou art cast out of
der feet. 20 Thou shalt not be der foot: then shall his yoke
joined with them in burial, depart from off them, and his
because thou hast destroyed burden depart from off their
thy land, and slain thy peo- shoulders. 26 This is the pur-
ple: the seed of evildo- pose that is purposed upon
ers shall never be renowned. the whole earth: and this
21 Prepare slaughter for his is the hand that is stretched
children for the iniquity of out upon all the nations.
their fathers; that they do 27 For the Lord of hosts hath
not rise, nor possess the land, purposed, and who shall dis-
nor fill the face of the world annul it? and his hand is
with cities. 22 For I will stretched out, and who shall
rise up against them, saith turn it back? 28 In the year
the Lord of hosts, and cut that king Ahaz died was this
off from Babylon the name, burden. 29 Rejoice not thou,
and remnant, and son, and whole Palestina, because the
nephew, saith the Lord. 23 I rod of him that smote thee
will also make it a possession is broken: for out of the ser-
for the bittern, and pools pent’s root shall come forth
of water: and I will sweep a cockatrice, and his fruit
it with the besom of de- shall be a fiery flying ser-
struction, saith the Lord of pent. 30 And the firstborn
hosts. 24 The Lord of hosts of the poor shall feed, and
hath sworn, saying, Surely as the needy shall lie down in
I have thought, so shall it safety: and I will kill thy root
come to pass; and as I have with famine, and he shall
purposed, so shall it stand: slay thy remnant. 31 Howl, O
25 That I will break the As- gate; cry, O city; thou, whole
syrian in my land, and upon Palestina, art dissolved: for
my mountains tread him un- there shall come from the
ISAIAH 1547
the face of the spoiler: for the the weeping of Jazer the vine
extortioner is at an end, the of Sibmah: I will water thee
spoiler ceaseth, the oppres- with my tears, O Heshbon,
sors are consumed out of the and Elealeh: for the shouting
land. 5 And in mercy shall for thy summer fruits and for
the throne be established: thy harvest is fallen. 10 And
and he shall sit upon it in
ISAIAH 1549
rushes upon the waters, say- the fowls shall summer upon
ing, Go, ye swift messengers, them, and all the beasts of
to a nation scattered and the earth shall winter upon
peeled, to a people terrible them. 7 In that time shall
from their beginning hith- the present be brought unto
erto; a nation meted out and the Lord of hosts of a peo-
trodden down, whose land ple scattered and peeled, and
the rivers have spoiled! 3 All from a people terrible from
ye inhabitants of the world, their beginning hitherto; a
and dwellers on the earth, nation meted out and trod-
see ye, when he lifteth up den under foot, whose land
an ensign on the mountains; the rivers have spoiled, to
and when he bloweth a trum- the place of the name of the
pet, hear ye. 4 For so the Lord of hosts, the mount
Lord said unto me, I will Zion.
take my rest, and I will con-
sider in my dwelling place
like a clear heat upon herbs, Chapter 19
and like a cloud of dew in the
heat of harvest. 5 For afore The burden of Egypt. Be-
the harvest, when the bud is hold, the Lord rideth upon
perfect, and the sour grape a swift cloud, and shall come
is ripening in the flower, into Egypt: and the idols of
he shall both cut off the Egypt shall be moved at his
sprigs with pruning hooks, presence, and the heart of
and take away and cut down Egypt shall melt in the midst
the branches. 6 They shall be of it. 2 And I will set the
left together unto the fowls Egyptians against the Egyp-
of the mountains, and to tians: and they shall fight ev-
the beasts of the earth: and ery one against his brother,
and every one against his
ISAIAH 1552
loins filled with pain: pangs is fallen; and all the graven
have taken hold upon me, images of her gods he hath
as the pangs of a woman broken unto the ground. 10 O
that travaileth: I was bowed my threshing, and the corn of
down at the hearing of it; my floor: that which I have
I was dismayed at the see- heard of the Lord of hosts,
ing of it. 4 My heart panted, the God of Israel, have I de-
fearfulness affrighted me: the clared unto you. 11 The bur-
night of my pleasure hath den of Dumah. He calleth to
he turned into fear unto me. me out of Seir, Watchman,
5 Prepare the table, watch in what of the night? Watch-
the watchtower, eat, drink: man, what of the night?
arise, ye princes, and anoint 12 The watchman said, The
wine: let us eat and drink; thy station, and from thy
for to morrow we shall die. state shall he pull thee down.
14 And it was revealed in 20 And it shall come to pass
thou hast hewed thee out a of David will I lay upon his
sepulchre here, as he that shoulder; so he shall open,
heweth him out a sepulchre and none shall shut; and he
on high, and that graveth an shall shut, and none shall
ISAIAH 1558
songs, even glory to the righ- in that day, that the Lord
teous. But I said, My lean- shall punish the host of the
ness, my leanness, woe unto high ones that are on high,
me! the treacherous deal- and the kings of the earth
ers have dealt treacherously; upon the earth. 22 And they
yea, the treacherous deal- shall be gathered together,
ers have dealt very treach- as prisoners are gathered in
erously. 17 Fear, and the pit, the pit, and shall be shut
and the snare, are upon thee, up in the prison, and after
O inhabitant of the earth. many days shall they be vis-
18 And it shall come to pass, ited. 23 Then the moon shall
that he who fleeth from the be confounded, and the sun
noise of the fear shall fall ashamed, when the Lord of
into the pit; and he that hosts shall reign in mount
cometh up out of the midst Zion, and in Jerusalem, and
of the pit shall be taken in before his ancients gloriously.
the snare: for the windows
from on high are open, and
the foundations of the earth Chapter 25
do shake. 19 The earth is ut-
terly broken down, the earth O Lord, thou art my God;
is clean dissolved, the earth I will exalt thee, I will praise
is moved exceedingly. 20 The thy name; for thou hast done
earth shall reel to and fro wonderful things; thy coun-
like a drunkard, and shall sels of old are faithfulness
and truth. 2 For thou hast
ISAIAH 1562
low, and bring to the ground, dost weigh the path of the
even to the dust. just. 8 Yea, in the way of thy
judgments, O Lord, have we
waited for thee; the desire
Chapter 26 of our soul is to thy name,
and to the remembrance of
In that day shall this song be thee. 9 With my soul have
sung in the land of Judah; I desired thee in the night;
We have a strong city; sal- yea, with my spirit within
vation will God appoint for me will I seek thee early:
walls and bulwarks. 2 Open for when thy judgments are
ye the gates, that the righ- in the earth, the inhabitants
teous nation which keep- of the world will learn righ-
eth the truth may enter in. teousness. 10 Let favour be
3 Thou wilt keep him in per-
shewed to the wicked, yet
fect peace, whose mind is will he not learn righteous-
stayed on thee: because he ness: in the land of up-
trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye rightness will he deal un-
in the Lord for ever: for justly, and will not behold
in the Lord JEHOVAH is the majesty of the Lord.
everlasting strength: 5 For 11 Lord, when thy hand is
he bringeth down them that lifted up, they will not see:
dwell on high; the lofty city, but they shall see, and be
he layeth it low; he layeth it ashamed for their envy at
low, even to the ground; he the people; yea, the fire of
bringeth it even to the dust. thine enemies shall devour
6 The foot shall tread it down,
them. 12 Lord, thou wilt or-
even the feet of the poor, and dain peace for us: for thou
the steps of the needy. 7 The also hast wrought all our
way of the just is upright- works in us. 13 O Lord our
ness: thou, most upright,
ISAIAH 1564
that day sing ye unto her, A take away his sin; when he
vineyard of red wine. 3 I the maketh all the stones of the
Lord do keep it; I will wa- altar as chalkstones that are
ter it every moment: lest any beaten in sunder, the groves
hurt it, I will keep it night and images shall not stand
and day. 4 Fury is not in me: up. 10 Yet the defenced city
who would set the briers and shall be desolate, and the
thorns against me in battle? habitation forsaken, and left
I would go through them, I like a wilderness: there shall
would burn them together. the calf feed, and there shall
5 Or let him take hold of my he lie down, and consume the
strength, that he may make branches thereof. 11 When
peace with me; and he shall the boughs thereof are with-
make peace with me. 6 He ered, they shall be broken
shall cause them that come off: the women come, and
of Jacob to take root: Israel set them on fire: for it is a
shall blossom and bud, and people of no understanding:
fill the face of the world with therefore he that made them
fruit. 7 Hath he smitten him, will not have mercy on them,
as he smote those that smote and he that formed them
him? or is he slain accord- will shew them no favour.
ing to the slaughter of them 12 And it shall come to pass in
that are slain by him? 8 In that day, that the Lord shall
measure, when it shooteth beat off from the channel of
forth, thou wilt debate with the river unto the stream of
it: he stayeth his rough wind Egypt, and ye shall be gath-
in the day of the east wind. ered one by one, O ye chil-
9 By this therefore shall the dren of Israel. 13 And it shall
iniquity of Jacob be purged; come to pass in that day, that
and this is all the fruit to the great trumpet shall be
ISAIAH 1566
works are in the dark, and fender for a word, and lay a
they say, Who seeth us? and snare for him that reproveth
who knoweth us? 16 Surely in the gate, and turn aside
your turning of things upside the just for a thing of nought.
down shall be esteemed as 22 Therefore thus saith the
with the shovel and with the the night when a holy solem-
fan. 25 And there shall be nity is kept; and gladness
ISAIAH 1574
and the bittern shall possess shall fail, none shall want her
it; the owl also and the raven mate: for my mouth it hath
shall dwell in it: and he shall commanded, and his spirit it
stretch out upon it the line hath gathered them. 17 And
of confusion, and the stones he hath cast the lot for them,
of emptiness. 12 They shall and his hand hath divided it
call the nobles thereof to the unto them by line: they shall
kingdom, but none shall be possess it for ever, from gen-
there, and all her princes eration to generation shall
shall be nothing. 13 And they dwell therein.
thorns shall come up in her
palaces, nettles and bram-
bles in the fortresses thereof: Chapter 35
and it shall be an habita-
tion of dragons, and a court The wilderness and the soli-
for owls. 14 The wild beasts tary place shall be glad for
of the desert shall also meet them; and the desert shall
with the wild beasts of the rejoice, and blossom as the
island, and the satyr shall rose. 2 It shall blossom abun-
cry to his fellow; the screech dantly, and rejoice even with
owl also shall rest there, and joy and singing: the glory
find for herself a place of rest. of Lebanon shall be given
15 There shall the great owl unto it, the excellency of
make her nest, and lay, and Carmel and Sharon, they
hatch, and gather under her shall see the glory of the
shadow: there shall the vul- Lord, and the excellency of
tures also be gathered, every our God. 3 Strengthen ye
one with her mate. 16 Seek ye the weak hands, and con-
out of the book of the Lord, firm the feeble knees. 4 Say
and read: no one of these to them that are of a fear-
ful heart, Be strong, fear not:
ISAIAH 1581
words of the great king, the are the gods of Hamath and
king of Assyria. 14 Thus saith Arphad? where are the gods
the king, Let not Hezekiah of Sepharvaim? and have
deceive you: for he shall they delivered Samaria out
not be able to deliver you. of my hand? 20 Who are
15 Neither let Hezekiah make they among all the gods of
you trust in the Lord, say- these lands, that have de-
ing, The Lord will surely de- livered their land out of my
liver us: this city shall not be hand, that the Lord should
delivered into the hand of the deliver Jerusalem out of my
king of Assyria. 16 Hearken hand? 21 But they held their
not to Hezekiah: for thus peace, and answered him not
saith the king of Assyria, a word: for the king’s com-
Make an agreement with me mandment was, saying, An-
by a present, and come out swer him not. 22 Then came
to me: and eat ye every one Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah,
of his vine, and every one of that was over the household,
his fig tree, and drink ye ev- and Shebna the scribe, and
ery one the waters of his own Joah, the son of Asaph, the
cistern; 17 Until I come and recorder, to Hezekiah with
take you away to a land like their clothes rent, and told
your own land, a land of corn him the words of Rabshakeh.
and wine, a land of bread
and vineyards. 18 Beware lest
Hezekiah persuade you, say- Chapter 37
ing, The Lord will deliver
us. Hath any of the gods And it came to pass, when
of the nations delivered his king Hezekiah heard it, that
land out of the hand of the he rent his clothes, and cov-
king of Assyria? 19 Where ered himself with sackcloth,
and went into the house
ISAIAH 1584
thou alone, of all the king- the Lord hath spoken con-
doms of the earth: thou cerning him; The virgin, the
hast made heaven and earth. daughter of Zion, hath de-
17 Incline thine ear, O Lord, spised thee, and laughed thee
and hear; open thine eyes, to scorn; the daughter of
O Lord, and see: and hear Jerusalem hath shaken her
all the words of Sennacherib, head at thee. 23 Whom hast
ISAIAH 1586
house have they seen: there Jerusalem, and cry unto her,
is nothing among my trea- that her warfare is accom-
sures that I have not shewed plished, that her iniquity is
them. 5 Then said Isaiah to pardoned: for she hath re-
Hezekiah, Hear the word of ceived of the Lord’S hand
the Lord of hosts: 6 Behold, double for all her sins. 3 The
the days come, that all that voice of him that crieth
is in thine house, and that in the wilderness, Prepare
which thy fathers have laid ye the way of the Lord,
up in store until this day, make straight in the desert
shall be carried to Babylon: a highway for our God.
nothing shall be left, saith 4 Every valley shall be ex-
11 Behold, all they that were the Lord, and shalt glory
incensed against thee shall in the Holy One of Israel.
be ashamed and confounded: 17 When the poor and needy
will dry up the pools. 16 And they are all of them snared
I will bring the blind by a in holes, and they are hid in
way that they knew not; I prison houses: they are for
will lead them in paths that a prey, and none delivereth;
they have not known: I will for a spoil, and none saith,
make darkness light before Restore. 23 Who among you
them, and crooked things will give ear to this? who
straight. These things will I will hearken and hear for the
do unto them, and not for- time to come? 24 Who gave
sake them. 17 They shall be Jacob for a spoil, and Israel
turned back, they shall be to the robbers? did not the
greatly ashamed, that trust Lord, he against whom we
in graven images, that say have sinned? for they would
to the molten images, Ye are not walk in his ways, nei-
our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; ther were they obedient unto
and look, ye blind, that ye his law. 25 Therefore he hath
may see. 19 Who is blind, poured upon him the fury of
but my servant? or deaf, as his anger, and the strength of
my messenger that I sent? battle: and it hath set him
who is blind as he that is on fire round about, yet he
perfect, and blind as the knew not; and it burned him,
Lord’S servant? 20 Seeing yet he laid it not to heart.
many things, but thou obser-
vest not; opening the ears,
but he heareth not. 21 The Chapter 43
Lord is well pleased for his
righteousness’ sake; he will But now thus saith the Lord
magnify the law, and make that created thee, O Jacob,
it honourable. 22 But this is and he that formed thee, O
a people robbed and spoiled; Israel, Fear not: for I have
redeemed thee, I have called
ISAIAH 1598
am he; and there is none that 20 The beast of the field shall
can deliver out of my hand: I honour me, the dragons and
will work, and who shall let the owls: because I give wa-
it? 14 Thus saith the Lord, ters in the wilderness, and
your redeemer, the Holy One rivers in the desert, to give
of Israel; For your sake I drink to my people, my cho-
have sent to Babylon, and sen. 21 This people have I
have brought down all their formed for myself; they shall
nobles, and the Chaldeans, shew forth my praise. 22 But
whose cry is in the ships. thou hast not called upon
15 I am the Lord, your Holy me, O Jacob; but thou hast
One, the creator of Israel, been weary of me, O Israel.
your King. 16 Thus saith 23 Thou hast not brought me
not rise: they are extinct, sweet cane with money, nei-
they are quenched as tow. ther hast thou filled me with
18 Remember ye not the for- the fat of thy sacrifices: but
mer things, neither consider thou hast made me to serve
the things of old. 19 Behold, with thy sins, thou hast wea-
I will do a new thing; now ried me with thine iniqui-
it shall spring forth; shall ye ties. 25 I, even I, am he that
not know it? I will even blotteth out thy transgres-
make a way in the wilder- sions for mine own sake, and
ness, and rivers in the desert. will not remember thy sins.
ISAIAH 1600
they are their own witnesses; him down cedars, and taketh
they see not, nor know; the cypress and the oak,
that they may be ashamed. which he strengtheneth for
10 Who hath formed a god, himself among the trees of
or molten a graven image the forest: he planteth an
that is profitable for noth- ash, and the rain doth nour-
ing? 11 Behold, all his fellows ish it. 15 Then shall it be
shall be ashamed: and the for a man to burn: for he
workmen, they are of men: will take thereof, and warm
let them all be gathered to- himself; yea, he kindleth it,
gether, let them stand up; and baketh bread; yea, he
yet they shall fear, and they maketh a god, and wor-
shall be ashamed together. shippeth it; he maketh it
12 The smith with the tongs a graven image, and falleth
both worketh in the coals, down thereto. 16 He burneth
and fashioneth it with ham- part thereof in the fire; with
mers, and worketh it with part thereof he eateth flesh;
the strength of his arms: yea, he roasteth roast, and is sat-
he is hungry, and his strength isfied: yea, he warmeth him-
faileth: he drinketh no water, self, and saith, Aha, I am
and is faint. 13 The carpen- warm, I have seen the fire:
ter stretcheth out his rule; 17 And the residue thereof
no hands? 10 Woe unto him and they shall fall down unto
that saith unto his father, thee, they shall make sup-
What begettest thou? or to plication unto thee, saying,
the woman, What hast thou Surely God is in thee; and
brought forth? 11 Thus saith there is none else, there is
the Lord, the Holy One of no God. 15 Verily thou art
Israel, and his Maker, Ask a God that hidest thyself, O
me of things to come con- God of Israel, the Saviour.
cerning my sons, and con- 16 They shall be ashamed,
whom will ye liken me, and bird from the east, the man
make me equal, and com- that executeth my counsel
pare me, that we may be from a far country: yea, I
like? 6 They lavish gold out have spoken it, I will also
of the bag, and weigh silver bring it to pass; I have pur-
in the balance, and hire a posed it, I will also do it.
goldsmith; and he maketh it 12 Hearken unto me, ye stout-
a god: they fall down, yea, hearted, that are far from
they worship. 7 They bear righteousness: 13 I bring near
him upon the shoulder, they my righteousness; it shall not
carry him, and set him in be far off, and my salvation
his place, and he standeth; shall not tarry: and I will
from his place shall he not re- place salvation in Zion for Is-
move: yea, one shall cry unto rael my glory.
him, yet can he not answer,
nor save him out of his trou-
ble. 8 Remember this, and Chapter 47
shew yourselves men: bring
it again to mind, O ye trans- Come down, and sit in the
gressors. 9 Remember the dust, O virgin daughter of
former things of old: for I Babylon, sit on the ground:
am God, and there is none there is no throne, O daugh-
else; I am God, and there is ter of the Chaldeans: for
none like me, 10 Declaring the thou shalt no more be called
end from the beginning, and tender and delicate. 2 Take
from ancient times the things the millstones, and grind
that are not yet done, say- meal: uncover thy locks,
ing, My counsel shall stand, make bare the leg, uncover
and I will do all my plea- the thigh, pass over the
sure: 11 Calling a ravenous rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall
be uncovered, yea, thy shame
ISAIAH 1607
a coal to warm at, nor fire art obstinate, and thy neck
to sit before it. 15 Thus shall is an iron sinew, and thy
they be unto thee with whom brow brass; 5 I have even from
thou hast laboured, even thy the beginning declared it to
merchants, from thy youth: thee; before it came to pass
they shall wander every one I shewed it thee: lest thou
to his quarter; none shall shouldest say, Mine idol hath
save thee. done them, and my graven
image, and my molten im-
age, hath commanded them.
Chapter 48 6 Thou hast heard, see all
I will also give thee for a not hunger nor thirst; nei-
light to the Gentiles, that ther shall the heat nor sun
thou mayest be my salvation smite them: for he that hath
unto the end of the earth. mercy on them shall lead
7 Thus saith the Lord, the them, even by the springs of
Redeemer of Israel, and his water shall he guide them.
Holy One, to him whom man 11 And I will make all my
see and arise, princes also from far: and, lo, these from
shall worship, because of the the north and from the west;
Lord that is faithful, and and these from the land of
the Holy One of Israel, and Sinim. 13 Sing, O heavens;
he shall choose thee. 8 Thus and be joyful, O earth; and
saith the Lord, In an accept- break forth into singing, O
able time have I heard thee, mountains: for the Lord
and in a day of salvation have hath comforted his people,
I helped thee: and I will and will have mercy upon his
preserve thee, and give thee afflicted. 14 But Zion said,
for a covenant of the peo- The Lord hath forsaken me,
ple, to establish the earth, and my Lord hath forgotten
to cause to inherit the des- me. 15 Can a woman for-
olate heritages; 9 That thou get her sucking child, that
mayest say to the prisoners, she should not have com-
Go forth; to them that are passion on the son of her
in darkness, Shew yourselves. womb? yea, they may for-
They shall feed in the ways, get, yet will I not forget thee.
and their pastures shall be in 16 Behold, I have graven thee
that kindle a fire, that com- ple; and give ear unto me,
pass yourselves about with O my nation: for a law shall
sparks: walk in the light of proceed from me, and I will
your fire, and in the sparks make my judgment to rest
that ye have kindled. This for a light of the people.
shall ye have of mine hand; 5 My righteousness is near;
divided the sea, whose waves the head of all the streets,
roared: The Lord of hosts as a wild bull in a net:
is his name. 16 And I have they are full of the fury
put my words in thy mouth, of the Lord, the rebuke of
and I have covered thee in thy God. 21 Therefore hear
the shadow of mine hand, now this, thou afflicted, and
that I may plant the heav- drunken, but not with wine:
ens, and lay the foundations 22 Thus saith thy Lord the
of the earth, and say unto Lord, and thy God that
Zion, Thou art my people. pleadeth the cause of his peo-
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O ple, Behold, I have taken
Jerusalem, which hast drunk out of thine hand the cup
at the hand of the Lord of trembling, even the dregs
the cup of his fury; thou of the cup of my fury; thou
hast drunken the dregs of the shalt no more drink it again:
cup of trembling, and wrung 23 But I will put it into the
here, saith the Lord, that his holy arm in the eyes of
my people is taken away for all the nations; and all the
nought? they that rule over ends of the earth shall see
them make them to howl, the salvation of our God.
saith the Lord; and my 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go
fused, saith thy God. 7 For dows of agates, and thy gates
a small moment have I for- of carbuncles, and all thy
saken thee; but with great borders of pleasant stones.
mercies will I gather thee. 13 And all thy children shall
8 In a little wrath I hid my be taught of the Lord; and
face from thee for a mo- great shall be the peace of
ment; but with everlasting thy children. 14 In righteous-
kindness will I have mercy on ness shalt thou be estab-
thee, saith the Lord thy Re- lished: thou shalt be far from
deemer. 9 For this is as the oppression; for thou shalt not
waters of Noah unto me: for fear: and from terror; for
as I have sworn that the wa- it shall not come near thee.
ters of Noah should no more 15 Behold, they shall surely
fall for thy sake. 16 Behold, I that which is good, and let
have created the smith that your soul delight itself in fat-
bloweth the coals in the fire, ness. 3 Incline your ear, and
and that bringeth forth an come unto me: hear, and
instrument for his work; and your soul shall live; and I will
I have created the waster to make an everlasting covenant
destroy. 17 No weapon that with you, even the sure mer-
is formed against thee shall cies of David. 4 Behold, I
prosper; and every tongue have given him for a wit-
that shall rise against thee ness to the people, a leader
in judgment thou shalt con- and commander to the peo-
demn. This is the heritage ple. 5 Behold, thou shalt call
of the servants of the Lord, a nation that thou knowest
and their righteousness is of not, and nations that knew
me, saith the Lord. not thee shall run unto thee
because of the Lord thy
God, and for the Holy One
Chapter 55 of Israel; for he hath glo-
rified thee. 6 Seek ye the
Ho, every one that thirsteth, Lord while he may be found,
come ye to the waters, and call ye upon him while he is
he that hath no money; near: 7 Let the wicked forsake
come ye, buy, and eat; yea, his way, and the unrighteous
come, buy wine and milk man his thoughts: and let
without money and without him return unto the Lord,
price. 2 Wherefore do ye
and he will have mercy upon
spend money for that which him; and to our God, for
is not bread? and your he will abundantly pardon.
labour for that which sat- 8 For my thoughts are not
the land, and shall inherit him that is far off, and to
my holy mountain; 14 And him that is near, saith the
shall say, Cast ye up, cast Lord; and I will heal him.
ye up, prepare the way, take 20 But the wicked are like the
their goings: they have made ing from the heart words
them crooked paths: whoso- of falsehood. 14 And judg-
ever goeth therein shall not ment is turned away back-
know peace. 9 Therefore is ward, and justice standeth
judgment far from us, nei- afar off: for truth is fallen in
ther doth justice overtake us: the street, and equity cannot
we wait for light, but be- enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth;
hold obscurity; for bright- and he that departeth from
ness, but we walk in dark- evil maketh himself a prey:
ness. 10 We grope for the and the Lord saw it, and
wall like the blind, and we it displeased him that there
grope as if we had no eyes: was no judgment. 16 And he
we stumble at noonday as in saw that there was no man,
the night; we are in desolate and wondered that there was
places as dead men. 11 We no intercessor: therefore his
roar all like bears, and mourn arm brought salvation unto
sore like doves: we look for him; and his righteousness,
judgment, but there is none; it sustained him. 17 For he
for salvation, but it is far off put on righteousness as a
from us. 12 For our trans- breastplate, and an helmet
gressions are multiplied be- of salvation upon his head;
fore thee, and our sins testify and he put on the garments
against us: for our transgres- of vengeance for clothing,
sions are with us; and as for and was clad with zeal as a
our iniquities, we know them; cloke. 18 According to their
13 In transgressing and lying deeds, accordingly he will re-
against the Lord, and de- pay, fury to his adversaries,
parting away from our God, recompence to his enemies;
speaking oppression and re- to the islands he will repay
volt, conceiving and utter- recompence. 19 So shall they
ISAIAH 1629
fear the name of the Lord but the Lord shall arise
from the west, and his glory upon thee, and his glory shall
from the rising of the sun. be seen upon thee. 3 And the
When the enemy shall come Gentiles shall come to thy
in like a flood, the Spirit of light, and kings to the bright-
the Lord shall lift up a stan- ness of thy rising. 4 Lift up
dard against him. 20 And thine eyes round about, and
the Redeemer shall come to see: all they gather them-
Zion, and unto them that selves together, they come to
turn from transgression in thee: thy sons shall come
Jacob, saith the Lord. 21 As from far, and thy daugh-
for me, this is my covenant ters shall be nursed at thy
with them, saith the Lord; side. 5 Then thou shalt see,
My spirit that is upon thee, and flow together, and thine
and my words which I have heart shall fear, and be en-
put in thy mouth, shall not larged; because the abun-
depart out of thy mouth, nor dance of the sea shall be con-
out of the mouth of thy seed, verted unto thee, the forces
nor out of the mouth of thy of the Gentiles shall come
seed’s seed, saith the Lord, unto thee. 6 The multitude of
from henceforth and for ever. camels shall cover thee, the
dromedaries of Midian and
Ephah; all they from Sheba
Chapter 60 shall come: they shall bring
gold and incense; and they
Arise, shine; for thy light shall shew forth the praises of
is come, and the glory of the Lord. 7 All the flocks of
the Lord is risen upon thee. Kedar shall be gathered to-
2 For, behold, the darkness
gether unto thee, the rams of
shall cover the earth, and Nebaioth shall minister unto
gross darkness the people:
ISAIAH 1630
ish; yea, those nations shall and for iron I will bring sil-
ISAIAH 1631
ver, and for wood brass, and one a strong nation: I the
for stones iron: I will also Lord will hasten it in his
make thy officers peace, and time.
thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be
neither shall thy land any ered it shall eat it, and
more be termed Desolate: praise the Lord; and they
but thou shalt be called Hep- that have brought it together
hzibah, and thy land Beulah: shall drink it in the courts of
for the Lord delighteth in my holiness. 10 Go through,
thee, and thy land shall be go through the gates; pre-
married. 5 For as a young pare ye the way of the peo-
man marrieth a virgin, so ple; cast up, cast up the high-
shall thy sons marry thee: way; gather out the stones;
and as the bridegroom re- lift up a standard for the
joiceth over the bride, so people. 11 Behold, the Lord
shall thy God rejoice over hath proclaimed unto the
thee. 6 I have set watchmen end of the world, Say ye to
upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, the daughter of Zion, Be-
which shall never hold their hold, thy salvation cometh;
peace day nor night: ye that behold, his reward is with
ISAIAH 1634
them, The holy people, The and there was none to help;
redeemed of the Lord: and and I wondered that there
thou shalt be called, Sought was none to uphold: there-
out, A city not forsaken. fore mine own arm brought
salvation unto me; and my
fury, it upheld me. 6 And I
Chapter 63 will tread down the people in
mine anger, and make them
Who is this that cometh drunk in my fury, and I will
from Edom, with dyed gar- bring down their strength to
ments from Bozrah? this the earth. 7 I will mention
that is glorious in his apparel, the lovingkindnesses of the
travelling in the greatness of Lord, and the praises of the
his strength? I that speak Lord, according to all that
in righteousness, mighty to the Lord hath bestowed on
save. 2 Wherefore art thou us, and the great goodness
red in thine apparel, and thy toward the house of Israel,
garments like him that tread- which he hath bestowed on
eth in the winefat? 3 I have them according to his mer-
trodden the winepress alone; cies, and according to the
and of the people there was multitude of his lovingkind-
none with me: for I will nesses. 8 For he said, Surely
tread them in mine anger, they are my people, chil-
and trample them in my dren that will not lie: so
fury; and their blood shall he was their Saviour. 9 In
be sprinkled upon my gar- all their affliction he was af-
ments, and I will stain all flicted, and the angel of his
my raiment. 4 For the day of presence saved them: in his
vengeance is in mine heart,
ISAIAH 1635
love and in his pity he re- and behold from the habita-
deemed them; and he bare tion of thy holiness and of
them, and carried them all thy glory: where is thy zeal
the days of old. 10 But and thy strength, the sound-
they rebelled, and vexed his ing of thy bowels and of thy
holy Spirit: therefore he was mercies toward me? are they
turned to be their enemy, restrained? 16 Doubtless thou
and he fought against them. art our father, though Abra-
11 Then he remembered the ham be ignorant of us, and
days of old, Moses, and his Israel acknowledge us not:
people, saying, Where is he thou, O Lord, art our fa-
that brought them up out ther, our redeemer; thy name
of the sea with the shep- is from everlasting. 17 O
1643
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me, Thou hast well seen: for loins, and arise, and speak
I will hasten my word to per- unto them all that I com-
form it. 13 And the word of mand thee: be not dismayed
the Lord came unto me the at their faces, lest I confound
second time, saying, What thee before them. 18 For,
rael: 5 Thus saith the Lord, with you, saith the Lord,
What iniquity have your fa- and with your children’s chil-
thers found in me, that they dren will I plead. 10 For pass
are gone far from me, and over the isles of Chittim, and
have walked after vanity, and see; and send unto Kedar,
are become vain? 6 Neither and consider diligently, and
said they, Where is the Lord
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the Lord God. 23 How canst face: but in the time of their
thou say, I am not polluted, I trouble they will say, Arise,
have not gone after Baalim? and save us. 28 But where
see thy way in the valley, are thy gods that thou hast
know what thou hast done: made thee? let them arise,
thou art a swift dromedary if they can save thee in the
traversing her ways; 24 A wild time of thy trouble: for ac-
ass used to the wilderness, cording to the number of thy
that snuffeth up the wind at cities are thy gods, O Judah.
her pleasure; in her occa- 29 Wherefore will ye plead
sion who can turn her away? with me? ye all have trans-
all they that seek her will gressed against me, saith the
not weary themselves; in her Lord. 30 In vain have I smit-
month they shall find her. ten your children; they re-
25 Withhold thy foot from be- ceived no correction: your
ing unshod, and thy throat own sword hath devoured
from thirst: but thou saidst, your prophets, like a de-
There is no hope: no; for stroying lion. 31 O genera-
I have loved strangers, and tion, see ye the word of the
after them will I go. 26 As Lord. Have I been a wilder-
the thief is ashamed when he ness unto Israel? a land
is found, so is the house of of darkness? wherefore say
Israel ashamed; they, their my people, We are lords; we
kings, their princes, and their will come no more unto thee?
priests, and their prophets, 32 Can a maid forget her or-
27 Saying to a stock, Thou art naments, or a bride her at-
my father; and to a stone, tire? yet my people have for-
Thou hast brought me forth: gotten me days without num-
for they have turned their ber. 33 Why trimmest thou
back unto me, and not their thy way to seek love? there-
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fore hast thou also taught unto her again? shall not
the wicked ones thy ways. that land be greatly pol-
34 Also in thy skirts is found luted? but thou hast played
the blood of the souls of the the harlot with many lovers;
poor innocents: I have not yet return again to me, saith
found it by secret search, the Lord. 2 Lift up thine
but upon all these. 35 Yet eyes unto the high places,
thou sayest, Because I am and see where thou hast not
innocent, surely his anger been lien with. In the ways
shall turn from me. Be- hast thou sat for them, as
hold, I will plead with thee, the Arabian in the wilder-
because thou sayest, I have ness; and thou hast polluted
not sinned. 36 Why gad- the land with thy whore-
dest thou about so much to doms and with thy wicked-
change thy way? thou also ness. 3 Therefore the show-
shalt be ashamed of Egypt, ers have been withholden,
as thou wast ashamed of As- and there hath been no lat-
syria. 37 Yea, thou shalt go ter rain; and thou hadst a
forth from him, and thine whore’s forehead, thou re-
hands upon thine head: for fusedst to be ashamed. 4 Wilt
the Lord hath rejected thy thou not from this time cry
confidences, and thou shalt unto me, My father, thou
not prosper in them. art the guide of my youth?
5 Will he reserve his anger for
we have sinned against the fury come forth like fire, and
Lord our God, we and our burn that none can quench
fathers, from our youth even it, because of the evil of
unto this day, and have not your doings. 5 Declare ye
rael, saith the Lord, re- Zion: retire, stay not: for
turn unto me: and if thou I will bring evil from the
wilt put away thine abomi- north, and a great destruc-
nations out of my sight, then tion. 7 The lion is come up
shalt thou not remove. 2 And from his thicket, and the de-
thou shalt swear, The Lord stroyer of the Gentiles is on
liveth, in truth, in judg- his way; he is gone forth from
ment, and in righteousness; his place to make thy land
and the nations shall bless desolate; and thy cities shall
themselves in him, and in be laid waste, without an in-
him shall they glory. 3 For habitant. 8 For this gird you
thus saith the Lord to the with sackcloth, lament and
men of Judah and Jerusalem, howl: for the fierce anger
Break up your fallow ground, of the Lord is not turned
and sow not among thorns. back from us. 9 And it shall
4 Circumcise yourselves to
come to pass at that day,
the Lord, and take away saith the Lord, that the
the foreskins of your heart, heart of the king shall perish,
ye men of Judah and inhab- and the heart of the princes;
itants of Jerusalem: lest my
JEREMIAH 1652
long shall I see the standard, I have spoken it, I have pur-
and hear the sound of the posed it, and will not repent,
trumpet? 22 For my people is neither will I turn back from
foolish, they have not known it. 29 The whole city shall flee
me; they are sottish children, for the noise of the horsemen
and they have none under- and bowmen; they shall go
standing: they are wise to into thickets, and climb up
do evil, but to do good they upon the rocks: every city
have no knowledge. 23 I be- shall be forsaken, and not a
held the earth, and, lo, it was man dwell therein. 30 And
without form, and void; and when thou art spoiled, what
the heavens, and they had no wilt thou do? Though thou
light. 24 I beheld the moun- clothest thyself with crim-
tains, and, lo, they trem- son, though thou deckest
bled, and all the hills moved thee with ornaments of gold,
lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, though thou rentest thy face
there was no man, and all with painting, in vain shalt
the birds of the heavens were thou make thyself fair; thy
fled. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the lovers will despise thee, they
fruitful place was a wilder- will seek thy life. 31 For I have
ness, and all the cities thereof heard a voice as of a woman
were broken down at the in travail, and the anguish as
presence of the Lord, and of her that bringeth forth her
by his fierce anger. 27 For first child, the voice of the
thus hath the Lord said, daughter of Zion, that be-
The whole land shall be des- waileth herself, that spread-
olate; yet will I not make a eth her hands, saying, Woe
full end. 28 For this shall the is me now! for my soul is
earth mourn, and the heav- wearied because of murder-
ens above be black: because ers.
JEREMIAH 1654
thine eyes upon the truth? this? thy children have for-
thou hast stricken them, but saken me, and sworn by them
they have not grieved; thou that are no gods: when I
hast consumed them, but had fed them to the full,
they have refused to receive they then committed adul-
correction: they have made tery, and assembled them-
their faces harder than a selves by troops in the har-
rock; they have refused to lots’ houses. 8 They were
end: take away her battle- are all mighty men. 17 And
ments; for they are not the they shall eat up thine har-
Lord’S. 11 For the house of vest, and thy bread, which
Israel and the house of Ju- thy sons and thy daughters
dah have dealt very treach- should eat: they shall eat up
erously against me, saith the thy flocks and thine herds:
Lord. 12 They have belied they shall eat up thy vines
the Lord, and said, It is not and thy fig trees: they shall
he; neither shall evil come impoverish thy fenced cities,
upon us; neither shall we wherein thou trustedst, with
see sword nor famine: 13 And the sword. 18 Nevertheless in
the prophets shall become those days, saith the Lord, I
wind, and the word is not in will not make a full end with
them: thus shall it be done you. 19 And it shall come
unto them. 14 Wherefore to pass, when ye shall say,
thus saith the Lord God of Wherefore doeth the Lord
hosts, Because ye speak this our God all these things unto
word, behold, I will make us? then shalt thou answer
my words in thy mouth fire, them, Like as ye have for-
and this people wood, and saken me, and served strange
it shall devour them. 15 Lo, gods in your land, so shall ye
I will bring a nation upon serve strangers in a land that
you from far, O house of Is- is not yours. 20 Declare this
rael, saith the Lord: it is a in the house of Jacob, and
mighty nation, it is an an- publish it in Judah, saying,
cient nation, a nation whose 21 Hear now this, O foolish
pass over it? 23 But this peo- things? saith the Lord:
ple hath a revolting and a re- shall not my soul be avenged
bellious heart; they are re- on such a nation as this?
volted and gone. 24 Neither 30 A wonderful and horrible
shall find rest for your souls. hold, a people cometh from
But they said, We will not the north country, and a
walk therein. 17 Also I set great nation shall be raised
watchmen over you, saying, from the sides of the earth.
JEREMIAH 1659
name, and say, We are de- for this people, neither lift
livered to do all these abom- up cry nor prayer for them,
inations? 11 Is this house, neither make intercession to
which is called by my name, me: for I will not hear thee.
become a den of robbers in 17 Seest thou not what they
eat flesh. 22 For I spake not shalt speak all these words
unto your fathers, nor com- unto them; but they will
manded them in the day that not hearken to thee: thou
I brought them out of the shalt also call unto them;
land of Egypt, concerning but they will not answer
burnt offerings or sacrifices: thee. 28 But thou shalt say
JEREMIAH 1662
all the host of heaven, whom ery one turned to his course,
they have loved, and whom as the horse rusheth into the
they have served, and af- battle. 7 Yea, the stork in
ter whom they have walked, the heaven knoweth her ap-
and whom they have sought, pointed times; and the tur-
and whom they have wor- tle and the crane and the
shipped: they shall not be swallow observe the time of
gathered, nor be buried; they their coming; but my peo-
shall be for dung upon the ple know not the judgment
face of the earth. 3 And of the Lord. 8 How do ye
death shall be chosen rather say, We are wise, and the
than life by all the residue law of the Lord is with us?
of them that remain of this Lo, certainly in vain made
evil family, which remain in he it; the pen of the scribes
all the places whither I have is in vain. 9 The wise men
driven them, saith the Lord are ashamed, they are dis-
of hosts. 4 Moreover thou mayed and taken: lo, they
shalt say unto them, Thus have rejected the word of the
saith the Lord; Shall they Lord; and what wisdom is
fall, and not arise? shall he in them? 10 Therefore will I
turn away, and not return? give their wives unto others,
5 Why then is this people of and their fields to them that
Jerusalem slidden back by a shall inherit them: for every
perpetual backsliding? they one from the least even unto
hold fast deceit, they refuse the greatest is given to cov-
to return. 6 I hearkened and etousness, from the prophet
heard, but they spake not even unto the priest every
aright: no man repented one dealeth falsely. 11 For
him of his wickedness, say- they have healed the hurt
ing, What have I done? ev- of the daughter of my peo-
JEREMIAH 1664
I set before them, and have heard out of Zion, How are
not obeyed my voice, nei- we spoiled! we are greatly
ther walked therein; 14 But confounded, because we have
have walked after the imag- forsaken the land, because
ination of their own heart, our dwellings have cast us
and after Baalim, which out. 20 Yet hear the word of
their fathers taught them: the Lord, O ye women, and
15 Therefore thus saith the let your ear receive the word
JEREMIAH 1667
of his mouth, and teach your that I will punish all them
daughters wailing, and every which are circumcised with
one her neighbour lamenta- the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt,
tion. 21 For death is come and Judah, and Edom, and
up into our windows, and the children of Ammon, and
is entered into our palaces, Moab, and all that are in the
to cut off the children from utmost corners, that dwell
without, and the young men in the wilderness: for all
from the streets. 22 Speak, these nations are uncircum-
Thus saith the Lord, Even cised, and all the house of Is-
the carcases of men shall fall rael are uncircumcised in the
as dung upon the open field, heart.
and as the handful after the
harvestman, and none shall
gather them. 23 Thus saith Chapter 10
the Lord, Let not the wise
man glory in his wisdom, Hear ye the word which the
neither let the mighty man Lord speaketh unto you, O
glory in his might, let not house of Israel: 2 Thus saith
the rich man glory in his the Lord, Learn not the
riches: 24 But let him that way of the heathen, and be
glorieth glory in this, that he not dismayed at the signs of
understandeth and knoweth heaven; for the heathen are
me, that I am the Lord dismayed at them. 3 For the
which exercise lovingkind- customs of the people are
ness, judgment, and righ- vain: for one cutteth a tree
teousness, in the earth: for in out of the forest, the work
these things I delight, saith of the hands of the work-
the Lord. 25 Behold, the man, with the axe. 4 They
days come, saith the Lord, deck it with silver and with
gold; they fasten it with nails
JEREMIAH 1668
are vanity, and the work of per, and all their flocks shall
errors: in the time of their be scattered. 22 Behold, the
visitation they shall perish. noise of the bruit is come,
16 The portion of Jacob is not and a great commotion out
like them: for he is the for- of the north country, to make
mer of all things; and Is- the cities of Judah desolate,
rael is the rod of his inher- and a den of dragons. 23 O
itance: The Lord of hosts Lord, I know that the way
is his name. 17 Gather up of man is not in himself: it
thy wares out of the land, is not in man that walketh to
O inhabitant of the fortress. direct his steps. 24 O Lord,
18 For thus saith the Lord, correct me, but with judg-
Behold, I will sling out the ment; not in thine anger, lest
inhabitants of the land at thou bring me to nothing.
this once, and will distress 25 Pour out thy fury upon the
them, that they may find it heathen that know thee not,
so. 19 Woe is me for my and upon the families that
hurt! my wound is grievous: call not on thy name: for
but I said, Truly this is a they have eaten up Jacob,
grief, and I must bear it. and devoured him, and con-
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, sumed him, and have made
and all my cords are broken: his habitation desolate.
my children are gone forth of
me, and they are not: there
is none to stretch forth my Chapter 11
tent any more, and to set up
my curtains. 21 For the pas- The word that came to
tors are become brutish, and Jeremiah from the Lord,
have not sought the Lord: saying, 2 Hear ye the words
therefore they shall not pros- of this covenant, and speak
unto the men of Judah,
JEREMIAH 1670
ing, Hear ye the words of this thus saith the Lord, Behold,
covenant, and do them. 7 For I will bring evil upon them,
I earnestly protested unto which they shall not be able
your fathers in the day that to escape; and though they
JEREMIAH 1671
shall cry unto me, I will not fruit: with the noise of a
hearken unto them. 12 Then great tumult he hath kindled
shall the cities of Judah and fire upon it, and the branches
inhabitants of Jerusalem go, of it are broken. 17 For the
and cry unto the gods unto Lord of hosts, that planted
whom they offer incense: but thee, hath pronounced evil
they shall not save them at against thee, for the evil of
all in the time of their trou- the house of Israel and of
ble. 13 For according to the the house of Judah, which
number of thy cities were thy they have done against them-
gods, O Judah; and accord- selves to provoke me to anger
ing to the number of the in offering incense unto Baal.
streets of Jerusalem have ye 18 And the Lord hath given
the way of the wicked pros- the house of thy father, even
per? wherefore are all they they have dealt treacherously
happy that deal very treach- with thee; yea, they have
erously? 2 Thou hast planted called a multitude after thee:
them, yea, they have taken
JEREMIAH 1673
Thus saith the Lord unto this manner will I mar the
me, Go and get thee a linen pride of Judah, and the great
girdle, and put it upon thy pride of Jerusalem. 10 This
loins, and put it not in water. evil people, which refuse to
2 So I got a girdle according
hear my words, which walk
to the word of the Lord, and in the imagination of their
put it on my loins. 3 And the heart, and walk after other
word of the Lord came unto gods, to serve them, and to
me the second time, saying, worship them, shall even be
4 Take the girdle that thou
as this girdle, which is good
hast got, which is upon thy for nothing. 11 For as the
loins, and arise, go to Eu- girdle cleaveth to the loins
phrates, and hide it there of a man, so have I caused
in a hole of the rock. 5 So to cleave unto me the whole
I went, and hid it by Eu- house of Israel and the whole
phrates, as the Lord com- house of Judah, saith the
manded me. 6 And it came Lord; that they might be
to pass after many days, unto me for a people, and
that the Lord said unto me, for a name, and for a praise,
Arise, go to Euphrates, and
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and for a glory: but they feet stumble upon the dark
would not hear. 12 Therefore mountains, and, while ye
thou shalt speak unto them look for light, he turn it
this word; Thus saith the into the shadow of death,
Lord God of Israel, Every and make it gross darkness.
bottle shall be filled with 17 But if ye will not hear it,
wine: and they shall say unto my soul shall weep in secret
thee, Do we not certainly places for your pride; and
know that every bottle shall mine eye shall weep sore, and
be filled with wine? 13 Then run down with tears, because
shalt thou say unto them, the Lord’S flock is carried
Thus saith the Lord, Be- away captive. 18 Say unto the
hold, I will fill all the inhab- king and to the queen, Hum-
itants of this land, even the ble yourselves, sit down: for
kings that sit upon David’s your principalities shall come
throne, and the priests, and down, even the crown of your
the prophets, and all the in- glory. 19 The cities of the
habitants of Jerusalem, with south shall be shut up, and
drunkenness. 14 And I will none shall open them: Judah
dash them one against an- shall be carried away captive
other, even the fathers and all of it, it shall be wholly
the sons together, saith the carried away captive. 20 Lift
Lord: I will not pity, nor up your eyes, and behold
spare, nor have mercy, but them that come from the
destroy them. 15 Hear ye, north: where is the flock that
and give ear; be not proud: was given thee, thy beautiful
for the Lord hath spoken. flock? 21 What wilt thou say
16 Give glory to the Lord when he shall punish thee?
your God, before he cause for thou hast taught them
darkness, and before your to be captains, and as chief
JEREMIAH 1676
eyes did fail, because there will not hear their cry; and
was no grass. 7 O Lord, when they offer burnt offer-
though our iniquities testify ing and an oblation, I will
against us, do thou it for thy not accept them: but I will
name’s sake: for our back- consume them by the sword,
slidings are many; we have and by the famine, and by
sinned against thee. 8 O the the pestilence. 13 Then said
hope of Israel, the saviour I, Ah, Lord God! be-
thereof in time of trouble, hold, the prophets say unto
why shouldest thou be as a them, Ye shall not see the
stranger in the land, and as sword, neither shall ye have
a wayfaring man that tur- famine; but I will give you
neth aside to tarry for a assured peace in this place.
night? 9 Why shouldest thou 14 Then the Lord said unto
of the wicked, and I will re- saith the Lord, Enter not
deem thee out of the hand of into the house of mourning,
the terrible. neither go to lament nor be-
moan them: for I have taken
away my peace from this peo-
Chapter 16 ple, saith the Lord, even
lovingkindness and mercies.
The word of the Lord 6 Both the great and the
came also unto me, saying, small shall die in this land:
2 Thou shalt not take thee
they shall not be buried, nei-
a wife, neither shalt thou ther shall men lament for
have sons or daughters in this them, nor cut themselves,
place. 3 For thus saith the nor make themselves bald for
Lord concerning the sons them: 7 Neither shall men
and concerning the daugh- tear themselves for them in
ters that are born in this mourning, to comfort them
place, and concerning their for the dead; neither shall
mothers that bare them, and men give them the cup of
concerning their fathers that consolation to drink for their
begat them in this land; father or for their mother.
4 They shall die of grievous 8 Thou shalt not also go into
uity and their sin double; be- the table of their heart, and
cause they have defiled my upon the horns of your al-
land, they have filled mine tars; 2 Whilst their children
inheritance with the carcases remember their altars and
of their detestable and abom- their groves by the green
inable things. 19 O Lord, my trees upon the high hills. 3 O
strength, and my fortress, my mountain in the field,
and my refuge in the day of I will give thy substance
affliction, the Gentiles shall and all thy treasures to the
come unto thee from the spoil, and thy high places for
ends of the earth, and shall sin, throughout all thy bor-
say, Surely our fathers have ders. 4 And thou, even thy-
inherited lies, vanity, and self, shalt discontinue from
things wherein there is no thine heritage that I gave
profit. 20 Shall a man make thee; and I will cause thee
gods unto himself, and they to serve thine enemies in the
are no gods? 21 Therefore, land which thou knowest not:
behold, I will this once cause for ye have kindled a fire in
them to know, I will cause mine anger, which shall burn
them to know mine hand and for ever. 5 Thus saith the
my might; and they shall Lord; Cursed be the man
know that my name is The that trusteth in man, and
Lord. maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from
the Lord. 6 For he shall be
Chapter 17 like the heath in the desert,
and shall not see when good
The sin of Judah is writ- cometh; but shall inhabit the
ten with a pen of iron, and parched places in the wilder-
with the point of a dia- ness, in a salt land and not
mond: it is graven upon
JEREMIAH 1684
they might not hear, nor re- unto me to hallow the sab-
ceive instruction. 24 And it bath day, and not to bear
shall come to pass, if ye a burden, even entering in
diligently hearken unto me, at the gates of Jerusalem on
saith the Lord, to bring in the sabbath day; then will
no burden through the gates I kindle a fire in the gates
JEREMIAH 1686
of his evil heart. 13 Therefore the law shall not perish from
thus saith the Lord; Ask ye the priest, nor counsel from
now among the heathen, who the wise, nor the word from
hath heard such things: the the prophet. Come, and
virgin of Israel hath done a let us smite him with the
very horrible thing. 14 Will tongue, and let us not give
a man leave the snow of heed to any of his words.
Lebanon which cometh from 19 Give heed to me, O Lord,
will I give to be meat for the the Lord, and to the inhabi-
fowls of the heaven, and for tants thereof, and even make
the beasts of the earth. 8 And this city as Tophet: 13 And
I will make this city desolate, the houses of Jerusalem, and
and an hissing; every one the houses of the kings of Ju-
that passeth thereby shall be dah, shall be defiled as the
astonished and hiss because place of Tophet, because of
of all the plagues thereof. all the houses upon whose
9 And I will cause them to roofs they have burned in-
eat the flesh of their sons cense unto all the host of
and the flesh of their daugh- heaven, and have poured out
ters, and they shall eat ev- drink offerings unto other
ery one the flesh of his friend gods. 14 Then came Jeremiah
in the siege and straitness, from Tophet, whither the
wherewith their enemies, and Lord had sent him to proph-
they that seek their lives, esy; and he stood in the
shall straiten them. 10 Then court of the Lord’S house;
shalt thou break the bottle and said to all the peo-
in the sight of the men that ple, 15 Thus saith the Lord
go with thee, 11 And shalt of hosts, the God of Israel;
say unto them, Thus saith Behold, I will bring upon
the Lord of hosts; Even so this city and upon all her
will I break this people and towns all the evil that I
this city, as one breaketh have pronounced against it,
a potter’s vessel, that can- because they have hardened
not be made whole again: their necks, that they might
and they shall bury them not hear my words.
in Tophet, till there be no
place to bury. 12 Thus will
I do unto this place, saith
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tion of him, nor speak any ye the Lord: for he hath de-
more in his name. But his livered the soul of the poor
word was in mine heart as a from the hand of evildoers.
burning fire shut up in my 14 Cursed be the day wherein
bones, and I was weary with I was born: let not the
forbearing, and I could not day wherein my mother bare
stay. 10 For I heard the de- me be blessed. 15 Cursed be
faming of many, fear on every the man who brought tid-
side. Report, say they, and ings to my father, saying,
we will report it. All my fa- A man child is born unto
miliars watched for my halt- thee; making him very glad.
ing, saying, Peradventure he 16 And let that man be as
eth to the Chaldeans that be- Lord: and I will kindle a fire
siege you, he shall live, and in the forest thereof, and it
his life shall be unto him for shall devour all things round
a prey. 10 For I have set about it.
my face against this city for
evil, and not for good, saith
the Lord: it shall be given Chapter 22
into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it Thus saith the Lord; Go
with fire. 11 And touching the down to the house of the king
house of the king of Judah, of Judah, and speak there
say, Hear ye the word of the this word, 2 And say, Hear
Lord; 12 O house of David, the word of the Lord, O
thus saith the Lord; Exe- king of Judah, that sittest
cute judgment in the morn- upon the throne of David,
ing, and deliver him that is thou, and thy servants, and
spoiled out of the hand of thy people that enter in by
the oppressor, lest my fury these gates: 3 Thus saith the
go out like fire, and burn that Lord; Execute ye judgment
none can quench it, because and righteousness, and de-
of the evil of your doings. liver the spoiled out of the
13 Behold, I am against thee, hand of the oppressor: and
O inhabitant of the valley, do no wrong, do no violence
and rock of the plain, saith to the stranger, the father-
the Lord; which say, Who less, nor the widow, neither
shall come down against us? shed innocent blood in this
or who shall enter into our place. 4 For if ye do this thing
habitations? 14 But I will indeed, then shall there enter
punish you according to the in by the gates of this house
fruit of your doings, saith the kings sitting upon the throne
of David, riding in chari-
JEREMIAH 1694
ots and on horses, he, and not for the dead, neither be-
his servants, and his people. moan him: but weep sore
5 But if ye will not hear these for him that goeth away: for
words, I swear by myself, he shall return no more, nor
saith the Lord, that this see his native country. 11 For
house shall become a deso- thus saith the Lord touch-
lation. 6 For thus saith the ing Shallum the son of Josiah
Lord unto the king’s house king of Judah, which reigned
of Judah; Thou art Gilead instead of Josiah his father,
unto me, and the head of which went forth out of this
Lebanon: yet surely I will place; He shall not return
make thee a wilderness, and thither any more: 12 But he
cities which are not inhab- shall die in the place whither
ited. 7 And I will prepare they have led him captive,
destroyers against thee, ev- and shall see this land no
ery one with his weapons: more. 13 Woe unto him that
and they shall cut down buildeth his house by un-
thy choice cedars, and cast righteousness, and his cham-
them into the fire. 8 And bers by wrong; that useth
many nations shall pass by his neighbour’s service with-
this city, and they shall out wages, and giveth him
say every man to his neigh- not for his work; 14 That
bour, Wherefore hath the saith, I will build me a wide
Lord done thus unto this house and large chambers,
great city? 9 Then they and cutteth him out win-
shall answer, Because they dows; and it is cieled with
have forsaken the covenant cedar, and painted with ver-
of the Lord their God, and milion. 15 Shalt thou reign,
worshipped other gods, and because thou closest thyself
served them. 10 Weep ye in cedar? did not thy father
JEREMIAH 1695
eat and drink, and do judg- but thou saidst, I will not
ment and justice, and then hear. This hath been thy
it was well with him? 16 He manner from thy youth, that
judged the cause of the poor thou obeyedst not my voice.
and needy; then it was well 22 The wind shall eat up all
with him: was not this to thy pastors, and thy lovers
know me? saith the Lord. shall go into captivity: surely
17 But thine eyes and thine then shalt thou be ashamed
heart are not but for thy cov- and confounded for all thy
etousness, and for to shed wickedness. 23 O inhabitant
innocent blood, and for op- of Lebanon, that makest thy
pression, and for violence, nest in the cedars, how gra-
to do it. 18 Therefore thus cious shalt thou be when
saith the Lord concerning pangs come upon thee, the
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah pain as of a woman in tra-
king of Judah; They shall vail! 24 As I live, saith the
not lament for him, saying, Lord, though Coniah the
Ah my brother! or, Ah sis- son of Jehoiakim king of Ju-
ter! they shall not lament dah were the signet upon
for him, saying, Ah lord! or, my right hand, yet would
Ah his glory! 19 He shall be I pluck thee thence; 25 And
buried with the burial of an I will give thee into the
ass, drawn and cast forth be- hand of them that seek thy
yond the gates of Jerusalem. life, and into the hand of
20 Go up to Lebanon, and them whose face thou fearest,
cry; and lift up thy voice even into the hand of Neb-
in Bashan, and cry from the uchadrezzar king of Baby-
passages: for all thy lovers lon, and into the hand of the
are destroyed. 21 I spake Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast
unto thee in thy prosperity; thee out, and thy mother
JEREMIAH 1696
that bare thee, into another rael against the pastors that
country, where ye were not feed my people; Ye have scat-
born; and there shall ye die. tered my flock, and driven
27 But to the land where- them away, and have not vis-
unto they desire to return, ited them: behold, I will visit
thither shall they not return. upon you the evil of your do-
28 Is this man Coniah a de- ings, saith the Lord. 3 And
spised broken idol? is he I will gather the remnant of
a vessel wherein is no plea- my flock out of all countries
sure? wherefore are they cast whither I have driven them,
out, he and his seed, and and will bring them again to
are cast into a land which their folds; and they shall be
they know not? 29 O earth, fruitful and increase. 4 And
earth, earth, hear the word I will set up shepherds over
of the Lord. 30 Thus saith them which shall feed them:
the Lord, Write ye this man and they shall fear no more,
childless, a man that shall nor be dismayed, neither
not prosper in his days: for shall they be lacking, saith
no man of his seed shall pros- the Lord. 5 Behold, the days
per, sitting upon the throne come, saith the Lord, that I
of David, and ruling any will raise unto David a righ-
more in Judah. teous Branch, and a King
shall reign and prosper, and
shall execute judgment and
Chapter 23 justice in the earth. 6 In his
days Judah shall be saved,
Woe be unto the pastors and Israel shall dwell safely:
that destroy and scatter the and this is his name whereby
sheep of my pasture! saith he shall be called, THE
the Lord. 2 Therefore thus Lord OUR RIGHTEOUS-
saith the Lord God of Is-
JEREMIAH 1697
cause ye say this word, The figs, even like the figs that
burden of the Lord, and I are first ripe: and the other
have sent unto you, saying, basket had very naughty figs,
Ye shall not say, The burden which could not be eaten,
of the Lord; 39 Therefore, they were so bad. 3 Then said
behold, I, even I, will utterly the Lord unto me, What
forget you, and I will for- seest thou, Jeremiah? And
sake you, and the city that I said, Figs; the good figs,
I gave you and your fathers, very good; and the evil, very
and cast you out of my pres- evil, that cannot be eaten,
ence: 40 And I will bring they are so evil. 4 Again
of the Lord, after that Neb- upon them for good, and I
uchadrezzar king of Baby- will bring them again to this
lon had carried away cap- land: and I will build them,
tive Jeconiah the son of Je- and not pull them down; and
hoiakim king of Judah, and I will plant them, and not
the princes of Judah, with pluck them up. 7 And I will
the carpenters and smiths,
JEREMIAH 1701
the land that the Lord hath will take from them the voice
given unto you and to your of mirth, and the voice of
fathers for ever and ever: gladness, the voice of the
6 And go not after other gods bridegroom, and the voice
to serve them, and to wor- of the bride, the sound of
ship them, and provoke me the millstones, and the light
not to anger with the works of the candle. 11 And this
of your hands; and I will do whole land shall be a deso-
you no hurt. 7 Yet ye have lation, and an astonishment;
not hearkened unto me, saith and these nations shall serve
the Lord; that ye might the king of Babylon seventy
provoke me to anger with years. 12 And it shall come
the works of your hands to to pass, when seventy years
your own hurt. 8 Therefore are accomplished, that I will
thus saith the Lord of hosts; punish the king of Babylon,
Because ye have not heard and that nation, saith the
my words, 9 Behold, I will Lord, for their iniquity, and
send and take all the fami- the land of the Chaldeans,
lies of the north, saith the and will make it perpet-
Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar ual desolations. 13 And I
all these words, and say unto cry; and wallow yourselves in
them, The Lord shall roar the ashes, ye principal of the
from on high, and utter his flock: for the days of your
voice from his holy habita- slaughter and of your disper-
tion; he shall mightily roar sions are accomplished; and
upon his habitation; he shall ye shall fall like a pleasant
give a shout, as they that vessel. 35 And the shepherds
tread the grapes, against all shall have no way to flee,
the inhabitants of the earth. nor the principal of the flock
31 A noise shall come even to to escape. 36 A voice of the
the ends of the earth; for cry of the shepherds, and
the Lord hath a controversy an howling of the principal
JEREMIAH 1705
in the name of the Lord, your God; and the Lord will
saying, This house shall be repent him of the evil that
like Shiloh, and this city shall he hath pronounced against
be desolate without an in- you. 14 As for me, behold, I
habitant? And all the peo- am in your hand: do with me
ple were gathered against as seemeth good and meet
Jeremiah in the house of the unto you. 15 But know ye
Lord. 10 When the princes for certain, that if ye put
of Judah heard these things, me to death, ye shall surely
then they came up from the bring innocent blood upon
king’s house unto the house yourselves, and upon this
of the Lord, and sat down city, and upon the inhabi-
in the entry of the new gate tants thereof: for of a truth
of the Lord’S house. 11 Then the Lord hath sent me unto
spake the priests and the you to speak all these words
prophets unto the princes in your ears. 16 Then said
and to all the people, say- the princes and all the people
ing, This man is worthy to unto the priests and to the
die; for he hath prophesied prophets; This man is not
against this city, as ye have worthy to die: for he hath
heard with your ears. 12 Then spoken to us in the name of
spake Jeremiah unto all the the Lord our God. 17 Then
princes and to all the people, rose up certain of the el-
saying, The Lord sent me to ders of the land, and spake
prophesy against this house to all the assembly of the
and against this city all the people, saying, 18 Micah the
words that ye have heard. Morasthite prophesied in the
13 Therefore now amend your days of Hezekiah king of Ju-
ways and your doings, and dah, and spake to all the peo-
obey the voice of the Lord ple of Judah, saying, Thus
JEREMIAH 1707
the beast that are upon the your prophets, nor to your
ground, by my great power diviners, nor to your dream-
and by my outstretched arm, ers, nor to your enchanters,
and have given it unto whom nor to your sorcerers, which
it seemed meet unto me. speak unto you, saying, Ye
6 And now have I given all shall not serve the king of
these lands into the hand of Babylon: 10 For they proph-
Nebuchadnezzar the king of esy a lie unto you, to re-
Babylon, my servant; and move you far from your land;
the beasts of the field have I and that I should drive you
given him also to serve him. out, and ye should perish.
7 And all nations shall serve 11 But the nations that bring
him, and his son, and his their neck under the yoke
son’s son, until the very time of the king of Babylon, and
of his land come: and then serve him, those will I let re-
many nations and great kings main still in their own land,
shall serve themselves of him. saith the Lord; and they
JEREMIAH 1709
shall till it, and dwell therein. your prophets that proph-
12 I spake also to Zedekiah esy unto you, saying, Behold,
king of Judah according to the vessels of the Lord’S
all these words, saying, Bring house shall now shortly be
your necks under the yoke brought again from Baby-
of the king of Babylon, and lon: for they prophesy a lie
serve him and his people, and unto you. 17 Hearken not
live. 13 Why will ye die, thou unto them; serve the king
and thy people, by the sword, of Babylon, and live: where-
by the famine, and by the fore should this city be laid
pestilence, as the Lord hath waste? 18 But if they be
and find me, when ye shall with the sword, with the
search for me with all your famine, and with the pesti-
heart. 14 And I will be found lence, and will deliver them
of you, saith the Lord: and to be removed to all the king-
I will turn away your cap- doms of the earth, to be a
tivity, and I will gather you curse, and an astonishment,
from all the nations, and and an hissing, and a re-
from all the places whither proach, among all the na-
I have driven you, saith the tions whither I have driven
Lord; and I will bring you them: 19 Because they have
again into the place whence not hearkened to my words,
JEREMIAH 1714
it: it is even the time of Ja- not leave thee altogether un-
cob’s trouble; but he shall be punished. 12 For thus saith
saved out of it. 8 For it shall the Lord, Thy bruise is in-
come to pass in that day, curable, and thy wound is
saith the Lord of hosts, that grievous. 13 There is none to
I will break his yoke from plead thy cause, that thou
off thy neck, and will burst mayest be bound up: thou
thy bonds, and strangers hast no healing medicines.
shall no more serve them- 14 All thy lovers have for-
selves of him: 9 But they shall gotten thee; they seek thee
serve the Lord their God, not; for I have wounded thee
and David their king, whom with the wound of an enemy,
I will raise up unto them. with the chastisement of a
10 Therefore fear thou not, O cruel one, for the multitude
my servant Jacob, saith the of thine iniquity; because thy
Lord; neither be dismayed, sins were increased. 15 Why
O Israel: for, lo, I will save criest thou for thine afflic-
thee from afar, and thy seed tion? thy sorrow is in-
from the land of their cap- curable for the multitude
tivity; and Jacob shall re- of thine iniquity: because
turn, and shall be in rest, thy sins were increased, I
and be quiet, and none shall have done these things unto
make him afraid. 11 For I am thee. 16 Therefore all they
with thee, saith the Lord, to that devour thee shall be de-
save thee: though I make a voured; and all thine adver-
full end of all nations whither saries, every one of them,
I have scattered thee, yet shall go into captivity; and
will I not make a full end they that spoil thee shall be
of thee: but I will correct a spoil, and all that prey
thee in measure, and will upon thee will I give for
JEREMIAH 1717
the young of the flock and saith the Lord, that thy
of the herd: and their soul children shall come again to
shall be as a watered gar- their own border. 18 I have
den; and they shall not sor- surely heard Ephraim be-
row any more at all. 13 Then moaning himself thus; Thou
shall the virgin rejoice in the hast chastised me, and I
dance, both young men and was chastised, as a bullock
old together: for I will turn unaccustomed to the yoke:
their mourning into joy, and turn thou me, and I shall
will comfort them, and make be turned; for thou art the
them rejoice from their sor- Lord my God. 19 Surely af-
row. 14 And I will satiate the ter that I was turned, I re-
soul of the priests with fat- pented; and after that I was
ness, and my people shall be instructed, I smote upon my
satisfied with my goodness, thigh: I was ashamed, yea,
saith the Lord. 15 Thus saith even confounded, because I
the Lord; A voice was heard did bear the reproach of my
in Ramah, lamentation, and youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear
bitter weeping; Rahel weep- son? is he a pleasant child?
ing for her children refused for since I spake against him,
to be comforted for her chil- I do earnestly remember him
dren, because they were not. still: therefore my bowels are
16 Thus saith the Lord; Re- troubled for him; I will surely
frain thy voice from weeping, have mercy upon him, saith
and thine eyes from tears: for the Lord. 21 Set thee up
thy work shall be rewarded, waymarks, make thee high
saith the Lord; and they heaps: set thine heart toward
shall come again from the the highway, even the way
land of the enemy. 17 And which thou wentest: turn
there is hope in thine end, again, O virgin of Israel,
JEREMIAH 1720
evidence, and sealed it, and Israel; Houses and fields and
took witnesses, and weighed vineyards shall be possessed
him the money in the bal- again in this land. 16 Now
ances. 11 So I took the evi- when I had delivered the ev-
dence of the purchase, both idence of the purchase unto
that which was sealed ac- Baruch the son of Neriah, I
cording to the law and cus- prayed unto the Lord, say-
tom, and that which was ing, 17 Ah Lord God! behold,
open: 12 And I gave the ev- thou hast made the heaven
idence of the purchase unto and the earth by thy great
Baruch the son of Neriah, power and stretched out arm,
the son of Maaseiah, in the and there is nothing too hard
sight of Hanameel mine un- for thee: 18 Thou shewest lov-
cle’s son, and in the pres- ingkindness unto thousands,
ence of the witnesses that and recompensest the iniq-
subscribed the book of the uity of the fathers into the
purchase, before all the Jews bosom of their children after
that sat in the court of the them: the Great, the Mighty
prison. 13 And I charged God, the Lord of hosts, is
Baruch before them, say- his name, 19 Great in coun-
ing, 14 Thus saith the Lord sel, and mighty in work: for
of hosts, the God of Israel; thine eyes are open upon all
Take these evidences, this ev- the ways of the sons of men:
idence of the purchase, both to give every one according
which is sealed, and this evi- to his ways, and according
dence which is open; and put to the fruit of his doings:
them in an earthen vessel, 20 Which hast set signs and
and hast made thee a name, 25 And thou hast said unto
as at this day; 21 And hast me, O Lord God, Buy thee
brought forth thy people Is- the field for money, and take
rael out of the land of Egypt witnesses; for the city is
with signs, and with won- given into the hand of the
ders, and with a strong hand, Chaldeans. 26 Then came
them off? thus they have de- God of Israel; Go and speak
spised my people, that they to Zedekiah king of Judah,
should be no more a nation and tell him, Thus saith the
before them. 25 Thus saith Lord; Behold, I will give
the Lord; If my covenant this city into the hand of
be not with day and night, the king of Babylon, and he
and if I have not appointed shall burn it with fire: 3 And
the ordinances of heaven and thou shalt not escape out of
earth; 26 Then will I cast his hand, but shalt surely be
away the seed of Jacob, and taken, and delivered into his
David my servant, so that I hand; and thine eyes shall
will not take any of his seed behold the eyes of the king of
to be rulers over the seed of Babylon, and he shall speak
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: with thee mouth to mouth,
for I will cause their captiv- and thou shalt go to Baby-
ity to return, and have mercy lon. 4 Yet hear the word of
on them. the Lord, O Zedekiah king
of Judah; Thus saith the
Lord of thee, Thou shalt
Chapter 34 not die by the sword: 5 But
thou shalt die in peace: and
The word which came unto with the burnings of thy fa-
Jeremiah from the Lord, thers, the former kings which
when Nebuchadnezzar king were before thee, so shall
of Babylon, and all his army, they burn odours for thee;
and all the kingdoms of the and they will lament thee,
earth of his dominion, and saying, Ah lord! for I have
all the people, fought against pronounced the word, saith
Jerusalem, and against all
JEREMIAH 1730
heard; and I have called unto all the nations, from the day
them, but they have not an- I spake unto thee, from the
swered. 18 And Jeremiah said days of Josiah, even unto this
unto the house of the Rech- day. 3 It may be that the
abites, Thus saith the Lord house of Judah will hear all
of hosts, the God of Israel; the evil which I purpose to do
Because ye have obeyed the unto them; that they may re-
commandment of Jonadab turn every man from his evil
your father, and kept all his way; that I may forgive their
precepts, and done according iniquity and their sin. 4 Then
unto all that he hath com- Jeremiah called Baruch the
manded you: 19 Therefore son of Neriah: and Baruch
thus saith the Lord of hosts, wrote from the mouth of
the God of Israel; Jonadab Jeremiah all the words of the
the son of Rechab shall not Lord, which he had spo-
want a man to stand before ken unto him, upon a roll
me for ever. of a book. 5 And Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying,
I am shut up; I cannot go
Chapter 36 into the house of the Lord:
6 Therefore go thou, and read
they proclaimed a fast be- unto them all the words that
fore the Lord to all the he had heard, when Baruch
people in Jerusalem, and to read the book in the ears
all the people that came of the people. 14 Therefore
from the cities of Judah all the princes sent Jehudi
unto Jerusalem. 10 Then read the son of Nethaniah, the
Baruch in the book the words son of Shelemiah, the son
of Jeremiah in the house of Cushi, unto Baruch, say-
of the Lord, in the cham- ing, Take in thine hand the
ber of Gemariah the son of roll wherein thou hast read
Shaphan the scribe, in the in the ears of the people,
higher court, at the entry of and come. So Baruch the
the new gate of the Lord’S son of Neriah took the roll
house, in the ears of all the in his hand, and came unto
JEREMIAH 1736
ther he, nor his servants, nor shall return to Egypt into
the people of the land, did their own land. 8 And the
hearken unto the words of Chaldeans shall come again,
the Lord, which he spake by and fight against this city,
the prophet Jeremiah. 3 And and take it, and burn it with
Zedekiah the king sent Je- fire. 9 Thus saith the Lord;
hucal the son of Shelemiah Deceive not yourselves, say-
and Zephaniah the son of ing, The Chaldeans shall
Maaseiah the priest to the surely depart from us: for
prophet Jeremiah, saying, they shall not depart. 10 For
Pray now unto the Lord our though ye had smitten the
God for us. 4 Now Jeremiah whole army of the Chaldeans
came in and went out among that fight against you, and
the people: for they had not there remained but wounded
put him into prison. 5 Then men among them, yet should
Pharaoh’s army was come they rise up every man in
forth out of Egypt: and his tent, and burn this city
when the Chaldeans that be- with fire. 11 And it came
sieged Jerusalem heard tid- to pass, that when the army
ings of them, they departed of the Chaldeans was broken
from Jerusalem. 6 Then came up from Jerusalem for fear
the word of the Lord unto of Pharaoh’s army, 12 Then
the prophet Jeremiah, say- Jeremiah went forth out of
ing, 7 Thus saith the Lord, Jerusalem to go into the land
the God of Israel; Thus of Benjamin, to separate
shall ye say to the king of himself thence in the midst
Judah, that sent you unto of the people. 13 And when
me to enquire of me; Be- he was in the gate of Ben-
hold, Pharaoh’s army, which jamin, a captain of the ward
is come forth to help you, was there, whose name was
JEREMIAH 1739
the words that Jeremiah had and cast him into the dun-
spoken unto all the peo- geon of Malchiah the son
ple, saying, 2 Thus saith the of Hammelech, that was in
Lord, He that remaineth the court of the prison: and
in this city shall die by they let down Jeremiah with
the sword, by the famine, cords. And in the dun-
and by the pestilence: but geon there was no water, but
he that goeth forth to the mire: so Jeremiah sunk in
Chaldeans shall live; for he the mire. 7 Now when Ebed-
shall have his life for a prey, melech the Ethiopian, one
and shall live. 3 Thus saith of the eunuchs which was in
the Lord, This city shall the king’s house, heard that
surely be given into the hand they had put Jeremiah in the
of the king of Babylon’s dungeon; the king then sit-
army, which shall take it. ting in the gate of Benjamin;
4 Therefore the princes said 8 Ebedmelech went forth out
the hands of the men of war have done evil in all that
that remain in this city, and they have done to Jeremiah
the hands of all the people, the prophet, whom they have
in speaking such words unto cast into the dungeon; and
them: for this man seeketh
JEREMIAH 1741
of the king under the trea- Zedekiah the king sware se-
sury, and took thence old cretly unto Jeremiah, say-
cast clouts and old rotten ing, As the Lord liveth, that
rags, and let them down by made us this soul, I will not
cords into the dungeon to put thee to death, neither
Jeremiah. 12 And Ebedm- will I give thee into the hand
elech the Ethiopian said unto of these men that seek thy
Jeremiah, Put now these old life. 17 Then said Jeremiah
cast clouts and rotten rags unto Zedekiah, Thus saith
under thine armholes under the Lord, the God of hosts,
the cords. And Jeremiah the God of Israel; If thou wilt
did so. 13 So they drew assuredly go forth unto the
up Jeremiah with cords, and king of Babylon’s princes,
took him up out of the then thy soul shall live, and
dungeon: and Jeremiah re- this city shall not be burned
mained in the court of the with fire; and thou shalt
prison. 14 Then Zedekiah the live, and thine house: 18 But
king sent, and took Jeremiah if thou wilt not go forth
JEREMIAH 1742
house, and the houses of the mag, and all the king of
people, with fire, and brake Babylon’s princes; 14 Even
down the walls of Jerusalem. they sent, and took Jeremiah
9 Then Nebuzaradan the cap- out of the court of the prison,
tain of the guard carried and committed him unto
away captive into Babylon Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
the remnant of the people the son of Shaphan, that
that remained in the city, he should carry him home:
and those that fell away, so he dwelt among the peo-
that fell to him, with the ple. 15 Now the word of the
rest of the people that re- Lord came unto Jeremiah,
mained. 10 But Nebuzaradan while he was shut up in the
the captain of the guard court of the prison, saying,
left of the poor of the peo- 16 Go and speak to Ebed-
because thou hast put thy good unto thee to come with
trust in me, saith the Lord. me into Babylon, come; and
I will look well unto thee:
but if it seem ill unto thee
Chapter 40 to come with me into Baby-
lon, forbear: behold, all the
The word that came to land is before thee: whither
Jeremiah from the Lord, it seemeth good and conve-
after that Nebuzaradan the nient for thee to go, thither
captain of the guard had go. 5 Now while he was not
let him go from Ramah, yet gone back, he said, Go
when he had taken him be- back also to Gedaliah the
ing bound in chains among son of Ahikam the son of
all that were carried away Shaphan, whom the king of
captive of Jerusalem and Ju- Babylon hath made governor
dah, which were carried away over the cities of Judah, and
captive unto Babylon. 2 And dwell with him among the
the captain of the guard took people: or go wheresoever
Jeremiah, and said unto him, it seemeth convenient unto
The Lord thy God hath pro- thee to go. So the captain of
nounced this evil upon this the guard gave him victuals
place. 3 Now the Lord hath and a reward, and let him go.
brought it, and done accord- 6 Then went Jeremiah unto
and the sons of Ephai the out of all places whither they
Netophathite, and Jezaniah were driven, and came to the
the son of a Maachathite, land of Judah, to Gedaliah,
they and their men. 9 And unto Mizpah, and gathered
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam wine and summer fruits very
the son of Shaphan sware much. 13 Moreover Johanan
unto them and to their men, the son of Kareah, and all the
saying, Fear not to serve the captains of the forces that
Chaldeans: dwell in the land, were in the fields, came to
and serve the king of Baby- Gedaliah to Mizpah, 14 And
lon, and it shall be well with said unto him, Dost thou
you. 10 As for me, behold, certainly know that Baalis
I will dwell at Mizpah to the king of the Ammonites
serve the Chaldeans, which hath sent Ishmael the son
will come unto us: but ye, of Nethaniah to slay thee?
JEREMIAH 1747
unto other gods, and all the cense to the queen of heaven,
women that stood by, a great and poured out drink offer-
multitude, even all the peo- ings unto her, did we make
ple that dwelt in the land of her cakes to worship her,
Egypt, in Pathros, answered and pour out drink offerings
Jeremiah, saying, 16 As for unto her, without our men?
the word that thou hast spo- 20 Then Jeremiah said unto
cut down her forest, saith the and Jacob shall return, and
Lord, though it cannot be be in rest and at ease, and
searched; because they are none shall make him afraid.
more than the grasshoppers, 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my
and espy; ask him that fleeth, est of him, thou skippedst for
and her that escapeth, and joy. 28 O ye that dwell in
say, What is done? 20 Moab Moab, leave the cities, and
is confounded; for it is bro- dwell in the rock, and be
ken down: howl and cry; like the dove that maketh her
tell ye it in Arnon, that nest in the sides of the hole’s
Moab is spoiled, 21 And judg- mouth. 29 We have heard the
ment is come upon the plain pride of Moab, (he is ex-
country; upon Holon, and ceeding proud) his loftiness,
upon Jahazah, and upon and his arrogancy, and his
Mephaath, 22 And upon Di- pride, and the haughtiness
bon, and upon Nebo, and of his heart. 30 I know his
upon Bethdiblathaim, 23 And wrath, saith the Lord; but it
upon Kiriathaim, and upon shall not be so; his lies shall
Bethgamul, and upon Beth- not so effect it. 31 Therefore
meon, 24 And upon Kerioth, will I howl for Moab, and
and upon Bozrah, and upon I will cry out for all Moab;
all the cities of the land of mine heart shall mourn for
Moab, far or near. 25 The the men of Kirheres. 32 O
horn of Moab is cut off, vine of Sibmah, I will weep
and his arm is broken, saith for thee with the weeping of
the Lord. 26 Make ye him Jazer: thy plants are gone
drunken: for he magnified over the sea, they reach even
himself against the Lord: to the sea of Jazer: the
Moab also shall wallow in spoiler is fallen upon thy
his vomit, and he also shall summer fruits and upon thy
be in derision. 27 For was vintage. 33 And joy and glad-
not Israel a derision unto ness is taken from the plen-
thee? was he found among tiful field, and from the land
thieves? for since thou spak- of Moab; and I have caused
JEREMIAH 1764
wine to fail from the wine- and in the streets thereof: for
presses: none shall tread I have broken Moab like a
with shouting; their shouting vessel wherein is no pleasure,
shall be no shouting. 34 From saith the Lord. 39 They shall
the cry of Heshbon even unto howl, saying, How is it bro-
Elealeh, and even unto Ja- ken down! how hath Moab
haz, have they uttered their turned the back with shame!
voice, from Zoar even unto so shall Moab be a derision
Horonaim, as an heifer of and a dismaying to all them
three years old: for the wa- about him. 40 For thus saith
ters also of Nimrim shall be the Lord; Behold, he shall
desolate. 35 Moreover I will fly as an eagle, and shall
cause to cease in Moab, saith spread his wings over Moab.
the Lord, him that offer- 41 Kerioth is taken, and the
gle, I will bring thee down the least of the flock shall
from thence, saith the Lord. draw them out: surely he
17 Also Edom shall be a deso- shall make their habitations
lation: every one that goeth desolate with them. 21 The
by it shall be astonished, and earth is moved at the noise
shall hiss at all the plagues of their fall, at the cry the
thereof. 18 As in the over- noise thereof was heard in
throw of Sodom and Gomor- the Red sea. 22 Behold, he
rah and the neighbour cities shall come up and fly as the
thereof, saith the Lord, no eagle, and spread his wings
man shall abide there, nei- over Bozrah: and at that
ther shall a son of man dwell day shall the heart of the
in it. 19 Behold, he shall mighty men of Edom be as
come up like a lion from the the heart of a woman in her
swelling of Jordan against pangs. 23 Concerning Damas-
the habitation of the strong: cus. Hamath is confounded,
but I will suddenly make and Arpad: for they have
him run away from her: and heard evil tidings: they are
who is a chosen man, that I fainthearted; there is sorrow
may appoint over her? for on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
who is like me? and who 24 Damascus is waxed feeble,
be cut off in that day, saith neither gates nor bars, which
the Lord of hosts. 27 And I dwell alone. 32 And their
throne in Elam, and will de- time, saith the Lord, the
stroy from thence the king children of Israel shall come,
and the princes, saith the they and the children of
Lord. 39 But it shall come to Judah together, going and
pass in the latter days, that I weeping: they shall go, and
will bring again the captivity seek the Lord their God.
of Elam, saith the Lord. 5 They shall ask the way to
Babylon and his land, as I snare for thee, and thou art
have punished the king of As- also taken, O Babylon, and
syria. 19 And I will bring Is- thou wast not aware: thou
rael again to his habitation, art found, and also caught,
and he shall feed on Carmel because thou hast striven
and Bashan, and his soul against the Lord. 25 The
shall be satisfied upon mount Lord hath opened his ar-
Ephraim and Gilead. 20 In moury, and hath brought
those days, and in that time, forth the weapons of his in-
saith the Lord, the iniquity dignation: for this is the
of Israel shall be sought for, work of the Lord God of
and there shall be none; and hosts in the land of the
the sins of Judah, and they Chaldeans. 26 Come against
shall not be found: for I will her from the utmost border,
pardon them whom I reserve. open her storehouses: cast
21 Go up against the land her up as heaps, and destroy
of Merathaim, even against her utterly: let nothing of
it, and against the inhabi- her be left. 27 Slay all her
tants of Pekod: waste and bullocks; let them go down
JEREMIAH 1772
to the slaughter: woe unto ble and fall, and none shall
them! for their day is come, raise him up: and I will
the time of their visitation. kindle a fire in his cities,
28 The voice of them that flee and it shall devour all round
and escape out of the land of about him. 33 Thus saith
ple that are in the midst they are cruel, and will not
of her; and they shall be- shew mercy: their voice shall
come as women: a sword roar like the sea, and they
is upon her treasures; and shall ride upon horses, ev-
they shall be robbed. 38 A ery one put in array, like a
drought is upon her waters; man to the battle, against
and they shall be dried up: thee, O daughter of Baby-
for it is the land of graven lon. 43 The king of Baby-
images, and they are mad lon hath heard the report of
upon their idols. 39 Therefore them, and his hands waxed
the wild beasts of the desert feeble: anguish took hold
with the wild beasts of the of him, and pangs as of a
islands shall dwell there, and woman in travail. 44 Behold,
the owls shall dwell therein: he shall come up like a lion
and it shall be no more in- from the swelling of Jordan
habited for ever; neither shall unto the habitation of the
it be dwelt in from gener- strong: but I will make them
ation to generation. 40 As suddenly run away from her:
God overthrew Sodom and and who is a chosen man,
Gomorrah and the neigh- that I may appoint over her?
bour cities thereof, saith the for who is like me? and who
Lord; so shall no man abide will appoint me the time?
there, neither shall any son of and who is that shepherd
man dwell therein. 41 Behold, that will stand before me?
a people shall come from 45 Therefore hear ye the coun-
the north, and a great na- sel of the Lord, that he hath
tion, and many kings shall taken against Babylon; and
be raised up from the coasts his purposes, that he hath
of the earth. 42 They shall purposed against the land of
hold the bow and the lance: the Chaldeans: Surely the
JEREMIAH 1774
thee will I break in pieces the stretch out mine hand upon
nations, and with thee will thee, and roll thee down
I destroy kingdoms; 21 And from the rocks, and will
with thee will I break in make thee a burnt moun-
pieces the horse and his rider; tain. 26 And they shall not
and with thee will I break take of thee a stone for a cor-
in pieces the chariot and his ner, nor a stone for founda-
rider; 22 With thee also will tions; but thou shalt be deso-
I break in pieces man and late for ever, saith the Lord.
woman; and with thee will 27 Set ye up a standard in
Babylon, and her mighty book all the evil that should
men are taken, every one of come upon Babylon, even all
their bows is broken: for these words that are writ-
the Lord God of recom- ten against Babylon. 61 And
pences shall surely requite. Jeremiah said to Seraiah,
57 And I will make drunk her When thou comest to Baby-
princes, and her wise men, lon, and shalt see, and shalt
her captains, and her rulers, read all these words; 62 Then
and her mighty men: and shalt thou say, O Lord,
they shall sleep a perpetual thou hast spoken against this
JEREMIAH 1780
plain. 8 But the army of the the king’s house; and all
Chaldeans pursued after the the houses of Jerusalem,
king, and overtook Zedekiah and all the houses of the
in the plains of Jericho; and great men, burned he with
all his army was scattered fire: 14 And all the army
from him. 9 Then they took of the Chaldeans, that were
the king, and carried him with the captain of the
up unto the king of Baby- guard, brake down all the
lon to Riblah in the land of walls of Jerusalem round
Hamath; where he gave judg- about. 15 Then Nebuzaradan
ment upon him. 10 And the the captain of the guard car-
king of Babylon slew the sons ried away captive certain of
of Zedekiah before his eyes: the poor of the people, and
he slew also all the princes of the residue of the people that
Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he remained in the city, and
put out the eyes of Zedekiah; those that fell away, that fell
and the king of Babylon to the king of Babylon, and
bound him in chains, and the rest of the multitude.
carried him to Babylon, and 16 But Nebuzaradan the cap-
put him in prison till the tain of the guard left cer-
day of his death. 12 Now in tain of the poor of the land
the fifth month, in the tenth for vinedressers and for hus-
day of the month, which was bandmen. 17 Also the pil-
the nineteenth year of Neb- lars of brass that were in
uchadrezzar king of Babylon, the house of the Lord, and
came Nebuzaradan, captain the bases, and the brasen sea
of the guard, which served that was in the house of the
the king of Babylon, into Lord, the Chaldeans brake,
Jerusalem, 13 And burned the and carried all the brass of
house of the Lord, and them to Babylon. 18 The cal-
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drons also, and the shov- was five cubits, with network
els, and the snuffers, and the and pomegranates upon the
bowls, and the spoons, and chapiters round about, all
all the vessels of brass where- of brass. The second pillar
with they ministered, took also and the pomegranates
they away. 19 And the ba- were like unto these. 23 And
sons, and the firepans, and there were ninety and six
the bowls, and the caldrons, pomegranates on a side; and
and the candlesticks, and the all the pomegranates upon
spoons, and the cups; that the network were an hun-
which was of gold in gold, dred round about. 24 And
and that which was of silver the captain of the guard took
in silver, took the captain of Seraiah the chief priest, and
the guard away. 20 The two Zephaniah the second priest,
pillars, one sea, and twelve and the three keepers of the
brasen bulls that were un- door: 25 He took also out of
der the bases, which king the city an eunuch, which
Solomon had made in the had the charge of the men of
house of the Lord: the war; and seven men of them
brass of all these vessels that were near the king’s per-
was without weight. 21 And son, which were found in the
concerning the pillars, the city; and the principal scribe
height of one pillar was eigh- of the host, who mustered
teen cubits; and a fillet of the people of the land; and
twelve cubits did compass threescore men of the peo-
it; and the thickness thereof ple of the land, that were
was four fingers: it was found in the midst of the city.
hollow. 22 And a chapiter 26 So Nebuzaradan the cap-
of brass was upon it; and tain of the guard took them,
the height of one chapiter and brought them to the
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LAMENTATIONS 1785
the rampart and the wall their soul was poured out
to lament; they languished into their mothers’ bosom.
together. 9 Her gates are 13 What thing shall I take
keep silence: they have cast vain and foolish things for
up dust upon their heads; thee: and they have not
they have girded themselves discovered thine iniquity, to
with sackcloth: the virgins turn away thy captivity; but
of Jerusalem hang down their have seen for thee false bur-
heads to the ground. 11 Mine dens and causes of banish-
eyes do fail with tears, my ment. 15 All that pass by
bowels are troubled, my liver clap their hands at thee; they
is poured upon the earth, for hiss and wag their head at
the destruction of the daugh- the daughter of Jerusalem,
ter of my people; because saying, Is this the city that
the children and the suck- men call The perfection of
lings swoon in the streets beauty, The joy of the whole
of the city. 12 They say earth? 16 All thine enemies
to their mothers, Where is have opened their mouth
corn and wine? when they against thee: they hiss and
swooned as the wounded in gnash the teeth: they say,
the streets of the city, when We have swallowed her up:
LAMENTATIONS 1789
Lord will not cast off for ever: ered with anger, and perse-
32 But though he cause grief, cuted us: thou hast slain,
yet will he have compassion thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou
according to the multitude of hast covered thyself with a
his mercies. 33 For he doth cloud, that our prayer should
not afflict willingly nor grieve not pass through. 45 Thou
the children of men. 34 To hast made us as the offscour-
crush under his feet all the ing and refuse in the midst
prisoners of the earth, 35 To of the people. 46 All our
ceedeth not evil and good? down, and ceaseth not, with-
39 Wherefore doth a living out any intermission, 50 Till
man complain, a man for the Lord look down, and be-
LAMENTATIONS 1792
N in the thirtieth
year, in the fourth
month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I was
among the captives by the
ing itself, and a brightness
was about it, and out of the
midst thereof as the colour
of amber, out of the midst
of the fire. 5 Also out of the
river of Chebar, that the midst thereof came the like-
heavens were opened, and I ness of four living creatures.
saw visions of God. 2 In And this was their appear-
the fifth day of the month, ance; they had the likeness of
which was the fifth year of a man. 6 And every one had
king Jehoiachin’s captivity, four faces, and every one had
3 The word of the Lord came four wings. 7 And their feet
expressly unto Ezekiel the were straight feet; and the
priest, the son of Buzi, in sole of their feet was like the
the land of the Chaldeans sole of a calf’s foot: and they
by the river Chebar; and sparkled like the colour of
the hand of the Lord was burnished brass. 8 And they
there upon him. 4 And I had the hands of a man un-
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EZEKIEL 1797
der their wings on their four tures; and the fire was bright,
sides; and they four had their and out of the fire went forth
faces and their wings. 9 Their lightning. 14 And the living
wings were joined one to an- creatures ran and returned as
other; they turned not when the appearance of a flash of
they went; they went every lightning. 15 Now as I beheld
one straight forward. 10 As the living creatures, behold
for the likeness of their faces, one wheel upon the earth by
they four had the face of a the living creatures, with his
man, and the face of a lion, four faces. 16 The appearance
on the right side: and they of the wheels and their work
four had the face of an ox was like unto the colour of a
on the left side; they four beryl: and they four had one
also had the face of an eagle. likeness: and their appear-
11 Thus were their faces: and ance and their work was as
their wings were stretched it were a wheel in the mid-
upward; two wings of every dle of a wheel. 17 When they
one were joined one to an- went, they went upon their
other, and two covered their four sides: and they turned
bodies. 12 And they went not when they went. 18 As
every one straight forward: for their rings, they were so
whither the spirit was to go, high that they were dreadful;
they went; and they turned and their rings were full of
not when they went. 13 As eyes round about them four.
for the likeness of the liv- 19 And when the living crea-
were lifted up from the earth, that was over their heads was
the wheels were lifted up over the likeness of a throne, as
against them: for the spirit the appearance of a sapphire
of the living creature was in stone: and upon the likeness
the wheels. 22 And the like- of the throne was the like-
ness of the firmament upon ness as the appearance of a
the heads of the living crea- man above upon it. 27 And
ture was as the colour of I saw as the colour of am-
the terrible crystal, stretched ber, as the appearance of fire
forth over their heads above. round about within it, from
23 And under the firmament the appearance of his loins
were their wings straight, even upward, and from the
the one toward the other: appearance of his loins even
every one had two, which downward, I saw as it were
covered on this side, and the appearance of fire, and it
every one had two, which had brightness round about.
covered on that side, their 28 As the appearance of the
is warned; also thou hast de- shalt say unto them, Thus
livered thy soul. 22 And the saith the Lord God; He that
hand of the Lord was there heareth, let him hear; and he
upon me; and he said unto that forbeareth, let him for-
me, Arise, go forth into the bear: for they are a rebel-
plain, and I will there talk lious house.
with thee. 23 Then I arose,
and went forth into the plain:
and, behold, the glory of the Chapter 4
Lord stood there, as the
glory which I saw by the river Thou also, son of man, take
of Chebar: and I fell on my thee a tile, and lay it be-
face. 24 Then the spirit en- fore thee, and pourtray upon
tered into me, and set me it the city, even Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and
upon my feet, and spake
with me, and said unto me, build a fort against it, and
Go, shut thyself within thine cast a mount against it; set
house. 25 But thou, O son of the camp also against it, and
man, behold, they shall put set battering rams against it
bands upon thee, and shall round about. 3 Moreover take
bind thee with them, and thou unto thee an iron pan,
thou shalt not go out among and set it for a wall of iron
them: 26 And I will make thy between thee and the city:
tongue cleave to the roof of and set thy face against it,
thy mouth, that thou shalt and it shall be besieged, and
be dumb, and shalt not be thou shalt lay siege against
to them a reprover: for they it. This shall be a sign to
are a rebellious house. 27 But the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou
when I speak with thee, I will also upon thy left side, and
open thy mouth, and thou lay the iniquity of the house
of Israel upon it: according
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ered, and thou shalt proph- thus shall the children of Is-
esy against it. 8 And, behold, rael eat their defiled bread
I will lay bands upon thee, among the Gentiles, whither
and thou shalt not turn thee I will drive them. 14 Then
from one side to another, till said I, Ah Lord God! be-
thou hast ended the days of hold, my soul hath not been
thy siege. 9 Take thou also polluted: for from my youth
unto thee wheat, and bar- up even till now have I not
ley, and beans, and lentiles, eaten of that which dieth of
and millet, and fitches, and itself, or is torn in pieces; nei-
EZEKIEL 1804
ther came there abominable the days of the siege are ful-
flesh into my mouth. 15 Then filled: and thou shalt take a
he said unto me, Lo, I have third part, and smite about
given thee cow’s dung for it with a knife: and a third
man’s dung, and thou shalt part thou shalt scatter in the
prepare thy bread therewith. wind; and I will draw out
16 Moreover he said unto me, a sword after them. 3 Thou
Son of man, behold, I will shalt also take thereof a few
break the staff of bread in in number, and bind them
Jerusalem: and they shall in thy skirts. 4 Then take of
eat bread by weight, and them again, and cast them
with care; and they shall into the midst of the fire,
drink water by measure, and and burn them in the fire;
with astonishment: 17 That for thereof shall a fire come
they may want bread and forth into all the house of Is-
water, and be astonied one rael. 5 Thus saith the Lord
with another, and consume God; This is Jerusalem: I
away for their iniquity. have set it in the midst
of the nations and coun-
tries that are round about
Chapter 5 her. 6 And she hath changed
my judgments into wicked-
And thou, son of man, take ness more than the nations,
thee a sharp knife, take thee and my statutes more than
a barber’s razor, and cause it the countries that are round
to pass upon thine head and about her: for they have
upon thy beard: then take refused my judgments and
thee balances to weigh, and my statutes, they have not
divide the hair. 2 Thou shalt walked in them. 7 Therefore
burn with fire a third part in thus saith the Lord God;
the midst of the city, when
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houses: I will also make the house, and the elders of Ju-
pomp of the strong to cease; dah sat before me, that the
and their holy places shall hand of the Lord God fell
be defiled. 25 Destruction there upon me. 2 Then I be-
cometh; and they shall seek held, and lo a likeness as the
peace, and there shall be appearance of fire: from the
none. 26 Mischief shall come appearance of his loins even
upon mischief, and rumour downward, fire; and from his
shall be upon rumour; then loins even upward, as the
shall they seek a vision of appearance of brightness, as
the prophet; but the law the colour of amber. 3 And
shall perish from the priest, he put forth the form of an
and counsel from the an- hand, and took me by a
cients. 27 The king shall lock of mine head; and the
mourn, and the prince shall spirit lifted me up between
be clothed with desolation, the earth and the heaven,
and the hands of the peo- and brought me in the vi-
ple of the land shall be trou- sions of God to Jerusalem,
bled: I will do unto them af- to the door of the inner
ter their way, and according gate that looketh toward the
to their deserts will I judge north; where was the seat of
them; and they shall know the image of jealousy, which
that I am the Lord. provoketh to jealousy. 4 And,
behold, the glory of the God
of Israel was there, accord-
Chapter 8 ing to the vision that I saw
in the plain. 5 Then said he
And it came to pass in unto me, Son of man, lift up
the sixth year, in the sixth thine eyes now the way to-
month, in the fifth day of ward the north. So I lifted
the month, as I sat in mine
EZEKIEL 1811
men that sigh and that cry iquity of the house of Is-
for all the abominations that rael and Judah is exceeding
be done in the midst thereof. great, and the land is full
5 And to the others he said of blood, and the city full
in mine hearing, Go ye af- of perverseness: for they say,
ter him through the city, and The Lord hath forsaken the
smite: let not your eye spare, earth, and the Lord seeth
neither have ye pity: 6 Slay not. 10 And as for me also,
utterly old and young, both mine eye shall not spare, nei-
maids, and little children, ther will I have pity, but I will
and women: but come not recompense their way upon
near any man upon whom their head. 11 And, behold,
is the mark; and begin at the man clothed with linen,
my sanctuary. Then they which had the inkhorn by
began at the ancient men his side, reported the matter,
which were before the house. saying, I have done as thou
7 And he said unto them, De- hast commanded me.
file the house, and fill the
courts with the slain: go
ye forth. And they went Chapter 10
forth, and slew in the city.
8 And it came to pass, while Then I looked, and, behold,
they were slaying them, and in the firmament that was
I was left, that I fell upon above the head of the cheru-
my face, and cried, and said, bims there appeared over
Ah Lord God! wilt thou de- them as it were a sapphire
stroy all the residue of Is- stone, as the appearance of
rael in thy pouring out of thy the likeness of a throne.
2 And he spake unto the man
fury upon Jerusalem? 9 Then
said he unto me, The in- clothed with linen, and said,
Go in between the wheels,
EZEKIEL 1814
even under the cherub, and forth his hand from between
fill thine hand with coals of the cherubims unto the fire
fire from between the cheru- that was between the cheru-
bims, and scatter them over bims, and took thereof, and
the city. And he went in in put it into the hands of
my sight. 3 Now the cheru- him that was clothed with
bims stood on the right side linen: who took it, and went
of the house, when the man out. 8 And there appeared
went in; and the cloud filled in the cherubims the form
the inner court. 4 Then the of a man’s hand under their
glory of the Lord went up wings. 9 And when I looked,
from the cherub, and stood behold the four wheels by the
over the threshold of the cherubims, one wheel by one
house; and the house was cherub, and another wheel
filled with the cloud, and the by another cherub: and the
court was full of the bright- appearance of the wheels was
ness of the Lord’S glory. as the colour of a beryl
5 And the sound of the cheru- stone. 10 And as for their
bims’ wings was heard even appearances, they four had
to the outer court, as the one likeness, as if a wheel
voice of the Almighty God had been in the midst of a
when he speaketh. 6 And wheel. 11 When they went,
it came to pass, that when they went upon their four
he had commanded the man sides; they turned not as
clothed with linen, saying, they went, but to the place
Take fire from between the whither the head looked they
wheels, from between the followed it; they turned not
cherubims; then he went in, as they went. 12 And their
and stood beside the wheels. whole body, and their backs,
7 And one cherub stretched and their hands, and their
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wings, and the wheels, were from off the threshold of the
full of eyes round about, even house, and stood over the
the wheels that they four cherubims. 19 And the cheru-
had. 13 As for the wheels, bims lifted up their wings,
it was cried unto them in and mounted up from the
my hearing, O wheel. 14 And earth in my sight: when they
every one had four faces: went out, the wheels also
the first face was the face were beside them, and ev-
of a cherub, and the sec- ery one stood at the door of
ond face was the face of a the east gate of the Lord’S
man, and the third the face house; and the glory of the
of a lion, and the fourth God of Israel was over them
the face of an eagle. 15 And above. 20 This is the liv-
the cherubims were lifted up. ing creature that I saw un-
This is the living creature der the God of Israel by the
that I saw by the river of river of Chebar; and I knew
Chebar. 16 And when the that they were the cheru-
cherubims went, the wheels bims. 21 Every one had four
went by them: and when faces apiece, and every one
the cherubims lifted up their four wings; and the likeness
wings to mount up from of the hands of a man was
the earth, the same wheels under their wings. 22 And the
also turned not from beside likeness of their faces was the
them. 17 When they stood, same faces which I saw by the
these stood; and when they river of Chebar, their appear-
were lifted up, these lifted ances and themselves: they
up themselves also: for the went every one straight for-
spirit of the living creature ward.
was in them. 18 Then the
glory of the Lord departed
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of the heathen that are round gather you from the people,
about you. 13 And it came and assemble you out of the
to pass, when I prophesied, countries where ye have been
that Pelatiah the son of Be- scattered, and I will give you
naiah died. Then fell I down the land of Israel. 18 And
upon my face, and cried with they shall come thither, and
a loud voice, and said, Ah they shall take away all the
Lord God! wilt thou make a detestable things thereof and
full end of the remnant of Is- all the abominations thereof
rael? 14 Again the word of the from thence. 19 And I will
Lord came unto me, saying, give them one heart, and I
15 Son of man, thy brethren, will put a new spirit within
even thy brethren, the men you; and I will take the
of thy kindred, and all the stony heart out of their flesh,
house of Israel wholly, are and will give them an heart
they unto whom the inhabi- of flesh: 20 That they may
tants of Jerusalem have said, walk in my statutes, and
Get you far from the Lord: keep mine ordinances, and do
unto us is this land given in them: and they shall be my
possession. 16 Therefore say, people, and I will be their
Thus saith the Lord God; God. 21 But as for them
of the God of Israel was their sight; and thou shalt re-
over them above. 23 And the move from thy place to an-
glory of the Lord went up other place in their sight: it
from the midst of the city, may be they will consider,
and stood upon the moun- though they be a rebellious
tain which is on the east house. 4 Then shalt thou
the Lord unto me, saying, wind all that are about him
9 Son of man, hath not the to help him, and all his
house of Israel, the rebellious bands; and I will draw out
house, said unto thee, What the sword after them. 15 And
doest thou? 10 Say thou unto they shall know that I am the
them, Thus saith the Lord Lord, when I shall scatter
God; This burden concer- them among the nations, and
neth the prince in Jerusalem, disperse them in the coun-
and all the house of Israel tries. 16 But I will leave a few
that are among them. 11 Say, men of them from the sword,
I am your sign: like as I from the famine, and from
have done, so shall it be the pestilence; that they
done unto them: they shall may declare all their abom-
remove and go into captiv- inations among the heathen
ity. 12 And the prince that whither they come; and they
is among them shall bear shall know that I am the
upon his shoulder in the twi- Lord. 17 Moreover the word
light, and shall go forth: they of the Lord came to me,
shall dig through the wall to saying, 18 Son of man, eat
carry out thereby: he shall thy bread with quaking, and
cover his face, that he see drink thy water with trem-
not the ground with his eyes. bling and with carefulness;
13 My net also will I spread 19 And say unto the people
it was meet for no work: how Thy birth and thy nativity is
much less shall it be meet of the land of Canaan; thy
yet for any work, when the father was an Amorite, and
fire hath devoured it, and it thy mother an Hittite. 4 And
is burned? 6 Therefore thus as for thy nativity, in the day
saith the Lord God; As the thou wast born thy navel was
vine tree among the trees not cut, neither wast thou
of the forest, which I have washed in water to supple
given to the fire for fuel, so thee; thou wast not salted
will I give the inhabitants of at all, nor swaddled at all.
Jerusalem. 7 And I will set 5 None eye pitied thee, to do
poor and needy. 50 And they thine own shame, and mayest
were haughty, and commit- be confounded in all that
ted abomination before me: thou hast done, in that thou
therefore I took them away art a comfort unto them.
as I saw good. 51 Neither 55 When thy sisters, Sodom
his mighty army and great I will also take of the high-
company make for him in the est branch of the high cedar,
war, by casting up mounts, and will set it; I will crop
and building forts, to cut off off from the top of his young
many persons: 18 Seeing he twigs a tender one, and will
despised the oath by break- plant it upon an high moun-
ing the covenant, when, lo, tain and eminent: 23 In the
he had given his hand, and mountain of the height of
hath done all these things, he Israel will I plant it: and
shall not escape. 19 Therefore it shall bring forth boughs,
thus saith the Lord God; As and bear fruit, and be a
I live, surely mine oath that goodly cedar: and under it
he hath despised, and my shall dwell all fowl of every
covenant that he hath bro- wing; in the shadow of the
ken, even it will I recompense branches thereof shall they
upon his own head. 20 And I dwell. 24 And all the trees of
will spread my net upon him, the field shall know that I the
EZEKIEL 1835
Lord have brought down the his eyes to the idols of the
high tree, have exalted the house of Israel, neither hath
low tree, have dried up the defiled his neighbour’s wife,
green tree, and have made neither hath come near to
the dry tree to flourish: I the a menstruous woman, 7 And
Lord have spoken and have hath not oppressed any, but
done it. hath restored to the debtor
his pledge, hath spoiled none
by violence, hath given his
Chapter 18 bread to the hungry, and
hath covered the naked with
The word of the Lord a garment; 8 He that hath
came unto me again, saying, not given forth upon usury,
2 What mean ye, that ye use
neither hath taken any in-
this proverb concerning the crease, that hath withdrawn
land of Israel, saying, The fa- his hand from iniquity, hath
thers have eaten sour grapes, executed true judgment be-
and the children’s teeth are tween man and man, 9 Hath
set on edge? 3 As I live, walked in my statutes, and
saith the Lord God, ye shall hath kept my judgments, to
not have occasion any more deal truly; he is just, he
to use this proverb in Israel. shall surely live, saith the
4 Behold, all souls are mine;
Lord God. 10 If he beget
as the soul of the father, so a son that is a robber, a
also the soul of the son is shedder of blood, and that
mine: the soul that sinneth, doeth the like to any one
it shall die. 5 But if a man of these things, 11 And that
be just, and do that which is doeth not any of those duties,
lawful and right, 6 And hath but even hath eaten upon the
not eaten upon the moun- mountains, and defiled his
tains, neither hath lifted up
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neighbour’s wife, 12 Hath op- his hand from the poor, that
pressed the poor and needy, hath not received usury nor
hath spoiled by violence, increase, hath executed my
hath not restored the pledge, judgments, hath walked in
and hath lifted up his eyes my statutes; he shall not
to the idols, hath committed die for the iniquity of his
abomination, 13 Hath given father, he shall surely live.
forth upon usury, and hath 18 As for his father, because
son, that seeth all his father’s the son bear the iniquity of
sins which he hath done, and the father? When the son
considereth, and doeth not hath done that which is law-
such like, 15 That hath not ful and right, and hath kept
eaten upon the mountains, all my statutes, and hath
neither hath lifted up his eyes done them, he shall surely
to the idols of the house of live. 20 The soul that sinneth,
Israel, hath not defiled his it shall die. The son shall not
neighbour’s wife, 16 Neither bear the iniquity of the fa-
hath oppressed any, hath not ther, neither shall the father
withholden the pledge, nei- bear the iniquity of the son:
ther hath spoiled by violence, the righteousness of the righ-
but hath given his bread to teous shall be upon him, and
the hungry, and hath cov- the wickedness of the wicked
ered the naked with a gar- shall be upon him. 21 But if
ment, 17 That hath taken off the wicked will turn from all
EZEKIEL 1837
his sins that he hath commit- are not your ways unequal?
ted, and keep all my statutes, 26 When a righteous man tur-
tres of them that bare rule, quire of the Lord, and sat
and her stature was exalted before me. 2 Then came the
among the thick branches, word of the Lord unto me,
and she appeared in her saying, 3 Son of man, speak
height with the multitude of unto the elders of Israel, and
her branches. 12 But she was say unto them, Thus saith
plucked up in fury, she was the Lord God; Are ye come
cast down to the ground, and to enquire of me? As I
the east wind dried up her live, saith the Lord God, I
fruit: her strong rods were will not be enquired of by
broken and withered; the you. 4 Wilt thou judge them,
fire consumed them. 13 And son of man, wilt thou judge
now she is planted in the them? cause them to know
wilderness, in a dry and the abominations of their fa-
thirsty ground. 14 And fire thers: 5 And say unto them,
is gone out of a rod of Thus saith the Lord God; In
her branches, which hath de- the day when I chose Israel,
voured her fruit, so that she and lifted up mine hand unto
hath no strong rod to be a the seed of the house of Ja-
sceptre to rule. This is a cob, and made myself known
lamentation, and shall be for unto them in the land of
a lamentation. Egypt, when I lifted up mine
hand unto them, saying, I
am the Lord your God; 6 In
Chapter 20 the day that I lifted up mine
hand unto them, to bring
And it came to pass in the them forth of the land of
seventh year, in the fifth Egypt into a land that I had
month, the tenth day of the espied for them, flowing with
month, that certain of the milk and honey, which is the
elders of Israel came to en-
EZEKIEL 1840
and tin, into the midst of the priests have violated my law,
furnace, to blow the fire upon and have profaned mine holy
it, to melt it; so will I gather things: they have put no
you in mine anger and in difference between the holy
my fury, and I will leave you and profane, neither have
there, and melt you. 21 Yea, they shewed difference be-
I will gather you, and blow tween the unclean and the
upon you in the fire of my clean, and have hid their eyes
wrath, and ye shall be melted from my sabbaths, and I am
in the midst thereof. 22 As profaned among them. 27 Her
silver is melted in the midst princes in the midst thereof
of the furnace, so shall ye be are like wolves ravening the
melted in the midst thereof; prey, to shed blood, and to
and ye shall know that I the destroy souls, to get dishon-
Lord have poured out my est gain. 28 And her prophets
fury upon you. 23 And the have daubed them with un-
word of the Lord came unto tempered morter, seeing van-
me, saying, 24 Son of man, ity, and divining lies unto
say unto her, Thou art the them, saying, Thus saith the
land that is not cleansed, nor Lord God, when the Lord
rained upon in the day of in- hath not spoken. 29 The peo-
dignation. 25 There is a con- ple of the land have used op-
spiracy of her prophets in the pression, and exercised rob-
EZEKIEL 1850
not destroy it: but I found lot when she was mine; and
none. 31 Therefore have I she doted on her lovers,
poured out mine indignation on the Assyrians her neigh-
upon them; I have consumed bours, 6 Which were clothed
them with the fire of my with blue, captains and
wrath: their own way have rulers, all of them desirable
I recompensed upon their young men, horsemen rid-
heads, saith the Lord God. ing upon horses. 7 Thus she
committed her whoredoms
with them, with all them
Chapter 23 that were the chosen men
of Assyria, and with all on
The word of the Lord came whom she doted: with all
again unto me, saying, 2 Son their idols she defiled herself.
of man, there were two 8 Neither left she her whore-
her lovers, into the hand of ing in dyed attire upon their
the Assyrians, upon whom heads, all of them princes
she doted. 10 These discov- to look to, after the man-
ered her nakedness: they ner of the Babylonians of
took her sons and her daugh- Chaldea, the land of their na-
ters, and slew her with the tivity: 16 And as soon as she
sword: and she became fa- saw them with her eyes, she
mous among women; for they doted upon them, and sent
had executed judgment upon messengers unto them into
her. 11 And when her sis- Chaldea. 17 And the Baby-
ter Aholibah saw this, she lonians came to her into the
was more corrupt in her in- bed of love, and they de-
ordinate love than she, and filed her with their whore-
in her whoredoms more than dom, and she was polluted
her sister in her whoredoms. with them, and her mind was
12 She doted upon the As- alienated from them. 18 So
syrians her neighbours, cap- she discovered her whore-
tains and rulers clothed most doms, and discovered her
gorgeously, horsemen riding nakedness: then my mind
upon horses, all of them de- was alienated from her, like
sirable young men. 13 Then as my mind was alienated
I saw that she was defiled, from her sister. 19 Yet she
that they took both one way, multiplied her whoredoms, in
14 And that she increased her calling to remembrance the
whoredoms: for when she days of her youth, wherein
saw men pourtrayed upon she had played the har-
the wall, the images of the lot in the land of Egypt.
Chaldeans pourtrayed with 20 For she doted upon their
pour water into it: 4 Gather fire, consume the flesh, and
the pieces thereof into it, spice it well, and let the
even every good piece, the bones be burned. 11 Then
thigh, and the shoulder; fill it set it empty upon the coals
with the choice bones. 5 Take thereof, that the brass of it
the choice of the flock, and may be hot, and may burn,
burn also the bones under it, and that the filthiness of it
and make it boil well, and may be molten in it, that the
let them seethe the bones of scum of it may be consumed.
it therein. 6 Wherefore thus 12 She hath wearied herself
saith the Lord God; Woe to with lies, and her great scum
the bloody city, to the pot went not forth out of her: her
whose scum is therein, and scum shall be in the fire. 13 In
whose scum is not gone out thy filthiness is lewdness: be-
of it! bring it out piece by cause I have purged thee, and
piece; let no lot fall upon thou wast not purged, thou
it. 7 For her blood is in the shalt not be purged from thy
midst of her; she set it upon filthiness any more, till I have
the top of a rock; she poured caused my fury to rest upon
EZEKIEL 1856
shalt know that I am the cut off man and beast from
Lord. 8 Thus saith the Lord it; and I will make it deso-
God; Because that Moab late from Teman; and they
and Seir do say, Behold, the of Dedan shall fall by the
house of Judah is like unto sword. 14 And I will lay
the sea causeth his waves to war against thy walls, and
come up. 4 And they shall with his axes he shall break
destroy the walls of Tyrus, down thy towers. 10 By rea-
and break down her towers: son of the abundance of his
I will also scrape her dust horses their dust shall cover
from her, and make her like thee: thy walls shall shake
the top of a rock. 5 It shall at the noise of the horsemen,
be a place for the spread- and of the wheels, and of the
ing of nets in the midst of chariots, when he shall en-
the sea: for I have spoken it, ter into thy gates, as men
saith the Lord God: and it enter into a city wherein is
shall become a spoil to the made a breach. 11 With the
nations. 6 And her daugh-
EZEKIEL 1860
ivory and ebony. 16 Syria was and Raamah, they were thy
thy merchant by reason of merchants: they occupied in
EZEKIEL 1863
thy fairs with chief of all fall into the midst of the seas
spices, and with all precious in the day of thy ruin. 28 The
stones, and gold. 23 Haran, suburbs shall shake at the
and Canneh, and Eden, sound of the cry of thy pi-
the merchants of Sheba, lots. 29 And all that handle
Asshur, and Chilmad, were the oar, the mariners, and
thy merchants. 24 These were all the pilots of the sea, shall
thy merchants in all sorts come down from their ships,
of things, in blue clothes, they shall stand upon the
and broidered work, and in land; 30 And shall cause their
chests of rich apparel, bound voice to be heard against
with cords, and made of thee, and shall cry bitterly,
cedar, among thy merchan- and shall cast up dust upon
dise. 25 The ships of Tarshish their heads, they shall wal-
did sing of thee in thy mar- low themselves in the ashes:
ket: and thou wast replen- 31 And they shall make them-
ished, and made very glo- selves utterly bald for thee,
rious in the midst of the and gird them with sack-
seas. 26 Thy rowers have cloth, and they shall weep for
brought thee into great wa- thee with bitterness of heart
ters: the east wind hath bro- and bitter wailing. 32 And in
ken thee in the midst of the their wailing they shall take
seas. 27 Thy riches, and thy up a lamentation for thee,
fairs, thy merchandise, thy and lament over thee, saying,
mariners, and thy pilots, thy What city is like Tyrus, like
calkers, and the occupiers of the destroyed in the midst of
thy merchandise, and all thy the sea? 33 When thy wares
men of war, that are in thee, went forth out of the seas,
and in all thy company which thou filledst many people;
is in the midst of thee, shall thou didst enrich the kings
EZEKIEL 1864
of the earth with the multi- thou set thine heart as the
tude of thy riches and of thy heart of God: 3 Behold, thou
merchandise. 34 In the time art wiser than Daniel; there
when thou shalt be broken is no secret that they can
by the seas in the depths of hide from thee: 4 With thy
the waters thy merchandise wisdom and with thine un-
and all thy company in the derstanding thou hast got-
midst of thee shall fall. 35 All ten thee riches, and hast
the inhabitants of the isles gotten gold and silver into
shall be astonished at thee, thy treasures: 5 By thy great
and their kings shall be sore wisdom and by thy traf-
afraid, they shall be troubled fick hast thou increased thy
in their countenance. 36 The riches, and thine heart is
merchants among the people lifted up because of thy
shall hiss at thee; thou shalt riches: 6 Therefore thus saith
be a terror, and never shalt the Lord God; Because thou
be any more. hast set thine heart as the
heart of God; 7 Behold, there-
fore I will bring strangers
Chapter 28 upon thee, the terrible of
the nations: and they shall
The word of the Lord came draw their swords against the
again unto me, saying, 2 Son beauty of thy wisdom, and
of man, say unto the prince they shall defile thy bright-
of Tyrus, Thus saith the ness. 8 They shall bring thee
Lord God; Because thine down to the pit, and thou
heart is lifted up, and thou shalt die the deaths of them
hast said, I am a God, I sit in that are slain in the midst of
the seat of God, in the midst the seas. 9 Wilt thou yet say
of the seas; yet thou art a before him that slayeth thee,
man, and not God, though
EZEKIEL 1865
I am God? but thou shalt so: thou wast upon the holy
be a man, and no God, in mountain of God; thou hast
the hand of him that slayeth walked up and down in the
thee. 10 Thou shalt die the midst of the stones of fire.
deaths of the uncircumcised 15 Thou wast perfect in thy
by the hand of strangers: for ways from the day that thou
I have spoken it, saith the wast created, till iniquity was
Lord God. 11 Moreover the found in thee. 16 By the
day of the month, the word heaven. 6 And all the inhab-
of the Lord came unto me, itants of Egypt shall know
saying, 2 Son of man, set thy that I am the Lord, because
face against Pharaoh king of they have been a staff of reed
Egypt, and prophesy against to the house of Israel. 7 When
him, and against all Egypt: they took hold of thee by thy
3 Speak, and say, Thus saith hand, thou didst break, and
the Lord God; Behold, I am rend all their shoulder: and
against thee, Pharaoh king when they leaned upon thee,
of Egypt, the great dragon thou brakest, and madest
that lieth in the midst of his all their loins to be at a
rivers, which hath said, My stand. 8 Therefore thus saith
river is mine own, and I have the Lord God; Behold, I will
made it for myself. 4 But I bring a sword upon thee, and
will put hooks in thy jaws, cut off man and beast out
and I will cause the fish of of thee. 9 And the land of
thy rivers to stick unto thy Egypt shall be desolate and
scales, and I will bring thee waste; and they shall know
up out of the midst of thy that I am the Lord: be-
rivers, and all the fish of thy cause he hath said, The river
rivers shall stick unto thy is mine, and I have made
scales. 5 And I will leave thee it. 10 Behold, therefore I am
thrown into the wilderness, against thee, and against thy
thee and all the fish of thy rivers, and I will make the
rivers: thou shalt fall upon land of Egypt utterly waste
the open fields; thou shalt and desolate, from the tower
not be brought together, nor of Syene even unto the bor-
gathered: I have given thee der of Ethiopia. 11 No foot
for meat to the beasts of the of man shall pass through it,
field and to the fowls of the nor foot of beast shall pass
EZEKIEL 1868
will make the rivers dry, and day shall be darkened, when
sell the land into the hand of I shall break there the yokes
the wicked: and I will make of Egypt: and the pomp of
the land waste, and all that her strength shall cease in
is therein, by the hand of her: as for her, a cloud shall
strangers: I the Lord have cover her, and her daugh-
spoken it. 13 Thus saith the ters shall go into captivity.
Lord God; I will also de- 19 Thus will I execute judg-
the field, and his boughs were self in height, and he hath
multiplied, and his branches shot up his top among the
became long because of the thick boughs, and his heart
multitude of waters, when is lifted up in his height;
he shot forth. 6 All the 11 I have therefore delivered
the trees of Eden, that were the trees by the waters exalt
in the garden of God, en- themselves for their height,
vied him. 10 Therefore thus neither shoot up their top
saith the Lord God; Be- among the thick boughs, nei-
cause thou hast lifted up thy- ther their trees stand up in
EZEKIEL 1873
her: they shall lament for her company: his graves are
her, even for Egypt, and about him: all of them slain,
for all her multitude, saith fallen by the sword: 23 Whose
the Lord God. 17 It came graves are set in the sides
to pass also in the twelfth of the pit, and her company
year, in the fifteenth day of is round about her grave:
the month, that the word all of them slain, fallen by
of the Lord came unto me, the sword, which caused ter-
saying, 18 Son of man, wail ror in the land of the liv-
for the multitude of Egypt, ing. 24 There is Elam and all
and cast them down, even her multitude round about
her, and the daughters of her grave, all of them slain,
the famous nations, unto the fallen by the sword, which
nether parts of the earth, are gone down uncircumcised
with them that go down into into the nether parts of the
the pit. 19 Whom dost thou earth, which caused their ter-
EZEKIEL 1876
ror in the land of the liv- bones, though they were the
ing; yet have they borne their terror of the mighty in the
shame with them that go land of the living. 28 Yea,
down to the pit. 25 They thou shalt be broken in the
have set her a bed in the midst of the uncircumcised,
midst of the slain with all and shalt lie with them that
her multitude: her graves are are slain with the sword.
round about him: all of them 29 There is Edom, her kings,
slain with the sword, even sword come, and blow not
Pharaoh and all his multi- the trumpet, and the peo-
tude, saith the Lord God. ple be not warned; if the
sword come, and take any
person from among them, he
Chapter 33 is taken away in his iniq-
uity; but his blood will I
Again the word of the Lord require at the watchman’s
came unto me, saying, 2 Son hand. 7 So thou, O son of
of man, speak to the chil- man, I have set thee a watch-
dren of thy people, and say man unto the house of Israel;
unto them, When I bring therefore thou shalt hear the
the sword upon a land, if word at my mouth, and warn
the people of the land take them from me. 8 When I say
a man of their coasts, and unto the wicked, O wicked
set him for their watchman: man, thou shalt surely die;
3 If when he seeth the sword
if thou dost not speak to
come upon the land, he warn the wicked from his
blow the trumpet, and warn way, that wicked man shall
the people; 4 Then whoso- die in his iniquity; but his
ever heareth the sound of blood will I require at thine
the trumpet, and taketh not hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou
warning; if the sword come, warn the wicked of his way
and take him away, his blood to turn from it; if he do
shall be upon his own head. not turn from his way, he
5 He heard the sound of the
shall die in his iniquity; but
trumpet, and took not warn-
EZEKIEL 1878
then live? 11 Say unto them, the wicked, Thou shalt surely
As I live, saith the Lord die; if he turn from his sin,
God, I have no pleasure in and do that which is lawful
the death of the wicked; but and right; 15 If the wicked re-
that the wicked turn from his store the pledge, give again
way and live: turn ye, turn that he had robbed, walk
ye from your evil ways; for in the statutes of life, with-
why will ye die, O house of out committing iniquity; he
Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son shall surely live, he shall not
of man, say unto the children die. 16 None of his sins that
of thy people, The righteous- he hath committed shall be
ness of the righteous shall mentioned unto him: he hath
not deliver him in the day done that which is lawful
of his transgression: as for and right; he shall surely
the wickedness of the wicked, live. 17 Yet the children of
he shall not fall thereby in thy people say, The way
the day that he turneth from of the Lord is not equal:
his wickedness; neither shall but as for them, their way
the righteous be able to live is not equal. 18 When the
for his righteousness in the righteous turneth from his
day that he sinneth. 13 When righteousness, and commit-
I shall say to the righteous, teth iniquity, he shall even
that he shall surely live; if die thereby. 19 But if the
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I will feed them with judg- flock, and they shall no more
ment. 17 And as for you, O be a prey; and I will judge
my flock, thus saith the Lord between cattle and cattle.
God; Behold, I judge be- 23 And I will set up one shep-
tween cattle and cattle, be- herd over them, and he shall
tween the rams and the he feed them, even my servant
goats. 18 Seemeth it a small David; he shall feed them,
thing unto you to have eaten and he shall be their shep-
up the good pasture, but ye herd. 24 And I the Lord will
must tread down with your be their God, and my ser-
feet the residue of your pas- vant David a prince among
tures? and to have drunk them; I the Lord have spo-
of the deep waters, but ye ken it. 25 And I will make
must foul the residue with with them a covenant of
your feet? 19 And as for my peace, and will cause the evil
flock, they eat that which beasts to cease out of the
ye have trodden with your land: and they shall dwell
feet; and they drink that safely in the wilderness, and
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with his slain men: in thy have boasted against me, and
hills, and in thy valleys, and have multiplied your words
in all thy rivers, shall they against me: I have heard
fall that are slain with the them. 14 Thus saith the Lord
sword. 9 I will make thee per- God; When the whole earth
petual desolations, and thy rejoiceth, I will make thee
cities shall not return: and desolate. 15 As thou didst
ye shall know that I am the rejoice at the inheritance of
Lord. 10 Because thou hast the house of Israel, because
said, These two nations and it was desolate, so will I do
these two countries shall be unto thee: thou shalt be des-
mine, and we will possess it; olate, O mount Seir, and all
whereas the Lord was there: Idumea, even all of it: and
11 Therefore, as I live, saith they shall know that I am the
the Lord God, I will even Lord.
do according to thine anger,
and according to thine envy
which thou hast used out of
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when they entered unto the out of all countries, and will
heathen, whither they went, bring you into your own land.
they profaned my holy name, 25 Then will I sprinkle clean
can these bones live? And man, and say to the wind,
I answered, O Lord God, Thus saith the Lord God;
thou knowest. 4 Again he Come from the four winds,
said unto me, Prophesy upon O breath, and breathe upon
these bones, and say unto these slain, that they may
them, O ye dry bones, hear live. 10 So I prophesied as
the word of the Lord. 5 Thus he commanded me, and the
saith the Lord God unto breath came into them, and
these bones; Behold, I will they lived, and stood up
cause breath to enter into upon their feet, an exceeding
you, and ye shall live: 6 And great army. 11 Then he said
I will lay sinews upon you, unto me, Son of man, these
and will bring up flesh upon bones are the whole house
you, and cover you with skin, of Israel: behold, they say,
and put breath in you, and ye Our bones are dried, and our
shall live; and ye shall know hope is lost: we are cut off
that I am the Lord. 7 So for our parts. 12 Therefore
I prophesied as I was com- prophesy and say unto them,
manded: and as I prophe- Thus saith the Lord God;
sied, there was a noise, and Behold, O my people, I will
behold a shaking, and the open your graves, and cause
bones came together, bone you to come up out of your
to his bone. 8 And when I graves, and bring you into
beheld, lo, the sinews and the land of Israel. 13 And
the flesh came up upon them, ye shall know that I am the
and the skin covered them Lord, when I have opened
above: but there was no your graves, O my people,
breath in them. 9 Then said and brought you up out of
he unto me, Prophesy unto your graves, 14 And shall put
the wind, prophesy, son of my spirit in you, and ye shall
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live, and I shall place you in him, even with the stick of
your own land: then shall ye Judah, and make them one
know that I the Lord have stick, and they shall be one
spoken it, and performed it, in mine hand. 20 And the
saith the Lord. 15 The word sticks whereon thou writest
of the Lord came again shall be in thine hand before
unto me, saying, 16 Moreover, their eyes. 21 And say unto
thou son of man, take thee them, Thus saith the Lord
one stick, and write upon God; Behold, I will take the
it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel from among
children of Israel his com- the heathen, whither they be
panions: then take another gone, and will gather them
stick, and write upon it, For on every side, and bring
Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, them into their own land:
and for all the house of Is- 22 And I will make them one
also come to pass, that at the prophesy and say unto Gog,
same time shall things come Thus saith the Lord God; In
into thy mind, and thou shalt that day when my people of
think an evil thought: 11 And Israel dwelleth safely, shalt
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thou not know it? 15 And ken, Surely in that day there
thou shalt come from thy shall be a great shaking in
place out of the north parts, the land of Israel; 20 So that
thou, and many people with the fishes of the sea, and
thee, all of them riding upon the fowls of the heaven, and
horses, a great company, and the beasts of the field, and
a mighty army: 16 And thou all creeping things that creep
shalt come up against my upon the earth, and all the
people of Israel, as a cloud men that are upon the face
to cover the land; it shall be of the earth, shall shake at
in the latter days, and I will my presence, and the moun-
bring thee against my land, tains shall be thrown down,
that the heathen may know and the steep places shall
me, when I shall be sanctified fall, and every wall shall fall
in thee, O Gog, before their to the ground. 21 And I will
eyes. 17 Thus saith the Lord call for a sword against him
God; Art thou he of whom throughout all my moun-
I have spoken in old time by tains, saith the Lord God:
my servants the prophets of every man’s sword shall be
Israel, which prophesied in against his brother. 22 And I
those days many years that will plead against him with
I would bring thee against pestilence and with blood;
them? 18 And it shall come and I will rain upon him,
to pass at the same time and upon his bands, and
when Gog shall come against upon the many people that
the land of Israel, saith the are with him, an overflowing
Lord God, that my fury shall rain, and great hailstones,
come up in my face. 19 For fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus
in my jealousy and in the will I magnify myself, and
fire of my wrath have I spo- sanctify myself; and I will be
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the weapons with fire: and ter the end of seven months
they shall spoil those that shall they search. 15 And the
spoiled them, and rob those passengers that pass through
that robbed them, saith the the land, when any seeth a
Lord God. 11 And it shall man’s bone, then shall he set
come to pass in that day, up a sign by it, till the buri-
that I will give unto Gog a ers have buried it in the val-
place there of graves in Is- ley of Hamongog. 16 And also
rael, the valley of the pas- the name of the city shall be
sengers on the east of the Hamonah. Thus shall they
sea: and it shall stop the cleanse the land. 17 And,
with thine ears, and set thine sured also the porch of the
heart upon all that I shall gate within, one reed. 9 Then
shew thee; for to the intent measured he the porch of
that I might shew them unto the gate, eight cubits; and
thee art thou brought hither:
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the posts thereof, two cubits; gate of the entrance unto the
and the porch of the gate face of the porch of the inner
was inward. 10 And the lit- gate were fifty cubits. 16 And
tle chambers of the gate east- there were narrow windows
ward were three on this side, to the little chambers, and
and three on that side; they to their posts within the
three were of one measure: gate round about, and like-
and the posts had one mea- wise to the arches: and win-
sure on this side and on that dows were round about in-
side. 11 And he measured ward: and upon each post
the breadth of the entry of were palm trees. 17 Then
the gate, ten cubits; and the brought he me into the out-
length of the gate, thirteen ward court, and, lo, there
cubits. 12 The space also be- were chambers, and a pave-
fore the little chambers was ment made for the court
one cubit on this side, and round about: thirty cham-
the space was one cubit on bers were upon the pave-
that side: and the little ment. 18 And the pavement
chambers were six cubits on by the side of the gates over
this side, and six cubits on against the length of the
that side. 13 He measured gates was the lower pave-
then the gate from the roof of ment. 19 Then he measured
one little chamber to the roof the breadth from the fore-
of another: the breadth was front of the lower gate unto
five and twenty cubits, door the forefront of the inner
against door. 14 He made also court without, an hundred
posts of threescore cubits, cubits eastward and north-
even unto the post of the ward. 20 And the gate of the
court round about the gate. outward court that looked
15 And from the face of the toward the north, he mea-
EZEKIEL 1899
of the gate, were two tables. is for the priests, the keep-
41 Four tables were on this ers of the charge of the
side, and four tables on that house. 46 And the cham-
this side, and another on that the most holy place. 5 After
side. he measured the wall of the
house, six cubits; and the
breadth of every side cham-
Chapter 41 ber, four cubits, round about
the house on every side.
Afterward he brought me to 6 And the side chambers were
and another door toward the narrow windows, and the gal-
south: and the breadth of the leries round about on their
place that was left was five three stories, over against the
cubits round about. 12 Now door, cieled with wood round
the building that was be- about, and from the ground
fore the separate place at up to the windows, and
the end toward the west was the windows were covered;
seventy cubits broad; and 17 To that above the door,
the wall of the building was even unto the inner house,
five cubits thick round about, and without, and by all the
and the length thereof ninety wall round about within and
cubits. 13 So he measured without, by measure. 18 And
the house, an hundred cu- it was made with cherubims
bits long; and the separate and palm trees, so that a
place, and the building, with palm tree was between a
the walls thereof, an hun- cherub and a cherub; and
dred cubits long; 14 Also the every cherub had two faces;
EZEKIEL 1904
the pavement which was for these chambers was the en-
the utter court, was gallery try on the east side, as one
against gallery in three sto- goeth into them from the ut-
ries. 4 And before the cham- ter court. 10 The chambers
bers was a walk of ten cubits were in the thickness of the
breadth inward, a way of one wall of the court toward the
cubit; and their doors toward east, over against the sepa-
the north. 5 Now the up- rate place, and over against
per chambers were shorter: the building. 11 And the
for the galleries were higher way before them was like the
than these, than the lower, appearance of the chambers
and than the middlemost of which were toward the north,
the building. 6 For they as long as they, and as broad
were in three stories, but as they: and all their goings
had not pillars as the pil- out were both according to
lars of the courts: there- their fashions, and according
fore the building was strait- to their doors. 12 And accord-
ened more than the lowest ing to the doors of the cham-
and the middlemost from the bers that were toward the
ground. 7 And the wall that south was a door in the head
was without over against the of the way, even the way di-
chambers, toward the utter rectly before the wall toward
court on the forepart of the the east, as one entereth
chambers, the length thereof into them. 13 Then said he
was fifty cubits. 8 For the unto me, The north cham-
length of the chambers that bers and the south chambers,
were in the utter court was which are before the separate
fifty cubits: and, lo, before place, they be holy chambers,
the temple were an hundred where the priests that ap-
cubits. 9 And from under proach unto the Lord shall
EZEKIEL 1906
eat the most holy things: side, five hundred reeds, with
there shall they lay the most the measuring reed. 19 He
holy things, and the meat of- turned about to the west
fering, and the sin offering, side, and measured five hun-
and the trespass offering; for dred reeds with the measur-
the place is holy. 14 When the ing reed. 20 He measured it
priests enter therein, then by the four sides: it had a
shall they not go out of wall round about, five hun-
the holy place into the utter dred reeds long, and five hun-
court, but there they shall dred broad, to make a sepa-
lay their garments wherein ration between the sanctuary
they minister; for they are and the profane place.
holy; and shall put on other
garments, and shall approach
to those things which are for Chapter 43
the people. 15 Now when he
had made an end of mea- Afterward he brought me
suring the inner house, he to the gate, even the gate
brought me forth toward the that looketh toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of
gate whose prospect is to-
ward the east, and measured the God of Israel came from
it round about. 16 He mea- the way of the east: and
sured the east side with the his voice was like a noise of
measuring reed, five hundred many waters: and the earth
reeds, with the measuring shined with his glory. 3 And
reed round about. 17 He mea- it was according to the ap-
sured the north side, five pearance of the vision which
hundred reeds, with the mea- I saw, even according to the
suring reed round about. vision that I saw when I
18 He measured the south came to destroy the city: and
the visions were like the vi-
EZEKIEL 1907
my throne, and the place of all that they have done, shew
the soles of my feet, where them the form of the house,
I will dwell in the midst and the fashion thereof, and
of the children of Israel for the goings out thereof, and
ever, and my holy name, the comings in thereof, and
shall the house of Israel no all the forms thereof, and all
more defile, neither they, nor the ordinances thereof, and
their kings, by their whore- all the forms thereof, and
dom, nor by the carcases all the laws thereof: and
of their kings in their high write it in their sight, that
places. 8 In their setting of they may keep the whole
their threshold by my thresh- form thereof, and all the
olds, and their post by my ordinances thereof, and do
posts, and the wall between them. 12 This is the law of
me and them, they have even the house; Upon the top of
EZEKIEL 1908
the mountain the whole limit bits long and fourteen broad
thereof round about shall be in the four squares thereof;
most holy. Behold, this is and the border about it shall
the law of the house. 13 And be half a cubit; and the bot-
these are the measures of tom thereof shall be a cubit
the altar after the cubits: about; and his stairs shall
The cubit is a cubit and an look toward the east. 18 And
hand breadth; even the bot- he said unto me, Son of man,
tom shall be a cubit, and thus saith the Lord God;
the breadth a cubit, and the These are the ordinances of
border thereof by the edge the altar in the day when
thereof round about shall be they shall make it, to offer
a span: and this shall be burnt offerings thereon, and
the higher place of the al- to sprinkle blood thereon.
tar. 14 And from the bot- 19 And thou shalt give to
tom upon the ground even the priests the Levites that
to the lower settle shall be be of the seed of Zadok,
two cubits, and the breadth which approach unto me, to
one cubit; and from the lesser minister unto me, saith the
settle even to the greater Lord God, a young bullock
settle shall be four cubits, for a sin offering. 20 And
and the breadth one cubit. thou shalt take of the blood
15 So the altar shall be four thereof, and put it on the
cubits; and from the altar four horns of it, and on
and upward shall be four the four corners of the set-
horns. 16 And the altar shall tle, and upon the border
be twelve cubits long, twelve round about: thus shalt thou
broad, square in the four cleanse and purge it. 21 Thou
squares thereof. 17 And the shalt take the bullock also
settle shall be fourteen cu- of the sin offering, and he
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thereof; and mark well the the Levites that are gone
entering in of the house, with away far from me, when Is-
every going forth of the sanc- rael went astray, which went
tuary. 6 And thou shalt say astray away from me after
to the rebellious, even to the their idols; they shall even
house of Israel, Thus saith bear their iniquity. 11 Yet
the Lord God; O ye house they shall be ministers in
of Israel, let it suffice you my sanctuary, having charge
of all your abominations, 7 In at the gates of the house,
that ye have brought into and ministering to the house:
my sanctuary strangers, un- they shall slay the burnt of-
circumcised in heart, and un- fering and the sacrifice for
circumcised in flesh, to be the people, and they shall
in my sanctuary, to pollute stand before them to min-
it, even my house, when ye ister unto them. 12 Because
offer my bread, the fat and they ministered unto them
the blood, and they have bro- before their idols, and caused
ken my covenant because of the house of Israel to fall
all your abominations. 8 And into iniquity; therefore have
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and they shall bear their in- that when they enter in at
iquity. 13 And they shall not the gates of the inner court,
come near unto me, to do the they shall be clothed with
office of a priest unto me, nor linen garments; and no wool
to come near to any of my shall come upon them, whiles
holy things, in the most holy they minister in the gates of
place: but they shall bear the inner court, and within.
their shame, and their abom- 18 They shall have linen bon-
priest drink wine, when they unto him seven days. 27 And
enter into the inner court. in the day that he goeth into
22 Neither shall they take for the sanctuary, unto the in-
their wives a widow, nor her ner court, to minister in the
that is put away: but they sanctuary, he shall offer his
shall take maidens of the seed sin offering, saith the Lord
of the house of Israel, or a God. 28 And it shall be unto
widow that had a priest be- them for an inheritance: I
fore. 23 And they shall teach am their inheritance: and ye
my people the difference be- shall give them no possession
tween the holy and profane, in Israel: I am their posses-
and cause them to discern sion. 29 They shall eat the
between the unclean and the meat offering, and the sin of-
clean. 24 And in controversy fering, and the trespass of-
they shall stand in judgment; fering; and every dedicated
and they shall judge it ac- thing in Israel shall be theirs.
cording to my judgments: 30 And the first of all the first-
and they shall keep my laws fruits of all things, and ev-
and my statutes in all mine ery oblation of all, of every
assemblies; and they shall sort of your oblations, shall
hallow my sabbaths. 25 And be the priest’s: ye shall also
they shall come at no dead give unto the priest the first
person to defile themselves: of your dough, that he may
but for father, or for mother, cause the blessing to rest in
or for son, or for daugh- thine house. 31 The priests
ter, for brother, or for sis- shall not eat of any thing
ter that hath had no hus- that is dead of itself, or torn,
band, they may defile them- whether it be fowl or beast.
selves. 26 And after he is
cleansed, they shall reckon
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vide by lot the land for in- the five and twenty thou-
heritance, ye shall offer an sand of length, and the ten
oblation unto the Lord, an thousand of breadth, shall
holy portion of the land: the also the Levites, the minis-
length shall be the length ters of the house, have for
of five and twenty thou- themselves, for a possession
sand reeds, and the breadth for twenty chambers. 6 And
shall be ten thousand. This ye shall appoint the posses-
shall be holy in all the bor- sion of the city five thousand
ders thereof round about. broad, and five and twenty
2 Of this there shall be
thousand long, over against
for the sanctuary five hun- the oblation of the holy por-
dred in length, with five tion: it shall be for the whole
hundred in breadth, square house of Israel. 7 And a por-
round about; and fifty cu- tion shall be for the prince
bits round about for the sub- on the one side and on the
urbs thereof. 3 And of this other side of the oblation of
measure shalt thou measure the holy portion, and of the
the length of five and twenty possession of the city, before
thousand, and the breadth the oblation of the holy por-
of ten thousand: and in it tion, and before the posses-
shall be the sanctuary and sion of the city, from the west
the most holy place. 4 The side westward, and from the
holy portion of the land shall east side eastward: and the
be for the priests the minis- length shall be over against
ters of the sanctuary, which one of the portions, from the
shall come near to minis- west border unto the east
ter unto the Lord: and it
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ties the meat offering shall be the Lord. 15 Thus shall they
an ephah to a bullock, and prepare the lamb, and the
an ephah to a ram, and to meat offering, and the oil,
the lambs as he is able to every morning for a contin-
give, and an hin of oil to ual burnt offering. 16 Thus
an ephah. 12 Now when the saith the Lord God; If the
prince shall prepare a volun- prince give a gift unto any
tary burnt offering or peace of his sons, the inheritance
offerings voluntarily unto the thereof shall be his sons’; it
Lord, one shall then open shall be their possession by
him the gate that looketh to- inheritance. 17 But if he give
ward the east, and he shall a gift of his inheritance to
prepare his burnt offering one of his servants, then it
and his peace offerings, as he shall be his to the year of
did on the sabbath day: then liberty; after it shall return
he shall go forth; and after to the prince: but his inher-
his going forth one shall shut itance shall be his sons’ for
the gate. 13 Thou shalt daily them. 18 Moreover the prince
prepare a burnt offering unto shall not take of the peo-
the Lord of a lamb of the ple’s inheritance by oppres-
first year without blemish: sion, to thrust them out of
thou shalt prepare it every their possession; but he shall
morning. 14 And thou shalt give his sons inheritance out
prepare a meat offering for of his own possession: that
it every morning, the sixth my people be not scattered
part of an ephah, and the every man from his posses-
third part of an hin of oil, to sion. 19 After he brought
try among the children of Is- the west side, a portion for
rael; they shall have inher- Manasseh. 5 And by the bor-
itance with you among the der of Manasseh, from the
tribes of Israel. 23 And it east side unto the west side,
shall come to pass, that in a portion for Ephraim. 6 And
what tribe the stranger so- by the border of Ephraim,
journeth, there shall ye give from the east side even unto
him his inheritance, saith the the west side, a portion for
Lord God. Reuben. 7 And by the bor-
der of Reuben, from the east
side unto the west side, a
Chapter 48 portion for Judah. 8 And by
the border of Judah, from
Now these are the names the east side unto the west
of the tribes. From the side, shall be the offering
north end to the coast of which ye shall offer of five
the way of Hethlon, as one and twenty thousand reeds
goeth to Hamath, Hazare- in breadth, and in length
nan, the border of Damas- as one of the other parts,
cus northward, to the coast from the east side unto the
of Hamath; for these are his west side: and the sanctuary
sides east and west; a por- shall be in the midst of it.
tion for Dan. 2 And by the 9 The oblation that ye shall
border of Dan, from the east offer unto the Lord shall be
side unto the west side, a of five and twenty thousand
portion for Asher. 3 And by in length, and of ten thou-
the border of Asher, from the sand in breadth. 10 And for
east side even unto the west them, even for the priests,
side, a portion for Naphtali. shall be this holy oblation;
4 And by the border of Naph-
toward the north five and
tali, from the east side unto
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ward over against the five lun, from the east side unto
and twenty thousand toward the west side, Gad a por-
the west border, over against tion. 28 And by the border
the portions for the prince: of Gad, at the south side
and it shall be the holy obla- southward, the border shall
tion; and the sanctuary of be even from Tamar unto the
the house shall be in the waters of strife in Kadesh,
midst thereof. 22 Moreover and to the river toward the
EZEKIEL 1924
1925
DANIEL 1926
whom the prince of the eu- of the eunuchs had set over
nuchs gave names: for he Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,
gave unto Daniel the name of and Azariah, 12 Prove thy ser-
Belteshazzar; and to Hana- vants, I beseech thee, ten
niah, of Shadrach; and to days; and let them give us
Mishael, of Meshach; and pulse to eat, and water to
to Azariah, of Abednego. drink. 13 Then let our coun-
8 But Daniel purposed in his tenances be looked upon be-
heart that he would not de- fore thee, and the counte-
file himself with the portion nance of the children that
of the king’s meat, nor with eat of the portion of the
the wine which he drank: king’s meat: and as thou
therefore he requested of the seest, deal with thy servants.
prince of the eunuchs that 14 So he consented to them
ions: 18 That they would de- now made known unto us the
sire mercies of the God of king’s matter. 24 Therefore
heaven concerning this se- Daniel went in unto Ari-
cret; that Daniel and his fel- och, whom the king had or-
lows should not perish with dained to destroy the wise
the rest of the wise men of men of Babylon: he went
Babylon. 19 Then was the se- and said thus unto him; De-
cret revealed unto Daniel in stroy not the wise men of
a night vision. Then Daniel Babylon: bring me in be-
blessed the God of heaven. fore the king, and I will
20 Daniel answered and said, shew unto the king the in-
Blessed be the name of God terpretation. 25 Then Arioch
for ever and ever: for wisdom brought in Daniel before the
and might are his: 21 And he king in haste, and said thus
changeth the times and the unto him, I have found a
seasons: he removeth kings, man of the captives of Ju-
and setteth up kings: he dah, that will make known
giveth wisdom unto the wise, unto the king the interpre-
and knowledge to them that tation. 26 The king answered
know understanding: 22 He and said to Daniel, whose
revealeth the deep and se- name was Belteshazzar, Art
cret things: he knoweth what thou able to make known
is in the darkness, and the unto me the dream which
light dwelleth with him. 23 I I have seen, and the inter-
thank thee, and praise thee, pretation thereof? 27 Daniel
O thou God of my fathers, answered in the presence of
who hast given me wisdom the king, and said, The se-
and might, and hast made cret which the king hath
known unto me now what we demanded cannot the wise
desired of thee: for thou hast men, the astrologers, the
DANIEL 1930
iron that breaketh all these, thou sawest that the stone
shall it break in pieces and was cut out of the mountain
bruise. 41 And whereas thou without hands, and that it
sawest the feet and toes, part brake in pieces the iron, the
of potters’ clay, and part of brass, the clay, the silver,
iron, the kingdom shall be and the gold; the great God
divided; but there shall be in hath made known to the king
it of the strength of the iron, what shall come to pass here-
forasmuch as thou sawest the after: and the dream is cer-
iron mixed with miry clay. tain, and the interpretation
42 And as the toes of the feet thereof sure. 46 Then the king
were part of iron, and part Nebuchadnezzar fell upon
of clay, so the kingdom shall his face, and worshipped
be partly strong, and partly Daniel, and commanded that
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cimer, and all kinds of mu- fall down and worship the
sick, ye fall down and wor- golden image: 11 And whoso
ship the golden image that falleth not down and wor-
Nebuchadnezzar the king shippeth, that he should
hath set up: 6 And whoso fal- be cast into the midst of
leth not down and worship- a burning fiery furnace.
peth shall the same hour be 12 There are certain Jews
cast into the midst of a burn- whom thou hast set over
ing fiery furnace. 7 Therefore the affairs of the province
at that time, when all the of Babylon, Shadrach, Me-
people heard the sound of shach, and Abednego; these
the cornet, flute, harp, sack- men, O king, have not re-
but, psaltery, and all kinds garded thee: they serve not
of musick, all the people, the thy gods, nor worship the
nations, and the languages, golden image which thou
fell down and worshipped hast set up. 13 Then Neb-
the golden image that Neb- uchadnezzar in his rage
uchadnezzar the king had and fury commanded to
set up. 8 Wherefore at that bring Shadrach, Meshach,
time certain Chaldeans came and Abednego. Then they
near, and accused the Jews. brought these men before
9 They spake and said to the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar
the king Nebuchadnezzar, O spake and said unto them,
king, live for ever. 10 Thou, Is it true, O Shadrach, Me-
O king, hast made a de- shach, and Abednego, do not
cree, that every man that ye serve my gods, nor wor-
shall hear the sound of the ship the golden image which
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, I have set up? 15 Now if ye
psaltery, and dulcimer, and be ready that at what time
all kinds of musick, shall ye hear the sound of the
DANIEL 1934
hate thee, and the interpre- of heaven, and let his por-
tation thereof to thine ene- tion be with the beasts of
mies. 20 The tree that thou the field, till seven times pass
sawest, which grew, and was over him; 24 This is the inter-
strong, whose height reached pretation, O king, and this is
unto the heaven, and the the decree of the most High,
sight thereof to all the earth; which is come upon my lord
21 Whose leaves were fair, and the king: 25 That they shall
the fruit thereof much, and drive thee from men, and thy
in it was meat for all; un- dwelling shall be with the
der which the beasts of the beasts of the field, and they
field dwelt, and upon whose shall make thee to eat grass
branches the fowls of the as oxen, and they shall wet
heaven had their habitation: thee with the dew of heaven,
22 It is thou, O king, that art and seven times shall pass
grown and become strong: over thee, till thou know that
for thy greatness is grown, the most High ruleth in the
and reacheth unto heaven, kingdom of men, and giveth
and thy dominion to the end it to whomsoever he will.
of the earth. 23 And whereas 26 And whereas they com-
there any error or fault found Daniel knew that the writing
in him. 5 Then said these was signed, he went into his
men, We shall not find any house; and his windows be-
occasion against this Daniel, ing open in his chamber to-
except we find it against him ward Jerusalem, he kneeled
concerning the law of his upon his knees three times
God. 6 Then these presi- a day, and prayed, and gave
dents and princes assembled thanks before his God, as he
together to the king, and did aforetime. 11 Then these
said thus unto him, King men assembled, and found
Darius, live for ever. 7 All Daniel praying and making
the presidents of the king- supplication before his God.
dom, the governors, and the 12 Then they came near, and
swered they and said before upon the mouth of the den;
the king, That Daniel, which and the king sealed it with
is of the children of the cap- his own signet, and with
tivity of Judah, regardeth the signet of his lords; that
not thee, O king, nor the de- the purpose might not be
cree that thou hast signed, changed concerning Daniel.
but maketh his petition three 18 Then the king went to his
also before thee, O king, have dom that which shall not be
I done no hurt. 23 Then was destroyed, and his domin-
the king exceeding glad for ion shall be even unto the
him, and commanded that end. 27 He delivereth and res-
they should take Daniel up cueth, and he worketh signs
out of the den. So Daniel was and wonders in heaven and
taken up out of the den, and in earth, who hath delivered
no manner of hurt was found Daniel from the power of the
upon him, because he be- lions. 28 So this Daniel pros-
lieved in his God. 24 And the pered in the reign of Darius,
king commanded, and they and in the reign of Cyrus the
brought those men which Persian.
had accused Daniel, and they
cast them into the den of
lions, them, their children, Chapter 7
and their wives; and the lions
had the mastery of them, and In the first year of Belshazzar
brake all their bones in pieces king of Babylon Daniel had a
or ever they came at the bot- dream and visions of his head
tom of the den. 25 Then king upon his bed: then he wrote
Darius wrote unto all people, the dream, and told the sum
nations, and languages, that of the matters. 2 Daniel spake
dwell in all the earth; Peace and said, I saw in my vi-
be multiplied unto you. 26 I sion by night, and, behold,
make a decree, That in ev- the four winds of the heaven
ery dominion of my kingdom strove upon the great sea.
3 And four great beasts came
men tremble and fear before
the God of Daniel: for he up from the sea, diverse one
from another. 4 The first
is the living God, and sted-
fast for ever, and his king- was like a lion, and had ea-
gle’s wings: I beheld till the
DANIEL 1947
ion was given to it. 7 After came forth from before him:
this I saw in the night vi- thousand thousands minis-
sions, and behold a fourth tered unto him, and ten
beast, dreadful and terrible, thousand times ten thousand
and strong exceedingly; and stood before him: the judg-
it had great iron teeth: it de- ment was set, and the books
voured and brake in pieces, were opened. 11 I beheld then
and stamped the residue because of the voice of the
with the feet of it: and it was great words which the horn
diverse from all the beasts spake: I beheld even till
that were before it; and it the beast was slain, and his
had ten horns. 8 I consid- body destroyed, and given
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man came with the clouds would know the truth of the
of heaven, and came to the fourth beast, which was di-
Ancient of days, and they verse from all the others,
brought him near before him. exceeding dreadful, whose
14 And there was given him teeth were of iron, and his
dominion, and glory, and a nails of brass; which de-
kingdom, that all people, na- voured, brake in pieces, and
tions, and languages, should stamped the residue with his
serve him: his dominion is an feet; 20 And of the ten horns
everlasting dominion, which that were in his head, and
shall not pass away, and his of the other which came up,
kingdom that which shall not and before whom three fell;
be destroyed. 15 I Daniel was even of that horn that had
grieved in my spirit in the eyes, and a mouth that spake
midst of my body, and the very great things, whose look
visions of my head troubled was more stout than his fel-
me. 16 I came near unto lows. 21 I beheld, and the
one of them that stood by, same horn made war with the
and asked him the truth of saints, and prevailed against
all this. So he told me, them; 22 Until the Ancient
and made me know the in- of days came, and judgment
terpretation of the things. was given to the saints of
DANIEL 1949
the most High; and the time minion, and the greatness of
came that the saints pos- the kingdom under the whole
sessed the kingdom. 23 Thus heaven, shall be given to the
he said, The fourth beast people of the saints of the
shall be the fourth kingdom most High, whose kingdom is
upon earth, which shall be an everlasting kingdom, and
diverse from all kingdoms, all dominions shall serve and
and shall devour the whole obey him. 28 Hitherto is the
earth, and shall tread it end of the matter. As for me
down, and break it in pieces. Daniel, my cogitations much
24 And the ten horns out of troubled me, and my counte-
this kingdom are ten kings nance changed in me: but I
that shall arise: and an- kept the matter in my heart.
other shall rise after them;
and he shall be diverse from
the first, and he shall sub- Chapter 8
due three kings. 25 And
fore the river a ram which ram to stand before him, but
had two horns: and the two he cast him down to the
horns were high; but one was ground, and stamped upon
higher than the other, and him: and there was none
the higher came up last. 4 I that could deliver the ram
saw the ram pushing west- out of his hand. 8 Therefore
ward, and northward, and the he goat waxed very great:
southward; so that no beasts and when he was strong, the
might stand before him, nei- great horn was broken; and
ther was there any that could for it came up four notable
deliver out of his hand; but ones toward the four winds
he did according to his will, of heaven. 9 And out of one
and became great. 5 And of them came forth a little
as I was considering, be- horn, which waxed exceeding
hold, an he goat came from great, toward the south, and
the west on the face of the toward the east, and toward
whole earth, and touched not the pleasant land. 10 And
the ground: and the goat it waxed great, even to the
had a notable horn between host of heaven; and it cast
his eyes. 6 And he came to down some of the host and of
the ram that had two horns, the stars to the ground, and
which I had seen standing be- stamped upon them. 11 Yea,
fore the river, and ran unto he magnified himself even to
him in the fury of his power. the prince of the host, and
7 And I saw him come close by him the daily sacrifice was
unto the ram, and he was taken away, and the place of
moved with choler against his sanctuary was cast down.
him, and smote the ram, and 12 And an host was given him
come to shew thee; for thou and the end thereof shall be
art greatly beloved: there- with a flood, and unto the
fore understand the mat- end of the war desolations
ter, and consider the vision. are determined. 27 And he
24 Seventy weeks are deter- shall confirm the covenant
mined upon thy people and with many for one week: and
upon thy holy city, to fin- in the midst of the week he
ish the transgression, and to shall cause the sacrifice and
make an end of sins, and the oblation to cease, and for
to make reconciliation for in- the overspreading of abomi-
iquity, and to bring in ev- nations he shall make it des-
erlasting righteousness, and olate, even until the consum-
to seal up the vision and mation, and that determined
prophecy, and to anoint the shall be poured upon the des-
most Holy. 25 Know there- olate.
fore and understand, that
from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and Chapter 10
to build Jerusalem unto the
Messiah the Prince shall be In the third year of Cyrus
seven weeks, and threescore king of Persia a thing was
and two weeks: the street revealed unto Daniel, whose
shall be built again, and the name was called Belteshaz-
wall, even in troublous times. zar; and the thing was true,
26 And after threescore and but the time appointed was
two weeks shall Messiah be long: and he understood the
cut off, but not for himself: thing, and had understand-
and the people of the prince ing of the vision. 2 In those
that shall come shall destroy days I Daniel was mourning
the city and the sanctuary; three full weeks. 3 I ate no
pleasant bread, neither came
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toward the fort of his own shall scatter among them the
land: but he shall stumble prey, and spoil, and riches:
and fall, and not be found. yea, and he shall forecast
20 Then shall stand up in his his devices against the strong
estate a raiser of taxes in the holds, even for a time. 25 And
glory of the kingdom: but he shall stir up his power
within few days he shall be and his courage against the
destroyed, neither in anger, king of the south with a
nor in battle. 21 And in his great army; and the king of
estate shall stand up a vile the south shall be stirred up
person, to whom they shall to battle with a very great
not give the honour of the and mighty army; but he
kingdom: but he shall come shall not stand: for they
in peaceably, and obtain the shall forecast devices against
kingdom by flatteries. 22 And him. 26 Yea, they that feed of
with the arms of a flood shall the portion of his meat shall
they be overflown from be- destroy him, and his army
fore him, and shall be bro- shall overflow: and many
ken; yea, also the prince of shall fall down slain. 27 And
the covenant. 23 And after both these kings’ hearts shall
the league made with him be to do mischief, and they
he shall work deceitfully: for shall speak lies at one ta-
he shall come up, and shall ble; but it shall not prosper:
become strong with a small for yet the end shall be at
people. 24 He shall enter the time appointed. 28 Then
peaceably even upon the fat- shall he return into his land
test places of the province; with great riches; and his
and he shall do that which heart shall be against the
his fathers have not done, holy covenant; and he shall
nor his fathers’ fathers; he do exploits, and return to his
DANIEL 1961
gold, and silver, and with shall have power over the
precious stones, and pleas- treasures of gold and of sil-
ant things. 39 Thus shall he ver, and over all the precious
do in the most strong holds things of Egypt: and the
with a strange god, whom Libyans and the Ethiopians
he shall acknowledge and in- shall be at his steps. 44 But
crease with glory: and he tidings out of the east and
shall cause them to rule over out of the north shall trou-
many, and shall divide the ble him: therefore he shall
land for gain. 40 And at the go forth with great fury to
time of the end shall the destroy, and utterly to make
king of the south push at away many. 45 And he shall
him: and the king of the plant the tabernacles of his
north shall come against him palace between the seas in
like a whirlwind, with chari- the glorious holy mountain;
ots, and with horsemen, and yet he shall come to his end,
with many ships; and he and none shall help him.
shall enter into the countries,
and shall overflow and pass
over. 41 He shall enter also Chapter 12
into the glorious land, and
many countries shall be over- And at that time shall
thrown: but these shall es- Michael stand up, the great
cape out of his hand, even prince which standeth for
Edom, and Moab, and the the children of thy people:
chief of the children of Am- and there shall be a time of
mon. 42 He shall stretch forth trouble, such as never was
his hand also upon the coun- since there was a nation even
tries: and the land of Egypt to that same time: and at
shall not escape. 43 But he that time thy people shall
be delivered, every one that
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7 And she shall follow after my lovers have given me: and
her lovers, but she shall not I will make them a forest,
overtake them; and she shall and the beasts of the field
seek them, but shall not find shall eat them. 13 And I will
them: then shall she say, I visit upon her the days of
will go and return to my first Baalim, wherein she burned
husband; for then was it bet- incense to them, and she
ter with me than now. 8 For decked herself with her ear-
she did not know that I gave rings and her jewels, and she
her corn, and wine, and oil, went after her lovers, and
and multiplied her silver and forgat me, saith the Lord.
gold, which they prepared for 14 Therefore, behold, I will al-
Baal. 9 Therefore will I re- lure her, and bring her into
turn, and take away my corn the wilderness, and speak
in the time thereof, and my comfortably unto her. 15 And
wine in the season thereof, I will give her her vineyards
and will recover my wool and from thence, and the valley
my flax given to cover her of Achor for a door of hope:
nakedness. 10 And now will I and she shall sing there, as
discover her lewdness in the in the days of her youth, and
sight of her lovers, and none as in the day when she came
shall deliver her out of mine up out of the land of Egypt.
hand. 11 I will also cause 16 And it shall be at that day,
all her mirth to cease, her saith the Lord, that thou
feast days, her new moons, shalt call me Ishi; and shalt
and her sabbaths, and all her call me no more Baali. 17 For
solemn feasts. 12 And I will I will take away the names
destroy her vines and her fig of Baalim out of her mouth,
trees, whereof she hath said, and they shall no more be
These are my rewards that remembered by their name.
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for the burden of the king of shall not feed them, and the
princes. 11 Because Ephraim new wine shall fail in her.
hath made many altars to 3 They shall not dwell in the
prophets, and I have multi- now they sin more and more,
plied visions, and used simil- and have made them molten
itudes, by the ministry of the images of their silver, and
prophets. 11 Is there iniq- idols according to their own
uity in Gilead? surely they understanding, all of it the
are vanity: they sacrifice bul- work of the craftsmen: they
locks in Gilgal; yea, their al- say of them, Let the men
tars are as heaps in the fur- that sacrifice kiss the calves.
3 Therefore they shall be as
rows of the fields. 12 And
Jacob fled into the country the morning cloud, and as
of Syria, and Israel served the early dew that passeth
for a wife, and for a wife away, as the chaff that is
he kept sheep. 13 And by a driven with the whirlwind
prophet the Lord brought out of the floor, and as the
Israel out of Egypt, and by smoke out of the chimney.
4 Yet I am the Lord thy God
a prophet was he preserved.
14 Ephraim provoked him to from the land of Egypt, and
anger most bitterly: there- thou shalt know no god but
fore shall he leave his blood me: for there is no saviour
beside me. 5 I did know
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the Lord; the priests, the the house of the Lord your
Lord’S ministers, mourn. God, and cry unto the Lord,
10 The field is wasted, the 15 Alas for the day! for the
ple and a strong; there hath other; they shall walk every
not been ever the like, nei- one in his path: and when
ther shall be any more af- they fall upon the sword,
ter it, even to the years of they shall not be wounded.
many generations. 3 A fire 9 They shall run to and fro in
devoureth before them; and the city; they shall run upon
behind them a flame bur- the wall, they shall climb up
neth: the land is as the gar- upon the houses; they shall
den of Eden before them, enter in at the windows like
and behind them a desolate a thief. 10 The earth shall
wilderness; yea, and nothing quake before them; the heav-
shall escape them. 4 The ap- ens shall tremble: the sun
pearance of them is as the and the moon shall be dark,
appearance of horses; and and the stars shall withdraw
as horsemen, so shall they their shining: 11 And the
run. 5 Like the noise of char- Lord shall utter his voice
iots on the tops of moun- before his army: for his camp
tains shall they leap, like the
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wine and oil. 25 And I will the heavens and in the earth,
restore to you the years that blood, and fire, and pillars
the locust hath eaten, the of smoke. 31 The sun shall
cankerworm, and the cater- be turned into darkness, and
piller, and the palmerworm, the moon into blood, be-
my great army which I sent fore the great and the terri-
among you. 26 And ye shall ble day of the Lord come.
eat in plenty, and be sat- 32 And it shall come to pass,
ple and for my heritage Is- your daughters into the hand
rael, whom they have scat- of the children of Judah, and
tered among the nations, and they shall sell them to the
parted my land. 3 And they Sabeans, to a people far off:
have cast lots for my peo- for the Lord hath spoken it.
ple; and have given a boy 9 Proclaim ye this among the
shining. 16 The Lord also dah shall dwell for ever, and
shall roar out of Zion, and ut- Jerusalem from generation
ter his voice from Jerusalem; to generation. 21 For I will
and the heavens and the cleanse their blood that I
earth shall shake: but the have not cleansed: for the
Lord will be the hope of his Lord dwelleth in Zion.
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tive the whole captivity, to did cast off all pity, and
deliver them up to Edom: his anger did tear perpetu-
7 But I will send a fire on ally, and he kept his wrath
the wall of Gaza, which shall for ever: 12 But I will send
devour the palaces thereof: a fire upon Teman, which
8 And I will cut off the in- shall devour the palaces of
habitant from Ashdod, and Bozrah. 13 Thus saith the
him that holdeth the scep- Lord; For three transgres-
tre from Ashkelon, and I sions of the children of Am-
will turn mine hand against mon, and for four, I will
Ekron: and the remnant of not turn away the punish-
the Philistines shall perish, ment thereof; because they
saith the Lord God. 9 Thus have ripped up the women
saith the Lord; For three with child of Gilead, that
transgressions of Tyrus, and they might enlarge their bor-
for four, I will not turn away der: 14 But I will kindle a fire
the punishment thereof; be- in the wall of Rabbah, and
cause they delivered up the it shall devour the palaces
whole captivity to Edom, thereof, with shouting in the
and remembered not the day of battle, with a tempest
brotherly covenant: 10 But I in the day of the whirlwind:
will send a fire on the wall 15 And their king shall go into
her; and ye shall cast them one city, to drink water; but
into the palace, saith the they were not satisfied: yet
Lord. 4 Come to Bethel, and have ye not returned unto
transgress; at Gilgal multi- me, saith the Lord. 9 I have
ply transgression; and bring smitten you with blasting
your sacrifices every morn- and mildew: when your gar-
ing, and your tithes after dens and your vineyards and
three years: 5 And offer a your fig trees and your olive
sacrifice of thanksgiving with trees increased, the palmer-
leaven, and proclaim and worm devoured them: yet
publish the free offerings: for have ye not returned unto
this liketh you, O ye chil- me, saith the Lord. 10 I
dren of Israel, saith the Lord have sent among you the
God. 6 And I also have pestilence after the manner
given you cleanness of teeth of Egypt: your young men
in all your cities, and want have I slain with the sword,
of bread in all your places: and have taken away your
yet have ye not returned unto horses; and I have made the
me, saith the Lord. 7 And stink of your camps to come
also I have withholden the up unto your nostrils: yet
rain from you, when there have ye not returned unto
were yet three months to me, saith the Lord. 11 I have
the harvest: and I caused overthrown some of you, as
it to rain upon one city, God overthrew Sodom and
and caused it not to rain Gomorrah, and ye were as
upon another city: one piece a firebrand plucked out of
was rained upon, and the the burning: yet have ye
piece whereupon it rained not returned unto me, saith
not withered. 8 So two or the Lord. 12 Therefore thus
three cities wandered unto will I do unto thee, O Is-
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abhor him that speaketh up- God of hosts, the Lord, saith
rightly. 11 Forasmuch there- thus; Wailing shall be in all
fore as your treading is upon streets; and they shall say in
the poor, and ye take from all the highways, Alas! alas!
him burdens of wheat: ye and they shall call the hus-
have built houses of hewn bandman to mourning, and
stone, but ye shall not dwell such as are skilful of lamen-
in them; ye have planted tation to wailing. 17 And in
pleasant vineyards, but ye all vineyards shall be wail-
shall not drink wine of them. ing: for I will pass through
12 For I know your mani- thee, saith the Lord. 18 Woe
fold transgressions and your unto you that desire the day
mighty sins: they afflict the of the Lord! to what end
just, they take a bribe, and is it for you? the day of the
they turn aside the poor in Lord is darkness, and not
the gate from their right. light. 19 As if a man did flee
13 Therefore the prudent shall from a lion, and a bear met
keep silence in that time; for him; or went into the house,
it is an evil time. 14 Seek and leaned his hand on the
good, and not evil, that ye wall, and a serpent bit him.
may live: and so the Lord, 20 Shall not the day of the
be, saith the Lord God. Amos, O thou seer, go, flee
7 Thus he shewed me: and, thee away into the land of
behold, the Lord stood upon Judah, and there eat bread,
a wall made by a plumbline, and prophesy there: 13 But
with a plumbline in his hand. prophesy not again any more
8 And the Lord said unto at Bethel: for it is the
me, Amos, what seest thou? king’s chapel, and it is the
And I said, A plumbline. king’s court. 14 Then an-
seest thou? And I said, for this, and every one mourn
A basket of summer fruit. that dwelleth therein? and
Then said the Lord unto it shall rise up wholly as a
me, The end is come upon flood; and it shall be cast
my people of Israel; I will out and drowned, as by the
not again pass by them any flood of Egypt. 9 And it shall
more. 3 And the songs of come to pass in that day,
the temple shall be howlings saith the Lord God, that I
in that day, saith the Lord will cause the sun to go down
God: there shall be many
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slay them: and I will set not utterly destroy the house
mine eyes upon them for evil, of Jacob, saith the Lord.
and not for good. 5 And the 9 For, lo, I will command, and
14 And I will bring again the also make gardens, and eat
captivity of my people of Is- the fruit of them. 15 And I
rael, and they shall build will plant them upon their
the waste cities, and in- land, and they shall no more
habit them; and they shall be pulled up out of their land
plant vineyards, and drink which I have given them,
the wine thereof; they shall saith the Lord thy God.
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ingly afraid, and said unto and cast him forth into the
him, Why hast thou done sea: and the sea ceased from
this? For the men knew her raging. 16 Then the men
that he fled from the pres- feared the Lord exceedingly,
ence of the Lord, because and offered a sacrifice unto
he had told them. 11 Then the Lord, and made vows.
said they unto him, What 17 Now the Lord had pre-
fish’s belly, 2 And said, I cried sacrifice unto thee with the
by reason of mine affliction voice of thanksgiving; I will
unto the Lord, and he heard pay that that I have vowed.
me; out of the belly of hell Salvation is of the Lord.
cried I, and thou heardest 10 And the Lord spake unto
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cob, and princes of the house shall come, and say, Come,
of Israel, that abhor judg- and let us go up to the moun-
ment, and pervert all equity. tain of the Lord, and to
10 They build up Zion with the house of the God of Ja-
blood, and Jerusalem with cob; and he will teach us of
iniquity. 11 The heads thereof his ways, and we will walk
judge for reward, and the in his paths: for the law
priests thereof teach for hire, shall go forth of Zion, and
and the prophets thereof di- the word of the Lord from
vine for money: yet will they Jerusalem. 3 And he shall
lean upon the Lord, and judge among many people,
say, Is not the Lord among and rebuke strong nations
us? none evil can come upon afar off; and they shall beat
us. 12 Therefore shall Zion their swords into plowshares,
for your sake be plowed as a and their spears into prun-
field, and Jerusalem shall be- inghooks: nation shall not
come heaps, and the moun- lift up a sword against na-
tain of the house as the high tion, neither shall they learn
places of the forest. war any more. 4 But they
shall sit every man under
his vine and under his fig
Chapter 4 tree; and none shall make
them afraid: for the mouth
But in the last days it shall of the Lord of hosts hath
come to pass, that the moun- spoken it. 5 For all peo-
tain of the house of the Lord ple will walk every one in
shall be established in the the name of his god, and
top of the mountains, and we will walk in the name
it shall be exalted above the of the Lord our God for
hills; and people shall flow ever and ever. 6 In that day,
unto it. 2 And many nations
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saith the Lord, will I assem- livered; there the Lord shall
ble her that halteth, and I redeem thee from the hand
will gather her that is driven of thine enemies. 11 Now also
out, and her that I have many nations are gathered
afflicted; 7 And I will make against thee, that say, Let
her that halted a remnant, her be defiled, and let our
and her that was cast far eye look upon Zion. 12 But
off a strong nation: and the they know not the thoughts
Lord shall reign over them of the Lord, neither un-
in mount Zion from hence- derstand they his counsel:
forth, even for ever. 8 And for he shall gather them as
thou, O tower of the flock, the sheaves into the floor.
the strong hold of the daugh- 13 Arise and thresh, O daugh-
ter of Zion, unto thee shall it ter of Zion: for I will make
come, even the first domin- thine horn iron, and I will
ion; the kingdom shall come make thy hoofs brass: and
to the daughter of Jerusalem. thou shalt beat in pieces
9 Now why dost thou cry out many people: and I will con-
aloud? is there no king in secrate their gain unto the
thee? is thy counsellor per- Lord, and their substance
ished? for pangs have taken unto the Lord of the whole
thee as a woman in travail. earth.
10 Be in pain, and labour to
cheek. 2 But thou, Bethle- syria with the sword, and the
hem Ephratah, though thou land of Nimrod in the en-
be little among the thou- trances thereof: thus shall
sands of Judah, yet out of he deliver us from the Assyr-
thee shall he come forth unto ian, when he cometh into our
me that is to be ruler in Is- land, and when he treadeth
rael; whose goings forth have within our borders. 7 And the
been from of old, from ev- remnant of Jacob shall be in
erlasting. 3 Therefore will the midst of many people as
he give them up, until the a dew from the Lord, as the
time that she which tra- showers upon the grass, that
vaileth hath brought forth: tarrieth not for man, nor
then the remnant of his waiteth for the sons of men.
brethren shall return unto 8 And the remnant of Jacob
all thy strong holds: 12 And done unto thee? and wherein
I will cut off witchcrafts out have I wearied thee? testify
of thine hand; and thou shalt against me. 4 For I brought
have no more soothsayers: thee up out of the land of
13 Thy graven images also will Egypt, and redeemed thee
I cut off, and thy standing out of the house of servants;
images out of the midst of and I sent before thee Moses,
thee; and thou shalt no more Aaron, and Miriam. 5O
soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, take hold, but shalt not de-
O man, what is good; and liver; and that which thou
what doth the Lord require deliverest will I give up to
of thee, but to do justly, and the sword. 15 Thou shalt sow,
to love mercy, and to walk but thou shalt not reap; thou
humbly with thy God? 9 The shalt tread the olives, but
Lord’S voice crieth unto the thou shalt not anoint thee
city, and the man of wisdom with oil; and sweet wine, but
shall see thy name: hear ye shalt not drink wine. 16 For
the rod, and who hath ap- the statutes of Omri are kept,
pointed it. 10 Are there yet and all the works of the house
the treasures of wickedness of Ahab, and ye walk in their
in the house of the wicked, counsels; that I should make
and the scant measure that thee a desolation, and the in-
is abominable? 11 Shall I habitants thereof an hissing:
count them pure with the therefore ye shall bear the re-
wicked balances, and with proach of my people.
the bag of deceitful weights?
12 For the rich men thereof
hunt every man his brother emy: when I fall, I shall arise;
with a net. 3 That they when I sit in darkness, the
may do evil with both hands Lord shall be a light unto
earnestly, the prince asketh, me. 9 I will bear the indigna-
and the judge asketh for a tion of the Lord, because I
reward; and the great man, have sinned against him, un-
he uttereth his mischievous til he plead my cause, and ex-
desire: so they wrap it up. ecute judgment for me: he
4 The best of them is as a will bring me forth to the
brier: the most upright is light, and I shall behold his
sharper than a thorn hedge: righteousness. 10 Then she
the day of thy watchmen that is mine enemy shall see
and thy visitation cometh; it, and shame shall cover her
now shall be their perplex- which said unto me, Where
ity. 5 Trust ye not in a friend, is the Lord thy God? mine
put ye not confidence in a eyes shall behold her: now
guide: keep the doors of thy shall she be trodden down as
mouth from her that lieth the mire of the streets. 11 In
in thy bosom. 6 For the son the day that thy walls are to
dishonoureth the father, the be built, in that day shall the
daughter riseth up against decree be far removed. 12 In
her mother, the daughter in that day also he shall come
law against her mother in even to thee from Assyria,
law; a man’s enemies are and from the fortified cities,
the men of his own house. and from the fortress even to
7 Therefore I will look unto the river, and from sea to sea,
the Lord; I will wait for and from mountain to moun-
the God of my salvation: my tain. 13 Notwithstanding the
God will hear me. 8 Rejoice land shall be desolate be-
not against me, O mine en- cause of them that dwell
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ness shall pursue his enemies. thou art vile. 15 Behold upon
9 What do ye imagine against the mountains the feet of him
the Lord? he will make that bringeth good tidings,
an utter end: affliction shall that publisheth peace! O Ju-
not rise up the second time. dah, keep thy solemn feasts,
10 For while they be folden to- perform thy vows: for the
gether as thorns, and while wicked shall no more pass
they are drunken as drunk- through thee; he is utterly
ards, they shall be devoured cut off.
as stubble fully dry. 11 There
is one come out of thee,
that imagineth evil against Chapter 2
the Lord, a wicked counsel-
lor. 12 Thus saith the Lord; He that dasheth in pieces
Though they be quiet, and is come up before thy face:
likewise many, yet thus shall keep the munition, watch the
they be cut down, when he way, make thy loins strong,
shall pass through. Though fortify thy power mightily.
2 For the Lord hath turned
I have afflicted thee, I will
afflict thee no more. 13 For away the excellency of Jacob,
now will I break his yoke as the excellency of Israel:
from off thee, and will burst for the emptiers have emp-
thy bonds in sunder. 14 And tied them out, and marred
the Lord hath given a com- their vine branches. 3 The
mandment concerning thee, shield of his mighty men is
that no more of thy name be made red, the valiant men
sown: out of the house of thy are in scarlet: the chariots
gods will I cut off the graven shall be with flaming torches
image and the molten image: in the day of his prepara-
I will make thy grave; for tion, and the fir trees shall be
terribly shaken. 4 The chari-
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ots shall rage in the streets, the knees smite together, and
they shall justle one against much pain is in all loins, and
another in the broad ways: the faces of them all gather
they shall seem like torches, blackness. 11 Where is the
they shall run like the light- dwelling of the lions, and
nings. 5 He shall recount his the feedingplace of the young
worthies: they shall stumble lions, where the lion, even
in their walk; they shall make the old lion, walked, and
haste to the wall thereof, the lion’s whelp, and none
and the defence shall be pre- made them afraid? 12 The
pared. 6 The gates of the lion did tear in pieces enough
rivers shall be opened, and for his whelps, and strangled
the palace shall be dissolved. for his lionesses, and filled his
7 And Huzzab shall be led holes with prey, and his dens
away captive, she shall be with ravin. 13 Behold, I am
brought up, and her maids against thee, saith the Lord
shall lead her as with the of hosts, and I will burn her
voice of doves, tabering upon chariots in the smoke, and
their breasts. 8 But Nin- the sword shall devour thy
eveh is of old like a pool young lions: and I will cut
of water: yet they shall flee off thy prey from the earth,
away. Stand, stand, shall and the voice of thy messen-
they cry; but none shall look gers shall no more be heard.
back. 9 Take ye the spoil of
silver, take the spoil of gold:
for there is none end of the Chapter 3
store and glory out of all the
pleasant furniture. 10 She is Woe to the bloody city! it
empty, and void, and waste: is all full of lies and robbery;
and the heart melteth, and the prey departeth not; 2 The
noise of a whip, and the noise
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of the rattling of the wheels, flee from thee, and say, Nin-
and of the pransing horses, eveh is laid waste: who will
and of the jumping chari- bemoan her? whence shall
ots. 3 The horseman lifteth I seek comforters for thee?
up both the bright sword 8 Art thou better than pop-
and the glittering spear: and ulous No, that was situate
there is a multitude of slain, among the rivers, that had
and a great number of car- the waters round about it,
cases; and there is none whose rampart was the sea,
end of their corpses; they and her wall was from the
stumble upon their corpses: sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt
4 Because of the multitude of were her strength, and it was
the whoredoms of the well- infinite; Put and Lubim were
favoured harlot, the mistress thy helpers. 10 Yet was she
of witchcrafts, that selleth carried away, she went into
nations through her whore- captivity: her young children
doms, and families through also were dashed in pieces
her witchcrafts. 5 Behold, I at the top of all the streets:
am against thee, saith the and they cast lots for her
Lord of hosts; and I will honourable men, and all her
discover thy skirts upon thy great men were bound in
face, and I will shew the na- chains. 11 Thou also shalt
tions thy nakedness, and the be drunken: thou shalt be
kingdoms thy shame. 6 And hid, thou also shalt seek
I will cast abominable filth strength because of the en-
upon thee, and make thee emy. 12 All thy strong holds
vile, and will set thee as a shall be like fig trees with
gazingstock. 7 And it shall the firstripe figs: if they be
come to pass, that all they shaken, they shall even fall
that look upon thee shall into the mouth of the eater.
NAHUM 2028
T Habakkuk
2 O Lord,
the
prophet did see.
how
long shall I cry, and thou
wilt not hear! even cry out
for I will work a work in
your days, which ye will
not believe, though it be
told you. 6 For, lo, I raise
up the Chaldeans, that bit-
unto thee of violence, and ter and hasty nation, which
thou wilt not save! 3 Why shall march through the
dost thou shew me iniq- breadth of the land, to pos-
uity, and cause me to behold sess the dwellingplaces that
grievance? for spoiling and are not theirs. 7 They are
violence are before me: and terrible and dreadful: their
there are that raise up strife judgment and their dignity
and contention. 4 Therefore shall proceed of themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter
the law is slacked, and judg-
ment doth never go forth: than the leopards, and are
for the wicked doth compass more fierce than the evening
about the righteous; there- wolves: and their horsemen
fore wrong judgment pro- shall spread themselves, and
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upon tables, that he may shall vex thee, and thou shalt
run that readeth it. 3 For be for booties unto them?
the vision is yet for an ap- 8 Because thou hast spoiled
pointed time, but at the end many nations, all the rem-
it shall speak, and not lie: nant of the people shall spoil
though it tarry, wait for it; thee; because of men’s blood,
because it will surely come, and for the violence of the
it will not tarry. 4 Behold, land, of the city, and of all
his soul which is lifted up that dwell therein. 9 Woe
is not upright in him: but to him that coveteth an evil
the just shall live by his covetousness to his house,
faith. 5 Yea also, because he that he may set his nest on
transgresseth by wine, he is high, that he may be de-
a proud man, neither keep- livered from the power of
eth at home, who enlargeth evil! 10 Thou hast consulted
his desire as hell, and is as shame to thy house by cut-
death, and cannot be satis- ting off many people, and
fied, but gathereth unto him hast sinned against thy soul.
all nations, and heapeth unto 11 For the stone shall cry out
him all people: 6 Shall not of the wall, and the beam
all these take up a parable out of the timber shall an-
against him, and a taunt- swer it. 12 Woe to him that
ing proverb against him, and buildeth a town with blood,
say, Woe to him that in- and stablisheth a city by in-
creaseth that which is not iquity! 13 Behold, is it not
his! how long? and to of the Lord of hosts that
him that ladeth himself with the people shall labour in
thick clay! 7 Shall they not the very fire, and the peo-
rise up suddenly that shall ple shall weary themselves
bite thee, and awake that for very vanity? 14 For the
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bel, saith the Lord; and the four and twentieth day
be strong, O Joshua, son of the ninth month, in the
of Josedech, the high priest; second year of Darius, came
and be strong, all ye people the word of the Lord by
of the land, saith the Lord, Haggai the prophet, saying,
and work: for I am with 11 Thus saith the Lord of
you, saith the Lord of hosts: hosts; Ask now the priests
5 According to the word that concerning the law, saying,
I covenanted with you when 12 If one bear holy flesh in
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Darius, came the word of the of hosts, how long wilt thou
Lord unto Zechariah, the not have mercy on Jerusalem
son of Berechiah, the son of and on the cities of Judah,
Iddo the prophet, saying, 8 I against which thou hast had
saw by night, and behold indignation these threescore
a man riding upon a red and ten years? 13 And the
horse, and he stood among Lord answered the angel
the myrtle trees that were that talked with me with
in the bottom; and behind good words and comfortable
him were there red horses, words. 14 So the angel that
speckled, and white. 9 Then communed with me said unto
said I, O my lord, what are me, Cry thou, saying, Thus
these? And the angel that saith the Lord of hosts; I
talked with me said unto am jealous for Jerusalem and
me, I will shew thee what for Zion with a great jeal-
these be. 10 And the man ousy. 15 And I am very sore
that stood among the myr- displeased with the heathen
tle trees answered and said, that are at ease: for I was but
These are they whom the a little displeased, and they
Lord hath sent to walk to helped forward the afflic-
and fro through the earth. tion. 16 Therefore thus saith
11 And they answered the an- the Lord; I am returned
gel of the Lord that stood to Jerusalem with mercies:
among the myrtle trees, and my house shall be built in
said, We have walked to and it, saith the Lord of hosts,
fro through the earth, and, and a line shall be stretched
behold, all the earth sitteth forth upon Jerusalem. 17 Cry
still, and is at rest. 12 Then yet, saying, Thus saith the
the angel of the Lord an- Lord of hosts; My cities
swered and said, O Lord through prosperity shall yet
ZECHARIAH 2047
shall enter into the house of was in their wings; for they
the thief, and into the house had wings like the wings of a
of him that sweareth falsely stork: and they lifted up the
by my name: and it shall ephah between the earth and
remain in the midst of his the heaven. 10 Then said I
house, and shall consume it to the angel that talked with
with the timber thereof and me, Whither do these bear
the stones thereof. 5 Then the ephah? 11 And he said
the angel that talked with me unto me, To build it an house
went forth, and said unto me, in the land of Shinar: and it
Lift up now thine eyes, and shall be established, and set
see what is this that goeth there upon her own base.
forth. 6 And I said, What
is it? And he said, This is
an ephah that goeth forth. Chapter 6
He said moreover, This is
their resemblance through all And I turned, and lifted
the earth. 7 And, behold, up mine eyes, and looked,
there was lifted up a tal- and, behold, there came
ent of lead: and this is a four chariots out from be-
woman that sitteth in the tween two mountains; and
midst of the ephah. 8 And the mountains were moun-
he said, This is wickedness. tains of brass. 2 In the first
And he cast it into the midst chariot were red horses; and
of the ephah; and he cast in the second chariot black
the weight of lead upon the horses; 3 And in the third
mouth thereof. 9 Then lifted chariot white horses; and in
I up mine eyes, and looked, the fourth chariot grisled and
bay horses. 4 Then I an-
and, behold, there came out
two women, and the wind swered and said unto the
angel that talked with me,
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the temple of the Lord, and the people of the land, and
ye shall know that the Lord to the priests, saying, When
of hosts hath sent me unto ye fasted and mourned in
you. And this shall come to the fifth and seventh month,
pass, if ye will diligently obey even those seventy years, did
the voice of the Lord your ye at all fast unto me, even
God. to me? 6 And when ye did
eat, and when ye did drink,
did not ye eat for yourselves,
Chapter 7 and drink for yourselves?
7 Should ye not hear the
try, and from the west coun- crease, and the heavens shall
try; 8 And I will bring them, give their dew; and I will
and they shall dwell in the cause the remnant of this
midst of Jerusalem: and they people to possess all these
shall be my people, and I will things. 13 And it shall come
be their God, in truth and to pass, that as ye were a
in righteousness. 9 Thus saith curse among the heathen, O
the Lord of hosts; Let your house of Judah, and house of
hands be strong, ye that hear Israel; so will I save you, and
in these days these words by ye shall be a blessing: fear
the mouth of the prophets, not, but let your hands be
which were in the day that strong. 14 For thus saith the
the foundation of the house Lord of hosts; As I thought
of the Lord of hosts was to punish you, when your fa-
laid, that the temple might thers provoked me to wrath,
be built. 10 For before these saith the Lord of hosts, and
days there was no hire for I repented not: 15 So again
man, nor any hire for beast; have I thought in these days
neither was there any peace to do well unto Jerusalem
to him that went out or came and to the house of Judah:
in because of the affliction: fear ye not. 16 These are
for I set all men every one the things that ye shall do;
against his neighbour. 11 But Speak ye every man the truth
now I will not be unto the to his neighbour; execute the
residue of this people as in judgment of truth and peace
the former days, saith the in your gates: 17 And let none
Lord of hosts. 12 For the of you imagine evil in your
seed shall be prosperous; the hearts against his neighbour;
vine shall give her fruit, and and love no false oath: for
the ground shall give her in- all these are things that I
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hate, saith the Lord. 18 And shall take hold out of all lan-
the word of the Lord of guages of the nations, even
hosts came unto me, say- shall take hold of the skirt of
ing, 19 Thus saith the Lord him that is a Jew, saying, We
of hosts; The fast of the will go with you: for we have
fourth month, and the fast heard that God is with you.
of the fifth, and the fast
of the seventh, and the fast
of the tenth, shall be to Chapter 9
the house of Judah joy and
gladness, and cheerful feasts; The burden of the word
therefore love the truth and of the Lord in the land
peace. 20 Thus saith the of Hadrach, and Damascus
Lord of hosts; It shall yet shall be the rest thereof:
come to pass, that there shall when the eyes of man, as
come people, and the inhabi- of all the tribes of Israel,
tants of many cities: 21 And shall be toward the Lord.
2 And Hamath also shall bor-
the inhabitants of one city
shall go to another, saying, der thereby; Tyrus, and Zi-
Let us go speedily to pray don, though it be very wise.
3 And Tyrus did build herself
before the Lord, and to
seek the Lord of hosts: I a strong hold, and heaped
will go also. 22 Yea, many up silver as the dust, and
people and strong nations fine gold as the mire of the
shall come to seek the Lord streets. 4 Behold, the Lord
of hosts in Jerusalem, and will cast her out, and he will
to pray before the Lord. smite her power in the sea;
23 Thus saith the Lord of and she shall be devoured
hosts; In those days it shall with fire. 5 Ashkelon shall see
come to pass, that ten men it, and fear; Gaza also shall
see it, and be very sorrowful,
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and Ekron; for her expecta- colt the foal of an ass. 10 And
tion shall be ashamed; and I will cut off the chariot
the king shall perish from from Ephraim, and the horse
Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not from Jerusalem, and the bat-
be inhabited. 6 And a bas- tle bow shall be cut off: and
tard shall dwell in Ashdod, he shall speak peace unto
and I will cut off the pride of the heathen: and his domin-
the Philistines. 7 And I will ion shall be from sea even
take away his blood out of to sea, and from the river
his mouth, and his abomina- even to the ends of the earth.
tions from between his teeth: 11 As for thee also, by the
cause of him that returneth: for me, filled the bow with
and no oppressor shall pass Ephraim, and raised up thy
through them any more: for sons, O Zion, against thy
now have I seen with mine sons, O Greece, and made
eyes. 9 Rejoice greatly, O thee as the sword of a mighty
daughter of Zion; shout, O man. 14 And the Lord shall
daughter of Jerusalem: be- be seen over them, and his
hold, thy King cometh unto arrow shall go forth as the
thee: he is just, and hav- lightning: and the Lord God
ing salvation; lowly, and rid- shall blow the trumpet, and
ing upon an ass, and upon a shall go with whirlwinds of
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to pass, that when any shall and the sheep shall be scat-
yet prophesy, then his father tered: and I will turn mine
and his mother that begat hand upon the little ones.
him shall say unto him, Thou 8 And it shall come to pass,
shalt not live; for thou speak- that in all the land, saith
est lies in the name of the the Lord, two parts therein
Lord: and his father and his shall be cut off and die; but
mother that begat him shall the third shall be left therein.
thrust him through when he 9 And I will bring the third
be like the bowls before the sacrifice shall come and take
altar. 21 Yea, every pot in of them, and seethe therein:
Jerusalem and in Judah shall and in that day there shall be
be holiness unto the Lord no more the Canaanite in the
of hosts: and all they that house of the Lord of hosts.
Malachi
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MALACHI 2068
New Testament
2074
Matthew
T eration of Jesus
Christ, the son of
David, the son of
Abraham. 2 Abraham begat
Isaac; and Isaac begat Ja-
Solomon begat Roboam; and
Roboam begat Abia; and
Abia begat Asa; 8 And Asa
begat Josaphat; and Jos-
aphat begat Joram; and
cob; and Jacob begat Judas Joram begat Ozias; 9 And
and his brethren; 3 And Ju- Ozias begat Joatham; and
das begat Phares and Zara Joatham begat Achaz; and
of Thamar; and Phares be- Achaz begat Ezekias; 10 And
gat Esrom; and Esrom be- Ezekias begat Manasses; and
gat Aram; 4 And Aram begat Manasses begat Amon; and
Aminadab; and Aminadab Amon begat Josias; 11 And
begat Naasson; and Naasson Josias begat Jechonias and
begat Salmon; 5 And Salmon his brethren, about the time
begat Booz of Rachab; and they were carried away to
Booz begat Obed of Ruth; Babylon: 12 And after they
and Obed begat Jesse; 6 And were brought to Babylon,
Jesse begat David the king; Jechonias begat Salathiel;
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together, she was found with from sleep did as the angel
child of the Holy Ghost. of the Lord had bidden him,
19 Then Joseph her husband, and took unto him his wife:
MATTHEW 2077
the Lord thy God. 8 Again, by the way of the sea, be-
the devil taketh him up into yond Jordan, Galilee of the
an exceeding high mountain, Gentiles; 16 The people which
and sheweth him all the king- sat in darkness saw great
doms of the world, and the light; and to them which sat
glory of them; 9 And saith in the region and shadow
unto him, All these things of death light is sprung up.
will I give thee, if thou 17 From that time Jesus be-
and those that had the palsy; heart: for they shall see
and he healed them. 25 And God. 9 Blessed are the peace-
there followed him great makers: for they shall be
multitudes of people from called the children of God.
Galilee, and from Decapo- 10 Blessed are they which are
let not thy left hand know this manner therefore pray
what thy right hand doeth: ye: Our Father which art
4 That thine alms may be in heaven, Hallowed be thy
in secret: and thy Father name. 10 Thy kingdom come.
which seeth in secret him- Thy will be done in earth,
self shall reward thee openly. as it is in heaven. 11 Give
5 And when thou prayest, us this day our daily bread.
thou shalt not be as the hyp- 12 And forgive us our debts,
things to them that ask him? not forth good fruit is hewn
12 Therefore all things what- down, and cast into the fire.
soever ye would that men 20 Wherefore by their fruits
my roof: but speak the word 14 And when Jesus was come
only, and my servant shall into Peter’s house, he saw
be healed. 9 For I am a man his wife’s mother laid, and
under authority, having sol- sick of a fever. 15 And he
diers under me: and I say to touched her hand, and the
this man, Go, and he goeth; fever left her: and she arose,
and to another, Come, and and ministered unto them.
he cometh; and to my ser- 16 When the even was come,
thy way; and as thou hast unto him, The foxes have
believed, so be it done unto holes, and the birds of the
thee. And his servant was air have nests; but the Son
healed in the selfsame hour. of man hath not where to
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lay his head. 21 And an- ils, coming out of the tombs,
other of his disciples said exceeding fierce, so that no
unto him, Lord, suffer me man might pass by that way.
first to go and bury my fa- 29 And, behold, they cried
tance. 14 Then came to him thy hand upon her, and she
the disciples of John, saying, shall live. 19 And Jesus arose,
Why do we and the Pharisees and followed him, and so did
fast oft, but thy disciples his disciples. 20 And, behold,
fast not? 15 And Jesus said a woman, which was dis-
unto them, Can the children eased with an issue of blood
of the bridechamber mourn, twelve years, came behind
as long as the bridegroom is him, and touched the hem of
with them? but the days will his garment: 21 For she said
come, when the bridegroom within herself, If I may but
shall be taken from them, touch his garment, I shall be
and then shall they fast. 16 whole. 22 But Jesus turned
No man putteth a piece of him about, and when he saw
new cloth unto an old gar- her, he said, Daughter, be of
ment, for that which is put good comfort; thy faith hath
in to fill it up taketh from made thee whole. And the
the garment, and the rent woman was made whole from
is made worse. 17 Neither that hour. 23 And when Jesus
do men put new wine into came into the ruler’s house,
old bottles: else the bottles and saw the minstrels and
break, and the wine runneth the people making a noise,
out, and the bottles perish: 24 He said unto them, Give
but they put new wine into place: for the maid is not
new bottles, and both are dead, but sleepeth. And
preserved. 18 While he spake they laughed him to scorn.
these things unto them, be- 25 But when the people were
blind men followed him, cry- the cities and villages, teach-
ing, and saying, Thou Son ing in their synagogues, and
of David, have mercy on us. preaching the gospel of the
28 And when he was come kingdom, and healing every
into the house, the blind men sickness and every disease
came to him: and Jesus saith among the people. 36 But
unto them, Believe ye that I when he saw the multitudes,
am able to do this? They he was moved with compas-
said unto him, Yea, Lord. sion on them, because they
29 Then touched he their eyes, fainted, and were scattered
saying, According to your abroad, as sheep having no
faith be it unto you. 30 And shepherd. 37 Then saith he
their eyes were opened; and unto his disciples, The har-
Jesus straitly charged them, vest truly is plenteous, but
saying, See that no man the labourers are few; 38 Pray
know it. 31 But they, when ye therefore the Lord of the
they were departed, spread harvest, that he will send
abroad his fame in all that forth labourers into his har-
country. 32 As they went vest.
out, behold, they brought to
him a dumb man possessed
with a devil. 33 And when Chapter 10
the devil was cast out, the
dumb spake: and the mul- And when he had called unto
titudes marvelled, saying, It him his twelve disciples, he
was never so seen in Israel. gave them power against un-
34 But the Pharisees said, He clean spirits, to cast them
casteth out devils through out, and to heal all man-
ner of sickness and all man-
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are all numbered. 31 Fear that findeth his life shall lose
ye not therefore, ye are of it: and he that loseth his life
more value than many spar- for my sake shall find it. 40 He
rows. 32 Whosoever there- that receiveth you receiveth
fore shall confess me before me, and he that receiveth me
men, him will I confess also receiveth him that sent me.
before my Father which is 41 He that receiveth a prophet
them all; 16 And charged heard it, they said, This fel-
them that they should not low doth not cast out devils,
make him known: 17 That but by Beelzebub the prince
it might be fulfilled which of the devils. 25 And Je-
man be three days and three there: and the last state of
nights in the heart of the that man is worse than the
earth. 41 The men of Nin- first. Even so shall it be also
eveh shall rise in judgment unto this wicked generation.
with this generation, and 46 While he yet talked to the
she came from the uttermost unto him that told him, Who
parts of the earth to hear the is my mother? and who
wisdom of Solomon; and, be- are my brethren? 49 And he
hold, a greater than Solomon stretched forth his hand to-
is here. 43 When the un- ward his disciples, and said,
clean spirit is gone out of a Behold my mother and my
man, he walketh through dry brethren! 50 For whosoever
places, seeking rest, and find- shall do the will of my Father
eth none. 44 Then he saith, which is in heaven, the same
I will return into my house is my brother, and sister, and
from whence I came out; and mother.
when he is come, he findeth it
empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh Chapter 13
with himself seven other spir-
its more wicked than himself, The same day went Jesus out
and they enter in and dwell of the house, and sat by the
sea side. 2 And great multi-
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into a ship, and sat; and the and said unto them, Because
whole multitude stood on the it is given unto you to know
shore. 3 And he spake many the mysteries of the kingdom
things unto them in parables, of heaven, but to them it
saying, Behold, a sower went is not given. 12 For whoso-
forth to sow; 4 And when ever hath, to him shall be
he sowed, some seeds fell by given, and he shall have more
the way side, and the fowls abundance: but whosoever
came and devoured them hath not, from him shall
up: 5 Some fell upon stony be taken away even that he
places, where they had not hath. 13 Therefore speak I
much earth: and forthwith to them in parables: be-
they sprung up, because they cause they seeing see not;
had no deepness of earth: and hearing they hear not,
6 And when the sun was neither do they understand.
up, they were scorched; and 14 And in them is fulfilled the
received seed by the way side. enemy came and sowed tares
20 But he that received the among the wheat, and went
seed into stony places, the his way. 26 But when the
same is he that heareth the blade was sprung up, and
word, and anon with joy re- brought forth fruit, then ap-
ceiveth it; 21 Yet hath he not peared the tares also. 27 So
root in himself, but dureth the servants of the house-
for a while: for when tribu- holder came and said unto
lation or persecution ariseth him, Sir, didst not thou sow
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among herbs, and becometh the good seed are the chil-
a tree, so that the birds of dren of the kingdom; but the
the air come and lodge in the tares are the children of the
branches thereof. 33 Another wicked one; 39 The enemy
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that sowed them is the devil; when he had found one pearl
the harvest is the end of the of great price, went and sold
world; and the reapers are all that he had, and bought
the angels. 40 As therefore it. 47 Again, the kingdom of
the tares are gathered and heaven is like unto a net,
burned in the fire; so shall it that was cast into the sea,
be in the end of this world. and gathered of every kind:
41 The Son of man shall send 48 Which, when it was full,
forth his angels, and they they drew to shore, and sat
shall gather out of his king- down, and gathered the good
dom all things that offend, into vessels, but cast the bad
and them which do iniquity; away. 49 So shall it be at the
42 And shall cast them into end of the world: the angels
a furnace of fire: there shall shall come forth, and sever
be wailing and gnashing of the wicked from among the
teeth. 43 Then shall the righ- just, 50 And shall cast them
teous shine forth as the sun into the furnace of fire: there
in the kingdom of their Fa- shall be wailing and gnash-
ther. Who hath ears to hear, ing of teeth. 51 Jesus saith
let him hear. 44 Again, the unto them, Have ye under-
kingdom of heaven is like stood all these things? They
unto treasure hid in a field; say unto him, Yea, Lord.
the which when a man hath 52 Then said he unto them,
charger. 9 And the king was the villages, and buy them-
sorry: nevertheless for the selves victuals. 16 But Jesus
oath’s sake, and them which said unto them, They need
sat with him at meat, he not depart; give ye them to
commanded it to be given eat. 17 And they say unto
her. 10 And he sent, and be- him, We have here but five
headed John in the prison. loaves, and two fishes. 18 He
11 And his head was brought said, Bring them hither to
in a charger, and given to me. 19 And he commanded
the damsel: and she brought the multitude to sit down on
it to her mother. 12 And his the grass, and took the five
disciples came, and took up loaves, and the two fishes,
the body, and buried it, and and looking up to heaven, he
went and told Jesus. 13 When blessed, and brake, and gave
Jesus heard of it, he de- the loaves to his disciples,
parted thence by ship into and the disciples to the mul-
a desert place apart: and titude. 20 And they did all
when the people had heard eat, and were filled: and they
thereof, they followed him on took up of the fragments
foot out of the cities. 14 And that remained twelve baskets
Jesus went forth, and saw full. 21 And they that had
a great multitude, and was eaten were about five thou-
moved with compassion to- sand men, beside women and
ward them, and he healed children. 22 And straightway
their sick. 15 And when it was Jesus constrained his disci-
evening, his disciples came ples to get into a ship, and to
to him, saying, This is a go before him unto the other
desert place, and the time is side, while he sent the mul-
now past; send the multitude titudes away. 23 And when
away, that they may go into he had sent the multitudes
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their hands when they eat tude, and said unto them,
bread. 3 But he answered Hear, and understand: 11 Not
and said unto them, Why that which goeth into the
do ye also transgress the mouth defileth a man; but
commandment of God by that which cometh out of the
your tradition? 4 For God mouth, this defileth a man.
commanded, saying, Hon- 12 Then came his disciples,
our thy father and mother: and said unto him, Knowest
and, He that curseth father thou that the Pharisees were
or mother, let him die the offended, after they heard
death. 5 But ye say, Whoso- this saying? 13 But he an-
ever shall say to his father or swered and said, Every plant,
his mother, It is a gift, by which my heavenly Father
whatsoever thou mightest be hath not planted, shall be
profited by me; 6 And honour rooted up. 14 Let them alone:
not his father or his mother, they be blind leaders of the
he shall be free. Thus have blind. And if the blind lead
ye made the commandment the blind, both shall fall into
of God of none effect by your the ditch. 15 Then answered
tradition. 7 Ye hypocrites, Peter and said unto him, De-
well did Esaias prophesy of clare unto us this parable.
you, saying, 8 This people 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also
cles; one for thee, and one Elias is come already, and
for Moses, and one for Elias. they knew him not, but have
5 While he yet spake, behold, done unto him whatsoever
a bright cloud overshadowed they listed. Likewise shall
them: and behold a voice also the Son of man suffer of
out of the cloud, which said, them. 13 Then the disciples
This is my beloved Son, in understood that he spake
whom I am well pleased; unto them of John the Bap-
hear ye him. 6 And when tist. 14 And when they were
the disciples heard it, they come to the multitude, there
fell on their face, and were came to him a certain man,
sore afraid. 7 And Jesus came kneeling down to him, and
and touched them, and said, saying, 15 Lord, have mercy
Arise, and be not afraid. on my son: for he is lunatick,
8 And when they had lifted and sore vexed: for ofttimes
up their eyes, they saw no he falleth into the fire, and
man, save Jesus only. 9 And oft into the water. 16 And I
as they came down from brought him to thy disciples,
the mountain, Jesus charged and they could not cure him.
them, saying, Tell the vision 17 Then Jesus answered and
thee, go and tell him his ter to him, and said, Lord,
fault between thee and him how oft shall my brother
alone: if he shall hear thee, sin against me, and I for-
thou hast gained thy brother. give him? till seven times?
16 But if he will not hear thee, 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say
then take with thee one or not unto thee, Until seven
two more, that in the mouth times: but, Until seventy
of two or three witnesses ev- times seven. 23 Therefore
was not so. 9 And I say sus said, Suffer little chil-
unto you, Whosoever shall dren, and forbid them not, to
put away his wife, except it come unto me: for of such
be for fornication, and shall is the kingdom of heaven.
marry another, committeth 15 And he laid his hands on
herit everlasting life. 30 But here all the day idle? 7 They
many that are first shall be say unto him, Because no
last; and the last shall be man hath hired us. He saith
first. unto them, Go ye also into
the vineyard; and whatso-
ever is right, that shall ye re-
Chapter 20 ceive. 8 So when even was
come, the lord of the vine-
For the kingdom of heaven yard saith unto his stew-
is like unto a man that is ard, Call the labourers, and
an householder, which went give them their hire, begin-
out early in the morning to ning from the last unto the
hire labourers into his vine- first. 9 And when they came
yard. 2 And when he had that were hired about the
agreed with the labourers for eleventh hour, they received
a penny a day, he sent them every man a penny. 10 But
into his vineyard. 3 And he when the first came, they
went out about the third supposed that they should
hour, and saw others stand- have received more; and they
ing idle in the marketplace, likewise received every man a
4 And said unto them; Go ye
penny. 11 And when they had
also into the vineyard, and received it, they murmured
whatsoever is right I will give against the goodman of the
you. And they went their house, 12 Saying, These last
way. 5 Again he went out have wrought but one hour,
about the sixth and ninth and thou hast made them
hour, and did likewise. 6 And equal unto us, which have
about the eleventh hour he borne the burden and heat
went out, and found oth- of the day. 13 But he an-
ers standing idle, and saith swered one of them, and said,
unto them, Why stand ye
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cise dominion over them, and 33 They say unto him, Lord,
they that are great exercise that our eyes may be opened.
authority upon them. 26 But 34 So Jesus had compassion
ing thereon, but leaves only, will ask you one thing, which
and said unto it, Let no if ye tell me, I in like wise will
fruit grow on thee hencefor- tell you by what authority I
ward for ever. And presently do these things. 25 The bap-
the fig tree withered away. tism of John, whence was it?
20 And when the disciples saw from heaven, or of men? And
it, they marvelled, saying, they reasoned with them-
How soon is the fig tree with- selves, saying, If we shall
ered away! 21 Jesus answered say, From heaven; he will say
and said unto them, Verily I unto us, Why did ye not then
say unto you, If ye have faith, believe him? 26 But if we
and doubt not, ye shall not shall say, Of men; we fear the
only do this which is done people; for all hold John as
to the fig tree, but also if a prophet. 27 And they an-
ye shall say unto this moun- swered Jesus, and said, We
tain, Be thou removed, and cannot tell. And he said
be thou cast into the sea; unto them, Neither tell I you
it shall be done. 22 And all by what authority I do these
things, whatsoever ye shall things. 28 But what think
ask in prayer, believing, ye ye? A certain man had
shall receive. 23 And when two sons; and he came to
he was come into the tem- the first, and said, Son, go
ple, the chief priests and the work to day in my vineyard.
elders of the people came 29 He answered and said, I
them twain did the will of his other, and stoned another.
father? They say unto him, 36 Again, he sent other ser-
The first. Jesus saith unto vants more than the first:
them, Verily I say unto you, and they did unto them like-
That the publicans and the wise. 37 But last of all he
harlots go into the kingdom sent unto them his son, say-
of God before you. 32 For ing, They will reverence my
John came unto you in the son. 38 But when the hus-
way of righteousness, and ye bandmen saw the son, they
believed him not: but the said among themselves, This
publicans and the harlots be- is the heir; come, let us
lieved him: and ye, when ye kill him, and let us seize on
had seen it, repented not af- his inheritance. 39 And they
terward, that ye might be- caught him, and cast him
lieve him. 33 Hear another out of the vineyard, and slew
parable: There was a certain him. 40 When the lord there-
householder, which planted fore of the vineyard cometh,
a vineyard, and hedged it what will he do unto those
round about, and digged a husbandmen? 41 They say
winepress in it, and built unto him, He will miserably
a tower, and let it out to destroy those wicked men,
husbandmen, and went into and will let out his vine-
a far country: 34 And when yard unto other husband-
the time of the fruit drew men, which shall render him
near, he sent his servants to the fruits in their seasons.
the husbandmen, that they 42 Jesus saith unto them, Did
many are called, but few are they had heard these words,
chosen. 15 Then went the they marvelled, and left him,
Pharisees, and took counsel and went their way. 23 The
how they might entangle him same day came to him the
in his talk. 16 And they sent Sadducees, which say that
out unto him their disciples there is no resurrection, and
with the Herodians, saying, asked him, 24 Saying, Mas-
Master, we know that thou ter, Moses said, If a man
art true, and teachest the die, having no children, his
way of God in truth, neither brother shall marry his wife,
carest thou for any man: for and raise up seed unto his
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and the God of Isaac, and the Christ? whose son is he?
God of Jacob? God is not They say unto him, The Son
the God of the dead, but of of David. 43 He saith unto
the living. 33 And when the them, How then doth David
multitude heard this, they in spirit call him Lord, say-
MATTHEW 2133
and then shall the end come. man shall say unto you, Lo,
15 When ye therefore shall see here is Christ, or there; be-
the abomination of desola- lieve it not. 24 For there shall
tion, spoken of by Daniel the arise false Christs, and false
prophet, stand in the holy prophets, and shall shew
place, (whoso readeth, let great signs and wonders; in-
him understand:) 16 Then let somuch that, if it were pos-
them which be in Judaea flee sible, they shall deceive the
into the mountains: 17 Let very elect. 25 Behold, I have
him which is on the house- told you before. 26 Wherefore
top not come down to take if they shall say unto you,
any thing out of his house: Behold, he is in the desert;
18 Neither let him which is in go not forth: behold, he
the field return back to take is in the secret chambers;
his clothes. 19 And woe unto believe it not. 27 For as
them that are with child, and the lightning cometh out of
to them that give suck in the east, and shineth even
those days! 20 But pray ye unto the west; so shall also
that your flight be not in the the coming of the Son of
winter, neither on the sab- man be. 28 For whereso-
bath day: 21 For then shall ever the carcase is, there will
be great tribulation, such as the eagles be gathered to-
was not since the beginning gether. 29 Immediately af-
of the world to this time, ter the tribulation of those
no, nor ever shall be. 22 And days shall the sun be dark-
except those days should be ened, and the moon shall
shortened, there should no not give her light, and the
flesh be saved: but for the stars shall fall from heaven,
elect’s sake those days shall and the powers of the heav-
be shortened. 23 Then if any ens shall be shaken: 30 And
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not pass, till all these things goodman of the house had
be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and known in what watch the
earth shall pass away, but my thief would come, he would
words shall not pass away. have watched, and would not
36 But of that day and hour have suffered his house to be
knoweth no man, no, not broken up. 44 Therefore be
the angels of heaven, but ye also ready: for in such
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came; and they that were and digged in the earth, and
ready went in with him to hid his lord’s money. 19 After
the marriage: and the door a long time the lord of those
was shut. 11 Afterward came servants cometh, and reck-
also the other virgins, say- oneth with them. 20 And
from him that hath not shall I was sick, and ye visited me:
be taken away even that I was in prison, and ye came
MATTHEW 2142
said, Hail, master; and kissed was done, that the scriptures
him. 50 And Jesus said unto of the prophets might be ful-
him, Friend, wherefore art filled. Then all the disciples
thou come? Then came they, forsook him, and fled. 57 And
and laid hands on Jesus, and they that had laid hold on
took him. 51 And, behold, Jesus led him away to Ca-
one of them which were with iaphas the high priest, where
Jesus stretched out his hand, the scribes and the elders
and drew his sword, and were assembled. 58 But Pe-
struck a servant of the high ter followed him afar off unto
priest’s, and smote off his the high priest’s palace, and
ear. 52 Then said Jesus unto went in, and sat with the ser-
him, Put up again thy sword vants, to see the end. 59 Now
into his place: for all they the chief priests, and elders,
that take the sword shall per- and all the council, sought
ish with the sword. 53 Think- false witness against Jesus,
est thou that I cannot now to put him to death; 60 But
pray to my Father, and he found none: yea, though
shall presently give me more many false witnesses came,
than twelve legions of angels? yet found they none. At the
54 But how then shall the last came two false witnesses,
scriptures be fulfilled, that 61 And said, This fellow said,
ness over all the land unto went into the holy city, and
the ninth hour. 46 And about appeared unto many. 54 Now
the ninth hour Jesus cried when the centurion, and they
with a loud voice, saying, that were with him, watching
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Jesus, saw the earthquake,
that is to say, My God, my and those things that were
God, why hast thou forsaken done, they feared greatly,
me? 47 Some of them that saying, Truly this was the
stood there, when they heard Son of God. 55 And many
that, said, This man calleth women were there behold-
for Elias. 48 And straight- ing afar off, which followed
way one of them ran, and Jesus from Galilee, minis-
took a spunge, and filled tering unto him: 56 Among
it with vinegar, and put it which was Mary Magdalene,
on a reed, and gave him to and Mary the mother of
drink. 49 The rest said, Let James and Joses, and the
be, let us see whether Elias mother of Zebedee’s chil-
will come to save him. 50 Je- dren. 57 When the even was
sus, when he had cried again come, there came a rich
with a loud voice, yielded up man of Arimathaea, named
the ghost. 51 And, behold, Joseph, who also himself was
the veil of the temple was Jesus’ disciple: 58 He went
rent in twain from the top to to Pilate, and begged the
the bottom; and the earth body of Jesus. Then Pi-
did quake, and the rocks late commanded the body
rent; 52 And the graves were to be delivered. 59 And when
opened; and many bodies of Joseph had taken the body,
the saints which slept arose, he wrapped it in a clean linen
53 And came out of the graves cloth, 60 And laid it in his
after his resurrection, and own new tomb, which he had
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T gospel of Jesus
Christ, the Son of
God; 2 As it is
written in the prophets, Be-
hold, I send my messenger
camel’s hair, and with a gir-
dle of a skin about his loins;
and he did eat locusts and
wild honey; 7 And preached,
saying, There cometh one
before thy face, which shall mightier than I after me,
prepare thy way before thee. the latchet of whose shoes
3 The voice of one crying in I am not worthy to stoop
the wilderness, Prepare ye down and unloose. 8 I in-
the way of the Lord, make deed have baptized you with
his paths straight. 4 John water: but he shall baptize
did baptize in the wilder- you with the Holy Ghost.
9 And it came to pass in those
ness, and preach the bap-
tism of repentance for the re- days, that Jesus came from
mission of sins. 5 And there Nazareth of Galilee, and was
went out unto him all the baptized of John in Jordan.
10 And straightway coming
land of Judaea, and they of
Jerusalem, and were all bap- up out of the water, he saw
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MARK 2155
the heavens opened, and the they forsook their nets, and
Spirit like a dove descend- followed him. 19 And when
ing upon him: 11 And there he had gone a little further
came a voice from heaven, thence, he saw James the
saying, Thou art my beloved son of Zebedee, and John
Son, in whom I am well his brother, who also were in
pleased. 12 And immediately the ship mending their nets.
the Spirit driveth him into 20 And straightway he called
thy peace, and come out of sun did set, they brought
him. 26 And when the un- unto him all that were dis-
clean spirit had torn him, eased, and them that were
and cried with a loud voice, possessed with devils. 33 And
he came out of him. 27 And all the city was gathered to-
they were all amazed, inso- gether at the door. 34 And he
much that they questioned healed many that were sick
among themselves, saying, of divers diseases, and cast
What thing is this? what out many devils; and suffered
new doctrine is this? for not the devils to speak, be-
with authority commandeth cause they knew him. 35 And
he even the unclean spir- in the morning, rising up a
its, and they do obey him. great while before day, he
28 And immediately his fame went out, and departed into
spread abroad throughout a solitary place, and there
all the region round about prayed. 36 And Simon and
Galilee. 29 And forthwith, they that were with him fol-
when they were come out lowed after him. 37 And when
of the synagogue, they en- they had found him, they
tered into the house of Simon said unto him, All men seek
and Andrew, with James and for thee. 38 And he said unto
John. 30 But Simon’s wife’s them, Let us go into the next
mother lay sick of a fever, towns, that I may preach
and anon they tell him of there also: for therefore came
her. 31 And he came and I forth. 39 And he preached
took her by the hand, and in their synagogues through-
lifted her up; and immedi- out all Galilee, and cast out
ately the fever left her, and devils. 40 And there came
she ministered unto them. a leper to him, beseeching
32 And at even, when the him, and kneeling down to
MARK 2157
them, Can the children of the bath day that which is not
bridechamber fast, while the lawful? 25 And he said unto
bridegroom is with them? as them, Have ye never read
long as they have the bride- what David did, when he had
groom with them, they can- need, and was an hungred,
not fast. 20 But the days he, and they that were with
will come, when the bride- him? 26 How he went into
groom shall be taken away the house of God in the days
from them, and then shall of Abiathar the high priest,
they fast in those days. 21 No and did eat the shewbread,
man also seweth a piece of which is not lawful to eat
new cloth on an old garment: but for the priests, and gave
else the new piece that filled also to them which were with
it up taketh away from the him? 27 And he said unto
old, and the rent is made them, The sabbath was made
worse. 22 And no man put- for man, and not man for
teth new wine into old bot- the sabbath: 28 Therefore the
tles: else the new wine doth Son of man is Lord also of the
burst the bottles, and the sabbath.
wine is spilled, and the bot-
tles will be marred: but new
wine must be put into new Chapter 3
bottles. 23 And it came to
pass, that he went through And he entered again into
the corn fields on the sab- the synagogue; and there was
bath day; and his disciples a man there which had a
began, as they went, to pluck withered hand. 2 And they
the ears of corn. 24 And the watched him, whether he
Pharisees said unto him, Be- would heal him on the sab-
hold, why do they on the sab- bath day; that they might
accuse him. 3 And he saith
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unto the man which had had heard what great things
the withered hand, Stand he did, came unto him. 9 And
forth. 4 And he saith unto he spake to his disciples,
them, Is it lawful to do that a small ship should
good on the sabbath days, wait on him because of the
or to do evil? to save life, multitude, lest they should
or to kill? But they held throng him. 10 For he had
their peace. 5 And when healed many; insomuch that
he had looked round about they pressed upon him for
on them with anger, being to touch him, as many as
grieved for the hardness of had plagues. 11 And un-
hearing they may hear, and cares of this world, and the
not understand; lest at any deceitfulness of riches, and
time they should be con- the lusts of other things en-
verted, and their sins should tering in, choke the word,
be forgiven them. 13 And and it becometh unfruitful.
he said unto them, Know ye 20 And these are they which
greater than all herbs, and the wind, and said unto the
shooteth out great branches; sea, Peace, be still. And the
so that the fowls of the air wind ceased, and there was
may lodge under the shadow a great calm. 40 And he said
MARK 2165
the herd ran violently down things the Lord hath done for
a steep place into the sea, thee, and hath had compas-
(they were about two thou- sion on thee. 20 And he de-
sand;) and were choked in parted, and began to pub-
the sea. 14 And they that lish in Decapolis how great
fed the swine fled, and told things Jesus had done for
it in the city, and in the him: and all men did mar-
country. And they went vel. 21 And when Jesus was
out to see what it was that passed over again by ship
was done. 15 And they come unto the other side, much
to Jesus, and see him that people gathered unto him:
was possessed with the devil, and he was nigh unto the sea.
and had the legion, sitting, 22 And, behold, there cometh
and clothed, and in his right one of the rulers of the syna-
mind: and they were afraid. gogue, Jairus by name; and
16 And they that saw it told when he saw him, he fell
them how it befell to him at his feet, 23 And besought
that was possessed with the him greatly, saying, My lit-
devil, and also concerning tle daughter lieth at the
the swine. 17 And they be- point of death: I pray thee,
gan to pray him to depart come and lay thy hands on
out of their coasts. 18 And her, that she may be healed;
when he was come into the and she shall live. 24 And
ship, he that had been pos- Jesus went with him; and
sessed with the devil prayed much people followed him,
him that he might be with and thronged him. 25 And a
him. 19 Howbeit Jesus suf- certain woman, which had an
fered him not, but saith unto issue of blood twelve years,
him, Go home to thy friends, 26 And had suffered many
and had spent all that she he said unto her, Daugh-
had, and was nothing bet- ter, thy faith hath made thee
tered, but rather grew worse, whole; go in peace, and be
27 When she had heard of Je- whole of thy plague. 35 While
sus, came in the press be- he yet spake, there came
hind, and touched his gar- from the ruler of the syna-
ment. 28 For she said, If I gogue’s house certain which
may touch but his clothes, said, Thy daughter is dead:
I shall be whole. 29 And why troublest thou the Mas-
straightway the fountain of ter any further? 36 As soon
her blood was dried up; as Jesus heard the word that
and she felt in her body was spoken, he saith unto
that she was healed of that the ruler of the synagogue,
plague. 30 And Jesus, im- Be not afraid, only believe.
mediately knowing in himself 37 And he suffered no man to
that virtue had gone out of follow him, save Peter, and
him, turned him about in the James, and John the brother
press, and said, Who touched of James. 38 And he cometh
my clothes? 31 And his dis- to the house of the ruler of
ciples said unto him, Thou the synagogue, and seeth the
seest the multitude throng- tumult, and them that wept
ing thee, and sayest thou, and wailed greatly. 39 And
Who touched me? 32 And he when he was come in, he
looked round about to see saith unto them, Why make
her that had done this thing. ye this ado, and weep? the
33 But the woman fearing and damsel is not dead, but sleep-
trembling, knowing what was eth. 40 And they laughed
king was exceeding sorry; yet the people saw them depart-
for his oath’s sake, and for ing, and many knew him,
their sakes which sat with and ran afoot thither out of
him, he would not reject all cities, and outwent them,
her. 27 And immediately the and came together unto him.
king sent an executioner, and 34 And Jesus, when he came
down by companies upon the rowing; for the wind was con-
green grass. 40 And they sat trary unto them: and about
down in ranks, by hundreds, the fourth watch of the night
and by fifties. 41 And when he cometh unto them, walk-
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within, out of the heart of unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the
men, proceed evil thoughts, dogs under the table eat of
adulteries, fornications, mur- the children’s crumbs. 29 And
ders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, he said unto her, For this
wickedness, deceit, lascivi- saying go thy way; the devil
ousness, an evil eye, blas- is gone out of thy daugh-
phemy, pride, foolishness: ter. 30 And when she was
23 All these evil things come come to her house, she found
from within, and defile the the devil gone out, and her
man. 24 And from thence daughter laid upon the bed.
he arose, and went into the 31 And again, departing from
whose young daughter had one that was deaf, and had
an unclean spirit, heard of an impediment in his speech;
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and they beseech him to put and saith unto them, 2 I have
his hand upon him. 33 And compassion on the multi-
he took him aside from the tude, because they have now
multitude, and put his fin- been with me three days, and
gers into his ears, and he have nothing to eat: 3 And if
spit, and touched his tongue; I send them away fasting to
34 And looking up to heaven, their own houses, they will
he sighed, and saith unto faint by the way: for divers
him, Ephphatha, that is, Be of them came from far. 4 And
opened. 35 And straightway his disciples answered him,
his ears were opened, and From whence can a man sat-
the string of his tongue was isfy these men with bread
loosed, and he spake plain. here in the wilderness? 5 And
36 And he charged them that he asked them, How many
they should tell no man: but loaves have ye? And they
the more he charged them, said, Seven. 6 And he com-
so much the more a great manded the people to sit
deal they published it; 37 And down on the ground: and he
were beyond measure aston- took the seven loaves, and
ished, saying, He hath done gave thanks, and brake, and
all things well: he maketh gave to his disciples to set
both the deaf to hear, and before them; and they did
the dumb to speak. set them before the people.
7 And they had a few small
and made him look up: and openly. And Peter took him,
he was restored, and saw ev- and began to rebuke him.
ery man clearly. 26 And he 33 But when he had turned
sent him away to his house, about and looked on his dis-
saying, Neither go into the ciples, he rebuked Peter, say-
town, nor tell it to any in the ing, Get thee behind me, Sa-
town. 27 And Jesus went out, tan: for thou savourest not
and his disciples, into the the things that be of God,
towns of Caesarea Philippi: but the things that be of
and by the way he asked his men. 34 And when he had
disciples, saying unto them, called the people unto him
Whom do men say that I with his disciples also, he
am? 28 And they answered, said unto them, Whosoever
John the Baptist: but some will come after me, let him
say, Elias; and others, One of deny himself, and take up his
the prophets. 29 And he saith cross, and follow me. 35 For
unto them, But whom say ye whosoever will save his life
that I am? And Peter an- shall lose it; but whosoever
swereth and saith unto him, shall lose his life for my sake
Thou art the Christ. 30 And and the gospel’s, the same
he charged them that they shall save it. 36 For what shall
should tell no man of him. it profit a man, if he shall
31 And he began to teach gain the whole world, and
them, that the Son of man lose his own soul? 37 Or what
must suffer many things, and shall a man give in exchange
be rejected of the elders, for his soul? 38 Whosoever
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ther with the holy angels. say; for they were sore afraid.
7 And there was a cloud that
and told them, Elias verily they should cast him out;
cometh first, and restoreth and they could not. 19 He
all things; and how it is writ- answereth him, and saith,
ten of the Son of man, that O faithless generation, how
he must suffer many things, long shall I be with you? how
and be set at nought. 13 But long shall I suffer you? bring
I say unto you, That Elias is him unto me. 20 And they
indeed come, and they have brought him unto him: and
done unto him whatsoever when he saw him, straight-
they listed, as it is written of way the spirit tare him; and
him. 14 And when he came to he fell on the ground, and
his disciples, he saw a great wallowed foaming. 21 And he
multitude about them, and asked his father, How long is
the scribes questioning with it ago since this came unto
them. 15 And straightway all him? And he said, Of a
the people, when they beheld child. 22 And ofttimes it hath
him, were greatly amazed, cast him into the fire, and
and running to him saluted into the waters, to destroy
him. 16 And he asked the him: but if thou canst do
scribes, What question ye any thing, have compassion
with them? 17 And one of on us, and help us. 23 Jesus
the multitude answered and said unto him, If thou canst
said, Master, I have brought believe, all things are pos-
unto thee my son, which hath sible to him that believeth.
a dumb spirit; 18 And where- 24 And straightway the father
forbad him, because he fol- ter halt into life, than having
loweth not us. 39 But Je- two feet to be cast into hell,
sus said, Forbid him not: for into the fire that never shall
there is no man which shall be quenched: 46 Where their
do a miracle in my name, worm dieth not, and the fire
that can lightly speak evil is not quenched. 47 And if
of me. 40 For he that is not thine eye offend thee, pluck
against us is on our part. it out: it is better for thee
41 For whosoever shall give to enter into the kingdom of
you a cup of water to drink God with one eye, than hav-
in my name, because ye be- ing two eyes to be cast into
long to Christ, verily I say hell fire: 48 Where their worm
unto you, he shall not lose dieth not, and the fire is not
his reward. 42 And whosoever quenched. 49 For every one
shall offend one of these lit- shall be salted with fire, and
tle ones that believe in me, every sacrifice shall be salted
it is better for him that a with salt. 50 Salt is good: but
millstone were hanged about if the salt have lost his salt-
his neck, and he were cast ness, wherewith will ye sea-
into the sea. 43 And if thy son it? Have salt in your-
hand offend thee, cut it off: selves, and have peace one
it is better for thee to enter with another.
into life maimed, than hav-
ing two hands to go into hell,
into the fire that never shall Chapter 10
be quenched: 44 Where their
worm dieth not, and the fire And he arose from thence,
is not quenched. 45 And if thy and cometh into the coasts
foot offend thee, cut it off: of Judaea by the farther side
it is better for thee to en- of Jordan: and the people
resort unto him again; and,
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18 And Jesus said unto him, at his words. But Jesus an-
Why callest thou me good? swereth again, and saith unto
there is none good but one, them, Children, how hard
that is, God. 19 Thou know- is it for them that trust in
est the commandments, Do riches to enter into the king-
not commit adultery, Do not dom of God! 25 It is easier
kill, Do not steal, Do not for a camel to go through the
bear false witness, Defraud eye of a needle, than for a
not, Honour thy father and rich man to enter into the
mother. 20 And he answered kingdom of God. 26 And they
and said unto him, Master, were astonished out of mea-
all these have I observed from sure, saying among them-
my youth. 21 Then Jesus be- selves, Who then can be
holding him loved him, and saved? 27 And Jesus looking
said unto him, One thing upon them saith, With men
thou lackest: go thy way, it is impossible, but not with
sell whatsoever thou hast, God: for with God all things
and give to the poor, and are possible. 28 Then Peter
thou shalt have treasure in began to say unto him, Lo,
heaven: and come, take up we have left all, and have
the cross, and follow me. followed thee. 29 And Jesus
22 And he was sad at that say- answered and said, Verily I
ing, and went away grieved: say unto you, There is no
for he had great possessions. man that hath left house, or
23 And Jesus looked round brethren, or sisters, or fa-
about, and saith unto his dis- ther, or mother, or wife, or
ciples, How hardly shall they children, or lands, for my
that have riches enter into sake, and the gospel’s, 30 But
the kingdom of God! 24 And he shall receive an hundred-
the disciples were astonished fold now in this time, houses,
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them to him, and saith unto hold his peace: but he cried
them, Ye know that they the more a great deal, Thou
which are accounted to rule Son of David, have mercy on
over the Gentiles exercise me. 49 And Jesus stood still,
lordship over them; and their and commanded him to be
great ones exercise author- called. And they call the
ity upon them. 43 But so blind man, saying unto him,
shall it not be among you: Be of good comfort, rise; he
but whosoever will be great calleth thee. 50 And he, cast-
among you, shall be your ing away his garment, rose,
minister: 44 And whosoever and came to Jesus. 51 And
of you will be the chiefest, Jesus answered and said unto
shall be servant of all. 45 For him, What wilt thou that I
even the Son of man came should do unto thee? The
not to be ministered unto, blind man said unto him,
but to minister, and to give Lord, that I might receive my
his life a ransom for many. sight. 52 And Jesus said unto
46 And they came to Jericho: him, Go thy way; thy faith
and as he went out of Jeri- hath made thee whole. And
cho with his disciples and immediately he received his
a great number of people, sight, and followed Jesus in
blind Bartimaeus, the son of the way.
Timaeus, sat by the high-
way side begging. 47 And
when he heard that it was Chapter 11
Jesus of Nazareth, he be-
gan to cry out, and say, Je- And when they came nigh to
sus, thou Son of David, have Jerusalem, unto Bethphage
mercy on me. 48 And many and Bethany, at the mount of
charged him that he should Olives, he sendeth forth two
of his disciples, 2 And saith
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unto them, Go your way into and they that followed, cried,
the village over against you: saying, Hosanna; Blessed is
and as soon as ye be en- he that cometh in the name
tered into it, ye shall find a of the Lord: 10 Blessed be
colt tied, whereon never man the kingdom of our father
sat; loose him, and bring David, that cometh in the
him. 3 And if any man say name of the Lord: Hosanna
unto you, Why do ye this? in the highest. 11 And Je-
say ye that the Lord hath sus entered into Jerusalem,
need of him; and straight- and into the temple: and
way he will send him hither. when he had looked round
4 And they went their way, about upon all things, and
and found the colt tied by now the eventide was come,
the door without in a place he went out unto Bethany
where two ways met; and with the twelve. 12 And on
they loose him. 5 And certain the morrow, when they were
of them that stood there said come from Bethany, he was
unto them, What do ye, loos- hungry: 13 And seeing a fig
ing the colt? 6 And they said tree afar off having leaves, he
unto them even as Jesus had came, if haply he might find
commanded: and they let any thing thereon: and when
them go. 7 And they brought he came to it, he found noth-
the colt to Jesus, and cast ing but leaves; for the time of
their garments on him; and figs was not yet. 14 And Jesus
he sat upon him. 8 And answered and said unto it,
many spread their garments No man eat fruit of thee here-
in the way: and others cut after for ever. And his dis-
down branches off the trees, ciples heard it. 15 And they
and strawed them in the way. come to Jerusalem: and Je-
9 And they that went before, sus went into the temple, and
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him with all the heart, and clothing, and love salutations
with all the understanding, in the marketplaces, 39 And
and with all the soul, and the chief seats in the syna-
with all the strength, and to gogues, and the uppermost
love his neighbour as him- rooms at feasts: 40 Which
self, is more than all whole devour widows’ houses, and
burnt offerings and sacrifices. for a pretence make long
34 And when Jesus saw that prayers: these shall receive
he answered discreetly, he greater damnation. 41 And
said unto him, Thou art Jesus sat over against the
not far from the kingdom treasury, and beheld how
of God. And no man after the people cast money into
that durst ask him any ques- the treasury: and many
tion. 35 And Jesus answered that were rich cast in much.
and said, while he taught 42 And there came a certain
in the temple, How say the poor widow, and she threw in
scribes that Christ is the Son two mites, which make a far-
of David? 36 For David him- thing. 43 And he called unto
self said by the Holy Ghost, him his disciples, and saith
The Lord said to my Lord, unto them, Verily I say unto
Sit thou on my right hand, you, That this poor widow
till I make thine enemies thy hath cast more in, than all
footstool. 37 David there- they which have cast into the
fore himself calleth him Lord; treasury: 44 For all they did
and whence is he then his cast in of their abundance;
son? And the common peo- but she of her want did cast
ple heard him gladly. 38 And in all that she had, even all
he said unto them in his doc- her living.
trine, Beware of the scribes,
which love to go in long
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their parents, and shall cause created unto this time, nei-
them to be put to death. ther shall be. 20 And except
13 And ye shall be hated of that the Lord had shortened
all men for my name’s sake: those days, no flesh should
but he that shall endure unto be saved: but for the elect’s
the end, the same shall be sake, whom he hath cho-
saved. 14 But when ye shall sen, he hath shortened the
see the abomination of des- days. 21 And then if any
olation, spoken of by Daniel man shall say to you, Lo,
the prophet, standing where here is Christ; or, lo, he
it ought not, (let him that is there; believe him not:
readeth understand,) then 22 For false Christs and false
gether his elect from the four work, and commanded the
winds, from the uttermost porter to watch. 35 Watch
part of the earth to the utter- ye therefore: for ye know
most part of heaven. 28 Now not when the master of the
learn a parable of the fig house cometh, at even, or
tree; When her branch is at midnight, or at the cock-
yet tender, and putteth forth crowing, or in the morning:
leaves, ye know that summer 36 Lest coming suddenly he
ner, when ye shall see these what I say unto you I say
things come to pass, know unto all, Watch.
that it is nigh, even at the
doors. 30 Verily I say unto
you, that this generation Chapter 14
shall not pass, till all these
things be done. 31 Heaven After two days was the feast
and earth shall pass away: of the passover, and of un-
but my words shall not pass leavened bread: and the chief
away. 32 But of that day and priests and the scribes sought
that hour knoweth no man, how they might take him by
no, not the angels which are craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the
in heaven, neither the Son,
but the Father. 33 Take ye feast day, lest there be an up-
heed, watch and pray: for roar of the people. 3 And be-
ye know not when the time ing in Bethany in the house
is. 34 For the Son of man of Simon the leper, as he sat
is as a man taking a far at meat, there came a woman
journey, who left his house, having an alabaster box of
and gave authority to his ser- ointment of spikenard very
vants, and to every man his precious; and she brake the
box, and poured it on his
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head. 4 And there were some they heard it, they were glad,
that had indignation within and promised to give him
themselves, and said, Why money. And he sought how
was this waste of the oint- he might conveniently betray
ment made? 5 For it might him. 12 And the first day of
have been sold for more than unleavened bread, when they
three hundred pence, and killed the passover, his dis-
have been given to the poor. ciples said unto him, Where
And they murmured against wilt thou that we go and pre-
her. 6 And Jesus said, Let pare that thou mayest eat
her alone; why trouble ye the passover? 13 And he
out the whole world, this also will shew you a large up-
that she hath done shall be per room furnished and pre-
spoken of for a memorial of pared: there make ready for
her. 10 And Judas Iscariot, us. 16 And his disciples went
one of the twelve, went unto forth, and came into the city,
the chief priests, to betray and found as he had said
him unto them. 11 And when unto them: and they made
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sus took bread, and blessed, Verily I say unto thee, That
and brake it, and gave to this day, even in this night,
them, and said, Take, eat: before the cock crow twice,
this is my body. 23 And he thou shalt deny me thrice.
took the cup, and when he 31 But he spake the more ve-
a linen cloth cast about his did their witness agree to-
naked body; and the young gether. 60 And the high priest
men laid hold on him: 52 And stood up in the midst, and
he left the linen cloth, and asked Jesus, saying, Answer-
fled from them naked. 53 And est thou nothing? what is it
they led Jesus away to the which these witness against
high priest: and with him thee? 61 But he held his
shall see the Son of man sit- again, and began to say to
ting on the right hand of them that stood by, This is
power, and coming in the one of them. 70 And he de-
clouds of heaven. 63 Then the nied it again. And a little af-
high priest rent his clothes, ter, they that stood by said
and saith, What need we again to Peter, Surely thou
any further witnesses? 64 Ye art one of them: for thou art
have heard the blasphemy: a Galilaean, and thy speech
what think ye? And they all agreeth thereto. 71 But he be-
condemned him to be guilty gan to curse and to swear,
of death. 65 And some be- saying, I know not this man
gan to spit on him, and to of whom ye speak. 72 And the
cover his face, and to buf- second time the cock crew.
fet him, and to say unto And Peter called to mind the
him, Prophesy: and the ser- word that Jesus said unto
vants did strike him with the him, Before the cock crow
palms of their hands. 66 And twice, thou shalt deny me
as Peter was beneath in the thrice. And when he thought
palace, there cometh one of thereon, he wept.
the maids of the high priest:
67 And when she saw Peter
thou the King of the Jews? chief priests moved the peo-
And he answering said unto ple, that he should rather
him, Thou sayest it. 3 And release Barabbas unto them.
the chief priests accused him 12 And Pilate answered and
did spit upon him, and bow- on his right hand, and the
ing their knees worshipped other on his left. 28 And
it was the third hour, and was come, there was dark-
they crucified him. 26 And ness over the whole land un-
the superscription of his ac- til the ninth hour. 34 And at
cusation was written over, the ninth hour Jesus cried
THE KING OF THE JEWS. with a loud voice, saying,
27 And with him they cru- Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
cify two thieves; the one which is, being interpreted,
MARK 2202
stone was rolled away: for it they had heard that he was
was very great. 5 And enter- alive, and had been seen of
ing into the sepulchre, they her, believed not. 12 After
saw a young man sitting on that he appeared in an-
the right side, clothed in a other form unto two of them,
long white garment; and they as they walked, and went
were affrighted. 6 And he into the country. 13 And
saith unto them, Be not af- they went and told it unto
frighted: Ye seek Jesus of the residue: neither believed
Nazareth, which was cruci- they them. 14 Afterward he
fied: he is risen; he is not appeared unto the eleven as
here: behold the place where they sat at meat, and up-
they laid him. 7 But go your braided them with their un-
way, tell his disciples and Pe-
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LUKE 2206
saying, and cast in her mind Elisabeth, she hath also con-
LUKE 2208
from the hand of all that the deserts till the day of his
hate us; 72 To perform the shewing unto Israel.
mercy promised to our fa-
thers, and to remember his
holy covenant; 73 The oath Chapter 2
which he sware to our father
Abraham, 74 That he would And it came to pass in those
grant unto us, that we be- days, that there went out
ing delivered out of the hand a decree from Caesar Au-
of our enemies might serve gustus, that all the world
2 (And
him without fear, 75 In ho- should be taxed.
liness and righteousness be- this taxing was first made
fore him, all the days of our when Cyrenius was governor
life. 76 And thou, child, shalt of Syria.) 3 And all went
be called the prophet of the to be taxed, every one into
Highest: for thou shalt go his own city. 4 And Joseph
before the face of the Lord also went up from Galilee,
to prepare his ways; 77 To out of the city of Nazareth,
give knowledge of salvation into Judaea, unto the city
unto his people by the remis- of David, which is called
sion of their sins, 78 Through Bethlehem; (because he was
the tender mercy of our God; of the house and lineage of
whereby the dayspring from David:) 5 To be taxed with
on high hath visited us, 79 To Mary his espoused wife, be-
give light to them that sit in ing great with child. 6 And so
darkness and in the shadow it was, that, while they were
of death, to guide our feet there, the days were accom-
into the way of peace. 80 And plished that she should be
the child grew, and waxed delivered. 7 And she brought
strong in spirit, and was in forth her firstborn son, and
wrapped him in swaddling
LUKE 2211
gave thanks likewise unto the not, they turned back again
Lord, and spake of him to all to Jerusalem, seeking him.
them that looked for redemp- 46 And it came to pass, that
and the grace of God was when they saw him, they
upon him. 41 Now his parents were amazed: and his mother
went to Jerusalem every year said unto him, Son, why
at the feast of the passover. hast thou thus dealt with
42 And when he was twelve us? behold, thy father and I
years old, they went up have sought thee sorrowing.
to Jerusalem after the cus- 49 And he said unto them,
axe is laid unto the root of swered, saying unto them all,
the trees: every tree there- I indeed baptize you with wa-
fore which bringeth not forth ter; but one mightier than I
good fruit is hewn down, and cometh, the latchet of whose
cast into the fire. 10 And shoes I am not worthy to un-
the people asked him, say- loose: he shall baptize you
ing, What shall we do then? with the Holy Ghost and
11 He answereth and saith with fire: 17 Whose fan is
unto them, He that hath two in his hand, and he will
coats, let him impart to him throughly purge his floor,
that hath none; and he that and will gather the wheat
hath meat, let him do like- into his garner; but the chaff
wise. 12 Then came also pub- he will burn with fire un-
licans to be baptized, and quenchable. 18 And many
like a dove upon him, and son of Neri, 28 Which was the
a voice came from heaven, son of Melchi, which was the
which said, Thou art my son of Addi, which was the
beloved Son; in thee I am son of Cosam, which was the
well pleased. 23 And Jesus son of Elmodam, which was
himself began to be about the son of Er, 29 Which was
thirty years of age, being the son of Jose, which was
(as was supposed) the son of the son of Eliezer, which was
Joseph, which was the son of the son of Jorim, which was
Heli, 24 Which was the son of the son of Matthat, which
Matthat, which was the son was the son of Levi, 30 Which
of Levi, which was the son was the son of Simeon, which
of Melchi, which was the son was the son of Juda, which
of Janna, which was the son was the son of Joseph, which
of Joseph, 25 Which was the was the son of Jonan, which
son of Mattathias, which was was the son of Eliakim,
the son of Amos, which was 31 Which was the son of Me-
the son of Naum, which was lea, which was the son of
the son of Esli, which was Menan, which was the son
the son of Nagge, 26 Which of Mattatha, which was the
was the son of Maath, which son of Nathan, which was the
was the son of Mattathias, son of David, 32 Which was
which was the son of Se- the son of Jesse, which was
mei, which was the son of the son of Obed, which was
Joseph, which was the son of the son of Booz, which was
Juda, 27 Which was the son of the son of Salmon, which was
Joanna, which was the son of the son of Naasson, 33 Which
Rhesa, which was the son of was the son of Aminadab,
Zorobabel, which was the son which was the son of Aram,
of Salathiel, which was the which was the son of Esrom,
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him. And when the devil had crying out, and saying, Thou
thrown him in the midst, he art Christ the Son of God.
came out of him, and hurt And he rebuking them suf-
him not. 36 And they were fered them not to speak:
all amazed, and spake among for they knew that he was
themselves, saying, What a Christ. 42 And when it was
word is this! for with au- day, he departed and went
thority and power he com- into a desert place: and the
mandeth the unclean spirits, people sought him, and came
and they come out. 37 And unto him, and stayed him,
the fame of him went out into that he should not depart
every place of the country from them. 43 And he said
round about. 38 And he arose unto them, I must preach
out of the synagogue, and the kingdom of God to other
entered into Simon’s house. cities also: for therefore am
And Simon’s wife’s mother I sent. 44 And he preached in
was taken with a great fever; the synagogues of Galilee.
and they besought him for
her. 39 And he stood over
her, and rebuked the fever; Chapter 5
and it left her: and imme-
diately she arose and min- And it came to pass, that,
istered unto them. 40 Now as the people pressed upon
when the sun was setting, all him to hear the word of God,
they that had any sick with he stood by the lake of Gen-
divers diseases brought them nesaret, 2 And saw two ships
unto him; and he laid his standing by the lake: but
hands on every one of them, the fishermen were gone out
and healed them. 41 And dev- of them, and were washing
ils also came out of many, their nets. 3 And he entered
into one of the ships, which
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there a fame abroad of him: unto him, Man, thy sins are
and great multitudes came forgiven thee. 21 And the
him down through the tiling and they glorified God, and
with his couch into the midst were filled with fear, saying,
before Jesus. 20 And when We have seen strange things
he saw their faith, he said to day. 27 And after these
LUKE 2223
the corn fields; and his disci- sabbath day; that they might
ples plucked the ears of corn, find an accusation against
and did eat, rubbing them in him. 8 But he knew their
their hands. 2 And certain thoughts, and said to the
of the Pharisees said unto man which had the withered
them, Why do ye that which hand, Rise up, and stand
is not lawful to do on the forth in the midst. And he
sabbath days? 3 And Jesus arose and stood forth. 9 Then
answering them said, Have said Jesus unto them, I will
ye not read so much as this, ask you one thing; Is it law-
what David did, when him- ful on the sabbath days to
self was an hungred, and do good, or to do evil? to
they which were with him; save life, or to destroy it?
4 How he went into the house 10 And looking round about
of God, and did take and upon them all, he said unto
eat the shewbread, and gave the man, Stretch forth thy
also to them that were with hand. And he did so: and
him; which it is not lawful his hand was restored whole
to eat but for the priests as the other. 11 And they
alone? 5 And he said unto were filled with madness;
them, That the Son of man and communed one with an-
is Lord also of the sabbath. other what they might do
6 And it came to pass also to Jesus. 12 And it came
on another sabbath, that he to pass in those days, that
entered into the synagogue he went out into a moun-
and taught: and there was tain to pray, and continued
a man whose right hand was all night in prayer to God.
withered. 7 And the scribes 13 And when it was day, he
to touch him: for there went men shall speak well of you!
virtue out of him, and healed for so did their fathers to the
them all. 20 And he lifted false prophets. 27 But I say
up his eyes on his disciples, unto you which hear, Love
and said, Blessed be ye poor: your enemies, do good to
for yours is the kingdom of them which hate you, 28 Bless
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unto him the elders of the him, and turned him about,
Jews, beseeching him that and said unto the people
he would come and heal his that followed him, I say unto
servant. 4 And when they you, I have not found so
came to Jesus, they besought great faith, no, not in Israel.
him instantly, saying, That 10 And they that were sent,
isees and lawyers rejected the the city, which was a sinner,
counsel of God against them- when she knew that Jesus
selves, being not baptized of sat at meat in the Pharisee’s
him. 31 And the Lord said, house, brought an alabaster
Whereunto then shall I liken box of ointment, 38 And stood
the men of this generation? at his feet behind him weep-
and to what are they like? ing, and began to wash his
32 They are like unto children feet with tears, and did wipe
sitting in the marketplace, them with the hairs of her
and calling one to another, head, and kissed his feet, and
and saying, We have piped anointed them with the oint-
unto you, and ye have not ment. 39 Now when the Phar-
danced; we have mourned isee which had bidden him
to you, and ye have not saw it, he spake within him-
wept. 33 For John the Baptist self, saying, This man, if he
came neither eating bread were a prophet, would have
nor drinking wine; and ye known who and what man-
say, He hath a devil. 34 The ner of woman this is that
Son of man is come eating toucheth him: for she is a
and drinking; and ye say, Be- sinner. 40 And Jesus answer-
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ing said unto him, Simon, I anoint: but this woman hath
have somewhat to say unto anointed my feet with oint-
thee. And he saith, Mas- ment. 47 Wherefore I say
ter, say on. 41 There was unto thee, Her sins, which
a certain creditor which had are many, are forgiven; for
two debtors: the one owed she loved much: but to whom
five hundred pence, and the little is forgiven, the same
other fifty. 42 And when loveth little. 48 And he said
they had nothing to pay, he unto her, Thy sins are for-
frankly forgave them both. given. 49 And they that sat at
Tell me therefore, which of meat with him began to say
them will love him most? within themselves, Who is
43 Simon answered and said, this that forgiveth sins also?
I suppose that he, to whom 50 And he said to the woman,
some fell upon a rock; and which, when they hear, re-
as soon as it was sprung up, ceive the word with joy; and
it withered away, because it these have no root, which
lacked moisture. 7 And some for a while believe, and in
fell among thorns; and the time of temptation fall away.
thorns sprang up with it, and 14 And that which fell among
choked it. 8 And other fell thorns are they, which, when
on good ground, and sprang they have heard, go forth,
up, and bare fruit an hun- and are choked with cares
dredfold. And when he had and riches and pleasures of
said these things, he cried, this life, and bring no fruit to
He that hath ears to hear, perfection. 15 But that on the
let him hear. 9 And his good ground are they, which
disciples asked him, saying, in an honest and good heart,
What might this parable be? having heard the word, keep
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it, and bring forth fruit with pass on a certain day, that
patience. 16 No man, when he went into a ship with his
he hath lighted a candle, cov- disciples: and he said unto
ereth it with a vessel, or put- them, Let us go over unto the
teth it under a bed; but set- other side of the lake. And
teth it on a candlestick, that they launched forth. 23 But
they which enter in may see as they sailed he fell asleep:
the light. 17 For nothing is se- and there came down a storm
cret, that shall not be made of wind on the lake; and
manifest; neither any thing they were filled with water,
hid, that shall not be known and were in jeopardy. 24 And
and come abroad. 18 Take they came to him, and awoke
heed therefore how ye hear: him, saying, Master, mas-
for whosoever hath, to him ter, we perish. Then he
shall be given; and whoso- arose, and rebuked the wind
ever hath not, from him shall and the raging of the water:
be taken even that which he and they ceased, and there
seemeth to have. 19 Then was a calm. 25 And he said
came to him his mother and unto them, Where is your
his brethren, and could not faith? And they being afraid
come at him for the press. wondered, saying one to an-
20 And it was told him by cer- other, What manner of man
tain which said, Thy mother is this! for he commandeth
and thy brethren stand with- even the winds and water,
out, desiring to see thee. and they obey him. 26 And
21 And he answered and said they arrived at the country
unto them, My mother and of the Gadarenes, which is
my brethren are these which over against Galilee. 27 And
hear the word of God, and when he went forth to land,
do it. 22 Now it came to there met him out of the city
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from the dead; 8 And of some, them to eat. And they said,
that Elias had appeared; and We have no more but five
of others, that one of the loaves and two fishes; except
old prophets was risen again. we should go and buy meat
9 And Herod said, John have for all this people. 14 For
I beheaded: but who is this, they were about five thou-
of whom I hear such things? sand men. And he said to
And he desired to see him. his disciples, Make them sit
10 And the apostles, when down by fifties in a company.
they were returned, told him 15 And they did so, and made
all that they had done. And them all sit down. 16 Then
he took them, and went aside he took the five loaves and
privately into a desert place the two fishes, and look-
belonging to the city called ing up to heaven, he blessed
Bethsaida. 11 And the peo- them, and brake, and gave
ple, when they knew it, fol- to the disciples to set before
lowed him: and he received the multitude. 17 And they
them, and spake unto them did eat, and were all filled:
of the kingdom of God, and and there was taken up of
healed them that had need fragments that remained to
of healing. 12 And when the them twelve baskets. 18 And
day began to wear away, then it came to pass, as he was
came the twelve, and said alone praying, his disciples
unto him, Send the multi- were with him: and he
tude away, that they may asked them, saying, Whom
go into the towns and coun- say the people that I am?
try round about, and lodge, 19 They answering said, John
and get victuals: for we are the Baptist; but some say,
here in a desert place. 13 But Elias; and others say, that
he said unto them, Give ye one of the old prophets is
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go thou and preach the king- the way. 5 And into what-
dom of God. 61 And another soever house ye enter, first
also said, Lord, I will follow say, Peace be to this house.
thee; but let me first go bid 6 And if the son of peace be
and have not seen them; and came down a certain priest
to hear those things which that way: and when he saw
ye hear, and have not heard him, he passed by on the
them. 25 And, behold, a cer- other side. 32 And likewise
tain lawyer stood up, and a Levite, when he was at
tempted him, saying, Mas- the place, came and looked
ter, what shall I do to in- on him, and passed by on
herit eternal life? 26 He said the other side. 33 But a cer-
unto him, What is written in tain Samaritan, as he jour-
the law? how readest thou? neyed, came where he was:
27 And he answering said, and when he saw him, he had
Thou shalt love the Lord thy compassion on him, 34 And
God with all thy heart, and went to him, and bound up
with all thy soul, and with all his wounds, pouring in oil
thy strength, and with all thy and wine, and set him on
mind; and thy neighbour as his own beast, and brought
thyself. 28 And he said unto him to an inn, and took
him, Thou hast answered care of him. 35 And on the
right: this do, and thou shalt morrow when he departed,
live. 29 But he, willing to he took out two pence, and
justify himself, said unto Je- gave them to the host, and
sus, And who is my neigh- said unto him, Take care of
bour? 30 And Jesus answer- him; and whatsoever thou
ing said, A certain man went spendest more, when I come
down from Jerusalem to Jeri- again, I will repay thee.
cho, and fell among thieves, 36 Which now of these three,
and said, Lord, dost thou we also forgive every one that
not care that my sister hath is indebted to us. And lead
left me to serve alone? bid us not into temptation; but
her therefore that she help deliver us from evil. 5 And
me. 41 And Jesus answered he said unto them, Which
and said unto her, Martha, of you shall have a friend,
Martha, thou art careful and and shall go unto him at
troubled about many things: midnight, and say unto him,
42 But one thing is needful: Friend, lend me three loaves;
and Mary hath chosen that 6 For a friend of mine in his
rise and give thee. 8 I say devil was gone out, the dumb
unto you, Though he will not spake; and the people won-
rise and give him, because he dered. 15 But some of them
is his friend, yet because of said, He casteth out devils
his importunity he will rise through Beelzebub the chief
and give him as many as he of the devils. 16 And others,
needeth. 9 And I say unto tempting him, sought of him
you, Ask, and it shall be a sign from heaven. 17 But
given you; seek, and ye shall he, knowing their thoughts,
find; knock, and it shall be said unto them, Every king-
opened unto you. 10 For ev- dom divided against itself is
ery one that asketh receiveth; brought to desolation; and
and he that seeketh findeth; a house divided against a
and to him that knocketh it house falleth. 18 If Satan also
shall be opened. 11 If a son be divided against himself,
shall ask bread of any of you how shall his kingdom stand?
that is a father, will he give because ye say that I cast
him a stone? or if he ask a out devils through Beelze-
fish, will he for a fish give him bub. 19 And if I by Beelze-
a serpent? 12 Or if he shall bub cast out devils, by whom
ask an egg, will he offer him a do your sons cast them out?
scorpion? 13 If ye then, being therefore shall they be your
evil, know how to give good judges. 20 But if I with
gifts unto your children: how the finger of God cast out
much more shall your heav- devils, no doubt the king-
enly Father give the Holy dom of God is come upon
Spirit to them that ask him? you. 21 When a strong man
14 And he was casting out a armed keepeth his palace, his
devil, and it was dumb. And goods are in peace: 22 But
it came to pass, when the when a stronger than he shall
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come upon him, and over- blessed are they that hear
come him, he taketh from the word of God, and keep
him all his armour wherein it. 29 And when the peo-
he trusted, and divideth his ple were gathered thick to-
spoils. 23 He that is not with gether, he began to say, This
me is against me: and he is an evil generation: they
that gathereth not with me seek a sign; and there shall
scattereth. 24 When the un- no sign be given it, but the
clean spirit is gone out of sign of Jonas the prophet.
a man, he walketh through 30 For as Jonas was a sign
him his portion with the un- against the son, and the
believers. 47 And that ser- son against the father; the
vant, which knew his lord’s mother against the daugh-
will, and prepared not him- ter, and the daughter against
self, neither did according the mother; the mother in
to his will, shall be beaten law against her daughter in
with many stripes. 48 But he law, and the daughter in law
that knew not, and did com- against her mother in law.
mit things worthy of stripes, 54 And he said also to the
and what will I, if it be al- cern the face of the sky and
ready kindled? 50 But I have of the earth; but how is it
a baptism to be baptized that ye do not discern this
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be glad: for this thy brother est thou unto my lord? 6 And
was dead, and is alive again; he said, An hundred mea-
and was lost, and is found. sures of oil. And he said unto
him, Take thy bill, and sit
down quickly, and write fifty.
Chapter 16 7 Then said he to another,
your hearts: for that which pass, that the beggar died,
is highly esteemed among and was carried by the an-
men is abomination in the gels into Abraham’s bosom:
sight of God. 16 The law the rich man also died, and
and the prophets were un- was buried; 23 And in hell
til John: since that time the he lift up his eyes, being in
kingdom of God is preached, torments, and seeth Abra-
and every man presseth into ham afar off, and Lazarus in
it. 17 And it is easier for his bosom. 24 And he cried
heaven and earth to pass, and said, Father Abraham,
than one tittle of the law have mercy on me, and send
to fail. 18 Whosoever putteth Lazarus, that he may dip the
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and the other left. 37 And his own elect, which cry day
they answered and said unto and night unto him, though
him, Where, Lord? And he he bear long with them? 8 I
said unto them, Wheresoever tell you that he will avenge
the body is, thither will the them speedily. Nevertheless
eagles be gathered together. when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the
earth? 9 And he spake this
Chapter 18 parable unto certain which
trusted in themselves that
And he spake a parable unto they were righteous, and de-
them to this end, that men spised others: 10 Two men
ought always to pray, and went up into the temple to
not to faint; 2 Saying, There pray; the one a Pharisee, and
was in a city a judge, which the other a publican. 11 The
feared not God, neither re- Pharisee stood and prayed
garded man: 3 And there was thus with himself, God, I
a widow in that city; and thank thee, that I am not as
she came unto him, saying, other men are, extortioners,
Avenge me of mine adver- unjust, adulterers, or even as
sary. 4 And he would not for this publican. 12 I fast twice
a while: but afterward he in the week, I give tithes of
said within himself, Though all that I possess. 13 And the
I fear not God, nor re- publican, standing afar off,
gard man; 5 Yet because this would not lift up so much
widow troubleth me, I will
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as his eyes unto heaven, but one, that is, God. 20 Thou
smote upon his breast, say- knowest the commandments,
ing, God be merciful to me a Do not commit adultery, Do
sinner. 14 I tell you, this man not kill, Do not steal, Do not
went down to his house jus- bear false witness, Honour
tified rather than the other: thy father and thy mother.
for every one that exalteth 21 And he said, All these
with men are possible with they the things which were
God. 28 Then Peter said, Lo, spoken. 35 And it came to
we have left all, and followed pass, that as he was come
thee. 29 And he said unto nigh unto Jericho, a certain
them, Verily I say unto you, blind man sat by the way
There is no man that hath side begging: 36 And hear-
left house, or parents, or ing the multitude pass by, he
brethren, or wife, or children, asked what it meant. 37 And
for the kingdom of God’s they told him, that Jesus of
sake, 30 Who shall not receive Nazareth passeth by. 38 And
manifold more in this present he cried, saying, Jesus, thou
time, and in the world to Son of David, have mercy on
come life everlasting. 31 Then me. 39 And they which went
he took unto him the twelve, before rebuked him, that he
and said unto them, Behold, should hold his peace: but
we go up to Jerusalem, and he cried so much the more,
all things that are written Thou Son of David, have
by the prophets concerning mercy on me. 40 And Jesus
the Son of man shall be ac- stood, and commanded him
complished. 32 For he shall to be brought unto him: and
be delivered unto the Gen- when he was come near, he
tiles, and shall be mocked, asked him, 41 Saying, What
and spitefully entreated, and wilt thou that I shall do
spitted on: 33 And they shall unto thee? And he said,
scourge him, and put him to Lord, that I may receive my
death: and the third day he sight. 42 And Jesus said unto
shall rise again. 34 And they him, Receive thy sight: thy
understood none of these faith hath saved thee. 43 And
things: and this saying was immediately he received his
hid from them, neither knew sight, and followed him, glo-
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rifying God: and all the peo- was gone to be guest with a
ple, when they saw it, gave man that is a sinner. 8 And
praise unto God. Zacchaeus stood, and said
unto the Lord; Behold, Lord,
the half of my goods I give
Chapter 19 to the poor; and if I have
taken any thing from any
And Jesus entered and man by false accusation, I
passed through Jericho. restore him fourfold. 9 And
2 And, behold, there was
Jesus said unto him, This
a man named Zacchaeus, day is salvation come to this
which was the chief among house, forsomuch as he also is
the publicans, and he was a son of Abraham. 10 For the
rich. 3 And he sought to see Son of man is come to seek
Jesus who he was; and could and to save that which was
not for the press, because he lost. 11 And as they heard
was little of stature. 4 And these things, he added and
he ran before, and climbed spake a parable, because he
up into a sycomore tree to was nigh to Jerusalem, and
see him: for he was to pass because they thought that
that way. 5 And when Je- the kingdom of God should
sus came to the place, he immediately appear. 12 He
looked up, and saw him, and said therefore, A certain no-
said unto him, Zacchaeus, bleman went into a far coun-
make haste, and come down; try to receive for himself
for to day I must abide at a kingdom, and to return.
thy house. 6 And he made 13 And he called his ten ser-
were sent went their way, unto them, I tell you that,
and found even as he had if these should hold their
said unto them. 33 And as peace, the stones would im-
they were loosing the colt, mediately cry out. 41 And
the owners thereof said unto when he was come near, he
them, Why loose ye the colt? beheld the city, and wept
34 And they said, The Lord over it, 42 Saying, If thou
hath need of him. 35 And hadst known, even thou, at
they brought him to Jesus: least in this thy day, the
and they cast their garments things which belong unto thy
upon the colt, and they set peace! but now they are hid
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said unto them, Why tempt the third took her; and
ye me? 24 Shew me a penny. in like manner the seven
Whose image and superscrip- also: and they left no chil-
tion hath it? They answered dren, and died. 32 Last
marry, nor are given in mar- ence of all the people he said
riage: 36 Neither can they die unto his disciples, 46 Beware
any more: for they are equal of the scribes, which desire
unto the angels; and are the to walk in long robes, and
children of God, being the love greetings in the mar-
children of the resurrection. kets, and the highest seats in
37 Now that the dead are the synagogues, and the chief
raised, even Moses shewed at rooms at feasts; 47 Which de-
the bush, when he calleth the vour widows’ houses, and for
Lord the God of Abraham, a shew make long prayers:
and the God of Isaac, and the same shall receive greater
the God of Jacob. 38 For he damnation.
is not a God of the dead,
but of the living: for all live
unto him. 39 Then certain Chapter 21
of the scribes answering said,
Master, thou hast well said. And he looked up, and saw
40 And after that they durst the rich men casting their
not ask him any question gifts into the treasury. 2 And
at all. 41 And he said unto he saw also a certain poor
them, How say they that widow casting in thither two
Christ is David’s son? 42 And mites. 3 And he said, Of a
David himself saith in the truth I say unto you, that
book of Psalms, The Lord this poor widow hath cast
said unto my Lord, Sit thou in more than they all: 4 For
on my right hand, 43 Till I all these have of their abun-
make thine enemies thy foot- dance cast in unto the offer-
stool. 44 David therefore cal- ings of God: but she of her
leth him Lord, how is he then penury hath cast in all the
his son? 45 Then in the audi- living that she had. 5 And
as some spake of the tem-
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ple, how it was adorned with sights and great signs shall
goodly stones and gifts, he there be from heaven. 12 But
said, 6 As for these things before all these, they shall
which ye behold, the days lay their hands on you, and
will come, in the which there persecute you, delivering you
shall not be left one stone up to the synagogues, and
upon another, that shall not into prisons, being brought
be thrown down. 7 And they before kings and rulers for
asked him, saying, Master, my name’s sake. 13 And it
but when shall these things shall turn to you for a testi-
be? and what sign will there mony. 14 Settle it therefore in
be when these things shall your hearts, not to meditate
come to pass? 8 And he said, before what ye shall answer:
Take heed that ye be not de- 15 For I will give you a mouth
ceived: for many shall come and wisdom, which all your
in my name, saying, I am adversaries shall not be able
Christ; and the time draweth to gainsay nor resist. 16 And
near: go ye not therefore ye shall be betrayed both by
after them. 9 But when ye parents, and brethren, and
shall hear of wars and com- kinsfolks, and friends; and
motions, be not terrified: for some of you shall they cause
these things must first come to be put to death. 17 And
to pass; but the end is not ye shall be hated of all men
by and by. 10 Then said he for my name’s sake. 18 But
unto them, Nation shall rise there shall not an hair of your
against nation, and kingdom head perish. 19 In your pa-
against kingdom: 11 And tience possess ye your souls.
great earthquakes shall be in 20 And when ye shall see
part out; and let not them the Son of man coming in a
that are in the countries en- cloud with power and great
ter thereinto. 22 For these be glory. 28 And when these
ately, while he yet spake, the man sit on the right hand of
cock crew. 61 And the Lord the power of God. 70 Then
turned, and looked upon Pe- said they all, Art thou then
ter. And Peter remembered the Son of God? And he said
the word of the Lord, how unto them, Ye say that I am.
he had said unto him, Be- 71 And they said, What need
fore the cock crow, thou shalt we any further witness? for
deny me thrice. 62 And Peter we ourselves have heard of
went out, and wept bitterly. his own mouth.
63 And the men that held Je-
they cried out all at once, they laid hold upon one Si-
saying, Away with this man, mon, a Cyrenian, coming
and release unto us Barab- out of the country, and on
bas: 19 (Who for a certain him they laid the cross, that
sedition made in the city, he might bear it after Je-
and for murder, was cast sus. 27 And there followed
into prison.) 20 Pilate there- him a great company of peo-
fore, willing to release Jesus, ple, and of women, which
spake again to them. 21 But also bewailed and lamented
they cried, saying, Crucify him. 28 But Jesus turning
him, crucify him. 22 And unto them said, Daughters of
he said unto them the third Jerusalem, weep not for me,
time, Why, what evil hath but weep for yourselves, and
he done? I have found no for your children. 29 For, be-
cause of death in him: I will hold, the days are coming,
therefore chastise him, and in the which they shall say,
let him go. 23 And they were Blessed are the barren, and
instant with loud voices, re- the wombs that never bare,
quiring that he might be cru- and the paps which never
cified. And the voices of gave suck. 30 Then shall they
them and of the chief priests begin to say to the moun-
prevailed. 24 And Pilate gave tains, Fall on us; and to
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the rulers also with them de- sus said unto him, Verily I
rided him, saying, He saved say unto thee, To day shalt
others; let him save himself, thou be with me in paradise.
if he be Christ, the chosen 44 And it was about the sixth
and told all these things unto that they should not know
the eleven, and to all the rest. him. 17 And he said unto
10 It was Mary Magdalene, them, What manner of com-
and Joanna, and Mary the munications are these that ye
mother of James, and other have one to another, as ye
women that were with them, walk, and are sad? 18 And the
which told these things unto one of them, whose name was
the apostles. 11 And their Cleopas, answering said unto
words seemed to them as him, Art thou only a stranger
idle tales, and they be- in Jerusalem, and hast not
lieved them not. 12 Then known the things which are
arose Peter, and ran unto come to pass there in these
the sepulchre; and stooping days? 19 And he said unto
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they found not his body, they he sat at meat with them,
came, saying, that they had he took bread, and blessed
also seen a vision of an- it, and brake, and gave to
gels, which said that he was them. 31 And their eyes
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held his glory, the glory as of him, Who art thou? that we
the only begotten of the Fa- may give an answer to them
ther,) full of grace and truth. that sent us. What sayest
15 John bare witness of him, thou of thyself? 23 He said,
and cried, saying, This was I am the voice of one cry-
he of whom I spake, He that ing in the wilderness, Make
cometh after me is preferred straight the way of the Lord,
before me: for he was be- as said the prophet Esaias.
fore me. 16 And of his ful- 24 And they which were sent
and said unto him, How can into the world to condemn
these things be? 10 Jesus an- the world; but that the world
swered and said unto him, through him might be saved.
Art thou a master of Is- 18 He that believeth on him is
but he that came down from evil hateth the light, nei-
heaven, even the Son of man ther cometh to the light, lest
which is in heaven. 14 And his deeds should be reproved.
as Moses lifted up the ser- 21 But he that doeth truth
man can receive nothing, ex- loveth the Son, and hath
cept it be given him from given all things into his hand.
heaven. 28 Ye yourselves bear 36 He that believeth on the
heard that Jesus made and swered and said unto her, If
baptized more disciples than thou knewest the gift of God,
John, 2 (Though Jesus him- and who it is that saith to
self baptized not, but his dis- thee, Give me to drink; thou
ciples,) 3 He left Judaea, and wouldest have asked of him,
departed again into Galilee. and he would have given thee
4 And he must needs go living water. 11 The woman
through Samaria. 5 Then saith unto him, Sir, thou
cometh he to a city of hast nothing to draw with,
Samaria, which is called Sy- and the well is deep: from
char, near to the parcel of whence then hast thou that
ground that Jacob gave to living water? 12 Art thou
his son Joseph. 6 Now Ja- greater than our father Ja-
cob’s well was there. Jesus cob, which gave us the well,
therefore, being wearied with and drank thereof himself,
his journey, sat thus on the and his children, and his cat-
well: and it was about the tle? 13 Jesus answered and
sixth hour. 7 There cometh said unto her, Whosoever
a woman of Samaria to draw drinketh of this water shall
water: Jesus saith unto her, thirst again: 14 But whoso-
Give me to drink. 8 (For ever drinketh of the water
his disciples were gone away that I shall give him shall
unto the city to buy meat.) never thirst; but the water
9 Then saith the woman of that I shall give him shall
Samaria unto him, How is it be in him a well of water
that thou, being a Jew, ask- springing up into everlasting
est drink of me, which am a life. 15 The woman saith unto
woman of Samaria? for the him, Sir, give me this wa-
Jews have no dealings with ter, that I thirst not, neither
the Samaritans. 10 Jesus an- come hither to draw. 16 Jesus
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saith unto her, Go, call thy for the Father seeketh such
husband, and come hither. to worship him. 24 God is a
17 The woman answered and Spirit: and they that wor-
said, I have no husband. ship him must worship him
Jesus said unto her, Thou in spirit and in truth. 25 The
hast well said, I have no woman saith unto him, I
husband: 18 For thou hast know that Messias cometh,
had five husbands; and he which is called Christ: when
whom thou now hast is not he is come, he will tell us
thy husband: in that saidst all things. 26 Jesus saith unto
thou truly. 19 The woman her, I that speak unto thee
saith unto him, Sir, I per- am he. 27 And upon this
ceive that thou art a prophet. came his disciples, and mar-
20 Our fathers worshipped in velled that he talked with
this mountain; and ye say, the woman: yet no man
that in Jerusalem is the place said, What seekest thou?
where men ought to wor- or, Why talkest thou with
ship. 21 Jesus saith unto her, her? 28 The woman then
Woman, believe me, the hour left her waterpot, and went
cometh, when ye shall nei- her way into the city, and
ther in this mountain, nor saith to the men, 29 Come,
yet at Jerusalem, worship see a man, which told me
the Father. 22 Ye worship ye all things that ever I did: is
know not what: we know not this the Christ? 30 Then
what we worship: for salva- they went out of the city,
tion is of the Jews. 23 But and came unto him. 31
the hour cometh, and now In the mean while his dis-
is, when the true worship- ciples prayed him, saying,
pers shall worship the Fa- Master, eat. 32 But he said
ther in spirit and in truth: unto them, I have meat to
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eat that ye know not of. told me all that ever I did.
33 Therefore said the disci- 40 So when the Samaritans
asked they him, What man said unto them, Verily, ver-
is that which said unto thee, ily, I say unto you, The Son
Take up thy bed, and walk? can do nothing of himself,
13 And he that was healed but what he seeth the Father
wist not who it was: for do: for what things soever
Jesus had conveyed himself he doeth, these also doeth
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the Son likewise. 20 For the that hear shall live. 26 For as
Father loveth the Son, and the Father hath life in him-
sheweth him all things that self; so hath he given to the
himself doeth: and he will Son to have life in himself;
shew him greater works than 27 And hath given him au-
one of them may take a lit- those men, when they had
tle. 8 One of his disciples, An- seen the miracle that Je-
drew, Simon Peter’s brother, sus did, said, This is of
saith unto him, 9 There is a truth that prophet that
a lad here, which hath five should come into the world.
barley loaves, and two small 15 When Jesus therefore per-
fishes: but what are they ceived that they would come
among so many? 10 And Je- and take him by force, to
sus said, Make the men sit make him a king, he de-
down. Now there was much parted again into a moun-
grass in the place. So the tain himself alone. 16 And
men sat down, in number when even was now come,
about five thousand. 11 And his disciples went down unto
Jesus took the loaves; and the sea, 17 And entered into
when he had given thanks, a ship, and went over the
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sea toward Capernaum. And ter that the Lord had given
it was now dark, and Je- thanks:) 24 When the people
sus was not come to them. therefore saw that Jesus was
18 And the sea arose by rea- not there, neither his disci-
son of a great wind that ples, they also took shipping,
blew. 19 So when they had and came to Capernaum,
rowed about five and twenty seeking for Jesus. 25 And
not that bread from heaven; that sent me, that every one
but my Father giveth you which seeth the Son, and be-
the true bread from heaven. lieveth on him, may have
33 For the bread of God is everlasting life: and I will
he which cometh down from raise him up at the last day.
heaven, and giveth life unto 41 The Jews then murmured
also have seen me, and be- and said unto them, Murmur
lieve not. 37 All that the Fa- not among yourselves. 44 No
ther giveth me shall come to man can come to me, except
me; and him that cometh the Father which hath sent
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me draw him: and I will raise this man give us his flesh to
him up at the last day. 45 It eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto
is written in the prophets, them, Verily, verily, I say
And they shall be all taught unto you, Except ye eat the
of God. Every man there- flesh of the Son of man, and
fore that hath heard, and drink his blood, ye have no
hath learned of the Father, life in you. 54 Whoso eateth
cometh unto me. 46 Not that my flesh, and drinketh my
any man hath seen the Fa- blood, hath eternal life; and
ther, save he which is of I will raise him up at the
God, he hath seen the Fa- last day. 55 For my flesh is
ther. 47 Verily, verily, I say meat indeed, and my blood
unto you, He that believeth is drink indeed. 56 He that
on me hath everlasting life. eateth my flesh, and drinketh
48 I am that bread of life. my blood, dwelleth in me,
49 Your fathers did eat manna and I in him. 57 As the liv-
in the wilderness, and are ing Father hath sent me, and
dead. 50 This is the bread I live by the Father: so he
which cometh down from that eateth me, even he shall
heaven, that a man may eat live by me. 58 This is that
thereof, and not die. 51 I am bread which came down from
the living bread which came heaven: not as your fathers
down from heaven: if any did eat manna, and are dead:
man eat of this bread, he he that eateth of this bread
shall live for ever: and the shall live for ever. 59 These
bread that I will give is my things said he in the syna-
flesh, which I will give for gogue, as he taught in Ca-
the life of the world. 52 The pernaum. 60 Many therefore
Jews therefore strove among of his disciples, when they
themselves, saying, How can had heard this, said, This
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was not yet given; because who knoweth not the law are
that Jesus was not yet glori- cursed. 50 Nicodemus saith
fied.) 40 Many of the people unto them, (he that came to
therefore, when they heard Jesus by night, being one of
this saying, said, Of a truth them,) 51 Doth our law judge
this is the Prophet. 41 Others any man, before it hear him,
said, This is the Christ. and know what he doeth?
But some said, Shall Christ 52 They answered and said
mine own glory: there is one him, Thou art not yet fifty
that seeketh and judgeth. years old, and hast thou seen
51 Verily, verily, I say unto Abraham? 58 Jesus said unto
you, If a man keep my say- them, Verily, verily, I say
ing, he shall never see death. unto you, Before Abraham
52 Then said the Jews unto was, I am. 59 Then took they
him, Now we know that thou up stones to cast at him:
JOHN 2318
but Jesus hid himself, and said unto him, Go, wash in
went out of the temple, going the pool of Siloam, (which
through the midst of them, is by interpretation, Sent.)
and so passed by. He went his way therefore,
and washed, and came see-
ing. 8 The neighbours there-
Chapter 9 fore, and they which before
had seen him that he was
And as Jesus passed by, he blind, said, Is not this he
saw a man which was blind that sat and begged? 9 Some
from his birth. 2 And his said, This is he: others said,
disciples asked him, saying, He is like him: but he said,
Master, who did sin, this I am he. 10 Therefore said
man, or his parents, that they unto him, How were
he was born blind? 3 Jesus thine eyes opened? 11 He an-
answered, Neither hath this swered and said, A man that
man sinned, nor his par- is called Jesus made clay, and
ents: but that the works of anointed mine eyes, and said
God should be made mani- unto me, Go to the pool of
fest in him. 4 I must work Siloam, and wash: and I
the works of him that sent went and washed, and I re-
me, while it is day: the ceived sight. 12 Then said
night cometh, when no man they unto him, Where is
can work. 5 As long as I he? He said, I know not.
am in the world, I am the 13 They brought to the Phar-
they reviled him, and said, and said, Who is he, Lord,
Thou art his disciple; but we that I might believe on him?
are Moses’ disciples. 29 We 37 And Jesus said unto him,
know that God spake unto Thou hast both seen him,
Moses: as for this fellow, and it is he that talketh with
we know not from whence he thee. 38 And he said, Lord, I
is. 30 The man answered and believe. And he worshipped
said unto them, Why herein him. 39 And Jesus said, For
is a marvellous thing, that ye judgment I am come into this
know not from whence he is, world, that they which see
and yet he hath opened mine not might see; and that they
eyes. 31 Now we know that which see might be made
God heareth not sinners: but blind. 40 And some of the
if any man be a worshipper of Pharisees which were with
God, and doeth his will, him him heard these words, and
he heareth. 32 Since the world said unto him, Are we blind
began was it not heard that also? 41 Jesus said unto them,
any man opened the eyes of If ye were blind, ye should
one that was born blind. 33 If have no sin: but now ye say,
this man were not of God, We see; therefore your sin re-
he could do nothing. 34 They maineth.
answered and said unto him,
Thou wast altogether born
in sins, and dost thou teach Chapter 10
us? And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had Verily, verily, I say unto you,
cast him out; and when he He that entereth not by the
had found him, he said unto door into the sheepfold, but
him, Dost thou believe on the climbeth up some other way,
Son of God? 36 He answered the same is a thief and a
robber. 2 But he that en-
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goeth before them, and the and not the shepherd, whose
sheep follow him: for they own the sheep are not, seeth
know his voice. 5 And a the wolf coming, and leaveth
stranger will they not fol- the sheep, and fleeth: and
low, but will flee from him: the wolf catcheth them, and
for they know not the voice scattereth the sheep. 13 The
of strangers. 6 This parable hireling fleeth, because he is
spake Jesus unto them: but an hireling, and careth not
they understood not what for the sheep. 14 I am the
things they were which he good shepherd, and know
spake unto them. 7 Then said my sheep, and am known
Jesus unto them again, Ver- of mine. 15 As the Father
ily, verily, I say unto you, knoweth me, even so know I
I am the door of the sheep. the Father: and I lay down
8 All that ever came before my life for the sheep. 16 And
me are thieves and robbers: other sheep I have, which are
but the sheep did not hear not of this fold: them also
them. 9 I am the door: by I must bring, and they shall
me if any man enter in, he hear my voice; and there
shall be saved, and shall go shall be one fold, and one
in and out, and find pasture. shepherd. 17 Therefore doth
10 The thief cometh not, but my Father love me, because
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come into the world. 28 And laid him? They said unto
when she had so said, she him, Lord, come and see.
went her way, and called 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then said
and saw him, she fell down her, Said I not unto thee,
at his feet, saying unto him, that, if thou wouldest be-
Lord, if thou hadst been lieve, thou shouldest see the
here, my brother had not glory of God? 41 Then they
died. 33 When Jesus there- took away the stone from
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the place where the dead was miracles. 48 If we let him thus
laid. And Jesus lifted up alone, all men will believe on
his eyes, and said, Father, him: and the Romans shall
I thank thee that thou hast come and take away both our
heard me. 42 And I knew that place and nation. 49 And one
thou hearest me always: but of them, named Caiaphas,
because of the people which being the high priest that
stand by I said it, that they same year, said unto them,
may believe that thou hast Ye know nothing at all, 50 Nor
sent me. 43 And when he consider that it is expedi-
thus had spoken, he cried ent for us, that one man
with a loud voice, Lazarus, should die for the people, and
come forth. 44 And he that that the whole nation per-
was dead came forth, bound ish not. 51 And this spake
hand and foot with grave- he not of himself: but be-
clothes: and his face was ing high priest that year, he
bound about with a napkin. prophesied that Jesus should
Jesus saith unto them, Loose die for that nation; 52 And
him, and let him go. 45 Then not for that nation only, but
many of the Jews which came that also he should gather
to Mary, and had seen the together in one the children
things which Jesus did, be- of God that were scattered
lieved on him. 46 But some abroad. 53 Then from that
of them went their ways to day forth they took coun-
the Pharisees, and told them sel together for to put him
what things Jesus had done. to death. 54 Jesus there-
47 Then gathered the chief fore walked no more openly
priests and the Pharisees a among the Jews; but went
council, and said, What do thence unto a country near
we? for this man doeth many to the wilderness, into a city
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that they might put Lazarus of his grave, and raised him
also to death; 11 Because that from the dead, bare record.
by reason of him many of 18 For this cause the peo-
the Jews went away, and be- ple also met him, for that
lieved on Jesus. 12 On the they heard that he had done
next day much people that this miracle. 19 The Phar-
were come to the feast, when isees therefore said among
they heard that Jesus was themselves, Perceive ye how
coming to Jerusalem, 13 Took ye prevail nothing? be-
branches of palm trees, and hold, the world is gone af-
went forth to meet him, ter him. 20 And there were
and cried, Hosanna: Blessed certain Greeks among them
is the King of Israel that that came up to worship at
cometh in the name of the the feast: 21 The same came
Lord. 14 And Jesus, when therefore to Philip, which
he had found a young ass, was of Bethsaida of Galilee,
sat thereon; as it is writ- and desired him, saying, Sir,
ten, 15 Fear not, daughter we would see Jesus. 22 Philip
of Sion: behold, thy King cometh and telleth Andrew:
cometh, sitting on an ass’s and again Andrew and Philip
colt. 16 These things un- tell Jesus. 23 And Jesus an-
derstood not his disciples at swered them, saying, The
the first: but when Jesus hour is come, that the Son
was glorified, then remem- of man should be glorified.
bered they that these things 24 Verily, verily, I say unto
life shall lose it; and he that nifying what death he should
hateth his life in this world die. 34 The people answered
shall keep it unto life eter- him, We have heard out of
nal. 26 If any man serve me, the law that Christ abideth
let him follow me; and where for ever: and how sayest
I am, there shall also my ser- thou, The Son of man must
vant be: if any man serve be lifted up? who is this
me, him will my Father hon- Son of man? 35 Then Jesus
our. 27 Now is my soul trou- said unto them, Yet a little
bled; and what shall I say? while is the light with you.
Father, save me from this Walk while ye have the light,
hour: but for this cause came lest darkness come upon you:
I unto this hour. 28 Father, for he that walketh in dark-
glorify thy name. Then came ness knoweth not whither
there a voice from heaven, he goeth. 36 While ye have
saying, I have both glorified light, believe in the light,
it, and will glorify it again. that ye may be the chil-
29 The people therefore, that dren of light. These things
stood by, and heard it, said spake Jesus, and departed,
that it thundered: others and did hide himself from
said, An angel spake to him. them. 37 But though he had
30 Jesus answered and said, done so many miracles before
This voice came not because them, yet they believed not
of me, but for your sakes. on him: 38 That the saying
31 Now is the judgment of this of Esaias the prophet might
world: now shall the prince be fulfilled, which he spake,
of this world be cast out. Lord, who hath believed
32 And I, if I be lifted up from our report? and to whom
the earth, will draw all men hath the arm of the Lord
unto me. 33 This he said, sig- been revealed? 39 Therefore
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they could not believe, be- for I came not to judge the
cause that Esaias said again, world, but to save the world.
40 He hath blinded their eyes, 48 He that rejecteth me, and
him that sent me. 21 When because Judas had the bag,
Jesus had thus said, he was that Jesus had said unto
troubled in spirit, and testi- him, Buy those things that
fied, and said, Verily, verily, we have need of against the
I say unto you, that one of feast; or, that he should give
you shall betray me. 22 Then something to the poor. 30 He
the disciples looked one on then having received the sop
another, doubting of whom went immediately out: and
he spake. 23 Now there was it was night. 31 Therefore,
leaning on Jesus’ bosom one when he was gone out, Jesus
of his disciples, whom Jesus said, Now is the Son of man
loved. 24 Simon Peter there- glorified, and God is glorified
fore beckoned to him, that in him. 32 If God be glori-
he should ask who it should fied in him, God shall also
be of whom he spake. 25 He glorify him in himself, and
then lying on Jesus’ breast shall straightway glorify him.
saith unto him, Lord, who 33 Little children, yet a lit-
how sayest thou then, Shew the world cannot receive, be-
us the Father? 10 Believest cause it seeth him not, nei-
thou not that I am in the Fa- ther knoweth him: but ye
ther, and the Father in me? know him; for he dwelleth
the words that I speak unto with you, and shall be in you.
you I speak not of myself: 18 I will not leave you com-
that loveth me not keepeth will not talk much with you:
not my sayings: and the for the prince of this world
word which ye hear is not cometh, and hath nothing in
mine, but the Father’s which me. 31 But that the world
sent me. 25 These things have may know that I love the Fa-
I spoken unto you, being ther; and as the Father gave
yet present with you. 26 But me commandment, even so I
the Comforter, which is the do. Arise, let us go hence.
Holy Ghost, whom the Fa-
ther will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, Chapter 15
and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I I am the true vine, and
have said unto you. 27 Peace my Father is the husband-
man. 2 Every branch in
I leave with you, my peace
I give unto you: not as the me that beareth not fruit
world giveth, give I unto you. he taketh away: and every
Let not your heart be trou- branch that beareth fruit, he
bled, neither let it be afraid. purgeth it, that it may bring
28 Ye have heard how I said forth more fruit. 3 Now ye
unto you, I go away, and are clean through the word
come again unto you. If which I have spoken unto
ye loved me, ye would re- you. 4 Abide in me, and I
joice, because I said, I go in you. As the branch can-
unto the Father: for my Fa- not bear fruit of itself, ex-
ther is greater than I. 29 And cept it abide in the vine;
now I have told you be- no more can ye, except ye
abide in me. 5 I am the
fore it come to pass, that,
when it is come to pass, ye vine, ye are the branches: He
might believe. 30 Hereafter I that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same bringeth forth
JOHN 2336
remain in you, and that your world would love his own:
joy might be full. 12 This is but because ye are not of
my commandment, That ye the world, but I have cho-
love one another, as I have sen you out of the world,
loved you. 13 Greater love therefore the world hateth
hath no man than this, that you. 20 Remember the word
a man lay down his life for his that I said unto you, The
JOHN 2337
sorrow hath filled your heart. Father hath are mine: there-
7 Nevertheless I tell you the fore said I, that he shall take
truth; It is expedient for you of mine, and shall shew it
that I go away: for if I go unto you. 16 A little while,
not away, the Comforter will and ye shall not see me: and
not come unto you; but if I again, a little while, and ye
depart, I will send him unto shall see me, because I go
you. 8 And when he is come, to the Father. 17 Then said
he will reprove the world of some of his disciples among
sin, and of righteousness, and themselves, What is this that
of judgment: 9 Of sin, be- he saith unto us, A little
cause they believe not on me; while, and ye shall not see
10 Of righteousness, because me: and again, a little while,
I go to my Father, and ye and ye shall see me: and,
see me no more; 11 Of judg- Because I go to the Father?
ment, because the prince of 18 They said therefore, What
will see you again, and your unto him, Lo, now speakest
heart shall rejoice, and your thou plainly, and speakest no
joy no man taketh from you. proverb. 30 Now are we sure
23 And in that day ye shall that thou knowest all things,
ask me nothing. Verily, ver- and needest not that any
ily, I say unto you, What- man should ask thee: by this
soever ye shall ask the Fa- we believe that thou camest
ther in my name, he will give forth from God. 31 Jesus an-
it you. 24 Hitherto have ye swered them, Do ye now be-
asked nothing in my name: lieve? 32 Behold, the hour
ask, and ye shall receive, that cometh, yea, is now come,
your joy may be full. 25 These that ye shall be scattered, ev-
things have I spoken unto ery man to his own, and shall
you in proverbs: but the time leave me alone: and yet I am
cometh, when I shall no more not alone, because the Father
speak unto you in proverbs, is with me. 33 These things I
but I shall shew you plainly have spoken unto you, that
of the Father. 26 At that in me ye might have peace.
day ye shall ask in my name: In the world ye shall have
and I say not unto you, that tribulation: but be of good
JOHN 2340
cheer; I have overcome the them me; and they have kept
world. thy word. 7 Now they have
known that all things what-
soever thou hast given me are
Chapter 17 of thee. 8 For I have given
unto them the words which
These words spake Jesus, thou gavest me; and they
and lifted up his eyes to have received them, and have
heaven, and said, Father, the known surely that I came out
hour is come; glorify thy Son, from thee, and they have be-
that thy Son also may glorify lieved that thou didst send
thee: 2 As thou hast given me. 9 I pray for them: I pray
him power over all flesh, that not for the world, but for
he should give eternal life to them which thou hast given
as many as thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And
him. 3 And this is life eternal, all mine are thine, and thine
that they might know thee are mine; and I am glorified
the only true God, and Je- in them. 11 And now I am
sus Christ, whom thou hast no more in the world, but
sent. 4 I have glorified thee these are in the world, and
on the earth: I have finished I come to thee. Holy Fa-
the work which thou gavest ther, keep through thine own
me to do. 5 And now, O Fa- name those whom thou hast
ther, glorify thou me with given me, that they may be
thine own self with the glory one, as we are. 12 While I
which I had with thee be- was with them in the world,
fore the world was. 6 I have I kept them in thy name:
manifested thy name unto those that thou gavest me I
the men which thou gavest have kept, and none of them
me out of the world: thine is lost, but the son of perdi-
they were, and thou gavest
JOHN 2341
tion; that the scripture might and I in thee, that they also
be fulfilled. 13 And now come may be one in us: that the
I to thee; and these things world may believe that thou
I speak in the world, that hast sent me. 22 And the
they might have my joy ful- glory which thou gavest me
filled in themselves. 14 I have I have given them; that they
given them thy word; and may be one, even as we are
the world hath hated them, one: 23 I in them, and thou in
because they are not of the me, that they may be made
world, even as I am not of perfect in one; and that the
the world. 15 I pray not that world may know that thou
thou shouldest take them out hast sent me, and hast loved
of the world, but that thou them, as thou hast loved me.
shouldest keep them from the 24 Father, I will that they
evil. 16 They are not of the also, whom thou hast given
world, even as I am not of me, be with me where I am;
the world. 17 Sanctify them that they may behold my
through thy truth: thy word glory, which thou hast given
is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me: for thou lovedst me be-
me into the world, even so fore the foundation of the
have I also sent them into world. 25 O righteous Father,
the world. 19 And for their the world hath not known
sakes I sanctify myself, that thee: but I have known thee,
they also might be sanctified and these have known that
through the truth. 20 Neither thou hast sent me. 26 And
pray I for these alone, but for I have declared unto them
them also which shall believe thy name, and will declare
on me through their word; it: that the love wherewith
21 That they all may be one; thou hast loved me may be
as thou, Father, art in me, in them, and I in them.
JOHN 2342
die for the people. 15 And the Jews always resort; and
Simon Peter followed Jesus, in secret have I said nothing.
and so did another disciple: 21 Why askest thou me? ask
that disciple was known unto them which heard me, what
the high priest, and went in I have said unto them: be-
with Jesus into the palace of hold, they know what I said.
the high priest. 16 But Peter 22 And when he had thus spo-
selves, Let us not rend it, put it upon hyssop, and put
but cast lots for it, whose it to his mouth. 30 When
it shall be: that the scrip- Jesus therefore had received
ture might be fulfilled, which the vinegar, he said, It is
saith, They parted my rai- finished: and he bowed his
ment among them, and for head, and gave up the ghost.
my vesture they did cast 31 The Jews therefore, be-
the disciples went away again She turned herself, and saith
unto their own home. 11 But unto him, Rabboni; which is
Mary stood without at the to say, Master. 17 Jesus saith
sepulchre weeping: and as unto her, Touch me not; for
she wept, she stooped down, I am not yet ascended to
and looked into the sepul- my Father: but go to my
chre, 12 And seeth two angels brethren, and say unto them,
in white sitting, the one at I ascend unto my Father,
the head, and the other at and your Father; and to my
the feet, where the body of God, and your God. 18 Mary
Jesus had lain. 13 And they Magdalene came and told
say unto her, Woman, why the disciples that she had
weepest thou? She saith seen the Lord, and that he
JOHN 2350
had spoken these things unto have seen the Lord. But
her. 19 Then the same day at he said unto them, Except
evening, being the first day I shall see in his hands the
of the week, when the doors print of the nails, and put
were shut where the disci- my finger into the print of
ples were assembled for fear the nails, and thrust my
of the Jews, came Jesus and hand into his side, I will
stood in the midst, and saith not believe. 26 And after
ples, which are not written ples knew not that it was Je-
in this book: 31 But these are sus. 5 Then Jesus saith unto
written, that ye might be- them, Children, have ye any
lieve that Jesus is the Christ, meat? They answered him,
the Son of God; and that No. 6 And he said unto them,
believing ye might have life Cast the net on the right
through his name. side of the ship, and ye shall
find. They cast therefore,
and now they were not able
Chapter 21 to draw it for the multitude
of fishes. 7 Therefore that
After these things Jesus disciple whom Jesus loved
shewed himself again to saith unto Peter, It is the
the disciples at the sea of Lord. Now when Simon Pe-
Tiberias; and on this wise ter heard that it was the
shewed he himself. 2 There Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat
were together Simon Peter, unto him, (for he was naked,)
and Thomas called Didy- and did cast himself into the
mus, and Nathanael of Cana sea. 8 And the other disci-
in Galilee, and the sons of ples came in a little ship;
Zebedee, and two other of (for they were not far from
his disciples. 3 Simon Pe- land, but as it were two hun-
ter saith unto them, I go dred cubits,) dragging the
a fishing. They say unto net with fishes. 9 As soon
him, We also go with thee. then as they were come to
They went forth, and entered land, they saw a fire of coals
into a ship immediately; and there, and fish laid thereon,
that night they caught noth- and bread. 10 Jesus saith
ing. 4 But when the morning unto them, Bring of the fish
was now come, Jesus stood which ye have now caught.
on the shore: but the disci-
JOHN 2352
and giveth them, and fish ily, I say unto thee, When
likewise. 14 This is now the thou wast young, thou gird-
third time that Jesus shewed edst thyself, and walkedst
himself to his disciples, after whither thou wouldest: but
that he was risen from the when thou shalt be old, thou
dead. 15 So when they had shalt stretch forth thy hands,
dined, Jesus saith to Simon and another shall gird thee,
Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, and carry thee whither thou
lovest thou me more than wouldest not. 19 This spake
these? He saith unto him, he, signifying by what death
Yea, Lord; thou knowest that he should glorify God. And
I love thee. He saith unto when he had spoken this,
him, Feed my lambs. 16 He he saith unto him, Follow
saith to him again the second me. 20 Then Peter, turn-
T have I made, O
Theophilus, of all
that Jesus began
both to do and teach, 2 Until
the day in which he was
saith he, ye have heard of
me. 5 For John truly bap-
tized with water; but ye shall
be baptized with the Holy
Ghost not many days hence.
6 When they therefore were
taken up, after that he
through the Holy Ghost had come together, they asked of
given commandments unto him, saying, Lord, wilt thou
the apostles whom he had at this time restore again the
chosen: 3 To whom also he kingdom to Israel? 7 And he
shewed himself alive after his said unto them, It is not for
passion by many infallible you to know the times or
proofs, being seen of them the seasons, which the Father
forty days, and speaking of hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power,
the things pertaining to the
kingdom of God: 4 And, be- after that the Holy Ghost is
ing assembled together with come upon you: and ye shall
them, commanded them that be witnesses unto me both
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that is to say, The field of lots; and the lot fell upon
blood. 20 For it is written in Matthias; and he was num-
the book of Psalms, Let his bered with the eleven apos-
habitation be desolate, and tles.
let no man dwell therein: and
his bishoprick let another
take. 21 Wherefore of these Chapter 2
men which have companied
with us all the time that And when the day of Pen-
the Lord Jesus went in and tecost was fully come, they
out among us, 22 Beginning were all with one accord in
from the baptism of John, one place. 2 And suddenly
unto that same day that he there came a sound from
was taken up from us, must heaven as of a rushing mighty
one be ordained to be a wind, and it filled all the
witness with us of his res- house where they were sit-
urrection. 23 And they ap- ting. 3 And there appeared
pointed two, Joseph called unto them cloven tongues
Barsabas, who was surnamed like as of fire, and it sat
Justus, and Matthias. 24 And upon each of them. 4 And
they prayed, and said, Thou, they were all filled with the
Lord, which knowest the Holy Ghost, and began to
hearts of all men, shew speak with other tongues,
whether of these two thou as the Spirit gave them ut-
hast chosen, 25 That he may terance. 5 And there were
take part of this ministry and dwelling at Jerusalem Jews,
apostleship, from which Ju- devout men, out of every na-
tion under heaven. 6 Now
ACTS 2357
cles and wonders and signs, freely speak unto you of the
which God did by him in patriarch David, that he is
the midst of you, as ye your- both dead and buried, and
selves also know: 23 Him, be- his sepulchre is with us unto
ing delivered by the determi- this day. 30 Therefore being
nate counsel and foreknowl- a prophet, and knowing that
edge of God, ye have taken, God had sworn with an oath
and by wicked hands have to him, that of the fruit of his
crucified and slain: 24 Whom loins, according to the flesh,
God hath raised up, having he would raise up Christ to
loosed the pains of death: sit on his throne; 31 He seeing
because it was not possible this before spake of the res-
that he should be holden of urrection of Christ, that his
it. 25 For David speaketh con- soul was not left in hell, nei-
cerning him, I foresaw the ther his flesh did see corrup-
Lord always before my face, tion. 32 This Jesus hath God
for he is on my right hand, raised up, whereof we all are
that I should not be moved: witnesses. 33 Therefore be-
26 Therefore did my heart re- ing by the right hand of God
joice, and my tongue was exalted, and having received
ACTS 2359
Peter said unto them, Re- and goods, and parted them
pent, and be baptized ev- to all men, as every man had
ery one of you in the name need. 46 And they, contin-
of Jesus Christ for the re- uing daily with one accord
mission of sins, and ye shall in the temple, and breaking
receive the gift of the Holy bread from house to house,
Ghost. 39 For the promise is did eat their meat with glad-
unto you, and to your chil- ness and singleness of heart,
dren, and to all that are afar 47 Praising God, and having
off, even as many as the Lord favour with all the people.
ACTS 2360
And the Lord added to the by the right hand, and lifted
church daily such as should him up: and immediately his
be saved. feet and ankle bones received
strength. 8 And he leaping
up stood, and walked, and
Chapter 3 entered with them into the
temple, walking, and leap-
Now Peter and John went ing, and praising God. 9 And
up together into the temple all the people saw him walk-
at the hour of prayer, be- ing and praising God: 10 And
ing the ninth hour. 2 And they knew that it was he
a certain man lame from which sat for alms at the
his mother’s womb was car- Beautiful gate of the tem-
ried, whom they laid daily ple: and they were filled
at the gate of the temple with wonder and amazement
which is called Beautiful, to at that which had happened
ask alms of them that en- unto him. 11 And as the lame
tered into the temple; 3 Who man which was healed held
seeing Peter and John about Peter and John, all the peo-
to go into the temple asked ple ran together unto them
an alms. 4 And Peter, fasten- in the porch that is called
ing his eyes upon him with Solomon’s, greatly wonder-
John, said, Look on us. 5 And ing. 12 And when Peter saw
he gave heed unto them, ex- it, he answered unto the peo-
pecting to receive something ple, Ye men of Israel, why
of them. 6 Then Peter said, marvel ye at this? or why
Silver and gold have I none; look ye so earnestly on us,
but such as I have give I as though by our own power
thee: In the name of Jesus or holiness we had made this
Christ of Nazareth rise up man to walk? 13 The God
and walk. 7 And he took him
ACTS 2361
ence of you all. 17 And now, that every soul, which will
brethren, I wot that through not hear that prophet, shall
ignorance ye did it, as did be destroyed from among
also your rulers. 18 But those the people. 24 Yea, and all
things, which God before the prophets from Samuel
had shewed by the mouth of and those that follow af-
all his prophets, that Christ ter, as many as have spo-
should suffer, he hath so ful- ken, have likewise foretold of
filled. 19 Repent ye there- these days. 25 Ye are the chil-
ACTS 2362
their voice to God with one the name of thy holy child Je-
accord, and said, Lord, thou sus. 31 And when they had
art God, which hast made prayed, the place was shaken
heaven, and earth, and the where they were assembled
sea, and all that in them together; and they were all
is: 25 Who by the mouth filled with the Holy Ghost,
of thy servant David hast and they spake the word of
said, Why did the heathen God with boldness. 32 And
rage, and the people imagine the multitude of them that
vain things? 26 The kings of believed were of one heart
the earth stood up, and the and of one soul: neither said
rulers were gathered together any of them that ought of the
against the Lord, and against things which he possessed
his Christ. 27 For of a truth was his own; but they had all
against thy holy child Jesus, things common. 33 And with
whom thou hast anointed, great power gave the apos-
both Herod, and Pontius Pi- tles witness of the resurrec-
late, with the Gentiles, and tion of the Lord Jesus: and
the people of Israel, were great grace was upon them
gathered together, 28 For to all. 34 Neither was there any
do whatsoever thy hand and among them that lacked: for
thy counsel determined be- as many as were possessors
fore to be done. 29 And now, of lands or houses sold them,
Lord, behold their threaten- and brought the prices of the
ings: and grant unto thy ser- things that were sold, 35 And
vants, that with all boldness laid them down at the apos-
they may speak thy word, tles’ feet: and distribution
30 By stretching forth thine was made unto every man
hand to heal; and that signs according as he had need.
and wonders may be done by 36 And Joses, who by the
ACTS 2365
great fear came upon all the (which is the sect of the Sad-
church, and upon as many as ducees,) and were filled with
heard these things. 12 And indignation, 18 And laid their
by the hands of the apostles hands on the apostles, and
were many signs and wonders put them in the common
wrought among the people; prison. 19 But the angel of
(and they were all with one the Lord by night opened the
accord in Solomon’s porch. prison doors, and brought
13 And of the rest durst no them forth, and said, 20 Go,
man join himself to them: stand and speak in the tem-
but the people magnified ple to the people all the
them. 14 And believers were words of this life. 21 And
the more added to the Lord, when they heard that, they
multitudes both of men and entered into the temple early
women.) 15 Insomuch that in the morning, and taught.
they brought forth the sick But the high priest came,
into the streets, and laid and they that were with him,
them on beds and couches, and called the council to-
that at the least the shadow gether, and all the senate of
of Peter passing by might the children of Israel, and
overshadow some of them. sent to the prison to have
16 There came also a multi- them brought. 22 But when
tude out of the cities round the officers came, and found
about unto Jerusalem, bring- them not in the prison, they
ing sick folks, and them returned, and told, 23 Saying,
which were vexed with un- The prison truly found we
clean spirits: and they were shut with all safety, and
healed every one. 17 Then the keepers standing with-
the high priest rose up, and out before the doors: but
all they that were with him, when we had opened, we
ACTS 2367
Joseph, and called his father her own son. 22 And Moses
Jacob to him, and all his kin- was learned in all the wis-
dred, threescore and fifteen dom of the Egyptians, and
souls. 15 So Jacob went down was mighty in words and
into Egypt, and died, he, and in deeds. 23 And when he
our fathers, 16 And were car- was full forty years old, it
ried over into Sychem, and came into his heart to visit
laid in the sepulchre that his brethren the children of
Abraham bought for a sum Israel. 24 And seeing one
man. 8 And Saul arose from ity from the chief priests to
the earth; and when his eyes bind all that call on thy
were opened, he saw no man: name. 15 But the Lord said
but they led him by the unto him, Go thy way: for
hand, and brought him into he is a chosen vessel unto me,
Damascus. 9 And he was to bear my name before the
three days without sight, and Gentiles, and kings, and the
neither did eat nor drink. children of Israel: 16 For I will
10 And there was a certain shew him how great things
disciple at Damascus, named he must suffer for my name’s
Ananias; and to him said sake. 17 And Ananias went
the Lord in a vision, Ana- his way, and entered into the
nias. And he said, Behold, house; and putting his hands
I am here, Lord. 11 And the on him said, Brother Saul,
Lord said unto him, Arise, the Lord, even Jesus, that
and go into the street which appeared unto thee in the
is called Straight, and en- way as thou camest, hath
ACTS 2379
spake unto him again the sec- the centurion, a just man,
ond time, What God hath and one that feareth God,
cleansed, that call not thou and of good report among all
common. 16 This was done the nation of the Jews, was
thrice: and the vessel was re- warned from God by an holy
ceived up again into heaven. angel to send for thee into his
17 Now while Peter doubted house, and to hear words of
in himself what this vision thee. 23 Then called he them
which he had seen should in, and lodged them. And
mean, behold, the men which on the morrow Peter went
were sent from Cornelius had away with them, and cer-
made enquiry for Simon’s tain brethren from Joppa ac-
house, and stood before the companied him. 24 And the
gate, 18 And called, and asked morrow after they entered
whether Simon, which was into Caesarea. And Cor-
surnamed Peter, were lodged nelius waited for them, and
there. 19 While Peter thought had called together his kins-
on the vision, the Spirit said men and near friends. 25 And
unto him, Behold, three men as Peter was coming in, Cor-
seek thee. 20 Arise therefore, nelius met him, and fell down
ACTS 2383
what intent ye have sent for that feareth him, and wor-
me? 30 And Cornelius said, keth righteousness, is ac-
Four days ago I was fasting cepted with him. 36 The word
until this hour; and at the which God sent unto the
ninth hour I prayed in my children of Israel, preaching
house, and, behold, a man peace by Jesus Christ: (he is
stood before me in bright Lord of all:) 37 That word, I
clothing, 31 And said, Cor- say, ye know, which was pub-
nelius, thy prayer is heard, lished throughout all Judaea,
and thine alms are had in and began from Galilee,
remembrance in the sight of after the baptism which
God. 32 Send therefore to John preached; 38 How God
ACTS 2384
slay and eat. 8 But I said, Not the Holy Ghost fell on them,
so, Lord: for nothing com- as on us at the beginning.
mon or unclean hath at any 16 Then remembered I the
diately the angel of the Lord and prayed, and laid their
smote him, because he gave hands on them, they sent
not God the glory: and he them away. 4 So they, be-
was eaten of worms, and gave ing sent forth by the Holy
up the ghost. 24 But the word Ghost, departed unto Seleu-
of God grew and multiplied. cia; and from thence they
25 And Barnabas and Saul re- sailed to Cyprus. 5 And when
turned from Jerusalem, when they were at Salamis, they
they had fulfilled their min- preached the word of God in
istry, and took with them the synagogues of the Jews:
John, whose surname was and they had also John to
Mark. their minister. 6 And when
they had gone through the
isle unto Paphos, they found
Chapter 13 a certain sorcerer, a false
prophet, a Jew, whose name
Now there were in the church was Barjesus: 7 Which was
that was at Antioch certain with the deputy of the coun-
prophets and teachers; as
ACTS 2390
and unto the region that li- Barnabas and Paul, heard of,
eth round about: 7 And there they rent their clothes, and
they preached the gospel. ran in among the people, cry-
8 And there sat a certain man ing out, 15 And saying, Sirs,
at Lystra, impotent in his why do ye these things? We
feet, being a cripple from his also are men of like passions
mother’s womb, who never with you, and preach unto
had walked: 9 The same you that ye should turn from
heard Paul speak: who sted- these vanities unto the liv-
fastly beholding him, and ing God, which made heaven,
perceiving that he had faith and earth, and the sea, and
to be healed, 10 Said with a all things that are therein:
loud voice, Stand upright on 16 Who in times past suffered
went out from us have trou- when they had gathered the
bled you with words, sub- multitude together, they de-
verting your souls, saying, livered the epistle: 31 Which
Ye must be circumcised, and when they had read, they
keep the law: to whom rejoiced for the consolation.
we gave no such command- 32 And Judas and Silas, be-
prison, and made their feet the Lord Jesus Christ, and
fast in the stocks. 25 And thou shalt be saved, and thy
at midnight Paul and Silas house. 32 And they spake
prayed, and sang praises unto him the word of the
unto God: and the pris- Lord, and to all that were
oners heard them. 26 And in his house. 33 And he
and every one’s bands were them into his house, he set
loosed. 27 And the keeper meat before them, and re-
ACTS 2402
tinued there a year and six ter this tarried there yet a
months, teaching the word good while, and then took
of God among them. 12 And his leave of the brethren,
when Gallio was the deputy and sailed thence into Syria,
of Achaia, the Jews made in- and with him Priscilla and
surrection with one accord Aquila; having shorn his
against Paul, and brought head in Cenchrea: for he had
him to the judgment seat, a vow. 19 And he came to
13 Saying, This fellow per- Ephesus, and left them there:
ACTS 2407
the Holy Ghost since ye be- ened, and believed not, but
lieved? And they said unto spake evil of that way before
him, We have not so much the multitude, he departed
as heard whether there be from them, and separated
any Holy Ghost. 3 And he the disciples, disputing daily
said unto them, Unto what in the school of one Tyran-
then were ye baptized? And nus. 10 And this continued
they said, Unto John’s bap- by the space of two years;
tism. 4 Then said Paul, John so that all they which dwelt
verily baptized with the bap- in Asia heard the word of
tism of repentance, saying the Lord Jesus, both Jews
unto the people, that they and Greeks. 11 And God
wrath, and cried out, say- he was a Jew, all with one
ing, Great is Diana of the voice about the space of two
Ephesians. 29 And the whole hours cried out, Great is Di-
city was filled with confusion: ana of the Ephesians. 35 And
and having caught Gaius and when the townclerk had ap-
Aristarchus, men of Mace- peased the people, he said,
donia, Paul’s companions Ye men of Ephesus, what
in travel, they rushed with man is there that knoweth
one accord into the theatre. not how that the city of the
30 And when Paul would have Ephesians is a worshipper of
entered in unto the people, the great goddess Diana, and
the disciples suffered him of the image which fell down
not. 31 And certain of the from Jupiter? 36 Seeing then
chief of Asia, which were his that these things cannot be
friends, sent unto him, desir- spoken against, ye ought to
ing him that he would not be quiet, and to do noth-
adventure himself into the ing rashly. 37 For ye have
theatre. 32 Some therefore brought hither these men,
cried one thing, and some which are neither robbers
another: for the assembly of churches, nor yet blas-
was confused; and the more phemers of your goddess.
part knew not wherefore they 38 Wherefore if Demetrius,
ing fallen into a deep sleep: and the next day we came
and as Paul was long preach- to Miletus. 16 For Paul had
ing, he sunk down with sleep, determined to sail by Eph-
and fell down from the third esus, because he would not
loft, and was taken up dead. spend the time in Asia: for
10 And Paul went down, and he hasted, if it were possible
fell on him, and embrac- for him, to be at Jerusalem
ing him said, Trouble not the day of Pentecost. 17 And
yourselves; for his life is in from Miletus he sent to Eph-
him. 11 When he therefore esus, and called the elders of
was come up again, and had the church. 18 And when they
broken bread, and eaten, and were come to him, he said
talked a long while, even unto them, Ye know, from
till break of day, so he de- the first day that I came into
parted. 12 And they brought Asia, after what manner I
the young man alive, and have been with you at all
were not a little comforted. seasons, 19 Serving the Lord
13 And we went before to with all humility of mind,
ship, and sailed unto As- and with many tears, and
sos, there intending to take temptations, which befell me
in Paul: for so had he ap- by the lying in wait of the
pointed, minding himself to Jews: 20 And how I kept back
go afoot. 14 And when he met nothing that was profitable
with us at Assos, we took unto you, but have shewed
him in, and came to Mity- you, and have taught you
lene. 15 And we sailed thence, publickly, and from house to
and came the next day over house, 21 Testifying both to
against Chios; and the next the Jews, and also to the
day we arrived at Samos, Greeks, repentance toward
and tarried at Trogyllium; God, and faith toward our
ACTS 2413
took Paul, and drew him out the multitude of the people
of the temple: and forth- followed after, crying, Away
with the doors were shut. with him. 37 And as Paul
31 And as they went about was to be led into the castle,
to kill him, tidings came he said unto the chief cap-
unto the chief captain of the tain, May I speak unto thee?
band, that all Jerusalem was Who said, Canst thou speak
in an uproar. 32 Who im- Greek? 38 Art not thou that
mediately took soldiers and Egyptian, which before these
centurions, and ran down days madest an uproar, and
unto them: and when they leddest out into the wilder-
saw the chief captain and ness four thousand men that
the soldiers, they left beat- were murderers? 39 But Paul
ing of Paul. 33 Then the said, I am a man which am a
chief captain came near, and Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cili-
took him, and commanded cia, a citizen of no mean city:
him to be bound with two and, I beseech thee, suffer
chains; and demanded who me to speak unto the people.
he was, and what he had 40 And when he had given
report of all the Jews which ery synagogue them that be-
dwelt there, 13 Came unto me, lieved on thee: 20 And when
and stood, and said unto the blood of thy martyr
me, Brother Saul, receive thy Stephen was shed, I also was
sight. And the same hour I standing by, and consenting
looked up upon him. 14 And unto his death, and kept the
he said, The God of our fa- raiment of them that slew
thers hath chosen thee, that him. 21 And he said unto
thou shouldest know his will, me, Depart: for I will send
and see that Just One, and thee far hence unto the Gen-
shouldest hear the voice of tiles. 22 And they gave him
his mouth. 15 For thou shalt audience unto this word, and
be his witness unto all men then lifted up their voices,
of what thou hast seen and and said, Away with such a
heard. 16 And now why tar- fellow from the earth: for
riest thou? arise, and be it is not fit that he should
baptized, and wash away thy live. 23 And as they cried out,
sins, calling on the name of and cast off their clothes,
the Lord. 17 And it came to and threw dust into the
pass, that, when I was come air, 24 The chief captain com-
again to Jerusalem, even manded him to be brought
while I prayed in the temple, into the castle, and bade
I was in a trance; 18 And saw that he should be examined
him saying unto me, Make by scourging; that he might
haste, and get thee quickly know wherefore they cried so
out of Jerusalem: for they against him. 25 And as they
will not receive thy testi- bound him with thongs, Paul
mony concerning me. 19 And said unto the centurion that
I said, Lord, they know that stood by, Is it lawful for you
I imprisoned and beat in ev- to scourge a man that is a
ACTS 2420
of the centurions unto him, killed him: and now are they
and said, Bring this young ready, looking for a promise
man unto the chief captain: from thee. 22 So the chief cap-
for he hath a certain thing tain then let the young man
to tell him. 18 So he took depart, and charged him, See
him, and brought him to thou tell no man that thou
the chief captain, and said, hast shewed these things to
Paul the prisoner called me me. 23 And he called unto
unto him, and prayed me to him two centurions, saying,
bring this young man unto Make ready two hundred sol-
thee, who hath something to diers to go to Caesarea, and
say unto thee. 19 Then the horsemen threescore and ten,
chief captain took him by and spearmen two hundred,
the hand, and went with him at the third hour of the night;
aside privately, and asked 24 And provide them beasts,
him, What is that thou hast that they may set Paul on,
to tell me? 20 And he said, and bring him safe unto Fe-
The Jews have agreed to de- lix the governor. 25 And
stand, that there are yet but from Asia found me purified
twelve days since I went up in the temple, neither with
to Jerusalem for to worship. multitude, nor with tumult.
ACTS 2425
that they should repent and these things are hidden from
turn to God, and do works him; for this thing was not
meet for repentance. 21 For done in a corner. 27 King
these causes the Jews caught Agrippa, believest thou the
me in the temple, and went prophets? I know that thou
about to kill me. 22 Having believest. 28 Then Agrippa
therefore obtained help of said unto Paul, Almost thou
God, I continue unto this persuadest me to be a Chris-
day, witnessing both to small tian. 29 And Paul said, I
and great, saying none other would to God, that not only
things than those which the thou, but also all that hear
prophets and Moses did say me this day, were both al-
should come: 23 That Christ most, and altogether such as
should suffer, and that he I am, except these bonds.
should be the first that 30 And when he had thus
should rise from the dead, spoken, the king rose up,
and should shew light unto and the governor, and Ber-
the people, and to the Gen- nice, and they that sat with
tiles. 24 And as he thus spake them: 31 And when they
for himself, Festus said with were gone aside, they talked
a loud voice, Paul, thou art between themselves, saying,
beside thyself; much learning This man doeth nothing wor-
doth make thee mad. 25 But thy of death or of bonds.
he said, I am not mad, most 32 Then said Agrippa unto
noble Festus; but speak forth Festus, This man might have
the words of truth and sober- been set at liberty, if he had
ness. 26 For the king knoweth not appealed unto Caesar.
of these things, before whom
also I speak freely: for I
am persuaded that none of
ACTS 2431
with this chain. 21 And they ple, and say, Hearing ye shall
said unto him, We neither re- hear, and shall not under-
ceived letters out of Judaea stand; and seeing ye shall
concerning thee, neither any see, and not perceive: 27 For
of the brethren that came the heart of this people is
shewed or spake any harm of waxed gross, and their ears
thee. 22 But we desire to hear are dull of hearing, and their
of thee what thou thinkest: eyes have they closed; lest
for as concerning this sect, they should see with their
we know that every where eyes, and hear with their
it is spoken against. 23 And ears, and understand with
when they had appointed their heart, and should be
him a day, there came many converted, and I should heal
to him into his lodging; to them. 28 Be it known there-
whom he expounded and tes- fore unto you, that the salva-
tified the kingdom of God, tion of God is sent unto the
persuading them concerning Gentiles, and that they will
Jesus, both out of the law hear it. 29 And when he had
ACTS 2437
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ROMANS 2439
11 For I long to see you, that The just shall live by faith.
I may impart unto you some 18 For the wrath of God is re-
fer with him, that we may but hope that is seen is not
be also glorified together. hope: for what a man seeth,
18 For I reckon that the suf- why doth he yet hope for?
ferings of this present time 25 But if we hope for that we
for good to them that love for us. 35 Who shall separate
God, to them who are the us from the love of Christ?
called according to his pur- shall tribulation, or distress,
pose. 29 For whom he did or persecution, or famine,
foreknow, he also did pre- or nakedness, or peril, or
destinate to be conformed to sword? 36 As it is written, For
the image of his Son, that he thy sake we are killed all the
might be the firstborn among day long; we are accounted
many brethren. 30 Moreover as sheep for the slaughter.
whom he did predestinate, 37 Nay, in all these things
that formed it, Why hast ing Israel, Though the num-
thou made me thus? 21 Hath ber of the children of Israel
not the potter power over the be as the sand of the sea,
clay, of the same lump to a remnant shall be saved:
make one vessel unto hon- 28 For he will finish the work,
foreknew. Wot ye not what eyes that they should not see,
the scripture saith of Elias? and ears that they should not
how he maketh intercession hear;) unto this day. 9 And
to God against Israel, saying, David saith, Let their table
3 Lord, they have killed thy be made a snare, and a trap,
prophets, and digged down and a stumblingblock, and
thine altars; and I am left a recompence unto them:
alone, and they seek my life. 10 Let their eyes be dark-
4 But what saith the answer ened, that they may not see,
of God unto him? I have re- and bow down their back al-
served to myself seven thou- way. 11 I say then, Have they
sand men, who have not stumbled that they should
bowed the knee to the image fall? God forbid: but rather
of Baal. 5 Even so then at through their fall salvation
this present time also there is come unto the Gentiles,
is a remnant according to the for to provoke them to jeal-
election of grace. 6 And if ousy. 12 Now if the fall of
by grace, then is it no more them be the riches of the
of works: otherwise grace is world, and the diminishing of
no more grace. But if it them the riches of the Gen-
be of works, then is it no tiles; how much more their
more grace: otherwise work fulness? 13 For I speak to you
is no more work. 7 What Gentiles, inasmuch as I am
then? Israel hath not ob- the apostle of the Gentiles, I
tained that which he seeketh magnify mine office: 14 If by
for; but the election hath any means I may provoke to
obtained it, and the rest emulation them which are my
were blinded 8 (According as flesh, and might save some
it is written, God hath given of them. 15 For if the cast-
them the spirit of slumber, ing away of them be the rec-
ROMANS 2460
let us therefore cast off the up: for God is able to make
works of darkness, and let us him stand. 5 One man es-
put on the armour of light. teemeth one day above an-
13 Let us walk honestly, as in other: another esteemeth ev-
the day; not in rioting and ery day alike. Let every man
drunkenness, not in cham- be fully persuaded in his own
bering and wantonness, not mind. 6 He that regardeth
in strife and envying. 14 But the day, regardeth it unto
put ye on the Lord Jesus the Lord; and he that re-
Christ, and make not provi- gardeth not the day, to the
sion for the flesh, to fulfil the Lord he doth not regard it.
lusts thereof. He that eateth, eateth to
the Lord, for he giveth God
thanks; and he that eateth
Chapter 14 not, to the Lord he eateth
not, and giveth God thanks.
Him that is weak in the faith 7 For none of us liveth to him-
and consolation grant you to you with all joy and peace
be likeminded one toward an- in believing, that ye may
other according to Christ Je- abound in hope, through the
sus: 6 That ye may with one power of the Holy Ghost.
mind and one mouth glo- 14 And I myself also am per-
P an apostle of Je-
sus Christ through
the will of God,
and Sosthenes our brother,
2 Unto the church of God
edge; 6 Even as the testimony
of Christ was confirmed in
you: 7 So that ye come be-
hind in no gift; waiting for
the coming of our Lord Je-
which is at Corinth, to them sus Christ: 8 Who shall also
that are sanctified in Christ confirm you unto the end,
Jesus, called to be saints, that ye may be blameless in
with all that in every place the day of our Lord Jesus
call upon the name of Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by
Christ our Lord, both theirs whom ye were called unto
and ours: 3 Grace be unto the fellowship of his Son Je-
you, and peace, from God sus Christ our Lord. 10 Now
our Father, and from the I beseech you, brethren, by
Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank the name of our Lord Jesus
my God always on your be- Christ, that ye all speak the
half, for the grace of God same thing, and that there be
which is given you by Jesus no divisions among you; but
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not for it: but if thou mayest in the flesh: but I spare you.
be made free, use it rather. 29 But this I say, brethren,
22 For he that is called in the time is short: it re-
the Lord, being a servant, maineth, that both they that
is the Lord’s freeman: like- have wives be as though they
wise also he that is called, had none; 30 And they that
being free, is Christ’s ser- weep, as though they wept
vant. 23 Ye are bought with not; and they that rejoice,
a price; be not ye the ser- as though they rejoiced not;
vants of men. 24 Brethren, and they that buy, as though
let every man, wherein he they possessed not; 31 And
is called, therein abide with they that use this world,
God. 25 Now concerning vir- as not abusing it: for the
gins I have no commandment fashion of this world passeth
of the Lord: yet I give my away. 32 But I would have
judgment, as one that hath you without carefulness. He
obtained mercy of the Lord that is unmarried careth for
to be faithful. 26 I suppose the things that belong to the
therefore that this is good Lord, how he may please
for the present distress, I the Lord: 33 But he that is
say, that it is good for a married careth for the things
man so to be. 27 Art thou that are of the world, how he
bound unto a wife? seek may please his wife. 34 There
not to be loosed. Art thou is difference also between a
loosed from a wife? seek not wife and a virgin. The un-
a wife. 28 But and if thou married woman careth for
marry, thou hast not sinned; the things of the Lord, that
and if a virgin marry, she she may be holy both in body
hath not sinned. Neverthe- and in spirit: but she that is
less such shall have trouble married careth for the things
I CORINTHIANS 2483
of the world, how she may whom she will; only in the
please her husband. 35 And Lord. 40 But she is happier if
this I speak for your own she so abide, after my judg-
profit; not that I may cast ment: and I think also that I
a snare upon you, but for have the Spirit of God.
that which is comely, and
that ye may attend upon
the Lord without distrac- Chapter 8
tion. 36 But if any man think
that he behaveth himself un- Now as touching things of-
comely toward his virgin, if fered unto idols, we know
she pass the flower of her that we all have knowledge.
age, and need so require, Knowledge puffeth up, but
let him do what he will, charity edifieth. 2 And if any
he sinneth not: let them man think that he knoweth
marry. 37 Nevertheless he any thing, he knoweth noth-
that standeth stedfast in his ing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if any man love God,
heart, having no necessity,
but hath power over his own the same is known of him.
4 As concerning therefore the
will, and hath so decreed in
his heart that he will keep his eating of those things that
virgin, doeth well. 38 So then are offered in sacrifice unto
he that giveth her in mar- idols, we know that an idol
riage doeth well; but he that is nothing in the world, and
giveth her not in marriage that there is none other
doeth better. 39 The wife is God but one. 5 For though
bound by the law as long as there be that are called
her husband liveth; but if gods, whether in heaven or
her husband be dead, she is in earth, (as there be gods
at liberty to be married to many, and lords many,) 6 But
to us there is but one God,
I CORINTHIANS 2484
Gentiles sacrifice, they sac- fice unto idols, eat not for his
rifice to devils, and not to sake that shewed it, and for
God: and I would not that ye conscience sake: for the earth
should have fellowship with is the Lord’s, and the ful-
devils. 21 Ye cannot drink ness thereof: 29 Conscience, I
the cup of the Lord, and the say, not thine own, but of the
cup of devils: ye cannot be other: for why is my liberty
partakers of the Lord’s ta- judged of another man’s con-
ble, and of the table of devils. science? 30 For if I by grace
22 Do we provoke the Lord to be a partaker, why am I evil
jealousy? are we stronger spoken of for that for which
than he? 23 All things are I give thanks? 31 Whether
lawful for me, but all things therefore ye eat, or drink, or
are not expedient: all things whatsoever ye do, do all to
are lawful for me, but all the glory of God. 32 Give
things edify not. 24 Let no none offence, neither to the
man seek his own, but ev- Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor
ery man another’s wealth. to the church of God: 33 Even
25 Whatsoever is sold in the as I please all men in all
shambles, that eat, asking no things, not seeking mine own
question for conscience sake: profit, but the profit of many,
26 For the earth is the Lord’s, that they may be saved.
and the fulness thereof. 27 If
any of them that believe not
bid you to a feast, and ye be Chapter 11
disposed to go; whatsoever is
set before you, eat, asking no Be ye followers of me, even
question for conscience sake. as I also am of Christ.
28 But if any man say unto 2 Now I praise you, brethren,
that believeth not, or one un- may all prophesy one by one,
learned, he is convinced of that all may learn, and all
all, he is judged of all: 25 And may be comforted. 32 And
thus are the secrets of his the spirits of the prophets
heart made manifest; and so are subject to the prophets.
falling down on his face he 33 For God is not the author
done unto edifying. 27 If any thing, let them ask their hus-
man speak in an unknown bands at home: for it is a
tongue, let it be by two, or at shame for women to speak in
the most by three, and that the church. 36 What? came
by course; and let one inter- the word of God out from
pret. 28 But if there be no you? or came it unto you
interpreter, let him keep si- only? 37 If any man think
lence in the church; and let himself to be a prophet, or
him speak to himself, and to spiritual, let him acknowl-
God. 29 Let the prophets edge that the things that
speak two or three, and let I write unto you are the
the other judge. 30 If any commandments of the Lord.
thing be revealed to another 38 But if any man be igno-
that sitteth by, let the first rant, let him be ignorant.
hold his peace. 31 For ye 39 Wherefore, brethren, covet
I CORINTHIANS 2497
P Jesus Christ by
the will of God,
and Timothy our
brother, unto the church of
God which is at Corinth,
abound in us, so our con-
solation also aboundeth by
Christ. 6 And whether we be
afflicted, it is for your con-
solation and salvation, which
with all the saints which are is effectual in the enduring
in all Achaia: 2 Grace be to of the same sufferings which
you and peace from God our we also suffer: or whether
Father, and from the Lord we be comforted, it is for
Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be your consolation and salva-
God, even the Father of our tion. 7 And our hope of you
Lord Jesus Christ, the Fa- is stedfast, knowing, that as
ther of mercies, and the God ye are partakers of the suffer-
of all comfort; 4 Who com- ings, so shall ye be also of the
forteth us in all our tribu- consolation. 8 For we would
lation, that we may be able not, brethren, have you ig-
to comfort them which are norant of our trouble which
in any trouble, by the com- came to us in Asia, that
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handling the word of God de- are perplexed, but not in de-
ceitfully; but by manifesta- spair; 9 Persecuted, but not
tion of the truth commend- forsaken; cast down, but not
ing ourselves to every man’s destroyed; 10 Always bearing
conscience in the sight of about in the body the dy-
God. 3 But if our gospel ing of the Lord Jesus, that
be hid, it is hid to them the life also of Jesus might
that are lost: 4 In whom be made manifest in our
the god of this world hath body. 11 For we which live are
blinded the minds of them alway delivered unto death
which believe not, lest the for Jesus’ sake, that the
light of the glorious gospel life also of Jesus might be
of Christ, who is the image made manifest in our mor-
of God, should shine unto tal flesh. 12 So then death
them. 5 For we preach not worketh in us, but life in
ourselves, but Christ Jesus you. 13 We having the same
the Lord; and ourselves your spirit of faith, according as
servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is written, I believed, and
God, who commanded the therefore have I spoken; we
light to shine out of darkness, also believe, and therefore
hath shined in our hearts, to speak; 14 Knowing that he
give the light of the knowl- which raised up the Lord Je-
edge of the glory of God sus shall raise up us also by
in the face of Jesus Christ. Jesus, and shall present us
7 But we have this treasure with you. 15 For all things are
in earthen vessels, that the for your sakes, that the abun-
excellency of the power may dant grace might through
be of God, and not of us. the thanksgiving of many re-
8 We are troubled on every dound to the glory of God.
side, yet not distressed; we 16 For which cause we faint
II CORINTHIANS 2509
for the parents, but the par- I come again, my God will
ents for the children. 15 And humble me among you, and
I will very gladly spend and that I shall bewail many
be spent for you; though the which have sinned already,
more abundantly I love you, and have not repented of
the less I be loved. 16 But be the uncleanness and fornica-
it so, I did not burden you: tion and lasciviousness which
nevertheless, being crafty, I they have committed.
caught you with guile. 17 Did
I make a gain of you by any of
them whom I sent unto you? Chapter 13
18 I desired Titus, and with
P of men, neither by
man, but by Jesus
Christ, and God
the Father, who raised him
from the dead;) 2 And all the
other; but there be some
that trouble you, and would
pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an an-
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I taught it, but by the revela- saw I none, save James the
tion of Jesus Christ. 13 For ye Lord’s brother. 20 Now the
have heard of my conversa- things which I write unto
tion in time past in the Jews’ you, behold, before God, I
religion, how that beyond lie not. 21 Afterwards I came
measure I persecuted the into the regions of Syria and
church of God, and wasted Cilicia; 22 And was unknown
it: 14 And profited in the by face unto the churches of
Jews’ religion above many Judaea which were in Christ:
my equals in mine own na- 23 But they had heard only,
the hearing of faith? 6 Even from the curse of the law, be-
as Abraham believed God, ing made a curse for us: for
and it was accounted to him it is written, Cursed is every
for righteousness. 7 Know ye one that hangeth on a tree:
therefore that they which are 14 That the blessing of Abra-
of faith, the same are the ham might come on the Gen-
children of Abraham. 8 And tiles through Jesus Christ;
the scripture, foreseeing that that we might receive the
God would justify the hea- promise of the Spirit through
then through faith, preached faith. 15 Brethren, I speak
before the gospel unto Abra- after the manner of men;
ham, saying, In thee shall all Though it be but a man’s
nations be blessed. 9 So then covenant, yet if it be con-
they which be of faith are firmed, no man disannulleth,
blessed with faithful Abra- or addeth thereto. 16 Now
ham. 10 For as many as are of to Abraham and his seed
the works of the law are un- were the promises made. He
der the curse: for it is writ- saith not, And to seeds, as
ten, Cursed is every one that of many; but as of one, And
continueth not in all things to thy seed, which is Christ.
which are written in the 17 And this I say, that the
to you, and peace, from God tion through his blood, the
our Father, and from the forgiveness of sins, accord-
Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed ing to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein he hath abounded
be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath toward us in all wisdom
blessed us with all spiritual and prudence; 9 Having made
blessings in heavenly places known unto us the mystery
in Christ: 4 According as he of his will, according to his
hath chosen us in him before good pleasure which he hath
the foundation of the world, purposed in himself: 10 That
that we should be holy and in the dispensation of the ful-
without blame before him in ness of times he might gather
love: 5 Having predestinated together in one all things in
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of their mind, 18 Having the let not the sun go down upon
understanding darkened, be- your wrath: 27 Neither give
ing alienated from the life place to the devil. 28 Let
of God through the igno- him that stole steal no more:
rance that is in them, be- but rather let him labour,
cause of the blindness of working with his hands the
their heart: 19 Who being thing which is good, that
past feeling have given them- he may have to give to him
selves over unto lascivious- that needeth. 29 Let no cor-
ness, to work all uncleanness rupt communication proceed
with greediness. 20 But ye out of your mouth, but that
have not so learned Christ; which is good to the use of
21 If so be that ye have heard edifying, that it may min-
him, and have been taught ister grace unto the hear-
by him, as the truth is in Je- ers. 30 And grieve not the
sus: 22 That ye put off con- holy Spirit of God, whereby
cerning the former conversa- ye are sealed unto the day
tion the old man, which is of redemption. 31 Let all
you, with all malice: 32 And you with vain words: for be-
be ye kind one to another, cause of these things cometh
tenderhearted, forgiving one the wrath of God upon the
another, even as God for children of disobedience. 7 Be
Christ’s sake hath forgiven not ye therefore partakers
you. with them. 8 For ye were
sometimes darkness, but now
are ye light in the Lord: walk
Chapter 5 as children of light: 9 (For the
fruit of the Spirit is in all
Be ye therefore followers of goodness and righteousness
God, as dear children; 2 And and truth;) 10 Proving what
walk in love, as Christ also is acceptable unto the Lord.
hath loved us, and hath given 11 And have no fellowship
time, because the days are also loved the church, and
evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not gave himself for it; 26 That
unwise, but understanding he might sanctify and cleanse
what the will of the Lord it with the washing of wa-
is. 18 And be not drunk ter by the word, 27 That he
with wine, wherein is ex- might present it to himself
cess; but be filled with the a glorious church, not hav-
Spirit; 19 Speaking to your- ing spot, or wrinkle, or any
selves in psalms and hymns such thing; but that it should
and spiritual songs, singing be holy and without blemish.
and making melody in your 28 So ought men to love their
cation for all saints; 19 And and love with faith, from
for me, that utterance may God the Father and the Lord
be given unto me, that I Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be
may open my mouth boldly, with all them that love our
to make known the mystery Lord Jesus Christ in sincer-
of the gospel, 20 For which I ity. Amen.
am an ambassador in bonds:
Philippans
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ing to you again. 27 Only let having the same love, being
your conversation be as it be- of one accord, of one mind.
cometh the gospel of Christ: 3 Let nothing be done through
count. 18 But I have all, and sus Christ be with you all.
abound: I am full, having re- Amen.
Colossians
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P and Timotheus,
unto the church
of the Thessalo-
nians which is in God the
Father and in the Lord Je-
in power, and in the Holy
Ghost, and in much assur-
ance; as ye know what man-
ner of men we were among
you for your sake. 6 And ye
sus Christ: Grace be unto became followers of us, and
you, and peace, from God of the Lord, having received
our Father, and the Lord Je- the word in much affliction,
sus Christ. 2 We give thanks with joy of the Holy Ghost:
7 So that ye were ensamples
to God always for you all,
making mention of you in to all that believe in Mace-
our prayers; 3 Remembering donia and Achaia. 8 For from
without ceasing your work you sounded out the word of
of faith, and labour of love, the Lord not only in Mace-
and patience of hope in our donia and Achaia, but also
Lord Jesus Christ, in the in every place your faith to
sight of God and our Father; God-ward is spread abroad;
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, so that we need not to speak
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any thing. 9 For they them- ing men, but God, which tri-
selves shew of us what man- eth our hearts. 5 For neither
ner of entering in we had at any time used we flat-
unto you, and how ye turned tering words, as ye know,
to God from idols to serve nor a cloke of covetousness;
the living and true God; God is witness: 6 Nor of men
10 And to wait for his Son sought we glory, neither of
from heaven, whom he raised you, nor yet of others, when
from the dead, even Jesus, we might have been bur-
which delivered us from the densome, as the apostles of
wrath to come. Christ. 7 But we were gen-
tle among you, even as a
nurse cherisheth her chil-
Chapter 2 dren: 8 So being affection-
ately desirous of you, we were
For yourselves, brethren, willing to have imparted
know our entrance in unto unto you, not the gospel of
you, that it was not in vain: God only, but also our own
2 But even after that we had
souls, because ye were dear
suffered before, and were unto us. 9 For ye remember,
shamefully entreated, as ye brethren, our labour and tra-
know, at Philippi, we were vail: for labouring night and
bold in our God to speak day, because we would not
unto you the gospel of God be chargeable unto any of
with much contention. 3 For you, we preached unto you
our exhortation was not of the gospel of God. 10 Ye
tified. 7 For God hath not died and rose again, even so
called us unto uncleanness, them also which sleep in Je-
but unto holiness. 8 He there- sus will God bring with him.
fore that despiseth, despiseth 15 For this we say unto you by
not man, but God, who hath the word of the Lord, that we
also given unto us his holy which are alive and remain
Spirit. 9 But as touching unto the coming of the Lord
brotherly love ye need not shall not prevent them which
that I write unto you: for ye are asleep. 16 For the Lord
yourselves are taught of God himself shall descend from
to love one another. 10 And heaven with a shout, with
indeed ye do it toward all the voice of the archangel,
I THESSALONIANS 2567
and with the trump of God: dren of light, and the chil-
and the dead in Christ shall dren of the day: we are not
rise first: 17 Then we which of the night, nor of darkness.
are alive and remain shall 6 Therefore let us not sleep,
P and Timotheus,
unto the church of
the Thessalonians
in God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace
ment of God, that ye may
be counted worthy of the
kingdom of God, for which
ye also suffer: 6 Seeing it is
a righteous thing with God
unto you, and peace, from to recompense tribulation
God our Father and the Lord to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are trou-
Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound
to thank God always for you, bled rest with us, when the
brethren, as it is meet, be- Lord Jesus shall be revealed
cause that your faith groweth from heaven with his mighty
exceedingly, and the char- angels, 8 In flaming fire tak-
ity of every one of you all ing vengeance on them that
toward each other abound- know not God, and that obey
eth; 4 So that we ourselves not the gospel of our Lord
glory in you in the churches Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be
of God for your patience and punished with everlasting de-
faith in all your persecutions struction from the presence
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of the Lord, and from the us, as that the day of Christ
glory of his power; 10 When is at hand. 3 Let no man
he shall come to be glori- deceive you by any means:
fied in his saints, and to be for that day shall not come,
admired in all them that be- except there come a falling
lieve (because our testimony away first, and that man of
among you was believed) in sin be revealed, the son of
that day. 11 Wherefore also perdition; 4 Who opposeth
we pray always for you, that and exalteth himself above
our God would count you all that is called God, or that
worthy of this calling, and is worshipped; so that he as
fulfil all the good pleasure of God sitteth in the temple of
his goodness, and the work God, shewing himself that he
of faith with power: 12 That is God. 5 Remember ye not,
the name of our Lord Jesus that, when I was yet with
Christ may be glorified in you, I told you these things?
you, and ye in him, accord- 6 And now ye know what
ing of Satan with all power sus Christ himself, and God,
and signs and lying wonders, even our Father, which hath
10 And with all deceivable- loved us, and hath given us
ness of unrighteousness in everlasting consolation and
them that perish; because good hope through grace,
they received not the love of 17 Comfort your hearts, and
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ator between God and men, ceived, but the woman be-
the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who ing deceived was in the trans-
gave himself a ransom for gression. 15 Notwithstanding
all, to be testified in due she shall be saved in child-
time. 7 Whereunto I am or- bearing, if they continue in
dained a preacher, and an faith and charity and holi-
apostle, (I speak the truth ness with sobriety.
in Christ, and lie not;) a
teacher of the Gentiles in
faith and verity. 8 I will there- Chapter 3
fore that men pray every
where, lifting up holy hands, This is a true saying, If a
without wrath and doubt- man desire the office of a
ing. 9 In like manner also, bishop, he desireth a good
work. 2 A bishop then
that women adorn them-
selves in modest apparel, must be blameless, the hus-
with shamefacedness and so- band of one wife, vigilant,
briety; not with broided sober, of good behaviour,
given to hospitality, apt to
I TIMOTHY 2576
any man or woman that be- use a little wine for thy stom-
lieveth have widows, let them ach’s sake and thine often
relieve them, and let not the infirmities. 24 Some men’s
cause they are faithful and ful lusts, which drown men
beloved, partakers of the in destruction and perdition.
benefit. These things teach 10 For the love of money is the
P Jesus Christ by
the will of God,
according to the
promise of life which is in
Christ Jesus, 2 To Timo-
thy grandmother Lois, and
thy mother Eunice; and I am
persuaded that in thee also.
6 Wherefore I put thee in re-
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II TIMOTHY 2583
led away with divers lusts, hast been assured of, know-
7 Ever learning, and never ing of whom thou hast
able to come to the knowl- learned them; 15 And that
edge of the truth. 8 Now from a child thou hast known
as Jannes and Jambres with- the holy scriptures, which are
stood Moses, so do these also able to make thee wise unto
resist the truth: men of cor- salvation through faith which
rupt minds, reprobate con- is in Christ Jesus. 16 All
dure sound doctrine; but af- Luke is with me. Take Mark,
ter their own lusts shall they and bring him with thee: for
heap to themselves teachers, he is profitable to me for
having itching ears; 4 And the ministry. 12 And Ty-
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P of Jesus Christ,
and Timothy our
brother, unto
Philemon our dearly beloved,
and fellowlabourer, 2 And to
you in Christ Jesus. 7 For
we have great joy and con-
solation in thy love, because
the bowels of the saints are
refreshed by thee, brother.
8 Wherefore, though I might
our beloved Apphia, and
Archippus our fellowsoldier, be much bold in Christ to en-
and to the church in thy join thee that which is con-
house: 3 Grace to you, and venient, 9 Yet for love’s sake
peace, from God our Father I rather beseech thee, being
and the Lord Jesus Christ. such an one as Paul the aged,
4 I thank my God, making and now also a prisoner of Je-
mention of thee always in sus Christ. 10 I beseech thee
my prayers, 5 Hearing of thy for my son Onesimus, whom
love and faith, which thou I have begotten in my bonds:
11 Which in time past was to
hast toward the Lord Jesus,
and toward all saints; 6 That thee unprofitable, but now
the communication of thy profitable to thee and to me:
2593
PHILEMON 2594
that is, mine own bowels: mine own hand, I will re-
13 Whom I would have re- pay it: albeit I do not say to
tained with me, that in thy thee how thou owest unto me
stead he might have minis- even thine own self besides.
tered unto me in the bonds 20 Yea, brother, let me have
G times and in
divers manners
spake in time
past unto the fathers by
the prophets, 2 Hath in these
than they. 5 For unto which
of the angels said he at any
time, Thou art my Son, this
day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a
last days spoken unto us by Father, and he shall be to me
his Son, whom he hath ap- a Son? 6 And again, when he
pointed heir of all things, bringeth in the firstbegotten
by whom also he made the into the world, he saith, And
worlds; 3 Who being the let all the angels of God wor-
brightness of his glory, and ship him. 7 And of the angels
the express image of his per- he saith, Who maketh his an-
son, and upholding all things gels spirits, and his ministers
by the word of his power, a flame of fire. 8 But unto the
when he had by himself Son he saith, Thy throne, O
purged our sins, sat down on God, is for ever and ever:
the right hand of the Majesty a sceptre of righteousness is
on high; 4 Being made so the sceptre of thy kingdom.
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HEBREWS 2596
him a little lower than the will declare thy name unto
angels; thou crownedst him my brethren, in the midst of
with glory and honour, and the church will I sing praise
didst set him over the works unto thee. 13 And again, I
of thy hands: 8 Thou hast will put my trust in him.
put all things in subjection And again, Behold I and
under his feet. For in that the children which God hath
he put all in subjection un- given me. 14 Forasmuch then
der him, he left nothing that as the children are partakers
is not put under him. But of flesh and blood, he also
now we see not yet all things himself likewise took part of
put under him. 9 But we the same; that through death
see Jesus, who was made a he might destroy him that
little lower than the angels had the power of death, that
for the suffering of death, is, the devil; 15 And deliver
crowned with glory and hon- them who through fear of
our; that he by the grace death were all their lifetime
of God should taste death subject to bondage. 16 For
for every man. 10 For it be- verily he took not on him
came him, for whom are all the nature of angels; but
things, and by whom are all he took on him the seed of
things, in bringing many sons Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all
unto glory, to make the cap- things it behoved him to be
tain of their salvation per- made like unto his brethren,
fect through sufferings. 11 For that he might be a merci-
both he that sanctifieth and ful and faithful high priest
they who are sanctified are in things pertaining to God,
all of one: for which cause to make reconciliation for the
he is not ashamed to call sins of the people. 18 For
them brethren, 12 Saying, I in that he himself hath suf-
HEBREWS 2598
are not come unto the mount of the new covenant, and to
that might be touched, and the blood of sprinkling, that
that burned with fire, nor speaketh better things than
unto blackness, and dark- that of Abel. 25 See that ye
ness, and tempest, 19 And the refuse not him that speaketh.
sound of a trumpet, and the For if they escaped not who
voice of words; which voice refused him that spake on
they that heard intreated earth, much more shall not
that the word should not be we escape, if we turn away
spoken to them any more: from him that speaketh from
20 (For they could not endure heaven: 26 Whose voice then
that which was commanded, shook the earth: but now he
And if so much as a beast hath promised, saying, Yet
touch the mountain, it shall once more I shake not the
be stoned, or thrust through earth only, but also heaven.
with a dart: 21 And so terri- 27 And this word, Yet once
ble was the sight, that Moses more, signifieth the remov-
said, I exceedingly fear and ing of those things that are
quake:) 22 But ye are come shaken, as of things that
HEBREWS 2617
grace, whereby we may serve the rule over you, who have
God acceptably with rever- spoken unto you the word of
ence and godly fear: 29 For God: whose faith follow, con-
our God is a consuming fire. sidering the end of their con-
versation. 8 Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, and to day,
Chapter 13 and for ever. 9 Be not car-
ried about with divers and
Let brotherly love continue. strange doctrines. For it is a
2 Be not forgetful to enter-
good thing that the heart be
tain strangers: for thereby established with grace; not
some have entertained an- with meats, which have not
gels unawares. 3 Remember profited them that have been
them that are in bonds, as occupied therein. 10 We have
bound with them; and them an altar, whereof they have
which suffer adversity, as be- no right to eat which serve
ing yourselves also in the the tabernacle. 11 For the
body. 4 Marriage is hon-
bodies of those beasts, whose
ourable in all, and the bed blood is brought into the
undefiled: but whoremon- sanctuary by the high priest
gers and adulterers God will for sin, are burned without
judge. 5 Let your conversa- the camp. 12 Wherefore Je-
tion be without covetousness; sus also, that he might sanc-
and be content with such tify the people with his own
things as ye have: for he hath blood, suffered without the
said, I will never leave thee,
HEBREWS 2618
2619
JAMES 2620
are they turned about with at the same place sweet wa-
a very small helm, whither- ter and bitter? 12 Can the
soever the governor listeth. fig tree, my brethren, bear
5 Even so the tongue is a little olive berries? either a vine,
member, and boasteth great figs? so can no fountain
things. Behold, how great a both yield salt water and
matter a little fire kindleth! fresh. 13 Who is a wise man
6 And the tongue is a fire, a and endued with knowledge
world of iniquity: so is the among you? let him shew
tongue among our members, out of a good conversation
that it defileth the whole his works with meekness of
body, and setteth on fire the wisdom. 14 But if ye have bit-
course of nature; and it is set ter envying and strife in your
on fire of hell. 7 For every hearts, glory not, and lie not
kind of beasts, and of birds, against the truth. 15 This
and of serpents, and of things wisdom descendeth not from
in the sea, is tamed, and above, but is earthly, sen-
hath been tamed of mankind: sual, devilish. 16 For where
8 But the tongue can no man envying and strife is, there
JAMES 2624
thou art not a doer of the you. 2 Your riches are cor-
law, but a judge. 12 There is rupted, and your garments
one lawgiver, who is able to are motheaten. 3 Your gold
save and to destroy: who art and silver is cankered; and
thou that judgest another? the rust of them shall be
13 Go to now, ye that say, To a witness against you, and
day or to morrow we will go shall eat your flesh as it were
into such a city, and continue fire. Ye have heaped treasure
there a year, and buy and together for the last days.
sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas 4 Behold, the hire of the
ceive the early and latter and let them pray over him,
rain. 8 Be ye also patient; anointing him with oil in the
stablish your hearts: for the name of the Lord: 15 And the
coming of the Lord draweth prayer of faith shall save the
nigh. 9 Grudge not one sick, and the Lord shall raise
against another, brethren, him up; and if he have com-
lest ye be condemned: be- mitted sins, they shall be for-
hold, the judge standeth be- given him. 16 Confess your
fore the door. 10 Take, my faults one to another, and
brethren, the prophets, who pray one for another, that
have spoken in the name ye may be healed. The ef-
of the Lord, for an exam- fectual fervent prayer of a
ple of suffering affliction, and righteous man availeth much.
of patience. 11 Behold, we 17 Elias was a man subject
P Jesus Christ, to
the strangers scat-
tered throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappado-
cia, Asia, and Bithynia,
defiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for
you, 5 Who are kept by the
power of God through faith
unto salvation ready to be
2 Elect according to the fore- revealed in the last time.
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice,
knowledge of God the Fa-
ther, through sanctification though now for a season, if
of the Spirit, unto obedience need be, ye are in heavi-
and sprinkling of the blood ness through manifold temp-
of Jesus Christ: Grace unto tations: 7 That the trial of
you, and peace, be multi- your faith, being much more
plied. 3 Blessed be the God precious than of gold that
and Father of our Lord Je- perisheth, though it be tried
sus Christ, which according with fire, might be found
to his abundant mercy hath unto praise and honour and
begotten us again unto a glory at the appearing of Je-
lively hope by the resurrec- sus Christ: 8 Whom having
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I PETER 2628
not seen, ye love; in whom, hope to the end for the grace
though now ye see him not, that is to be brought unto
yet believing, ye rejoice with you at the revelation of Jesus
joy unspeakable and full of Christ; 14 As obedient chil-
glory: 9 Receiving the end dren, not fashioning your-
of your faith, even the sal- selves according to the for-
vation of your souls. 10 Of mer lusts in your ignorance:
which salvation the prophets 15 But as he which hath called
had not obtained mercy, but all men. Love the brother-
now have obtained mercy. hood. Fear God. Honour the
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech king. 18 Servants, be subject
you as strangers and pil- to your masters with all fear;
grims, abstain from fleshly not only to the good and gen-
lusts, which war against the tle, but also to the froward.
soul; 12 Having your con- 19 For this is thankworthy, if
der. Yea, all of you be sub- minion for ever and ever.
ject one to another, and be Amen. 12 By Silvanus, a
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II PETER 2637
see afar off, and hath forgot- not followed cunningly de-
ten that he was purged from vised fables, when we made
his old sins. 10 Wherefore known unto you the power
the rather, brethren, give and coming of our Lord Je-
diligence to make your call- sus Christ, but were eyewit-
ing and election sure: for nesses of his majesty. 17 For
if ye do these things, ye he received from God the Fa-
shall never fall: 11 For so ther honour and glory, when
an entrance shall be minis- there came such a voice to
tered unto you abundantly him from the excellent glory,
into the everlasting kingdom This is my beloved Son, in
of our Lord and Saviour Je- whom I am well pleased.
sus Christ. 12 Wherefore I 18 And this voice which came
hat which was from unto you, that your joy may
T the beginning,
which we have
heard, which we
have seen with our eyes,
which we have looked upon,
be full. 5 This then is the
message which we have heard
of him, and declare unto you,
that God is light, and in him
is no darkness at all. 6 If we
and our hands have handled, say that we have fellowship
of the Word of life; 2 (For the with him, and walk in dark-
life was manifested, and we ness, we lie, and do not the
have seen it, and bear wit- truth: 7 But if we walk in the
ness, and shew unto you that light, as he is in the light, we
eternal life, which was with have fellowship one with an-
the Father, and was mani- other, and the blood of Jesus
fested unto us;) 3 That which Christ his Son cleanseth us
we have seen and heard de- from all sin. 8 If we say that
clare we unto you, that ye we have no sin, we deceive
also may have fellowship ourselves, and the truth is
with us: and truly our fellow- not in us. 9 If we confess our
ship is with the Father, and sins, he is faithful and just
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I JOHN 2643
man see his brother sin a one toucheth him not. 19 And
sin which is not unto death, we know that we are of God,
he shall ask, and he shall and the whole world lieth in
give him life for them that wickedness. 20 And we know
sin not unto death. There that the Son of God is come,
is a sin unto death: I do and hath given us an under-
not say that he shall pray standing, that we may know
for it. 17 All unrighteous- him that is true, and we are
ness is sin: and there is a in him that is true, even in
sin not unto death. 18 We his Son Jesus Christ. This
know that whosoever is born is the true God, and eternal
of God sinneth not; but he life. 21 Little children, keep
that is begotten of God keep- yourselves from idols. Amen.
eth himself, and that wicked
II John
2651
II JOHN 2652
T the wellbeloved
Gaius, whom I
love in the truth.
2 Beloved, I wish above all
2653
III JOHN 2654
2655
JUDE 2656
2658
REVELATION 2659
kindreds of the earth shall see the voice that spake with
wail because of him. Even me. And being turned, I saw
so, Amen. 8 I am Alpha and seven golden candlesticks;
Omega, the beginning and 13 And in the midst of the
and have the keys of hell and hast found them liars: 3 And
of death. 19 Write the things hast borne, and hast pa-
which thou hast seen, and tience, and for my name’s
the things which are, and sake hast laboured, and hast
the things which shall be not fainted. 4 Nevertheless I
hereafter; 20 The mystery of have somewhat against thee,
the seven stars which thou because thou hast left thy
sawest in my right hand, first love. 5 Remember there-
and the seven golden can- fore from whence thou art
dlesticks. The seven stars fallen, and repent, and do
are the angels of the seven the first works; or else I
churches: and the seven can- will come unto thee quickly,
dlesticks which thou sawest and will remove thy candle-
are the seven churches. stick out of his place, ex-
cept thou repent. 6 But this
thou hast, that thou hatest
Chapter 2 the deeds of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate. 7 He that
Unto the angel of the church hath an ear, let him hear
of Ephesus write; These what the Spirit saith unto
things saith he that hold- the churches; To him that
eth the seven stars in his overcometh will I give to eat
right hand, who walketh in of the tree of life, which is
the midst of the seven golden in the midst of the paradise
candlesticks; 2 I know thy of God. 8 And unto the an-
works, and thy labour, and gel of the church in Smyrna
thy patience, and how thou write; These things saith the
canst not bear them which first and the last, which was
are evil: and thou hast tried dead, and is alive; 9 I know
them which say they are thy works, and tribulation,
apostles, and are not, and
REVELATION 2661
death, and I will give thee that hold the doctrine of the
a crown of life. 11 He that Nicolaitans, which thing I
hath an ear, let him hear hate. 16 Repent; or else I will
what the Spirit saith unto come unto thee quickly, and
the churches; He that over- will fight against them with
cometh shall not be hurt of the sword of my mouth. 17 He
the second death. 12 And that hath an ear, let him
to the angel of the church hear what the Spirit saith
in Pergamos write; These unto the churches; To him
things saith he which hath that overcometh will I give
the sharp sword with two to eat of the hidden manna,
edges; 13 I know thy works, and will give him a white
and where thou dwellest, stone, and in the stone a
even where Satan’s seat is: new name written, which no
and thou holdest fast my man knoweth saving he that
name, and hast not de- receiveth it. 18 And unto
flame of fire, and his feet are unto the rest in Thyatira, as
like fine brass; 19 I know thy many as have not this doc-
works, and charity, and ser- trine, and which have not
vice, and faith, and thy pa- known the depths of Satan,
tience, and thy works; and as they speak; I will put
the last to be more than the upon you none other bur-
first. 20 Notwithstanding I den. 25 But that which ye
have a few things against have already hold fast till
thee, because thou sufferest I come. 26 And he that
of gold. 5 And out of the fall down before him that sat
throne proceeded lightnings
REVELATION 2666
saw under the altar the souls as a scroll when it is rolled to-
of them that were slain for gether; and every mountain
the word of God, and for the and island were moved out of
REVELATION 2669
their places. 15 And the kings loud voice to the four an-
of the earth, and the great gels, to whom it was given
men, and the rich men, and to hurt the earth and the
the chief captains, and the sea, 3 Saying, Hurt not the
mighty men, and every bond- earth, neither the sea, nor
man, and every free man, hid the trees, till we have sealed
themselves in the dens and in the servants of our God in
the rocks of the mountains; their foreheads. 4 And I
16 And said to the mountains heard the number of them
and rocks, Fall on us, and which were sealed: and there
hide us from the face of him were sealed an hundred and
that sitteth on the throne, forty and four thousand of
and from the wrath of the all the tribes of the chil-
Lamb: 17 For the great day of dren of Israel. 5 Of the tribe
his wrath is come; and who of Juda were sealed twelve
shall be able to stand? thousand. Of the tribe of
Reuben were sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of
Chapter 7 Gad were sealed twelve thou-
sand. 6 Of the tribe of Aser
And after these things I saw were sealed twelve thousand.
four angels standing on the Of the tribe of Nepthalim
four corners of the earth, were sealed twelve thousand.
holding the four winds of the Of the tribe of Manasses
earth, that the wind should were sealed twelve thou-
not blow on the earth, nor sand. 7 Of the tribe of
ter. 12 And the fourth an- and the air were darkened
gel sounded, and the third by reason of the smoke of
part of the sun was smit- the pit. 3 And there came
ten, and the third part of the out of the smoke locusts
moon, and the third part of upon the earth: and unto
the stars; so as the third part them was given power, as
of them was darkened, and the scorpions of the earth
the day shone not for a third have power. 4 And it was
part of it, and the night like- commanded them that they
wise. 13 And I beheld, and should not hurt the grass
heard an angel flying through of the earth, neither any
the midst of heaven, saying green thing, neither any tree;
with a loud voice, Woe, woe, but only those men which
woe, to the inhabiters of the have not the seal of God
earth by reason of the other in their foreheads. 5 And
were crowns like gold, and the trumpet, Loose the four
their faces were as the faces angels which are bound in
of men. 8 And they had the great river Euphrates.
hair as the hair of women, 15 And the four angels were
and said, Go and take the 2 But the court which is with-
little book which is open in out the temple leave out,
the hand of the angel which and measure it not; for it
standeth upon the sea and is given unto the Gentiles:
upon the earth. 9 And I went and the holy city shall they
unto the angel, and said unto tread under foot forty and
him, Give me the little book. two months. 3 And I will
And he said unto me, Take give power unto my two wit-
it, and eat it up; and it shall nesses, and they shall proph-
make thy belly bitter, but it esy a thousand two hundred
shall be in thy mouth sweet and threescore days, clothed
as honey. 10 And I took the in sackcloth. 4 These are
little book out of the angel’s the two olive trees, and the
hand, and ate it up; and it two candlesticks standing be-
was in my mouth sweet as fore the God of the earth.
honey: and as soon as I had 5 And if any man will hurt
ies shall lie in the street of same hour was there a great
the great city, which spiri- earthquake, and the tenth
tually is called Sodom and part of the city fell, and in
Egypt, where also our Lord the earthquake were slain of
was crucified. 9 And they of men seven thousand: and
the people and kindreds and the remnant were affrighted,
tongues and nations shall see and gave glory to the God of
their dead bodies three days heaven. 14 The second woe is
and an half, and shall not past; and, behold, the third
suffer their dead bodies to woe cometh quickly. 15 And
be put in graves. 10 And the seventh angel sounded;
they that dwell upon the and there were great voices
earth shall rejoice over them, in heaven, saying, The king-
and make merry, and shall doms of this world are be-
send gifts one to another; come the kingdoms of our
because these two prophets Lord, and of his Christ; and
tormented them that dwelt he shall reign for ever and
on the earth. 11 And after ever. 16 And the four and
three days and an half the twenty elders, which sat be-
Spirit of life from God en- fore God on their seats, fell
tered into them, and they upon their faces, and wor-
stood upon their feet; and shipped God, 17 Saying, We
great fear fell upon them give thee thanks, O Lord
which saw them. 12 And God Almighty, which art,
they heard a great voice from and wast, and art to come;
REVELATION 2677
of his Christ: for the ac- his mouth water as a flood af-
cuser of our brethren is cast ter the woman, that he might
down, which accused them cause her to be carried away
before our God day and of the flood. 16 And the earth
night. 11 And they over- helped the woman, and the
came him by the blood of earth opened her mouth, and
the Lamb, and by the word swallowed up the flood which
of their testimony; and they the dragon cast out of his
loved not their lives unto the mouth. 17 And the dragon
death. 12 Therefore rejoice, was wroth with the woman,
ye heavens, and ye that dwell and went to make war with
in them. Woe to the in- the remnant of her seed,
habiters of the earth and of which keep the command-
the sea! for the devil is ments of God, and have the
come down unto you, hav- testimony of Jesus Christ.
REVELATION 2679
earth and them which dwell buy or sell, save he that had
therein to worship the first the mark, or the name of the
beast, whose deadly wound beast, or the number of his
was healed. 13 And he doeth name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let
great wonders, so that he him that hath understand-
maketh fire come down from ing count the number of the
heaven on the earth in the beast: for it is the number of
sight of men, 14 And de- a man; and his number is Six
ceiveth them that dwell on hundred threescore and six.
the earth by the means of
those miracles which he had
power to do in the sight of Chapter 14
the beast; saying to them
that dwell on the earth, that And I looked, and, lo, a
they should make an image Lamb stood on the mount
to the beast, which had the Sion, and with him an hun-
wound by a sword, and did dred forty and four thou-
live. 15 And he had power to sand, having his Father’s
give life unto the image of name written in their fore-
heads. 2 And I heard a
the beast, that the image of
the beast should both speak, voice from heaven, as the
and cause that as many as voice of many waters, and
would not worship the im- as the voice of a great thun-
age of the beast should be der: and I heard the voice
killed. 16 And he causeth all, of harpers harping with their
both small and great, rich harps: 3 And they sung as
and poor, free and bond, to it were a new song be-
fore the throne, and before
REVELATION 2681
the four beasts, and the el- of waters. 8 And there fol-
ders: and no man could learn lowed another angel, saying,
that song but the hundred Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
and forty and four thousand, that great city, because she
which were redeemed from made all nations drink of
the earth. 4 These are they the wine of the wrath of
which were not defiled with her fornication. 9 And the
women; for they are virgins. third angel followed them,
These are they which follow saying with a loud voice, If
the Lamb whithersoever he any man worship the beast
goeth. These were redeemed and his image, and receive
from among men, being the his mark in his forehead,
firstfruits unto God and to or in his hand, 10 The same
the Lamb. 5 And in their shall drink of the wine of
mouth was found no guile: the wrath of God, which is
for they are without fault be- poured out without mixture
fore the throne of God. 6 And into the cup of his indigna-
I saw another angel fly in tion; and he shall be tor-
the midst of heaven, hav- mented with fire and brim-
ing the everlasting gospel to stone in the presence of the
preach unto them that dwell holy angels, and in the pres-
on the earth, and to ev- ence of the Lamb: 11 And the
ery nation, and kindred, and smoke of their torment as-
tongue, and people, 7 Saying cendeth up for ever and ever:
with a loud voice, Fear God, and they have no rest day nor
and give glory to him; for night, who worship the beast
the hour of his judgment is and his image, and whoso-
come: and worship him that ever receiveth the mark of
made heaven, and earth, and his name. 12 Here is the pa-
the sea, and the fountains tience of the saints: here
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are they that keep the com- sharp sickle. 18 And another
mandments of God, and the angel came out from the al-
faith of Jesus. 13 And I heard tar, which had power over
a voice from heaven saying fire; and cried with a loud
unto me, Write, Blessed are cry to him that had the sharp
the dead which die in the sickle, saying, Thrust in thy
Lord from henceforth: Yea, sharp sickle, and gather the
saith the Spirit, that they clusters of the vine of the
may rest from their labours; earth; for her grapes are
and their works do follow fully ripe. 19 And the an-
them. 14 And I looked, and gel thrust in his sickle into
behold a white cloud, and the earth, and gathered the
upon the cloud one sat like vine of the earth, and cast
unto the Son of man, having it into the great winepress of
on his head a golden crown, the wrath of God. 20 And the
and in his hand a sharp winepress was trodden with-
sickle. 15 And another angel out the city, and blood came
came out of the temple, cry- out of the winepress, even
ing with a loud voice to him unto the horse bridles, by the
that sat on the cloud, Thrust space of a thousand and six
in thy sickle, and reap: for hundred furlongs.
the time is come for thee
to reap; for the harvest of
the earth is ripe. 16 And he Chapter 15
that sat on the cloud thrust
in his sickle on the earth; And I saw another sign in
and the earth was reaped. heaven, great and marvel-
17 And another angel came lous, seven angels having the
out of the temple which is seven last plagues; for in
in heaven, he also having a them is filled up the wrath of
God. 2 And I saw as it were a
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blood of a dead man: and out his vial upon the seat
every living soul died in the of the beast; and his king-
sea. 4 And the third angel dom was full of darkness; and
poured out his vial upon the they gnawed their tongues
rivers and fountains of wa- for pain, 11 And blasphemed
ters; and they became blood. the God of heaven because of
5 And I heard the angel of the their pains and their sores,
waters say, Thou art righ- and repented not of their
teous, O Lord, which art, deeds. 12 And the sixth angel
and wast, and shalt be, be- poured out his vial upon the
cause thou hast judged thus. great river Euphrates; and
6 For they have shed the the water thereof was dried
blood of saints and prophets, up, that the way of the kings
and thou hast given them of the east might be pre-
blood to drink; for they are pared. 13 And I saw three un-
worthy. 7 And I heard an- clean spirits like frogs come
other out of the altar say, out of the mouth of the
Even so, Lord God Almighty, dragon, and out of the mouth
true and righteous are thy of the beast, and out of the
judgments. 8 And the fourth mouth of the false prophet.
angel poured out his vial 14 For they are the spirits
walk naked, and they see his phemed God because of the
shame. 16 And he gathered plague of the hail; for the
them together into a place plague thereof was exceeding
called in the Hebrew tongue great.
Armageddon. 17 And the sev-
enth angel poured out his
vial into the air; and there Chapter 17
came a great voice out of the
temple of heaven, from the And there came one of
throne, saying, It is done. the seven angels which had
18 And there were voices, the seven vials, and talked
and thunders, and lightnings; with me, saying unto me,
and there was a great earth- Come hither; I will shew
quake, such as was not since unto thee the judgment of
men were upon the earth, so the great whore that sitteth
mighty an earthquake, and upon many waters: 2 With
so great. 19 And the great whom the kings of the earth
city was divided into three have committed fornication,
parts, and the cities of the and the inhabitants of the
nations fell: and great Baby- earth have been made drunk
lon came in remembrance be- with the wine of her for-
nication. 3 So he carried
fore God, to give unto her the
cup of the wine of the fierce- me away in the spirit into
ness of his wrath. 20 And ev- the wilderness: and I saw
ery island fled away, and the a woman sit upon a scar-
mountains were not found. let coloured beast, full of
21 And there fell upon men a names of blasphemy, having
great hail out of heaven, ev- seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was ar-
ery stone about the weight
of a talent: and men blas- rayed in purple and scar-
let colour, and decked with
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gold and precious stones and ten in the book of life from
pearls, having a golden cup the foundation of the world,
in her hand full of abom- when they behold the beast
inations and filthiness of that was, and is not, and yet
her fornication: 5 And upon is. 9 And here is the mind
her forehead was a name which hath wisdom. The
written, MYSTERY, BABY- seven heads are seven moun-
LON THE GREAT, THE tains, on which the woman
MOTHER OF HARLOTS sitteth. 10 And there are
are with him are called, and 2 And he cried mightily with
chosen, and faithful. 15 And a strong voice, saying, Baby-
he saith unto me, The waters lon the great is fallen, is
which thou sawest, where the fallen, and is become the
whore sitteth, are peoples, habitation of devils, and the
and multitudes, and nations, hold of every foul spirit, and
and tongues. 16 And the a cage of every unclean and
ten horns which thou sawest hateful bird. 3 For all nations
upon the beast, these shall have drunk of the wine of the
hate the whore, and shall wrath of her fornication, and
make her desolate and naked, the kings of the earth have
and shall eat her flesh, and committed fornication with
burn her with fire. 17 For her, and the merchants of the
God hath put in their hearts earth are waxed rich through
to fulfil his will, and to the abundance of her deli-
agree, and give their king- cacies. 4 And I heard an-
dom unto the beast, until other voice from heaven, say-
the words of God shall be ing, Come out of her, my
fulfilled. 18 And the woman people, that ye be not par-
which thou sawest is that takers of her sins, and that
great city, which reigneth ye receive not of her plagues.
over the kings of the earth. 5 For her sins have reached
fied herself, and lived deli- pearls, and fine linen, and
ciously, so much torment and purple, and silk, and scarlet,
sorrow give her: for she saith and all thyine wood, and all
in her heart, I sit a queen, manner vessels of ivory, and
and am no widow, and shall all manner vessels of most
see no sorrow. 8 Therefore precious wood, and of brass,
shall her plagues come in one and iron, and marble, 13 And
day, death, and mourning, cinnamon, and odours, and
and famine; and she shall ointments, and frankincense,
be utterly burned with fire: and wine, and oil, and fine
for strong is the Lord God flour, and wheat, and beasts,
who judgeth her. 9 And the and sheep, and horses, and
kings of the earth, who have chariots, and slaves, and
committed fornication and souls of men. 14 And the
lived deliciously with her, fruits that thy soul lusted af-
shall bewail her, and lament ter are departed from thee,
for her, when they shall see and all things which were
the smoke of her burning, dainty and goodly are de-
10 Standing afar off for the parted from thee, and thou
fear of her torment, saying, shalt find them no more at
Alas, alas, that great city all. 15 The merchants of these
Babylon, that mighty city! things, which were made rich
for in one hour is thy judg- by her, shall stand afar off
ment come. 11 And the mer- for the fear of her torment,
chants of the earth shall weep weeping and wailing, 16 And
and mourn over her; for no saying, Alas, alas, that great
man buyeth their merchan- city, that was clothed in fine
dise any more: 12 The mer- linen, and purple, and scar-
chandise of gold, and silver, let, and decked with gold,
and precious stones, and of and precious stones, and
REVELATION 2689
true and righteous are his 8 And to her was granted that
judgments: for he hath she should be arrayed in fine
judged the great whore, linen, clean and white: for
which did corrupt the earth the fine linen is the righ-
with her fornication, and teousness of saints. 9 And
hath avenged the blood of he saith unto me, Write,
his servants at her hand. Blessed are they which are
3 And again they said, Al- called unto the marriage sup-
leluia. And her smoke rose per of the Lamb. And he
up for ever and ever. 4 And saith unto me, These are the
the four and twenty elders true sayings of God. 10 And
and the four beasts fell down I fell at his feet to wor-
and worshipped God that sat ship him. And he said unto
on the throne, saying, Amen; me, See thou do it not: I
Alleluia. 5 And a voice came am thy fellowservant, and of
out of the throne, saying, thy brethren that have the
Praise our God, all ye his ser- testimony of Jesus: worship
vants, and ye that fear him, God: for the testimony of Je-
both small and great. 6 And sus is the spirit of prophecy.
I heard as it were the voice of 11 And I saw heaven opened,
lowed him upon white horses, the kings of the earth, and
clothed in fine linen, white their armies, gathered to-
and clean. 15 And out of his gether to make war against
mouth goeth a sharp sword, him that sat on the horse,
that with it he should smite and against his army. 20 And
the nations: and he shall rule the beast was taken, and
them with a rod of iron: and with him the false prophet
he treadeth the winepress that wrought miracles before
of the fierceness and wrath him, with which he deceived
of Almighty God. 16 And them that had received the
he hath on his vesture and mark of the beast, and them
on his thigh a name writ- that worshipped his image.
ten, KING OF KINGS, AND These both were cast alive
Lord OF LordS. 17 And I into a lake of fire burning
saw an angel standing in the with brimstone. 21 And the
sun; and he cried with a remnant were slain with the
loud voice, saying to all the sword of him that sat upon
fowls that fly in the midst the horse, which sword pro-
of heaven, Come and gather ceeded out of his mouth: and
yourselves together unto the all the fowls were filled with
supper of the great God; their flesh.
18 That ye may eat the flesh
like unto clear glass. 19 And which are saved shall walk
the foundations of the wall in the light of it: and the
of the city were garnished kings of the earth do bring
with all manner of precious their glory and honour into
stones. The first founda- it. 25 And the gates of it shall
tion was jasper; the second, not be shut at all by day:
sapphire; the third, a chal- for there shall be no night
cedony; the fourth, an emer- there. 26 And they shall bring
ald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the glory and honour of the
the sixth, sardius; the sev- nations into it. 27 And there
enth, chrysolite; the eighth, shall in no wise enter into
beryl; the ninth, a topaz; it any thing that defileth,
the tenth, a chrysoprasus; neither whatsoever worketh
the eleventh, a jacinth; the abomination, or maketh a lie:
twelfth, an amethyst. 21 And but they which are written in
the twelve gates were twelve the Lamb’s book of life.
pearls; every several gate
was of one pearl: and the
street of the city was pure
REVELATION 2696
without are dogs, and sor- away from the words of the
cerers, and whoremongers, book of this prophecy, God
and murderers, and idol- shall take away his part out
aters, and whosoever loveth of the book of life, and out
and maketh a lie. 16 I Jesus of the holy city, and from
have sent mine angel to tes- the things which are writ-
tify unto you these things in ten in this book. 20 He