Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of Realities
. . . A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Chris Oyakhilome
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PERSONAL INFORMATION
FRIDAY 1
MINISTERING THROUGH THE SPIRIT
SATURSDAY 2
HIS LIVING TABERNACLE
SUNDAY 3
GOD’S PRINCIPLE FOR PROTECTION
MONDAY 4
NO HOLIDAYS FROM SOUL WINNING
TUESDAY 5
A CAUSE WORTH MORE THAN LIFE
WEDNESDAY 6
YOU RADIATE HIS BEAUTY
THURSDAY 7
HE’S YOUR EVERLASTING FATHER
FRIDAY 8
IT MATTERS HOW YOU THINK
SATURDAY 9
A MINDSET OF THE WORD
SUNDAY 10
IT MATTERS THOSE YOU ASSOCIATE WITH
MONDAY 11
DAILY BLESSINGS IN HIS NAME
TUESDAY 12
THE GREATER ONE IN YOU
WEDNESDAY 13
FOLLOW THE DIVINE PLAN
THURSDAY 14
IT’S A FORMAT; NOT A PRAYER
FRIDAY 15
LIGHT IN A DARK WORLD
SATURDAY 16
GIVE NO FOOTHOLD TO SATAN
SUNDAY 17
PREACHING THE WORD
MONDAY18
CHRIST-INSPIRED WORLD VIEW
TUESDAY 19
TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PROTECTION
WEDNESDAY 20
TRUST THE EXTRAORDINARY STRATEGIST
THURSDAY 21
DISCERN THE BODY OF CHRIST
FRIDAY 22
DON’T WORRY ABOUT TITLES
SATURDAY 23
PLANNING IS IMPORTANT
SUNDAY 24
SANCTIFICATION OF THE MESSENGER
MONDAY 25
THE CHAMPION OF PEACE
TUESDAY 26
PREACH WITH CLARITY
WEDNESDAY 27
SPEAK HIS WORD…NOT YOUR IDEAS
THURSDAY 28
THE KINGDOM CULTURE
FRIDAY 29
IT’S GOING TO BE A GREAT PARTY
SATURDAY 30
DON’T GO IN THEIR DIRECTION
PRAYER OF SALVATION
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FRIDAY 1
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for my words are impregnated with divine
power, such that when I speak, my words are life-transforming,
bringing convictions to the hearts of sinners, and establishing your
divine plans and purposes in the lives of many, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Ephesians 5:18-21;
1 Corinthians 2:4-5;
Acts 1:8 AMPC
Hebrews 1
Jeremiah 34-35
John 9:1-7
1 Chronicles 1
SATURDAY 2
CONFESSION
Greater is He that’s in me than he that’s in the world! From the
crown of my head to the soles of my feet, I’m full of life. No
sickness, disease or infirmity can fasten itself to my body! Christ in
me is the hope of glory, strength and victory! Glory to God!
FURTHER STUDY:
1 Corinthians 3:16;
1 Peter 2:5;
Colossians 1:26-27
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Hebrews 2
Jeremiah 36-37
John 9:8-17
1 Chronicles 2
SUNDAY 3
W hen Jesus was born, the Bible tells us that King Herod staged
a manhunt for the young child, to kill Him. But an angel of the
Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and commanded him to take the
child and His mother, and flee to Egypt (Matthew 2:13-14).
Joseph did as he was instructed; but think for a moment: we’re not
talking about just any child; we’re talking about Jesus, the Saviour.
“Shouldn’t He be protected by all angels? Why flee with Him to Egypt?”
you might ask. First, understand that there was no deception whatsoever
in the angel’s instruction to Joseph; there was a real threat to Jesus’ life,
and Herod actually could have killed the young child if Joseph hadn’t
followed that instruction.
Also, notice the angel of the Lord didn’t say, “…Flee to Syria.” The
instruction was clear: “…flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring
thee word...” (Matthew 2:13-14). If Joseph had gone to Syria, he would
have encountered another trouble. It’s important that we are where God
wants us. His protection isn’t everywhere; His protection is in His
instruction to you.
There’s a similar example in Exodus 12. As a result of Pharaoh’s
persistent defiance and hardheartedness to let God’s people go, the
death angel was assigned to wreak havoc in Egypt. However, the Lord
instructed each household of the children of Israel to kill a lamb and mark
their doorposts and lintels with the blood of the slain animal. But they
were to stay indoors!
The houses of the Egyptians weren’t marked, and the death angel,
in a swoop, struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, whether man or
beast. But you see, there were other strangers in Egypt who weren’t
Jews, who knew about this and marked their houses, and just like the
children of Israel, they too were protected. We know this to be so,
because the Bible says when Israel went out of Egypt, “…a mixed
multitude went up also with them...” (Exodus 12:38). They escaped that
havoc because they obeyed God’s principles for protection. Some people
feel they can do whatever they want, and choose whatever way they
want to go, and then think God is supposed to see to it that they’re
shielded and protected from evil. It’s not so!
God gives instructions and directions; you’re divinely protected in
following those instructions and guidance that He’s given you. You’re
shielded from all the attacks and evil that destroy others, when you stay
in His Word. He’s the boss; when He tells you what to do and where to
go, comply. When you align yourself with His perfect will, you’ll
permanently dwell in safety. Hallelujah!
CONFESSION
I dwell in Christ; therefore, I’m forever in safety, shielded from all
the attacks and evil that destroy others. No weapon formed against
me shall prosper, because the Word of God is my life; in Christ, I
live, and move, and have my being. Hallelujah!
FURTHER STUDY:
Isaiah 54:17;
Psalm 91:1-12
Hebrews 3
Jeremiah 38-40
John 9:18-27
1 Chronicles 3
MONDAY 4
PRAYER
I’m strengthened, energised and emboldened to preach the Gospel,
and I’m doing it fervently, hauling men from darkness into the
kingdom of light, and the glorious liberty of the sons of God, in
Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Romans 1:16-17;
Matthew 28:19-20
Hebrews 4:1-13
Jeremiah 41-43
2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
John 9:28-41
1 Chronicles 4
TUESDAY 5
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for counting me faithful, committing to me
the ministry of reconciliation. I’m unwavering in my commitment to
the Gospel, impacting men with the power of God’s righteousness,
in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Acts 20:20-24;
1 Corinthians 9:16-17
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Hebrews 4:14-5:1-10
Jeremiah 44-47
John 10:1-10
1 Chronicles 5
WEDNESDAY 6
CONFESSION
I’m the manifestation of God’s glory, His icon, express image, and
the out shining of His splendour! I exude the excellence and
perfections of divinity, and my life is the testimony of God’s wisdom
and grace. Hallelujah!
FURTHER STUDY:
Psalm 50:2 AMPC;
Hebrews 1:3 AMPC;
Ephesians 2:10 AMPC
Hebrews 5:11-6:1-20
Jeremiah 48-49
John 10:11-21
1 Chronicles 6
THURSDAY 7
PRAYER
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for the assurance I have that
you’re forever with me, and in me. I walk in the light and blessings
of your indwelling and abiding presence, knowing that I’m mightily
helped of you in all things, and energised for success, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Genesis 28:15;
Hebrews 13:5;
Matthew 28:20
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Hebrews 7
Jeremiah 50-51
John 10:22-32
1 Chronicles 7
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FRIDAY 8
M any hardly take the time to review their own thinking process;
how their minds work. A mind that’s not renewed with the
Word will often come up with some of the weirdest thoughts. Such minds
are filled with negativism.
For example, there’re people who always think that when a law or
new policy is introduced, it’s to their disadvantage; they see themselves
as victims all the time. Therefore, they carry the burden of mistrusting
everybody, because that’s the way their minds work.
Even in Church, you could find a member who stops attending
services because he thinks the Pastor’s sermon is usually about him.
Meanwhile, someone else who heard the same sermons says, “I came to
church and that day, the sermon was just about me. I mean I identified
with everything the Pastor said, and have made up my mind to make
improvements.”
Notice that one decided to stay in church and grow, while the other
decided to leave the same church. It’s about their way of thinking. Your
thoughts can keep you perpetually in the road of success or keep you in
failure. It’s the reason we’re to keep renewing our minds with the Word of
God (Romans 12:2).
Until you change your way of thinking, your life and circumstances
won’t change. You’ve got to choose the character of your thoughts. Take
charge of your thoughts. God gave us the ability to monitor our thoughts;
to accept or reject the wrong thoughts. So, always, be sure that your
thoughts are wholesome: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is
honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything
worthy of praise, think about these things” (Philippians 4:8 ESV).
CONFESSION
Great ideas, pictures of success, possibilities and victories
continuously brew in my mind. I take charge of my thoughts and
refuse negative thinking, for the Holy Spirit causes me to have
wholesome thoughts, say the right words and act the right way.
Blessed be God!
FURTHER STUDY:
Proverbs 23:7;
Luke 6:45;
Philippians 4:8 AMPC
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Hebrews 8
Jeremiah 52
John 10:33-42
1 Chronicles 8
SATURDAY 9
PRAYER
Dear Father, I’m grateful that through your Word, I’ve developed the
mindset of the righteous. I interpret circumstances and situations
from the standpoint of your Word. Through meditation on the Word,
my mind is programmed and influenced to reason, respond and
interpret situations excellently, with acute precision, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Ephesians 4:23-24;
Philippians 4:8;
Luke 1:17 GNB
Hebrews 9:1-10
Lamentations 1-2
1 Chronicles 9
SUNDAY 10
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for enlightening me through your Word on
the importance of wholesome communication. I receive wisdom,
knowledge and understanding in choosing the right associations
and discussions that’ll improve my character and help in fulfilling
your call and purpose for my life, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
1 Timothy 6:3-5 MSG;
2 John 1:10-11 NKJV;
2 Corinthians 6:14-17
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Hebrews 9:11-28
Lamentations 3-5
John 11:14-23
1 Chronicles 10
MONDAY 11
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for the power of attorney to use the greatest
gift of all times—the Name of Jesus. Everything that exists in this
world and beyond is subject to that Name; I change situations and
establish your will in my world by that Name. I live victoriously and
dominate life’s situations and circumstances, in the Name of Jesus!
Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Philippians 2:9-11;
John 16:23-24;
Colossians 3:17 AMPC
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Hebrews 10:1-18
Ezekiel 1-2
John 11:24-34
1 Chronicles 11
TUESDAY 12
B eing born again, the Almighty God lives and walks in you,
through the Holy Spirit. 2 Corinthians 6:16 says, “And what
agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the
living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I
will be their God, and they shall be my people.” This is neither an
assumption nor a promise; you’re the temple of the living God; He lives
and walks in you.
In 1 Corinthians 3:16, the Apostle Paul asks, “Know ye not that ye
are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” The
word translated, “temple” is the Greek word, “Naos,” which also means
shrine; the shrine where the God-presence is. That’s who you are—
God’s shrine; His mobile headquarters. Everywhere you go, He goes.
When someone asks, “Is God in this place?” your answer should be an
immediate “Yes” because He’s in you. Hallelujah!
This is your guarantee of a life of greatness, dominion, excellence,
health, and unending victories: Christ in you (Colossians 1:27)! Because
He lives in you, you’re not trying to overcome; you’ve already overcome
all things: Satan, the world, and its failing systems: “Ye are of God, little
children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). It’s about the greater One that
lives in you. That’s the assurance that you’ll forever be successful, and
walk in His glory.
CONFESSION
Dear Father, I thank you for making me the headquarters of your
operations in the earth. In you, I live, and move, and have my being.
There’s no room for sickness, disease or infirmity in my body,
because I’m filled with your fullness, and dispense the verities of
the Kingdom in every place. Amen!
FURTHER STUDY:
2 Corinthians 4:7-9;
Colossians 1:26-27
Hebrews 10:19-39
Ezekiel 3-4
2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
John 11:35-46
1 Chronicles 12
WEDNESDAY 13
I n all things, it’s important to know God’s will and be sure you’re
serving Him the way He wants, and not according to your own
opinions or the ideas of men. He wants us to serve and worship Him
according to His plans and purposes in His Word.
Recall the story of Cain and Abel. Abel brought to God the sacrifice
that God demanded, while Cain brought the sacrifice he chose to give to
God (Genesis 4:3-7); these are two different things.
In walking with God, you must follow His prescribed order. He said
to Moses, “…make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle…”
(Exodus 25:8-9). It always has to be according to His plan. Jesus said,
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and
in truth” (John 4:24).
It’s clear how you’re to worship God: it’s by the Spirit and in
accordance with His Word. To do it any other way would be to deviate
from His plan. It’s like what happened when David needed to move the
ark of God into the city of David. He got a new cart, and two men, Uzzah
and Ahio rode in the cart together with the ark (2 Samuel 6:3).
As they journeyed, suddenly, the oxen pulling the cart stumbled and
the cart shook. Uzzah tried to stop the ark from tipping over and when he
did, he died instantly. David was terrified by what happened and in his
quest for answers, he found out in the Scriptures that only the priests
were qualified to carry or touch the ark of God in the Old Testament (1
Chronicles 15:2).
David realized the error and enlightened the people, saying to the
priests, “For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a
breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order” (1
Chronicles 15:13).
God’s things are to be done God’s way; follow His plans and you’ll
experience His grace and blessings in your life and ministry.
PRAYER
Dear Father, there’s none like you; from generation to generation,
you’re God. I worship and adore you today, for your love, grace,
mercy, and kindness. Thank you for the ministry of the Holy Spirit in
my life. Thank you, for the written Word given to me, to inform,
enlighten, teach, and to instruct me in righteousness. I honour you,
in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and will walk in your
prescribed order and purpose. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Psalm 29:2;
Philippians 3:3;
1 Chronicles 15:13-15 NIV
Hebrews 11:1-16
Ezekiel 5-7
John 11:47-57
1 Chronicles 13
THURSDAY 14
PRAYER
Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for the enlightenment of the
Scriptures; I’m informed with accurate and precise knowledge of the
Word, which enables me to pray the right way. I declare that the
nations of the world are coming to the knowledge of the glorious
Gospel of Christ, delivering men from the power of darkness into
their glorious inheritance in Christ, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Luke 18:1;
John 16:26-27
Hebrews 11:17-40
Ezekiel 8-10
John 12:1-11
1 Chronicles 14
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FRIDAY 15
CONFESSION
I’m the light of the world, and my light shines everywhere, dispelling
evil, wickedness and other works of darkness; ushering men into
the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Hallelujah!
FURTHER STUDY:
Luke 12:35;
2 Corinthians 4:6;
1 Thessalonians 5:5
Hebrews 12:1-13
Ezekiel 11-12
John 12:12-19
1 Chronicles 15
SATURDAY 16
T he Bible teaches that demon spirits are real, and they can
influence, torment and even possess anyone who gives them
the chance. That’s the reason you must not give the devil room or
opportunity in your life (Ephesians 4:27), and the way to ensure that is
living in the light of God’s Word.
It doesn’t matter that you’re a church member, a pastor or senior
minister; there’re no “no-go” areas for demons. They only bow to God’s
Word. If the Word isn’t in you, that’s a slippery slope. God’s Word is light,
and light repels darkness. The Bible admonishes that we walk in the light,
as He is in the light. When you walk in the light of Christ, Satan has
nothing in you. In our theme verse, Jesus said, “…the prince of this world
cometh, and hath nothing in me.” It’s important that you check your life—
you look into the mirror of God (His Word)—to examine yourself.
Anger, malice, bitterness, etc., are all from Satan, and if you have
them in you, you’re giving him a foothold in your life: “When angry, do not
sin; do not ever let your wrath (your exasperation, your fury or
indignation) last until the sun goes down. Leave no [such] room or
foothold for the devil [give no opportunity to him]” (Ephesians 4:26-
27 AMPC).
Anger is a spirit; bitterness is a spirit; hatred is a spirit. These aren’t
just emotions. Just as every part of God has His personality, every part of
Satan has his personality. So, refuse to accommodate anything from the
devil; rather, walk in the love of Christ; be gracious and kind. Yield your
faculties—your entire being—to the Word, and to the Holy Spirit for the
glory of God and life of righteousness to be seen and revealed in you.
CONFESSION
I have the light of life; there’s nothing of darkness in my life! I’m full
of joy, peace, love, kindness and continually filled with the Spirit, as
I walk in the light of Christ! Blessed be God!
FURTHER STUDY:
Ephesians 4:25-27 NIV;
James 4:7;
Galatians 5:16
Hebrews 12:14-29;
Ezekiel 13-15
2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
John 12:20-29
1 Chronicles 16
SUNDAY 17
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for making me the expression of your
Word, unveiling your goodness and excellence to the world through
the Gospel. As I boldly proclaim your Gospel of truth,
righteousness, life and immortality are unveiled; many are brought
into fellowship with you, and their inheritance in Christ, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Acts 8:25;
Acts 13:5;
Acts 14:25
Hebrews 13
Ezekiel 16
John 12:30-41
1 Chronicles 17
MONDAY 18
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for granting me the right perspective of the
world, its systems, ideas and ideals, and inclinations. Your Word is
my light, and that’s the light in which I live. I live and see all things
from the mountain top; I live in divine health, supernatural
abundance, and in continuous victory and prosperity, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Romans 1:21-22 AMPC;
Romans 16:17 AMPC;
1 Corinthians 3:18-20 AMPC
James 1
Ezekiel 17-19
John 12:42-50
1 Chronicles 18
TUESDAY 19
CONFESSION
No weapon formed against me shall prosper; and every tongue that
shall rise against me in judgment, I condemn! I have God’s mighty
protection over my life, family and loved ones. I live in Christ, far
above the evil and darkness in the world. Glory to God!
FURTHER STUDY:
Daniel 3:16-18;
Psalm 27:1-3;
Isaiah 43:2-3
James 2-3:1-13
Ezekiel 20-21
John 13:1-11
1 Chronicles 19
WEDNESDAY 20
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for granting me all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge which are in Christ. I’m sagacious and I win all the
time, because I play by the strategies of the Spirit. My life, ministry,
family and business are flourishing exceedingly, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
2 Corinthians 10:4-5;
Zechariah 4:6;
Proverbs 3:5-6
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
James 3:14-4:1-12
Ezekiel 22-23
John 13:12-20
1 Chronicles 20
THURSDAY 21
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for the blessing to participate in the
communion of the blood and the body of Christ. Thank you for the
guidance of your Spirit who helps me discern the body of Christ. I
have eternal victory and dominion over sin, sickness, disease,
death, and the devil, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
1 Corinthians 11:18-34
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
James 4:13-5:1-20
Ezekiel 24-26
John 13:21-30
1 Chronicles 21
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FRIDAY 22
F rom our theme verse, it’s clear that it’s God who appoints or
calls people into these ministry offices. You don’t just look at
yourself and say, “What gift do I have?” and then apportion a name for
yourself. It doesn’t work like that.
Back then, as we were growing up as spiritual adolescents, there
were those who thought they had a ministry. I remember some who were
called prophets, and some apostles; they distributed among themselves
one office or the other. But some of those people today aren’t even
Christians anymore; they left the faith years ago.
What they needed to understand was, there’s a growth to this thing.
Even Paul who was called to be an apostle didn’t start out as an apostle.
The Bible says there were certain prophets and teachers in the church at
Antioch, and Paul (who was also called Saul) was named as one of them
(Acts 13:1). He wasn’t yet called an apostle, even though he was called
into the apostolic ministry.
The callings are at different levels. At a certain level of your life, it’s
being formed, but don’t go faster than the Lord would want you to. The
Bible says, “And no man taketh this honour unto himself…” (Hebrews
5:4). Don’t take the honour upon yourself. After all, does it matter if
people don’t call you by the title you love? Isn’t it better to just do the
work? It makes more sense, because if they call you by the title and then
you don’t fulfil it, that’s not a good thing.
It’s not right to be respected for something you’re not. Never let
such things bother you. What matters to God is the state of your heart;
not the title by which you’re addressed. Greatness isn’t in your title or in
the recognition you enjoy from men; it’s in the quality of your personality;
who you are with God.
PRAYER
Dear Lord, thank you for the opportunity to be loved and called by
you. I fulfil my calling in the Gospel without reproach, motivated by
your will and vision of salvation of souls and dissemination of the
truth. Therefore, I joyfully take up the great commission to reach out
with the light of the Gospel to those living in darkness, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
1 Peter 5:6;
Matthew 20:26-28;
Hebrews 5:4 AMPC
1 Peter 1:1-21
Ezekiel 27-28
John 13:31-38
1 Chronicles 22
SATURDAY 23
PLANNING IS IMPORTANT
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply
our hearts unto wisdom (Psalm 90:12).
PRAYER
Precious Holy Spirit, I thank you for your indwelling presence. I’m
yielded to you to be guided, taught, inspired and strengthened to
take the right steps at the right time, fulfiling your perfect will for my
life, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Ephesians 5:15-16 AMPC;
Proverbs 21:5 MSG;
Proverbs 16:3 NIV
1 Peter 1:22-2:1-25
Ezekiel 29-30
John 14:1-9
1 Chronicles 23
SUNDAY 24
PRAYER
Dear heavenly Father, it’s an honour to be part of the great ministry
of reconciliation. I’ve been sanctified through the ministry of your
Word and the Spirit to do your will and fulfil your destiny for my life.
I lead a life of righteousness and true holiness, bringing many to the
same life of glory, through my words and character, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Hebrews 10:10;
Colossians 1:12;
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
1 Peter 3
Ezekiel 31-32
John 14:10-21
1 Chronicles 24
MONDAY 25
CONFESSION
The Prince of Peace lives in my heart, and He’s granted me eternal
joy, comfort, prosperity and power over crisis. I reign and rule over
life’s challenges because my heart is stayed on His Word. My path
is as the shining light that shines more and more unto the prefect
day! My victories are guaranteed, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Philippians 4:6-7;
2 Corinthians 4:16-18;
John 16:33
1 Peter 4
Ezekiel 33-34
John 14:22-31
1 Chronicles 25
TUESDAY 26
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit in me to
minister the Gospel in simplicity and power. My words, as I preach
and teach, aren’t with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in the
demonstration of the Spirit and of power, inspiring faith in the
hearts of my hearers, for salvation and blessings, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
1 Corinthians 2:4 AMPC;
Colossians 2:3-4 AMPC;
John 7:44-46 MSG
1 Peter 5
Ezekiel 35-36
John 15:1-10
1 Chronicles 26
WEDNESDAY 27
CONFESSION
The Word of God is in my heart and in my mouth, and I speak it with
boldness as I’m inspired by the Spirit, conveying God’s ideas,
thoughts, plans, and purposes. His perfect will is established in my
life and in the lives of my hearers because of the influence and
power of His Word, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Matthew 24:35;
Isaiah 55:10-11;
2 Timothy 3:16-17
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
2 Peter 1
Ezekiel 37-38
John 15:11-19
1 Chronicles 27
THURSDAY 28
PRAYER
Dear Father, I yield myself to the ministry of the Word and the Spirit
to learn, develop and live out the Kingdom life here on earth; a life
of victory, strength, dominion, supernatural abilities and grace. I
refuse to be influenced by the world and its systems; rather, I’m
conscious of my divine heritage, and live the Kingdom life, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Romans 12:2 AMPC;
Colossians 3:16
2 Peter 2
Ezekiel 39-40
John 15:20-27
1 Chronicles 28
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PRAYER
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FURTHER STUDY:
Revelation 19:6-7;
Colossians 3:23-24 NIV;
Malachi 3:16-18
2 Peter 3
Ezekiel 41-42
John 16:1-11
1 Chronicles 29
SATURDAY 30
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for the transforming power of your Word.
Your Word has gained the ascendancy in my life, and as I meditate
therein, I’m transformed into the image of the Christ, living the
glorious life of righteousness that you’ve ordained for me, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
2 Corinthians 5:17;
Colossians 3:9-10 NLT
1 John 1-2:1-14
Ezekiel 43-44
John 16:12-22
2 Chronicles 1-2
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CHAPTER 1
5 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and
Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
and Caphthorim.
13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was
Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name
was Joktan.
20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth,
and Jerah,
21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of
Joktan.
24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
35 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and
Korah.
36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam,
Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
Lotan's sister.
40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi,
any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the
name of his city was Dinhabah.
44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of
his city was Avith.
47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his
stead.
48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river
and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel,
the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah,
1 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun,
2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were
born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the
firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
4 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All
6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol,
9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel,
13 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second,
the Ishmeelite.
18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife,
and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath,
which bare him Hur.
20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
land of Gilead.
23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from
them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All
these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
24 And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah
the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she
without children.
31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan.
sons of Jerahmeel.
34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a
his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the
father of Hebron.
43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and
Shema.
44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem
begat Shammai.
45 And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of
Bethzur.
46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and
father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb
was Achsa.
50 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of
and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites,
and the Eshtaulites,
54 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth,
Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that
came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
CHAPTER 3
1 Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in
Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second
Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:
2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai
wife.
4 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned
seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three
years.
5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and
9 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the
concubines, and Tamar their sister.
10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son,
15 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second
Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat,
six.
23 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam,
three.
24 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and
Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
CHAPTER 4
1 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat
These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of
Bethlehem.
5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and
8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel
mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou
wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand
might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may
not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the
father of Eshton.
12 And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the
Othniel; Hathath.
14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the
father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.
15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and
17 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and
Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of
Eshtemoa.
18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and
Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these
are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
19 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father
and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of
Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house
of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph,
who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are
ancient things.
23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and
hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and
Shaul:
25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son,
Shimei his son.
27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters: but his brethren
had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the
children of Judah.
28 And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the
son of Asiel,
36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and
and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of
Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there,
and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms:
because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred
men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah,
and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped,
1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn;
but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto
the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be
reckoned after the birthright.
2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the
from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land
of Gilead.
10 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who
fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land
of Gilead.
11 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of
in Bashan.
13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael,
and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber,
seven.
14 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of
Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the
son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their
fathers.
16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all
Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to
shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven
hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish,
and Nodab.
20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were
delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to
God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their
trust in him.
21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand,
and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand,
and of men an hundred thousand.
22 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God.
they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount
Hermon.
24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even
Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and
Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of
their fathers.
25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went
a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed
before them.
26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria,
2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The
15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away
Shimei.
18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron,
and Uzziel.
19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families
21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
22 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir
his son,
23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
26 As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath
his son,
27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
29 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza
his son,
30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in
the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle
of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the
LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to
their order.
33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of
the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the
son of Toah,
35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son
of Amasai,
36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son
of Zephaniah,
37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son
of Korah,
38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of
Israel.
39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph
44 And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand:
Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of
Levi.
48 Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner
offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work
of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to
all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
50 And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his
Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and
Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities
throughout their families were thirteen cities.
61 And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that
tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of
Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
62 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the
tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of
Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
63 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their
families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of
the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with
their suburbs.
65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and
out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
66 And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities
mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her
suburbs,
69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:
70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs,
and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of
Kohath.
71 Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the
half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth
with her suburbs:
72 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs,
74 And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and
Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the
wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her
suburbs:
80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs,
1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom,
four.
2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and
Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit,
of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose
number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six
hundred.
3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael,
and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their
fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for
they had many wives and sons.
5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant
7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth,
and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour;
and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and
thirty and four.
8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and
Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and
Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their
and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish,
and Ahishahar.
11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers,
sons of Aher.
13 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was
Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his
name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons
were Ulam and Rakem.
17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead,
Mahalah.
19 And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and
Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead,
whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they
came down to take away their cattle.
22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren
and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
24 (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether,
her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her
towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah,
Birzavith.
32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua
their sister.
33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath.
Aram.
35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and
Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri,
and Imrah,
37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and
Beera.
38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.
1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah
the third,
2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the
had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.
9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha,
and Malcham,
10 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads
of the fathers.
11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
12 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built
was Maachah:
30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
Nadab,
31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their
brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
33 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat
Micah.
35 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea,
and Ahaz.
36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and
had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the
sons of Benjamin.
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written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried
away to Babylon for their transgression.
2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their
cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the
6 And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred
and ninety.
7 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son
son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel,
the son of Ibnijah;
9 And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred
and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of
their fathers.
10 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
11 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of
God;
12 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of
Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of
Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
13 And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a
thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work
of the service of the house of God.
14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of
Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in
the villages of the Netophathites.
17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and
Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were
over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and
their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time
and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
27 And they lodged round about the house of God, because the
charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained
to them.
28 And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels,
all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and
the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
30 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the
spices.
31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of
Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in
the pans.
32 And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were
who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that
work day and night.
34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their
38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their
brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat
Micah.
41 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea,
and Ahaz.
42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and
Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these
were the sons of Azel.
CHAPTER 10
1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled
from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons;
and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the
sons of Saul.
3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him,
me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But
his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a
sword, and fell upon it.
5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell
7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that
they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their
cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to
strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
9 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his
armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry
tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
10 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened
done to Saul,
12 They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul,
and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their
bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against
the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and
also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
14 And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and
he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said
unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over
my people Israel.
3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and
David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they
anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by
Samuel.
4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus;
hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of
David.
6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be
chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was
chief.
7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of
David.
8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about:
with him.
10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had,
who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel,
to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.
11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had;
delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a
great deliverance.
15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David,
into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the
valley of Rephaim.
16 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was
then at Bethlehem.
17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of
water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and
brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the
LORD.
19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I
drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with
the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it.
These things did these three mightiest.
20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for
lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name
among the three.
21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was
Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab:
also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits
high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and
he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the
Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the
the first three: and David set him over his guard.
26 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of
the Hararite,
35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
the Aroerite,
45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept
himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the
mighty men, helpers of the war.
2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand
and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of
Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
3 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the
Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah,
and Jehu the Antothite.
4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and
over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad
the Gederathite,
5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and
the Korhites,
7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle,
that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of
lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys,
both toward the east, and toward the west.
16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the
captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of
Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy
God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of
the band.
19 And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with
the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the
lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will
fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and
Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai,
captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.
21 And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they
were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.
22 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until
27 And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him
thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the
house of Saul.
30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight
understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of
them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their
commandment.
33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all
instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not
of double heart.
34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield
thousand.
37 And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments
of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect
heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also
of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
39 And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking:
1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and
unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto
our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with
them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs,
that they may gather themselves unto us:
3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired
unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to
and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels,
and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
9 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put
forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
10 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he
smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before
God.
11 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a
breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring
David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
14 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his
house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom,
and all that he had.
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Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.
3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more
8 And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over
all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it,
and went out against them.
9 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of
Rephaim.
10 And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the
Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD
said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
11 So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there.
Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand
like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that
place Baalperazim.
12 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a
Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over
against the mulberry trees.
15 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the
tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is
gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
16 David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote
1 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place
Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to
minister unto him for ever.
3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up
the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
two hundred:
9 Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
Amminadab,
12 And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the
Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring
up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared
for it.
13 For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a
breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up
brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their
brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
18 And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah,
Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and
Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah,
and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to
Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;
21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom,
and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the
trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were
doorkeepers for the ark.
25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over
thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of
the house of Obededom with joy.
26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and
seven rams.
27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the
Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of
the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD
with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with
cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD
came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at
a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in
her heart.
CHAPTER 16
1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that
David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace
offerings before God.
2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings
and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to
every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of
wine.
4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark
of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of
Israel:
5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and
Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a
sound with cymbals;
6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually
works.
10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek
the LORD.
11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his
wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen
ones.
14 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
an everlasting covenant,
18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your
inheritance;
19 When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one
kingdom to another people;
21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his
salvation.
24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works
heavens.
27 Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are
in his place.
28 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of
holiness.
30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that
it be not moved.
31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men
together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy
holy name, and glory in thy praise.
36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all
Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every
day's work required:
38 And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight;
for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of
God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
43 And all the people departed every man to his house: and David
1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to
Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the
covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God
is with thee.
3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to
Nathan, saying,
4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt
Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one
tabernacle to another.
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any
saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from
following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and
have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a
name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them,
and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither
shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the
beginning,
10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my
people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell
thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou
must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee,
which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for
ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my
mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever:
Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought
me hitherto?
17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou
hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and
hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O
LORD God.
18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy
heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great
things.
20 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside
concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever,
and do as thou hast said.
24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for
ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to
Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him
an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before
thee.
26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness
servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD,
and it shall be blessed for ever.
CHAPTER 18
1 Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and
subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the
Philistines.
2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants,
of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians
became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved
David whithersoever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen
sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
9 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all
and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from
Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and
from Amalek.
12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the
the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
CHAPTER 19
1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of
thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto
thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to
overthrow, and to spy out the land?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and
cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them
away.
5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were
served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed.
And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then
return.
6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the
children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and
came to battle.
8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the
mighty men.
9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array
before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by
themselves in the field.
10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array
against the Syrians.
11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai
his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of
Ammon.
12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt
help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will
help thee.
13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for
our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which
is good in his sight.
14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the
they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city.
Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse
before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were
beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer
went before them.
17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed
over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against
them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they
fought with him.
18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians
the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his
servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any
more.
CHAPTER 20
1 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that
kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted
the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah.
But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed
it.
2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and
found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it;
and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much
spoil out of the city.
3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with
saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with
all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people
returned to Jerusalem.
4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with
the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that
was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the
son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff
was like a weaver's beam.
6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great
stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand,
and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giant.
7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go,
number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of
them to me, that I may know it.
3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred
times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my
lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be
a cause of trespass to Israel?
4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David.
Israel.
8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have
done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee
three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Choose thee
12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed
before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or
else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land,
and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel.
Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that
sent me.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now
into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not
fall into the hand of man.
14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel
was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and
said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And
the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD
stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his
hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel,
who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people
to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but
as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O
LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy
people, that they should be plagued.
18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David,
that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the
name of the LORD.
20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons
went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face
to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this
threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt
grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the
people.
23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the
king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for
burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for
the meat offering; I give it all.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the
full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer
burnt offerings without cost.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of
gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he
answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword
wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the
high place at Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was
1 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the
in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build
the house of God.
3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors
of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre
blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an
house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the
earth in my sight.
9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest;
and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name
shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his
days.
10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son,
and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over
Israel for ever.
11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and
build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.
12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give
thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the
LORD thy God.
13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes
and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel:
be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the
and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for
every manner of work.
16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no
number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon
rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine
hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.
19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God;
arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the
house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
CHAPTER 23
1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king
over Israel.
2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests
upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight
thousand.
4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work
of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised
the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise
therewith.
6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,
8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel,
three.
9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three.
Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning,
according to their father's house.
12 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
17 And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer
had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers;
even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names
by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD,
from the age of twenty years and upward.
25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his
and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and
for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and
likewise at even:
31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths,
in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the
order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the
sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
CHAPTER 24
1 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron;
of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided. Among the sons of
Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and
eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the
Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the
priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the
fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for
Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
Maaziah.
19 These were the orderings of them in their service to come into
the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their
father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of
Isshiah.
22 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.
23 And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
Beno.
27 The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur,
and Ibri.
28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
30 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These
were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.
31 These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of
Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and
the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal
fathers over against their younger brethren.
CHAPTER 25
1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of
Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father
Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the
LORD.
4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel,
God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three
daughters.
6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the
house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service
of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun,
and Heman.
7 So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in
the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred
fourscore and eight.
8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the
11 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
12 The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
13 The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
14 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
17 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
20 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
21 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his
brethren, were twelve:
25 The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
27 The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
28 The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren,
were twelve:
29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren,
were twelve:
30 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his
Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and
Nethaneel the fifth.
5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for
throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
7 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad,
brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two
of Obededom.
9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief,
(for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)
11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all
chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of
the LORD.
13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to
the house of their fathers, for every gate.
14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his
son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
15 To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of
Asuppim.
16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the
gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four
19 These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore,
Uzzielites:
24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler
of the treasures.
25 And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his
son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.
26 Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of
the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the
captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had
dedicated.
27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the
house of the LORD.
28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and
Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and
whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith,
and of his brethren.
29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward
hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the
Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter
pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
CHAPTER 27
1 Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers
and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served
the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month
by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were
twenty and four thousand.
2 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son
and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were
twenty and four thousand.
5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
6 This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above
Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and
four thousand.
8 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite:
Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and
four thousand.
11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the
Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the
Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the
Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand.
14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the
Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and
four thousand.
15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the
was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of
Maachah:
17 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites,
Zadok:
18 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri
and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to
the stars of the heavens.
24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not,
because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put
in the account of the chronicles of king David.
25 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel:
and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages,
and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:
26 And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the
increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the
low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was
Joash:
29 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite:
and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:
30 Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the
a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
33 And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the
1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes,
and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course,
and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds,
and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and
of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the
valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me,
name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
4 Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house
of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to
be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and
among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
5 And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he
hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the
LORD over Israel.
6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house
and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his
father.
7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to
LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the
commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good
land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and
serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD
searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake
him, he will cast thee off for ever.
10 Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an
and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper
chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of
the mercy seat,
12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of
the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the
treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated
things:
13 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the
work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of
service in the house of the LORD.
14 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments
of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight,
for all instruments of every kind of service:
15 Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps
of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for
the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for
the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
16 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for
and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and
likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:
18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for
the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings,
and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by
his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good
courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even
my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou
hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even
they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there
shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man,
for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be
wholly at thy commandment.
CHAPTER 29
1 Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my
son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the
work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God
the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver,
and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for
things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and
of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones
in abundance.
3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my
God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have
given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for
the holy house.
4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and
for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who
then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?
6 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel
and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the
king's work, offered willingly,
7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five
thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand
talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred
thousand talents of iron.
8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to
the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the
Gershonite.
9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because
with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king
also rejoiced with great joy.
10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation:
and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever
and ever.
11 Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory,
and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the
earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as
head above all.
12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all;
and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make
great, and to give strength unto all.
13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious
name.
14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to
offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine
own have we given thee.
15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all
our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none
abiding.
16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build
thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine
own.
17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast
this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people,
and prepare their heart unto thee:
19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy
your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their
fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and
the king.
21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt
offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand
bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink
offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:
22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great
gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second
time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and
Zadok to be priest.
23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of
David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons
Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on
any king before him in Israel.
26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven
years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in
Jerusalem.
28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour:
written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the
prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over
him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
1 Corinthians
CHAPTER 1
1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and
sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place
call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:
3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
all knowledge;
6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions
among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and
in the same judgment.
11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them
which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of
15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none
effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew
after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised,
hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things
that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
the Lord.
CHAPTER 2
trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of
power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not
the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to
nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us
of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's
wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged
of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos;
man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry,
Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every
man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
are vain.
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make
manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have
praise of God.
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself
and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of
men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one
against another.
7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou
that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou
glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without
us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were
appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to
angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are
warn you.
15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have
ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not
the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in
hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged
already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this
deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered
together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven
as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with
the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his
brethren?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the
unbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go
to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not
rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all
things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall
destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the
Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us
then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an
harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body;
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a
likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time,
that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together
again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man
hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if
than to burn.
10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not
to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife
that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put
her away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if
he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy
husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy
wife?
17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath
called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest
God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet
she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh:
but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both
rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they
possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of
careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world,
unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy
both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of
the world, how she may please her husband.
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare
upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the
Lord without distraction.
36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward
his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him
do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his
heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that
1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have
and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and
we by him.
7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with
conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol;
and their conscience being weak is defiled.
8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are
1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our
7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth
a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and
eateth not of the milk of the flock?
8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the
mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt,
this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that
thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we
Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we
should hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of
the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers
with the altar?
14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the
gospel should live of the gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written
these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me
to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for
necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my
may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power
in the gospel.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself
Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain
them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without
law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are
without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am
made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all
our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that
spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were
The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed,
they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are
come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
fall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to
man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that
ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that
ye may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion
of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all
sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have
fellowship with devils.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all
things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for
conscience sake.
28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto
idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the
earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my
and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,
uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were
shaven.
6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be
is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for
the man.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head
uncovered?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long
hair, it is a shame unto him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is
the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to
you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto
you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took
bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat:
supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as
oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew
sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
CHAPTER 12
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus
is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee:
body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which
lacked.
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily
interpret?
31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth
all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may
prophesy.
2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto
men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit
he speaketh mysteries.
3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and
except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is
piped or harped?
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare
understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into
the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and
he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my
understanding is unfruitful.
15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the
understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the
understanding also.
16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that
occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks,
seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me,
saith the LORD.
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to
them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe
not, but for them which believe.
23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place,
and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned,
or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or
falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you
of a truth.
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of
you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath
an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at
the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church;
30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold
his peace.
31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all
may be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
only?
37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him
acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments
of the Lord.
38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
with tongues.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
CHAPTER 15
whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen
asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due
time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called
was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly
than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye
believed.
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say
risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your
sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most
miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward
kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule
and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all
things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put
all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the
Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that
God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the
dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to
morrow we die.
33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the
37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall
be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every
glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in
glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it
is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to
5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia:
9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are
many adversaries.
10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without
peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come
unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time;
but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
18 For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore
acknowledge ye them that are such.
19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you
kiss.
21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema
Maranatha.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands
have handled, of the Word of life;
2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father,
and was manifested unto us;)
3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye
also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the
Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us
from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if
any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but
commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is
even as he walked.
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
shineth.
9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in
darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath
blinded his eyes.
12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven
from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have
overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye
have known the Father.
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him
that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because
ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have
overcome the wicked one.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any
man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that
antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we
know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had
been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went
out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all
things.
21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but
beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in
you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal
life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that
seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you,
and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing
teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath
taught you, ye shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear,
we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not,
because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be
like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even
as he is pure.
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is
in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath
the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he
might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed
And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
brother's righteous.
13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that
life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth
the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in
toward God.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep
his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the
name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us
commandment.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he
in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he
hath given us.
CHAPTER 4
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of
God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of
error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for
he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God
whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every
one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love
by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth
witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the
for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:
he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not
the record that God gave of his Son.
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye
may believe on the name of the Son of God.
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask
shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death.
There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him
not.
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness.
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that
is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal
life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
1 Kings
CHAPTER 1
1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him
lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her
cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get
heat.
3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of
Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and
be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to
run before him.
6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why
hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother
bare him after Absalom.
7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar
Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which
belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of
Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons,
and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and
thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not
king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And
God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign
after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king,
and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab
the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee,
that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the
king after him.
21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall
sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted
offenders.
22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet
when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king
with his face to the ground.
24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall
and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the
captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and
drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed
it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after
him?
28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And
she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my
throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did
reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the
king.
33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your
lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring
him down to Gihon:
34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save
king Solomon.
35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon
with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord
king David.
38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and
caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to
Gihon.
39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle,
and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people
said, God save king Solomon.
40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with
pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of
them.
41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as
they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the
trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar
the priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a
valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord
the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and
the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:
45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him
king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the
city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king
David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name,
and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself
upon the bed.
48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing
it.
49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose
Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let
king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with
the sword.
52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there
shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found
in him, he shall die.
53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the
altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon
said unto him, Go to thine house.
CHAPTER 2
1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged
thyself a man;
3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to
keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his
testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper
in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spake
concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk
before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not
fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to
me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner
the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and
shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle
that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head
them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled
because of Absalom thy brother.
8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou
down to the grave with blood.
10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David.
11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years:
seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he
in Jerusalem.
12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his
all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is
turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said
will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto
her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the
king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee,
say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will
not say thee nay.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah
dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the
kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar
the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to
me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his
own life.
24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me,
and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an
house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of
unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this
time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God
before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all
wherein my father was afflicted.
27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the
LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake
concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah,
though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of
the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the
him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die
here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab,
and thus he answered me.
31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon
him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which
Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell
upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the
sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner,
captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the
host of Judah.
33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and
upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed,
and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever
from the LORD.
34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and
slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over
the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build
thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any
whither.
37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over
the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die:
thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord
the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem
many days.
39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the
servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath.
And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to
Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants
from Gath.
41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem
not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying,
Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any
whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word
that I have heard is good.
43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the
wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my
father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own
head;
45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David
went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was
established in the hand of Solomon.
CHAPTER 3
1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had
made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and
the wall of Jerusalem round about.
2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no
house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David
great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that
altar.
5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:
instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to
go out or come in.
8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast
people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to
judge this thy so great a people?
10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this
thing.
11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and
hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself,
nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself
understanding to discern judgment;
12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given
thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee
before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both
riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like
unto thee all thy days.
14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy
days.
15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came
to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast
to all his servants.
16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king,
one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that
this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no
stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead
child in my bosom.
21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it
was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not
my son, which I did bear.
22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the
dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living
is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and
thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and
my son is the living.
24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword
for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her
the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither
mine nor thine, but divide it.
27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and
and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him,
to do judgment.
CHAPTER 4
2 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of
the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:
6 And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of
victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year
made provision.
8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
and Elonbethhanan:
10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all
of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained
the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls
and brasen bars:
14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
Solomon to wife:
16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country
of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the
only officer which was in the land.
20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in
land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought
presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine
hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted
fowl.
24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river,
from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and
he had peace on all sides round about him.
25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and
under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots,
they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his
charge.
29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding
much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of
Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in
all nations round about.
32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a
even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of
beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
CHAPTER 5
1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had
heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram
was ever a lover of David.
2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house
unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him
on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so
LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy
son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house
unto my name.
6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out
of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee
will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for
thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber
like unto the Sidonians.
7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon,
that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which
hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things
which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber
of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea:
and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt
appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt
receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my
household.
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to
for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave
Solomon to Hiram year by year.
12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and
there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a
league together.
13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy
courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and
Adoniram was over the levy.
15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare
three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that
wrought in the work.
17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly
1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of
Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month,
that he began to build the house of the LORD.
2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length
thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and
the height thereof thirty cubits.
3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was
the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits
was the breadth thereof before the house.
4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,
against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the
oracle: and he made chambers round about:
6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle
was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in
the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the
beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor
axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the
house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and
out of the middle into the third.
9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with
12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk
my people Israel.
14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar,
both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered
them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with
planks of fir.
16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the
floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within,
even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits
long.
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and
twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he
overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he
made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid
it with gold.
22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished
all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with
gold.
23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each
the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto
the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of
other cherub.
27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they
stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one
touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other
wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved
figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and
without.
30 And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and
without.
31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree:
the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them
carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid
them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm
trees.
33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a
fourth part of the wall.
34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one
door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and
month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and
according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
CHAPTER 7
1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house.
2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length
thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and
the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar
beams upon the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on
in three ranks.
5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and
and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and
the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even
the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the
floor to the other.
8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch,
which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's
daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of
hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the
foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones,
stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house
of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was
a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and
understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to
king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece:
of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the
height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the
chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one
chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the
one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with
pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of
above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the
pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other
chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set
up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the
left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of
other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of
thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops
compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops
were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and
three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and
all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was
wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two
thousand baths.
27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of
one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height
of it.
28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had
oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and
beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass:
and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were
undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit:
but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and
an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders,
foursquare, not round.
32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of
the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit
and half a cubit.
33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel:
their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were
all molten.
34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one
cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders
thereof were of the same.
36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders
baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten
bases one laver.
39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on
the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the
house eastward over against the south.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons.
So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon
for the house of the LORD:
41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on
the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of
the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two
rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the
chapiters that were upon the pillars;
43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these
vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD,
were of bright brass.
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house
of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
shewbread was,
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five
on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the
tongs of gold,
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the
spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the
doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the
house, to wit, of the temple.
51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the
house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his
father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did
he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
CHAPTER 8
1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the
tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon
in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the
LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king
Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of
the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,
even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and
oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubims.
7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of
the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were
seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen
without: and there they are unto this day.
9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which
Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the
children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the
thick darkness.
13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for
with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it,
saying,
16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I
chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my
name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for
thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in
thine heart.
19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that
shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am
risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as
the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD
God of Israel.
21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant
of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out
of the land of Egypt.
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands
toward heaven:
23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in
my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a
man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take
heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before
me.
26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified,
heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I
have builded?
28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer,
which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day,
even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there:
that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make
toward this place.
30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy
people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in
heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid
upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in
this house:
32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying
the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy,
because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and
confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this
house:
34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their
fathers.
35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants,
and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they
should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy
people for an inheritance.
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own
heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and
do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou
knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children
of men;)
40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land
and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this
house;
43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all
that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know
thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know
that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city
which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy
name:
45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,
and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they
carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were
carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land
of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have
done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their
soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray
unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city
which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all
servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto
them in all that they call for unto thee.
53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the
all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the
altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up
to heaven.
55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a
Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of
all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his
servant.
57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let
and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments,
which he commanded our fathers.
59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication
before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he
maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all
times, as the matter shall require:
60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God,
LORD.
63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred
and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel
dedicated the house of the LORD.
64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that
was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings,
and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the
brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a
the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the
goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel
his people.
CHAPTER 9
1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the
house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which
he was pleased to do,
2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had
supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house,
which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and
mine heart shall be there perpetually.
4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a
man upon the throne of Israel.
6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children,
and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set
before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them;
and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my
sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the
LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their
God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have
taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served
them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then
king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon
brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for
to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the
wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and
burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given
it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his
chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to
build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did
Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but
they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his
captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's
work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought
in the work.
24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto
her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and
peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he
burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished
the house.
26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is
beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had
that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when
she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her
heart.
3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing
attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and
his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was
no more spirit in her.
6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine
had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and
prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand
thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever,
therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,
and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more
such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to
king Solomon.
11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir,
brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the
LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers:
there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal
bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her
servants.
14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of
the country.
16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the
forest of Lebanon.
18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and
two lions stood beside the stays.
20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none
were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of
Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold,
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches
vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and
mules, a rate year by year.
26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he
cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for
abundance.
28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the
kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by
their means.
CHAPTER 11
1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, and Hittites:
2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children
of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you:
for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave
unto these in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the
LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians,
abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech,
the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense
turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should
not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD
commanded.
11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is
done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which
I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and
will give it to thy servant.
12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's
tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake
which I have chosen.
14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the
captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten
every male in Edom;
16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had
servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took
men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king
of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and
gave him land.
19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he
gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the
queen.
20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom
band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and
dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned
over Syria.
26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David
his father.
28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and
Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him
ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way;
and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in
the field:
30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it
in twelve pieces:
31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith
the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the
hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel:)
33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the
Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not
walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my
statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I
will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake,
whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen
me to put my name there.
37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy
wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 12
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem
yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king
Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the
grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us,
lighter, and we will serve thee.
5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise
that I may answer this people?
7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto
this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak
good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given
him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and
which stood before him:
9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may
answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke
which thy father did put upon us lighter?
10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto
him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee,
saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us;
thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my
father's loins.
11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I
will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third
day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old
My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father
also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause
was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD
spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them,
the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel:
now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of
and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king
Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was
come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and
made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of
David, but the tribe of Judah only.
21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all
the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore
thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of
Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God,
saying,
23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and
unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the
people, saying,
24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this
thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and
returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt
Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord,
even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again
to Rehoboam king of Judah.
28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,
and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold
thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship
fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had
devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel:
and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
CHAPTER 13
1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the
LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said,
O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the
house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests
of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be
burnt upon thee.
3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which
the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that
are upon it shall be poured out.
4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the
man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth
his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he
put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the
LORD.
6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat
now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may
be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the
king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and
thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink
water in this place:
9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat
no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou
camest.
10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he
came to Bethel.
11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came
and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in
Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also
to their father.
12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his
sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled
oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from
Judah? And he said, I am.
15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee:
neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat
no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou
camest.
18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel
spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with
thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied
unto him.
19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and
drank water.
20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the
LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the
mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the
LORD thy God commanded thee,
22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the
place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no
water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he
had brought back.
24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew
him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion
also stood by the carcase.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the
way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in
the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word
of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which
hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which
he spake unto him.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they
saddled him.
28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass
and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase,
nor torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid
it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city,
to mourn and to bury him.
30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned
his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein
the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against
the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which
are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but
made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests
of the high places.
34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to
cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
CHAPTER 14
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise
thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee
to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should
be king over this people.
3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of
honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and
came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were
set by reason of his age.
5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus
shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall
feign herself to be another woman.
6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she
came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why
feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy
tidings.
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee
prince over my people Israel,
8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it
thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my
commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only
which was right in mine eyes;
9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast
gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to
anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam,
and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him
that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the
house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and
him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath
spoken it.
12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy
Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some
good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who
shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to
their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have
made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam,
and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant
Ahijah the prophet.
19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how
he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty
years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his
stead.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.
Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did
choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his
mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked
him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that
their fathers had done.
23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on
according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that
the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took
away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and
committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the
door of the king's house.
28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD,
that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their
days.
31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an
Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 15
1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned
before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the
heart of David his father.
4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a
and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days
of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there
was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city
over Judah.
10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her
idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart
the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD,
silver, and gold, and vessels.
16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all
their days.
17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built
Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's
house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa
sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of
Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father
and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold;
come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may
depart from me.
20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and
Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of
Naphtali.
21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off
building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none
was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber
thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them
Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he
did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age
he was diseased in his feet.
24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in
the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way
their days.
33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way
1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against
Baasha, saying,
2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee
prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to
anger with their sins;
3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity
of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat.
4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his
might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and
came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house,
even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him
to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam;
and because he killed him.
8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the
and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat
on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one
that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet.
13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which
they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD
God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not
reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against
Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath
conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri,
the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and
that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's
house over him with fire, and died.
19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the
LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to
make Israel to sin.
20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he
wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the
people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half
followed Omri.
22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people
that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to
silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built,
after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse
in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of
Israel to anger with their vanities.
27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that
he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and
Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri
reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD
in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the
daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal,
and worshipped him.
32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which
LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before
him.
34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in
his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he
spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
CHAPTER 17
1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto
Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall
not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the
gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks:
and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a
vessel, that I may drink.
11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring
but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I
am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son,
that we may eat it, and die.
13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said:
but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after
make for thee and for thy son.
14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall
not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD
sendeth rain upon the earth.
15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she,
woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so
sore, that there was no breath left in him.
18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou
man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and
to slay my son?
19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of
her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him
upon his own bed.
20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast
thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying
her son?
21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried
unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's
soul come into him again.
22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child
man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
CHAPTER 18
1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came
to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will
send rain upon the earth.
2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore
famine in Samaria.
3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house.
that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave,
and fed them with bread and water.)
5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains
of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the
horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it:
Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by
himself.
7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he
knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is
here.
9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy
whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not
there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee
not.
11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I
come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy
servant fear the LORD from my youth.
13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the
meet Elijah.
17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto
Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets
of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then
follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet
of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose
one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and
put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood,
and put no fire under:
24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name
of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all
the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one
bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the
name of your gods, but put no fire under.
26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they
dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,
saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered.
And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said,
knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they
prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that
there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all
the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD
that was broken down.
31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the
tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came,
saying, Israel shall be thy name:
32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD:
and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two
measures of seed.
33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and
laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on
the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second
time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench
sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of
Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God
in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things
at thy word.
37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that
thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice,
and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that
was in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they
of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to
the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there
top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face
between his knees,
43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he
went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again
seven times.
44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said,
Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the
rain stop thee not.
45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was
black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode,
and went to Jezreel.
46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his
1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had
gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of
them by to morrow about this time.
3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came
came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself
that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my
life; for I am not better than my fathers.
5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an
angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the
coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and
laid him down again.
7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and
touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for
thee.
8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of
that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold,
the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest
thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down
thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am
left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the
LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind
rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but
the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the
LORD was not in the earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire:
his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And,
behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here,
Elijah?
14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown
down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I
only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the
Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to
be prophet in thy room.
17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of
Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu
shall Elisha slay.
18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which
have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat,
who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the
twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I
pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And
he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and
slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and
gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after
Elijah, and ministered unto him.
CHAPTER 20
1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and
there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots; and
he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and
Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt
deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time,
and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it
shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their
hand, and take it away.
7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said,
Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent
unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my
gold; and I denied him not.
8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not
lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do:
but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought
him word again.
10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto
me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all
the people that follow me.
11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him
he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his
servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array
against the city.
13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel,
saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude?
behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I
am the LORD.
14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD,
Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said,
Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the
provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he
numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven
thousand.
16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself
drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that
helped him.
17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first;
and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come
out of Samaria.
18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them
alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of
the city, and the army which followed them.
20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and
Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the
return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods
are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight
against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his
horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in
the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened
unto their voice, and did so.
26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad
and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like
two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of
Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said,
The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore
will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that
I am the LORD.
29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so
it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of
Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon
twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled,
and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that
the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put
sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king
of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their
heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad
saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my
brother.
33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would
come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother
Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth
to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
34 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took
from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in
Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send
thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent
him away.
35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his
neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man
refused to smite him.
36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice
of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall
slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him,
and slew him.
37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee.
Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man
turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by
any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou
shalt pay a talent of silver.
40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And
the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast
decided it.
41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the
1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a
the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said,
I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down
upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy
Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if
it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I
will not give thee my vineyard.
7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the
kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I
will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his
seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in
his city, dwelling with Naboth.
9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set
Naboth on high among the people:
10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness
against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then
carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who
were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and
as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the
people.
13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before
him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth,
in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and
the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with
stones, that he died.
14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is
dead.
15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession
of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for
money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead,
Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto
him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the
blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to
work evil in the sight of the LORD.
21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and
him that is shut up and left in Israel,
22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the
provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel
to sin.
23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat
work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred
up.
26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all
things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children
of Israel.
27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent
his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in
sackcloth, and went softly.
28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his
son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
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1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of
Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand
of the king of Syria?
4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to
man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD:
but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.
And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither
each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the
entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before
them.
11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron:
and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the
Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the king's
hand.
13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto
him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto
the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one
of them, and speak that which is good.
14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith
that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep
that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let
them return every man to his house in peace.
18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee
the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by
him on his right hand and on his left.
20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go
up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another
said on that manner.
21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he
said, Thou shalt persude him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
concerning thee.
24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote
Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD
from me to speak unto thee?
25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou
unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and
feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in
peace.
28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath
not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up
to Ramothgilead.
30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king
of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that
had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save
only with the king of Israel.
32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they
turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived
that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king
of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the
driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I
am wounded.
35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in
his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of
the wound into the midst of the chariot.
36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the
going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to
his own country.
37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried
dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto
the word of the LORD which he spake.
39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the
ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in
his stead.
41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in
reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not
aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD:
nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered
and burnt incense yet in the high places.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days
but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my
servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his
stead.
51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria
of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger
the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
1 Peter
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that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and
honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him
not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings
of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto
us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them
that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down
from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to
the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the
manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning
here in fear:
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one
another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and
Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him
shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them
which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same
is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them
which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were
appointed.
9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of
God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain
king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the
shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it
patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered
we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes
ye were healed.
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto
the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
CHAPTER 3
obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the
conversation of the wives;
2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the
sight of God of great price.
5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who
daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any
amazement.
7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being
heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and
ensue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are
open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do
evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which
is good?
14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and
give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is
in you with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God;
angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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the dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are
dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live
according to God in the spirit.
7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and
10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same
man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in
all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and
dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to
that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with
exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the
spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken
of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an
God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not
the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly
commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful
Creator.
CHAPTER 5
1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a
witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that
shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight
thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready
mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples
to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a
of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God
resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that
glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you
perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God
wherein ye stand.
13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you,
saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all
and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son
of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
2 And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the
name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had
no children.
3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to
sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to
Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah:
the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest
thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I
better to thee than ten sons?
9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they
had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of
the LORD.
10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD,
her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away
a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have
poured out my soul before the LORD.
16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the
woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more
sad.
19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before
the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and
Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after
Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name
Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto
good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his
word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned
him.
24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with
three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought
him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine
your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are
weighed.
4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled
that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she
that hath many children is waxed feeble.
6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the
lifteth up.
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar
from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit
the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he
hath set the world upon them.
9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent
heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of
the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of
his anointed.
11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did
LORD.
13 And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any
man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in
seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that
the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh
unto all the Israelites that came thither.
15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and
said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will
not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat
presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would
answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by
force.
17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the
from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly
sacrifice.
20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give
thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they
went unto their own home.
21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare
three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the
LORD.
22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of
man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding
they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD
would slay them.
26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the
saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when
they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my
priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before
me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by
fire of the children of Israel?
29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I
house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but
now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will
honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm
of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
32 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth
which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine
house for ever.
33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar,
shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the
increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two
sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to
that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure
house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine
house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of
bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices,
that I may eat a piece of bread.
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1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the
word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his
place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD,
where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me.
And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.
6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and
went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered,
I called not, my son; lie down again.
7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of
and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli
perceived that the LORD had called the child.
9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he
call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So
Samuel went and lay down in his place.
10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times,
at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have
spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the
iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and
he restrained them not.
14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for
ever.
15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he
answered, Here am I.
17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto
thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if
thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And
1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against
the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines
pitched in Aphek.
2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and
when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and
they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of
Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the
Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of
Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the
hand of our enemies.
4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence
the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between
the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there
with the ark of the covenant of God.
5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the
camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said,
What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?
And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.
7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into
the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a
thing heretofore.
8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty
Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues
in the wilderness.
9 Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye
be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit
yourselves like men, and fight.
10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled
every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there
fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni
Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside
watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man
came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What
meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told
Eli.
15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim,
and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my
son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people,
and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of
God is taken.
18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God,
that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his
neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had
judged Israel forty years.
19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to
be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was
taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed
herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her
said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not,
neither did she regard it.
21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed
from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father
in law and her husband.
22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of
God is taken.
CHAPTER 5
1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer
unto Ashdod.
2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the
Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.
And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold,
Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the
LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut
off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into
Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and
he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the
coasts thereof.
7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The
ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon
us, and upon Dagon our god.
8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines
unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?
And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto
Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the
LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote
the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their
secret parts.
10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to
pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out,
saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to
slay us and our people.
11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go
again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a
deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very
heavy there.
12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and
1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven
months.
2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying,
What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send
it to his place.
3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send
it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall
be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from
you.
4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we
shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five
golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for
one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of
your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of
Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off
your gods, and from off your land.
6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and
which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring
their calves home from them:
8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put
the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer
by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to
Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we
shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that
happened to us.
10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to
and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to
the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after
them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
13 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in
the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to
see it.
14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and
stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of
the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer
that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the
great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and
sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they
for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for
Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of
the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of
country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set
down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the
field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had
looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty
thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented,
because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great
slaughter.
20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before
saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye
down, and fetch it up to you.
CHAPTER 7
1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the
LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the
time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel
lamented after the LORD.
3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do
return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange
gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the
LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.
4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth,
poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there,
We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of
Israel in Mizpeh.
7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines.
9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt
offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for
Israel; and the LORD heard him.
10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great
thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they
were smitten before Israel.
11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the
LORD helped us.
13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into
the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines
all the days of Samuel.
14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did
Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.
15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons
thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king
people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but
they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
8 According to all the works which they have done since the day
that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they
have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall
reign over them.
10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that
over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains
over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest,
and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be
oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards,
your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his
servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye
shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel;
and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may
judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed
make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every
man unto his city.
CHAPTER 9
1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of
Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a
Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man,
and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier
person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any
of the people.
3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to
Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek
the asses.
4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the
land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the
land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land
of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
5 And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his
servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave
caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of
bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a
present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have
here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man
of God, to tell us our way.
9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus
he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a
Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went unto the city where the man of God was.
11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young
maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before
you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a
sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find
him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat
until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they
eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall
find him.
14 And they went up into the city: and when they were come into
the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high
place.
15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul
came, saying,
16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land
the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I
before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to
morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy
mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel?
Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
21 And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the
smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families
of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into
the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that
were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave
and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it
before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I
said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
25 And when they were come down from the high place into the
city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the
day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I
may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he
and Samuel, abroad.
27 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said
to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on), but stand
thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
CHAPTER 10
1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed
him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be
captain over his inheritance?
2 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two
to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to
God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves
of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread;
of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to
the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from
the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp,
before them; and they shall prophesy:
6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt
come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices
of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and
shew thee what thou shalt do.
9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from
Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass
that day.
10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of
prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he
prophesied among them.
11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw
that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said
one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul
also among the prophets?
12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their
high place.
14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went
ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no
where, we came to Samuel.
15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said
unto you.
16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses
were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he
told him not.
17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to
Mizpeh;
18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that
oppressed you:
19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you
out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto
him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves
before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come
families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was
taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
22 Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should
yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold he hath hid himself
among the stuff.
23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood
among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his
shoulders and upward.
24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD
hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the
people shouted, and said, God save the king.
25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and
wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all
the people away, every man to his house.
26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a
they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace.
CHAPTER 11
I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and
lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days'
respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and
then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the
tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices,
and wept.
5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul
said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings
of the men of Jabesh.
6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those
were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say
unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye
shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of
Jabesh; and they were glad.
10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out
unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.
11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three
companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning
watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to
pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were
not left together.
12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall
Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day:
before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace
offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel
rejoiced greatly.
CHAPTER 12
1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your
voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and
grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked
before you from my childhood unto this day.
3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and
before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken?
or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand
have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore
it you.
4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,
his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand.
And they answered, He is witness.
6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced
Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of
Egypt.
7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the
LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to
your fathers.
8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto
the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth
your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the
hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the
Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against
them.
10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned,
because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and
Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will
serve thee.
11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and
Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every
side, and ye dwelled safe.
12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign
over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and
whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and
not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and
also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your
God:
15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against
the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be
against you, as it was against your fathers.
16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD
shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your
wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in
asking you a king.
18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder
and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and
Samuel.
19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto
the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins
this evil, to ask us a king.
20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all
this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve
the LORD with all your heart;
21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things,
sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the
LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the
right way:
24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart:
1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the
Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the
Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people
as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up,
and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the
people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves,
and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad
and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed
him trembling.
8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel
had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were
scattered from him.
9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to
meet him, that he might salute him.
11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said,
Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou
camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered
themselves together at Michmash;
12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to
Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself
therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast
not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded
thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel
for ever.
14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought
him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be
captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD
commanded thee.
15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of
Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him,
about six hundred men.
16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were
companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah,
unto the land of Shual:
18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another
company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of
Zeboim toward the wilderness.
19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel:
for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen
every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for
the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither
sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with
Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there
found.
23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of
Michmash.
CHAPTER 14
1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said
unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a
pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him
were about six hundred men;
3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod.
And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over
unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and
a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and
the name of the other Seneh.
5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against
Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out
of the holes where they had hid themselves.
12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his
armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing.
And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the
LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and
his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his
armourbearer slew after him.
14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer
made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land,
which a yoke of oxen might plow.
15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all
the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the
earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,
behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one
another.
17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now,
and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold,
Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the
noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and
Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled
themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword
was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that
time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round
about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul
and Jonathan.
22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in
mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also
followed hard after them in the battle.
23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over
unto Bethaven.
24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until
evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people
tasted any food.
25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey
honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people
feared the oath.
27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with
the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand,
and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his
eyes were enlightened.
28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly
charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth
any food this day. And the people were faint.
29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I
pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little
of this honey.
30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of
the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a
much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to
and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them
with the blood.
33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the
LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have
transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say
unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep,
and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with
the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that
night, and slew them there.
35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first
spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.
And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the
priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he
answered him not that day.
38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people:
and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
39 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in
Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all
the people that answered him.
40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and
Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto
Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect
lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And
Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of
the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt
wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth,
there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought
with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the
Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of
the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of
Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of
Ner, Saul's uncle.
51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner
Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took
him unto him.
CHAPTER 15
1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be
king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the
voice of the words of the LORD.
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from
Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have,
and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling,
ox and sheep, camel and ass.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in
Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from
among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed
kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So
the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to
and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good,
and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and
refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a
place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be
the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto
the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the
LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast
thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed
thee king over Israel?
18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be
consumed.
19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but
didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have
brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the
Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the
things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the
LORD thy God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD,
he hath also rejected thee from being king.
24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have
hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee
from being king over Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the
Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is
better than thou.
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is
before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me,
that I may worship the LORD thy God.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the
LORD.
32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely
the bitterness of death is past.
33 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so
shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in
pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his
death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented
that he had made Saul king over Israel.
CHAPTER 16
1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul,
seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with
oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided
me a king among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to
sacrifice to the LORD.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou
shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to
Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said,
Comest thou peaceably?
5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD:
on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD
seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
the LORD looketh on the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.
said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the
sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not
sit down till he come hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal
of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said,
Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst
of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that
day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit
to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come
to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with
his hand, and thou shalt be well.
17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can
and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved
Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was
refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
CHAPTER 17
1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were
pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the
Philistines.
3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and
Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley
between them.
4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed
with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels
of brass.
6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass
spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a
shield went before him.
8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto
them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a
Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let
him come down to me.
9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your
servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our
servants, and serve us.
10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give
whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went
among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to
the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were
Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep
at Bethlehem.
16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and
ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp of
thy brethren;
18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand,
and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley
a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he
came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted
for the battle.
21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army
against army.
22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the
champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of
the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard
them.
24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who
killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his
daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What
shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he
should defy the armies of the living God?
27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall
and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest
thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the
wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou
art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the
same manner: and the people answered him again after the former
manner.
31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they
Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war
from his youth.
34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep,
and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of
his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and
smote him, and slew him.
36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this
paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of
the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD
be with thee.
38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of
brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to
go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with
these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth
stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had,
even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the
Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the
disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair
countenance.
43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest
flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the
name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou
hast defied.
46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of
the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild
beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in
Israel.
47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with
sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into
our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and
drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army
to meet the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and
slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into
his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in
the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his
sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his
head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead,
they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of
Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to
Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to
unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And
Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in
his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man?
And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
CHAPTER 18
1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul,
that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan
loved him as his own soul.
2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home
and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his
bow, and to his girdle.
5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved
himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was
accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's
servants.
6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned
from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities
of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy,
and with instruments of musick.
7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said,
Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he
said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have
ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God
came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David
played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's
hand.
11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to
the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him,
captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD
will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's
battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of
the Philistines be upon him.
18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my
should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the
Meholathite to wife.
20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and
him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore
Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the
twain.
22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with
David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his
servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And
David.
25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not
well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of
the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and
they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in
law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that
pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than
all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
CHAPTER 19
1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they
told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I
pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret
place, and hide thyself:
3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where
thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I
will tell thee.
4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said
unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because
he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to
thee-ward very good:
5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the
LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst
rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David
without a cause?
6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware,
things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence,
as in times past.
8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with
the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from
him.
9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his
house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin:
but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into
the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him,
and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying,
If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and
sick.
15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring
image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and
sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul,
He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah,
and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and
dwelt in Naioth.
19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in
Ramah.
20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw
prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and
they prophesied also.
22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in
Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one
said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God
was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to
Naioth in Ramah.
24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before
Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
CHAPTER 20
1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin
before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my
father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and
why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.
3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly
knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not
Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I
moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that
I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave
evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I
tell it thee?
10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy
field. And they went out both of them into the field.
12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I
have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and,
behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and
shew it thee;
13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my
father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that
thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been
with my father.
14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of
ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one
from the face of the earth.
16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,
quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the
business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I
shot at a mark.
21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I
expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee,
take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the
LORD liveth.
22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are
beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of,
seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and
David's place was empty.
26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought,
of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan
his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither
yesterday, nor to day?
28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of
me to go to Bethlehem:
29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a
unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that
thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the
confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou
shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch
him unto me, for he shall surely die.
32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,
meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because
his father had done him shame.
35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into
the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I
Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the
arrow beyond thee?
38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not.
And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew
the matter.
40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him,
toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself
three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another,
until David exceeded.
42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we
have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be
between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And
he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
CHAPTER 21
1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was
afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone,
and no man with thee?
2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath
commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know
any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have
commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a
place.
3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of
bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men
have kept themselves at least from women.
5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth
women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out,
and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner
common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread
there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put
hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the
chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine
king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances,
saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid
mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his
spittle fall down upon his beard.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad:
the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
CHAPTER 22
and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down
thither to him.
2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in
debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto
him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about
four hundred men.
3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the
king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and
be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt
with him all the while that David was in the hold.
5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold;
depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and
came into the forest of Hareth.
6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that
were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having
his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now,
ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and
vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of
hundreds;
8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that
sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and
there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son
hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the
servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to
Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals,
Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they
came all of them to the king.
12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered,
thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a
sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me,
to lie in wait, as at this day?
14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so
faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law,
and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let
not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my
father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and
and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with David,
and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the
servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests
of the LORD.
18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.
And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on
that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the
sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and
asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named
priests.
22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the
Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the
death of all the persons of thy father's house.
23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh
1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against
Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
2 Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and
smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite
the Philistines, and save Keilah.
3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in
Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of
the Philistines?
4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD
answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the
Philistines into thine hand.
5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the
Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great
slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to
said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering
into a town that hath gates and bars.
8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to
him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath
certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for
my sake.
11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul
come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech
thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men
into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
13 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose
and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it
was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go
forth.
14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and
shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next
unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David
David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of
Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of
thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's
hand.
21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have
compassion on me.
22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where
his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth
very subtilly.
23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places
where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and
I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will
search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his
men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for
fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round
about to take them.
27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and
Engedi.
CHAPTER 24
1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the
Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness
of Engedi.
2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and
went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave;
and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in
the sides of the cave.
4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the
LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand,
that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David
arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him,
thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand
against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered
them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went
on his way.
8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried
after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him,
David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words,
hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know
thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand,
and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge
from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou
and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking
these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David?
And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou
me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand,
thou killedst me not.
19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?
wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me
this day.
20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and
1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and
lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose,
and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in
Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep,
and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife
sheep.
5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the
young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my
name:
6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be
both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that
thou hast.
7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy
shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought
missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the
young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I
pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy
son David.
9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal
according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David?
and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that
break away every man from his master.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I
have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not
whence they be?
12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and
And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his
sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two
hundred abode by the stuff.
14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying,
determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is
such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two
bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of
parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes
of figs, and laid them on asses.
19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I
come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by
the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against
her; and she met them.
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow
hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained
unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave
of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the
wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass,
and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this
iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience,
and hear the words of thine handmaid.
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even
Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with
him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou
didst send.
26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood,
and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies,
and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto
my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the
LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth
the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the
soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy
God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of
the middle of a sling.
30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to
my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee,
and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my
lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath
avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord,
then remember thine handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself
with mine own hand.
34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath
kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to
meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light
any that pisseth against the wall.
35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him,
and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened
to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his
house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him,
for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more,
until the morning light.
37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out
of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within
him, and he became as a stone.
38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote
be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand
of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned
the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and
communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel,
they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him
to wife.
41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and
said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the
servants of my lord.
42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five
damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers
of David, and became his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of
1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David
Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw
that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was
and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the
captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched
round about him.
6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down
with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold,
Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at
his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into
thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the
spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch
the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at
his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's
bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither
awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD
was fallen upon them.
13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of
saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said,
Who art thou that criest to the king?
15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is
like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king?
for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth,
ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's
anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water
that was at his bolster.
17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son
his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept
an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the
LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the
inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face
of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when
one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no
more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day:
behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let
faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would
not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes,
so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver
me out of all tribulation.
25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou
shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on
his way, and Saul returned to his place.
CHAPTER 27
1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of
Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape
into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me
any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men
that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man
with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought
eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may
dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag
and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the
inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of
Egypt.
9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive,
and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels,
and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And
David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the
Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings
to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so
will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the
Philistines.
12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people
1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their
armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto
David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou
and thy men.
2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy
servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee
keeper of mine head for ever.
3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and
buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those
that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and
pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they
pitched in Gilboa.
5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and
familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants
said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he
went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and
he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me
him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul
hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the
wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to
cause me to die?
10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD
and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for
thou art Saul.
13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou?
And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old
man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived
that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and
bowed himself.
15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring
LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy
neighbour, even to David:
18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor
executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done
this thing unto thee this day.
19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the
hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with
me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the
Philistines.
20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore
troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy
voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy
words which thou spakest unto me.
22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of
thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat,
that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together
with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So
he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and
killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread
thereof:
25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and
they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
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1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the
thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with
Achish.
3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews
here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this
David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me
these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell
unto me unto this day?
4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the
princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he
may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not
go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for
wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be
with the heads of these men?
5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances,
saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the
LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in
with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee
since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords
favour thee not.
7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not
servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the
morning, and have light, depart.
11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to
return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to
Jezreel.
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1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on
the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and
smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew
not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their
way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was
burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters,
were taken captives.
4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice
him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his
sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD
his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray
thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod
to David.
8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this
troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou
shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him,
and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred
abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook
Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to
David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink
water;
12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of
raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had
eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence
upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb;
and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this
company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill
me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee
down to this company.
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread
abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of
all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines,
and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of
the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred
young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away:
neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had
taken to them: David recovered all.
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave
that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at
the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the
people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he
saluted them.
22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those
that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not
give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man
his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which
the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the
company that came against us into our hand.
24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is
that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff:
they shall part alike.
25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute
elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of
the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
27 To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south
the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the
Kenites,
30 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in
1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled
from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons;
and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's
sons.
3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him;
valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of
Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities,
and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to
strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount
Gilboa.
9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent
into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of
their idols, and among the people.
10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they
fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which
of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came
to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at
in our prayers;
3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of
love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God
and our Father;
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power,
and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner
of men we were among you for your sake.
6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received
Achaia.
8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is
spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we
had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and
true God;
10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the
1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not
in vain:
2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully
guile:
4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel,
even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor
children:
8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have
imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls,
because ye were dear unto us.
9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring
night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we
preached unto you the gospel of God.
10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and
have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all
men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the
uttermost.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in
your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our
labour be in vain.
6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us
good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good
remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see
you:
7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our
9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the
before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with
all his saints.
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Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should
because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have
forewarned you and testified.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no
hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them
are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them
which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead
in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever
be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write
unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh
destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and
they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should
sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken
breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by
among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And
be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the
holy brethren.
28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
1 Timothy
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Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other
doctrine,
4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which
jangling;
7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy
and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with
mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be
any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was
committed to my trust.
12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that
he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious:
Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which
should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise
prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a
good warfare;
19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
verity.
8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands,
works.
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived
a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,
vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient,
10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of
in all things.
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their
15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to
behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth.
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God
was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached
unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
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1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a
hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,
all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to
come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those
that believe.
11 These things command and teach.
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
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1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men
as brethren;
2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all
purity.
3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to
shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and
acceptable before God.
5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God,
8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his
own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years
if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she
have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good
work.
11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking
things which they ought not.
14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children,
treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or
three witnesses.
20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before
another, doing nothing by partiality.
22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other
1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters
worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not
blasphemed.
2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them,
because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are
faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and
exhort.
3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome
words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine
which is according to godliness;
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and
perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.
11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after
thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many
witnesses.
13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things,
and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good
confession;
14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable,
can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be
honour and power everlasting. Amen.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not
highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth
us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to
1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and
the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel,
the chief of the fathers.
3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high
place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the
congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in
the wilderness.
4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the
place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at
Jerusalem.
5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon
and the congregation sought unto it.
6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the
established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the
earth in multitude.
10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and
come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so
great?
11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and
thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine
enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and
knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I
have made thee king:
12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee
riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that
have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
13 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was
stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the
vale for abundance.
16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and
so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the
kings of Syria, by their means.
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1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD,
didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him
an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to
dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the
continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on
the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the
LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
5 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above
all gods.
6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and
silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and
that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and
in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of
Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon;
and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I
am about to build shall be wonderful great.
10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut
timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand
measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty
thousand baths of oil.
11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent
to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made
thee king over them.
12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that
made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son,
endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for
the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with
which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt
need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt
carry it up to Jerusalem.
17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of
Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered
them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three
thousand and six hundred.
18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers
mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the
place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the
Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in
building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure
was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it
was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height
was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid
with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and
thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the
walls.
8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was
according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth
thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six
hundred talents.
9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he
wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house:
and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the
other cherub.
12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to
the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to
the wing of the other cherub.
13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
14 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine
cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five
cubits.
16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the
heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them
on the chains.
17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right
hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right
hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
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and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round
in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits
did compass it round about.
3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it
round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of
oxen were cast, when it was cast.
4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and
three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and
all their hinder parts were inward.
5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like
the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and
held three thousand baths.
6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five
on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt
offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and
set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on
the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of
gold.
9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court,
and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against
the south.
11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons.
And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for
the house of God;
12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which
were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two
pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows
16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their
instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of
the LORD of bright brass.
17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was
set;
20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should
censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof
for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of
gold.
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1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was
finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had
dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he
among the treasures of the house of God.
2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto
Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city
of David, which is Zion.
3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the
assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which
could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD
unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubims:
8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the
staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen
without. And there it is unto this day.
10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses
put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children
of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not
then wait by course:
12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of
Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in
white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east
end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding
with trumpets:)
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as
one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD;
and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for
his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud,
even the house of the LORD;
14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the
cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
CHAPTER 6
1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the
thick darkness.
2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for
his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David,
saying,
5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of
Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in,
that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over
my people Israel:
6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and
thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in
thine heart:
9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which
shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the
court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all
the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven.
14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the
heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy
unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that
which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant
David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall
not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that
thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked
before me.
17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less
this house which I have built!
19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer
which thy servant prayeth before thee:
20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night,
upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name
there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this
place.
21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of
thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from
thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him
to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by
requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and
by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy,
because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy
name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to
them and to their fathers.
26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess
thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants,
and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way,
wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast
given unto thy people for an inheritance.
28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be
any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own
sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and
render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou
knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live
Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy
mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this
house;
33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people
of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel,
and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that
thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou
hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies,
and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are
carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity,
saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in
the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and
pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward
the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built
for thy name:
39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place,
their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive
thy people which have sinned against thee.
40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let
thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou,
and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with
salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down
from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the
glory of the LORD filled the house.
2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD,
because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.
3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down,
and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with
their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and
praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for
ever.
4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the
LORD.
5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand
oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the
people dedicated the house of God.
6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with
instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to
praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David
praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them,
and all Israel stood.
7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was
before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and
the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon
had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat
offerings, and the fat.
8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all
Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath
unto the river of Egypt.
9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they
kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the
goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and
to Israel his people.
11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's
house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of
the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto
him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an
house of sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land.
15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the
may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually.
17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father
walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt
observe my statutes and my judgments;
18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I
have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a
man to be ruler in Israel.
19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve
other gods, and worship them;
20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I
have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name,
will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword
among all nations.
21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every
one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done
thus unto this land, and unto this house?
22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God
of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and
laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
CHAPTER 8
1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had
4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities,
chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon
desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the
land of his dominion.
7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
were not of Israel,
8 But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom
the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay
tribute until this day.
9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his
work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of
his chariots and horsemen.
10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two
of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife
shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places
are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to
praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required:
the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man
of God commanded.
15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto
foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the
house of the LORD was perfected.
17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side
servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants
of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of
gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
CHAPTER 9
1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she
attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and
their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the
LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
5 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in
had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was
not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which
thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God
loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over
them, to do judgment and justice.
9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and
of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any
such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon,
which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of
the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers:
and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king.
So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to
Solomon.
15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the
house of the forest of Lebanon.
17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting
place, and two lions standing by the stays:
19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of
Solomon.
21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram:
every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and
silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and
wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon,
vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a
rate year by year.
25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in
abundance.
28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
all lands.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not
written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah
the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the
son of Nebat?
30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city
of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 10
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come
in Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it,
that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came
somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that
he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days.
stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel
give ye me to return answer to this people?
7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people,
and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy
servants for ever.
8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took
counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood
before him.
9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return
answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat
the yoke that thy father did put upon us?
10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto
him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee,
saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat
lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be
thicker than my father's loins.
11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put
more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
you with scorpions.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third
day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father
chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of
God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand
of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto
them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in
David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to
your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel
went to their tents.
17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah,
and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king
Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
CHAPTER 11
saying,
3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to
brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And
they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against
Jeroboam.
5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in
Judah.
6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they
walked in the way of David and Solomon.
18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the
son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and
threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore
daughters.)
22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to
all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he
gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
CHAPTER 12
and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all
Israel with him.
2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam
horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out
of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and
came to Jerusalem.
5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the
away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which
Solomon had made.
10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and
committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the
entrance of the king's house.
11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the
guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard
chamber.
12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned
from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah
things went well.
13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and
reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the
LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.
And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the
LORD.
15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in
the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning
genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually.
16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
over Judah.
2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war
between Abijah and Jeroboam.
3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of
war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the
battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,
being mighty men of valour.
4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount
Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the
kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a
covenant of salt?
6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son
hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are
with your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron,
and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the
nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself
with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them
that are no gods.
10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken
him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of
Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening
burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order
upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to
burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye
have forsaken him.
12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his
them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind
them.
14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and
behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the
trumpets.
15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah
shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before
Abijah and Judah.
16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered
there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and
the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God
of their fathers.
19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and
Ephraim with the towns thereof.
20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of
1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David:
and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten
years.
2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the
places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers,
and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he
had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make
about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet
before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought
him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and
prospered.
8 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of
Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields
and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were
mighty men of valour.
9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an
host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto
Mareshah.
10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array
in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is
nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no
power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name
we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no man
prevail against thee.
12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before
Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover
themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his
host; and they carried away very much spoil.
14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of
the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was
exceeding much spoil in them.
15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and
1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me,
Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with
him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he
will forsake you.
3 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and
to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of
the countries.
6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did
prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all
the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken
from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before
the porch of the LORD.
9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with
them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to
him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God
was with him.
10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third
month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
11 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil
which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their
fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should
their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of
them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he
removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a
grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the
brook Kidron.
17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:
had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and
vessels.
19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa.
CHAPTER 16
1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel
came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let
none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the
house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king
of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between
my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go,
break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains
of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan,
and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off
said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not
relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria
escaped out of thine hand.
8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very
many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD,
he delivered them into thine hand.
9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole
earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect
toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth
thou shalt have wars.
10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison
house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa
oppressed some of the people the same time.
11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in
his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he
sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth
for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled
with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the
apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
CHAPTER 17
garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his
father had taken.
3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the
first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
4 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his
LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and
taught the people.
10 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands
that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against
Jehoshaphat.
11 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and
tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and
seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
12 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in
their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and
with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
15 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand
mighty men of valour.
17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him
Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that
he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.
3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never
prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of
Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
8 And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said,
them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at
the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied
before them.
10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of
iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria
until they be consumed.
11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of
the king.
12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him,
saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with
one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and
speak thou good.
13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith,
that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains,
as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no
master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that
LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his
right hand and on his left.
19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that
he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this
manner, and another saying after that manner.
20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all
his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt
also prevail: go out, and do even so.
22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against
thee.
23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote
Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the
LORD from me to speak unto thee?
24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou
back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and
feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in
peace.
27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not
to Ramothgilead.
29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of
Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the
chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save
only with the king of Israel.
31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they
compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD
helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots
perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from
pursuing him.
33 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king
of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot
man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am
wounded.
34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel
stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and
about the time of the sun going down he died.
CHAPTER 19
Jerusalem.
2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and
said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love
them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the
LORD.
3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou
hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart
to seek God.
4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again
through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them
back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of
man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed
and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of
persons, nor taking of gifts.
8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of
the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the
LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the
dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and
commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that
they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and
upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of
the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of
Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before
you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
CHAPTER 20
1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the
children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came
against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There
cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side
Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and
LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in
thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand
thee?
7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this
land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy
friend for ever?
8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein
against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what
to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their
the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,
came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you,
Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the
battle is not yours, but God's.
16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by
the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the
wilderness of Jeruel.
17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye
still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and
Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for
the LORD will be with you.
18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground:
and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD,
worshipping the LORD.
19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the
children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a
loud voice on high.
20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the
wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said,
Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD
your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye
prosper.
21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed
singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as
they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his
mercy endureth for ever.
22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set
inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they
had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy
another.
24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the
wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead
bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the
spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the
dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves,
more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering
of the spoil, it was so much.
26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley
of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the
same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years
in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not
from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the
people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold,
they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned
in the book of the kings of Israel.
35 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and
Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all
these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of
precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to
Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he
strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers
also of the princes of Israel.
5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign,
house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought
that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David,
with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which
compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because
he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and
Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not
walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king
of Judah,
13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made
until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons
also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save
Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease.
19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two
years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore
diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his
fathers.
20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired.
Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of
the kings.
CHAPTER 22
1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king
in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp
had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
reigned.
2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign,
and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother
Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his
destruction.
5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the
which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see
Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram:
for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son
of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment
upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of
the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.
9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in
Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they
buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who
sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no
power to keep still the kingdom.
10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son
of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain,
and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the
daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was
the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and
1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the
captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son
of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of
Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all
the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to
Jerusalem.
3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the
house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign,
as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on
the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the
doors;
5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at
the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the
house of the LORD.
6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests,
and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy:
but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the
house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh
in, and when he goeth out.
8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that
Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that
were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the
sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of
hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's,
which were in the house of God.
10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his
hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along
by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the
crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada
and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the
entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers
with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then
Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds
that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the
ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the
priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.
15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the
entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all
the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's
people.
17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it
down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the
priest of Baal before the altars.
18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD
by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the
house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is
written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was
ordained by David.
19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD,
that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down
the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high
gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the
kingdom.
21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet,
1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
daughters.
4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair
them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to
repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten
the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him,
Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out
of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the
servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle
of witness?
7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the
house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD
did they bestow upon Baalim.
8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it
bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid
upon Israel in the wilderness.
10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in,
and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought
unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that
there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer
came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again.
Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the
service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to
repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass
to mend the house of the LORD.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them,
and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
14 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the
money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the
house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and
spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in
the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an
because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his
house.
17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and
served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for
this their trespass.
19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the
LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith
God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot
prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken
you.
21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at
the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which
Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died,
he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria
came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and
destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent
all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men,
and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they
had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment
against Joash.
25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in
great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of
the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died:
and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the
sepulchres of the kings.
26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of
upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written
in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his
stead.
CHAPTER 25
1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not
that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in
the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers
shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers,
but every man shall die for his own sin.
5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them
army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all
the children of Ephraim.
8 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make
thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for
the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the
man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than
this.
10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come
went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry
away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them
down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they
should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from
Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and
took much spoil.
14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the
and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou
sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own
people out of thine hand?
16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said
unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest
thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God
hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast
not hearkened unto my counsel.
17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the
son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see
one another in the face.
18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon,
saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild
beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart
lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle
to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might
deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after
the gods of Edom.
21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another
were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the
king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the
1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old,
reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod,
and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the
and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he
had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen
also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved
husbandry.
11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to
help the king against the enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields,
and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast
stones.
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men,
to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great
stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously
helped, till he was strong.
16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his
destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into
the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore
appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but
to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go
out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine
honour from the LORD God.
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn
incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose
up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from
beside the incense altar.
20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon
him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out
from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had
smitten him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and
dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house
of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the
people of the land.
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the
fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said,
He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
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1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the
temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall
against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an
hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten
thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him,
both the second year, and the third.
6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before
ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the
sight of the LORD, like David his father:
2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also
and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen
whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on
king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of
them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also
delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great
slaughter.
6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and
twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they
had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's
son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next
to the king.
8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren
two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away
much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded:
and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto
them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with
Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in
a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and
Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with
you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye
have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is
upon you.
12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the
the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them,
and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink,
and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and
brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then
they returned to Samaria.
16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help
him.
17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and
carried away captives.
18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country,
and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and
Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the
villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt
there.
19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel;
for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and
out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king
of Assyria: but he helped him not.
22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against
and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore
will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of
him, and of all Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God,
and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors
of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of
Jerusalem.
25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn
incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his
fathers.
26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold,
they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city,
even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the
kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
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1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and
he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and
carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in
the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned
away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the
lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the
holy place unto the God of Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and
of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to
stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and
burn incense.
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the
son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari,
Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the
Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons
LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found
in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And
the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify,
and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD:
so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the
sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have
cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with
all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels
thereof.
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast
lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the
sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of
Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood,
and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before
the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with
their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king
commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made
for all Israel.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals,
altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began
also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king
of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and
the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was
finished.
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that
were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the
Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of
Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed
their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated
yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank
offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in
sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt
offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation
brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two
hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three
thousand sheep.
34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the
burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the
work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for
the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the
priests.
35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of
the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So
the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had
1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to
Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD
at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the
Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the
passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not
done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes
trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave
them up to desolation, as ye see.
8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield
yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath
sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of
his wrath may turn away from you.
9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your
children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so
that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is
gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye
return unto him.
10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of
Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to
scorn, and mocked them.
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the
LORD.
13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the
and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the
brook Kidron.
15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and
sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of
the LORD.
16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the
law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they
received of the hand of the Levites.
17 For there were many in the congregation that were not
sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the
passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the
LORD.
18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and
Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did
they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed
for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his
the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the
Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud
instruments unto the LORD.
22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught
the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast
seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the
LORD God of their fathers.
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days:
thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to
the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a
great number of priests sanctified themselves.
25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the
Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the
strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah,
rejoiced.
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of
Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in
Jerusalem.
27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and
their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling
place, even unto heaven.
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1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to
the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the
groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah
and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly
destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to
his possession, into their own cities.
2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the
Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the
priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister,
and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt
offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the
burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set
feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to
give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be
encouraged in the law of the LORD.
5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of
Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and
honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things
brought they in abundantly.
6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the
cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the
tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God,
and laid them by heaps.
7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps,
and finished them in the seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps,
him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the
house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for
the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great
store.
11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house
things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his
brother was the next.
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth,
and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were
overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the
commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house
of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the
east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of
the LORD, and the most holy things.
15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and
upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD,
his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their
courses;
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their
fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their
charges by their courses;
18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their
sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set
office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of
the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were
expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests,
and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that
which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of
God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it
with all his heart, and prospered.
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Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced
cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that
waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help
him.
4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all
the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land,
saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was
broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and
repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in
abundance.
6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them
together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably
to them, saying,
7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the
king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more
with us than with him:
8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to
help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon
the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to
Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power
with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at
Jerusalem, saying,
10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust,
by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of
the hand of the king of Assyria?
12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his
people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any
ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my
fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand,
that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you
on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or
kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the
hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine
hand?
16 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and
speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have
not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of
Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the
people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble
them; that they might take the city.
19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the
gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of
man.
20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the
valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria.
So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was
come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels
slew him there with the sword.
22 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from
the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
23 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and
the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done
unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him,
and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his
heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the
LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he
made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones,
and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and
stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and
herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of
Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.
And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of
Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in
the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his
heart.
32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold,
they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and
in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his
son reigned in his stead.
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abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the
children of Israel.
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had
broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD
house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In
this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of
Israel, will I put my name for ever:
8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the
land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed
to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and
the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed
before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they
of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and
bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God,
his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the
west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate,
and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and
put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the
house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the
house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon
peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the
LORD God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet
God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the
LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel.
19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his
sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and
set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they
are written among the sayings of the seers.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his
Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images
which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his
father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own
house.
25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king
in his stead.
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1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in
walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right
hand, nor to the left.
3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he
began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he
began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the
groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and
the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves,
and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and
made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had
sacrificed unto them.
5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and
had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols
throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the
land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah
the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to
repair the house of the LORD his God.
9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the
money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that
kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and
of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they
returned to Jerusalem.
10 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight
of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought
in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:
11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn
stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings
of Judah had destroyed.
12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them
were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and
Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward;
and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers
of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites
there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the
house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the
LORD given by Moses.
15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have
found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah
delivered the book to Shaphan.
16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king
word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do
it.
17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in
the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the
overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest
Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for
great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our
fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written
in this book.
22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to
Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of
Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the
college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
23 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in
the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their
hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall
not be quenched.
26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the
LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel
concerning the words which thou hast heard;
27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself
before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and
against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and
didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also,
saith the LORD.
28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be
gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil
that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So
they brought the king word again.
29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah
and Jerusalem.
30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the
men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the
Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all
the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the
LORD.
31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the
LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to
perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin
countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were
present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his
days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to
unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of
David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your
shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
4 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your
families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division
of the families of the Levites.
6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your
brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the
hand of Moses.
7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for
the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty
thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's
substance.
8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and
to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of
God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and
six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.
9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and
Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the
Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five
hundred oxen.
10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their
according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the
LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the
oxen.
13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the
ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons,
and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.
14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the
priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of
burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for
themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according
keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the
LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at
kept.
20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king
thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against
the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste:
forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy
thee not.
22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but
disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto
the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the
valley of Megiddo.
23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his
in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem,
and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And
all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and
the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and
made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the
lamentations.
26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according
1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and
and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took
Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD his God.
6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and
which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in
the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned
in his stead.
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which
was evil in the sight of the LORD.
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and
brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the
LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the
mouth of the LORD.
13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had
made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his
heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,
transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and
polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose
against his people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who
slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and
had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that
stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king,
and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of
Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all
the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to
Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of
the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until
the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she
kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the
hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to
build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among
you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
2 Corinthians
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1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our
brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints
which are in all Achaia:
2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the
simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of
God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to
you-ward.
13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or
rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before,
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among
you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and
nay, but in him was yea.
20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen,
our hearts.
23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you
I came not as yet unto Corinth.
24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of
1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in
heaviness.
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but
with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know
the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part:
many.
7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort
him.
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you,
thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of
Christ;
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not
other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as
men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of
Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living
God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,
was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the
face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be
done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the
children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is
abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the
same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is
done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon
their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of
the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as
by the Spirit of the LORD.
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faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus'
sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal
flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I
which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the
things which are not seen are eternal.
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1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with
for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be
swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who
accepted of him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that
every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he
hath done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but
we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in
your consciences.
12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and
rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea,
though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know
we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old
things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by
not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the
word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
in fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the
enlarged.
12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own
bowels.
13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my
children,) be ye also enlarged.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them,
and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were
fears.
6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down,
did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry,
though it were but for a season.
9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed
had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our
care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and
exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was
refreshed by you all.
14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed;
but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I
made before Titus, is found a truth.
15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he
remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye
received him.
16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
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and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye
abound in this grace also.
8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the
was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty
might be rich.
10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who
have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a
a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for
your want: that there may be equality:
15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over;
oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent,
upon the great confidence which I have in you.
23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and
fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the
messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof
write to you:
2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you
to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal
hath provoked very many.
3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in
would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of
bounty, and not as of covetousness.
6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good
work:
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the
for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your
righteousness;)
11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth
your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal
distribution unto them, and unto all men;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the
exceeding grace of God in you.
15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold
toward you:
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when
trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that,
as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which
the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I
should not be ashamed:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily
when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring
themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among
themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but
according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a
measure to reach even unto you.
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we
reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching
the gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other
men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we
shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to
Lord commendeth.
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1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear
with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin
to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity
that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable
to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came
from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being
burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them
which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even
as we.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed
you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on
the face.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak.
not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern
mine infirmities.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed
body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God
knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I
mine infirmities.
6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will
say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above
that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the
me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather
glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in
be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children
ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the
18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a
gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same
steps?
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak
before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your
edifying.
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would,
and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be
debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings,
tumults:
21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among
you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have
not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness
which they have committed.
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1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three
time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned,
and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-
the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him
by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this
should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given
me to edification, and not to destruction.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of
one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
13 All the saints salute you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth;
and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for
ever.
3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as
commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that
we love one another.
6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have
Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath
both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive
him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with
paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that
our joy may be full.
13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
2 Kings
CHAPTER 1
2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that
was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto
them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover
of this disease.
3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up
to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it
not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of
Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down
from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah
departed.
5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto
said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel,
that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore
thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but
shalt surely die.
7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came
girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he
went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake
unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man
of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his
fifty.
11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty.
And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king
said, Come down quickly.
12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God,
let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the
fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the
third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before
Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee,
let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two
captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be
precious in thy sight.
15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him:
be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the
king.
16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou
spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram
the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not
1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven
hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your
peace.
4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha,
and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye
your peace.
6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD
hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view
the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two
went over on dry ground.
9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said
unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from
thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be
upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou
see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it
shall not be so.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that,
behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted
them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot
of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he
took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went
the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he
also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha
went over.
15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at
Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And
they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants
fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest
peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him
upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send.
They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him
not.
18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he
situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught,
and the ground barren.
20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And
in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters;
there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying
up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked
him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in
the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the
wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
returned to Samaria.
CHAPTER 3
1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria
father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his
father had made.
3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of
The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against
Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as
thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The
Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there
was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called
these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD,
that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's
servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which
poured water on the hands of Elijah.
12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to
him.
13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with
thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy
mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath
called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
14 And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of
ditches.
17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye
see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both
ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will
shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good
piece of land with stones.
20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was
offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the
country was filled with water.
21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to
fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and
upward, and stood in the border.
22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon
the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as
blood:
23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they
and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went
forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land
cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of
water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the
stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for
him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break
through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his
stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was
great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and
returned to their own land.
CHAPTER 4
1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou
knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to
take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what
hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing
in the house, save a pot of oil.
3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou
shalt set aside that which is full.
5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her
sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said
unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a
vessel more. And the oil stayed.
7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell
the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a
great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that
as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this
set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it
shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the
careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou
be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she
answered, I dwell among mine own people.
14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi
the door.
16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life,
thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God,
do not lie unto thine handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the
man of God, and come again.
23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither
forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel.
And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said
to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well
with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she
answered, It is well:
27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught
him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of
God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD
hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do
thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if
any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of
the child.
30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy
soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the
face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he
went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child
his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands:
and stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed
warm.
35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went
up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times,
and the child opened his eyes.
36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he
called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy
son.
37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the
land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said
unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of
the prophets.
39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild
vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred
them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as
they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man
of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he
said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm
in the pot.
42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man
of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of
corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they
may eat.
43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred
men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith
the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof,
1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man
with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given
deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a
leper.
2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought
away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on
Naaman's wife.
3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the
the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver,
and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when
this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my
servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter,
that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that
this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore
consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the
king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying,
Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he
shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood
at the door of the house of Elisha.
10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in
Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou
shalt be clean.
11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name
of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the
leper.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all
the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned
and went away in a rage.
13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My
father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not
have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and
be clean?
14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like
unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and
came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there
is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a
blessing of thy servant.
16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will
thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth
offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the
LORD.
18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master
goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my
hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down
myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this
thing.
19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a
little way.
20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold,
my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands
that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and
take somewhat of him.
21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him
running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said,
Is all well?
22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold,
even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of
the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two
changes of garments.
23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged
him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of
garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them
before him.
24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand,
and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they
departed.
25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said
unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went
no whither.
26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the
man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive
money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and
sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and
unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as
white as snow.
CHAPTER 6
1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place
a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he
answered, Go ye.
3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
down wood.
5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water:
place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did
swim.
7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand,
with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware
that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God
told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this
thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew
me which of us is for the king of Israel?
12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha,
the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou
speakest in thy bedchamber.
13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch
gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and
chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we
do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more
that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and
he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire
round about Elisha.
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the
LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he
smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the
city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led
them to Samaria.
20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that
Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And
the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the
midst of Samaria.
21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My
eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So
the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria
gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they
besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver,
and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there
answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him
to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the
next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the
people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he
said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take
away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and
hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind
him?
33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came
down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should
I wait for the LORD any longer?
CHAPTER 7
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD,
To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of
God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven,
might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine
eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate:
and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city,
and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore
come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we
shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of
Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise
of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and
they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the
kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents,
and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for
their life.
8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp,
they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver,
and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered
into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day
of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light,
some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go
and tell the king's household.
10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told
them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there
was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied,
and the tents as they were.
11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house
within.
12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will
now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be
hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the
field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive,
and get into the city.
13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I
pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city,
(behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I
say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are
consumed:) and let us send and see.
14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after
full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their
haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians.
So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of
barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to
have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate,
and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king
came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king,
saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour
for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold,
if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?
And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the
1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life,
God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the
Philistines seven years.
3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman
returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto
the king for her house and for her land.
4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God,
saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And
Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son,
whom Elisha restored to life.
6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers,
and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until
now.
7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria
was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and
go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall
I recover of this disease?
9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even
of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and
stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent
me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely
die.
11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their
strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with
the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should
do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me
that thou shalt be king over Syria.
14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said
to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou
shouldest surely recover.
15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth,
and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and
Hazael reigned in his stead.
16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the
sight of the LORD.
19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's
sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and
the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day.
in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did
and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in
the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in
law of the house of Ahab.
28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against
Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah
went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was
sick.
CHAPTER 9
1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and
said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and
go to Ramothgilead:
2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from
among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus
saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the
door, and flee, and tarry not.
4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
Ramothgilead.
5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting;
and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto
which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on
his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have
anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may
avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from
Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in
Israel:
9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and
there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said
unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he
said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus
spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king
over Israel.
13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu
is king.
14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel,
because of Hazael king of Syria.
15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael
king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth
nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay
there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And
Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say,
Is it peace?
18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus
saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with
peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The
messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them,
and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What
hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and
cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of
Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready.
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his
chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of
Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it
between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down
in his chariot.
25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in
the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that,
when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this
burden upon him;
26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood
of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the
LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground,
according to the word of the LORD.
27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way
of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him
also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by
Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and
she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace,
side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and
some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he
trode her under foot.
34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go,
see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than
the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is
the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of
the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is
Jezebel.
CHAPTER 10
1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and
sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that
brought up Ahab's children, saying,
2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's
sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced
city also, and armour;
3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and
set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings
the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying,
We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not
make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be
mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men
your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time.
Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of
the city, which brought them up.
7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took
the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in
baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have
brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two
heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood,
and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against
my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word
of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for
the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel,
and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him
none remaining.
12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he
Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and
we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the
queen.
14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and
slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men;
neither left he any of them.
15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the
son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him,
Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab
answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand;
and he took him up to him into the chariot.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So
Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the
LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them,
Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his
servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great
sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But
Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers
of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they
proclaimed it.
21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal
came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into
the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to
another.
22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth
vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth
vestments.
23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the
house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look
that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the
worshippers of Baal only.
24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings,
Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom
I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life
shall be for the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering
the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in,
and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge
of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to
the city of the house of Baal.
26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and
burned them.
27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the
29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves
that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in
executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house
of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of
Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam,
which made Israel to sin.
32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael
the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river
Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his
might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria.
1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead,
took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons
which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the
bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And
hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into
the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an
oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall
do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers
of the watch of the king's house;
6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the
gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be
not broken down.
7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they
shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his
weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be
slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things
that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men
that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the
sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand,
round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner
of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him,
and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him;
and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the
people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the
manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth
without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the
priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the
which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king
and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king
also and the people.
18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and
brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly,
and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest
appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the
guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king
from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the
guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet:
and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
CHAPTER 12
1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years
things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of
every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at,
and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the
house of the LORD,
5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance:
and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach
shall be found.
6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash
priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the
house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but
deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the
it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the
house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the
money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the
chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up
in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that
did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they
laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of
the LORD,
12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and
hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all
that was laid out for the house to repair it.
13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with
his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 13
1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of
Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
and reigned seventeen years.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and
followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin;
he departed not therefrom.
3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened
unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria
oppressed them.
5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from
under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their
tents, as beforetime.
6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of
Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained
the grove also in Samaria.)
7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of
Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his
might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned
sixteen years.
11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel sin: but he walked therein.
12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his
might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his
throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And
Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face,
and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen
thereof.
15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took
And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's
hands.
17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it.
Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the
LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou
shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said
unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and
stayed.
19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till
thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of
Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of
Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz.
23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on
them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he
them from his presence as yet.
24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in
his stead.
25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of
Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the
hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and
recovered the cities of Israel.
CHAPTER 14
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not
like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people
his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that
which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD
commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took
Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz
son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the
face.
9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in
Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed
by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee
up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy
hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel
went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the
face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled
found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house,
and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria
with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and
reigned forty and one years.
24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto
the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel,
which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the
prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter:
for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel
from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son
of Joash.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his
two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of
Jerusalem.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's
son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and
smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in
Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew
him, and reigned in his stead.
15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he
made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and
the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him,
therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he
ripped up.
17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began
Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in
Samaria.
18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin.
19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and
Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be
with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the
mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the
king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there
in the land.
21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
reigned in his stead.
23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of
Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house,
with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he
killed him, and reigned in his room.
26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh,
and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried
them captive to Assyria.
30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah
the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his
stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel
and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the
house of the LORD.
36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they
fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead.
CHAPTER 16
1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of
sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight
of the LORD his God, like David his father.
3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could
not overcome him.
6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and
drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt
there unto this day.
7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the
hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which
rise up against me.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of
the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a
present to the king of Assyria.
9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of
it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to
Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to
all the workmanship thereof.
11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz
had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz
came from Damascus.
12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured
his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the
altar.
14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the
LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the
house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the
great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering,
and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt
offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their
drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and
all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to
enquire by.
16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz
commanded.
17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the
laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that
were under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.
18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house,
and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for
the king of Assyria.
19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not
in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 17
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah
carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor
by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the
LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt,
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other
gods,
8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast
out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which
they had made.
9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not
right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all
their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and
under every green tree:
11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the
heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked
things to provoke the LORD to anger:
12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye
the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways,
and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law
which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants
the prophets.
14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks,
like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their
God.
15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made
with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them;
and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen
that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged
them, that they should not do like them.
16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and
made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through
the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to
do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God,
and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of
his sight.
21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from
following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam
by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their
own land to Assyria unto this day.
24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and
placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and
they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they
feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which
slew some of them.
26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations
which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not
the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among
them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of
the God of the land.
27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one
of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell
there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear
the LORD.
29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in
the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every
nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of
lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the
houses of the high places.
33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the
saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor
serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with
great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye
worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
manner.
41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their
fathers, so do they unto this day.
CHAPTER 18
1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,
down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had
made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it:
and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none
like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him,
went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him
not.
8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders
was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year
put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of
the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but
transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib
king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took
them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest
on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king
of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house
temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah
had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah,
Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein thou trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and
strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed,
even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that
he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and
hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in
Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of
Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy
part to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to
destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah,
master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the
men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink
their own piss with you?
28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of
Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall
LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then
eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink
ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive
and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto
Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out
gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of
mine hand?
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have
delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver
Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word:
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.
CHAPTER 19
1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of
the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach
the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master,
Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard,
with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour,
and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword
in his own land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he
have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the
and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and
spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God
of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even
thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and
earth.
16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes,
and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to
reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed
them.
19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us
out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art
the LORD God, even thou only.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him;
The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against
whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even
against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast
times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the
green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it
be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and
mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and
five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they
were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him
with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER 20
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah
the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
saying,
3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is
good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle
saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I
have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt
go up unto the house of the LORD.
6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee
and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this
city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on
LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the
third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the
LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward
ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go
down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the
shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of
Ahaz.
12 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that
Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the
house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and
the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was
found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they
seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into
Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of
the king of Babylon.
19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be
in my days?
20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how
he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned
fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the
children of Israel.
3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father
had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as
did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and
served them.
4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD
and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he
wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to
anger.
7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the
house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel,
will I put my name for ever:
8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the
land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to
all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my
servant Moses commanded them.
9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more
evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of
Israel.
10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of
it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the
them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a
spoil to all their enemies;
15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and
have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of
Egypt, even unto this day.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had
filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he
made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and
his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son
reigned in his stead.
19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king
in his stead.
25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not
1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah,
the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and
walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right
hand or to the left.
3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the
king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe,
to the house of the LORD, saying,
4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which
is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door
have gathered of the people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that
have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the
doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the
breaches of the house,
6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber
that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have
found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the
book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king
word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was
found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do
the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the
priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the
of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe,
and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for
all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the
wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have
not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that
which is written concerning us.
14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the
son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt
in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell
and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which
the king of Judah hath read:
17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto
other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their
hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall
not be quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD,
thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching
the words which thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself
before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place,
and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation
and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have
heard thee, saith the LORD.
20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou
shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all
the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word
again.
CHAPTER 23
1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah
and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the
men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the
priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and
he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was
found in the house of the LORD.
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the
LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his
testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to
perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all
the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests
of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the
temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the
grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without
Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto
Bethel.
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah
had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah,
and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense
unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the
host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD,
without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook
Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof
upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the
house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba
to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in
the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were
on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the
altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread
among their brethren.
10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through
the fire to Molech.
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given
to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber
of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned
the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of
Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the
king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of
them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on
the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of
Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for
Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the
abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves,
and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that
altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and
stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were
there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres,
and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of
the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these
words.
17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the
city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from
Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar
of Bethel.
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they
let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of
Samaria.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities
of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to
anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he
had done in Bethel.
20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there
upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to
Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the
passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this
covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of
the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor
of the kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover
the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the
land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might
perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah
the priest found in the house of the LORD.
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to
the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might,
according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like
him.
26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his
great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of
all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as
I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have
chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they
king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him;
and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo,
and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And
the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed
him, and made him king in his father's stead.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his fathers had done.
33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of
Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a
tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the
room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took
Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he
reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and
bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the
children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah,
to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all
that he did;
4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled
Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they
for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river
Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and
LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the
vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of
the LORD, as the LORD had said.
14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all
the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the
craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the
people of the land.
15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's
mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land,
those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen
and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them
the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,
and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
CHAPTER 25
1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in
the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came,
he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they
built forts against it round about.
2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king
Zedekiah.
3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in
the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night
by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden:
(now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went
the way toward the plain.
5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and
overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered
from him.
6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon
the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried
him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is
all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with
fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of
fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the
multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
12 But the captain of the guard left of the door of the poor of the
the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did
the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons,
and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of
gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had
made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter
upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the
wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of
brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men
of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were
found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the
people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that
were found in the city:
20 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought
the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom
heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came
to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan
the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite,
and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto
them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men
with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the
Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the
armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
2 Peter
CHAPTER 1
pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath
called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and
to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye
shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off,
and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your
calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into
made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when
there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we
well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until
the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
CHAPTER 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there
shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon
themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom
wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and
hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful
deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,
destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall
utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that
count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes,
sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with
through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were
clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the
the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than
the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The
dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her
wallowing in the mire.
CHAPTER 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of
the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the
heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the
water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word
are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is
with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new
as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him
hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in
which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are
unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto
their own destruction.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before,
beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from
your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
2 Samuel
CHAPTER 1
1 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned
from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in
Ziklag;
2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came
out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head:
and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did
obeisance.
3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he
me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many
of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son
are dead also.
5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest
upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the
chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me.
Amalekite.
9 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay
me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he
could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon
his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them
hither unto my lord.
11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise
and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the
house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art
mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD's
anointed.
17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over
mighty fallen!
20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the
rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is
vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed
with oil.
22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of
Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they
were stronger than lions.
24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in
scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your
apparel.
25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan,
hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love
of women.
27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
CHAPTER 2
1 And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD, saying,
Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto
him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto
Hebron.
2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the
over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of
Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.
5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and
said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this
kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also
will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant:
for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed
me king over them.
8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth
Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
10 Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to
reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed
David.
11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of
out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one
on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play
which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants
of David.
16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his
sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place
was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was
he answered, I am.
21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy
left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his
armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following
me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold
up my face to Joab thy brother?
23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the
hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came
out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it
came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down
and died stood still.
24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went
down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah
by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after
Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for
ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how
long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their
brethren?
27 And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely
then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his
brother.
28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and
and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to
Mahanaim.
30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had
father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night,
and they came to Hebron at break of day.
CHAPTER 3
1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of
David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul
waxed weaker and weaker.
2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was
Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of
Talmai king of Geshur;
4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth,
David in Hebron.
6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of
Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the
house of Saul.
7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the
said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day
unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and
have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to
day with a fault concerning this woman?
9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath
feared him.
12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying,
Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold,
my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
13 And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I
require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring
Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying,
Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying,
the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand
of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went
also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to
Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him.
And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all
Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and
that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent
Abner away; and he went in peace.
22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from
pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was
not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in
peace.
23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they
told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath
sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done?
behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away,
and he is quite gone?
25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive
thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that
thou doest.
26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers
after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David
knew it not.
27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in
the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib,
that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom
are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of
Ner:
29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and
let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is
a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that
lacketh bread.
30 So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had
slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him,
Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.
And king David himself followed the bier.
32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his
voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a
fool dieth?
34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a
man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept
again over him.
35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while
it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I
taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as
the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer
of evil according to his wickedness.
CHAPTER 4
1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands
name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the
sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth
also was reckoned to Benjamin.
3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there
He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of
Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she
made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was
Mephibosheth.
5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah,
went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth,
who lay on a bed at noon.
6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they
would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and
Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his
bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and
took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron,
and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine
enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the
king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of
Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who
hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to
have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who
thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous
person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require
his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and
cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in
Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the
sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
CHAPTER 5
1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake,
leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou
shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king
David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they
anointed David king over Israel.
4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he
and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and
Judah.
6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou
take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking,
David cannot come in hither.
7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the
city of David.
8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter,
and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of
David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The
blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And
trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king
over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's
sake.
13 And David took him more concubines and wives out of
Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and
daughters born to David.
14 And these be the names of those that were born unto him in
17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king
over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of
it, and went down to the hold.
18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of
Rephaim.
19 And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the
Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said
unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine
hand.
20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there,
and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as
the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place
Baalperazim.
21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned
them.
22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in
the valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not
go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over
against the mulberry trees.
24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops
of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the
LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and
1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty
thousand.
2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him
from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose
name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between
the cherubims.
3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of
the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons
of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at
Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on
his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God
smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a
breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to
this day.
9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall
the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom
the Gittite.
11 And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom
the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his
household.
12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the
house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark
of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of
Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had
Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping
and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place,
in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt
offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the
LORD of hosts.
19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole
daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was
the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the
handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
uncovereth himself!
21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which
chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler
over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the
LORD.
22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine
own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them
shall I be had in honour.
23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day
of her death.
CHAPTER 7
1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had
brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have
walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of
Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded
to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of
cedar?
8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following
the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off
all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like
unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will
plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no
more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as
beforetime,
11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my
people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also
the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy
bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the
will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children
of men:
15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from
Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought
me hitherto?
19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou
hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is
this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD,
done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like
thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have
heard with our ears.
23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like
Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make
him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land,
before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the
nations and their gods?
24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a
people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken
concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever,
and do as thou hast said.
26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of
hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be
established before thee.
27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy
servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant
found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true,
servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD,
hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be
blessed for ever.
CHAPTER 8
1 And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and
subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the
Philistines.
2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting
them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to
death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became
David's servants, and brought gifts.
3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah,
horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the
chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer
king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians
became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved
David whithersoever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
host of Hadadezer,
10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and
silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the
garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD
preserved David whithersoever he went.
15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment
1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I
Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him,
Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.
3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I
may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king,
Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the
was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David
said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
7 And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee
kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land
of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou
have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his
house.
10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land
for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have
food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at
my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the
king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for
Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's
sons.
12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha.
And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.
13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually
1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon
Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to
comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's
servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their
lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent
comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee,
to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one
half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their
buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the
men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your
beards be grown, and then return.
6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before
David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob
and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a
thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the
mighty men.
8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array
at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and
Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before
and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians:
10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai
his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of
Ammon.
11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt
help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will
come and help thee.
12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and
for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the
then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab
returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
15 And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel,
beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of
the host of Hadarezer went before them.
17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and
passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set
themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of
they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served
them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
CHAPTER 11
1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings
go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all
Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.
But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off
his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof
he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to
look upon.
3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is
not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto
him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and
she returned unto her house.
5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I
am with child.
6 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And
how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy
feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him
a mess of meat from the king.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the
his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why
then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah,
abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are
encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and
to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I
will not do this thing.
12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I
will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the
morrow.
13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him;
and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with
the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to
the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he
assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and
there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the
Hittite died also.
18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew
ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a
woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in
Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the
Hittite is dead also.
22 So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that
against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them
even unto the entering of the gate.
24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and
some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is
dead also.
25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto
Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as
well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and
overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was
his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing
that David had done displeased the LORD.
CHAPTER 12
1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and
said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the
other poor.
2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he
had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with
his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay
in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to
take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man
that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for
the man that was come to him.
5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he
said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing
shall surely die:
6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing,
LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee
out of the hand of Saul;
8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into
thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that
had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such
things.
9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD,
to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword
of the children of Ammon.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house;
because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be thy wife.
11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out
of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give
them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this
sun.
12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel,
And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou
shalt not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to
the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto
thee shall surely die.
15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the
child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted,
and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him
up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And
the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they
said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he
would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell
him that the child is dead?
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David
perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants,
Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed
himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD,
and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required,
they set bread before him, and he did eat.
21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast
done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when
the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for
I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child
may live?
23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him
and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon:
and the LORD loved him.
25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called
encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called
after my name.
29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to
under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and
made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities
of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto
Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 13
1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair
sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar;
for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to
her.
3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of
from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love
Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make
thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray
thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in
my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king
was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar
my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may
eat at her hand.
7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother
down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight,
and did bake the cakes.
9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he
refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they
went out every man from him.
10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber,
that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had
made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of
her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no
thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee,
speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being
wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had
loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
16 And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending
me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would
not hearken unto her.
17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said,
Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such
robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his
servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of
divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went
on crying.
20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother
been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother;
regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother
Absalom's house.
21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very
wroth.
22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor
bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had
servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his
servants go with thy servant.
25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go,
with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's
now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you,
Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be
courageous, and be valiant.
29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had
commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up
upon his mule, and fled.
30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings
came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there
is not one of them left.
31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the
earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered
and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men
the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of
Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister
Tamar.
33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart,
to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted
up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the
way of the hill side behind him.
35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come:
speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and
wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king
years.
39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for
1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was
toward Absalom.
2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and
said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now
mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that
had a long time mourned for the dead:
3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So
face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered,
the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other,
and slew him.
7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid,
and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for
the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also:
and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my
husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will
iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne
be guiltless.
10 And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to
me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy
God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any
more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there
shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak
one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a
thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one
which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy
handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will
perform the request of his handmaid.
16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of
the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the
inheritance of God.
17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall
from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said,
Let my lord the king now speak.
19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this?
And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king,
none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the
king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these
words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done
thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have
found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the
request of his servant.
23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to
Jerusalem.
24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not
see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the
king's face.
25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as
Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his
head there was no blemish in him.
26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that
he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:)
he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's
weight.
27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one
king's face.
29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king;
but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time,
he would not come.
30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near
mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's
servants set the field on fire.
31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and
said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying,
Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I
come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now
therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let
him kill me.
33 So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called
for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the
ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
CHAPTER 15
1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and
gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to
the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what
city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right;
that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I
would do him justice!
5 And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him
obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the
king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the
king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the
LORD, in Hebron.
8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria,
saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will
serve the LORD.
9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went
to Hebron.
10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel,
saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say,
Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that
were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any
thing.
12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's
counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And
the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with
Absalom.
13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the
Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from
Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring
evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
15 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants
king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried
Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men
which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also
with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a
stranger, and also an exile.
20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee
go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take
back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and
as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be,
whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite
passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people
passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all
the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
24 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the
ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and
Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the
city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again,
and shew me both it, and his habitation:
26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I,
return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy
son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come
he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the
people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up,
weeping as they went up.
31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the
conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn
the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the
servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now
also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of
Ahithophel.
35 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the
priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of
the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz
Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send
unto me every thing that ye can hear.
37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came
into Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 16
1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the
Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the
bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such
as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
3 And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said
unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall
the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained
unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find
grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out
a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the
son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king
David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand
and on his left.
7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou
Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the
kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in
thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should
this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and
take off his head.
10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse
David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my
son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more
now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the
LORD hath bidden him.
12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the
on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw
stones at him, and cast dust.
14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary,
was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the
king, God save the king.
17 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend?
this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him
will I abide.
19 And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the
we shall do.
21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's
concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear
that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are
with thee be strong.
22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and
Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those
days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the
counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
CHAPTER 17
and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee;
and I will smite the king only:
3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou
5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us
him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after
his saying? if not; speak thou.
7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath
will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that
whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that
follow Absalom.
10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion,
shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man,
and they which be with him are valiant men.
11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto
thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for
multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be
found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of
him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as
one.
13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring
ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one
small stone found there.
14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of
Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD
had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that
the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus
and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and
thus and thus have I counselled.
16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not
this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the
king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might
not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and
they went and told king David.
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went
both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which
had a well in his court; whither they went down.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's
mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house,
they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto
them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought
and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came
up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David,
Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel
counselled against you.
22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and
they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of
them that was not gone over Jordan.
23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he
saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city,
and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was
buried in the sepulchre of his father.
24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over
which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that
went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's
mother.
26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched
pulse,
29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for
David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The
people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
CHAPTER 18
1 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of
Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah,
Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the
king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee
away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for
us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better
that thou succour us out of the city.
4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do.
And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by
hundreds and by thousands.
5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all
the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning
Absalom.
6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle
David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand
men.
8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country:
and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon
a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his
head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven
and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw
sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I
would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a
thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine
hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and
Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man
Absalom.
13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own
life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest
have set thyself against me.
14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took
three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom,
while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about
wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled
every one to his tent.
18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself
a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my
name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it
is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear
the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but
thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no
tidings, because the king's son is dead.
21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen.
howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said,
Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
23 But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run.
Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went
up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold a man running alone.
25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If
he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew
near.
26 And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman
called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And
the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost
is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is
a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he
fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be
the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their
hand against my lord the king.
29 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And
Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy
servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
30 And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he
king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up
against thee.
32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe?
And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise
against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber
over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son
Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O
Absalom, my son, my son!
CHAPTER 19
1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for
Absalom.
2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for
his son.
3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as
shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved
thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy
wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou
hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants:
for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this
day, then it had pleased thee well.
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy
servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry
one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil
that befell thee from thy youth until now.
8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all
the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the
people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel,
saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he
delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of
the land for Absalom.
10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now
saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to
bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come
to the king, even to his house.
12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore
God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before
me continually in the room of Joab.
14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the
heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou,
and all thy servants.
15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to
Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king
David.
17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba
the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's
household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera
fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me,
neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day
that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to
his heart.
20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I
am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet
my lord the king.
21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not
Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?
22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah,
that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be
put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king
over Israel?
23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the
and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his
clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in
peace.
25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet
the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with
me, Mephibosheth?
26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for
thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go
to the king; because thy servant is lame.
27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my
the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine
own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy
forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own
house.
31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went
good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear
any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then
should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and
mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother.
But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king;
and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I
will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou
shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was
come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned
unto his own place.
40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him:
and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people
of Israel.
41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said
unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away,
and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with
him, over Jordan?
42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because
the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter?
have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?
43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We
have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye:
why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in
bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer
than the words of the men of Israel.
CHAPTER 20
Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said,
We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of
Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed
Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from
Jordan even to Jerusalem.
3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the
ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put
them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut
up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah
us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and
pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites,
and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of
Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa
went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded
unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the
sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And
Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand:
so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the
ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his
brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth
when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out
of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that
every one that came by him stood still.
13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went
Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and
went also after him.
15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and
they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the
people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray
you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou
Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the
words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,
saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the
matter.
19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou
seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up
the inheritance of the LORD?
20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I
son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even
against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the
woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the
wall.
22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And
they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab.
And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his
tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of
priests:
26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
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1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for
Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the
Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul
sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for
you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the LORD?
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold
of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel.
And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and
them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose.
And the king said, I will give them.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son
of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between
David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons
of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they
hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together,
and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the
beginning of barley harvest.
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it
for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped
upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest
on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them
from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them,
when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were
hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the
country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they
performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated
for the land.
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the
Philistines: and David waxed faint.
16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying,
Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light
of Israel.
18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with
the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which
was of the sons of the giant.
19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where
stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes,
four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the
1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that
the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out
of the hand of Saul:
2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the
prevented me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and
he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered
his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
discomfited them.
16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the
world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the
breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many
waters;
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that
my stay.
20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me,
iniquity.
25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
darkness.
30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped
over a wall.
31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he
God?
33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
places.
35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken
by mine arms.
36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned
stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people,
thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not
shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they
close places.
47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the
under me.
49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast
lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast
delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and
the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob,
and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my
tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that
even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the
earth by clear shining after rain.
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with
me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all
my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away,
the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same
place.
8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was
Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he
slew at one time.
9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of
the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that
were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone
away:
10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary,
and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory
that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And
the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of
ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and
harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines
pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the
gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink
thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is
not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?
therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief
among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew
them, and had the name among three.
19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their
Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he
went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the
spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the
the first three. And David set him over his guard.
24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the
1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with
him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba,
and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto
the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes
of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in
this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and
against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host
went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right
side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward
Jazer:
6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and
Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah,
even to Beersheba.
8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that
drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the
people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I
have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of
thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD
seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three
months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be
three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I
shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now
into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall
into the hand of man.
15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning
even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even
to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to
destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that
destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of
the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that
smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly:
but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
against me, and against my father's house.
18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear
on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king
on his face upon the ground.
21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his
up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice,
and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And
Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of
thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God
of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor
and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land,
and the plague was stayed from Israel.
2 Thessalonians
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Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of
every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your
patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that
admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was
believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would
count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his
goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you,
and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
CHAPTER 2
spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at
hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in
his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all
perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the
which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good
hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and
work.
CHAPTER 3
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free
evil.
4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do
labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any
of you:
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an
Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man,
16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all
which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I
am persuaded that in thee also.
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of
according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,
which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus
Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to
light through the gospel:
11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a
teacher of the Gentiles.
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am
not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that
he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me,
found me.
18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in
Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life;
fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all
things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised
also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also
more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus
and Philetus;
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the
seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that
nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of
silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to
dishonour.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel
unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared
unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity,
peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do
gender strifes.
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from
captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also
resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest
Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the
Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,
are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
good works.
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1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who
shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be
at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to
me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world,
13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest,
bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward
words.
16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook
that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles
might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will
preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
sick.
21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee,
and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.
Amen.
3 John
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1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be
if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing
of the Gentiles.
8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be
that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself:
yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write
unto thee:
14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to
face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by
name.
Acts
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1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began
Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had
chosen:
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many
infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that
they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the
Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with
saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the
heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall
so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet,
where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and
Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and
Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication,
with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples,
and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and
twenty,)
16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled,
which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning
Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this
ministry.
18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and
falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed
out.
19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch
as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The
field of blood.
20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be
desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another
take.
21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the
time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he
was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of
his resurrection.
23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was
hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one
mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and
and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his
own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another,
born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in
Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya
said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be
this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour
out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall
dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which
God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and
David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto
this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn
with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his
soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth
this, which ye now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith
himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God
hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and
Christ.
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and
said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what
shall we do?
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one
of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that
are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying,
same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and
45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all
breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness
and singleness of heart,
47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the
1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of
whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to
ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an
alms.
4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on
us.
5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of
them.
6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have
give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and
10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful
gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at
that which had happened unto him.
11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all
the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's,
greatly wondering.
12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of
fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied
him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a
strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given
him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did
blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of
the Lord.
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached
unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all
things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets
since the world began.
22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord
your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye
hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear
God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall
all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
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1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the
and scribes,
6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and
Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were
gathered together at Jerusalem.
7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what
notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell
in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly
right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge
ye.
20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and
heard.
21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go,
finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for
all men glorified God for that which was done.
22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of
all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with
one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and
earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the
anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the
people of Israel, were gathered together,
28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done.
29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy
servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and
were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and they spake the word of God with boldness.
32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of
one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he
possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as
were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of
the things that were sold,
35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was
(which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the
country of Cyprus,
37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the
apostles' feet.
CHAPTER 5
1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a
possession,
2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and
the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold,
was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine
heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the
ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out,
to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have
buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the
ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying
her forth, buried her by her husband.
11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as
magnified them.
14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both
laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter
passing by might overshadow some of them.
16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto
Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean
spirits: and they were healed every one.
17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him,
(which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the
common prison.
19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and
this life.
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in
the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were
with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the
children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison,
keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we
found no man within.
24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the
chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this
would grow.
25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom
ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them
without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been
stoned.
27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the
council: and the high priest asked them,
28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not
teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your
doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought
hanged on a tree.
31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took
Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and
commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves
and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as
many as obeyed him, were dispersed.
38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them
alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found
and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the
name of Jesus, and let them go.
41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to
1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied,
and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and
serve tables.
3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of
honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint
over this business.
4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and
Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a
proselyte of Antioch:
6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed,
and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to
speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall
destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered
us.
15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his
kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in
Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him
into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set
his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession,
and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a
strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat
them evil four hundred years.
7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said
God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham
begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob;
and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but
and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him
governor over Egypt and all his house.
11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and
Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out
16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre
that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father
of Sychem.
17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had
19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our
fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might
not live.
20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and
God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove,
and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why
do ye wrong one to another?
27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying,
29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of
near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst
not behold.
33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the
Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver
them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler
and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the
hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and
signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty
years.
37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A
prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like
unto me; him shall ye hear.
38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the
angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who
received the lively oracles to give unto us:
39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them,
Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is
become of him.
41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto
god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry
you away beyond Babylon.
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as
the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of
our fathers, unto the days of David;
46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle
48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One;
of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and
heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand
of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of
laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord
this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
CHAPTER 8
1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a
great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they
were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria,
except the apostles.
2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great
which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that
were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were
lame, were healed.
8 And there was great joy in that city.
the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving
out that himself was some great one:
10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest,
he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs
which were done.
14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that
Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and
John:
15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they
Ghost.
18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles'
thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not
bond of iniquity.
24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the LORD for me,
that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the
Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of
the Samaritans.
26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and
go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto
Gaza, which is desert.
27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an
29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this
chariot.
30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet
And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as
a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so
opened he not his mouth:
33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall
declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom
and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be
baptized?
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou
mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God.
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went
down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized
him.
39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the
Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went
on his way rejoicing.
40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he
1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the
disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if
he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might
bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly
whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have
me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it
shall be told thee what thou must do.
7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing
he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into
Damascus.
9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor
drink.
10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias;
and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am
here, Lord.
11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is
called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of
Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and
vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the
children of Israel:
16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my
name's sake.
17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and
putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that
appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou
mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales:
was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he
destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither
for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the
kill him:
24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the
wall in a basket.
26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join
himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not
that he was a disciple.
27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and
declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he
had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the
name of Jesus.
28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in
the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
32 And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he
kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
34 And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee
Lord.
36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which
by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and
almsdeeds which she did.
37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died:
whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples
had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him
that he would not delay to come to them.
39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they
brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him
weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while
she was with them.
40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and
turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes:
and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had
the Lord.
43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with
Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for
a memorial before God.
5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose
surname is Peter:
6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea
them to Joppa.
9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto
the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while
him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to
the earth:
12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and
wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing
heaven.
17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he
had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius
had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
18 And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed
feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was
warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to
hear words of thee.
23 Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow
Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa
accompanied him.
24 And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius
waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near
friends.
25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at
man.
27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were
come together.
28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing
for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another
nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common
or unclean.
29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was
sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour;
and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood
before me in bright clothing,
31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had
is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side:
who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done
that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to
hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive
Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were
oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land
of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God,
even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify
many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured
out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.
1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the
Gentiles had also received the word of God.
2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the
them.
4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and
expounded it by order unto them, saying,
5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision,
A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from
heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered,
and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping
things, and fowls of the air.
7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at
heaven.
11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come
unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting.
Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the
man's house:
13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house,
which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon,
whose surname is Peter;
14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall
be saved.
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us
at the beginning.
16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John
indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto
us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could
withstand God?
18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and
glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted
repentance unto life.
19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution
that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and
Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which,
when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the
LORD Jesus.
21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number
which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go
as far as Antioch.
23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad,
and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto
the Lord.
24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith:
26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it
came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the
church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians
first in Antioch.
27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which
came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability,
1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex
Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the
keepers before the door kept the prison.
7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light
shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up,
saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy
sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about
thee, and follow me.
9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true
unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his
own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and
forthwith the angel departed from him.
11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a
surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of
the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of
Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were
gathered together praying.
13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to
gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly
affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the
declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And
he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he
departed, and went into another place.
18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death.
And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon:
but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the
king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was
nourished by the king's country.
21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his
gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the
ghost.
24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was
Mark.
CHAPTER 13
1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and
teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of
Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the
tetrarch, and Saul.
2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said,
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called
them.
3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on
in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they
prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the
word of God.
8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation)
withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost,
devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the
right ways of the Lord?
11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou
shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell
on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead
him by the hand.
12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being
Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of
the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have
any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of
the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an
high arm brought he them out of it.
18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in
the wilderness.
19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of
Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty
years.
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to
be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have
found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall
fulfil all my will.
23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised
am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes
of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and
whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation
sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they
knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every
sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him
from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise
raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art
my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no
more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure
mercies of David.
35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer
God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work
Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next
sabbath.
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews
envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul,
contradicting and blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was
necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but
seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting
life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to
be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the
ends of the earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified
the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life
believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the
region.
50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and
the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and
Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came
unto Iconium.
52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
CHAPTER 14
1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the
Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their
which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and
wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the
also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone
them,
6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of
8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being
and walked.
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up
their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down
to us in the likeness of men.
12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius,
because he was the chief speaker.
13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought
oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with
the people.
14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they
rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of
like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from
these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and
the sea, and all things that are therein:
16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our
hearts with food and gladness.
18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that
who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the
city, supposing he had been dead.
20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up,
and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to
Derbe.
21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had
taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to
continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into
the kingdom of God.
23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and
had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom
they believed.
24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to
Pamphylia.
25 And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down
into Attalia:
26 And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been
recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church
together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he
had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
28 And there they abode long time with the disciples.
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1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren,
disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and
certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and
elders about this question.
3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed
the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things
that God had done with them.
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
matter.
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and
said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago
God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear
the word of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving
by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of
the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11 But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ
16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of
David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I
will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the
Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all
these things.
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the
world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from
idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him,
to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and
Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men
among the brethren:
23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles
and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the
Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from
us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must
be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such
commandment:
25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to
send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you
they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
31 Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of
the LORD, and see how they do.
37 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose
from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they
departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and
sailed unto Cyprus;
40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the
1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was
and Iconium.
3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and
circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for
they knew all that his father was a Greek.
4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the
decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which
were at Jerusalem.
5 And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased
in number daily.
6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of
Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia:
Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and
help us.
10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured
to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for
to preach the gospel unto them.
11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to
Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where
prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the
women which resorted thither.
14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city
of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord
opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought
possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters
much gain by soothsaying:
17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men
are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of
salvation.
18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and
said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come
out of her. And he came out the same hour.
19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was
gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace
unto the rulers,
20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being
foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors
were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and
seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have
killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for
saved?
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt
before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying,
Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and
departed.
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1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they
risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you,
is Christ.
4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas;
and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a
few.
5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto
them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and
set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and
sought to bring them out to the people.
6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain
brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the
world upside down are come hither also;
7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the
unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures
daily, whether those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women
word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and
stirred up the people.
14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it
were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and
the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks,
encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other
some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he
preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying,
May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would
their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of
Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed
any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all
the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after
him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain
also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to
think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art
and man's device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
33 So Paul departed from among them.
34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the
which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and
others with them.
CHAPTER 18
1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had
commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and
was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook
his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I
am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house,
named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the
synagogue.
8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the
Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed,
and were baptized.
9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not
the law.
14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said
17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the
synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for
none of those things.
18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took
his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him
Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a
vow.
19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself
consented not;
21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this
feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God
will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted
over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the
disciples.
24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an
eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord,
knowing only the baptism of John.
26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when
Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded
unto him the way of God more perfectly.
27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren
wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come,
helped them much which had believed through grace:
28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing
1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having
passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain
disciples,
2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye
believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard
whether there be any Holy Ghost.
3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And
repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him
which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus.
6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost
8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space
of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated
the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they
which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and
Greeks.
11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs
or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went
out of them.
13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to
call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus,
saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of
overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that
house naked and wounded.
17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at
Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was
magnified.
18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their
deeds.
19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books
together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of
them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when
and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but
almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away
much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought;
but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised,
and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world
worshippeth.
28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and
him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the
assembly was confused: and the more part knew not wherefore they
were come together.
33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting
him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have
made his defence unto the people.
34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about
the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye
men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of
the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the
image which fell down from Jupiter?
36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye
have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies:
let them implead one another.
39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be
1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples,
bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven
days.
7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the
morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they
being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk
down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said,
and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little
comforted.
13 And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there
Mitylene.
15 And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against
Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium;
and the next day we came to Miletus.
16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would
not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be
at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of
the church.
18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know,
from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been
with you at all seasons,
19 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears,
have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to
house,
21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance
unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry,
which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace
of God.
25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone
God.
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over
the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of
God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves
years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of
his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance
among all them which are sanctified.
33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he
said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed
with them all.
37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they
should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
CHAPTER 21
1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had
launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day
following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:
2 And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard,
and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade
her burden.
4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to
went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and
children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore,
and prayed.
6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship;
Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.
8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and
came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the
evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.
9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did
prophesy.
10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from
heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem
for the name of the Lord Jesus.
14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The
Jerusalem.
16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and
brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we
should lodge.
17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us
gladly.
18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all
him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which
believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews
which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought
not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together:
them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those
things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that
thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and
concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep
themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from
strangled, and from fornication.
26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with
them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days
of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of
them.
27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which
were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people,
and laid hands on him,
28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all
men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and
further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy
place.
29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an
Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and
they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors
were shut.
31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief
and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded
him to be carried into the castle.
35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne
him.
37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief
captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an
uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were
murderers?
39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in
and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made
a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
CHAPTER 22
1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto
you.
2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to
yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to
the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward
God, as ye all are this day.
4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering
the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went
to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for
to be punished.
6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come
nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a
great light round about me.
7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me,
but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
10 And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said unto me,
Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things
which are appointed for thee to do.
11 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by
the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a
shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the
voice of his mouth.
15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast
out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every
standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them
that slew him.
21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto
the Gentiles.
22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up
their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not
fit that he should live.
23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust
that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and
uncondemned?
26 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief
captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art
examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that
he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
30 On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty
wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands,
and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and
brought Paul down, and set him before them.
CHAPTER 23
1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I
have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him
5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest:
for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and
the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a
Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead
I am called in question.
7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the
Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but
if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain,
fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded
the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and
to bring him into the castle.
11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of
good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must
thou bear witness also at Rome.
12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and
bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor
drink till they had killed Paul.
13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We
have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until
we have slain Paul.
15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that
this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell
him.
18 So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said,
Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young
man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.
19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him
aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?
20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou
wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they
would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of
them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath,
that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are
they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged
him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
23 And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two
greeting.
27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of
them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood
that he was a Roman.
28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they
1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders,
and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor
against Paul.
2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him,
saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very
worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,
3 We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all
thankfulness.
4 Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray
sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the
sect of the Nazarenes:
6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took,
10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to
neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call
heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are
written in the law and in the prophets:
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience
offerings.
18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the
knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the
chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him
which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the
faith in Christ.
25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this
time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul,
that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and
communed with him.
27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and
1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he
with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he
went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat
commanded Paul to be brought.
7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from
Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints
against Paul, which they could not prove.
8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the
Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended
any thing at all.
9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul,
ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well
knowest.
11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of
death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof
these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto
Caesar.
12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered,
Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto
Caesarea to salute Festus.
14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared
Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds
by Felix:
15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the
elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to
deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the
accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning
the crime laid against him.
17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on
the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be
brought forth.
18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none
and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked
great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief
captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul
was brought forth.
24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here
present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the
Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that
he ought not to live any longer.
25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death,
I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king
Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not
1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself.
Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for
myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused
of the Jews:
3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and
questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear
me patiently.
4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among
and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am
accused of the Jews.
8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God
shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and
when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled
the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which
journeyed with me.
14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice
speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom
thou persecutest.
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee
for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these
things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear
unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto
from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of
sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in
me.
19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision:
20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and
throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they
should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went
should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to
the Gentiles.
24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice,
Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth
freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him;
for this thing was not done in a corner.
27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou
believest.
28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be
a Christian.
29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all
that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am,
except these bonds.
30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the
1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they
delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a
centurion of Augustus' band.
2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning
entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh
himself.
4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under
come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under
Crete, over against Salmone;
8 And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair
dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished
them,
10 And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with
hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our
lives.
11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of
the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the
more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might
attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and
lieth toward the south west and north west.
13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had
called Euroclydon.
15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the
the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail,
and so were driven.
18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day
the ship.
20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no
small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then
taken away.
21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them,
and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed
from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no
and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall
and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew
near to some country;
28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had
gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast
four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when
they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they
would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these
33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to
take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and
continued fasting, having taken nothing.
34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your
health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks
to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to
eat.
36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some
meat.
37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and
sixteen souls.
38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and
discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded,
if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up
the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship
aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the
hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of
purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast
themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of
the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
CHAPTER 28
1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was
called Melita.
2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they
kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain,
and because of the cold.
3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on
the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his
island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three
days courteously.
8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever
and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his
hands on him, and healed him.
9 So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the
and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to
Puteoli:
14 Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them
meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul
saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the
prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by
himself with a soldier that kept him.
17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of
the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto
them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the
people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from
Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go,
speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this
chain.
21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of
Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or
spake any harm of thee.
22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as
concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to
him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of
God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses,
and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some
believed not.
25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed,
after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by
Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are
dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
should be converted, and I should heal them.
28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent
concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding
him.
Amos
CHAPTER 1
1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he
saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the
days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the
earthquake.
2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice
from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and
the top of Carmel shall wither.
3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and
for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour
from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house
of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the
LORD.
6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried
away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the
palaces thereof:
8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth
the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and
the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
9 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered
up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly
covenant:
10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the
palaces thereof.
11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue
his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear
perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces
of Bozrah.
13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of
Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they
might enlarge their border:
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour
the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in
the day of the whirlwind:
15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,
1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones
of the king of Edom into lime:
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces
of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the
sound of the trumpet:
3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments,
and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have
walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces
of Jerusalem.
6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the
righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and
turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto
the same maid, to profane my holy name:
8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by
every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of
their god.
9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like
the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed
his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty
men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the
LORD.
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
of sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong
shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift
of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse
deliver himself.
16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away
1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of
Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt,
saying,
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young
shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret
even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from
thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth
of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be
taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus
in a couch.
13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD,
him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be
cut off, and fall to the ground.
15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and
the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end,
saith the LORD.
CHAPTER 4
1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria,
which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their
masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall
come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity
with fishhooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is
before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression;
and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim
and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel,
saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me,
saith the LORD.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were
yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and
caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and
the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but
they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
LORD.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens
and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the
palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
LORD.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt:
your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your
horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your
nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and
and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning
darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD,
The God of hosts, is his name.
CHAPTER 5
house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is
forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a
Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come
to nought.
6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the
house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness
in the earth,
8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the
shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night:
that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face
of the earth: The LORD is his name:
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the
speaketh uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye
take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but
ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye
shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the
gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an
evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the
gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the
remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus;
Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas!
alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are
skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee,
for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into
the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even
solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will
not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat
beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not
mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your
1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of
Israel came!
2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath
the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than
these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence
to come near;
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their
couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the
midst of the stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive,
hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore
will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house,
bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the
sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then
shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name
of the LORD.
11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great
for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into
hemlock:
13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not
Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from
the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
CHAPTER 7
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed
the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee:
by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord
GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did
eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall
GOD.
7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall
A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the
midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the
sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house
of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the
house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and
Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away
into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's
Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of
Isaac.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the
city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land
shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel
shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
CHAPTER 8
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of
summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of
summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my
people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith
the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall
cast them forth with silence.
4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor
and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small,
and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of
dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast
out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I
will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the
clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness
upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and
the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even
to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and
shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan,
liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and
never rise up again.
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1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of
the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them;
and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall
not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them;
search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight
in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall
bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will
I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes
upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it
shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up
wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded
his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and
poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of
Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of
Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all
nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall
upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say,
and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will
build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the
heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall
overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and
the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and
they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and
eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be
pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy
God.
Colossians
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1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our
brother,
2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse:
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the
grace of God in truth:
7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to
pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of
his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being
forgiveness of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the
preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him
to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things
in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your
moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and
which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I
Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is
behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is
the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of
God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of
glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man
in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which
worketh in me mightily.
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1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them
at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love,
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit,
joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in
Christ.
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye
in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have
deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not
after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made
without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the
dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew
and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not
seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments
humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of
the flesh.
CHAPTER 3
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
disobedience:
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man
uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and
in all.
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels
have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of
perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also
and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the
the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing
discouraged.
22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh;
men;
24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the
inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he
1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing
3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of
They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's
These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have
been a comfort unto me.
12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you,
always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect
and complete in all the will of God.
13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and
them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle
from Laodicea.
17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast
part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of
Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the
treasure house of his god.
3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs,
that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's
seed, and of the princes;
4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in
and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at
the end thereof they might stand before the king.
6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel,
with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank:
therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not
defile himself.
9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the
prince of the eunuchs.
10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord
the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he
see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then
shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had
countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and
as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten
days.
15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer
and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the
king's meat.
16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine
all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and
dreams.
18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should
bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before
Nebuchadnezzar.
19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was
found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood
they before the king.
20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king
enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians
and astrologers that were in all his realm.
21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.
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astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king
his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my
ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone
from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the
interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be
made a dunghill.
6 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall
receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the
dream, and the interpretation thereof.
7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the
gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one
decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak
before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I
shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not
a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is
no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or
astrologer, or Chaldean.
11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none
other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is
not with flesh.
12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and
captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of
Babylon:
15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the
decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to
Daniel.
16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give
him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.
17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to
this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of
the wise men of Babylon.
19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then
and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to
them that know understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in
hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now
what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the
king's matter.
24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had
ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto
him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king,
and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said
thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will
make known unto the king the interpretation.
26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I
have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The
secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the
astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh
known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy
dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy
bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets
maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom
that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make
known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the
thoughts of thy heart.
31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great
image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form
thereof was terrible.
32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of
34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which
smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them
to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold,
broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer
threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found
for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain,
and filled the whole earth.
36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof
field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath
made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and
another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as
iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh
all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay,
and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of
the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with
miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so
mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to
another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a
kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be
left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these
kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the
mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass,
the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the
king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the
interpretation thereof sure.
46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and
great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and
chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but
Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
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threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the
plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the
princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the
counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to
the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the
treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the
provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image
that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people,
sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and
worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the
people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the
golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and
hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of
musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but
if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a
burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my
hands?
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the
burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve
thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his
visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego:
therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace
one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army
to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the
burning fiery furnace.
21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their
hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the
burning fiery furnace.
22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and
the furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the fire slew those men that took
up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell
haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three
men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the
king, True, O king.
25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the
midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like
the Son of God.
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning
fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and
delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's
word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any
god, except their own God.
29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and
language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall
be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after
this sort.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in
1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that
my palace:
5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my
before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the
dream.
7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and
the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make
known unto me the interpretation thereof.
8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was
spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the
visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and
behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached
unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it
was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the
fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of
it.
13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a
branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get
away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with
a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet
with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass
of the earth:
16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be
given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by
the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the
most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he
will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O
one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said,
Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee.
Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate
thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose
height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;
21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was
meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose
branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
22 It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy
greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the
end of the earth.
23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming
down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet
leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron
and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew
of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven
times pass over him;
24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the
with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as
oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times
shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the
kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree
roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have
known that the heavens do rule.
27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and
break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy
to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the
honour of my majesty?
31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from
with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen,
and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High
ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar:
and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body
was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles'
feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine
eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I
blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for
ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is
from generation to generation:
35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and
he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the
inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him,
What doest thou?
36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory
1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and
golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken
out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes,
his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the
temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and
his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of
over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's
palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts
troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees
smote one against another.
7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans,
and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of
Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the
interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of
gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
8 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the
came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live
for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be
changed:
11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy
gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom,
like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king
Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the
magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and
and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the
captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee,
and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in
before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me
the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the
thing:
16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations,
and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known
to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and
have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the
kingdom.
17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be
to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto
the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father
languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and
whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom
he would he put down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in
pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory
from him:
21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was
made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed
him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven;
till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that
he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart,
have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy
lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou
hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone,
which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath
is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing
was written.
25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath
numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with
scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation
concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no
damage.
3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes,
because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him
over the whole realm.
4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against
Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor
fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault
found in him.
5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this
Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the
king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes,
not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which
altereth not.
9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into
his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward
Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed,
and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and
king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall
ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king,
shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The
thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which
altereth not.
13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel,
with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured
till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the
king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no
decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast
him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy
God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den;
and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords;
that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting:
neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep
went from him.
19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste
unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of
the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver
thee from the lions?
21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths,
that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was
found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
23 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded
that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up
out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he
believed in his God.
24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which
had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their
children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and
brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the
den.
25 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages,
tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and
stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and
his dominion shall be even unto the end.
27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders
in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the
lions.
28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and
visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the
sum of the matters.
2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold,
the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from
another.
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the
wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made
stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised
up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the
teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon
the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and
dominion was given to it.
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth:
it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of
it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten
horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them
another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns
plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes
of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days
did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like
the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as
burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand
thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the
horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body
destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion
taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man
came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and
they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom,
that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is
an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that
which shall not be destroyed.
15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the
truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of
the things.
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall
possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was
diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron,
and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the
residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other
which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had
eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more
stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and
saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the
kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon
earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the
whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall
arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the
first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall
wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:
and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the
dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the
saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and
all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my
1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto
me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.
2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was
before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high;
but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward;
so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that
could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became
great.
5 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west
on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat
had a notable horn between his eyes.
6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen
standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with
choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and
there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down
to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could
deliver the ram out of his hand.
8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was
strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones
toward the four winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed
exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the
pleasant land.
10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down
some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by
him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary
was cast down.
12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason
that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning
the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the
sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred
and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the
appearance of a man.
16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which
called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was
afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of
man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.
18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my
face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the
last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.
20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of
Media and Persia.
21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that
kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors
shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall
destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his
hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall
destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he
shall be broken without hand.
26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is
true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose
up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but
none understood it.
CHAPTER 9
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the
Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the
number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah
the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of
Jerusalem.
3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and
and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and
mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done
wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and
from thy judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which
spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all
the people of the land.
7 O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us
they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and
the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because
we have sinned against him.
12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us,
and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil:
for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon
Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us:
yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn
from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it
upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he
doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out
of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as
at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let
thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy
mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers,
Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and
his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is
desolate, for the Lord's sake.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and
behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we
do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but
for thy great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer
not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called
by thy name.
20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin
whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly
swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I
forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore
understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy
holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the
not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy
the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and
unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and
in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it
desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be
poured upon the desolate.
CHAPTER 10
1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto
Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but
the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had
understanding of the vision.
2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by
clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance
of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like
in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a
multitude.
7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me
saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to
hide themselves.
8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there
his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the
ground.
10 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees
that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself
before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and
twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me;
and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy
people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face
my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that
stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon
me, and I have retained no strength.
17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for
be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was
strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened
me.
20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and
now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone
forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth:
and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your
prince.
CHAPTER 11
1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and
to strengthen him.
2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up
yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all:
and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the
realm of Grecia.
3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great
shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity,
nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be
plucked up, even for others beside those.
5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes;
and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall
be a great dominion.
6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for
the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to
make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm;
neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they
that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in
these times.
7 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate,
which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the
king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their
princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall
continue more years than the king of the north.
9 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall
of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass
through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall
come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he
shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his
hand.
12 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be
lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be
strengthened by it.
13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a
multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain
years with a great army and with much riches.
14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of
the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to
establish the vision; but they shall fall.
15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and
take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand,
neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to
withstand.
16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own
will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious
land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole
kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give
him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his
side, neither be for him.
18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take
many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by
him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but
the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger,
nor in battle.
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall
not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and
obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before
him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for
he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the
province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his
fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and
riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds,
even for a time.
25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king
of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred
up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for
they shall forecast devices against him.
26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him,
and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they
shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall
be at the time appointed.
28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart
shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to
his own land.
29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the
shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy
covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with
them that forsake the holy covenant.
31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the
sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they
shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt
by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and
do exploits.
33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many:
yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil,
many days.
34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help:
purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is
yet for a time appointed.
36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt
himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak
marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the
indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of
women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god
whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with
precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,
whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause
them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at
him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind,
with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall
enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries
shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom,
and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the
and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the
Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him:
therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make
away many.
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the
seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and
none shall help him.
CHAPTER 12
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such
as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at
that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found
written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever
and ever.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to
the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased.
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one
on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank
of the river.
6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the
waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters
of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven,
and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and
an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the
holy people, all these things shall be finished.
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a
thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side
Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount
the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto
them;
4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in
Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills,
and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the
Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the
land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear
made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers
among your tribes.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes
between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and
his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the
small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for
the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto
me, and I will hear it.
18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should
do.
19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that
great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of
the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to
Kadeshbarnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up
and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear
not, neither be discouraged.
22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will
send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us
word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall
come.
23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you,
one of a tribe:
24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto
it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land
which the LORD our God doth give us.
26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us
into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our
heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are
great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of
the Anakims there.
29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for
you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD
thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye
went, until ye came into this place.
32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to
pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go,
and in a cloud by day.
34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth,
see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.
36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will
I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he
hath wholly followed the LORD.
37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou
your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and
evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall
possess it.
40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our
God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons
of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither
fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against
would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that
ye abode there.
CHAPTER 2
1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of
the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount
Seir many days.
2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and
they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not
so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau
for a possession.
6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye
shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy
hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty
years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau,
which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from
Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither
contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a
possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession.
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and
Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them,
and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession,
which the LORD gave unto them.
13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we
were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the
generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as
the LORD sware unto them.
15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy
18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,
distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the
land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it
unto the children of Lot for a possession.
20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein
LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt
in their stead:
22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he
destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the
Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt
in their stead.)
24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon:
behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,
and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee
upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report
of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto
will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me
water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites
which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land
which the LORD our God giveth us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the
LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he
might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon
and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his
land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight
at Jahaz.
33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote
men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to
remain:
35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil
the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too
strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not,
nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the
mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
CHAPTER 3
1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him,
and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him
as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king
of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to
him remaining.
4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which
we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the
kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars;
Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to
ourselves.
8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the
Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon
unto mount Hermon;
9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it
Shenir;)
10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto
which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof,
gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og,
gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all
Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the
coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name,
Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from
Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto
the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from
Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under
Ashdothpisgah eastward.
18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God
hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before
your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know
that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given
you;
20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as
unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God
hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto
his possession, which I have given you.
21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have
seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so
shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for
you.
23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more
unto me of this matter.
27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the
land which thou shalt see.
29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
CHAPTER 4
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in
and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of
the LORD your God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor:
for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed
them from among you.
4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding
people.
7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto
them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and
judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou
forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from
thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons'
sons;
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in
Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together,
and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all
the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their
children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness,
clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye
heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a
voice.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded
you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two
tables of stone.
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you
manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb
out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven,
shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the
sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto
that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye
LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven
image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath
forbidden thee.
24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and
make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the
sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye
shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to
possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be
destroyed.
27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall
be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead
you.
28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood
and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt
find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon
thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt
be obedient unto his voice;
31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake
thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he
sware unto them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,
since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one
side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as
this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst
instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou
heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed
after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of
Egypt;
38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than
thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is
this day.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the
LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is
none else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments,
which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising;
42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour
unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of
these cities he might live:
43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the
45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments,
which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out
of Egypt.
46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the
land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses
and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan
toward the sunrising;
48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the
statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may
learn them, and keep, and do them.
2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us,
word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not
up into the mount;) saying,
6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the waters beneath the earth:
9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I
the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate
me,
10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for
the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee.
13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it
thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of
thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant
and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and
that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand
and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded
thee to keep the sabbath day.
16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go
well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
17 Thou shalt not kill.
21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou
mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two
tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of
the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near
unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his
glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of
the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will
consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then
we shall die.
26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the
living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and
speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and
we will hear it, and do it.
28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake
unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the
words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well
said all that they have spoken.
29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear
me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with
them, and with their children for ever!
30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto
thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give
them to possess it.
32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath
commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath
commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and
that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
CHAPTER 6
1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments,
which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do
them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his
statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy
son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be
prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well
with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy
fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt
talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by
the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
gates.
10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee
into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and
wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which
thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee
anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee
from off the face of the earth.
16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in
Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your
God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded
thee.
18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the
LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and
possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.
19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD
hath spoken.
20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What
mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the
LORD our God hath commanded you?
21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen
in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon
Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear
the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive,
as it is at this day.
25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater
and mightier than thou;
2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou
shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant
with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you,
and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and
break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their
graven images with fire.
6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD
thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the
fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep
the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought
you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful
God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and
keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them:
he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes,
also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep,
in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male
none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but
will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God
shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt
thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I;
the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and
the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby
the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto
all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,
until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is
little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of
the field increase upon thee.
23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall
destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to
stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee,
lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest
thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou
shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
CHAPTER 8
1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe
to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land
which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God
led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove
thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no.
3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee
with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he
might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell,
brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and
hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and
shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of
whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the
LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping
which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage;
15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein
were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no
water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers
knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do
thee good at thy latter end;
17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine
giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant
which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and
walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against
you this day that ye shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so
shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the
LORD your God.
CHAPTER 9
knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the
children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which
goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and
he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out,
and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath
cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD
hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these
nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart,
dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these
nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that
he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this
good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked
people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy
God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of
the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious
against the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD
even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I
abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor
drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with
the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words,
which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire
in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that
the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the
covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have
corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which
I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater
than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount
burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two
hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of
the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and
forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your
sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the
LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened
unto me at that time also.
20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed
fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small
as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of
the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye
Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled
against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him
not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I
knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as
I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,
destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed
through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a
mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not
unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their
sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the
LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them,
and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the
wilderness.
29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
CHAPTER 10
1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like
unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an
ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables
which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of
stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two
tables in mine hand.
4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them
unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the
tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD
commanded me.
6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the
children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried;
and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah
of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto
him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the
LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days
and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and
the LORD would not destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto
their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee,
but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him,
and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes,
thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he
chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a
great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor
taketh reward:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and
of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to
persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of
heaven for multitude.
CHAPTER 11
1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and
have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD
your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt
unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to
their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as
they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this
day;
5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into
this place;
6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the
son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them
up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was
in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he
did.
8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command
you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
whither ye go to possess it;
9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD
sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the
land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed,
and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and
LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even
unto the end of the year.
13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my
commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your
God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the
first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil.
15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest
up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit;
and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth
you.
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as
frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when
thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,
in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the
days of heaven upon the earth.
22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I
command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave unto him;
23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you,
yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river
Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD
your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land
that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to
go after other gods, which ye have not known.
29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought
thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put
the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun
goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign
over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which
the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell
therein.
32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which
the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all
the days that ye live upon the earth.
2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which
ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon
the hills, and under every green tree:
3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and
burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of
their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of
all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye
seek, and thither thou shalt come:
6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and
your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall
rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein
the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every
LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from
all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall
choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I
command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and
the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow
unto the LORD:
12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your
tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all
that I command thee.
15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD
thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat
thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as
water.
17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of
thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any
of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave
offering of thine hand:
18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place
which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that
is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all
that thou puttest thine hands unto.
19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as
promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul
longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after.
21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his
name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy
flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and
thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat
them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life;
and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of
the LORD.
26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt
take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood,
upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall
be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the
flesh.
28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it
may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou
doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before
thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them,
and dwellest in their land;
30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them,
after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not
after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so
will I do likewise.
31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their
gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to
their gods.
32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt
thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and
let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know
whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep
his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and
cleave unto him.
5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your
God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out
of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD
thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from
the midst of thee.
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or
the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice
thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast
not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,
nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even
unto the other end of the earth;
8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou
conceal him:
9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to
put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he
hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go
and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
wrought among you;
15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge
of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle
thereof, with the edge of the sword.
16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street
thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every
whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not
be built again.
17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand:
that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee
mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers;
18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to
keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that
which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
CHAPTER 14
1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves,
nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the
LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all
the nations that are upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and
the goat,
5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat,
and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into
two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or
of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the
coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are
unclean unto you.
8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the
cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their
dead carcase.
9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the
15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
the bat.
19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they
21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it
unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest
sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field
he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine,
and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou
mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to
carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall
choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee:
25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in
thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose:
26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul
lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD
thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake
thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with
thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are
within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the
LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou
doest.
CHAPTER 15
2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth
ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his
neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine
greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance to possess it:
5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou
shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within
any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou
shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil
against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the
LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved
when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand
unto.
11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be
sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou
shalt let him go free from thee.
13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let
floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land
of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command
thee this thing to day.
16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee;
because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto
the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy
maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away
free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in
serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that
thou doest.
19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou
shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the
firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the
place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or
have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy
God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of
Egypt by night.
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy
God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose
to place his name there.
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou
eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou
camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest
remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the
days of thy life.
4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy
coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou
sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,
his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going
down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy
God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy
tents.
8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh
day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no
work therein.
9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the
seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the
corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God
with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give
unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God
hath chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt:
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy
God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy
God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine
hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the
LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert
the words of the righteous.
20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar
God hateth.
CHAPTER 17
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep,
LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his
covenant,
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,
either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not
commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that
woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is
worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall
not be put to death.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to
death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the
evil away from among you.
8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and
get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee
the sentence of judgment:
10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that
place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt
observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee,
and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do:
thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to
the right hand, nor to the left.
12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken
unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God,
or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the
evil from Israel.
13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I
will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD
thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king
over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy
brother.
16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is
before the priests the Levites:
19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of
his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words
of this law and these statutes, to do them:
20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he
turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to
the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his
children, in the midst of Israel.
CHAPTER 18
1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor
inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, and his inheritance.
2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren:
offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the
priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the
stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where
he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place
which the LORD shall choose;
7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all
his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of
thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his
son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:
and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them
out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God
hath not suffered thee so to do.
15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in
Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the
voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more,
that I die not.
17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which
unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto
them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in
the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be
afraid of him.
CHAPTER 19
1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the
LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in
their cities, and in their houses;
2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every
slayer may flee thither.
4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he
may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in
time past;
5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew
wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree,
and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour,
that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is
hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas
he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three
unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give
unto thy fathers;
9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in
his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these
three:
10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy
rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into
one of these cities:
12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of
old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or
for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at
the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him
stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be
in those days;
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the
witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto
his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses,
and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the
LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt.
2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the
unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and
do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you
there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it.
6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not
yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man eat of it.
7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not
taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man take her.
8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they
shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go
and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his
heart.
9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking
unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the
people.
10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace unto it.
11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto
thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be
tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is
in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou
shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given
thee.
15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from
give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the
Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which
they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your
God.
19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an
axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut
them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the
siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for
meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build
bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
CHAPTER 21
1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been
wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a
rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the
heifer's neck there in the valley:
5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the
name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every
stroke be tried:
6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge.
And the blood shall be forgiven them.
9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among
you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the
LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken
them captive,
11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a
desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall
shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full
month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and
she shall be thy wife.
14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let
her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou
shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and
they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the
firstborn son be hers that was hated:
16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which
he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the
son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn,
by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning
of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they
have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring
him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a
drunkard.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he
die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear,
and fear.
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to
in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;)
that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance.
CHAPTER 22
1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide
thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy
brother.
2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not,
then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee
until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do
with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost,
and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the
way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up
again.
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,
neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or
on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting
upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the
young:
7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to
thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy
days.
8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a
battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any
man fall from thence.
9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of
thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
linen together.
12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I
found her not a maid:
15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and
bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city
in the gate:
16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my
daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of
the city.
18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an
evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not
put her away all his days.
20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found
house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die:
because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's
house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband,
then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman,
and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a
ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she
cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his
neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man
force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel
no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour,
and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried,
and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's
father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath
humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's
skirt.
CHAPTER 23
1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall
to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the
LORD.
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of
the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the
congregation of the LORD for ever:
4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way,
when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee
Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam;
but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee,
because the LORD thy God loved thee.
6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days
for ever.
7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt
when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt
turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to
deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy
camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from
thee.
15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is
shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not
oppress him.
17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a
into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money,
brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt
not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and
it would be sin in thee.
22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform;
even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy
God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou
mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put
any in thy vessel.
25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then
thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a
sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
CHAPTER 24
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass
that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house;
or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her
again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,
Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief
shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently,
and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I
commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way,
13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the
sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee:
and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,
down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry
against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither
shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put
to death for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the
and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee
to do this thing.
19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast
forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for
the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God
may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the
widow.
21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow.
22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land
that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and
condemn the wicked.
2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the
judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face,
according to his fault, by a certain number.
3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother
should seem vile unto thee.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child,
the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her
husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and
perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed
in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of
Israel.
7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his
brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's
brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not
perform the duty of my husband's brother.
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and
the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and
shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build
up his brother's house.
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that
one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that
smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and
a small.
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just
measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary;
and he feared not God.
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee
rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out
the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
CHAPTER 26
1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest
therein;
2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which
thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt
put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God
shall choose to place his name there.
3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and
say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come
unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it
ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and
sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty,
and populous:
6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid
heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our
oppression:
8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs,
and with wonders:
9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this
thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy
God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy
God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite,
and the stranger that is among you.
12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto
the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat
within thy gates, and be filled;
13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought
away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them
unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I
have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken
away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the
dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have
done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy
people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest
unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these
statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul.
17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to
walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and
his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar
people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his
commandments;
19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in
praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy
people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
CHAPTER 27
1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up
great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when
thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as
the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall
set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and
thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an
altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones:
and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and
plainly.
9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the
people of the LORD thy God.
10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and
do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people,
when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad,
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say,
Amen.
16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And
fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he
uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the
or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which
I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,
and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt
be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way,
and flee before thee seven ways.
8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy
storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall
bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he
hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD
thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of
thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not
borrow.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and
thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou
hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I
command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I
command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other
gods to serve them.
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come
upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the
in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed,
and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings,
whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he
have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a
fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with
the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee
until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the
thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before
them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto
the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed.
28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:
29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in
darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only
oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt
plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and
shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine
enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people,
and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long;
and there shall be no might in thine hand.
33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which
thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed
alway:
34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see.
35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of
thy head.
36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set
over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known;
and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather
drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou
shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want
of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have
destroyed thee.
49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the
end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou
shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the
until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine,
or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have
destroyed thee.
52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land:
and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which
the LORD thy God hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy
sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in
the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress
thee:
54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his
eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom,
and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in
the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy
gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and
tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and
toward her son, and toward her daughter,
57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her
feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them
for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine
enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name,
THE LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the
plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and
sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt,
which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in
the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be
destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars
of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the
LORD thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to
do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to
destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off
the land whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one
end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other
gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and
stone.
65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall
the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear
day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at
even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine
heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see.
68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by
the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and
there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen,
and no man shall buy you.
CHAPTER 29
1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have
seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto
Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong
and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we
smote them:
8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of
Israel,
11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp,
from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God,
and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and
that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he
hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the
LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how
tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go
and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a
root that beareth gall and wormwood;
19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,
that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I
walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD
and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are
written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his
name from under heaven.
21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this
book of the law:
22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the
LORD hath laid upon it;
23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein,
like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which
the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus
unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant
of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them,
gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to
bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is
this day.
29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those
things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever,
that we may do all the words of this law.
CHAPTER 30
1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt
call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with
all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have
compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the
nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,
from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee:
5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy
fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good,
and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart
of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine
thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for
good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book
of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul.
11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not
us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall
go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do
it?
14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy
and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and
his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt
that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest
over Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest
obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life,
and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the
LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
them.
CHAPTER 31
1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said
unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will
destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them:
and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may
for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee,
nor forsake thee.
7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of
all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this
people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to
give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with
thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be
dismayed.
9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the
sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto
all the elders of Israel.
10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven
years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in
the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel
in their hearing.
12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and
thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they
may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words
of this law:
13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may
hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that
thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of
the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua
went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud:
and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with
thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods
of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will
forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will
say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is
not among us?
18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which
they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the
children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness
for me against the children of Israel.
20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware
unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have
eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other
gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are
befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it
shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them
into the land which I sware.
22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
children of Israel.
23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be
strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel
into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing
covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness
against thee.
27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and
how much more after my death?
28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to
record against them.
29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will
befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the
1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words
of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon
the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye
not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they
will tell thee.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people
according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple
of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god
with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might
eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the
rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of
the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and
thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which
made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast
end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is
no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them
to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to
anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest
hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them.
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon
them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the
young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would
flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of
asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
treasures?
35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall
slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things
that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his
servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut
up, or left.
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of
their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your
protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill,
and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver
out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from
the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the
blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and
will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the
Israel:
46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which
I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to
observe to do, all the words of this law.
47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and
through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go
over Jordan to possess it.
48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which
is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered
unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was
gathered unto his people:
51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel
1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the
unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten
thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they
sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
4 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the
congregation of Jacob.
5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and
7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the
voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient
for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy
holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst
strive at the waters of Meribah;
9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him;
neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for
they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they
shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands;
smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that
hate him, that they rise not again.
12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell
in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he
shall dwell between his shoulders.
13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the
precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth
beneath,
14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the
for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon
the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was
separated from his brethren.
17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like
the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the
ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they
are the thousands of Manasseh.
18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a
portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of
the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with
Israel.
22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
Bashan.
23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and
full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him
be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
strength be.
26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon
everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and
shall say, Destroy them.
28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall
be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved
by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy
excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou
shalt tread upon their high places.
CHAPTER 34
1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of
Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD
shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed:
I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over
thither.
5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of
his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for
Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened
unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,
in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his
land,
12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which
vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the
sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh:
place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not
is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the
sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it
any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come
after.
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been
before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom
and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and
1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore
mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was
that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all
the days of their life.
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me
vineyards:
5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of
house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all
that were in Jerusalem before me:
8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of
kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers,
and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of
all sorts.
9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me
withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour:
and this was my portion of all my labour.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and
on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and
vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly:
for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath
been already done.
13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth
darkness.
14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in
darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them
all.
15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it
happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my
heart, that this also is vanity.
16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool
for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be
forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under
the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun:
because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet
shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and
wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the
knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein
shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his
heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart
drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This
also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and
knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to
heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is
vanity and vexation of spirit.
CHAPTER 3
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to
to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time
to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a
time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of
peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men
to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set
the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God
maketh from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice,
can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men
should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath
wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was
there.
17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the
wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men,
that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they
themselves are beasts.
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even
one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they
have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast:
for all is vanity.
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust
again.
21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit
should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring
him to see what shall be after him?
CHAPTER 4
1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under
the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had
no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but
they had no comforter.
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than
hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a
man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with
their labour.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is
alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one
be warm alone?
12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this
also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
CHAPTER 5
1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready
to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they
do evil.
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth:
therefore let thy words be few.
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a
before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at
thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also
judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is
higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is
what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them
with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or
much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely,
go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry
away in his hand.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall
he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much
eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh
under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his
portion.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and
hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to
rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common
among men:
2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so
that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth
him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it
is an evil disease.
3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that
the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and
also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his
filled.
8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor,
man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man
the better?
12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of
his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what
shall be after him under the sun?
CHAPTER 7
1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death
of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his
heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the
the heart.
8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the
bosom of fools.
10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better
than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to
excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which
he hath made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity
consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end
that man should find nothing after him.
15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just
man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that
prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why
this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of
them all.
19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men
sinneth not.
21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear
wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly,
even of foolishness and madness:
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is
snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall
escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by
thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his
face shall be changed.
2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in
it shall be?
8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit;
done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another
to his own hurt.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from
the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had
so done: this is also vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be
prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God,
which fear before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong
his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just
men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again,
there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the
righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing
under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall
abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him
under the sun.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the
business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day
nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the
work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it
out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know
it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
CHAPTER 9
1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the
righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man
knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous,
and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to
him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is
the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that
there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of
evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to
the dead.
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living
thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is
forgotten.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished;
neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done
under the sun.
7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a
ointment.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life
of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy
vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou
takest under the sun.
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there
is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither
thou goest.
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time
and chance happeneth to them all.
12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken
in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the
sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed
great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his
wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the
poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of
1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking
savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and
honour.
2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his
left.
3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom
is no better.
12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a
thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through
in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that
which hath wings shall tell the matter.
CHAPTER 11
1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not
earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the
place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth
bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou
knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not
thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that,
or whether they both shall be alike good.
7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to
remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is
vanity.
9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee
in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the
sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring
thee into judgment.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from
1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days
come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no
pleasure in them;
2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not
strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they
are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the
grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the
daughters of musick shall be brought low;
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears
shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the
grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth
to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken,
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the
people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in
order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which
the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
prudence;
9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which
are on earth; even in him:
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being
Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were
sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of
prayers;
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may
know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of
his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward
and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion,
and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that
which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now
worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in
the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;
and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together
works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the
Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I
mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body,
given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created
all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you,
Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and
in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure
the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of
the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in
wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour,
working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give
to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto
the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed
2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given
and truth;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
of them in secret.
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in
Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the
by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall
be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the
church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife
even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
CHAPTER 6
with promise;
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the
earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring
the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto
Christ;
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of
8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may
beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you
all things:
22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might
sincerity. Amen.
Esther
CHAPTER 1
reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and
twenty provinces:)
2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of
and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes
of the provinces, being before him:
4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the
all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great
and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with
cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the
beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and
white, and black, marble.
7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being
diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the
state of the king.
8 And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for
so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should
do according to every man's pleasure.
9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal
shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's
so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,
the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the
princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king
Ahasuerus.
17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women,
so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be
reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be
brought in before him, but she came not.
18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto
all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus
shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him,
and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it
be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let
the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be
published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall
give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king
province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their
language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it
should be published according to the language of every people.
CHAPTER 2
1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased,
he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed
against her.
2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there
kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto
Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of
Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things
for purification be given them:
4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of
Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose
name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a
Benjamite;
6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity
which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's
daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair
and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead,
took for his own daughter.
8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his
decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto
Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought
also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him;
and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as
belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her,
out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best
place of the house of the women.
10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai
house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king
Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the
manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications
accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with
sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she
desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto
the king's house.
14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into
the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's
chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no
more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of
Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto
the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the
keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight
of all them that looked upon her.
16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in
the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his
reign.
17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she
obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he
set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of
Vashti.
18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his
Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai,
like as when she was brought up with him.
21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the
king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door,
were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther
the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.
23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out;
therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book
of the chronicles before the king.
CHAPTER 3
1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all
the princes that were with him.
2 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed,
and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him.
But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
3 Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto
hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether
Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him
king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to
day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month
Adar.
8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people
scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of
thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they
the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed:
and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that
have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto
first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had
commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were
over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province
according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language;
in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's
ring.
13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to
destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little
children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the
twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a
prey.
14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every
province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against
that day.
15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's
commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And
the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was
perplexed.
CHAPTER 4
1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes,
and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city,
and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2 And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into
and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and
fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her.
Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe
Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains,
the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's
treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was
unto Mordecai;
11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do
know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king
into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to
death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre,
that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king
these thirty days.
12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall
there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place;
but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth
whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan,
and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I
also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king,
which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther
1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal
apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the
king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house,
over against the gate of the house.
2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in
the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to
Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and
touched the top of the sceptre.
3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and
what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.
4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king
and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do
as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that
Esther had prepared.
6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy
petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to
the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;
8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the
king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and
Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to
morrow as the king hath said.
9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but
when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor
moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came
home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the
multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had
promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and
servants of the king.
12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man
come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself;
and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the
gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the
king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with
the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused
the gallows to be made.
CHAPTER 6
1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the
book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and
Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who
sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to
Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him,
There is nothing done for him.
4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come
into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang
Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth
in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be
done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman
thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more
than to myself?
7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king
delighteth to honour,
8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear,
and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set
upon his head:
9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of
the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom
the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the
street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the
man whom the king delighteth to honour.
10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel
and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew,
that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed
Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city,
and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the
king delighteth to honour.
12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted
that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto
him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast
begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall
before him.
14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's
chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther
had prepared.
CHAPTER 7
1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the
in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my
petition, and my people at my request:
4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain,
and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I
had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's
damage.
5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the
queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do
so?
6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked
Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went
into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life
to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against
him by the king.
8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of
the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon
Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in
the house? As the word went out of king's mouth, they covered Haman's
face.
9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king,
Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for
Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of
Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for
1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews'
enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for
Esther had told what he was unto her.
2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman,
and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of
Haman.
3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his
feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the
Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So
the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it
be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are
in all the king's provinces:
6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my
Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and
him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon
the Jews.
8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name,
and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's
name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month,
that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it
was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews,
and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which
are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces,
unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every
people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing,
and according to their language.
10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with
the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on
mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to
gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay
and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that
would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of
them for a prey,
12 Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely,
upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
13 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every
province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be
ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
14 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being
apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a
garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and
was glad.
16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day
of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to
be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to
have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the
Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout
all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought
their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon
all people.
3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the
deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of
Mordecai fell upon them.
4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went
out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater
and greater.
5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the
sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto
those that hated them.
6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five
hundred men.
7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the
palace was brought before the king.
12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain
and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons
of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now
what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request
further? and it shall be done.
13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the
together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three
hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
16 But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered
themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their
enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid
not their hands on the prey,
17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the
thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth
day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled
towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and
feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the
Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and
far,
21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the
fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same,
yearly,
22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and
the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from
mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting
and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as
enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them,
and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by
letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should
return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on
the gallows.
26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.
Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen
concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed,
and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not
fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and
according to their appointed time every year;
28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout
every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that
these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the
memorial of them perish from their seed.
29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai
the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty
according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them,
and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of
the fastings and their cry.
32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and
1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles
of the sea.
2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration
of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great
among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking
the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
Exodus
CHAPTER 1
1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into
5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy
and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with
them.
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
Joseph.
9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of
come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our
enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with
their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and
Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
rigour:
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter,
and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service,
wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which
the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill
him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children
alive?
19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew
women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are
delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
CHAPTER 2
1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter
of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw
him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark
of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child
therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she
saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the
Hebrews' children.
7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to
thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
thee?
8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the
child, and nursed it.
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and
she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that
he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied
an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that
there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses
feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:
and he sat down by a well.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came
and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses
shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that
ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave
died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and
they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had
1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of
Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to
the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire
out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned
with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,
unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he
said, Here am I.
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his
face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a
large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and
the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come
unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians
oppress them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that
thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a
token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the
people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the
children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath
sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall
I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto
the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto
you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them,
The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen
that which is done to you in Egypt:
17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt
unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with
milk and honey.
18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou
and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him,
The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we
beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may
sacrifice to the LORD our God.
19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not
by a mighty hand.
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you
go.
21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians:
and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty.
22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye
shall spoil the Egyptians.
CHAPTER 4
1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me,
nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not
appeared unto thee.
2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he
said, A rod.
3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground,
by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod
in his hand:
5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared
unto thee.
6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand
into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it
out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his
hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold,
it was turned again as his other flesh.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the
latter sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two
signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of
the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest
out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent,
neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am
slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or
who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the
LORD?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee
said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee,
he will be glad in his heart.
15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and
I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye
shall do.
16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall
be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him
instead of God.
17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt
do signs.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and
said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which
are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to
Moses, Go in peace.
19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt:
for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an
ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God
in his hand.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have
put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the
people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is
thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met
son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to
me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art,
Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent
unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD
had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their
affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
CHAPTER 5
1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast
unto me in the wilderness.
2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice
to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us
go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto
the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses
and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many,
shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle;
therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour
and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give
you straw.
11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your
Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine
own people.
17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go
evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of
your daily task.
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done
evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
CHAPTER 6
1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to
Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong
hand shall he drive them out of his land.
2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known
to them.
4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them
the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were
strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid
you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm,
and with great judgments:
7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God:
and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out
from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did
swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you
for an heritage: I am the LORD.
9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children
of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me,
who am of uncircumcised lips?
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave
them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14 These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of
Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi:
these be the families of Reuben.
15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are
the families of Simeon.
16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their
generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life
of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their
families.
18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and
three years.
19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families
she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were
an hundred and thirty and seven years.
21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these
to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of
the Levites according to their families.
26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring
out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.
27 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring
out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto
speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to
shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his
land.
3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my
upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of
Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch
forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from
among them.
6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did
they.
7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and
9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for
you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before
Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as
the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before
Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now
the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their
enchantments.
12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto
water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the
rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews
hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve
me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the
LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the
waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink;
and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod,
and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams,
upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water,
that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all
the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he
lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight
of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were
in the river were turned to blood.
21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and
the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was
blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the
LORD had said.
23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set
drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten
the river.
CHAPTER 8
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy
borders with frogs:
3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up
and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed,
and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine
ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people,
thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the
ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and
LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people;
and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I
intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the
frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?
10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy
word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our
God.
11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and
from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried
unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against
Pharaoh.
13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the
frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land
stank.
15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his
heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy
rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all
the land of Egypt.
17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod,
and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast;
all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth
lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God:
and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as
the LORD had said.
20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms
of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into
thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of
flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my
people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou
mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to
into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the
land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye,
abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice
the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not
stone us?
27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice
LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away:
intreat for me.
29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the
LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the
field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen,
and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the
cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of
Israel.
5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the
Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of
the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did
not let the people go.
8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you
handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the
heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall
be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast,
throughout all the land of Egypt.
10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh;
boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
13 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God
of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and
upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that
there is none like me in all the earth.
15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy
people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to
grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof
even until now.
19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast
in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the
field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon
them, and they shall die.
20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of
Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants
LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and
the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous,
such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a
nation.
25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was
in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the
field, and brake every tree of the field.
26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were,
unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my
people are wicked.
28 Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty
thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I
will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall
cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how
that the earth is the LORD's.
30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear
grown up.
33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread
abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and
the rain was not poured upon the earth.
34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the
thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he
and his servants.
35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these
my signs before him:
2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's
son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have
done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to
humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I
able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is
escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree
which groweth for you out of the field:
6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants,
and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy
fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth
unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man
be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their
God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he
said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that
shall go?
9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with
our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will
we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let
you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye
did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of
Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and
the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that
night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in
all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were
no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land
was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of
the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing
in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said,
I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and
intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death
only.
18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took
away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not
one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not
let the children of Israel go.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even
darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there
three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the
LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones
also go with you.
25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we
know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let
them go.
28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to
thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou
shalt die.
29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again
no more.
CHAPTER 11
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon
Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he
shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.
2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of
his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and
jewels of gold.
3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt,
in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go
born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the
maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,
such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his
tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth
put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow
down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that
follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a
great anger.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt
saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be
day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to
the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his
neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the
souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the
lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye
month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in
the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side
posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and
unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire;
his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the
LORD's passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all
the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where
ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague
shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep
shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off
from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the
selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance
for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye
shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month
at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for
whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off
from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the
land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill
the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that
is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood
that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house
until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and
when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the
LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in
unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to
the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall
keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you,
passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote
the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head
and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his
throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all
the firstborn of cattle.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and
all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a
house where there was not one dead.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up,
and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be
send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And
they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,
about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and
brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were
thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for
themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt,
years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the
LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing
them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be
observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of
the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him
come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for
no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger
came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened
bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of
the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and
the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land
flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this
month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen
with thee in all thy quarters.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done
because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of
Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a
memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth:
for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year
to year.
11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of
the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give
it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the
matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the
males shall be the LORD's.
13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and
if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the
firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand
the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that
the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of
man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that
openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I
redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets
between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth
out of Egypt.
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that
God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although
that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when
they see war, and they return to Egypt:
18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness
of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the
land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly
sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall
carry up my bones away hence with you.
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in
Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to
lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go
by day and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp
before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon:
before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled
and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the
Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the
heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and
they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving
us?
6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of
he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out
with an high hand.
9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots
of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up
their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were
sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in
Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast
thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us
alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to
serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and
see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the
Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more
for ever.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me?
and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the
midst of the sea.
17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they
shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all
his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from
before their face, and stood behind them:
20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of
Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night
to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD
caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made
the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the
dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and
on their left.
23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst
of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked
unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,
and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily:
so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the
LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their
chariots, and upon their horsemen.
27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea
returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea.
28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the
horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them;
there remained not so much as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of
the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on
their left.
30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the
Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD,
and his servant Moses.
CHAPTER 15
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD,
and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed
gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my
4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his
stone.
6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right
them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which
consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered
together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were
congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the
spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand
shall destroy them.
10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank
13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast
redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on
Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan
shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine
arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till
the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine
inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to
dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his
horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the
sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of
the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in
her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with
dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath
triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out
into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness,
and found no water.
23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the
waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called
Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree,
which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet:
there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved
them,
26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD
thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his
commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these
diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am
the LORD that healeth thee.
27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and
threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
CHAPTER 16
1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim
and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing
out of the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the
flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us
forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from
heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate
every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare
that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather
daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even,
then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of
Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for
that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we,
that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in
the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the
LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what
are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of
the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard
your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole
them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be
filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and
covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face
of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost
on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another,
It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This
is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it
every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to
the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his
tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more,
some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much
had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered
every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said,
To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which
ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which
remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not
giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in
his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it
was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made
with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth,
Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the
bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you
forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of
manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your
generations.
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they
came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the
borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
CHAPTER 17
1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with
me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured
against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up
out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this
take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest
the river, take in thine hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and
thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the
people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out,
fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod
of God in mine hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with
Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands
were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of
the sword.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a
book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that
God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD
had brought Israel out of Egypt;
2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife,
said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife
thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance,
and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they
came into the tent.
8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto
Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had
come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had
done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who
hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the
thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and
sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat
bread with Moses' father in law before God.
13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the
people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the
evening.
14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people,
he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou
thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come
between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God,
and his laws.
17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou
with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform
it thyself alone.
19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God
shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest
bring the causes unto God:
20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew
them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such
as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over
them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties,
and rulers of tens:
22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that
every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they
shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the
burden with thee.
23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou
shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in
peace.
24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all
brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into
1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the
land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the
desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel
camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out
of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and
tell the children of Israel;
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you
These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid
before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the
LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the
people unto the LORD.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick
cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee
for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and
sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD
will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying,
Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the
border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned,
or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the
trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the
voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the
camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet
with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke
of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and
Moses went up.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people,
lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify
mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount,
and sanctify it.
24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou
shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the
people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth
upon them.
25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
CHAPTER 20
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness
LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for
the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it
thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD
blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,
nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and
the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the
people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear:
prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make
thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine
oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I
will bless thee.
25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it
of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall
go out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and
bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his
ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not
then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he
shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her
without money.
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to
death.
13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand;
him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put
to death.
16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in
to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone,
or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he
that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall
cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he
depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished,
according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as
the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid,
that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's
tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall
be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox
shall be quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it
hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he
hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also
shall be put to death.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the
unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not
sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they
shall divide.
36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and
his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the
dead shall be his own.
CHAPTER 22
1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall
restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there
in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own
field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or
the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the
fire shall surely make restitution.
7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep,
and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay
double.
8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be
brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his
neighbour's goods.
9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for
sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another
challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto
his neighbour.
10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep,
hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it
shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the
owner thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he
die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it
20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will
shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt
shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I
will hear; for I am gracious.
28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy
liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep:
seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it
me.
31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to
be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou
4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt
and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous
fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the
poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field
shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy
oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou
shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy
handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and
make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of
thy mouth.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of
the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17 Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the
LORD God.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the
house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine
adversaries.
23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the
Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break
down their images.
25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy
bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
thee.
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land:
whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs
unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou
the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out
before thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against
me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
CHAPTER 24
1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye
afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and
said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in
the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered
burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of
of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and
be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and
said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with
you concerning all these words.
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount,
and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and
commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went
again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man
have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the
mount.
16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the
cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out
of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on
the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
CHAPTER 25
of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my
offering.
3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and
5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof,
and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt
thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the
four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two
rings in the other side of it.
13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them
with gold.
14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the
ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be
thee.
17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a
half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt
the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on
the two ends thereof.
20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to
another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in
the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee
from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are
upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in
commandment unto the children of Israel.
23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be
the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half
the height thereof.
24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a
about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round
about.
26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in
them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof,
and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt
thou make them.
30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his
knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three
branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of
the candlestick out of the other side:
33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower
in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch,
with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the
candlestick.
34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto
a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches
of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the
candlestick.
36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall
pure gold.
39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was
1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning
work shalt thou make them.
2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and
the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall
have one measure.
3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and
curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in
the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt
thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second;
that the loops may take hold one of another.
6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains
one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one
measure.
9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront
of the tabernacle.
10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain
that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain
which coupleth the second.
11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into
the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the
half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the
tabernacle.
13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that
which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over
the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed
standing up.
16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half
another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty
boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets
under another board for his two tenons.
20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there
boards.
23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the
tabernacle in the two sides.
24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be
coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for
them both; they shall be for the two corners.
25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver,
sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board.
26 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of
and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two
sides westward.
28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from
end to end.
29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their
rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with
gold.
30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion
with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou
mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail
shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood,
and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou
shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
CHAPTER 27
1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five
cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be
three cubits.
2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof:
his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his
shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the
vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon
the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that
side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen
of an hundred cubits long for one side:
10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be
of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings
of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets
of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be
hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be
fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their
cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought
with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver;
breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen,
and their sockets of brass.
19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all
the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring
thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is
before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to
morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their
generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
CHAPTER 28
1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from
among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's
office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory
filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to
consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate,
and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle:
and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons,
that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen.
6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of
the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the
ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall
bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a
memorial.
13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
14 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt
thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning
work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and
of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
16 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length
stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this
shall be the first row.
18 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a
diamond.
19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall
shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two
fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the
ephod before it.
26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them
upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the
side of the ephod inward.
27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them
on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof,
over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the
ephod.
28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the
rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious
girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the
ephod.
29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the
breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy
place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and
the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in
before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of
Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it
shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were
the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates
of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and
bells of gold between them round about:
34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be
heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when
he cometh out, that he die not.
36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like
iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all
their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be
accepted before the LORD.
39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt
make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of
needlework.
40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt
make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory
and for beauty.
41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons
with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them,
that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they
come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near
unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and
die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
CHAPTER 29
1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to
minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two
rams without blemish,
2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil,
and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou
make them.
3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the
and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird
him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy
9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and
put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a
perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their
hands upon the head of the bullock.
11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of
the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the
bottom of the altar.
13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the
caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon
them, and burn them upon the altar.
14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt
him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt
offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto
the LORD.
19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of
his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe
of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the
anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and
upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall
be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments
with him.
22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat
that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a
ram of consecration:
23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one
wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of
his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon
the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's
consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it
shall be thy part.
27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the
shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up,
of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that
which is for his sons:
28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from
made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat
thereof, because they are holy.
34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread,
remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it
shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to
all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou
consecrate them.
36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an
atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and
sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the
altar shall be holy.
38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs
fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for
a drink offering.
41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto
according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink
offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the
LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the
altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the
priest's office.
45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their
God.
46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am
the LORD their God.
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1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood
sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make
unto it a crown of gold round about.
4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it,
by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it;
and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay
testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will
meet with thee.
7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning:
a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year
shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most
holy unto the LORD.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their
number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the
LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them,
when thou numberest them.
13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that
are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is
twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from
twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less
than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an
atonement for your souls.
16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of
Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before
the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass,
to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the
congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
thereat:
20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall
wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to
minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:
21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not:
and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed
throughout their generations.
22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five
compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy
unto you.
33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any
stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure
frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of
2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
brass,
5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise
hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have
commanded thee;
7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony,
and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the
tabernacle,
8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all
priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,
11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place:
one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any
work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of
rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he
shall surely be put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to
six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he
rested, and was refreshed.
18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of
communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of
stone, written with the finger of God.
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1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the
mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said
unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this
Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not
what is become of him.
2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which
are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and
bring them unto me.
3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in
graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be
thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat
and to drink, and rose up to play.
7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy
people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted
themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy
gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against
them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great
nation.
11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why
doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth
out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief
did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume
them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of
this evil against thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom
thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your
seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I
give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto
his people.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two
tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both
their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the
neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of
them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,
that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and
he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the
fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made
the children of Israel drink of it.
21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that
for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break
it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out
this calf.
25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron
had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on
the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi
gathered themselves together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put
every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate
throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his
companion, and every man his neighbour.
28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and
there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD,
even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow
upon you a blessing this day.
30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the
people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD;
peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people
have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray
have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee:
nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf,
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and
the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the
land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto
thy seed will I give it:
2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite:
3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the
midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the
way.
4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and
Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in
a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from
thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments
afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation.
And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out
unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle,
that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and
looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the
cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the
Lord talked with Moses.
10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle
door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent
door.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man
speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his
servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the
tabernacle.
12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me,
Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send
with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also
found grace in my sight.
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight,
shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy
sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee
rest.
15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us
not up hence.
16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have
found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we
be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face
of the earth.
17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou
hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by
name.
18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I
will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to
whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man
put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I
pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto
the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first
tables, which thou brakest.
2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto
mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen
throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that
mount.
4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses
rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD
had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the
third and to the fourth generation.
8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth,
and worshipped.
9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let
drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the
midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut
they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and
one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their
daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring
after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou
thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of
thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest:
in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of
borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to
appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither
shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the
house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's
milk.
27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for
after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with
Israel.
28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he
did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the
words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down
from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while
he talked with him.
30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh
him.
31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the
face.
34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he
took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the
children of Israel that which he was commanded.
35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of
Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he
went in to speak with him.
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sabbath day.
4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever
is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and
silver, and brass,
6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense,
9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the
breastplate.
10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all
the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the
tabernacle,
16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and
cords,
19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister
in the priest's office.
20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from
one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD's offering to
the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and
for the holy garments.
22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing
hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all
jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto
the LORD.
23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and
badgers' skins, brought them.
24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought
the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood
for any work of the service, brought it.
25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their
hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple,
and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun
goats' hair.
27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the
every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all
manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the
hand of Moses.
30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath
called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
Judah;
31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in
brass,
33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood,
1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in
whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all
manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the
LORD had commanded.
2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted
man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose
heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of
Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it
withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary,
more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD
commanded to make.
6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be
proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman
make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were
restrained from bringing.
7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it,
of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.
10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other
edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops
held one curtain to another.
13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one
the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves.
17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain
in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain
which coupleth the second.
18 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together,
up.
21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board
two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under
another board for his two tenons.
25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the
boards.
28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the
two sides.
29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the
head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen
and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from
gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four
sockets of silver.
37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and
chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
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1 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was
the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a
half the height of it:
2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a
of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other
side of it.
4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to
was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece
other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on
the two ends thereof.
9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered
with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another;
even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the
length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof:
11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of
and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure
gold.
17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made
he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and
his flowers, were of the same:
18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches
of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the
candlestick out of the other side thereof:
19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a
knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch,
a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the
candlestick.
20 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his
two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same,
according to the six branches going out of it.
22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was
was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two
cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides
thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of
gold round about.
27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by
the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the
staves to bear it withal.
28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
gold.
29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of
1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was
the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare;
and three cubits the height thereof.
2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns
shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the
vessels thereof made he of brass.
4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the
brass.
7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to
their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of
the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars
ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits;
hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets
three.
16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined
linen.
17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of
silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits
was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable
to the hangings of the court.
19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their
hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of
silver.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about,
were of brass.
21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of
holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and
seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation
the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years
old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five
hundred and fifty men.
27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the
sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred
talents, a talent for a socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he
made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two
of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and
all the vessels of the altar,
31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the
court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court
round about.
CHAPTER 39
1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to
do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet,
work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine
linen, with cunning work.
4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two
same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven,
ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was
the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
10 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius,
the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before
it.
19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends
of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the
ephod inward.
20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two
sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the
other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of
the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an
habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of
pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the
pomegranates;
26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round
about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and
congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that
the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his
furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of
seat,
36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
37 The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the
lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet
incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his
hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of
the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the
priest's office.
42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the
done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and
Moses blessed them.
CHAPTER 40
2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle
are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and
light the lamps thereof.
5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark
of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of
and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and
it shall be holy.
10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his
vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the
him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that
they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall
surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded
first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets,
and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up
his pillars.
19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the
staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of
the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the
commanded Moses.
26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before
the vail:
27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the
altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the
work.
34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory
congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the
LORD filled the tabernacle.
36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all
their journeys.
Ezekiel
CHAPTER 1
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar,
that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king
Jehoiachin's captivity,
3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the
hand of the LORD was there upon him.
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a
great cloud, and a fire infolding 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 midst thereof came the likeness of four living
creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a
man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like
the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished
brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face
of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward;
two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their
bodies.
12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was
to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was
like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up
and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of
the fire went forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a
flash of lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the
colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance
and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their
spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit
of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were
lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living
creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their
heads above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one
toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and
every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the
noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech,
as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their
heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the
round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and
from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the
appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of
rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I
fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
CHAPTER 2
1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak
unto thee.
2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set
Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their
fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee
unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for
they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a
prophet among them.
6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of
their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell
among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their
looks, though they be a rebellious house.
7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear,
rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give
thee.
9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a
without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and
woe.
CHAPTER 3
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill
thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my
mouth as honey for sweetness.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of
language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent
thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not
hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and
hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy
speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy
people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a
great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that
touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and
a noise of a great rushing.
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong
upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the
river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished
among them seven days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of
Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from
me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou
givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked
way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his
blood will I require at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou
hast delivered thy soul.
20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die:
because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his
righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his
blood will I require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous
sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned;
also thou hast delivered thy soul.
22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto
me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory
of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar:
and I fell on my face.
24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and
spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee,
and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that
thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a
rebellious house.
27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear;
and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
CHAPTER 4
1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and
mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams
against it round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of
iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be
besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house
of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie
upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to
the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou
bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right
side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I
have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn
thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make
thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie
upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been
polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which
dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh
into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for
staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with
care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's
razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then
take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when
the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and
smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind;
and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in
thy skirts.
4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire,
and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the
house of Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the
midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than
the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round
about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they
have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more
than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my
statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to
the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against
thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the
nations.
9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I
will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and
the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and
the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou
hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine
abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye
spare, neither will I have any pity.
12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine
shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by
the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the
winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury
to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the
LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in
them.
14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the
nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall
execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I
the LORD have spoken it.
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which
shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I
will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall
bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I
will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
CHAPTER 6
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and
Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers,
and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I
will destroy your high places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be
broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before
their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the
high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and
made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your
images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.
8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall
escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through
the countries.
9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel!
for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near
shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by
the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men
shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in
all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under
every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their
idols.
14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land
desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all
their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
CHAPTER 7
2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of
Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon
thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense
upon thee all thine abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I
will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in
the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
is come.
7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land:
the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of
the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish
mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and
will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will
recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are
in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the
remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be
wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer
rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they
were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof,
which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity
of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none
goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for
his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall
cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all
their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the
day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill
their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they
the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my
secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is
full of violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease;
and their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall
be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon
rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall
perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I
will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I
judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
CHAPTER 8
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day
of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before
me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from
the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even
upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of
mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven,
and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the
inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image
of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according
toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and
behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the
entry.
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they
do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth
here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again,
and thou shalt see greater abominations.
7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the
house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of
Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of
incense went up.
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the
ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers
of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath
forsaken the earth.
13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for
Tammuz.
15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house,
and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch
and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward
the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they
worshipped the sun toward the east.
17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a
light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which
they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have
returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their
nose.
18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud
voice, yet will I not hear them.
CHAPTER 9
1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that
have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand.
2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate,
which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his
hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's
inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of
the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the
midst thereof.
5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him
through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and
women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin
at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before
the house.
7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with
the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left,
that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou
destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon
Jerusalem?
9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and
Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of
perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the
LORD seeth not.
10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have
by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast
commanded me.
CHAPTER 10
1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head
between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals
of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And
he went in in my sight.
3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the
man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood
over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud,
and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.
5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the
clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from
between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the
cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took
thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who
took it, and went out.
8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand
wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the
appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a
as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it;
they turned not as they went.
12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their
wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels
that they four had.
13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
wheel.
14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a
cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the
face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that
when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the
same wheels also turned not from beside them.
17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up,
these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in
them.
18 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of
the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside
them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's
house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by
the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and
1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of
the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the
gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur,
and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise
5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me,
Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I
know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the
in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will
bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,
the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in
my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the
manners of the heathen that are round about you.
13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice,
and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of
Israel?
14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy
kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us
is this land given in possession.
16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast
them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them
among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the
countries where they shall come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have
been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within
you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an
heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances,
and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their
and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by
the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I
had seen went up from me.
25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the
which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear
not: for they are a rebellious house.
3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and
remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to
another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a
rebellious house.
4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff
for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go
forth into captivity.
5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it
forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the
ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day,
as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine
hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in
their sight.
8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are
among them.
11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto
them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder
in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry
out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his
eyes.
13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my
snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet
shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help
him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
15 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter
famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their
abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their
bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her
land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of
all them that dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land
Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this
proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but
say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision
that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times
that are far off.
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall
none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have
spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 13
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge
for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD
saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to
hope that they would confirm the word.
7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying
divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken
vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord
GOD.
9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither
shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they
enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others
daubed it with untempered morter:
11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall
that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The
wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning
Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no
peace, saith the Lord GOD.
17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of
thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou
against them,
18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew
pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every
stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye
save the souls alive that come unto you?
19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley
and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save
the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear
your lies?
20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your
pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear
them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye
hunt to make them fly.
21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your
hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad,
whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked,
that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for
I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the
LORD.
CHAPTER 14
1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and
Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in
his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face,
and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh
according to the multitude of his idols;
5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because
Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces
from all your abominations.
7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his
idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his
face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the
LORD will answer him by myself:
8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign
and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I
the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand
upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that
seeketh unto him;
11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither
be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be
my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the
staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off
man and beast from it:
14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they
should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord
GOD.
15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they
spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of
the beasts:
16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered,
but the land shall be desolate.
17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through
the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be
delivered themselves.
19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury
GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver
their own souls by their righteousness.
21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my
four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought
forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you,
and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning
all that I have brought upon it.
23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their
doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I
have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 15
2 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a
ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much
less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and
it is burned?
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the
trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one
fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the
LORD, when I set my face against them.
8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and
thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy
mother an Hittite.
4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was
not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not
salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the
lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own
blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto
thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou
hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent
ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas
thou wast naked and bare.
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy
time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered
thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with
thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy
badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee
with silk.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy
of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and
honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper
into a kingdom.
14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for
it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith
the Lord GOD.
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot
because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one
that passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high
places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like
things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,
which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst
commit whoredom with them,
18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and
thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom
thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be
devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause
remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and
wast polluted in thy blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto
made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one
that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of
them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed
of thy lewd way.
28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because
thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet
couldest not be satisfied.
29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.
30 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou
way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as
an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers
lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for
thy whoredom.
34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms,
36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured
out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy
lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy
children, which thou didst give unto them;
37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast
taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou
hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will
discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed
blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw
down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they
shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and
leave thee naked and bare.
40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall
stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute
judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to
cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall
depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but
children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their
husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father
an Amorite.
46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that
dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right
hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their
abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted
more than they in all thy ways.
48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done,
she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness
multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy
sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame
for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they
are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear
thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom
and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then
will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto
them.
55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their
former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former
estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day
of thy pride,
57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy
reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the
daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the
LORD.
59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou
hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days
thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give
them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the
house of Israel;
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great
wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto
Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a
branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it
became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many
feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot
forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
plantation.
8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring
forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not
pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall
wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many
people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly
wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where
it grew.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things
mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and
hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with
him to Babylon;
13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with
him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the
land:
14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but
Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he
prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the
covenant, and be delivered?
16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king
dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose
covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut
off many persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when,
lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not
escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath
that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I
recompense upon his own head.
20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my
snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his
trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and
they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know
that I the LORD have spoken it.
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of
the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs
a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall
bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it
shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof
shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have
brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the
green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have
spoken and have done it.
CHAPTER 18
2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of
Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's
teeth are set on edge?
3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any
soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his
eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his
neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his
pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any
increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true
judgment between man and man,
9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal
hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath
committed abomination,
13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he
then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall
surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which
his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his
neighbour's wife,
16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge,
neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry,
and hath covered the naked with a garment,
17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not
brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo,
even he shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?
When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all
my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the
iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son:
the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness
of the wicked shall be upon him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be
mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the
Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that
the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath
done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and
in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O
house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done
shall he die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness
that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall
save his soul alive.
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his
O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one
according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves
from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye
die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the
Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
CHAPTER 19
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among
then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young
cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of
his roaring.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of
Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be
heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she
and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she
appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the
ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken
and withered; the fire consumed them.
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty
ground.
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath
devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.
This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
CHAPTER 20
1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth
day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of
the LORD, and sat before me.
2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith
the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause
chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of
Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I
lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth
of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with
milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations
of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the
LORD your God.
8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me:
they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither
did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury
upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land
of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted
before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made
myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify
them.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with
milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my
statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them,
and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked
sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose
sight I brought them forth.
23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I
would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the
countries;
24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had
through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have
blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted
up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the
thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their
sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go?
GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye
whoredom after their abominations?
31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass
through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this
day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith
the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye
with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out
of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there
transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where
they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye,
serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken
unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with
your idols.
40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them
in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require
your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy
things.
41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out
from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have
been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you
into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand
to give it to your fathers.
43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings,
wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own
sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with
you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor
according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord
GOD.
45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word
toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame
shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be
burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not
be quenched.
49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
parables?
CHAPTER 21
2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word
toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am
against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut
off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all
flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my
thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and
every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall
faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall
be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A
may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son,
as every tree.
11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this
be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be
upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the
together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the
slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into
their privy chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their
heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is
wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,
19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of
the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one
land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the
city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the
head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he
consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint
captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with
shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount,
and to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to
them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity,
that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your
crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him
that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until
thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked,
whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the
thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men,
and skilful to destroy.
32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst
of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have
spoken it.
CHAPTER 22
2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody
blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against
herself to defile herself.
4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast
defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused
thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I
made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock
thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they
vexed the fatherless and the widow.
8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my
sabbaths.
9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they
eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee
have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife;
and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee
hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken
usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by
extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain
which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of
thee.
14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the
days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in
are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are
even the dross of silver.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become
dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into
the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather
you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt
you.
21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath,
melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have
poured out my fury upon you.
23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed,
nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a
roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken
the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in
the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy
things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither
have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and
have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the
seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord
GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised
robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed
the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not
destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have
consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I
recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 23
whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there
they bruised the teats of their virginity.
4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her
sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus
were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted
were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all
their idols she defiled herself.
8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her
youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and
poured their whoredom upon her.
9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into
daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among
women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in
her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister
in her whoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and
rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them
desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men
pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with
vermilion,
15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire
upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the
Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon
defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her
mind was alienated from them.
18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her
nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was
alienated from her sister.
19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the
days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh
bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I
will bring them against thee on every side;
23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and
Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men,
captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon
horses.
24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and
wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee
buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before
them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal
furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy
remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy
daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy
fair jewels.
27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy
whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up
thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the
hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy
mind is alienated:
29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all
thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of
thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy
whoredoms.
30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a
whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her
deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it
containeth much.
33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of
sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith
the Lord GOD.
35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten
me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness
and thy whoredoms.
36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge
and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused
their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to
devour them.
38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my
came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have
they done in the midst of mine house.
40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far,
unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou
didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with
ornaments,
41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it,
the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness,
which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their
heads.
43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now
playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the
lewd women.
45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner
them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and
burn up their houses with fire.
48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all
shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord
GOD.
CHAPTER 24
1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the
day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into
it:
4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the
and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to
the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it!
bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a
rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set
her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will
be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that
the scum of it may be consumed.
12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not
forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and
thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any
more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it;
I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to
thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the
Lord GOD.
15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine
eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall
thy tears run down.
17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of
thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not
thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife
saying,
21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the
desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and
your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor
your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your
iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath
done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord
GOD.
25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from
them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that
whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause
and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign
unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
CHAPTER 25
2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy
against them;
3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my
sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it
was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity;
4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their
dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites
a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine
hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy
despite against the land of Israel;
7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will
deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the
people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy
thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,
from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them
in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the
nations.
11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know
the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and
revenged himself upon them;
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine
hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it
desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my
people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and
according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord
GOD.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by
mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and
destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious
rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my
vengeance upon them.
CHAPTER 26
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month,
Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto
me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O
Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea
causeth his waves to come up.
4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a
rock.
5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the
sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil
to the nations.
6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the
shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up
the buckler against thee.
9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his
he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go
down to the ground.
12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy
merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy
pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy
dust in the midst of the water.
13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound
to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at
the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made
in the midst of thee?
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments:
they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the
ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee,
How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the
renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants,
which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles
with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that
thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou
be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 27
3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles
of Chittim.
7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou
spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah
was that which covered thee.
8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise
calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy
thy merchandise.
10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy
men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy
comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round
about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields
upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind
of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they
merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory
and ebony.
16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares
of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and
broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they
traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil,
and balm.
18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy
making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white
wool.
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in
lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy
merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all
precious stones, and gold.
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur,
wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind
pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men
of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of
thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the
sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall
cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow
themselves in the ashes:
31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird
them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart
and bitter wailing.
32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and
lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the
midst of the sea?
33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many
people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy
riches and of thy merchandise.
34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths
of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee
shall fall.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and
their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
countenance.
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I
sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not
God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they
thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy
the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy
wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the
shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious
stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl,
the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared
in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee
so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and
down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the
ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire
from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes
upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at
thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O
Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that
I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall
be sanctified in her.
23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and
the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on
every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of
Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that
despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house
of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be
sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their
land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and
plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have
executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
CHAPTER 29
1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the
thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his
rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for
myself.
4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy
rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of
thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the
fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be
brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts
of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD,
rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest,
and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword
upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall
know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I
have made it.
10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I
will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of
Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass
countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid
waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I
gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them
to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and
they shall be there a base kingdom.
15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself
any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no
more rule over the nations.
16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel,
which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after
them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first
month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army
to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and
every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus,
for the service that he had served against it:
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of
served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud
forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
CHAPTER 30
2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl
Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her
multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and
Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the
sword.
6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and
the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall
they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are
desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in
the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as
in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt
brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against
Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of
the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the
hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will
cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a
prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and
break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease
in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into
captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that
I am the LORD.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in
the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to
make it strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that
which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my
sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan
before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the
arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD,
when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse
them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
CHAPTER 31
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his
multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches,
and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was
among the thick boughs.
4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her
rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field.
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field,
and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because
of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under
his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and
under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches:
were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his
branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his
beauty.
9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all
the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of
the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his
wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and
have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are
fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the
people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the
themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick
boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for
they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the
midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the
grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained
the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused
Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast
him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of
Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be
comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain
with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow
in the midst of the heathen.
18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the
trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden
unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and
all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 32
1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a
whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst
the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over
thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my
net.
4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the
open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee,
and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys
the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known.
10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before
them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life,
in the day of thy fall.
11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon
terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt,
and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great
waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs
of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run
shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them
that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even
for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the
month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down,
even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts
of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with
the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword:
she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst
of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie
uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him:
round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which
caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of
them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into
the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the
living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her
multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the
living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit:
he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are
round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though
they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war:
and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall
be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land
of the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their
might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the
uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are
ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be
slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the
pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the
Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall
be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the
sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 33
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto
them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a
man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the
warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon
his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his
blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the
trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any
person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood
will I require at the watchman's hand.
7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the
house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and
warn them from me.
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die;
if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if
he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast
delivered thy soul.
10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel;
Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us,
and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live:
turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of
Israel?
12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people,
The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his
transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall
thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the
righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he
turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed,
walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto
him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not
tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out
of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore
he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to
me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel
speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are
many; the land is given us for inheritance.
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with
the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and
shall ye possess the land?
26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile
every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live,
surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is
in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be
in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her
strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that
none shall pass through.
29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the
land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have
committed.
30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking
against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one
to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear
what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit
before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do
them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth
after their covetousness.
32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath
a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy
words, but they do them not.
33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they
and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe
be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the
shepherds feed the flocks?
3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that
that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken,
neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have
ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye
ruled them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they
became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every
high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and
none did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because
there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock,
but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from
feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more;
for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for
them.
11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search
his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver
them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and
dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon
the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the
country.
14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains
of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat
pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the
Lord GOD.
16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was
driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen
that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed
them with judgment.
17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good
pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your
pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the
residue with your feet?
19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with
your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I,
will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed
all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey;
them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd.
24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince
the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the
wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there
shall be showers of blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall
yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know
that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and
delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall
the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none
shall make them afraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be
no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the
heathen any more.
30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them,
and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord
GOD.
31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your
2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
against it,
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,
I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will
make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou
blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their
calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto
blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even
blood shall pursue thee.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him
thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the
sword.
9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was
there:
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according
to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of
thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them,
when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard
all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of
Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have
1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say,
you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that
ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are
taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are
forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the
heathen that are round about;
5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against
all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the
joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto
the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury,
because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand,
Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be
tilled and sown:
10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all
of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and
will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I
am the LORD.
12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel;
and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou
shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou
heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any
more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord
GOD.
16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land,
they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before
me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they
had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were
they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the
people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had
I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's
sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among
the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the
heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall
be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out
of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give
you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the
that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your
iniquities and for your abominations.
32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known
unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of
Israel.
33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed
you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and
the wastes shall be builded.
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in
the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are
become fenced, and are inhabited.
36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I
the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the
LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the
house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a
flock.
38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts;
so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know
that I am the LORD.
CHAPTER 37
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of
the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of
bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there
were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I
and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there
was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone
to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon
them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of
man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four
winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came
into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding
great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is
lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to
come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened
you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it,
and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon
it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for
all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall
stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel
his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and
make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before
their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and
will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains
of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no
more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any
more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I
will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned,
and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe
my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my
servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein,
even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and
my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be
an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply
them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the
bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them
clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and
shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and
helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north
quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy
company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou
shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is
gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have
been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they
shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with
thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the
same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I
will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling
without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the
desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are
gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that
dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the
young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil?
hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and
gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt
thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou,
and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great
company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud
to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against
my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in
thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall
come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and
the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,
and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my
presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places
shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my
mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his
brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I
will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that
are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and
brimstone.
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be
known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
CHAPTER 39
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and
will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon
the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine
bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous
birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the
Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell
carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people
Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the
heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the
set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the
bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall
burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down
any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they
shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord GOD.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a
place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of
the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall
they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of
Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them,
them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing
through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the
face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they
search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth
a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried
it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they
mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen
shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid
upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God
captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore
hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies:
so fell they all by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the
captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and
will be jealous for my holy name;
26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses
whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in
their land, and none made them afraid.
27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered
them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of
many nations;
28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which
caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have
gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more
there.
29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have
poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 40
1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the
year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the
city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon
me, and brought me thither.
2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and
set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on
the south.
3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his
hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes,
and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew
thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought
hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and
in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an
hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and
the height, one reed.
6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and
went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which
was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one
reed broad.
7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad;
and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the
gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the
posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this
side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the
posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits;
side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers
were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to
the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against
door.
14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of
their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and
windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were
chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty
chambers were upon the pavement.
18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the
gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits
eastward and northward.
20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north,
he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three
on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the
measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits.
22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were
after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went
up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward
the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an
hundred cubits.
24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate
toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches
thereof according to these measures.
25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round
about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five
and twenty cubits.
26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches
thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and
another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he
trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.
32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the
going up to it had eight steps.
35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according
to these measures;
36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches
thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits,
and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the
going up to it had eight steps.
38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of
two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin
offering and the trespass offering.
40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north
gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of
the gate, were two tables.
41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by
the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.
42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of
a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit
high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the
burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about:
the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their
prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having
the prospect toward the north.
45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward
the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the
priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of
Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister
unto him.
47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an
hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the
house.
48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured
each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that
side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three
cubits on that side.
49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the
door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side:
and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty
cubits.
3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two
cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the
breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is
the most holy place.
5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on
every side.
6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in
order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side
chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold
in the wall of the house.
7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to
the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward
round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still
upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the
midst.
8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of
was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south:
and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end
toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building
was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the
separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred
cubits long;
14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate
separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one
side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and
the porches of the court;
16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries
round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood
round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows
were covered;
17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without,
and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm
tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two
faces;
19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one
side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side:
it was made through all the house round about.
20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm
two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls
thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is
before the LORD.
23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two
leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there
were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side
and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side
chambers of the house, and thick planks.
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1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north:
and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate
place, and which was before the building toward the north.
2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and
over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery
against gallery in three stories.
4 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth
inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were
higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the
building.
6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of
the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest
and the middlemost from the ground.
7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward
the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was
fifty cubits.
8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was
fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side,
toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the
building.
11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the
chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as
they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and
according to their doors.
12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward
the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before
the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south
chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers,
where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy
things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering,
and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the
holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments
wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments,
and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house,
he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east,
and measured it round about.
16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five
measuring reed.
19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward
the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of
the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth
shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city:
and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I
fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the
stood by me.
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and
the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no
more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the
carcases of their kings in their high places.
8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post
by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled
my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore
I have consumed them in mine anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their
kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that
they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the
pattern.
11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them
the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out
thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the
ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof:
and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and
all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the
whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law
of the house.
13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The
cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit,
and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round
about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle
even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward
the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and
the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward
the east.
18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD;
These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it,
to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed
of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord
GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four
horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border
round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall
blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did
cleanse it with the bullock.
23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a
young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without
blemish.
24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall
cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto
the LORD.
25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin
offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the
flock, without blemish.
26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall
consecrate themselves.
27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the
eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings
upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the
Lord GOD.
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1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary
be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God
of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before
the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall
go out by the way of the same.
4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house:
and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the
LORD: and I fell upon my face.
5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold
with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee
concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws
thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth
of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all
your abominations,
7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,
went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall
even bear their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the
gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt
offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them
to minister unto them.
12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and
caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up
mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their
iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest
unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy
place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they
have committed.
14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all
the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the
charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me,
they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand
before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to
the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool
shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner
court, and within.
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have
linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any
thing that causeth sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter
court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they
ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on
other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their
garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to
inner court.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put
away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a
widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy
and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the
clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall
for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for
sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner
court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the
Lord GOD.
28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their
inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their
possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the
all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give
unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to
rest in thine house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or
1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall
offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length
shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth
shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round
about.
2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with
five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about
for the suburbs thereof.
3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and
twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the
sanctuary and the most holy place.
4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers
of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it
shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand
of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for
themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the
holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the
other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the
city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of
the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward:
and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west
border unto the east border.
8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall
no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to
the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:
remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away
your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath
may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of
an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and
tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten
baths are an homer:
15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat
pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for
peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in
Israel.
17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in
the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare
the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the
peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of
the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse
the sanctuary:
19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put
it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of
the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one
that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall
the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the
seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock,
do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering,
according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and
according to the oil.
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1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh
toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it
shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate
without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall
prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship
at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not
be shut until the evening.
3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this
gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in
the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without
blemish.
5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat
offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an
ephah.
6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock
without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and
an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain
unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the
the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to
worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by
the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he
shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go
forth over against it.
10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in;
peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the
gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering
and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go
forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a
lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the
sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with
the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto
the LORD.
15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the
it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but
his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.
18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by
oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his
sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not
scattered every man from his possession.
19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of
the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the
north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.
20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall
boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the
meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify
the people.
21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to
pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the
court there was a court.
22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty
cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round
about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows
round about.
24 Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil,
where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
CHAPTER 47
me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh
eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth
not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
could not be passed over.
6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he
country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being
brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which
moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be
a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither:
for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river
cometh.
10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it
from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth
nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great
sea, exceeding many.
11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be
side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall
the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his
months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the
fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye
shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall
have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the
which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall
fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side,
Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this
is the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from
Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from
the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of
strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side
southward.
20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a
Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which
shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the
country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you
among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger
sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
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1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast
side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand
reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east
side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and
toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west
ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth,
and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the
sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok;
which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of
Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a
five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the
length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the
the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for
dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four
thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five
hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the
west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two
hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward
the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy
portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and
it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase
thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of
Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and
twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the
possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on
the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over
against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east
border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward
the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be
the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst
thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the
possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's,
between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the
prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west
border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and
to the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of
Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four
Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah,
one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three
gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures:
and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of
Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three
gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name
of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Ezra
CHAPTER 1
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD
by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit
of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath
given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build
him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him,
and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, 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 he sojourneth, let
the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods,
and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in
Jerusalem.
5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and
the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to
go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with
vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with
precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the
hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity
that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 2
1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the
two.
4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and
four.
32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and
five.
34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
thirty.
36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
children of Tabbaoth,
44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of
Padon,
45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children
of Akkub,
46 The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of
Hanan,
47 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of
Reaiah,
48 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of
Gazzam,
49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of
Besai,
50 The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of
Nephusim,
51 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of
Harhur,
52 The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of
Harsha,
53 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of
Thamah,
54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Giddel,
57 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of
Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house,
and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of
genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put
from the priesthood.
63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the
most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
64 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand
seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among
them two hundred singing men and singing women.
66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two
house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of
God to set it up in his place:
69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work
threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of
silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the
singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all
Israel in their cities.
CHAPTER 3
1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were
priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and
builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it
is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them
because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings
thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and
new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated,
and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt
offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD
was not yet laid.
7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters;
and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to
bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the
grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at
his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the
house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren
the Levites.
10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the
LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites
the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance
of David king of Israel.
11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks
unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever
toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they
praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD
was laid.
12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who
were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of
this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many
shouted aloud for joy:
13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy
from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with
a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
CHAPTER 4
1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the
children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers,
and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye
do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of
Assur, which brought us up hither.
3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the
the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of
Persia.
6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote
and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the
writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in
the Syrian tongue.
8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter
brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this
side the river, and at such a time.
11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto
Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at
such a time.
12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from
thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad
city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and
the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and
so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
14 Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and
it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent
and certified the king;
15 That search may be made in the book of the records of thy
fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this
city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that
they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause
was this city destroyed.
16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the
walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side
the river.
17 Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to
Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in
Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
18 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before
me.
19 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found
that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that
rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have
ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom,
was paid unto them.
21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and
that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given
from me.
22 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage
Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in
haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and
power.
24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at
Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king
of Persia.
CHAPTER 5
1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo,
prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name
of the God of Israel, even unto them.
2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the
river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said thus unto them,
Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?
4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of
they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and
then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river,
Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones,
and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and
prospereth in their hands.
9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who
of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded
these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto
which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and
brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take
out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose
name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the
temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his
place.
16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of
the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until
now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.
17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search
1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the
province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a
and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be
ye far from thence:
7 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the
Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.
8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these
Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even
of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these
men, that they be not hindered.
9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and
rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat,
salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are
at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of
heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word,
let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be
hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy
all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy
this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree;
let it be done with speed.
13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and
their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so
they did speedily.
14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through
the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo.
And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the
God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius,
and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar,
which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the
rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of
God with joy.
17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred
bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for
all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their
courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in
the book of Moses.
19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the
were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and
for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of
captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the
filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did
eat,
22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for
the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of
Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of
God, the God of Israel.
CHAPTER 7
1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra
5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the
the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king
granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God
upon him.
7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the
Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the
Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem,
according to the good hand of his God upon him.
10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD,
unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the
commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the
priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to
go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven
counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation
is in Jerusalem,
16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province
of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests,
offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:
17 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams,
lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them
upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to
do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your
God.
19 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house
which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's
treasure house.
21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the
treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest,
the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done
speedily,
22 Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures
hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that
are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye
them that know them not.
26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the
thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which
is in Jerusalem:
28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his
counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was
strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I
gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
CHAPTER 8
1 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of
them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the
king.
2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar;
Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah:
and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and
fifty.
4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and
fifty males.
7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with
seventy males.
15 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava;
and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the
priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan,
and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and
for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of
understanding.
17 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the
place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to
his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring
unto us ministers for the house of our God.
18 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a
man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of
Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;
19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his
appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty
Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we
might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us,
and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and
intreated of us.
24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah,
even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his
counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
26 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of
are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the
LORD God of your fathers.
29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief
of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at
Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
30 So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and
the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of
our God.
31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of
the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon
us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in
wait by the way.
32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
33 Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the
vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the
son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas;
and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of
Binnui, Levites;
34 By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was
were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of
Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and
seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt
offering unto the LORD.
36 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's
lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered
the people, and the house of God.
CHAPTER 9
1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying,
The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated
themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their
abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the
Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the
Amorites.
2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for
their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the
people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been
chief in this trespass.
3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle,
and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down
astonied.
4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the
having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread
out my hands unto the LORD my God,
6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face
to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our
trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass
unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests,
been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to
captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the
bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of
Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair
the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with
the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which
have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither
take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth
for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it
for an inheritance to your children for ever.
13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our
great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our
iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity
with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with
us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor
escaping?
15 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet
1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and
casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him
out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children:
for the people wept very sore.
2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and
have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope
in Israel concerning this thing.
3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away
all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of
my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and
let it be done according to the law.
4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with
Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they
sware.
6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into
the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither,
he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the
transgression of them that had been carried away.
7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem
unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves
together unto Jerusalem;
8 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according
to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be
forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had
been carried away.
9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the
twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the
house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have
fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of
the land, and from the strange wives.
12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice,
are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for
we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them
which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times,
and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the
fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah
were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the
Levite helped them.
16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with
certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them
by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth
month to examine the matter.
17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
wives by the first day of the first month.
18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had
taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak,
and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives;
and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and
Athlai.
29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah,
Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
30 And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah,
Shimeon,
32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and
Galatia:
3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our
present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any
other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please
men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and
wasted it:
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine
before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and
brother.
20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie
not.
21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
were in Christ:
23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times
gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which
were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was
compelled to be circumcised:
4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who
came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that
they might bring us into bondage:
5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that
perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and
Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the
heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same
Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,
fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that
truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew,
livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why
compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but
by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that
we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the
law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also
are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a
transgressor.
19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto
God.
20 I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by
1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey
the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,
crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the
righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the
children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen
through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee
shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:
for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which
are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is
live in them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith.
15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed,
which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of
God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was
made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if
there had been a law given which could have given life, verily
righteousness should have been by the law.
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put
on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from
father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the
God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto
ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude
formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for
law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a
bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but
the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is
Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to
all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth
and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children
than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that
and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son
of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of
the free.
CHAPTER 5
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
faith.
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
truth?
8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment,
whosoever he be.
11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt
of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do
the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of
the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also
be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
he deceiveth himself.
4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have
6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that
but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
hand.
12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they
constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution
for the cross of Christ.
13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law;
but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the
world.
15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
Amen.
Genesis
CHAPTER 1
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:
and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself,
upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after
his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and
every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind:
and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and
to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
CHAPTER 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that
in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the
heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every
herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to
rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be
field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what
he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,
that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help
meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and
he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her
husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not
eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast
done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the
field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of
thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in
sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt
the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return.
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the
garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way,
to keep the way of the tree of life.
CHAPTER 4
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain
not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou
shalt rule over him.
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when
they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and
slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I
can bear.
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the
earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a
vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that
findeth me shall slay me.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in
and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of
his son, Enoch.
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
sevenfold.
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called
his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his
name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
CHAPTER 5
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called
his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
and he died.
9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen
he died.
12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
and he died.
15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
Enoch:
19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and
and he died.
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
begat Lamech.
26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred
son:
29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort
us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground
which the LORD hath cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men
of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and
the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled
with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for
me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will
destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou
finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof;
with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth,
to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and
every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come
into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with
thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and
female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come
unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt
gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so
did he.
CHAPTER 7
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the
and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his
female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to
days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I
destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls,
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his
sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind,
and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh,
God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the
high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains
were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of
cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the
face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the
fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah
only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty
days.
CHAPTER 8
1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle
that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the
earth, and the waters asswaged;
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were
the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day
tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains
seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the
whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in
unto him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the
mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were
abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove;
first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off
the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and,
behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be
fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of
the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the
altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in
his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for
the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again
smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
CHAPTER 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful,
beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth
upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they
delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the
not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of
every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every
man's brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the
ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh
be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more
be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I
may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living
creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant,
which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem,
earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a
vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was
their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's
nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and
he died.
CHAPTER 10
1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and
Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said,
city.
13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,)
and Caphtorim.
15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah,
and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their
25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg;
for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth,
and Jerah,
27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of
Joktan.
30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top
may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered
abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the
LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years,
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years,
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and
Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's
wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of
Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they
went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and
from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew
thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and
went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all
their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and
into the land of Canaan they came.
6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed
will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who
appeared unto him.
8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the
east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the
name of the LORD.
9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into
Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a
fair woman to look upon:
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see
thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will
save thee alive.
13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me
before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep,
and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she
asses, and camels.
17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to
me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they
sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
CHAPTER 13
1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had,
3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto
the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and
Hai;
4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the first:
tents.
6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell
together.
7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle
and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite
dwelled then in the land.
8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for
we be brethren.
9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee,
from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou
depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan,
that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt,
as thou comest unto Zoar.
11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed
east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art
northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy
man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
numbered.
17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth
of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
CHAPTER 14
1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king
salt sea.
4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and
the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the
wilderness.
7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and
smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt
in Hazezontamar.
8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah,
and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the
same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four
kings with five.
10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of
Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to
the mountain.
11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all
armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by
night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the
left hand of Damascus.
16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return
from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him,
at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine:
unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that
I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made
Abram rich:
24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion
of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take
their portion.
CHAPTER 15
1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own
bowels shall be thine heir.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said
unto him, So shall thy seed be.
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur
it?
9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a
she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a
turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst,
and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram
a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto
the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and
the Jebusites.
CHAPTER 16
1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath
restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be
that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of
Sarai.
3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her
husband Abram to be his wife.
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she
saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given
my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I
was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do
to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled
from her face.
7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the
whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress
Sarai.
9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the
LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,
and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of
all his brethren.
13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou
God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth
me?
14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between
Ishmael to Abram.
CHAPTER 17
1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared
to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and
be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession; and I will be their God.
9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be
circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be
not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken
my covenant.
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not
call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will
bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be
of her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and
shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before
thee!
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and
thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed
him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve
princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his
house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the
men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in
the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
son.
27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in
him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and
bowed himself toward the ground,
3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass
after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And
they said, So do, as thou hast said.
6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes
upon the hearth.
7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,
and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did
eat.
9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in
the tent door, which was behind him.
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and
it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.
do;
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his
household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do
justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which
he hath spoken of him.
20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward
also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are
therein?
25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the
wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the
city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou
destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and
five, I will not destroy it.
29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there
shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will
speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will
not do it, if I find thirty there.
31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto
the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I
will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet
but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will
not destroy it for ten's sake.
33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate
of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed
himself with his face toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your
servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise
up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in
the street all night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake
unleavened bread, and they did eat.
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of
Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people
from every quarter:
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may
know them.
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after
him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let
me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in
your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they
under the shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow
came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse
with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even
Lot, and came near to break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to
blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find
the door.
12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in
law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the
city, bring them out of this place:
13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen
great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy
it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married
his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will
destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,
saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest
thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and
upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the
LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
without the city.
17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,
that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in
all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou
hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my
life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I
die:
20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh,
let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this
thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast
spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be
come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he
land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up
as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain,
that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his
two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a
cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and
there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all
the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him,
firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she
lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto
the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him
drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the
younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay
down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the
Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
CHAPTER 20
1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and
Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken;
for she is a man's wife.
4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt
this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning
against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and
he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not,
know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his
servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore
afraid.
9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast
thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds
unto me that ought not to be done.
10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou
hast done this thing?
11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is
not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my
father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt
shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my
brother.
14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah
his wife.
15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell
1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto
should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great
and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son,
even with Isaac.
11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of
his son.
12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight
because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah
hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be
called.
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and
the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the
wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the
child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called
to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear
not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make
went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in
all that thou doest:
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal
falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to
the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to
the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto
hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they
up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the
land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on
1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham,
and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a
burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the
wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the
ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to
you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon
Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went
both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father:
and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the
wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a
Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac
his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay
his son.
11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and
any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind
him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took
the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is
thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply
thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the
sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother
Nahor;
21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of
Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the
choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from
thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to
Ephron the son of Zohar,
9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall
give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the
land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee
money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of
Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
17 And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was
before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees
that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made
sure
18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children
1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had
over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and
the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the
daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a
be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again
unto the land from whence thou camest?
6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my
house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and
that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall
send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from
thence.
8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt
be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he
arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well
of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to
draw water.
12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee,
send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master
Abraham.
13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of
down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink,
and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast
appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast
shewed kindness unto my master.
15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold,
Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of
Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had
any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher,
and came up.
17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee,
water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran
again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the
man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for
her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there
who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in
the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these
things.
29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and
Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets
upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his
sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man;
and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore
standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the
camels.
32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels,
and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet,
and the men's feet that were with him.
33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not
eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
follow me.
40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send
his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for
my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to
my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my
oath.
42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my
that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give
me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy
camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out
for my master's son.
45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah
came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the
well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her
shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank,
and she made the camels drink also.
47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she
said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him:
and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and
blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the
right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me:
and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be
and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and
to her mother precious things.
54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,
and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send
me away unto my master.
55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with
us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath
mouth.
58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with
sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed
possess the gate of those which hate them.
61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went
his way.
62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in
he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master:
therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was
comforted after his mother's death.
CHAPTER 25
1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian,
old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is
before Mamre;
10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there
blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by
thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was
gathered unto his people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as
thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his
brethren.
19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son:
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the
Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was
barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
conceived.
22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it
two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one
people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve
the younger.
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there
Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore
years old when she bare them.
27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of
was faint:
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same
red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit
eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his
birthright.
CHAPTER 26
1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in
the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the
Philistines unto Gerar.
2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will
perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and
will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge,
7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She
is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of
the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and,
behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is
thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him,
Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of
the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have
brought guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth
days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled
them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped
them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the
names by which his father had called them.
19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well
of springing water.
20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen,
saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek;
because they strove with him.
21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said,
For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the
land.
23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I
am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will
bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the
LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a
well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of
and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and
thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and
as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in
peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came,
and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto
him, We have found water.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the
Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
CHAPTER 27
1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim,
so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto
him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death:
3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy
that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And
Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
command thee.
9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of
the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he
loveth:
10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he
deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son:
were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,
done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my
venison, that thy soul may bless me.
20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so
quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to
me.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may
said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his
venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and
he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss
me, my son.
27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of
his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as
the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness
over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be
every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of
Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's
venison, that thy soul may bless me.
32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I
he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all
before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be
blessed.
34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a
great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even
me also, O my father.
35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken
him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and
with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto
thee, my son?
38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.
39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from
above;
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou
shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for
my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah:
and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him,
Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself,
purposing to kill thee.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban
my brother to Haran;
44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that
which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence:
why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the
1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said
unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy
mother's brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply
with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger,
which God gave unto Abraham.
5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and
Esau's mother.
6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him
to Padanaram;
8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac
his father;
9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he
11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night,
because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put
them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and
the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending
and descending on it.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the
south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not
leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that
he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon
the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of
keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment
to put on,
21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall
1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people
of the east.
2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were
three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the
flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again
upon the well's mouth in his place.
4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they
should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water
the sheep.
9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's
Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother,
that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and
watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that
he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his
sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him,
and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.
favoured.
18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years
unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
a feast.
23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an
handmaid.
25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah:
and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I
serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give
be her maid.
30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel
more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her
Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction;
now therefore my husband will love me.
33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because
the LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son
also: and she called his name Simeon.
34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this
time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three
sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now
will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left
bearing.
CHAPTER 30
1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied
her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I
in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she
shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went
in unto her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
second son.
8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then
Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken
my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?
And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's
mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went
out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have
hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare
20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now
will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and
she called his name Zebulun.
21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name
Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
away my reproach:
24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add
to me another son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob
said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and
to my country.
26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served
thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in
thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath
blessed me for thy sake.
28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee,
increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my
coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt
not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed
and keep thy flock.
32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all
the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the
sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall
be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when
it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled
and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be
counted stolen with me.
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy
word.
35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and
spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every
one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and
gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and
chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the
gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they
should conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and
he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's
cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the
gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken
away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he
gotten all this glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was
flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not
toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy
hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given
them to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I
lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which
leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:
leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have
seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this
land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet
ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee,
do.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
camels;
18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he
had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram,
for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or
bad.
25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth,
and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak
not to Jacob either good or bad.
30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou
sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my
gods?
31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid:
for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from
me.
32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before
our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For
Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into
the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of
Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's
furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found
them not.
35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I
cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he
searched but found not the images.
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob
answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that
thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found
of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy
brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she
goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not
eaten.
39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the
loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or
stolen by night.
40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost
fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and
thou hast changed my wages ten times.
42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty.
God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked
thee yesternight.
43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are
my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are
my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto
these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou;
stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap
and this pillar unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his
brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the
mount.
55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons
and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned
unto his place.
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1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he
lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban,
and stayed there until now:
5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in
thy sight.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy
brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men
with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the
people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into
two bands;
8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then
father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country,
and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the
truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed
over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the
hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the
mother with the children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed
by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put
a space betwixt drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my
brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and
whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present
followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau,
when ye find him.
20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.
For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me,
and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as
he wrestled with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will
And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he
blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen
shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he
touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and
with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and
unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah
and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God
hath graciously given thy servant.
6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and
themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed
themselves.
8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met?
unto thyself.
10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in
thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen
thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased
with me.
11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because
God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he
urged him, and he took it.
12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go
before thee.
13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are
tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men
should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will
lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the
children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that
are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight
of my lord.
16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called
Succoth.
18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the
land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent
before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent,
1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out
country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he
damsel to wife.
5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his
sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they
were come.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to
and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had
wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought
not to be done.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son
Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
9 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us,
find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according
as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father
sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that
daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one
people.
17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we
19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had
delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the
house of his father.
20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for
them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our
daughters.
22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to
their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with
us.
24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that
went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that
went out of the gate of his city.
25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that
two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each
man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city,
which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took
they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to
1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and
make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou
fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with
him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and
change your garments:
3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an
altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with
me in the way which I went.
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in
their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid
them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities
that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of
Jacob.
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,
there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his
name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings
shall come out of thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give
it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him,
him, Bethel.
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to
come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died)
that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is
Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben
went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now
the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto
his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob
buried him.
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5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are
the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all
the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his
substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the
country from the face of his brother Jacob.
7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together;
and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because
of their cattle.
8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites
in mount Seir:
10 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah
the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam,
and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare
the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and
Jaalam, and Korah.
15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the
firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke
Kenaz,
16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the
dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of
Adah.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke
Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of
Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush,
duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
19 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their
dukes.
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land;
was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the
asses of Zibeon his father.
25 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah
the daughter of Anah.
26 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and
29 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke
his stead.
34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in
his stead.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote
Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city
was Avith.
36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
his stead.
38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his
stead.
39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his
stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was
Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau,
according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke
Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the
land of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen
years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with
the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and
Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than
all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and
dreamed:
7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my
sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood
round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or
shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the
more for his dreams, and for his words.
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and
said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and
the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father
rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast
dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow
down ourselves to thee to the earth?
11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock
in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him,
Here am I.
14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with
thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he
sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in
the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they
say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found
them in Dothan.
18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto
20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into
some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we
shall see what will become of his dreams.
21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands;
this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might
rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren,
that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was
on him;
24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was
hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren
were content.
28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew
and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for
twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not
their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy
son's coat or no.
33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath
1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his
brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose
name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his
name Onan.
5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his
Tamar.
7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD;
pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the
ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he
at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest
peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt
in her father's house.
12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died;
with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by
the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not
given unto him to wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because
let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in
law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in
unto me?
17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said,
signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave
it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and
to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the
harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no
harlot in this place.
22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also
the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
23 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed:
behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told
Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and
also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her
forth, and let her be burnt.
25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law,
saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said,
Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and
staff.
26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more
righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he
knew her again no more.
27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins
hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread,
saying, This came out first.
29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his
brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach
be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread
made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his
hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer
in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the
Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was
upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not
ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly
person, and well favoured.
7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast
her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my
master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed
all that he hath to my hand;
9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept
back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can
I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he
hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the
house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house
there within.
12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he
left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment
cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The
Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to
mock me:
18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left
wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant
to me; that his wrath was kindled.
20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a
place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the
prison.
21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and
prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was
the doer of it.
23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under
his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the
LORD made it to prosper.
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1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of
Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the
one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the
butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon
budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought
forth ripe grapes:
11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and
pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand.
12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The
restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his
hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew
kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh,
and bring me out of this house:
15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews:
and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the
dungeon.
16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he
said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white
baskets on my head:
17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of
bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket
upon my head.
18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation
and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off
thee.
20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday,
that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of
the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and
them.
23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
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1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of
the river.
4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven
and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise
men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that
could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember
hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his
raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and
there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou
canst understand a dream to interpret it.
16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God
very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of
Egypt for badness:
20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven
fat kine:
21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that
they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning.
So I awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one
are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind
shall be seven years of famine.
28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God
the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall
consume the land;
31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that
because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to
pass.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise,
and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous
years.
35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come,
and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the
cities.
36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven
years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish
not through the famine.
37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall
all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the
land of Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold
chain about his neck;
43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had;
and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all
the land of Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee
shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he
gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And
Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were
in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field,
which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,
God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath
Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of
Egypt there was bread.
55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried
to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto
Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph
opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine
waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn;
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his
you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not
die.
3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren;
sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and
bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said
unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to
buy food.
8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye
are come.
10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy
servants come.
11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no
spies.
12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the
land ye are come.
13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one
man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our
father, and one is not.
14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you,
kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth
in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I
fear God:
19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house
of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be
brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and
we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,
behold, also his blood is required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake
to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon,
and bound him before their eyes.
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to
restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for
the way: and thus did he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in
the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it
is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid,
saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan,
know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and
take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that
ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your
brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and
their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of
my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin
away: all these things are against me.
37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I
bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to
thee again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which
ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they
had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a
little food.
3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest
unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with
you.
4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy
thee food:
5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man
said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the
kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and
we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly
know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and
we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou,
and also our little ones.
9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I
bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the
blame for ever:
10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this
second time.
11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do
this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the
man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts,
and almonds:
12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was
brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand;
peradventure it was an oversight:
13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may
their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and
stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler
of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these
men shall dine with me at noon.
17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men
Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned
in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek
occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our
asses.
19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
food:
21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened
our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack,
our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy
of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money.
And he brought Simeon out unto them.
24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave
them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
provender.
25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon:
which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to
the earth.
27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well,
is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his
mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake
unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his
brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber,
and wept there.
31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself,
and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because
the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an
abomination unto the Egyptians.
33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,
and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at
another.
34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but
Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And they
drank, and were merry with him.
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1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's
sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money
in his sack's mouth.
2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the
youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that
Joseph had spoken.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they
Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou
dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
good?
5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he
words.
7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words?
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we
steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die,
speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity
of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also
with whom the cup is found.
17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in
whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get
you up in peace unto your father.
18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy
servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine
anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a
brother?
20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a
child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is
left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that
with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except
our youngest brother be with us.
27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife
be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us,
that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy
servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying,
If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for
ever.
33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the
lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me?
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by
him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood
no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father
yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at
his presence.
4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.
And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye
sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye
sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet
there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor
harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt.
9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith
thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto
me, tarry not:
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be
near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy
flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of
famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to
poverty.
12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and
Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his
servants.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do
ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me:
and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat
of the land.
19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of
the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your
father, and come.
20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is
your's.
21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them
wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of
raiment.
23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with
the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread
and meat for his father by the way.
24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said
over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them
not.
27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said
unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry
him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go
1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel
carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten
in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with
him:
7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his
sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
Carmi.
10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez,
and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of
Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and
Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and
Malchiel.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his
daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of
his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and
six;
27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two
souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were
threescore and ten.
28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face
his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his
neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen
will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my
father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed
cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that
they have.
33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and
from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may
dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto
the Egyptians.
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1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are
come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of
Goshen.
2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and
also our fathers.
4 They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are
we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine
is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy
servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if
thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers
over my cattle.
7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before
11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of
Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by
reason of the famine.
14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the
land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought:
and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread:
for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your
them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle
of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their
cattle for that year.
18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second
year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our
money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought
left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?
buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto
Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land
be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over
them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end
portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which
Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you
this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall
sow the land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the
fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the
field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for
your little ones.
25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the
that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of the priests
only, which became not Pharaoh's.
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen;
and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the
son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight,
put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with
me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of
Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou
hast said.
31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel
1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold,
thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and
Ephraim.
2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh
unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at
thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land
to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born
unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are
mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine,
and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in
the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to
come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the
same is Bethlehem.
8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God
hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto
me, and I will bless them.
10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not
see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and
embraced them.
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face:
Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right
hand, and brought them near unto him.
14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon
Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon
Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the
firstborn.
15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto
this day,
16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and
also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his
younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a
multitude of nations.
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless,
you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,
which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my
bow.
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1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together,
that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my
habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly,
mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and
in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was
be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down
before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of
the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice
vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of
grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for
15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto
tribute.
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
last.
20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal
dainties.
21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is
the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the
Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings
of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings
father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his
blessing he blessed them.
29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of
Ephron the Hittite,
30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before
Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of
Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was
gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was
gathered unto his people.
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1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed
him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him
threescore and ten days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake
unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your
eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I
have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now
therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come
again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the
land of Egypt,
8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's
house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in
the land of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it
Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation:
and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him
in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the
field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before
Mamre.
14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all
that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us
all the evil which we did unto him.
16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and
now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy
father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and
God?
20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto
you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out
grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that
raise up strife and contention.
4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth.
5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
marvelously: 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 bitter and hasty nation,
which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the
dwellingplaces that are not their's.
7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity
fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread
themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the
eagle that hasteth to eat.
9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the
east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a
scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap
dust, and take it.
11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend,
we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O
mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on
iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and
holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more
righteous than he?
14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto
their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to
1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch
to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am
reproved.
2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and
make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall
speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it
will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just
proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is
not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake
that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the
people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of
the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that
he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of
evil!
10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many
people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the
by iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall
labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very
vanity?
14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the
bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on
their nakedness!
16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy
foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned
unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of
beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the
violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his
work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone,
Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there
is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence
before him.
CHAPTER 3
revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make
known; in wrath remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran.
Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his
praise.
4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of
his feet.
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder
the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual
hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land
against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride
upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the
tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of
the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands
on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of
thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
thresh the heathen in anger.
13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for
salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house
of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages:
the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no
meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in
the stalls:
18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my
salvation.
19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like
hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the
chief singer on my stringed instruments.
Haggai
CHAPTER 1
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day
of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the
son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The
time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.
3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not
enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there
is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a
bag with holes.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and
I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought
it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of
mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the
mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil,
and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon
cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the
voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as
the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the
LORD.
13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's
message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of
1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came
and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of
the people, saying,
3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and
O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people
of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD
of hosts:
5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came
I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall
come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former,
saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the
LORD of hosts.
10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second
year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet,
saying,
11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning
the law, saying,
12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his
any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It
shall be unclean.
14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is
this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their
hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from
before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty
measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw
out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the
labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and
twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of
the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree,
and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this
day will I bless you.
20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four
the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the
chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall
come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O
Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will
make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hebrews
CHAPTER 1
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past
his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty
on high:
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father,
and he shall be to me a Son?
6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world,
even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.
10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the
as doth a garment;
12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be
changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which
the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by
them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders,
and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his
own will?
5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to
art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?
7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst
him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he
put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him.
But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the
grace of God should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all
things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of
one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of
he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage.
16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on
inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the
house.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all
things is God.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a
we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the
end.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his
voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works
forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his
the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them
that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I
have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the
works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise,
And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his
any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but
all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have
to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into
the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet
without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in
things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for
sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are
out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for
he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save
him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of
God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both
good and evil.
CHAPTER 6
unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead
works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of
have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy
Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the
world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to
an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it,
and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth
blessing from God:
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh
love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered
to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence
multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who
met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by
beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;
abideth a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the
8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them,
in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met
him.
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under
it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another
priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after
the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a
Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an
oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou
art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not
suffered to continue by reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an
unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for
them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up
sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did
once, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but
the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is
consecrated for evermore.
CHAPTER 8
1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such
an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in
the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the
the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and
with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the
day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not,
saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and
write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be
to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every
man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the
least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and
1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and
a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the
candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the
sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant
overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had
manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of
not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the
people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all
was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet
standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were
offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the
service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that
blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people
according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water,
and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the
people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the
world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the
judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.
CHAPTER 10
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of
and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein;
which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he
saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I
write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for
good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the
manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as
ye see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge
three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought
worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing,
and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me,
I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his
people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of
not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things
which do appear.
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation
he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh
to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which
he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is
by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place
country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him
of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder
and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive
seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she
judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead,
so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by
the sea shore innumerable.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced
them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a
country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence
they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the
come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of
out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight
the armies of the aliens.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were
slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins;
being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts,
of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every
pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be
that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice
they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any
more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if
and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just
men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood
of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped
not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we
escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised,
saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those
things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things
which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let
with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not
unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their
conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which
have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve
the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the
sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his
for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they
may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things
Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in
you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom
be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I
1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the
days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the
days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD
said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of
whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from
the LORD.
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and
will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of
unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon
the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save
them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by
sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare
a son.
9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people,
the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to
pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be
gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall
come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
CHAPTER 2
2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I
her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight,
and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was
born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay
her with thirst.
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the
children of whoredoms.
5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them
hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me
my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make
them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she
say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me
than now.
8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and
multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof,
and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax
given to cover her nakedness.
10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will
make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned
incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her
jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her
youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call
of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of
the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of
the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee
I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and
upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were
not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
CHAPTER 3
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her
friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the
children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer
shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I
also be for thee.
4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king,
and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and
without an ephod, and without teraphim:
5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD
their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his
goodness in the latter days.
CHAPTER 4
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor
mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of
heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as
hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no
priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also
forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will
iniquity.
9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them
whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take
heed to the LORD.
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth
unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they
have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense
upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow
thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and
your spouses shall commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom,
nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are
separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the
people that doth not understand shall fall.
15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and
ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have
been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have
spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the
LORD.
5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall
Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the
LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have
begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their
portions.
8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry
then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he
not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the
house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and
none shall rescue him.
15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their
offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
CHAPTER 6
1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will
forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain,
as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do
unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew
it goeth away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them
by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth
forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God
blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of
1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was
wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are
before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes
in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a
flaming fire.
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all
their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a
yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not
return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt,
they go to Assyria.
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring
them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their
congregation hath heard.
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto
howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine,
and they rebel against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they
bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this
shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
CHAPTER 8
1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the
3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue
him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes,
and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
that they may be cut off.
5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled
hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers
shall swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as
them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be
it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity,
and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and
Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
CHAPTER 9
1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a
whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new
be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of
mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their
soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of
the LORD?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather
them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver,
nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are
come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad,
for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a
snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of
Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as
the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and
separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were
according as they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the
there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from
them!
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but
wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love
them no more: all their princes are revolters.
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit:
yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their
womb.
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto
the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the
goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall
Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests
thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed
from it.
6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb:
Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own
counsel.
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake
them.
10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people
shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their
two furrows.
11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread
out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to
ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up
your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain
righteousness upon you.
13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have
eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude
of thy mighty men.
14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy
1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of
Egypt.
2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto
them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto
them.
5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall
called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee,
Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as
Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled
together.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to
destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of
thee: and I will not enter into the city.
10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when
he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of
the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel
with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
CHAPTER 12
1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily
increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the
Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish
made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake
with us;
5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and
loveth to oppress.
8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were
sin.
9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet
bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the
fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a
leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto
him.
CHAPTER 13
images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all
of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that
sacrifice kiss the calves.
3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early
dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out
of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt
and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way
rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the
wild beast shall tear them.
9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy
cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my
wrath.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy
destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall
come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his
spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil
the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against
her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in
pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
CHAPTER 14
1 O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine
iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take
away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves
of our lips.
3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will
we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee
the fatherless findeth mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger
as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine
of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have
heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy
fruit found.
9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and
he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just
shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Isaiah
CHAPTER 1
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings
of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have
provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away
backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have
not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your
we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto
Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto
the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed
beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he
goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot
away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they
you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full
of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall
and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
CHAPTER 2
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of
the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to
the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go
forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the
LORD.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of
their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of
their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own
men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that
day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is
proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be
brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be
exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves
of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when
he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of
gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and
to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged
rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he
ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of ?
CHAPTER 3
1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of
bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet,
over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly
against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his
father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be
under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in
tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his
glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and
they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for
they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they
over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and
destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the
spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking
and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head
of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling
ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the
moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall
be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair
baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning
instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We
will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by
thy name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them
that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that
of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst
thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount
Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the
shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from
the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from
rain.
CHAPTER 5
done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes,
brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will
take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down
the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there
shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they
rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and
the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but
behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till
there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the
earth!
9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses
follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in
their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider
the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have
without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and
he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man
may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and
come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and
sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in
and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten
them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst
of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss
unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with
speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall
slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the
latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses'
hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions:
yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe,
and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of
the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and
the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
CHAPTER 6
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain
he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain
he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine
eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their
ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities
be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land
be utterly desolate,
12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but
could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate
with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as
the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper
pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken
therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come
to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is
Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that
it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth,
or in the height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the
good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that
Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss
for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the
bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all
bushes.
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired,
namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and
the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a
shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that
is left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be,
not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the
sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
CHAPTER 8
1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his
glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his
banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over,
he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall
fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall
be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall
for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the
for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which
dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a
people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and
when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of
Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the
sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they
that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light
shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they
joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his
garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no
end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.
The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do
neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is
an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this
his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and
thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount
up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened,
and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his
brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he
shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat
every man the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together
shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
CHAPTER 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right
from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they
may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation
which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will
ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they
shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is
mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the
people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take
the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it
Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose
as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and
there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or
shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod
should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift
up itself, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat
ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the
burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay
upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One
of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the
mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a
dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a
rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and
to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon
the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be
taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the
yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he
themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand
terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty
shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove
after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with
equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod
of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness
down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie
down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the
sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand
for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall
be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his
hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which
shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of
Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not
vex Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the
west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand
upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and
shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he
came up out of the land of Egypt.
CHAPTER 12
1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou
wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst
me.
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the
salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his
name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name
is exalted.
5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto
them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a
melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners
thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not
give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon
shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay
low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than
out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his
fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man
taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every
one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare
children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs
shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to
come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
CHAPTER 14
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and
set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them,
and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for
servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee
rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage
wherein thou wast made to serve,
4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon,
and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of
the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that
singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it
stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath
raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of
the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the
most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider
thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did
shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities
as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go
down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never
be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers;
that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world
with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut
off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the
LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of
water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD
of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul
it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that
smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a
cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie
down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy
remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for
there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his
appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That
the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
CHAPTER 15
and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste,
and brought to silence;
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep:
Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be
baldness, and every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the
tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping
abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard
even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his
life shall be grievous unto him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar,
have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling
upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the
remnant of the land.
CHAPTER 16
1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness,
in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that
wandereth.
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them
from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler
ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit
haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the
lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they
are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her
branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of
Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the
shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and
the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall
not prevail.
13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab
the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with
all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
CHAPTER 17
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of
the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall
be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and
reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in
the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive
tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in
the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have
shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the
images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and
there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast
not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning
shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in
the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like
the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing
like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God
shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the
chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the
whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is
not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob
us.
CHAPTER 18
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a
nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a
cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour
grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning
hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to
the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all
the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts
of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose
land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of
hosts, the mount Zion.
CHAPTER 19
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and
shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall
fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour;
city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will
destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the
charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord;
and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be
shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and
every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no
more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the
brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall
languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon
Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are
deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of
the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:
and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken
man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,
and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which
he shaketh over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one
hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of
the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and
he shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall
know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they
shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and
they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them,
and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and
the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and
the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,
1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe
from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked
and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon
Ethiopia;
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners,
and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even
with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king
of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
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1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass
upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at
the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all
the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have
heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from
to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the
children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath
spoken it.
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1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art
men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all
that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour
by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls,
and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen,
chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in
old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had
respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and
eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we
shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely
this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast
hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre
on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity,
country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be
the shame of thy lord's house.
19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he
girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a
father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so
he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall
open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for
fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and
the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
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strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither
do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained
no more strength.
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the
towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to
ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy
years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the
LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the
LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be
for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable
clothing.
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1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as
with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the
they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice
there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes
when the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the
the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of
the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of
the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open,
and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved,
the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon
the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered
in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall
they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and
before his ancients gloriously.
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1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for
thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and
truth.
2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a
in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when
the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry
place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible
ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full
of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast
over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for
him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab
shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he
that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring
down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down,
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a
strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the
everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he
thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of
thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit
within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not
behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they
shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of
thine enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought
over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall
not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all
their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased
the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of
the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy
sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it
were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the
earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her
blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt
blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he
all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the
altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images
shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation
forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there
shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off:
off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be
gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall
be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of
Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the
LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 28
beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them
that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a
under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley,
shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which
when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it
up.
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and
are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong
drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through
strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no
place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn
from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to
this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and
snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that
and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge,
and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters
shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by
morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation
only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it:
and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be
wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange
work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made
strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even
determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break
abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal
wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are
beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it,
nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year;
against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall
be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech
shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust,
and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away:
yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of
devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even
all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be
as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep,
and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath
he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book
that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,
me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed
their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept
of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among
this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of
their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men
shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and
who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as
the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me
not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no
understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a
the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him
that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither
shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the
midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of
Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and
1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but
not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they
may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor
anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young
asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that
shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore
not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the
Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay
thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in
the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water
withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning
flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you
be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of
five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,
and as an ensign on an hill.
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto
you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you:
for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep
no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when
he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any
more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the
way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the
left.
22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver,
and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them
away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the
ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat
and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall
eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with
the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in
the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth
the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his
anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and
his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the
midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there
shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into
the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and
shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger,
and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and
hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten
the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in
battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he
hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the
breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
CHAPTER 31
1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and
trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they
are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither
seek the LORD!
2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his
words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the
help of them that work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh,
and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that
helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall
fail together.
4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the
defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and
his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man;
and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee
from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes
shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and
his furnace in Jerusalem.
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judgment.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow
of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of
to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work
devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy
speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall
he stand.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless
ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the
fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers;
shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild
asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness
1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou
shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an
end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou
their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of
caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion
hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake
off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I
lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath,
acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who
among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that
despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of
bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his
eyes from seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the
munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the
than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not
understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see
rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall
gallant ship pass thereby.
22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD
1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury
upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered
them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up
out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens
shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as
the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come
fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys
of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in
the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks
with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust
made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall
go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall
pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also
and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of
confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall
beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl
also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and
gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every
one with her mate.
16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these
shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded,
and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it
unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to
generation shall they dwell therein.
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1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in
the desert.
7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for
those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the
conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over
the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein
thou trustest?
5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel
and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
against me?
6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt;
whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is
Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he,
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said
to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of
Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy
part to set riders upon them.
9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy
it.
11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh,
Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of
the people that are on the wall.
12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and
to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit
upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss
with you?
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of
Assyria.
14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall
LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand
of the king of Assyria.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat
ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every
one the waters of his own cistern;
17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of
the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.
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1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of
the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to
the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God,
and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master,
Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard,
wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour,
and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
own land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is
come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not
thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not
be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
Eden which were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to
reproach the living God.
18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed
them.
20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all
the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou
only.
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him;
The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against
whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even
against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,
times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the
green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it
be grown up.
28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and
mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as
groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same:
and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the
fruit thereof.
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when
they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him
with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto
the LORD,
3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that
which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David
thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will
add unto thy days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun
returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's
tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining
sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my
bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a
hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the
my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my
sins behind thy back.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the
songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of
the LORD.
21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been
sick, and was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of
his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found
in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from
Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of
hosts:
6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to
Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king
of Babylon.
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and
truth in my days.
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of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall
be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the
mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your
God!
10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm
shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs
with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those
that are with young.
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and
meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth
in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
balance?
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to
him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted
as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very
little thing.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare
a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told
you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of
the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea,
their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon
them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as
stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy
One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by
names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not
one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is
hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting
God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither
is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he
increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their
strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near
together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his
foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he
gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid,
smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready
for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be
moved.
8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the
thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant;
I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy
God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive
with thee shall perish.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and
as a thing of nought.
13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto
thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument
having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and
shalt make the hills as chaff.
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and
the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and
shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and
their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of
Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the
valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land
springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine,
and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of
Israel hath created it.
21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong
reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let
them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know
that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and
behold it together.
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an
rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon
princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
street.
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he
the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh
out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them
that walk therein:
6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine
hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for
a light of the Gentiles;
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and
the inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the
villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let
them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the
islands.
13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up
jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against
his enemies.
14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and
refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and
devour at once.
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs;
and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead
them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before
them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and
not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that
trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?
20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears,
snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey,
and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear
for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not
the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in
his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and
the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew
not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
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1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that
formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called
thee by thy name; thou art mine.
2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee.
3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I
gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable,
and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for
thy life.
5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east,
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him
have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former
things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or
let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I
have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I
am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after
me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For
your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles,
and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a
power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct,
they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things
of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye
not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert.
20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to
give drink to my people, my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my
praise.
22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been
neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee
to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to
serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
against me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and
1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the
womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou,
Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the
dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon
thine offspring:
4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the
water courses.
5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by
the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the
LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the
LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is
no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for
me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming,
and shall come, let them shew unto them.
8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,
and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside
me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they
see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is
are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they
shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms:
yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is
faint.
13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a
line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and
maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that
it may remain in the house.
14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the
oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he
planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and
warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a
god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down
thereto.
16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth
image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it,
and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their
eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge
nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I
have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten
it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down
to the stock of a tree?
20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside,
that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right
hand?
21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I
have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be
forgotten of me.
22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower
parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and
every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified
himself in Israel.
24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee
from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the
1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have
holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings,
to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches
of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee
by thy name, am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even
called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not
known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside
that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and
let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive
with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth
it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or
hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I
commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his
ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price
nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of
Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee,
and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall
come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make
supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none
else, there is no God.
15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
Saviour.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they
that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not
in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none
else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said
not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are
escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of
their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel
together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from
that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a
just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and
strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against
him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
glory.
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1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and
upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to
the weary beast.
2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the
house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried
from the womb:
4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I
carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver
you.
5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me,
and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they
worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in
his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one
shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind,
O ye transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is
the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will
do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my
counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to
pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
righteousness:
13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my
salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my
glory.
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1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the
bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the
ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not
lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that
dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside
me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day,
the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their
perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance
of thine enchantments.
10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None
seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and
thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from
whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able
to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou
shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of
thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou
shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not
be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his
quarter; none shall save thee.
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1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel,
and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name
of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor
in righteousness.
2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and
they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron
to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded
them.
6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have
shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou
didst not know them.
7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before
the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I
knew them.
8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that
time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal
very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will
should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am
right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand
up together.
14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath
declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure
on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought
from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the
Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I
am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee
by the way that thou shouldest go.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had
thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the
sea:
19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy
bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor
destroyed from before me.
20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice
of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye,
The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he
caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also,
and the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
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1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD
hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he
made mention of my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of
his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver
hath he hid me;
3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will
be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for
nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my
work with my God.
5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be
his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered,
yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my
strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant
and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and
give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to
inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are
in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun
smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the
springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall
be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north
and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will
have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not
forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy
themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou
shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them
on thee, as a bride doeth.
19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,
shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to
me that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these,
Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy
sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy
nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the
earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the
LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
delivered?
25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall
be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will
contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and
they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all
flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the
mighty One of Jacob.
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1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement,
covering.
4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I
shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us
stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn
me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him
trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about
with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
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LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit
whence ye are digged.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for
places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the
garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:
for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a
light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine
arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine
arm shall they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth
shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like
manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall
not be abolished.
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my
salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in
the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great
deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to
pass over?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they
shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which
shall be made as grass;
13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the
heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared
continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were
ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he
should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves
in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the
hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the
cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the
sons that she hath brought up.
19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for
thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by
whom shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a
wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy
God.
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with
wine:
22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink
it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have
said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy
body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without
cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people
is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl,
saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of
good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall
they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again
Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of
the LORD.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD
will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their
mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and
that which they had not heard shall they consider.
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1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD
revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root
out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall
see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to
his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his
declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for
the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his
death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:
when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in
his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by
his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear
their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto
death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin
of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and
cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of
the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be
inhabited.
4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the
shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy
widowhood any more.
5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth
shall he be called.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved
in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy
Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn
that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I
sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my
kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my
peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold,
I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with
sapphires.
12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not
come near thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the
fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created
the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every
tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This
is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of
me, saith the LORD.
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1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and
your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies
of David.
4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and
nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy
God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while
he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and
bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all
the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a
name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
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hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his
hand from doing any evil.
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the
LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his
people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my
covenant;
5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a
place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them
an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD,
to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants,
every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of
my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful
will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the
forest.
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own
way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves
with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more
abundant.
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men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away
from the evil to come.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one
wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood.
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying
are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast
offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and
art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with
them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy
perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase
thyself even unto hell.
10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not,
There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou
wast not grieved.
11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied,
and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my
peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not
profit thee.
13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind
shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his
trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up
whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that
is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for
the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him:
I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his
heart.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and
and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my
that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they
ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to
God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health
shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee;
the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry,
and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the
yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as
the noon day:
11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul
in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt
be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the
LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause
thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the
heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
CHAPTER 59
1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither
and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that
eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a
viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act
of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are
in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in
their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake
us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in
darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had
judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth
afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself
a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no
judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there
was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of
salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn
1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen
upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far,
and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear,
Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold
and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the
rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with
acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
windows?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first,
to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the
name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he
hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their
kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my
favour have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be
shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the
Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish;
tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I
will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending
unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at
the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD, The
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man
went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many
generations.
16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the
breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and
thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for
wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and
thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and
thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness
shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw
itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land
for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be
glorified.
22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong
1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the
spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the
planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former
desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of
many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of
you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and
in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they
shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the
double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;
and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my
1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will
not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the
salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy
glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the
LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and
any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and
thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be
married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry
thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God
rejoice over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall
never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD,
keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem
strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies;
and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou
hast laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD;
and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my
holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a
standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,
Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his
reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the
LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
CHAPTER 63
1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my
fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain
all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my
redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that
there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto
me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them
drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises
of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and
the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed
on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie:
presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and
he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was
saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the
shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm,
caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a
glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding
of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us,
and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our
redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the
tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while:
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come
down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to
boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may
tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we
have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up
himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast
consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou
a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised
thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that
sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not
called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will
the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and
blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work
into their bosom.
8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and
one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants'
sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants
shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a
place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy
mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink
offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow
down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I
spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that
wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall
eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall
be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry
the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in
the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the
God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because
they are hid from mine eyes.
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man
that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and
mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they
are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and
straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
CHAPTER 66
1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the
place of my rest?
2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things
have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is
poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a
them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did
not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I
delighted not.
5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your
brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let
the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be
ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of
the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at
once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the
LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love
her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance
of her glory.
12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like
a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye
suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and
shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known
toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots
like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames
of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh:
gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the
abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the
LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will
gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that
escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the
bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my
fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among
the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the
LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and
upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith
the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into
the house of the LORD.
21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the
LORD.
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your
name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before
me, saith the LORD.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men
that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither
shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
James
CHAPTER 1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect
like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the
Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the
withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the
fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to
them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh
and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save
your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man
shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from the world.
CHAPTER 2
1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of
goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and
say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand
thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of
evil thoughts?
5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of
this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised
to them that love him?
6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and
called?
8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love
Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a
transgressor of the law.
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law
of liberty.
13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no
and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are
needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew
me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils
God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called
the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith
only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when
she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works
is dead also.
CHAPTER 3
greater condemnation.
2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word,
the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us;
driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm,
whithersoever the governor listeth.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire
the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of
poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse
bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine,
devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil
work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,
gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without
partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that
make peace.
CHAPTER 4
1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not
obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth
in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the
up.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of
his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth
the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a
judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who
art thou that judgest another?
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such
a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is
your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do
this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
him it is sin.
CHAPTER 5
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a
witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have
heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your
fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them
which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have
you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and
hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the
the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is
very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven,
neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea;
and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him
sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church;
and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall
raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,
prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by
the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth
him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error
of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Jeremiah
CHAPTER 1
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in
Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth
month.
4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou
camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a
prophet unto the nations.
6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a
child.
7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt
go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou
shalt speak.
8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee,
the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw
down, to build, and to plant.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will
saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face
thereof is toward the north.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall
saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his
throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls
thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them
all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound
thee before them.
18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an
iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of
Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and
against the people of the land.
19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail
against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
CHAPTER 2
increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them,
saith the LORD.
4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the
me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are
become vain?
6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of
the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of
deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of
death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man
dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof
and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and
made mine heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle
the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the
prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your
my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be
the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his
forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the
shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and
bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not
in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and
thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under
every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how
then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap,
yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after
Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a
swift dromedary traversing her ways;
24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at
her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek
her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst:
but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and
after them will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of
Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their
prophets.
27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast
brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their
face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them
arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the
number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed
your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall
turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have
not sinned.
36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also
head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not
prosper in them.
CHAPTER 3
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and
become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land
be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet
return again to me, saith the LORD.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast
not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in
the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and
with thy wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath
been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to
be ashamed.
4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the
guide of my youth?
5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end?
Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast
thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon
every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played
the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me.
But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet
her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot
also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that
she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned
unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger
to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep
anger for ever.
13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed
against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers
under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the
LORD.
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married
unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will
bring you to Zion:
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall
in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The
ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither
shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done
any more.
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD;
and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to
Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their
evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the
land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give
have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and
supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way,
and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the
youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for
we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our
youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our
God.
CHAPTER 4
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou
wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not
remove.
2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and
the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble
yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring
Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land
desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce
heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests
shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived
this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the
sword reacheth unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry
a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou
mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from
mount Ephraim.
16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their
voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because
maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard,
O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is
trumpet?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do
evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the
moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the
cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his
fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither
will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every
city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou
clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of
gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make
thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands,
saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
CHAPTER 5
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there
be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon
it.
2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken
them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they
have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder
than a rock; they have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they
know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for
they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God:
but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of
the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities:
every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their
transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me,
and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they
then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the
harlots' houses.
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after
take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people
wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel,
17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy
sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine
herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish
thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a
the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them,
Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so
shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a
perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof
toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they
not pass over it?
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are
God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he
reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins
the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they
prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their
means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end
thereof?
CHAPTER 6
Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in
Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman.
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall
pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his
place.
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe
unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are
stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and
cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly
oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the
word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with
holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the
assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife
shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields
and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of
the land, saith the LORD.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every
one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest
every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall
be cast down, saith the LORD.
16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask
for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall
find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of
among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the
fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words,
nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and
the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together
shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have
no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set
in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish
thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter
lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that
founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath
rejected them.
CHAPTER 7
2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this
word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in
at these gates to worship the LORD.
3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your
ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The
shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to
your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave
9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and
burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by
robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set
my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my
people Israel.
13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the
LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard
not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name,
wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your
fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to
anger.
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not
fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and
upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall
burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt
day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt
offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I
will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways
that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward,
and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of
Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but
will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not
answer thee.
28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not
the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a
lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the
generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the
LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by
my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the
fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall
no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the
valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the
streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be
desolate.
CHAPTER 8
1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings
of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and
the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all
the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served,
and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and
whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried;
they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of
them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither
I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall
they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one
turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and
the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;
but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?
Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo,
they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to
them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the
greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest
every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall
be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no
grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and
the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into
the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath
put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have
sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are
come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those
that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which
will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in
me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people
because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is
not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their
graven images, and with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I
might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men;
that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers,
an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are
not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any
brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will
walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak
the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary
themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they
and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one
to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for
what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none
passeth through?
13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which
I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and
Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them
water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they
nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I
have consumed them.
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the
mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women,
that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our
eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled!
receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and
every one her neighbour lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our
palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the
streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman,
and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in
his riches:
24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and
Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness:
for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are
uncircumcised in the heart.
CHAPTER 10
1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be
not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at
them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out
of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and
needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they
cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art
appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all
their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine
of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue
and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an
everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall
not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the
heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from
under these heavens.
12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his
discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the
heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the
earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of
his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his
name.
17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants
of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly
children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch
forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the
LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be
scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion
out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den
of dragons.
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in
the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and
devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation
desolate.
CHAPTER 11
2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of
Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my
voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be
my people, and I will be your God:
5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.
Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early
and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one
in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all
the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did
them not.
9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the
refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them:
the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant
which I made with their fathers.
11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon
them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry
unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go,
and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not
save them at all in the time of their trouble.
13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O
prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me
for their trouble.
15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath
wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?
when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of
goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it,
and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil
against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah,
which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in
offering incense unto Baal.
18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us
destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land
of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the
reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee
have I revealed my cause.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek
thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not
by our hand:
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish
them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their
daughters shall die by famine:
23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon
1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk
with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked
prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow,
yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their
reins.
3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried
mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and
prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are
consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last
end.
5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee,
then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace,
wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the
swelling of Jordan?
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they
have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude
after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have
given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out
about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,
come to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden
unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to
heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the
wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of
the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put
themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of
your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch
will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again,
every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of
1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it
my loins.
3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying,
4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and
6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto
me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I
commanded thee to hide there.
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from
the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was
profitable for nothing.
8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of
the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them,
and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for
nothing.
11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused
to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of
Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for
a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall
say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled
with wine?
13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's
throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and
the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have
mercy, but destroy them.
15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look
for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for
your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears,
because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit
down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your
glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open
them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly
carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast
taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take
thee, as a woman in travail?
22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things
upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered,
and thy heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
may appear.
27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of
thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto
thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
CHAPTER 14
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black
came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels
empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth,
the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy
name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against
thee.
8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why
cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called
by thy name; leave us not.
10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to
wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not
accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their
good.
12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer
burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume
them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them,
Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give
you assured peace in this place.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my
name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake
unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a
thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and
famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those
prophets be consumed.
16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the
streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall
have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their
daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run
down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin
daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous
blow.
18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!
and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine!
yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know
not.
19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why
hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace,
and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of
rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our
God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these
things.
CHAPTER 15
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before
me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my
sight, and let them go forth.
2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we
go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for
death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as
are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the
captivity.
3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the
sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that
which he did in Jerusalem.
5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am
weary with repenting.
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will
bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not
from their ways.
8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I
have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler
at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon
the city.
9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been
ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the
sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife
and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury,
nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I
will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the
time of affliction.
12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without
price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall
burn upon you.
15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and
unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name,
O LORD God of hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto
thee; but return not thou unto them.
20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and
they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I
am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or
daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that
bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented;
neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of
the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and
their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of
the earth.
5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace
from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not
be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor
make themselves bald for them:
7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of
consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them
cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice
of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride.
10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all
these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what
is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have
forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and
have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me,
and have not kept my law;
12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk
every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not
hearken unto me:
13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know
not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day
and night; where I will not shew you favour.
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall
no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from
the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them:
and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they
shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt
them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the
rocks.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my
because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with
the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day
of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth,
and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things
wherein there is no profit.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that
my name is The LORD.
CHAPTER 17
1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a
diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of
your altars;
2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the
treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy
borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I
gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which
thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall
burn for ever.
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see
when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the
wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope
spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh,
but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his
days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our
sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth,
because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall
come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow
thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which
came out of my lips was right before thee.
17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the
which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of
Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in
by these gates:
21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith
the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the
sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and
princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses,
they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the
plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt
offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing
sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and
2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause
LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand,
O house of Israel.
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning
devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen,
who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible
thing.
14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the
rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another
place be forsaken?
15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned
incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways
from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one
shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against
Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from
the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with
the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them
for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them,
and to turn away thy wrath from them.
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out
their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of
their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their
young men be slain by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a
troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid
snares for my feet.
23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay
me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but
let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of
thine anger.
CHAPTER 19
1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of
entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and
and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor
their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this
place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons
with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake
it, neither came it into my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place
shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but
The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this
place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and
by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to
be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that
passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues
thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh
of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in
the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek
their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go
with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so
will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel,
that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till
there be no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the
Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses
upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven,
and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent
him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and
said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have
pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they
might not hear my words.
CHAPTER 20
1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor
in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the
stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of
the LORD.
3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth
Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD
hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to
thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their
enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into
Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the
labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures
of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall
spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into
captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and
shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast
prophesied lies.
7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art
the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision,
daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more
in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in
my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report,
say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting,
saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him.
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my
persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly
ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall
never be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the
reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee
have I opened my cause.
13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered
repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at
noontide;
17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother
might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with
us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the
weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the
king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without
the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and
with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast:
Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city
from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and
into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with
the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor
have mercy.
8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the
famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the
Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him
for a prey.
10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good,
saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall burn it with fire.
11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the
morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor,
lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of
the evil of your doings.
13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of
the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us?
or who shall enter into our habitations?
14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith
the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour
all things round about it.
CHAPTER 22
1 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and
upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that
enter in by these gates:
3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness,
and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no
wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow,
neither shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the
gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in
chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the
Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a
wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his
weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into
the fire.
8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every
man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this
great city?
9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served
them.
10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore
for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native
country.
11 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king
of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out
of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive,
cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with
vermilion.
15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not
thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was
well with him?
16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with
and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to
do it.
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my
brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah
his glory!
19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth
hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not
my voice.
22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into
captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy
wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how
gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a
woman in travail!
24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee
thence;
25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and
into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into
another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they
not return.
28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel
wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed,
and are cast into a land which they know not?
29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that
shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting
upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
CHAPTER 23
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my
that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away,
and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your
doings, saith the LORD.
3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries
whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and
they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and
they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking,
saith the LORD.
5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto
David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall
execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely:
and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall
no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out
of the land of Egypt;
8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed
of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries
whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my
bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath
overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his
holiness.
10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the
land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and
their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I
darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon
them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of
evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them
unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink
the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone
forth into all the land.
16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of
the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a
vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said,
Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the
imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath
perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a
grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed,
and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye
shall consider it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken
to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way,
and from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?
saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my
lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their
dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have
forgotten my name for Baal.
28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that
hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the
wheat? saith the LORD.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer
saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them,
What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall
say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to
his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD
spoken?
36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every
man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the
living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD
the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I
have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will
forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you
out of my presence:
40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set
before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of
Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first
ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be
eaten, they were so bad.
3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I
said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be
eaten, they are so evil.
4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so
will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I
have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them
again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will
plant them, and not pluck them up.
7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD:
and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return
unto me with their whole heart.
8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil;
surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah,
and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land,
and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the
earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse,
in all places whither I shall drive them.
10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among
them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to
their fathers.
CHAPTER 25
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in
the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the
first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of
even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the
LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined
your ear to hear.
5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and
from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath
given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them,
and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do
you no hurt.
7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye
might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own
hurt.
8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
heard my words,
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the
of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the
sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith
the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make
it perpetual desolations.
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which
Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of
them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and
according to the works of their own hands.
15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine
cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send
thee, to drink it.
16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the
his people;
20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz,
and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah,
and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the
corners,
24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled
and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth:
and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall,
and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to
drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye
shall certainly drink.
29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my
unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his
holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a
shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the
earth.
31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD
hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will
give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from
nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts
of the earth.
33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of
the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be
lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the
ground.
34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the
ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your
dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of
principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their
pasture.
37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the
and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the
LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them;
diminish not a word:
3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way,
sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not
hearkened;
6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a
speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the
people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him,
saying, Thou shalt surely die.
9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This
house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an
inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the
house of the LORD.
10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came
up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in
the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.
11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to
all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied
against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
12 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people,
saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against
this city all the words that ye have heard.
13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the
voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil
that he hath pronounced against you.
14 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth
bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the
inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to
speak all these words in your ears.
16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to
the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in
the name of the LORD our God.
17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all
Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall
become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a
forest.
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to
death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the
LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them?
Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but
when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan
the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto
Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body
into the graves of the common people.
24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with
Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put
him to death.
CHAPTER 27
Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put
to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of
Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto
Zedekiah king of Judah;
4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the
until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great
kings shall serve themselves of him.
8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will
not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will
not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I
punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the
pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners,
land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith
the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these
words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
and serve him and his people, and live.
13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the
nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak
unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they
prophesy a lie unto you.
15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a
lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye,
and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus
saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy
unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now
shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the
vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the
king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and
concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the
residue of the vessels that remain in this city.
20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he
carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from
Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning
the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of
the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until
the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and
restore them to this place.
CHAPTER 28
1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that
Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto
me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the
people, saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I
king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith
the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the
presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in
the house of the LORD,
6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the
LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the
vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from
Babylon into this place.
7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears,
Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full
years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet,
after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of
the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast
broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a
yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have
given him the beasts of the field also.
15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet,
Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this
people to trust in a lie.
16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off
the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught
rebellion against the LORD.
17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month.
CHAPTER 29
1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent
from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away
captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people
whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babylon;
2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs,
the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths,
were departed from Jerusalem;)
3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the
your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear
sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be
carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace
thereof shall ye have peace.
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your
prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you,
neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent
them, saith the LORD.
10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be
accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word
toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD,
your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the
places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you
again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
Babylon;
16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the
throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your
brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the
sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs,
that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and
with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the
kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an
hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven
them:
19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD,
which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity,
Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah
and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have
committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying
words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and
am a witness, saith the LORD.
24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at
Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all
the priests, saying,
26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the
priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man
that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in
prison, and in the stocks.
27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of
long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the
fruit of them.
29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah
the prophet.
30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD
the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among
this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people,
saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
CHAPTER 30
2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the
captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause
them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall
possess it.
4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel
wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in
travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time
I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and
strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king,
neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy
seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be
in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make
a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a
full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee
altogether unpunished.
12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound
is grievous.
13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up:
multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done
these things unto thee.
16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all
thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that
spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a
prey.
17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy
wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying,
This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of
Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall
be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the
manner thereof.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of
them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation
shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he
shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to
approach unto me? saith the LORD.
22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days
ye shall consider it.
CHAPTER 31
1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of
found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to
rest.
3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have
thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the
dances of them that make merry.
5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the
Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our
God.
7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD,
save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them
from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the
woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great
company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way,
wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is
my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the
isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep
him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from
shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine,
and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul
shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and
old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them,
and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children
toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O
virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for
the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass
a man.
23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they
shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I
shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of
justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof
sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto
me.
27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with
the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them,
to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to
afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in
the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto
them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be
my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know
me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which
divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his
name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then
the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for
ever.
37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and
the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all
the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be
built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the
all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up,
nor thrown down any more for ever.
CHAPTER 32
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in
the king of Judah's house.
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore
dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of
the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall
behold his eyes;
5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until
I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall
not prosper.
6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come
unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of
redemption is thine to buy it.
8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the
prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my
field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin:
for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for
thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in
Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took
sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son,
and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the
purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these
evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this
evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may
continue many days.
15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and
by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard
for thee:
18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and
recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children
after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open
upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even
unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a
name, as at this day;
21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt
with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with great terror;
22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their
voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou
commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come
upon them:
24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and
the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it,
because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what
thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.
25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for
money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing
the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, and he shall take it:
29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and
set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they
have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other
gods, to provoke me to anger.
30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only
done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only
provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and
of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should
remove it from before my face,
32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children
of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings,
their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face:
though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have
not hearkened to receive instruction.
34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came
it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to
sin.
36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of
the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence;
37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have
driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will
bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear
me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not
turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their
hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant
them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil
upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have
promised them.
43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is
desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and
seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places
about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the
mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for
I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
CHAPTER 33
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time,
houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah,
which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with
the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury,
and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and
sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they
have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do
unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all
the prosperity that I procure unto it.
10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place,
which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate,
without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say,
Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth
for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house
of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the
first, saith the LORD.
12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is
desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall
be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the
cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under
the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that
good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the
house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness.
17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit
and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night
in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the
Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of
the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and
the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The
two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off?
thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation
before them.
25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night,
so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and
have mercy on them.
CHAPTER 34
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms
of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem,
and against all the cities thereof, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire:
3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be
taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes
of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and
thou shalt go to Babylon.
4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus
saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers,
the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for
thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced
the word, saith the LORD.
6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah
against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against
Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after
that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which
were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his
into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and
every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of
them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the
handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into
subjection for servants and for handmaids.
12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondmen, saying,
14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an
Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee
six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened
not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their
pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for
servants and for handmaids.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me,
in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the
sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,
which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had
made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between
the parts thereof,
19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed
between the parts of the calf;
20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat
unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and
into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.
22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to
return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it
with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an
inhabitant.
CHAPTER 35
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of
bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and
give them wine to drink.
3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of
the Rechabites;
4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber
of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by
the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah
the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full
Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither
ye, nor your sons for ever:
7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard,
nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live
many days in the land where ye be strangers.
8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab
our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we,
our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard,
13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the
his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink
none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have
spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto
me.
15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil
way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them,
and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your
fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have
Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken
unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they
have not answered.
18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the
commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and
done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for
ever.
CHAPTER 36
1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all
the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah,
even unto this day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I
purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil
way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he
had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot
from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the
LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the
ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD,
and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the
fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah
the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD
in the LORD's house.
9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast
before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that
came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the
scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's
house, in the ears of all the people.
11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and
Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and
all the princes.
13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had
heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the
son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine
hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come.
So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto
them.
15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears.
were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell
the king of all these words.
17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou
unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and
roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the
ears of the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of
Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king,
and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the
hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the
king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not
hear them.
26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take
Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth
of Jeremiah, saying,
28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words
that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land,
and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He
shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall
be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in
the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
CHAPTER 37
1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son
hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet
Jeremiah.
3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and
saying,
7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the
king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's
army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own
land.
8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city,
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that
fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet
should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was
was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away
to the Chaldeans.
14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans.
But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to
the princes.
15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote
him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they
had made that the prison.
16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the
asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the
LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered
into the hand of the king of Babylon.
18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I
offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that
ye have put me in prison?
19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you,
saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this
land?
20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my
Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily
a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city
were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
CHAPTER 38
1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard
the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to
the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall
live.
3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand
this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of
war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking
such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this
people, but the hurt.
5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the
Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and
they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no
water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which
was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the
dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the
king saying,
9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have
done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon;
and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no
more bread in the city.
10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,
Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet
out of the dungeon, before he die.
11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house
of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old
rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now
these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the
cords. And Jeremiah did so.
13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the
unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the
king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt
thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not
hearken unto me?
16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As
the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death,
neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the
God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the
king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not
be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then
shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall
burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand,
and they mock me.
20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech
thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well
unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath
shewed me:
22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's
house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those
women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed
against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away
back.
23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the
Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be
taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to
be burned with fire.
24 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast
said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death;
also what the king said unto thee:
26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication
he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.
So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that
Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
CHAPTER 39
1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and
they besieged it.
2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the
them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city
by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two
walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they
brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land
of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah
before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and
those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that
remained.
10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the
people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them
vineyards and fields at the same time.
11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon
this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that
day before thee.
17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt
not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword,
but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in
me, saith the LORD.
CHAPTER 40
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when
he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried
away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive
unto Babylon.
2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him,
The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath
said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed
his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which
were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into
Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to
come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee:
whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of
Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him
among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to
go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let
him go.
6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah;
and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields,
even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed
unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of
them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah
the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and
Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto
them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans,
which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and
oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have
taken.
11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the
Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that
the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over
them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were
driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and
gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee?
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah
secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that
all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the
remnant in Judah perish?
16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of
Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
CHAPTER 41
1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the
king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that
were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had
made governor over the land.
3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with
Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the
men of war.
4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah,
Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their
clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in
their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to
meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met
them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of
the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay
us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of
oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the
men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king
had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people
that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that
remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
Ammonites.
11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah had done,
12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
13 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with
Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces that were with him, then they were glad.
14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from
Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of
Kareah.
15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with
the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had
recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he
had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the
women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again
from Gibeon:
17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,
which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
CHAPTER 42
1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah,
and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even
unto the greatest, came near,
2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our
supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy
God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine
eyes do behold us:)
3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may
behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and
it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I
will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful
witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the
which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of
the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us,
when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD
of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even
to the greatest,
9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto
you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of
the evil that I have done unto you.
11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be
not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to
deliver you from his hand.
12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon
see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread;
and there will we dwell:
15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of
Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set
your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall
overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were
afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt
to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I
will bring upon them.
18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine
anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall
enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment,
and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah;
Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the
LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and
according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us,
and we will do it.
21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he
hath sent me unto you.
22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by
1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the
LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest
falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to
sojourn there:
3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to
deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death,
and carry us away captives into Babylon.
4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,
and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land
of Judah.
5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces,
took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither
they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,
and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the
prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the
saying,
9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the
Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and
he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and
deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to
captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he
shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array
himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and
he shall go forth from thence in peace.
13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the
land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn
with fire.
CHAPTER 44
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in
the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph,
and in the country of Pathros, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all
the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of
Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth
therein,
3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to
and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their
kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they
are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off
from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you
none to remain;
8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands,
burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone
to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse
and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the
wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and
your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they
have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they
feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and
before your fathers.
11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to
go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be
consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by
the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the
greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an
execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have
land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should
return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to
dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned
incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great
multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros,
answered Jeremiah, saying,
16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the
own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings,
and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for
then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and
to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and
poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship
her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the
women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes,
and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came
it not into his mind?
22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of
against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor
walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this
evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the
women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of
Egypt:
25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and
your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your
hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to
burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto
her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in
the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the
LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of
Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all
the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the
sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the
land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that
are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words
shall stand, mine, or their's.
29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will
punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely
stand against you for evil:
30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of
Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek
his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
CHAPTER 45
1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of
3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to
which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will
pluck up, even this whole land.
5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for,
behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I
give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
CHAPTER 46
1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
Gentiles;
2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt,
4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth
with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back?
and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not
back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall
as the rivers?
8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the
rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the
city and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty
men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield;
and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of
vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword
shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for
the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river
Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of
Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the
land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are
fallen both together.
13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword
shall devour round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because
Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our
nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath
they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand,
because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of
their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march
with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot
be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be
the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their
kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their
lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the
hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of
old, saith the LORD.
27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O
Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the
land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease,
and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am
with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven
thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure;
yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
CHAPTER 47
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is
therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and
all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at
the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers
shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to
cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD
will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the
against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
CHAPTER 48
1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe
devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also
thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
destruction.
4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures,
thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with
his priests and his princes together.
8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall
escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as
the LORD hath spoken.
9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the
his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath
he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent
is not changed.
12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall
empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel
15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen
young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name
is the LORD of hosts.
16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth
fast.
17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his
name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy
glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and
he shall destroy thy strong holds.
19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that
24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of
LORD.
26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the
LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in
derision.
27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among
thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's
mouth.
29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his
heart.
30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies
thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the
spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from
the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses:
none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto
Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as
an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be
desolate.
35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him
that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.
36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine
heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches
that he hath gotten are perished.
37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all
Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel
wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab
turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying
to all them about him.
40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and
mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman
in her pangs.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he
getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it,
even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of
the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the
midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the
head of the tumultuous ones.
46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth:
for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith
1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons?
hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people
dwell in his cities?
2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for
their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man
right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of
bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have
enough.
10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places,
and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his
brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let
to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall
altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt
surely drink of it.
13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall
become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities
thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is
sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her,
and rise up to the battle.
15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised
among men.
16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart,
O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the
hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring
thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall
cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a
son of man dwell in it.
19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run
away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?
for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that
shepherd that will stand before me?
20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the
inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:
surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise
wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of
Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for
they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea; it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear
hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men
of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD;
Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take
to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and
they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith
the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel
against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without
care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell
alone.
32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost
corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the
LORD.
33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for
ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall
be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and
before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my
fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I
have consumed them:
38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the
1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of
shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall
remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of
Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and
weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,
them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they
have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries
said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the
habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land
assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set
themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their
arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied,
mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and
bellow as bulls;
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall
bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against
the LORD.
15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her
foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance
of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle
in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn
every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first
the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon hath broken his bones.
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished
the king of Assyria.
19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed
on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount
Ephraim and Gilead.
20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of
Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah,
and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them,
saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou
hast striven against the LORD.
25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the
weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts
in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her
storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of
her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe
unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of
Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the
vengeance of his temple.
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the
bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense
her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto
her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of
Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men
GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise
him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round
about him.
33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the
children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them
captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he
shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and
disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon
all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become
as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is
the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of
the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall
be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation
to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall
any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation,
and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will
not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride
upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against
thee, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his
hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman
in travail.
44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away
from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who
is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd
that will stand before me?
45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken
against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the
land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:
surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the
1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and
against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a
destroying wind;
2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall
empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round
about.
3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against
him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young
men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they
LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One
of Israel.
6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul:
be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance;
he will render unto her a recompence.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad.
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm
her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment
reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let
us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against
Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the
vengeance of his temple.
12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch
strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath
both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of
Babylon.
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures,
fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout
against thee.
15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the
world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his
understanding.
16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the
heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the
earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of
his treasures.
17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation
things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his
name.
20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I
break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and
with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with
thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid;
23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock;
and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of
oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of
Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the
LORD.
25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the
LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand
upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt
mountain.
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone
for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the
nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the
kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her;
cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the
captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his
dominion.
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:
they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have
the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,
shall Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause,
and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her
springs dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons,
whelps.
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them
drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not
wake, saith the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with
he goats.
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole
wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his
mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow
together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every
heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in
another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against
ruler.
47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon
the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded,
and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing
for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the
LORD.
49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon
remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame
hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the
LORD's house.
52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do
judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come
unto her, saith the LORD.
54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction
her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of
their voice is uttered:
56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and
her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the
LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her
captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD
of hosts.
58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall
be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the
people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be
weary.
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the
son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king
of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was
a quiet prince.
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon,
and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this
place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but
that it shall be desolate for ever.
63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this
book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates:
64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise
from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far
are the words of Jeremiah.
CHAPTER 52
1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
Zedekiah.
6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine
was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and
went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two
walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the
city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered
from him.
9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of
bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till
the day of his death.
12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was
all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned
he with fire:
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of
the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away
captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people
that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of
Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor
the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away.
19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the
caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which
was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain
of the guard away.
20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were
under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the
LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen
cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness
thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one
chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the
chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the
pomegranates were like unto these.
23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of
the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person,
which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who
mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the
land, that were found in the midst of the city.
26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and
Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out
of his own land.
28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive:
in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred
forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six
hundred.
31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first
year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and
brought him forth out of prison.
32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne
of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of
his life.
Job
CHAPTER 1
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that
man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed
evil.
2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about,
that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and
offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It
may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus
did Job continually.
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then
Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for
nought?
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house,
and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of
his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he
power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth
from the presence of the LORD.
13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were
have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee.
16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and
the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell
thee.
17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and
have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the
sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest
brother's house:
19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and
smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and
they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and
fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked
shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the LORD.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
CHAPTER 2
1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to
present himself before the LORD.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And
Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his
integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without
cause.
4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all
Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat
women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and
shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come
upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the
Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they
had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to
comfort him.
12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not,
they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle,
and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and
seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief
was very great.
CHAPTER 3
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it
unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up
their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but
suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have
at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the
oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his
master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the
bitter in soul;
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than
grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God
trouble came.
CHAPTER 4
of thy ways?
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or
a little thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth
on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to
shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood
up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image
was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his
habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate,
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
without number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the
fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may
be exalted to safety.
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands
thy good.
CHAPTER 6
his fodder?
6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there
meat.
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me
sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy
One.
11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end,
14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but
he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream
is hid:
17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are
perish.
19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
them.
20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came
thither, and were ashamed.
21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your
substance?
23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the
reprove?
26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is
friend.
28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto
you if I lie.
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my
righteousness is in it.
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse
things?
CHAPTER 7
1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also
and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is
without hope.
7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see
good.
8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine
complaints;
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through
visions:
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my
life.
16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are
vanity.
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou
every moment?
19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I
my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in
the morning, but I shall not be.
CHAPTER 8
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the
4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them
increase.
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to
their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without
water?
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth
shall perish:
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's
web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold
garden.
17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of
stones.
18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I
others grow.
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the
dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
CHAPTER 9
tremble.
7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the
stars.
8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the
of the south.
10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
without number.
11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I
under him.
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to
without cause.
18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
bitterness.
19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who
despise my life.
22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect
innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the
no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
innocent.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so
clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall
abhor me.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
upon us both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify
me:
35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
CHAPTER 10
shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of
the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
sin?
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can
cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me
preserved my spirit.
13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is
with thee.
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from
mine iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift
that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
eyes.
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are
double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less
than thine iniquity deserveth.
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the
the sea.
10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can
hinder him?
11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not
ass's colt.
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward
him;
14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt
dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea,
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
wrought this?
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of
all mankind.
11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
are his.
17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges
fools.
18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a
girdle.
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
of the mighty.
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with
God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies
of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come
on me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine
hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine
before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
justified.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I
thee.
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer
thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the
dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to
unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth
eaten.
CHAPTER 14
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are
with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an
again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock
like a plant.
10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,
drieth up:
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more,
keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a
set time, and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed
time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to
sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock
which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of
man.
20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou
shall mourn.
CHAPTER 15
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the
east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
tongue of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips
the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain
wisdom to thyself?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou,
wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words
declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed
among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number
of his bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh
recompence.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not
be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off
prepareth deceit.
CHAPTER 16
thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I
could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my
what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my
company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against
with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten
asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me
like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the
dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of
death;
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
high.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue
in their provocation?
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will
was as a tabret.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members
are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir
thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of
darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou
art my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together
is in the dust.
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sight?
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for
snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail
against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the
way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him
to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be
be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have
the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor
myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed
there is no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set
darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my
head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine
with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the
flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in
a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for
ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at
make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
mouth:
14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within
him.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up
him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and
butter.
18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not
swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and
he shall not rejoice therein.
19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor;
wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up
against him.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow
3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
on.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should
mouth.
6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on
my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
power?
8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
them.
10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
casteth not her calf.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children
dance.
12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the
organ.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to
the grave.
14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
carrieth away.
19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and
are high.
23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with
marrow.
25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth
with pleasure.
26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover
them.
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me.
28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the
tomb.
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man
remaineth falsehood?
CHAPTER 22
judgment?
5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and
troubleth thee;
11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters
cover thee.
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the
dark cloud?
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he
to scorn.
20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of
plenty of silver.
26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift
groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to
his seat!
4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with
arguments.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and
declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I
have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul
afraid of him.
16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know
feed thereof.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's
ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
themselves together.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work;
rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for
their children.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the
the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take
they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the
ears of corn.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my
2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high
places.
3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his
light arise?
4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean
is a worm?
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2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou
thee?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the
inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth
upon it.
10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and
nostrils;
4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine
me as the unrighteous.
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
God?
11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal.
12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus
altogether vain?
13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of
the clay;
17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent
maketh.
19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he
in the night.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a
place.
CHAPTER 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine
it.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the
stone.
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection:
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up
as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of
gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's
by it.
9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the
mountains by the roots.
10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
precious thing.
11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid
understanding?
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land
of the living.
14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with
me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for
understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from
our ears.
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
thereof.
24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the
whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters
by measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning
of the thunder:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and
searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is
wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
CHAPTER 29
preserved me;
3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I
upon my tabernacle;
5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were
about me;
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out
rivers of oil;
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my
10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof
of their mouth.
11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I
searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of
his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days
as the sand.
19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night
upon my branch.
20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
counsel.
22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped
upon them.
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their
1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose
fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom
meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them
as after a thief;)
6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in
the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were
gathered together.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in
my face.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have
helper.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the
desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind:
take no rest.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it
ashes.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou
regardest me not.
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou
prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the
congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a
maid?
2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what
inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the
workers of iniquity?
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
integrity.
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after
rooted out.
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid
upon her.
11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished
by the judges.
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out
covering;
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with
art my confidence;
25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine
brightness;
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath
kissed my hand:
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I
soul.
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh!
we cannot be satisfied.
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors
to the traveller.
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity
in my bosom:
34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify
me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown
to me.
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince
complain;
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused
Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled,
because he justified himself rather than God.
3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because
young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew
you mine opinion.
7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach
wisdom.
8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty
judgment.
10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
speaking.
16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and
answered no more;)
17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
answer.
21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me
words.
2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in
my mouth.
3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips
up.
6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am
iniquity in me.
10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his
enemy,
11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride
from man.
18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing
by the sword.
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude
destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a
he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his
righteousness.
27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and
speak.
32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to
justify thee.
33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee
wisdom.
CHAPTER 34
2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that
have knowledge.
3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
is good.
5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my
judgment.
6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without
transgression.
7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he
should commit iniquity.
11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every
pervert judgment.
13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath
dust.
16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice
of my words.
17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn
ungodly?
19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes,
nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his
hands.
20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at
midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without
hand.
21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his
goings.
22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers
27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any
of his ways:
28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he
when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done
against a nation, or against a man only:
30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
do no more.
33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it,
whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak
what thou knowest.
34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken
unto me.
35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without
wisdom.
36 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which
of thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy
oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in
the night;
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh
evil men.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard
it.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is
without knowledge.
CHAPTER 36
2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on
God's behalf.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
poor.
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings
are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are
exalted.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of
affliction;
9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that
bindeth them.
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a
broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set
on thy table should be full of fatness.
17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and
strength.
20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather
than affliction.
22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast
wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the
2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth
excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth
work.
8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
bright cloud:
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do
whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or
for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous
works of God.
15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light
of his cloud to shine?
16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous
works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the
south wind?
18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a
be swallowed up.
21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but
majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in
of heart.
CHAPTER 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall
15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm
shall be broken.
16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou
walked in the search of the depth?
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou
knowest it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness,
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of
heaven, who hath gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is
frozen.
31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the
bands of Orion?
32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou
Here we are?
36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given
bottles of heaven,
38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast
together?
39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the
young lions,
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in
wait?
41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry
1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or
his dwellings.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the
10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will
with thunder?
20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his
nostrils is terrible.
21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth
shield.
24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither
believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle
the south?
27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on
high?
28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock,
there is she.
CHAPTER 40
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand
upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will
proceed no further.
6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and
said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and
like him?
10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself
14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can
save thee.
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass
as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of
his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are
wrapped together.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars
of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make
fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the
1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord
with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft
maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him
spears?
8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down
before me?
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is
proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to
17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they
cannot be sundered.
18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the
caldron.
21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
before him.
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in
nether millstone.
25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of
28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him
into stubble.
29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a
spear.
30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things
pot of ointment.
32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to
be hoary.
33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
pride.
CHAPTER 42
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be
I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew
not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and
seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto
Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against
thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing
that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams,
Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the
LORD also accepted Job.
10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for
his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters,
and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread
with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over
all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave
him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of
daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their
brethren.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his
1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children,
that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which
the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of
wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without
number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth
of a great lion.
7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath
made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made
white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
youth.
9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house
the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the
pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the
trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the
sons of men.
13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the
altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat
offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and
all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and
cry unto the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a
desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed,
because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made
desolate.
19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the
field.
20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters
are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
CHAPTER 2
let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD
cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and
a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more
after it, even to the years of many generations.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth:
the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a
desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a
strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall
gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men
of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not
break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his
path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall,
they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows
like a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble:
the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining:
11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp
is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the
LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all
your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the
LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing
behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD
your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and
give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over
them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I
will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith:
and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will
drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east
sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come
up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great
things.
22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the
vine do yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your
God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause
to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the
first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow
of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am
the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be
ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit
upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old
men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those
of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall
be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the
LORD shall call.
CHAPTER 3
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the
valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and
for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and
parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for
an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all
sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold
them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the
children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people
far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the
mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into
Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down;
for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the
Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will
be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion,
drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of
Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the
house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate
wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they
have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by
Jesus Christ.
18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son,
Christ.
21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I
25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou
then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is
the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending,
and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy
Ghost.
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto
them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being
interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where
he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was
have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he
said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which
is by interpretation, A stone.
43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth
answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou
wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son
saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things
than these.
51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye
shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and
descending upon the Son of man.
CHAPTER 2
1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the
3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him,
you, do it.
6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner
wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the
water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth
good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but
thou hast kept the good wine until now.
11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and
all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the
changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence;
many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew
all men,
25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what
was in man.
CHAPTER 3
Jews:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we
know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these
miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is
every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things
be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel,
eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same
baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it
earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above
all.
32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man
is true.
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God
hand.
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that
believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on
him.
CHAPTER 4
1 When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that
his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou,
being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the
Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest
have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well,
and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this
never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst
prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the
Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such
to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked
with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest
thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the
city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields;
for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice
together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another
reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other
saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought
him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy
saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the
Christ, the Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his
own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received
him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for
they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the
water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at
Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee,
he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal
his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man
believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told
And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which
Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole
house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is
troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water
stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and
eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long
time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the
water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another
steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed,
Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee.
15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which
work.
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not
only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father,
making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the
Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that
himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye
may marvel.
21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them;
Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which
hath sent him.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come
into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is,
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear
shall live.
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
damnation.
30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me.
31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the
34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that
ye might be saved.
35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a
the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness
of me, that the Father hath sent me.
37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness
of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,
42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
wrote of me.
47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
CHAPTER 6
1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea
of Tiberias.
2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his
miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his
disciples.
4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company
come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that
these may eat?
6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would
do.
7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not
sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto
him,
9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small
grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he
distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down;
and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the
said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take
the sea,
17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward
Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs,
they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and
they were afraid.
20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately
side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one
whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his
disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;
23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the
place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither
his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking
for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they
seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the
loaves, and were filled.
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which
endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:
for him hath God the Father sealed.
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work
gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true
bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven,
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that
he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the
last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will
raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the
and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from
heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not
among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me
Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father,
cometh unto me.
46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God,
everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man
eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my
flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can
ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in
you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life;
and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he
fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall
live for ever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in
Capernaum.
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said,
was before?
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from
the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray
him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come
you is a devil?
71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that
1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in
3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into
Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself
6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your
Galilee.
10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto
him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth
the people.
13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple,
and taught.
15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters,
seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness
is in him.
19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the
ye all marvel.
22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is
Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a
man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they
seek to kill?
26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do
know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but
he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him,
cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things
concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to
take him.
33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and
ye cannot come.
35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that
we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles,
and teach the Gentiles?
36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me,
and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,
saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his
should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus
was not yet glorified.)
40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said,
out of Galilee?
42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of
44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands
on him.
45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and
49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
he doeth?
52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee?
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all
the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken
But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as
though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said
unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at
her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man
condemned thee?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I
world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the
light of life.
13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of
myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go;
but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
true.
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent
Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have
known my Father also.
20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the
temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall
seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith,
them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent
me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of
him.
27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of
man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but
as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me
abideth ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself,
but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot
hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of
his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
ye do dishonour me.
50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and
judgeth.
51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall
devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep
my saying, he shall never taste of death.
53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and
know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his
saying.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and
was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old,
and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so
passed by.
CHAPTER 9
1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay
of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by
interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came
seeing.
8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him
that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I
am he.
10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and
wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and
because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man
that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him,
blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had
received his sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was
opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for
himself.
22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews:
for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was
Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto
him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know
not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened
he thine eyes?
27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear:
Moses' disciples.
29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we
34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in
sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found
him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on
him?
37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he
39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that
they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made
blind.
40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these
1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the
sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a
robber.
2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he
and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they
am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the
sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the
sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth:
and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for
the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of
mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay
must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and
one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
sayings.
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear
ye him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil.
winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How
long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works
unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are
gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye
may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of
their hand,
40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John
1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of
wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he
but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
again.
8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to
man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this
world.
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no
light in him.
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our
friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had
off:
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort
went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the
her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto
him.
30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place
her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed
her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she
fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died.
33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also
weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord,
37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the
eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It
that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath
been dead four days.
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest
was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that
thou hast heard me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the
people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent
me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice,
Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith
unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the
Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that
for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year,
him to death.
54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but
went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called
Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55 And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of
1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the
house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying
always.
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and
they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also,
whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also
to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away,
cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of
the Lord.
14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is
written,
15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on
an ass's colt.
16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when
Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written
of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus
out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that
tell Jesus.
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the
ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in
from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven,
34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that
Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be
lifted up? who is this Son of man?
35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that
walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the
children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide
himself from them.
37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they
spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of
the Lord been revealed?
39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said
again,
40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they
should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be
converted, and I should heal them.
41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of
him.
42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;
but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should
be put out of the synagogue:
43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that
judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the
last day.
49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me,
1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour
was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having
loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart
disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord,
answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my
his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
11 For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are
and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done
to you?
13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also
done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his
18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the
scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his
heel against me.
19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye
send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and
testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall
betray me.
22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he
spake.
23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples,
have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto
him, That thou doest, do quickly.
28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto
him.
29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that
Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against
the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it
was night.
31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of
and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say
to you.
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another;
answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt
follow me afterwards.
37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied
me thrice.
CHAPTER 14
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest;
us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet
hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the
Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see
and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that
loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will
love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt
keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word
which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with
you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid.
28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again
unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the
Father: for my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is
every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto
you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are
burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what
be my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in
my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even
loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not
what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have
heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it you.
17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute
you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man
did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both
me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is
1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not
ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto
you at the beginning, because I was with you.
5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh
your heart.
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go
away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I
depart, I will send him unto you.
8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
more;
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew
it unto you.
15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he
that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a
little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we
the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be
turned into joy.
21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is
your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall
cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall
shew you plainly of the Father.
26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that
speakest no proverb.
30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not
that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth
from God.
31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am
not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world.
CHAPTER 17
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give
out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they
have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given
me are of thee.
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and
they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from
thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou
them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those
whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the
son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that
thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they
and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved
them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with
me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given
me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have
known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that
the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
CHAPTER 18
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples
over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered,
and his disciples.
2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus
chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and
weapons.
4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,
am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went
of Nazareth.
8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek
priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was
Malchus.
11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath:
the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
12 Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took
Jesus, and bound him,
13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to
was expedient that one man should die for the people.
15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple:
that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into
the palace of the high priest.
16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other
disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that
kept the door, and brought in Peter.
17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou
of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood
with them, and warmed himself.
19 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his
doctrine.
20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught
in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and
in secret have I said nothing.
21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have
by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the
high priest so?
23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the
ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment:
and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring
according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful
for us to put any man to death:
32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake,
Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did
priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom
were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be
delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus
answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for
this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this,
he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no
fault at all.
39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the
passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas.
2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head,
hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I
bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the
purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried
out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him,
and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought
9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus,
thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release
thee?
11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against
me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me
unto thee hath the greater sin.
12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews
cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend:
whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth,
and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement,
but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth
Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests
answered, We have no king but Caesar.
16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and
Greek, and Latin.
21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat:
now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but
cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which
saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did
cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his
mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing
by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that
spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that
sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of
they pierced.
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away
the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and
took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to
and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews'
1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was
yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the
sepulchre.
2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away
the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid
him.
3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to
the sepulchre.
4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter,
the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith
unto them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not
where they have laid him.
14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw
thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou
have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take
him away.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto
the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of
the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
Peace be unto you.
20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and
his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.
21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my
LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of
the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand
into his side, I will not believe.
26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and
Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in
the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold
my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be
not faithless, but believing.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my
God.
29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou
hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have
believed.
30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his
Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his
name.
CHAPTER 21
1 After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the
and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two
other of his disciples.
3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him,
We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship
immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore:
and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to
draw it for the multitude of fishes.
7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is
the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his
fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the
sea.
8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far
from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with
fishes.
9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals
caught.
11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great
fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet
was not the net broken.
12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the
disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish
likewise.
14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his
disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon,
son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea,
Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas,
lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love
thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest
thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time,
Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things;
thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou
girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt
be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and
carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God.
And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved
following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord,
which is he that betrayeth thee?
21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man
do?
22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that
disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but,
If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote
which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world
itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Jonah
CHAPTER 1
1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their
LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish:
so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto
Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a
mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god,
and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of
them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay,
and was fast asleep.
6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What
meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will
think upon us, that we perish not.
7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots,
that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots,
and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause
this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou?
what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the
God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why
hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of
the LORD, because he had told them.
11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the
sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the
sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this
great tempest is upon you.
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they
could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech
thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and
lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it
pleased thee.
15 So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
CHAPTER 2
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and
he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas;
and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves
passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward
bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from
corruption, O LORD my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the
the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days'
journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through
Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither
man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink
water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily
unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the
violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his
and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto
them; and he did it not.
CHAPTER 4
2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD,
was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled
before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and
merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the
evil.
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me;
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city,
and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might
see what would become of the city.
6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up
over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from
his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day,
vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he
fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die
than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the
which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a
night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are
more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their
right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Joshua
CHAPTER 1
1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass,
that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister,
saying,
2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this
Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them,
even to the children of Israel.
3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I
the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea
toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days
of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee,
nor forsake thee.
6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou
divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give
them.
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest
shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way
prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage;
be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with
thee whithersoever thou goest.
10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and
hath given you this land.
14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the
land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before
your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given
you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God
giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and
enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan
toward the sunrising.
16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest
hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with
Moses.
18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment,
and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he
shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
CHAPTER 2
1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly,
saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an
harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came
men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the
men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they
be come to search out all the country.
4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus,
There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it
was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue
after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid
them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the
fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they
shut the gate.
8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon
the roof;
9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you
the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants
of the land faint because of you.
10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red
sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two
kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og,
whom ye utterly destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt,
neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you:
for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth
beneath.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I
have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my
father's house, and give me a true token:
13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my
brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from
death.
14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this
our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that
we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her
house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the
pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the
pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine
scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou
shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy
father's household, home unto thee.
19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy
house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be
guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall
be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine
them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the
window.
22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there
three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought
them throughout all the way, but found them not.
23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain,
and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all
things that befell them:
24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into
our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint
because of us.
CHAPTER 3
1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim,
and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there
before they passed over.
2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went
the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing
it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the
way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to
covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of
the covenant, and went before the people.
7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify
thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with
Moses, so I will be with thee.
8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the
covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan,
ye shall stand still in Jordan.
9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and
among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth
priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth, shall rest
in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the
waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents,
to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant
before the people;
15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the
feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,
(for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose
up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and
those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea,
failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD
stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites
passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over
Jordan.
CHAPTER 4
1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over
3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst
of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve
stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the
lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of
LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of
you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of
the children of Israel:
6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask
off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over
Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a
memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took
up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto
Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,
and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and
laid them down there.
9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant
stood: and they are there unto this day.
10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan,
until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak
unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the
people hasted and passed over.
11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the
presence of the people.
12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half
the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel,
as Moses spake unto them:
13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the
and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that
out of Jordan.
18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the
soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters
of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they
did before.
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the
children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these
stones?
22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over
before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the
Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the
LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
CHAPTER 5
1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on
the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which
were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan
from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their
heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the
children of Israel.
2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives,
that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in
the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the
people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth
out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till
all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were
consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom
the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD
sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with
milk and honey.
7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua
reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called
Gilgal unto this day.
10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of
the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any
more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted
up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him
with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said
unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I
now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and
said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?
15 And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy
shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And
Joshua did so.
CHAPTER 6
1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none
hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round
rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times,
and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with
the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people
shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat,
and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto
them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and
let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people,
that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed
on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the
covenant of the LORD followed them.
9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the
trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and
blowing with the trumpets.
10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not
shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word
proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye
shout.
11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once:
and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up
the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and
the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of
the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned
about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same
manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven
times.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew
with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath
given you the city.
17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein,
to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with
her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing,
consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the
LORD.
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets:
and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet,
and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so
that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and
they took the city.
21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the
sword.
22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the
country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and
all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out
Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she
had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp
of Israel.
24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the
silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the
treasury of the house of the LORD.
25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's
household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this
day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out
Jericho.
26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the
man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he
shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son
shall he set up the gates of it.
27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised
for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the
tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD
was kindled against the children of Israel.
2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside
Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and
view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the
people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite
Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men:
they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote
them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and
became as water.
6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face
before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel,
and put dust upon their heads.
7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all
brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the
Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt
on the other side Jordan!
8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before
their enemies!
9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear
of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and
what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest
covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the
accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they
have put it even among their own stuff.
12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their
enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were
accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the
accursed from among you.
13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to
morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed
thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine
enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your
tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come
according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall
take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall
take shall come man by man.
15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall
be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed
the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by
Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and
Zabdi was taken:
18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son
of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was
taken.
19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to
the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now
what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned
against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and
two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight,
then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth
in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,
behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought
them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out
before the LORD.
24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of
Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his
sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and
his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of
Achor.
25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall
trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned
them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day.
So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the
name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
CHAPTER 8
1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed:
take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have
given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his
land:
2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho
and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take
for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai:
and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent
them away by night.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait
against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be
ye all ready:
5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the
city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the
first, that we will flee before them,
6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the
city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will
flee before them.
7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city:
for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the
and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua
lodged that night among the people.
10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the
people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him,
went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the
north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in
ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on
the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua
went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted
and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to
battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he
wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before
after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from
the city.
17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out
after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in
thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched
out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as
soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and
took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and,
behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no
power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the
wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken
the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again,
and slew the men of Ai.
22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were
in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they
smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all
the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey
soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his
carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the
city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this
day.
30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount
Ebal,
31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of
stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites,
which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as
he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim,
and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the
LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of
Israel.
34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and
Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women,
and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
CHAPTER 9
1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan,
in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over
against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and
ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old,
and rent, and bound up;
5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments
upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto
him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now
therefore make ye a league with us.
7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye
dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua
said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are
come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the
fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were
on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it
is mouldy:
13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and,
behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become
old by reason of the very long journey.
14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the
them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto
them.
16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had
made a league with them, that they heard that they were their
neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities
on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and
Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes
of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel.
And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have
sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not
touch them.
20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be
hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the
princes had promised them.
22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying,
Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when
ye dwell among us?
23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be
freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for
the house of my God.
24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly
told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant
Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the
land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because
of you, and have done this thing.
25 And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and
water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this
day, in the place which he should choose.
CHAPTER 10
how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to
Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the
inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among
them;
2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one
of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men
thereof were mighty.
3 Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent unto Hoham king
of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of
Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it
hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem,
the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of
Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their
hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal,
saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and
save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the
mountains are gathered together against us.
7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand
before thee.
9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from
with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that
goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in
the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones
from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more
which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with
the sword.
12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the
sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the
valley of Ajalon.
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people
had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the
book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted
not to go down about a whole day.
14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD
hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
Gilgal.
16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at
Makkedah.
17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a
cave at Makkedah.
18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave,
made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were
consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced
cities.
21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah
in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out
of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of
Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto
Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the
captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet
upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet
upon the necks of them.
25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be
strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your
enemies against whom ye fight.
26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged
them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the
evening.
27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun,
that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and
cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones
in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge
of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the
souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of
Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him,
hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the
souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king
thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.
31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto
took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all
the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua
smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with
him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day,
according to all that he had done to Lachish.
36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto
the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were
therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to
Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.
38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and
and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all
the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to
Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also
to Libnah, and to her king.
40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south,
and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none
remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of
Israel commanded.
41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza,
Gilgal.
CHAPTER 11
1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things,
that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to
the king of Achshaph,
2 And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of
the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of
Dor on the west,
3 And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the
mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much
people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with
horses and chariots very many.
5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and
for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel:
thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against
them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote
them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and
unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left
them none remaining.
9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed
the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and
he burnt Hazor with fire.
12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did
Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly
destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned
Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the
edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to
breathe.
15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses
command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that
the LORD commanded Moses.
16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country,
and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the
mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
17 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto
Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their
kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel,
save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should
come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that
they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the
mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the
mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua
destroyed them utterly with their cities.
22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of
said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel
according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
CHAPTER 12
1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote,
and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of
the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the
east:
2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from
Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of
the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the
border of the children of Ammon;
3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto
the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to
Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:
4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of
unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead,
the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of
Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession
unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the
children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in
the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir;
which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to
their divisions;
8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the
springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the
Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites:
9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel,
one;
10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations
of Gilgal, one;
24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
CHAPTER 13
1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto
him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very
much land to be possessed.
2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the
sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into
Hamath.
6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto
Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before
the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an
inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine
that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in
Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites,
in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses
smite, and cast them out.
13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites,
nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell
among the Israelites until this day.
14 Only unto the tribes of Levi he gave none inheritance; the
sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as
he said unto them.
15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by
Medeba;
17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and
the valley,
20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king
of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the
princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which
were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of
Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the
border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after
their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
24 And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the
the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from
Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and
his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side
Jordan eastward.
28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families,
and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh
by their families.
30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom
of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan,
threescore cities:
31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom
1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the
land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun,
and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,
distributed for inheritance to them.
2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the
hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half
tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none
inheritance among them.
4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save
cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,
Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest
the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me
and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent
me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word
again as it was in mine heart.
8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of
thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for
ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said,
these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto
Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now,
lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses
sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war,
both to go out, and to come in.
12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake
in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there,
and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with
me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed
the LORD God of Israel.
15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba
was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
CHAPTER 15
1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their
families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was
the uttermost part of the south coast.
2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from
of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be
your south coast.
5 And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of
Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea
at the uttermost part of Jordan:
6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the
north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the
son of Reuben:
7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor,
the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border
went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom
westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the
fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount
Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount
Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon,
on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to
Timnah:
11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and
the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah,
and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the
sea.
12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof.
This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their
families.
13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the
to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said
unto her, What wouldest thou?
19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a
south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper
springs, and the nether springs.
20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities
44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their
villages:
45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with
their villages:
47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns
and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the
border thereof:
48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their
villages:
52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
villages:
60 Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with
their villages:
61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with
their villages.
63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of
Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children
of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
CHAPTER 16
1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto
the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from
Jericho throughout mount Bethel,
2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the
of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof are at
the sea.
4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance.
5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their
families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side
was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the
north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and
passed by it on the east to Janohah;
7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and
Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance
of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among
the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their
villages.
10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but
the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve
under tribute.
CHAPTER 17
1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn
their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek,
and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the
children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male
children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are
the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
Tirzah.
4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua
the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded
Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore
according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an
inheritance among the brethren of their father.
5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead
his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that
lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto
the inhabitants of Entappuah.
8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the
border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;
9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the
river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast
of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of
it were at the sea:
10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's,
and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north,
and in Issachar on the east.
11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her
towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her
towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of
Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns,
even three countries.
12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants
strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive
them out.
14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why
hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a
great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get
thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of
the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us:
and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of
iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of
the valley of Jezreel.
17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim
and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power:
thou shalt not have one lot only:
18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt
cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out
the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be
strong.
CHAPTER 18
slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers
hath given you?
4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send
them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it
according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their
coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts
on the north.
6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring
the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the
LORD our God.
7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the
LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of
Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east,
which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them
that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and
describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you
before the LORD in Shiloh.
9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it
by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host
at Shiloh.
10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and
there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their
divisions.
11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between
the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the
border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up
through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the
wilderness of Bethaven.
13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of
the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward;
and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a
city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the
border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of
Nephtoah:
16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth
before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the
giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of
Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh,
and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of
Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah
northward, and went down unto Arabah:
19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah
northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the
salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the
to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin according to their families.
CHAPTER 19
1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the
Moladah,
3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their
villages:
8 And all the villages that were round about these cities to
the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much
for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the
inheritance of them.
10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according
to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:
11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and
Shunem,
19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
Achshaph,
26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to
Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at
the sea from the coast to Achzib:
30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with
their villages.
31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were
at Jordan:
34 And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth
out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side,
and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan
toward the sunrising.
35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath,
and Chinnereth,
36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
Irshemesh,
42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them:
therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it,
and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt
therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the
children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the
LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made
an end of dividing the country.
CHAPTER 20
2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities
may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at
the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears
of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and
give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour
unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall
be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city,
and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and
Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and
Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the
tribe of Manasseh.
9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and
for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any
person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the
avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
CHAPTER 21
1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar
the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the
fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of
the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of
Benjamin, thirteen cities.
5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the
families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the
half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the
tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of
Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
7 The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of
Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun,
twelve cities.
8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities
the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned
by name.
10 Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the
Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first
lot.
11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which
city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round
about it.
12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to
her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her
suburbs,
14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and
Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba
cities.
19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen
remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot
out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount
Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs;
four cities.
23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon
cities.
25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs,
out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with
her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her
suburbs; two cities.
28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs,
cities.
30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon
cities.
32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her
suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her
suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were
Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and
Kartah with her suburbs,
35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and
four cities.
38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs,
to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in
all.
40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which
were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve
cities.
41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children
give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that
he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their
enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their
hand.
45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe
of Manasseh,
2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of
the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I
commanded you:
3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but
have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren,
as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your
tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of
the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law,
which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD
your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments,
and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all
your soul.
6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went
possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua
among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua
sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,
8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto
your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with
brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your
enemies with your brethren.
9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half
tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out
of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of
Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed,
according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the
land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see
to.
11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of
Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built
an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the
passage of the children of Israel.
12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole
to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of
Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince
throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the
house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children
of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and
they spake with them, saying,
16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass
is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this
day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye
might rebel this day against the LORD?
17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not
cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation
of the LORD,
18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD?
and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he
will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then
pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the
LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel
not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar
beside the altar of the LORD our God.
20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the
accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that
man perished not alone in his iniquity.
21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the
thousands of Israel,
22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth,
time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What
have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you,
generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before
him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace
offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come,
Ye have no part in the LORD.
28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to
day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat
offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is
before his tabernacle.
30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him,
heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the
returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out
of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel,
and brought them word again.
33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of
Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to
destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the
altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
CHAPTER 23
1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto
Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and
stricken in age.
2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their
heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I
am old and stricken in age:
3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all
these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath
fought for you.
4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain,
to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I
have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you,
and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as
the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is
written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom
to the right hand or to the left;
7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among
you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear
by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this
day.
9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and
strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto
this day.
10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your
of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make
marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive
out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and
traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until
ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given
you.
14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye
know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed
of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you;
all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come
upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD
bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this
good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your
God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods,
and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be
kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land
which he hath given unto you.
CHAPTER 24
1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for
the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their
officers; and they presented themselves before God.
2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even
Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served
other gods.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood,
and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed,
and gave him Isaac.
4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau
mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into
Egypt.
5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to
that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the
sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and
horsemen unto the Red sea.
7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between
you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered
them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt
in the wilderness a long season.
8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on
the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into
your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from
before you.
9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred
against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you
of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from
before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword,
nor with thy bow.
13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and
cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and
oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in
truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side
of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this
day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that
were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should
fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which
did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein
we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the
Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD;
for he is our God.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD:
turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you
good.
21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the
LORD.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against
yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they
said, We are witnesses.
23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are
among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we
and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the
sanctuary of the LORD.
27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be
a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he
spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your
God.
28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of
Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of
Gaash.
31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the
days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the
works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up
that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount
Ephraim.
Jude
CHAPTER 1
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that
are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and
called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our
God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord
Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew
this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own
disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing
accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but
what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt
themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran
greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the
gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with
you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice
dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have
spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own
lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's
persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating
present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Judges
CHAPTER 1
1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of
Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the
Canaanites first, to fight against them?
2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered
my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go
with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and
the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten
thousand men.
5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against
thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table:
as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to
Jerusalem, and there he died.
8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and
had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on
fire.
9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against
the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the
valley.
10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron:
(now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew
Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and
to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb
said unto her, What wilt thou?
15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given
me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the
upper springs and the nether springs.
16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out
of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of
Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among
the people.
17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the
Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the
name of the city was called Hormah.
18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with
of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley,
because they had chariots of iron.
20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he
said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we
will shew thee mercy.
25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote
the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his
family.
26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city,
and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean
and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor
and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the
inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in
that land.
28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the
nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and
of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.
34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain:
for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in
Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they
became tributaries.
36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to
1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I
made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land
which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my
covenant with you.
2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye
shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have
ye done this?
3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you;
but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare
unto you.
4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these
words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice,
and wept.
5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great
works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being
served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought
them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the
people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them,
and provoked the LORD to anger.
13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold
them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not
any longer stand before their enemies.
15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against
them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto
them: and they were greatly distressed.
16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them
a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they
turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the
commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was
with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the
days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by
reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they
way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out
1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by
them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to
teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and
the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount
Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they
forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim
king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against
Chushanrishathaim.
11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz
died.
12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD:
and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel,
because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek,
and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen
years.
15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD
length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon
Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep
silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer
parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a
message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his
the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the
dirt came out.
23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of
that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he
covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened
not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them:
and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the
in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him
from the mount, and he before them.
28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath
delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down
after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a
man to pass over.
29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all
lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And
Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
CHAPTER 4
1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when
that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt
in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine
and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her
for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel
commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with
thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of
Zebulun?
7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of
Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into
thine hand.
8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but
journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall
sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with
Barak to Kedesh.
10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went
up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the
father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched
his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was
chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of
the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the
LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out
before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand
men after him.
15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all
his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted
down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto
Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of
the sword; and there was not a man left.
17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife
of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor
and the house of Heber the Kenite.
18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my
lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the
tent, she covered him with a mantle.
19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink;
for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and
covered him.
20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall
be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any
man here? that thou shalt say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an
hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his
temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and
weary. So he died.
22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet
him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou
seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and
the nail was in his temples.
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before
against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of
Canaan.
CHAPTER 5
1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people
of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the
clouds also dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai
drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD,
even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel:
then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise,
thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors,
and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar,
and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of
Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings
of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of
heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships?
against Sisera.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river
the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD,
to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite
in a lordly dish.
26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the
workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote
off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed,
the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of
his chariots?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to
herself,
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every
him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest
forty years.
CHAPTER 6
1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the
the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the
mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came
up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up
against them;
4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of
the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel,
neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came
as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were
without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites;
said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from
Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of
the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you,
and gave you their land;
10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods
which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his
son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the
Midianites.
12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto
why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our
fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but
now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the
Midianites.
14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might,
and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent
thee?
15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save
forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou
come again.
19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened
cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the
broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented
it.
20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the
unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth.
And he did so.
21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that
was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and
there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the
unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD,
Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an angel of the
LORD face to face.
23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou
him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven
years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut
down the grove that is by it:
26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this
rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt
sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD
had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's
household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he
did it by night.
28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold,
the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by
it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And
when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath
done this thing.
30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that
he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because
he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for
Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death
whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because
one hath cast down his altar.
32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal
the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley
of Jezreel.
34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a
was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto
Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand,
on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I
know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the
fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of
water.
39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against
me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once
with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the
ground let there be dew.
40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only,
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him,
rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of
the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the
valley.
2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee
are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel
vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying,
Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from
mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand;
and there remained ten thousand.
4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many;
bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it
shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same
shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go
with thee, the same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD
said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as
a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that
boweth down upon his knees to drink.
6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their
mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed
down upon their knees to drink water.
7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that
lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let
all the other people go every man unto his place.
8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and
he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those
three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him,
Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant
east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their
camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told
a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a
cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a
tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the
sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath
God delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and
the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host
of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the
host of Midian.
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies,
and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and
lamps within the pitchers.
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and,
behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do,
so shall ye do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow
ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of
the LORD, and of Gideon.
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto
the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they
had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the
pitchers that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the
pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their
right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of
Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp;
every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and
the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of
Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of
Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after
the Midianites.
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim,
saying, come down against the Midianites, and take before them the
waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim
gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and
Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and
they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress
of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to
Gideon on the other side Jordan.
CHAPTER 8
1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus,
that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites?
And they did chide with him sharply.
2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of
you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage
of Abiezer?
3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb
and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their
anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three
hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of
bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing
after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and
Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered
Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the
thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise:
and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had
answered him.
9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come
them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the
children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men
that drew sword.
11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on
the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the host was
secure.
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them,
and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited
all the host.
13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun
was up,
14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of
him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders
thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah
and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of
Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto
thy men that are weary?
16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness
city.
18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men
were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so
were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
19 And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my
mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay
you.
20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the
youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for
as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and
Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels'
necks.
22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us,
both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us
from the hand of Midian.
23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall
my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that
ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had
golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread
a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a
Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became
a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that
they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty
years in the days of Gideon.
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
house.
30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten:
children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and
made Baalberith their god.
34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God,
who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every
side:
35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are
threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you?
remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
3 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men
brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon
one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal
was left; for he hid himself.
6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house
of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar
that was in Shechem.
7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of
mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them,
Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and
they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness,
wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over
the trees?
10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness,
13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which
over us.
15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king
over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire
come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye
have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and
his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his
hands;
17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and
slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have
made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of
Shechem, because he is your brother;)
19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with
his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice
in you:
20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men
of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men
of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt
23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of
Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their
brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided
him in the killing of his brethren.
25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the
mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it
was told Abimelech.
26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over
and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their
god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is
Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and
Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why
should we serve him?
29 And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I
Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and,
behold, they fortify the city against thee.
32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee,
thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the
people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to
them as thou shalt find occasion.
34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him,
the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were
with him, from lying in wait.
36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there
come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto
him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See there come people down
by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain
of Meonenim.
38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith
thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the
people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with
Abimelech.
40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many
were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and
forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two
other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew
them.
45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took
the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city,
and sowed it with salt.
46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they
people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and
cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder,
and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do,
make haste, and do as I have done.
49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and
followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire
upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about
a thousand men and women.
50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against
the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat
them up to the top of the tower.
52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and
went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon
Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer,
and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me,
A women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they
their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of
Jerubbaal.
CHAPTER 10
1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah,
buried in Shamir.
3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty
thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the
land of Gilead.
5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD,
and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of
Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon,
and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not
him.
7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold
them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children
of Ammon.
8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel:
eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side
Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also
against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim;
so that Israel was sore distressed.
10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have
sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also
served Baalim.
11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver
you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of
Ammon, and from the Philistines?
12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did
oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I
served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and
man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall
be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
CHAPTER 11
1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was
and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in
our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of
Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with
him.
4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of
against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land
of Tob:
6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we
and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me
now when ye are in distress?
8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn
again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the
children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home
again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them
before me, shall I be your head?
10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be
made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his
words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of
Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against
me to fight in my land?
13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the
children of Ammon:
15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away
me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not
hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but
he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed
the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the
land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within
the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the
king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee,
through thy land into my place.
20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon
gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against
Israel.
21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people
into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the
land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon
even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites
from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee
to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from
before us, them will we possess.
25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor,
king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight
against them,
26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and
her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three
hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me
wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between
the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto
passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead,
and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou
shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my
house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon,
shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight
against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith,
even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great
slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children
of Israel.
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his
daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she
was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes,
and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art
one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD,
and I cannot go back.
36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth
me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains,
and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she
went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the
mountains.
39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned
unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had
vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter
strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me
not out of their hands.
3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my
hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD
delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me
this day, to fight against me?
4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and
fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because
they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites,
and among the Manassites.
5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the
Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were
escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art
thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said
Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took
him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of
the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
country of Zebulun.
13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged
Israel.
14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on
threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried
1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and
the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the
Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare
not.
3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said
unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt
conceive, and bear a son.
4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong
come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the
womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of
God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an
angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither
told he me his name:
7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a
son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean
thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of
his death.
8 Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the
man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us
what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of
God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her
husband was not with her.
10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband,
and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came
unto me the other day.
11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the
man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman?
And he said, I am.
12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall
her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I
commanded her let her observe.
15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us
detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou
detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering,
thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an
angel of the LORD.
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy
name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus
rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and
his wife looked on.
20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven
from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the
altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the
ground.
21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and
to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we
he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our
hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at
this time have told us such things as these.
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and
that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the
Philistines had dominion over Israel.
5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to
him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he
told not his father or his mother what he had done.
7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased
Samson well.
8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to
see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and
honey in the carcase of the lion.
9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came
to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told
not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
10 So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made
you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast,
and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of
garments:
13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets
and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy
riddle, that we may hear it.
14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and
out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days
expound the riddle.
15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto
Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the
riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called
us to take that we have? is it not so?
16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but
hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children
of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I
have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast
lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because
she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her
people.
18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before
the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger
than a lion? and he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer,
ye had not found out my riddle.
19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down
to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave
change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his
anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had
1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest,
that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife
into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated
her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer
than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more
firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between
two tails.
5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the
standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also
the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken
his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up,
and burnt her and her father with fire.
7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I
themselves in Lehi.
10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us?
Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are
rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said
unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we
may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto
them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast,
and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they
bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against
him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords
that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his
bands loosed from off his hands.
15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand,
that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place
Ramathlehi.
18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said,
Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and
now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there
came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and
he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in
Lehi unto this day.
20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
CHAPTER 16
1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto
her.
2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And
they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the
city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day,
we shall kill him.
3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the
doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them,
bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the
top of an hill that is before Hebron.
4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the
her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what
means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him;
and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy
great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green
withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green
withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the
chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the
fire. So his strength was not known.
10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me,
and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be
bound.
11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that
said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were
liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms
like a thread.
13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me,
and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said
unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The
Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and
went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when
thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and
hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her
words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not
come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from
my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and
I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent
and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for
he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came
up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a
man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and
she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he
awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before,
and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from
him.
21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought
him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind
in the prison house.
22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was
shaven.
23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to
offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said,
Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they
said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer
of our country, which slew many of us.
25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they
said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for
Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set
him between the pillars.
26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer
me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may
lean upon them.
27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of
the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three
thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God,
remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this
once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two
eyes.
29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the
house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right
hand, and of the other with his left.
30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed
himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all
the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death
were more than they which he slew in his life.
31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down,
and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and
Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel
twenty years.
CHAPTER 17
1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest
of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his
mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to
his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the
LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten
image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took
two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made
thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house
of Micah.
5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod,
and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that
1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of
the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all
their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their
coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land,
and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when
they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of
the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him,
Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what
hast thou here?
4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me,
people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of
the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land,
that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the
Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and
have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not
slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large
land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no
want of any thing that is in the earth.
11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of
Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of
war.
12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah:
wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is
behind Kirjathjearim.
13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto
Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these
houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten
image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the
young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war,
which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and
came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the
teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of
the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of
war.
18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved
image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said
the priest unto them, What do ye?
19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy
mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for
thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest
unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the
teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the
men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered
together, and overtook the children of Dan.
23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their
faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such
a company?
24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and
the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this
that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be
heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life,
with the lives of thy household.
26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw
that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his
house.
27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest
which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and
secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the
city with fire.
28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and
they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by
Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan
their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was
Laish at the first.
30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan,
the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests
to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all
1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel,
that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim,
who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away
from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four
whole months.
3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto
her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of
asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father
of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
4 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he
abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.
5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in
the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto
his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward
go your way.
6 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together:
for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee,
and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him:
the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they
tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and
his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold,
now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold,
the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry;
and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and
departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there
were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the
servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into
this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into
the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over
to Gibeah.
13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one
and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there
was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the
the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and
whence comest thou?
18 And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah
bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young
man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
20 And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy
asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of
the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at
the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying,
Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and
said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly;
seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them
I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth
good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his
concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and
abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to
spring, they let her go.
26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down
at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of
the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his
concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were
upon the threshold.
28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none
answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up,
and gat him unto his place.
29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid
hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into
twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed
done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the
land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your
minds.
CHAPTER 20
1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was
gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the
land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel,
were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how
was this wickedness?
4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain,
answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and
my concubine, to lodge.
5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house
round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my
concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her
throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have
committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
7 Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and
counsel.
8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of
are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from
Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of
their brethren the children of Israel.
14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out
of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of
the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the
inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen
men.
16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men
lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four
hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of
God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to
the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah
shall go up first.
19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped
against Gibeah.
20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and
the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and
destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two
thousand men.
22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and
set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in
array the first day.
23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD
until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to
battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said,
Go up against him.)
24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of
day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again
eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and
came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD,
and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before the LORD.
27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of
before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against
the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD
said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people,
and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the
house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of
Israel.
32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down
before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and
draw them from the city unto the highways.
33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put
all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near
them.
35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of
Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and
an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the
men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto
the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the
liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge
of the sword.
38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and
the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up
out of the city.
39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began
to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said,
Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar
of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of
the city ascended up to heaven.
41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin
were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto
the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which
came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased
them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the
sunrising.
44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these
Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men;
and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of
them.
46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five
thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the
Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of
every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all
the cities that they came to.
CHAPTER 21
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any
even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in
and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes
of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they
had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to
Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their
brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have
sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came
not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the
camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of
of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto
them.
14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them
wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet
so they sufficed them not.
15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin?
17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be
yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of
the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of
Lebonah.
20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go
dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every
man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us
to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our
sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye
did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives,
according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and
they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and
dwelt in them.
24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every
man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every
man to his inheritance.
25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that
1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become
as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among
the provinces, how is she become tributary!
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:
among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have
dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of
great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all
her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are
afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD
hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are
gone into captivity before the enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her
princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone
without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her
people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the
adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all
that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:
yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;
therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD,
behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant
things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,
whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy
congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their
pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider;
for I am become vile.
12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the
LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth
against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back:
he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are
water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me:
my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort
her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries
should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among
them.
18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his
commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my
virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and
mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to
relieve their souls.
20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled;
mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the
sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all
mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast
done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like
unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as
thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many,
and my heart is faint.
CHAPTER 2
1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,
and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and
hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the
daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath
polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath
drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against
Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand
as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the
tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he
hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds,
and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a
garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath
caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath
despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,
he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;
they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a
solemn feast.
8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from
destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they
languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and
broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the
law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep
silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is
poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;
because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they
swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was
poured out into their mothers' bosom.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I
they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but
have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their
head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call
The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they
hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly
this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled
his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown
down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice
over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not
the apple of thine eye cease.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour
out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands
toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the
top of every street.
20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this.
Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the
priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my
virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them
in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so
that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those
that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
CHAPTER 3
1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my
bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and
travail.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
my chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret
places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath
made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath
the gall.
20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
him.
25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the
upon him.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with
reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
commandeth it not?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and
good?
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the
punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of
intermission.
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon
me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
my cry.
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
saidst, Fear not.
58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast
redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations
against me.
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their
the LORD.
CHAPTER 4
1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the
stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they
their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the
ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto
them.
5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that
greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as
in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,
they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of
sapphire:
8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the
fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children:
fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the
foundations thereof.
12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would
not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered
into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that
polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their
garments.
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart,
touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the
heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more
regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured
not the elders.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our
watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is
pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken
in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the
heathen.
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the
land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be
drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of
Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine
iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
CHAPTER 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us
of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of
Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were
not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the
wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
musick.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have
sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew
1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the
tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man
of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the
cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male
without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and
Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about
upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and
the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the
priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of
the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the
LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about
upon the altar.
12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and
the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is
upon the altar:
13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the
priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls,
and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the
side of the altar:
16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it
beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide
it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that
is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD.
CHAPTER 2
1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering
shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense
thereon:
2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take
thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the
altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
3 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his
sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven,
offering.
7 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it
things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall
bring it unto the altar.
9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial
thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
10 And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and
his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be
made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any
offering of the LORD made by fire.
12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the
LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with
salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be
lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD,
thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn
dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is
a meat offering.
16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten
corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof:
it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
CHAPTER 3
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the
priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering
made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the
fat that is upon the inwards,
4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the
flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take
away.
5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt
sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD
LORD.
8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it
made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall
he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by
the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take
away.
11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the
LORD.
13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before
the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle
the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by
fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that
is upon the inwards,
15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by
the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take
away.
16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the
offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD's.
17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all
people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young
bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the
bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood,
blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
7 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the
altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the
congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of
the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin
offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the
inwards,
9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by
the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take
away,
10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace
offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt
offering.
11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and
unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the
wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance,
and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done
somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning
things which should not be done, and are guilty;
14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then
the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him
before the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the
head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed
before the LORD.
16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood
sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar
20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a
sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an
atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn
him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through
shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in
the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin
offering.
25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his
finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall
pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the
sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for
him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
27 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance,
he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish,
for his sin which he hath sinned.
29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and
put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all
the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken
away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it
upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall
make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female
without blemish.
33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and
slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his
finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall
pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:
35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb
is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest
shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire
unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that
he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
CHAPTER 5
1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness,
whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall
bear his iniquity.
2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an
it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he
knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do
which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the
goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him
concerning his sin.
7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his
is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall
not divide it asunder:
9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side
of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of
the altar: it is a sin offering.
10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to
the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin
which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of
an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither
shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his
handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according
to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.
13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his
sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and
the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.
14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the
LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by
shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the
holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest:
and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are
thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall
make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred
and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the
LORD.
CHAPTER 6
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie
sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he
shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath
deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost
thing which he found,
5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even
restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and
give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass
offering.
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram
without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass
offering, unto the priest:
7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD:
and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in
trespassing therein.
8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the
burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the
altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in
it.
10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire
hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them
beside the altar.
11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments,
and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be
put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the
burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the
peace offerings.
13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go
out.
14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall
offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the
meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even
the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with
unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the
tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for
20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall
offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an
ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning,
and half thereof at night.
21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou
shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer
for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer
it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.
23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it
25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the
sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin
offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place
there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash
that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and
30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the
2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the
trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about
upon the altar.
3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat
flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he
take away:
5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made
for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the
priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath
offered.
9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is
dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth
it.
10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the
offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the
blood of the peace offerings.
15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not
leave any of it until the morning.
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary
offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and
on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day
eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be
imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul
that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten;
it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat
thereof.
20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him,
even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the
which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in
no wise eat of it.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be
cut off from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl
sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation
unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved
for a wave offering before the LORD.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast
peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the
children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have
given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever
from among the children of Israel.
35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing
of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day
when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;
36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of
Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout
their generations.
37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of
the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations,
and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day
that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the
LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
CHAPTER 8
2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the
anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a
basket of unleavened bread;
3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the
water.
7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and
clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded
him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the
upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle
anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to
sanctify them.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and
anointed him, to sanctify him.
13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and
girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and
his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.
15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and
poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make
reconciliation upon it.
16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul
above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it
upon the altar.
17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt
round about.
20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and
burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet
savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon
the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and
upon the great toe of his right foot.
24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon
the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and
upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood
upon the altar round about.
25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon
the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their
fat, and the right shoulder:
26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the
LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one
wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands,
the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet
savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering
before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was
upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and
upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified
Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread
that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron
and his sons shall eat it.
32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye
burn with fire.
33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the
LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD
1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his
and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the
LORD.
3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye
a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first
year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before
the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will
appear unto you.
5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and
stood before the LORD.
6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded
that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.
7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin
offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and
for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an
atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin
his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured
out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the
sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto
him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces
thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon
was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as
the first.
16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the
manner.
17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof,
and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.
18 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him
the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that
which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the
liver:
20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon
the altar:
21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave
them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt
offering, and peace offerings.
23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the
LORD appeared unto all the people.
24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed
upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people
saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
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1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his
censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange
fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and
saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the
people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the
uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from
before the sanctuary out of the camp.
5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the
his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die,
and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole
house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you.
And they did according to the word of Moses.
8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee,
Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside
the altar: for it is most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and
thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am
commanded.
14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean
place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy
due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace
offerings of the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with
the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before
the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for
ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and,
behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the
sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place,
seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the
congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place:
their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such
things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should
it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?
20 And when Moses heard that, he was content.
CHAPTER 11
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts
which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth
of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud,
but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye
eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the
rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the
waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of
the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle,
and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the
bat.
20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination
unto you.
21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth
upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the
earth;
22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the
bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the
grasshopper after his kind.
23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be
clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that
toucheth them shall be unclean.
27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of
beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth
their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes,
and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things
that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise
after his kind,
30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail,
touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth
cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such
vessel shall be unclean.
35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall
shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
37 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which
and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be
all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that
creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping
thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them,
that ye should be defiled thereby.
44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify
creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth
upon the earth:
47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and
between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be
eaten.
CHAPTER 12
circumcised.
4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three
and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the
sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two
weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her
purifying threescore and six days.
6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a
daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and
a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for
her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the
law for her that hath born a male or a female.
8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two
turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other
for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she
shall be clean.
CHAPTER 13
2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or
bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy;
then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons
the priests:
3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh:
and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight
be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the
priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be
not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then
the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if
the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin;
then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and,
behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the
skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall
wash his clothes, and be clean.
7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath
been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest
again.
8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin,
the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in
the rising;
11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall
pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy
cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his
foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have
covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it
is all turned white: he is clean.
14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be
into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague:
he is clean.
18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and
is healed,
19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright
the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs
therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then
the priest shall shut him up seven days:
22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall
bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a
leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in
the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat
dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be
spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the
skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest
shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.
29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight
deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the
head or beard.
31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it
be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it;
then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven
days:
32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and,
behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the
scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the
priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and,
behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than
the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his
clothes, and be clean.
35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be
spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black
hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall
pronounce him clean.
38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright
skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the
skin; he is clean.
40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is
he clean.
41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head
sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the
leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce
and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and
shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be
defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his
habitation be.
47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a
woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a
fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not
spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of
skin;
54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein
the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed:
and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be
not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward,
whether it be bare within or without.
56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark
after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of
the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that
wherein the plague is with fire.
58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of
skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them,
then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He
cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an
scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood
of the bird that was killed over the running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the
leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the
living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave
off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after
that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent
seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair
off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall
shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in
water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without
blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three
tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log
of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that
is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a
trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering
before the LORD:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin
offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is
the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass
offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that
is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into
hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the
LORD:
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put
upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the
thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the
blood of the trespass offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall
pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall
make an atonement for him before the LORD.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an
upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he
shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take
get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto
the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the
LORD.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and
the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before
the LORD:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest
shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the
tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left
hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil
of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the
blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put
upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for
him before the LORD.
30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young
other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make
an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose
for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of
your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest,
before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house
be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the
house:
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in
the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in
sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the
which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place
without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about,
and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into
an unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of
those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after
that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house,
and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague
timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them
forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut
plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then
the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is
healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar
running water:
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the
scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and
in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and
with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood,
and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open
fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
of leprosy.
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2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any
man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is
unclean.
3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh
run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his
uncleanness.
4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and
issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean
until the even.
7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even.
9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall
be unclean.
10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be
unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall
wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not
rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the even.
12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue,
shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or
two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him
before the LORD for his issue.
16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he
shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of
copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of
blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her
shall be unclean until the even.
20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be
unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and
he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be
unclean.
25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the
time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all
the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her
separation: she shall be unclean.
26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be
unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon
shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to
young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other
for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before
the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their
uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my
tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed
issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is
unclean.
CHAPTER 16
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of
that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the
mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the
cloud upon the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock
breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with
the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore
shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two
kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the
presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to
let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and
shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off
the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten
small, and bring it within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that
the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the
testimony, that he die not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with
his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall
he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the
people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he
did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and
before the mercy seat:
16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of
make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and
of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round
about.
19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven
times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children
of Israel.
20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place,
and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the
live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live
goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and
all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the
goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the
wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land
and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into
the holy place, and shall leave them there:
24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put
on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the
burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for
the people.
25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.
27 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin
cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your
shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for
the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the
people of the congregation.
34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an
atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he
did as the LORD commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 17
2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of
Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD hath
commanded, saying,
3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an
ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,
4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the
LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the
priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.
6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a
sweet savour unto the LORD.
7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after
whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto
them throughout their generations.
8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the
congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off
from among his people.
10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will
even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off
from among his people.
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you
upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul.
12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall
eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat
blood.
13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast
or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and
cover it with dust.
14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof:
therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no
manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever
eateth it shall be cut off.
15 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which
his iniquity.
CHAPTER 18
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the
not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you,
shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk
shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy
father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or
daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine
own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy
father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she
is thy father's near kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for
she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is
daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it
is wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover
Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith:
neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is
confusion.
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these
not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation,
nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done,
the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any
2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say
unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my
if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall
not be accepted.
8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because
he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be
cut off from among his people.
9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly
reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy
harvest.
10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather
every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and
stranger: I am the LORD your God.
11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in
righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy
people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am
the LORD.
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any
wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children
of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the
LORD.
19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender
with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither
shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid,
betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her;
she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was
not free.
21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the
the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done:
and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all
manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as
uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall
not be eaten of.
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise
yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use
the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am
the LORD.
31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after
him.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one
born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers
in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in
weight, or in measure.
36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye
have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
CHAPTER 20
among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to
defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the
man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family,
and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit
whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and
after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against
that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD
your God.
8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD
put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be
upon him.
10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife,
even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer
and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his
father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood
shall be upon them.
12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall
surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be
upon them.
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of
shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness
among you.
15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and
thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be upon them.
17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his
mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness;
it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people:
he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and
shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she
hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut
off from among their people.
19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister,
nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear
their iniquity.
20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his
uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing:
and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you
not out.
23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast
out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I
abhorred them.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will
give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I
am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and
unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make
your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living
thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as
unclean.
26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have
wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones:
their blood shall be upon them.
CHAPTER 21
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of
Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead
among his people:
2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and
for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother.
3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had
shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of
their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of
their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither
shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto
his God.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy
God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am
holy.
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing
the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose
head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the
garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his
father, or for his mother;
12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the
sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon
him: I am the LORD.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the
generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread
of his God.
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not
approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing
superfluous,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a
blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of
the holy.
23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the
children of Israel.
CHAPTER 22
2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves
from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my
holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your
generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel
hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall
be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a
running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And
whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose
seed goeth from him;
5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be
even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with
water.
7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward
and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the
and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may
child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall
eat of her father's meat: but there shall be no stranger eat thereof.
14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put
the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy
thing.
15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of
18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of
scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by
fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or
lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a
vow it shall not be accepted.
24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or
shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and
thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young
the LORD.
32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed
the LORD.
CHAPTER 23
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning
passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened
bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest
thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto
the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted
for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb
without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine
flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet
savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of
an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green
ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your
God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath,
from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye
number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two
tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven;
they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of
the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a
burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink
offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and
a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy
to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an
clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt
thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the
poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day
atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same
souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall
ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto
the LORD.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no
LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn
assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be
beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give
unto the LORD.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have
gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD
seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day
shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly
trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows
of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the
Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I
am the LORD your God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the
LORD.
CHAPTER 24
2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil
olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the
congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning
before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your
generations.
4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the
LORD continually.
5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two
be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD
holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made
by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an
Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the
Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the
Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's
name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be
shewed them.
13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that
heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation
stone him.
15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well
the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the
name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones.
And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 25
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath
unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune
sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy
vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not
reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of
rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and
for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy
stranger that sojourneth with thee.
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all
times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be
unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the
tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make
the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile
unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall
return every man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow,
neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of
thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the
possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy
of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he
shall sell unto thee:
16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price
thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the
price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he
sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear
ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye
possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem
that which his brother sold.
26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to
redeem it;
27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the
overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his
possession.
28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold
shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile:
and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may
redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he
redeem it.
30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the
house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that
bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about
sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for
the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the
children of Israel.
34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is
sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with
him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his
fathers shall he return.
42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of
44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,
shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy
bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among
you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which
they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after
you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for
ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one
over another with rigour.
47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother
that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or
sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his
is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he
may redeem himself.
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that
he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall
be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired
servant shall it be with him.
51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall
give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was
bought for.
52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he
shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again
the price of his redemption.
53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other
the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD
your God.
CHAPTER 26
1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a
standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land,
to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am
the LORD.
3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do
them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield
her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage
shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full,
and dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none
shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither
shall the sword go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you
by the sword.
8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you
shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by
the sword.
9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
new.
11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you.
12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be
my people.
13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land
of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the
bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and
cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before
your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee
when none pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will
yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I
will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of
your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and
your high ways shall be desolate.
23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will
walk contrary unto me;
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet
bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again
by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary
unto me;
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will
and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul
shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which
sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth
desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest,
and enjoy her sabbaths.
35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in
your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness
into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken
leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and
they shall fall when none pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword,
when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your
enemies.
38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your
your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they
pine away with them.
40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers,
with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they
have walked contrary unto me;
41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have
brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised
hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their
iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my
while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the
punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my
judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I
will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly,
and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their
ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the
heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the
LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the
hand of Moses.
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2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a
man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy
estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old
even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of
silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then
thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten
shekels.
6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy
estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female
thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then
thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present
himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his
ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the
LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for
a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the
exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a
sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the
priest:
12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou
LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the
priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall
add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of
reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto
the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then
he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it
shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to
was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the
the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of
his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most
holy unto the LORD.
29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be
of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.
31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add
whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the
LORD.
33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he
change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof
shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded
Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
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all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent
Theophilus,
4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein
priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the
daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the
upon him.
13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer
is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call
his name John.
14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at
his birth.
15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink
neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost,
even from his mother's womb.
16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their
God.
17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to
turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the
wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this?
in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew
thee these glad tidings.
20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the
day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my
words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he
perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto
them, and remained speechless.
23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration
highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast
and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his
not a man?
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall
come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee:
therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called
the Son of God.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a
son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called
barren.
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me
Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the
Holy Ghost:
42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou
come to me?
44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine
performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
his name.
50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to
generation.
51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the
of low degree.
53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath
56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to
shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to
circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his
father.
60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be
called John.
61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is
called.
63 And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is
sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying,
What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with
him.
67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and
prophesied, saying,
68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and
redeemed his people,
69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his
servant David;
70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been
74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the
76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for
thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission
of their sins,
78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from
Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,
into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because
he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were
accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room
for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the
the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you
into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath
made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all
the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of
the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel
before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of
Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the
consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should
not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents
brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
thy word:
30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and
for a sign which shall be spoken against;
35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the
Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with
an husband seven years from her virginity;
37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which
departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers
night and day.
38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the
Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in
Jerusalem.
39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of
the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with
passover.
42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem
Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not
of it.
44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a
day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and
acquaintance.
45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to
temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking
them questions.
47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and
answers.
48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said
unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I
have sought thee sorrowing.
49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not
51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was
subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with
1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate
being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his
brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and
Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God
saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
the Lord, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be
brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways
shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath
to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to
say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you,
That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree
therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire.
10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let
him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do
likewise.
12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him,
appointed you.
14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what
water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am
not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with
fire:
17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor,
and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with
fire unquenchable.
18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the
people.
19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his
brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that
Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove
upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my
beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being
(as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which
was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of
Joseph,
25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos,
which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the
son of Nagge,
26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias,
which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was
the son of Juda,
27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa,
which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which
was the son of Neri,
28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which
was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the
son of Er,
29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which
was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of
Levi,
30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which
was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son
of Eliakim,
31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan,
which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was
the son of David,
32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which
was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of
Naasson,
33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram,
which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was
the son of Juda,
34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which
was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son
of Nachor,
35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau,
which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the
son of Sala,
36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad,
which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son
of Lamech,
37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch,
which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was
the son of Cainan,
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which
1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was
glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I
give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me,
Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
shalt thou serve.
9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of
the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself
down from hence:
10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to
keep thee:
11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou
there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and
stood up for to read.
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it
was written,
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me
and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were
fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled
in your ears.
22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words
which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's
son?
23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb,
own country.
25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days
of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when
great famine was throughout all the land;
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city
prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things,
brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down
headlong.
30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
power.
33 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an
of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the
Holy One of God.
35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out
of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of
him, and hurt him not.
36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves,
saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth
the unclean spirits, and they come out.
37 And the fame of him went out into every place of the country
round about.
38 And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's
house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they
besought him for her.
39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and
divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every
one of them, and healed them.
41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou
art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to
speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place:
and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he
should not depart from them.
43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to
1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the
prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat
down, and taught the people out of the ship.
4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out
into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all
the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down
the net.
6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of
ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled
both the ships, so that they began to sink.
8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying,
were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from
henceforth thou shalt catch men.
11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all,
full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him,
saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be
the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded,
for a testimony unto them.
15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and
there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come
out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power
of the Lord was present to heal them.
18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with
a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before
him.
19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him
in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him
down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are
forgiven thee.
21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying,
Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God
alone?
22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said
earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee,
Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that
Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there
was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples,
33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often,
and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine
eat and drink?
34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the
away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece
of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a
rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine
will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are
preserved.
39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for
1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went
through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and
did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that
this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were
with him;
4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the
shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not
lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the
sabbath.
6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into
the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was
withered.
7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would
heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the
withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and
stood forth.
9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on
Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole
as the other.
11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with
called Zelotes,
16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also
healed.
19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went
separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out
your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward
is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the
prophets.
24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your
consolation.
25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you
use you.
29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the
other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.
30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh
likewise.
32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for
have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for
nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the
children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your
bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be
measured to you again.
39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind?
the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam
that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of
thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is
in thy brother's eye.
43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a
that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his
mouth speaketh.
46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say?
47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth
the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat
vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded
upon a rock.
49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a
foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did
beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was
great.
CHAPTER 7
1 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people,
Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly,
6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from
the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord,
trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my
roof:
7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but
soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come,
and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned
him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I
have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the
Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there
was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a
widow: and much people of the city was with her.
13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and
That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his
people.
17 And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and
19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to
Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath
sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for
another?
21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and
plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell
John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the
lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to
the poor the gospel is preached.
23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the
wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment?
Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in
kings' courts.
26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you,
before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is
not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the
kingdom of God is greater than he.
29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified
one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not
danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking
36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with
him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she
his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and
kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake
within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known
who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a
sinner.
40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to
forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou
this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my
feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the
hairs of her head.
45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in
forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same
loveth little.
48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within
themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in
peace.
CHAPTER 8
1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and
village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God:
and the twelve were with him,
2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and
the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured
it.
6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it
hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath
ears to hear, let him hear.
9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see,
and hearing they might not understand.
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil,
and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and
be saved.
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the
word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in
time of temptation fall away.
14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they
have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and
pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and
good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with
patience.
16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a
any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him
shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even
that which he seemeth to have.
19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not
brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship
with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other
side of the lake. And they launched forth.
23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm
of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master,
we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the
water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being
afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for
he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over
against Galilee.
27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a
certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither
abode in any house, but in the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and
with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of
God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the
man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with
chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil
into the wilderness.)
30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said,
mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into
them. And he suffered them.
33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine:
and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were
choked.
34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and
went and told it in the city and in the country.
35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus,
and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the
feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
36 They also which saw it told them by what means he that was
about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great
fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought
him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath
done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the
whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people
gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.
41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a
ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him
that he would come into his house:
42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and
spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and
they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press
thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that
virtue is gone out of me.
47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came
trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all
the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was
healed immediately.
48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith
synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the
Master.
50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not:
save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the
maiden.
52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is
54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called,
1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and
sick.
3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither
staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats
apiece.
4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence
depart.
5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city,
shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the
was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen
from the dead;
8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of
had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place
belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he
received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed
them that had need of healing.
12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve,
and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the
towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are
here in a desert place.
13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We
have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and
buy meat for all this people.
14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his
16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up
to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set
before the multitude.
17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of
with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and
rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be
raised the third day.
23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him
deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will
lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and
shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory,
and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall
took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered,
and Elias:
31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he
and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that
stood with him.
33 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto
kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which
they had seen.
37 And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come
teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth
from him.
40 And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.
how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare
him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and
delivered him again to his father.
43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while
they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his
disciples,
44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man
that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them
should be greatest.
47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child,
name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that
sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out
devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not
against us is for us.
51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be
he would go to Jerusalem.
54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said,
Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and
consume them, even as Elias did?
55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what
said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air
have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer
1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent
them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he
himself would come.
2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the
labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he
would send forth labourers into his harvest.
3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by
the way.
5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this
house.
6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if
as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to
house.
8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such
your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do
wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom
of God is come nigh unto you.
12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for
Sodom, than for that city.
13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in
you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment,
despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the
heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any
means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject
unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the
wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father;
for so it seemed good in thy sight.
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth
who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and
he to whom the Son will reveal him.
23 And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy
mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and
neighbour?
30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his
raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and
wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took
care of him.
35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence,
and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and
whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto
village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet,
him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to
serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art
he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as
John also taught his disciples.
2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art
in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done,
as in heaven, so in earth.
3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is
indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and
shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three
loaves;
6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have
door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and
give thee.
8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he
is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as
many as he needeth.
9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
to them that ask him?
14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to
pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people
wondered.
15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom
peace:
22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and
overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and
divideth his spoils.
23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth.
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return
unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more
wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state
of that man is worse than the first.
27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman
of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the
womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of
say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign
be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the
men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the
utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a
greater than Solomon is here.
32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this
generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of
Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret
place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come
in may see the light.
34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is
single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy
body also is full of darkness.
35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not
darkness.
36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark,
the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth
give thee light.
37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with
the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of
ravening and wickedness.
40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that
manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the
graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware
of them.
45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall
be required of this generation.
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of
in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be
proclaimed upon the housetops.
4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the
body, and after that have no more that they can do.
5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after
he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them
him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the
angels of God.
10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it
shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy
Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto
ought to say.
13 And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my
over you?
15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of
covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the
things which he possesseth.
16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a
required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast
provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich
toward God.
22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no
thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall
put on.
23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which
neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much
more are ye better than the fowls?
25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one
cubit?
26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye
and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and
to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye
of little faith?
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither
be ye of doubtful mind.
30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and
wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief
approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he
will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they
may open unto him immediately.
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh
shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and
make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third
hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have
suffered his house to be broken through.
40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an
whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their
portion of meat in due season?
43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find
so doing.
44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that
he hath.
45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his
coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat
and drink, and to be drunken;
46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not
for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder,
and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not
himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes.
48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes,
shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of
him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of
him they will ask the more.
49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be
already kindled?
50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I
the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the
mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter
in law against her mother in law.
54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of
art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest
he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and
the officer cast thee into prison.
59 I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the
1 There were present at that season some that told him of the
Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these
Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered
such things?
3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew
them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in
Jerusalem?
5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted
in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these
three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it
down; why cumbereth it the ground?
8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also,
down.
10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up
herself.
12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto
each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and
lead him away to watering?
16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom
Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on
the sabbath day?
17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were
ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were
done by him.
18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and
into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the
air lodged in the branches of it.
20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom
of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from
the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first
him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast
out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall
be perfected.
33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day
them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy
children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and
ye would not!
35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say
unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say,
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
CHAPTER 14
1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief
Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the
dropsy.
3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees,
an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath
day?
6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them.
8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in
the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of
him;
9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this
man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room;
that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up
higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at
meat with thee.
11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the
kingdom of God.
16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and
bade many:
17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were
said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and
see it: I pray thee have me excused.
19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to
come.
21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then
the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly
into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the
maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded,
hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden
wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also,
he cannot be my disciple.
27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me,
cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down
first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to
31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not
down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet
him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an
it be seasoned?
35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast
1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after
that which is lost, until he find it?
5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders,
rejoicing.
6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and
neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my
sheep which was lost.
7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one
sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which
need no repentance.
8 Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one
piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently
till she find it?
9 And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her
neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece
which I had lost.
10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the
12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the
portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together,
and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance
with riotous living.
14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that
great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell
on his neck, and kissed him.
21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against
heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and
put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be
merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is
meant.
27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath
killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his
serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet
thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy
living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I
have is thine.
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy
brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
CHAPTER 16
1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man,
which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had
wasted his goods.
2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of
Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he
said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill,
and write fourscore.
8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had
done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser
than the children of light.
9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of
unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting
habitations.
10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much:
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these
before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly
esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the
committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from
her husband committeth adultery.
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was
buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth
send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my
tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he
is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf
fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither
can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest
neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
CHAPTER 17
1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will
neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these
little ones.
3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee,
times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and
be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will
say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down
to meat?
8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may
sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and
afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were
mercy on us.
14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves
unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were
cleansed.
15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
was a Samaritan.
17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but
stranger.
19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made
thee whole.
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the
kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom
of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the
shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not
see it.
23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after
heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son
of man be in his day.
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this
generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days
marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came,
and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they
revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in
the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the
field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one
other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he
said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be
gathered together.
CHAPTER 18
1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always
7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as
his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be
merciful to me a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than
the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.
15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch
them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to
come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy
mother.
21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet
lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor,
and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very
rich.
24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How
hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for
27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are
possible with God.
28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man
that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the
kingdom of God's sake,
30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in
hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
35 And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a
me.
39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his
peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou son of David, have mercy
on me.
40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him:
2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the
and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I
must abide at thy house.
6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was
half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any
man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this
lost.
11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable,
because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the
kingdom of God should immediately appear.
12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to
pounds.
17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou
hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
18 And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five
pounds.
19 And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee,
thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up
that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at
26 For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be
given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away
from him.
27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign
Jerusalem.
29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and
Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his
disciples,
30 Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at
your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose
him, and bring him hither.
31 And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say
35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the
mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and
praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the
should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over
it,
42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day,
the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine
eyes.
43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast
a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every
side,
44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within
thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because
thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that
1 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people
in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes
came upon him with the elders,
2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou
8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do
these things.
9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man
planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far
country for a long time.
10 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that
they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen
beat him, and sent him away empty.
11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and
him out.
13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send
my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among
themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.
15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written,
The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of
the corner?
18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on
lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he
had spoken this parable against them.
20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign
themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they
might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest
and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but
teachest the way of God truly:
22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his
wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife,
31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and
and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in
marriage:
36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the
angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the
resurrection.
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush,
when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob.
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto
him.
39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast
well said.
40 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.
41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son?
42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said
45 Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,
love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues,
and the chief rooms at feasts;
47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the
treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two
mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath
God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with
which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down.
7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things
be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall
for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and
and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from
heaven.
12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and
persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons,
being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your
kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to
death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in
the countries enter thereinto.
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are
suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and
wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led
away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the
stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and
the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be
shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with
trees;
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves
be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass
away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and
so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand
before the Son of man.
37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night
he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the
1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the
Passover.
2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him;
must be killed.
8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the
10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the
city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him
into the house where he entereth in.
11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master
saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the
passover with my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there
make ready.
13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they
unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in
remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new
table.
22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe
lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called
benefactors.
26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him
unto me;
30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on
before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and
scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him
take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his
garment, and buy one.
37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be
into temptation.
47 And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was
called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto
Jesus to kiss him.
48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man
with a kiss?
49 When they which were about him saw what would follow, they
temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as
against a thief, with swords and staves?
53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no
hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high
priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and
earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also
affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a
Galilaean.
60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And
remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the
cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face,
66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief
priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council,
saying,
67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you,
69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power
of God.
70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said
1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
Galilaean.
7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's
desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things
of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered
him nothing.
10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused
him.
11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked
him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
12 And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together:
perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you,
have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse
him:
15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy
18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and
22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he
be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was
cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their
will.
26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a
Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that
he might bear it after Jesus.
27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of
women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem,
weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say,
Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps
which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to
the dry?
32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be
put to death.
33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary,
there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and
the other on the left.
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what
they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them
him vinegar,
37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
in the midst.
46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the
ghost.
47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God,
he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the
kingdom of God.
52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee,
followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and
rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they
came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared,
and certain others with them.
2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you
sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
8 And they remembered his words,
9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto
James, and other women that were with them, which told these things
unto the apostles.
11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed
them not.
12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping
unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the
things which are come to pass there in these days?
19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him,
Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were
done.
22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us
had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre,
and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all
his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded
unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he
evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread,
found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was
see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and
his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto
you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were
written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms,
concerning me.
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand
the scriptures,
46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ
49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry
joy:
53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.
Amen.
Malachi
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2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou
loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved
Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste
and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall
build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of
wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation
for ever.
5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be
the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be
pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto
us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the
LORD of hosts.
10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for
same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place
incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name
shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is
at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and
the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of
your hand? saith the LORD.
14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and
voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great
King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the
heathen.
CHAPTER 2
2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory
unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon
you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already,
because ye do not lay it to heart.
3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your
faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away
with it.
4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you,
him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in
his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away
from iniquity.
7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should
seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to
stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the
LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all
the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been
partial in the law.
10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why
the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an
offering unto the LORD of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD
with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth
not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness
between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt
treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit.
And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take
heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his
youth.
16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting
away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of
hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein
have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in
the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of
judgment?
CHAPTER 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before
me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,
even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he
shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand
when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall
purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may
offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto
witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against
false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages,
the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his
right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are
not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine
ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return
unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be
meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of
hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a
blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not
destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit
before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the
LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and
the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was
written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon
his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day
when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his
own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the
wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
CHAPTER 4
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave
them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as
calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of
hosts.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the
heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with
a curse.
Mark
CHAPTER 1
before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing
their sins.
6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a
skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after
me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and
unloose.
8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you
and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee,
Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make
19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the
son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending
their nets.
20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father
Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath
of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the
Holy One of God.
25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out
of him.
26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud
among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this?
for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do
obey him.
28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the
entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell
him of her.
31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and
immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that
34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast
out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew
him.
35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went
37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek
for thee.
38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may
down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and
44 And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy
way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things
which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze
abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into
the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from
every quarter.
CHAPTER 2
1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was
uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they
let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy,
their hearts,
7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive
forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth
thine house.
12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth
before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God,
saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude
the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and
followed him.
15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house,
many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his
disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans
and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and
drinketh with publicans and sinners?
17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole
have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and
they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the
Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber
fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the
bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken
away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment:
else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent
is made worse.
22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine
doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be
marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the
sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of
corn.
24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the
when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with
him?
26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the
high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for
the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not
1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there
forth.
4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath
days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being
grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch
forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored
whole as the other.
6 And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with
Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had
heard what great things he did, came unto him.
9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on
17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James;
Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon
the Canaanite,
19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into
an house.
20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not
stand.
25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his
house.
28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of
31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing
brethren?
34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and
1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered
unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the
sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.
2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them
in his doctrine,
3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and
and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some
an hundred.
9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the
twelve asked of him the parable.
11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery
of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things
are done in parables:
12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they
may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted,
and their sins should be forgiven them.
13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then
15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but
when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the
word that was sown in their hearts.
16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground;
who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with
gladness;
17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time:
the word,
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and
the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh
unfruitful.
20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as
hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some
sixty, and some an hundred.
21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a
was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear
shall more be given.
25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not,
from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast
all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air
may lodge under the shadow of it.
33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as
as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into
they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we
perish?
39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea,
Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye
have no faith?
41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What
manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
CHAPTER 5
1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of
the Gadarenes.
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met
and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken
in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with
thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that
thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine,
went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a
steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were
choked in the sea.
14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the
country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with
the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind:
and they were afraid.
16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was
18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been
possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to
thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee,
and hath had compassion on thee.
20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great
things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other
side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.
22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue,
point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may
be healed; and she shall live.
24 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and
thronged him.
25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she
out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my
clothes?
31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude
33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in
her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole;
seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye
this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all
out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that
were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha
cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of
the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great
astonishment.
43 And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and
1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his
and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?
And they were offended at him.
4 But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in
his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his
by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
8 And commanded them that they should take nothing for their
depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against
them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and
Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
13 And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that
and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and
therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet,
bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he
had married her.
18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have
holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and
heard him gladly.
21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his
birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of
Galilee;
22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and
danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said
unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will
for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded
his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel:
told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert
place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they
had no leisure so much as to eat.
32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and
ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together
unto him.
34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was
moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not
having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto
him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:
36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about,
and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to
eat.
37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they
say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread,
and give them to eat?
38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see.
And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies
41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he
looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them
to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among
them all.
42 And they did all eat, and were filled.
43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the
fishes.
44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand
men.
45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship,
and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the
people.
46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain
to pray.
47 And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea,
unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them,
walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
49 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it
talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not
afraid.
51 And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased:
was hardened.
53 And when they had passed over, they came into the land of
knew him,
55 And ran through that whole region round about, and began to
carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country,
they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if
it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were
made whole.
CHAPTER 7
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes,
not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold,
as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy
disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with
unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of
commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition
of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things
ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of
mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition,
defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that
defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his
Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the
man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and
man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and
Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but
he could not be hid.
25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean
spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she
besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not
meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs
came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of
Decapolis.
32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an
impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon
him.
33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers
he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all
things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
CHAPTER 8
1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat,
Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,
2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now
Seven.
6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he
took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his
disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and
them away.
10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and
generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be
given unto this generation.
13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to
have no bread.
17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye,
ye not remember?
19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many
baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets
town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he
asked him if he saw ought.
24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him
look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the
31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer
many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and
scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and
rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not
the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples
also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall
lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world,
in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man
be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy
angels.
CHAPTER 9
1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of
them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen
the kingdom of God come with power.
2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and
to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for
Moses, and one for Elias.
6 For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.
came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
8 And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no
they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man
were risen from the dead.
10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with
first come?
12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and
restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must
suffer many things, and be set at nought.
13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have
foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to
thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long
shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him,
straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed
foaming.
21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto
destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and
help us.
23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible
28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him
is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that
he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when
receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him
that sent me.
38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting
out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him,
because he followeth not us.
39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall
name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not
lose his reward.
42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe
in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he were cast into the sea.
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter
into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that
never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter
halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that
never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to
enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be
cast into hell fire:
48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall
ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
CHAPTER 10
1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the
farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he
was wont, he taught them again.
2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a
you?
4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and
female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
asunder.
10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same
matter.
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and
them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for
of such is the kingdom of God.
15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom
blessed them.
17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one
running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I
do that I may inherit eternal life?
18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is
not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy
father and mother.
20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I
thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the
poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the
cross, and follow me.
22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he
hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus
answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them
that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than
but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have
followed thee.
29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no
and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with
persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they
were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what
things should happen unto him,
33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man
shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they
shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit
upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him,
37 They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy
right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye
drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am
baptized with?
39 And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye
shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am
baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
40 But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to
they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over
them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great
45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he
cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And
they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he
calleth thee.
50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I
should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might
receive my sight.
52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee
whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the
way.
CHAPTER 11
1 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany,
you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied,
whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.
3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the
Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door
without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye,
when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide
was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was
hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he
might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing
but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee
and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that
sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel
be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of
thieves.
18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they
might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was
astonished at his doctrine.
19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall
come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye
any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in
the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the
elders,
28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things?
one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do
these things.
30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer
me.
31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say,
From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men
Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I
do these things.
CHAPTER 12
vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat,
and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far
country.
2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he
4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they
cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away
shamefully handled.
5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others;
vineyard.
9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and
destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the
12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for
they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left
him, and went their way.
13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the
that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the
person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give
tribute to Caesar, or not?
15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their
hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I
may see it.
16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this
things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they
marvelled at him.
18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no
his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take
his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and
died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife
are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the
book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye
together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him,
Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is,
all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first
commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy
truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,
and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour
as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto
him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that
durst ask him any question.
35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple,
rooms at feasts:
40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long
people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in
much.
42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two
I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they
which have cast into the treasury:
44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want
did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
CHAPTER 13
1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him,
Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great
buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple,
Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign
deceive you:
6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many.
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not
troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall
be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to
11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no
thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but
whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye
that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father
the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause
them to be put to death.
13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that
by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth
understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house,
his garment.
17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in
those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the
beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall
be.
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh
should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath
shortened the days.
21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he
elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the
uttermost part of heaven.
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet
away.
32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his
house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work,
and commanded the porter to watch.
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the
1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread:
and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by
craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the
people.
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat
and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath
throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken
of for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief
Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of
water: follow him.
14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the
house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat
the passover with my disciples?
15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and
he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you,
that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man
if he had never been born.
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake
it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it
of Olives.
27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of
me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered.
28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will
not I.
30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day,
even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will
not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and
away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter,
now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son
of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the
chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying,
Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away
safely.
45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and
51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth
cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were
assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high
priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.
55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness
against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
56 For many bare false witness against him, but their witness
saying,
58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with
hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
59 But neither so did their witness agree together.
60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus,
priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the
Blessed?
62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on
buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike
him with the palms of their hands.
66 And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of
thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood
again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and
thy speech agreeth thereto.
71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man
of whom ye speak.
72 And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the
word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt
deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
CHAPTER 15
1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with
the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and
carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he
answered nothing.
4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing?
that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the
insurrection.
8 And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he
11 But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather
then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
13 And they cried out again, Crucify him.
14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And
they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas
19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon
him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming
out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being
received it not.
24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments,
may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the
reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias
will come to take him down.
37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the
bottom.
39 And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that
he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the
Son of God.
40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was
Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses,
and Salome;
41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered
unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto
Jerusalem.
42 And now when the even was come, because it was the
preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also
waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and
craved the body of Jesus.
44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto
him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to
Joseph.
46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him
in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock,
and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld
1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might
come and anoint him.
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came
the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of
you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they
trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for
they were afraid.
9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he
appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they
them.
14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and
upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they
believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the
they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it
shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover.
19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received
working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Matthew
CHAPTER 1
1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham.
2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat
begat Asa;
8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram
begat Ozias;
9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz
begat Ezekias;
10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and
begat Eliud;
15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and
generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are
fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto
Christ are fourteen generations.
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his
mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she
was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to
make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the
LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David,
fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her
is of the Holy Ghost.
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God
with us.
24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the
Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and
he called his name JESUS.
CHAPTER 2
Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have
seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled,
the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule
my people Israel.
7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of
diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me
word again, that I may come and worship him also.
9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star,
which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over
where the young child was.
10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young
child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when
they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and
frankincense and myrrh.
12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return
appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child
and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee
word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night,
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I
called my son.
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men,
was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were
in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under,
according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
saying,
18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping,
and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be
comforted, because they are not.
19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord
into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's
life.
21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and
Judaea,
2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make his paths straight.
4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a
leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the
his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned
you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up
children unto Abraham.
10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore
every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire.
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that
and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire.
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be
baptized of him.
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee,
the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in
1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of
the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was
afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of
bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on
for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in
their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot
against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the
and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall
written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and
prophet, saying,
15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of
which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for
Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea:
for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers
of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their
father, mending their nets; and he called them.
22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed
him.
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto
him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments,
and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were
lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee,
and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from
beyond Jordan.
CHAPTER 5
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in
heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour,
hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on
a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I
one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in
the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the
same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed
not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother
reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way
with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the
judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence,
after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from
thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee:
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not
that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him
saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and
whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time,
Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine
oaths:
34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is
God's throne:
35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it
smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat,
let him have thy cloak also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him
twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of
you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:
for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth
rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not
is perfect.
CHAPTER 6
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them:
for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the
streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for
they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto
men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy
face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which
is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee
openly.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put
on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are
ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his
stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was
is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe
you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.
CHAPTER 7
then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn
again and rend you.
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good
things to them that ask him?
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in
thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from
them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a
rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon
the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the
scribes.
CHAPTER 8
1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed
him.
2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying,
shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a
testimony unto them.
5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto
grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou
shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant
shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I
say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he
cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that
followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in
Israel.
11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and
west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the
kingdom of heaven.
12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast
believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the
selfsame hour.
14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's
were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and
healed all that were sick:
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the
prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave
of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first
dead.
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord,
Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a
great calm.
27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that
Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the
tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with
thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before
the time?
30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine
feeding.
31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us
went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran
violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city,
and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the
devils.
34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when
they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
CHAPTER 9
1 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own
city.
2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on
a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son,
be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This
man blasphemeth.
4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in
your hearts?
5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say,
forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy
bed, and go unto thine house.
7 And he arose, and departed to his house.
8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God,
Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow
me. And he arose, and followed him.
10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold,
many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his
disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why
not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance.
14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and
mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come,
when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for
that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is
made worse.
17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles
break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new
wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a
blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his
garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall
be whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said,
Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the
woman was made whole from that hour.
23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the
27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him,
him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this?
They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it
unto you.
30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them,
of the devils.
35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every
sickness and every disease among the people.
36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them
power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease.
2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first,
Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of
Zebedee, and John his brother;
3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican;
not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter
ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils:
10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor
13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it
Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye
shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall
speak.
20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which
speaketh in you.
21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the
father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and
cause them to be put to death.
22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that
verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till
the Son of man be come.
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his
lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the
servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house
Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall
soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in
hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall
the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her
mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of
me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not
worthy of me.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for
cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he
shall in no wise lose his reward.
CHAPTER 11
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his
for another?
4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again
cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have
the gospel preached to them.
6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed
shaken with the wind?
8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment?
messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there
hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is
least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
hath a devil.
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold
mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in
thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the
wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his
disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to
eat.
2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy
shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which
were with him, but only for the priests?
5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the
temple.
7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And
they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they
might accuse him.
11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you,
that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will
he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is
my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew
judgment to the Gentiles.
19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice
in the streets.
20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not
22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind,
and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both
spake and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of
David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not
his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his
house.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not
be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not
be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall
be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall
not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the
tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth
good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil
things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak,
shalt be condemned.
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation,
and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas;
and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this
generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts
of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than
Solomon is here.
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state
of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this
wicked generation.
46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his
1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold,
choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou
more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away
even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see,
and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of
hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see
with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their
heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they
hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men
have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them;
and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when
the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that
heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and
bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among
didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it
tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said
unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up
harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and
bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed
in his field:
32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is
the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the
air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is
like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened.
34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and
saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have
been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house:
and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of
the tares of the field.
37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed
kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do
iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing
the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth
and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,
gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come
their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence
hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary?
and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this
prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own
house.
58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their
unbelief.
CHAPTER 14
2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen
from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in
him.
3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in
would ask.
8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me
11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel:
place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him
on foot out of the cities.
14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was
moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This
is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that
they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to
eat.
17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two
fishes.
18 He said, Bring them hither to me.
took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he
blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the
disciples to the multitude.
20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the
multitudes away.
23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a
mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there
alone.
24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves:
him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him,
saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
34 And when they were gone over, they came into the land of
Gennesaret.
35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they
sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that
were diseased;
36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his
saying,
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for
commandments of men.
10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and
understand:
11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that
parable.
16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth
and Sidon.
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts,
and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of
David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and
besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole
from that very hour.
29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of
that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them
down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:
31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb
to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see:
and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have
36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks,
and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the
multitude.
37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
and children.
39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into
1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired
red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but
can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and
there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.
And he left them, and departed.
5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had
asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some,
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father
which is in heaven.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the
elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again
the third day.
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far
thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of
God, but those that be of men.
24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will
lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his
angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall
not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
CHAPTER 17
1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother,
with him.
4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us
to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee,
and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them:
and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were
sore afraid.
7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not
afraid.
8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save
Jesus only.
9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them,
saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from
the dead.
10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes
the Baptist.
14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a
for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say
unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove;
and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son
tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus
prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings
of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then
and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when
thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take,
and give unto them for me and thee.
CHAPTER 18
1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the
of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and
become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the
receiveth me.
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be
that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and
cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed,
rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it
is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two
eyes to be cast into hell fire.
10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say
unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my
Father which is in heaven.
11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that
him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast
gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more,
he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man
and a publican.
18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be
touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my
Father which is in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there
brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but,
be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to
be made.
26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying,
Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and
saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he
sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou
wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy
from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
CHAPTER 19
1 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he
departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond
Jordan;
2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying
unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he
which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother,
and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore
hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was
not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it
mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs
of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for
the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him
receive it.
13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should
put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to
come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
15 And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what
good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder,
Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear
false witness,
19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.
20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from
hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and
come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away
the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed,
saying, Who then can be saved?
26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is
have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in
the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the
twelve tribes of Israel.
29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters,
which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he
whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did
likewise.
6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others
standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto
them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye
receive.
8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his
steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the
last unto the first.
9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour,
made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the
day.
13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no
as unto thee.
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine
few chosen.
17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart
betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall
condemn him to death,
19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge,
and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her
that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other
on the left, in thy kingdom.
22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye
able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be
baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right
hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for
whom it is prepared of my Father.
24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation
against the two brethren.
25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the
princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are
great exercise authority upon them.
26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great
him.
30 And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they
heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord,
thou son of David.
31 And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their
peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou
son of David.
32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye
1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to
Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and
straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and
bring them unto me.
3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath
meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes,
others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried,
Galilee.
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them
that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the
moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the
healed them.
15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to
the son of David; they were sore displeased,
16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus
saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
17 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he
lodged there.
18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found
nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on
thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
20 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon
have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig
tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be
thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye
shall receive.
23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the
elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By
what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this
authority?
24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one
thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do
these things.
25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men?
as a prophet.
27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said
went.
30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered
him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the
publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye
believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye,
when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which
reverence my son.
38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among
themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his
inheritance.
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew
him.
40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do
and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render
him the fruits in their seasons.
42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The
stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the
corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken
from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on
1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they
together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding
was furnished with guests.
11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a
15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might
entangle him in his talk.
16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians,
saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God
in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the
person of men.
17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute
me, ye hypocrites?
19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the
things that are God's.
22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him,
brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he
had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his
brother:
26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
27 And last of all the woman died also.
Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his
doctrine.
34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any
man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
CHAPTER 23
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and
do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay
them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with
one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make
the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi,
Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ;
Christ.
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye
make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall
swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold
of the temple, he is a debtor!
17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple
tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier
matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have
done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of
extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup
and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are
within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within
build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the
righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not
damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men,
and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them
shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to
city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of
Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and
stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered
thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall
1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples
say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that
shall not be thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto
him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall
be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man
deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be
not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not
yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you:
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth,
let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any
clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give
sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no
flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there;
believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall
shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they
shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be
gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall
from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and
then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of
man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end
of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet
things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass
away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of
of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in
what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not
have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not
made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find
so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his
goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord
delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink
1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our
for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that
were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open
to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far
country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to
18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and
five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I
have gained beside them five talents more.
21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant:
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents
beside them.
23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou
hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord,
I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown,
and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo,
servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I
have not strawed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the
abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that
which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there
angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on
the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and
thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and
clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty,
Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he
the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was
called Caiaphas,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar
among the people.
6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the
leper,
7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very
poor.
10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye
the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not
always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it
for my burial.
13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be
preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath
done, be told for a memorial of her.
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the
chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him
unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples
came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee
to eat the passover?
18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him,
The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy
house with my disciples.
19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they
21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of
man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man
if he had not been born.
25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is
brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for
vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount
of Olives.
31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of
me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of
the flock shall be scattered abroad.
32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be
and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and
saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit
indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my
Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will
be done.
43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were
heavy.
44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third
now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man
is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and
with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests
and elders of the people.
48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying,
kissed him.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come?
Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out
his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's,
and smote off his ear.
52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place:
for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall
as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with
you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might
the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and
went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought
said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether
thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto
you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of
power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken
67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others
smote him with the palms of their hands,
68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote
thee?
69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto
sayest.
71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw
him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus
of Nazareth.
72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to
Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the
Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and
wept bitterly.
CHAPTER 27
1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the
lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to
9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was
valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked
him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him,
Thou sayest.
12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he
answered nothing.
13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things
they witness against thee?
14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the
governor marvelled greatly.
15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the
them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is
called Christ?
18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto
him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have
suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that
called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they
tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the
multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to
it.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and
on our children.
26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had
29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon
his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before
him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on
the head.
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from
him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my
garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
36 And sitting down they watched him there;
37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS
three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the
cross.
41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and
elders, said,
42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of
Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him:
his teeth.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This
him.
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top
to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints
Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared
greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed
linen cloth,
60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the
rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and
departed.
61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over
third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say
unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be
worse than the first.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as
sure as ye can.
66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone,
1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of
the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the
sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the
Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from
the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as
snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead
men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye:
dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see
him: lo, I have told you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great
saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped
him.
10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren
that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came
into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were
done.
12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken
while we slept.
14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him,
doubted.
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world. Amen.
Micah
CHAPTER 1
1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of
let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will
come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys
shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured
down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the
plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the
valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and
all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof
will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they
shall return to the hire of an harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will
she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the
transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the
thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
CHAPTER 2
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when
the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their
hand.
2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses,
and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man
and his heritage.
3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I
devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall
ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament
LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him
that walketh uprightly?
8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the
robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse
from war.
9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant
houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is
polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will
prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the
prophet of this people.
12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather
the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as
the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason
of the multitude of men.
13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and
have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall
pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
CHAPTER 3
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the
from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off
them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the
pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he
will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved
themselves ill in their doings.
5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my
people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth
not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision;
and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go
down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded:
yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of
princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof
teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they
lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can
come upon us.
12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the
high places of the forest.
CHAPTER 4
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the
house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to
the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he
will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall
go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong
nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree;
and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts
hath spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we
will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I
will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast
far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion
from henceforth, even for ever.
8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of
Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall
come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy
woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt
dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be
delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine
enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let
they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn
iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many
people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their
substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
CHAPTER 5
against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to
be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which
travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return
unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the
majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now
shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come
into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise
against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the
land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the
Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our
borders.
7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as
a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not
for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the
cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy
strong holds:
12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt
out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine
hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I
1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the
foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his
people, and he will plead with Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I
thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron,
and Miriam.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted,
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal;
that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before
the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of
a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten
LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?
9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom
shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the
thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making
be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and
that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the
olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt
not drink wine.
16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house
1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as
upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his
brother with a net.
3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince
asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth
his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a
thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now
shall be their perplexity.
5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the
against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a
man's enemies are the men of his own house.
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my
against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he
will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover
her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall
behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the
from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from
sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that
dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in
Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I
shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of
their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our
God, and shall fear because of thee.
18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth
subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of
the sea.
20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham,
which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Nahum
CHAPTER 1
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he
reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all
acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the
storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the
burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the
fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are
thrown down by him.
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he
bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee,
that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut
off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for
thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform
thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut
off.
CHAPTER 2
excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred
their vine branches.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in
scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his
preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against
another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run
like the lightnings.
5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk;
they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be
prepared.
6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be
dissolved.
7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up,
and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon
their breasts.
8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away.
Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none
end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and
the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of
them all gather blackness.
11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the
young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's
whelp, and none made them afraid?
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled
for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young
lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy
messengers shall no more be heard.
CHAPTER 3
1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey
departeth not;
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels,
discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy
nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile,
flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her?
whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the
rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea,
and her wall was from the sea?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and
children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they
cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in
chains.
11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt
they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of
thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour
thy bars.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into
shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the
cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven:
grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the
sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell
in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man
gathereth them.
19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that
hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath
not thy wickedness passed continually?
Nehemiah
CHAPTER 1
the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of
Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which
were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity
there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of
Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with
fire.
4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down
and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the
God of heaven,
5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and
terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and
observe his commandments:
6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou
mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day
and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of
the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my
father's house have sinned.
7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the
them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the
heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the
place that I have chosen to set my name there.
10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast
prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear
thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him
mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
CHAPTER 2
seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I
was very sore afraid,
3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not
have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah,
unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For
how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased
the king to send me; and I set him a time.
7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be
given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me
over till I come into Judah;
8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he
may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which
appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house
that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good
hand of my God upon me.
9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them
the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and
horsemen with me.
10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a
man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither
dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem,
which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool:
but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall,
and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had
I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the
rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how
Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come,
and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon
me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said,
Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good
work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn,
and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel
against the king?
20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven,
he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye
have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 3
1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and
they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it;
even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of
Hananeel.
2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them
the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and
the bars thereof.
4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son
of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the
son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of
Baana.
5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not
Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up
the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon
the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of
the governor on this side the river.
8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the
goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the
apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of
they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars
thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.
14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the
ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the
locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of
Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set
up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall
of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go
down from the city of David.
16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the
half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David,
and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto
him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.
18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the
Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the
turning of the wall.
20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other
piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib
the high priest.
21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz
another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of
the house of Eliashib.
22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the
corner.
25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and
the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court
of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over
against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the
great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over
house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the
keeper of the east gate.
30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun
the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the
son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place
of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad,
and to the going up of the corner.
32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate
1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall,
he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and
said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they
sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out
of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that
which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach
upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out
from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the
builders.
6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the
Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls
of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped,
then they were very wroth,
8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against
decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the
wall.
11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till
we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to
cease.
12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them
came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return
unto us they will be upon you.
13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the
higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords,
their spears, and their bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the
rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember
the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your
sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known
unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned
all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my
servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the
spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers
were behind all the house of Judah.
17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with
those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work,
and with the other hand held a weapon.
18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and
the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the
wall, one far from another.
20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort
ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears
with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a
guard to us, and labour on the day.
23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of
the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that
every one put them off for washing.
CHAPTER 5
1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their
many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands,
vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the
their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters
to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage
already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our
lands and vineyards.
6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the
rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I
set a great assembly against them.
8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our
brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even
sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their
peace, and found nothing to answer.
9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the
fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of
them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their
vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of
the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of
them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an
oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man
from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise,
even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said,
Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this
promise.
14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor
in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and
thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my
brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
15 But the former governors that had been before me were
chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine,
beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the
people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we
any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the
Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the
heathen that are about us.
18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six
choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days
store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the
governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have
1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the
Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall,
and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not
set up the doors upon the gates;)
2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us
meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they
thought to do me mischief.
3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great
work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I
leave it, and come down to you?
4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered
Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause
thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these
words.
7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at
thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be
weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God,
strengthen my hands.
10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of
Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us
meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the
doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will
they come to slay thee.
11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that,
being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he
pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired
him.
13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and
sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might
reproach me.
14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to
these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the
prophets, that would have put me in fear.
15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month
and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much
cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was
wrought of our God.
17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters
the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had
taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my
words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
CHAPTER 7
1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the
doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the
palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared
God above many.
3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened
until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and
bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one
in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
4 Now the city was large and great: but the people were few
and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by
genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came
up at the first, and found written therein,
6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the
two.
9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
two.
18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
and eight.
27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and
four.
35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and
one.
38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
Shalmai,
49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of
Gahar,
50 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of
Nekoda,
51 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of
Phaseah,
52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of
Nephishesim,
53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of
Harhur,
54 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of
Harsha,
55 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of
Tamah,
56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
Giddel,
59 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of
Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their
father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of
the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the
Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
64 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by
genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from
the priesthood.
65 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the
most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
66 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand
were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two
hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two
hundred forty and five:
69 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven
work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred
pound of silver.
72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand
drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and
seven priests' garments.
73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers,
and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their
cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in
their cities.
CHAPTER 8
1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the
street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the
scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had
commanded to Israel.
2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both
of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the
first day of the seventh month.
3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water
gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and
those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive
unto the book of the law.
4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had
made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and
Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on
his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and
Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he
was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood
up:
6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people
answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their
heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub,
scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people,
This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all
the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the
sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for
this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the
LORD is your strength.
11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for
send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the
words that were declared unto them.
13 And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the
fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the
scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had
in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches,
and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and
branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made
themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their
courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the
water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of
the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of
Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done
so. And there was very great gladness.
18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in
the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on
the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
CHAPTER 9
1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel
were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers,
and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law
of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part
they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani,
heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are
therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all;
and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and
broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name
of Abraham;
8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a
covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to
give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art
righteous:
9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest
servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they
dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this
day.
11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went
through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou
threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in
the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they
should go.
13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with
them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good
statutes and commandments:
14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and
broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and
promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou
hadst sworn to give them.
16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their
thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion
appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready
to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and forsookest them not.
18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is
thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great
provocations;
19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the
wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead
them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and
the way wherein they should go.
20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and
withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for
their thirst.
21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so
that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet
swelled not.
22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst
divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the
land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and
broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to
their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou
subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and
gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land,
that they might do with them as they would.
25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed
houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit
trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and
delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified
against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies,
who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto
thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold
mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of
their enemies.
28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore
leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the
dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou
heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them
according to thy mercies;
29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again
unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy
commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do,
he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their
neck, and would not hear.
30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against
them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore
gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly
consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful
God.
32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible
God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little
before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and
on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy
people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast
kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy
testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great
goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou
gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
36 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou
gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
behold, we are servants in it:
37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set
over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies,
and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it;
1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of
Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the
Bani,
15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters,
the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves
from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons,
and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having
understanding;
29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a
curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses
the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the
LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the
sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or
on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the
exaction of every debt.
32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with
the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for
the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the
set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an
atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the
people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after
the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon
the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
35 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all
fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
36 Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in
the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the
house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:
37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our
offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the
priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our
ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all
the cities of our tillage.
38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when
the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes
unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.
39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the
offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers,
where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and
the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our
God.
CHAPTER 11
1 And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people
also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and
nine parts to dwell in other cities.
2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered
but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities,
to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the
children of Solomon's servants.
4 And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of
Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the
son of Shiloni.
6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred
the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of
Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.
8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
9 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son
hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of
Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the
son of Malchiah.
13 And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two:
and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of
Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
14 And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and
eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.
15 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of
four.
19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that
the Nethinims.
22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son
of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of
the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of
God.
23 For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a
certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah
the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the
people.
25 And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of
Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and
in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,
26 And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet,
thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from
Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash,
1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel
7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests
Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his
brethren.
9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them
in the watches.
10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers:
Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign
of Darius the Persian.
23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the
book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of
Eliashib.
24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua
the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to
give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God,
ward over against ward.
25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon,
Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of
Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the
priest, the scribe.
27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the
Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the
dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with
cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both
out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of
Netophathi;
29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and
Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about
Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified
the people, and the gates, and the wall.
31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and
appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one
went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son
of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:
36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai,
Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the
man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
37 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they
went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall,
above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over
against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall,
from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate,
and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of
Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the
house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah,
Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang
loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God
had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children
rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the
treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather
into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the
priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites
that waited.
45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God,
Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his
portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites
sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
CHAPTER 13
1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the
people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the
Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with
water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them:
howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they
they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the
tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be
given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of
the priests.
6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and
thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and
after certain days obtained I leave of the king:
7 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib
did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of
God.
8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household
brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering
and the frankincense.
10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been
given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled
every one to his field.
11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of
God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine
and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was
Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted
faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my
good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices
thereof.
15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the
manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and
in Jerusalem.
17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them,
What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil
upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by
profaning the sabbath.
19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to
be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut,
and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and
some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be
brought in on the sabbath day.
20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without
about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time
forth came they no more on the sabbath.
22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse
themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify
the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and
spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod,
not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each
people.
25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain
of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying,
Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters
unto your sons, or for yourselves.
26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among
many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God,
and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did
outlandish women cause to sin.
27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to
priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him
from me.
29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the
wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
31 And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the
after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their
names, every male by their polls;
3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to
war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head
day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
wilderness of Sinai.
20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their
families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them,
according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon,
by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad,
by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan,
by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
41 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher,
numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for
the house of his fathers.
45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel,
by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that
were able to go forth to war in Israel;
46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand
among them.
48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the
testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong
to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they
shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it
down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it
up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his
own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children
of Issachar.
6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty
thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred,
throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben
according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall
be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty
thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty,
throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with
the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so
shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be
Elishama the son of Ammihud.
19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai.
26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
27 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and
the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They
shall go hindmost with their standards.
32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel
by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps
throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand
and five hundred and fifty.
33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel;
1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the
strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no
children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the
sight of Aaron their father.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the
on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to
death.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children
of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the
children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in
Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
saying,
15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by
their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou
number them.
16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD,
as he was commanded.
17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and
These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their
fathers.
21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the
all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were
numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle
westward.
24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall
be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the
congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof,
and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the
court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the
cords of it for all the service thereof.
27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family
of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the
Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary.
29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the
tabernacle southward.
30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the
candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith
they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the
chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge
of the sanctuary.
33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the
of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and
two hundred.
35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari
was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the
tabernacle northward.
36 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be
the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof,
and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth
thereto,
37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and
males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the
number of their names.
41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead
of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the
Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of
Israel.
42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the
month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were
twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of
Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites
shall be mine: I am the LORD.
46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and
threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are
more than the Levites;
47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the
shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty
gerahs:)
48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of
thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel
of the sanctuary:
51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto
Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
CHAPTER 4
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi,
enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle
sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of
testimony with it:
6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall
spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of
blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and
covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the
same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves
thereof.
9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of
the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil
vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering
cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves
thereof:
12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith
they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover
them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:
13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a
minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and
the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a
covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.
15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering
the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set
forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall
not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the
sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat
offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and
of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
17 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying,
18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from
they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in,
and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered,
number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve,
the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round
about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that
is made for them: so shall they serve.
27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service
of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their
service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.
28 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the
tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand
of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their
thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the
work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their
numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the
house of their fathers,
35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every
one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the
congregation:
36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were
one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the
congregation,
40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their
families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six
hundred and thirty.
41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of
one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the
congregation,
44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families,
Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the
house of their fathers,
47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every
one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the
burden in the tabernacle of the congregation.
48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand
numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and
according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
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2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp
every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled
by the dead:
3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye
put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the
camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and
that person be guilty;
7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he
shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it
the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath
trespassed.
8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass
unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest;
beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made
for him.
9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel,
12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of
her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no
witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of
his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him,
and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall
bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he
shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering
of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of
the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put
it into the water:
18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and
uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her
hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his
hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the
woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to
uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this
bitter water that causeth the curse:
20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband,
and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine
husband:
21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing,
and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse
and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to
rot, and thy belly to swell;
22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to
make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say,
Amen, amen.
23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into
her, and become bitter.
25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it
upon the altar:
26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the
memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause
the woman to drink the water.
27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall
come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her
husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and
become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the
woman shall be a curse among her people.
28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be
jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the
priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either
come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth
himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair
of his head grow.
6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall
for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration
of his God is upon his head.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the
head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his
cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young
for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by
the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his
separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering:
but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was
defiled.
13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of
the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of
the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without
blemish for peace offerings,
15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled
with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat
offering, and their drink offerings.
16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer
the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also
his meat offering, and his drink offering.
18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the
head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of
the peace offerings.
19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and
one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and
shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his
separation is shaven:
20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the
LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave
shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his
offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall
get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of
his separation.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto
thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
peace.
27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will
bless them.
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1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the
tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments
thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them,
and sanctified them;
2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers,
who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were
numbered, offered:
3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered
wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each
one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
the Levites.
7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon,
according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron
the priest.
9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service
of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon
their shoulders.
10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that
it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering,
an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the
son of Amminadab.
18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of
was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel
the son of Zuar.
24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of
Zebulun, did offer:
25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meat offering:
26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son
of Helon.
30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the
son of Shedeur.
36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meat offering:
38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel
the son of Zurishaddai.
42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the
son of Deuel.
48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meat offering:
50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the
son of Ammihud.
54 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince
and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering:
56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the
son of Pedahzur.
60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meat offering:
62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the
son of Gideoni.
66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meat offering:
68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the
son of Ammishaddai.
72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meat offering:
74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the
son of Ocran.
78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children
of Naphtali, offered:
79 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for
a meat offering:
80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five
he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son
of Enan.
84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was
each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four
hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten
shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the
spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams
twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the
kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were
twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of
the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was
anointed.
89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the
congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking
unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from
between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
CHAPTER 8
2 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the
lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the
shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto
the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the
candlestick.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse
them.
7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle
water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let
them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even
fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a
sin offering.
9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of
Israel together:
10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the
of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the
bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a
burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his
tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer
them for an offering.
16 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of
Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn
of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man
and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I
sanctified them for myself.
18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of
Israel.
19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons
of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded
Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes;
and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron
made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the
tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the
LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto
them.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five
years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt,
saying,
2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed
season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his
appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the
ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should
month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body
of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they
came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of
a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of
the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the
of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth
to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his
people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed
season, that man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the
covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even
there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the
morning.
16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the
that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud
abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel
then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed
not.
20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the
at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge
of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
CHAPTER 10
make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly,
and for the journeying of the camps.
3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall
shall go forward.
6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie
on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for
their journeys.
7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall
and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your
generations.
9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that
oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye
shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved
from your enemies.
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and
in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over
your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that
they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your
God.
11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in
the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of
the testimony.
12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the
wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment
Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son
of Amminadab.
15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was
to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was
forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the
son of Ammihud.
23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was
which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over
his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel
Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the
LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee
good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own
goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days'
journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the
three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
34 And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they
Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that
hate thee flee before thee.
36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many
thousands of Israel.
CHAPTER 11
1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the
LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt
among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the
camp.
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto
the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to
eat?
5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlick:
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this
mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it:
and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell
upon it.
10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families,
every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled
greatly; Moses also was displeased.
11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted
thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou
layest the burden of all this people upon me?
12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that
thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father
beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their
fathers?
13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they
I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of
the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people,
and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the
congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of
the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall
bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself
alone.
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to
morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD,
saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt:
therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten
be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which
is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out
of Egypt?
21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six
hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that
they may eat a whole month.
22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?
or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice
them?
23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed
short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee
or not.
24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the
LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set
them round about the tabernacle.
25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and
took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders:
and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they
prophesied, and did not cease.
26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the
one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested
upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out
unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad
that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put
his spirit upon them!
30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails
from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on
this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about
the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all
the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least
gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves
round about the camp.
33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was
chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the
LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because
1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian
hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which
unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation.
And they three came out.
5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in
the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both
came forth.
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among
you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will
speak unto him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in
departed.
10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold,
Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam,
and, behold, she was leprous.
11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay
not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we
have sinned.
12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed
beseech thee.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her
face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from
the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the
2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I
give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send
a man, every one a ruler among them.
3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from
the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of
Israel.
4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua
16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out
the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said
unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
18 And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein,
whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or
bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in
strong holds;
20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be
wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of
the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron
was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from
thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two
upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit
of it.
28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the
cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of
Anak there.
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites,
and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the
Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go
up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up
searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we
have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof;
and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people
the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not
better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us
which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,
the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them,
and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the
it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have
heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen
face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest
before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by
night.
15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations
land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the
wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great,
unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people,
from Egypt even until now.
20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of
the LORD.
22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted
me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their
and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he
went; and his seed shall possess it.
25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.)
Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the
Red sea.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur
against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which
they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have
numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old
and upward which have murmured against me.
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I
sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and
Joshua the son of Nun.
31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I
bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and
which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and
top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place
which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the
and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the
LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the
camp.
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which
dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto
Hormah.
CHAPTER 15
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be
come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering,
meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin
of oil.
5 And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou
lamb, or a kid.
12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to
also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in
your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger
18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and
henceforward among your generations;
24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the
knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one
young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD,
with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner,
and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation
Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the
people were in ignorance.
27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she
both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger
that sojourneth among them.
30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be
born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that
soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath
broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity
shall be upon him.
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make
and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and
that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye
use to go a whoring:
40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be
1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and
Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of
Reuben, took men:
2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of
Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the
congregation, men of renown:
3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing
all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among
them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the
LORD?
4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even
to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will
cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he
cause to come near unto him.
6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to
morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he
shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath
together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against
him?
12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab:
floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make
thyself altogether a prince over us?
14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with
milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou
put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect
not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I
hurt one of them.
16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before
bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty
censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and
laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation with Moses and Aaron.
19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD
appeared unto all the congregation.
20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the
congregation?
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the
from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye
be consumed in all their sins.
27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in
the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little
children.
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent
me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be
visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her
mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they
go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have
provoked the LORD.
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all
these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and
their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their
goods.
33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the
pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the
congregation.
34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them:
37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up
the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they
are hallowed.
38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them
make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them
before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign
unto the children of Israel.
39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they
that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a
covering of the altar:
40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger,
which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the
LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said
to him by the hand of Moses.
41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the
people of the LORD.
42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered
against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle
of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of
the LORD appeared.
43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
congregation.
44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the
congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone
out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of
the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people:
and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague
was stayed.
49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a
rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according
to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name
upon his rod.
3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one
choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings
of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of
their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to
their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among
their rods.
7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of
witness.
8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the
tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi
was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded
almonds.
9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto
all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before
the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt
quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's
house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy
sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father,
bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto
thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle
of witness.
3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary
and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the
tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a
stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of
the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among
the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do
the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's
office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I
have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the
stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee
the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the
children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing,
and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire:
every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin
offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall
render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it
offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy
sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that
is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the
wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them
have I given thee.
13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring
unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall
eat of it.
14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring
redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling
of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their
blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire,
for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as
the right shoulder are thine.
19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of
Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy
daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever
before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no
inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I
am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in
Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the
congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for
ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they
have no inheritance.
24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an
heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit:
therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall
have no inheritance.
25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take
of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for
your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the
LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as
though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the
winepress.
28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all
your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give
thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the
LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the
best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the
increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it
from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children
of Israel, lest ye die.
CHAPTER 19
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and
flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest
shall be unclean until the even.
8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and
bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer,
and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for
the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a
purification for sin.
10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of
Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for
ever.
11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days.
12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the
seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day,
then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead,
and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that
soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not
sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon
him.
14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the
tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is
unclean.
16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the
burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto
in a vessel:
18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water,
and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the
persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain,
or one dead, or a grave:
19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the
third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify
himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be
clean at even.
20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself,
that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath
defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been
sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that
sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that
toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean;
1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the
desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and
Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered
God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon
their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and
Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it
shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of
the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he
commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together
before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we
fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock
twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank,
and their beasts also.
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye
Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath
befallen us:
15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in
Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent
an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in
Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass
through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the
water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the
right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come
way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will
only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.
20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out
into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye
rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount
Hor:
26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his
son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into
Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses
and Eleazar came down from the mount.
29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they
mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
CHAPTER 21
1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell
that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel,
and took some of them prisoners.
2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt
indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their
cities.
3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up
the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he
called the name of the place Hormah.
4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to
compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much
discouraged because of the way.
5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses,
for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the
LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for
the people.
8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and
set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten,
when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and
it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the
serpent of brass, he lived.
10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the
Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the
Amorites.
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What
LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give
them water.
17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it,
by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness
they went to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
saying,
22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or
into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will
go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but
Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into
the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed
his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for
the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of
had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of
his hand, even unto Arnon.
27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon,
Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of
Arnon.
29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he
hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto
Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon,
and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto
Medeba.
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages
king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle
at Edrei.
34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have
delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou
shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt
at Heshbon.
35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there
was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
CHAPTER 22
1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab
Amorites.
3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were
lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the
field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to
Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to
call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold,
they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they
are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite
them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom
thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with
the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and
spake unto him the words of Balak.
8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you
word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab
abode with Balaam.
9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with
thee?
10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the
face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able
to overcome them, and drive them out.
12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou
Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to
go with you.
14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and
than they.
16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the
son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do
whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me
this people.
18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If
Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond
the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I
men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which
I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and
went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a
unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote
her again.
26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow
place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down
under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass
with a staff.
28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto
Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these
three times?
29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I
would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which
thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to
do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the
angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand:
and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou
smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee,
because thy way is perverse before me:
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times:
unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and
saved her alive.
34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for
I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it
displease thee, I will get me back again.
35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men:
but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So
Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to
meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in
the utmost coast.
37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee
to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to
promote thee to honour?
38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I
now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my
mouth, that shall I speak.
39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to
brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the
utmost part of the people.
CHAPTER 23
1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare
will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever
he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared
seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return
hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,
Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I
him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among
the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth
part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end
be like his!
11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I
took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them
altogether.
12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that
another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but
the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them
from thence.
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,
and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I
offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him,
What hath the LORD spoken?
18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear;
he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken,
and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath
perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a
king is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength
of an unicorn.
23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there
any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of
Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up
himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and
drink the blood of the slain.
25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all.
26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee,
unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest
curse me them from thence.
28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh
toward Jeshimon.
29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he
went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face
toward the wilderness.
2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his
tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the
vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as
cedar trees beside the waters.
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be
in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom
shall be exalted.
8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall
break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall
stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that
curseth thee.
10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote
his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse
mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these
three times.
11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee
unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy
advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the
knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling
into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh:
there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of
Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of
Sheth.
18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a
said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that
he perish for ever.
21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said,
Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and
and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger
of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his
his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of
all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin
in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both
of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So
the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath
turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous
for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my
jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant
with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief
house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was
Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief
house in Midian.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled
you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a
prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for
Peor's sake.
CHAPTER 26
1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses
twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are
able to go to war in Israel.
3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains
as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went
forth out of the land of Egypt.
5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch,
of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the
Palluites:
6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of
the Carmites.
7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were
numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and
thirty.
8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is
that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who
strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when
they strove against the LORD:
10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up
together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire
devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family
of the Jachinites:
13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the
Shaulites.
14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two
the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family
of the Shunites:
16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
Arelites.
18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to those
the Shimronites.
25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were
the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of
the Jahleelites.
27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that
and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.
30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the
and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah,
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
34 These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were
Eranites.
37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those
that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred.
These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of
the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family
of the Ahiramites:
39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the
were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the
family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their
families.
43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were
numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
44 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family
of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of
the Beriites.
45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of
that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four
hundred.
48 Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family
Shillemites.
50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families:
and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and
four hundred.
51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred
shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given
according to those that were numbered of him.
55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the
the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the
Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of
Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram
Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire
thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not
numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no
inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in
the wilderness of Sinai.
65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the
wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
CHAPTER 27
1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, saying,
3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company
die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his
daughter.
9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance
Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy
16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over
the congregation,
17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before
them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that
the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of
Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word
shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the
children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took
Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation:
23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the
and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me,
shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire
which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without
spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb
the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be
poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering
of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a
sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot,
and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the
drink offering thereof:
10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual
offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs
of the first year without spot;
12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with
oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering,
mingled with oil, for one ram;
13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice
made by fire unto the LORD.
14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a
bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin
unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the
months of the year.
15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall
be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of
the LORD.
17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days
the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first
year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three
tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout
the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink
offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye
offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the
LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;
28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals
31 Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his
meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink
offerings.
CHAPTER 29
1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have
LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year
without blemish:
3 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three
tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,
4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement
for you:
6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and
the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings,
according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire
unto the LORD.
7 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy
convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work
therein:
8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet
savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year;
they shall be unto you without blemish:
9 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three
11 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of
atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it,
and their drink offerings.
12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an
sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and
fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
14 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three
tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to
each ram of the two rams,
15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
16 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual
for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after
the manner:
19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.
20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs
for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after
the manner:
22 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the
manner:
25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual
for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after
the manner:
28 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after
the manner:
31 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after
the manner:
34 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the
manner:
38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts,
beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and
for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace
offerings.
40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the
1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children
of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his
soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all
that proceedeth out of his mouth.
3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a
bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her; then all her
vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul
shall stand.
5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of
her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall
stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered
that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she
bound her soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it;
then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered
with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the
LORD shall forgive her.
9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith
heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her
vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband
hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon
her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that
he heard them.
15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard
between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being
yet in her youth in her father's house.
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yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and
avenge the LORD of Midian.
4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall
and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy
instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD
were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five
kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives,
and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their
flocks, and all their goods.
10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their
beasts.
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto
Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children
of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near
Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from
the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both
yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all
the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded
Moses;
22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the
lead,
23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through
the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the
water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go
through the water.
24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall
26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of
beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the
congregation:
27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the
war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
28 And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went
out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the
beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an
fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all
manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge
of the tabernacle of the LORD.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war
had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five
thousand sheep,
33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had
was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand
and five hundred sheep:
37 And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and
threescore and fifteen.
38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the
hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five
hundred sheep,
44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which
kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the
the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one
man of us.
50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every
man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings,
and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all
wrought jewels.
52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD,
54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains
1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great
multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of
Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake
unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the
congregation, saying,
3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over
Jordan.
6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of
from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to
land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should
not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
10 And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he
sware, saying,
11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty
years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the
them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that
had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase
of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in
here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of
Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones
shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel
shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this
land shall be your possession before the LORD.
23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the
Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children
of Israel:
29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to
battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then
ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of
Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may
be ours.
33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to
the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even
the cities of the country round about.
34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Kirjathaim,
38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and
Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead,
and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and
he dwelt therein.
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns
1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of
the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by
the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according
to their goings out.
3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the
children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the
Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had
smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed
judgments.
5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in
Succoth.
6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is
the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in
the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim
were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and
they pitched there.
10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the
wilderness of Sin.
12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and
encamped in Dophkah.
13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
of Sinai.
16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at
Kibrothhattaavah.
17 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at
Hazeroth.
18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of
the fifth month.
39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old
border of Moab.
45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibongad.
you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images,
and quite pluck down all their high places:
53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell
families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the
fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be
in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye
shall inherit.
55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before
you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them
shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in
the land wherein ye dwell.
56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I
come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for
an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along
by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast
of the salt sea eastward:
4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of
Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from
the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on
to Azmon:
5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river
Shepham:
11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the
east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the
side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it
shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof
round about.
13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the
land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give
unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of
their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house
of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of
Manasseh have received their inheritance:
15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance
17 These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto
inheritance.
19 And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah,
Ammihud.
21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son
of Jogli.
23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children
son of Azzan.
27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the
son of Shelomi.
28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near
Jericho, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of
the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give
also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them
shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the
Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand
cubits round about.
5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two
thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the
west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand
cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs
of the cities.
6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there
shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer,
that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
7 So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty
the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but
from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his
cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you;
that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger;
that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in
judgment.
13 And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for
refuge.
14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities
and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one
that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he
may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he
he die;
21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote
and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought
his harm:
24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the
the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city
of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death
of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the
of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be
guilty of blood:
28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until
the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the
slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you
the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any
person to cause him to die.
31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer,
his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death
of the priest.
33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it
defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is
shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I
1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came
near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers
of the children of Israel:
2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land
their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they
are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the
word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
6 This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the
tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to
the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of
the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of
her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance
of his fathers.
9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another
tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep
himself to his own inheritance.
10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
Zelophehad:
11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the
family of their father.
13 These are the commandments and the judgments, which the
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We
have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among
the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
greatly despised.
3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in
the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart,
Who shall bring me down to the ground?
4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy
nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!)
would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers
came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden
border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and
prevailed against thee; that they eat thy bread have laid a wound under
thee: there is none understanding in him.
8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise
the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced
over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither
shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in
the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their
affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their
substance in the day of their calamity;
14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off
those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up
those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou
hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine
own head.
16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the
heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow
down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be
a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them,
and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of
Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they
of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim,
and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall
possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of
Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of
Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord
my bonds:
11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to
specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in
the Lord?
17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
account;
19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I
do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my
25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
Philippians
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1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in
Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with
joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have
which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of
the gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in
bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some
the gospel.
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or
in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your
nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now
also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by
death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I
Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of
your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving
together for the faith of the gospel;
28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an
be in me.
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things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his
good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you,
state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he
him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon
sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him
such in reputation:
30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and
man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of
the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss
of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which
is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth
unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in
Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if
in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by
even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose
unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even
to subdue all things unto himself.
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laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my
fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if
there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and
heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of
with my affliction.
15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the
necessity.
17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to
your account.
18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of
Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet
smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with
me greet you.
22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's
household.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Proverbs
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equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and
discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of
of thy mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk
spoil:
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from
their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their
own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh
reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear
cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction
cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall
the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled
with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be
with thee;
2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart
to understanding;
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for
understanding;
4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid
treasures;
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the
knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh
saints.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and
12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that
darkness;
14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the
wicked;
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the
paths of life.
20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the
remain in it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to
thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck;
own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from
evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all
thine increase:
10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall
understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of
and honour.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are
peace.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is
and discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not
stumble.
24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie
securely by thee.
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no
harm.
31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
lowly.
35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of
fools.
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3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of
my mother.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my
paths.
12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when
thy life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of
evil men.
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their
violence.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more
they stumble.
20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of
thine heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their
flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of
life.
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far
from thee.
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight
before thee.
26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from
evil.
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knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the
words of my mouth.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her
house:
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the
cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the
house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are
consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised
reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined
assembly.
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of
the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy
youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts
satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
he shall go astray.
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1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand
with a stranger,
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with
the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird
8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the
harvest.
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of
thy sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to
sleep:
11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.
12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
soweth discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he
blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in
running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord
among brethren.
20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the
neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall
keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and
of a strange woman.
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee
of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be
burned?
28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
is hungry;
31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all
be wiped away.
34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in
thine eye.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine
heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy
kinswoman:
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the
to her house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot,
12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every
corner.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace
20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at
words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her
paths.
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men
death.
CHAPTER 8
1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of
the paths.
3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at
the doors.
4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing
inventions.
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and
strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find
me.
18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and
righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue
judgment:
21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I
works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the
earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there
forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the
LORD.
36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they
1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath
mingled.
6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
shall be increased.
12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou
nothing.
14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
shall rot.
8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool
shall fall.
9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth
shall fall.
11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence
to sin.
17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that
refuseth reproof erreth.
18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a
slander, is a fool.
19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that
is little worth.
21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of
wisdom.
22 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
hath wisdom.
24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of
delight.
2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is
wisdom.
3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness
from death.
5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the
in his stead.
9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through
without discretion.
23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of
souls is wise.
31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much
brutish.
2 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked
shame.
17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false
witness deceit.
18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the
proclaimeth foolishness.
24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be
under tribute.
25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word
maketh it glad.
26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way
1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not
rebuke.
2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the
cometh to shame.
6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but
not rebuke.
9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked
wisdom.
11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that
of death.
15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors
is hard.
16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth
ambassador is health.
18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but
repayed.
22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and
1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down
of fools is deceit.
9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is
favour.
10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not
is heaviness.
14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a
good man shall be satisfied from himself.
15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh
and is confident.
17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked
devices is hated.
18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with
knowledge.
19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the
righteous.
20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath
many friends.
21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy
penury.
24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools
is folly.
25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh
lies.
26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children
snares of death.
28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of
the bones.
31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that
people.
35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is
against him that causeth shame.
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1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of
the good.
4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is
reproof is prudent.
6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the
trouble therewith.
17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger
appeaseth strife.
19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the
mother.
21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of
beneath.
25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will
the righteous.
30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report
honour is humility.
CHAPTER 16
1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is
established.
4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked
right.
9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
speaketh right.
14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man
will pacify it.
15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as
fall.
19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide
his lips.
24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and
of him.
27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a
burning fire.
28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief
friends.
29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the
righteousness.
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
the LORD.
CHAPTER 17
naughty tongue.
5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is
prince.
8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it:
whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that
into a fool.
11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger
in his folly.
13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his
house.
14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water:
therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,
of judgment.
24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a
bare him.
26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for
equity.
27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of
understanding is of an excellent spirit.
28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he
discover itself.
3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with
ignominy reproach.
4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the
righteous in judgment.
6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for
strokes.
7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his
soul.
8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into
waster.
10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth
honour is humility.
13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and
men.
17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour
mighty.
19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and
of the LORD.
23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is
1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in
neighbour.
5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh
friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are
wanting to him.
8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth
suffer hunger.
16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he
than a liar.
23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall
fools.
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be meddling.
4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall
after him.
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all
sin?
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
both of them.
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and
make war.
19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore
in obscure darkness.
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the
them.
27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the
1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he
sacrifice.
4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is
sin.
5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of
refuse to do judgment.
8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his
work is right.
9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
wrath.
15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the
workers of iniquity.
16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall
an angry woman.
20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the
troubles.
24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud
wrath.
25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to
labour.
26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth
LORD.
31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of
the LORD.
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all.
3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the
life.
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth
lender.
8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger
shall fail.
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his
the streets.
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred
knowledge,
21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth;
that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the
26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are
1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before
thee:
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
heaven.
6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire
thy words.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the
fatherless:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with
thee.
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of
knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him
hell.
15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the
off.
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the
way.
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that
shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my
ways.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow
pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the
transgressors among men.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who
hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of
eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet
again.
CHAPTER 24
1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
established:
4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious
strength.
6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of
gate.
8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and
pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he
know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb,
hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not
be cut off.
15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the
righteous; spoil not his resting place:
16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the
the wicked:
20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the
of them both?
23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have
27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field;
void of understanding;
31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had
covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received
instruction.
33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to
sleep:
34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as
an armed man.
CHAPTER 25
1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king
kings is unsearchable.
4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a
be established in righteousness.
6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in
thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine
eyes have seen.
8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the
secret to another:
10 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn
not away.
11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his
masters.
14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind
without rain.
15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue
a backbiting tongue.
24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a
country.
26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled
a fool.
2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
back.
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto
him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own
conceit.
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the
of fools.
8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour
to a fool.
9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in
12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of
streets.
14 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon
his bed.
15 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring
in sport?
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no
silver dross.
24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit
within him;
25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven
1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth.
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a
stranger, and not thine own lips.
3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is
before envy?
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
are deceitful.
7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every
into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a
neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer
his friend.
18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that
20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never
satisfied.
21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man
to his praise.
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with
thy herds.
24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every
generation?
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and
field.
27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food
1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a
lion.
2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but
fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in
possession.
11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath
1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be
wrath.
9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or
11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till
afterwards.
12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD
lighteneth both their eyes.
14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be
transgression.
23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the
humble in spirit.
24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth
1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake
gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment?
who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and
what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their
trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be
found a liar.
7 Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I
die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor
their mother.
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is
teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from
among men.
15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There
are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is
enough:
16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with
mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles
shall eat it.
18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a
maid.
20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth
cannot bear:
22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with
meat;
23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid
exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in
the summer;
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in
the rocks;
27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
going:
30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for
any;
31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is
no rising up.
32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast
of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth
strife.
CHAPTER 31
1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the
son of my vows?
3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which
destroyeth kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor
more.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are
appointed to destruction.
9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the
rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her
hands.
14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her
household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands
distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth
purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the
the merchant.
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in
time to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the
law of kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not
all.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth
the LORD, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he
bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and
whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind
driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
PSALM 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take
counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have
them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his
sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art
the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when
his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in
him.
PSALM 3
1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise
up against me.
2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in
God. Selah.
3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up
of mine head.
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his
people. Selah.
PSALM 4
me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?
how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for
LORD.
6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift
PSALM 5
2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto
iniquity.
6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor
mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine
cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have
rebelled against thee.
11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever
shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy
name be joyful in thee.
12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou
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displeasure.
2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal
me; for my bones are vexed.
3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
sake.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who
prayer.
10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them
PSALM 7
1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that
none to deliver.
3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my
hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I
down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage
of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast
commanded.
7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for
11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked
every day.
12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and
made it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he
made.
16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent
PSALM 8
1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever
passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
PSALM 9
1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy
marvellous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O
thy presence.
4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in
thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and
thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne
for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister
times of trouble.
10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou,
suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of
death:
14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter
forget God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of
thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know
themselves to be but men. Selah.
PSALM 10
1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times
of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue
doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to
catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
PSALM 11
your mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow
upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
PSALM 12
1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among
will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at
him.
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a
PSALM 13
1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou
heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I
salvation.
6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with
me.
PSALM 14
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they
to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there
people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the
righteous.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is
his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the
LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and
Israel shall be glad.
PSALM 15
1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
PSALM 16
2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my
their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into
my lips.
5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou
maintainest my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a
goodly heritage.
7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer,
thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth
shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept
6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up
against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of
thy wings,
9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who
compass me about.
10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak
proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy
hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their
substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
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prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God:
he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even
into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the
breath of thy nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many
waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which
my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
iniquity.
24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright
looks.
28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten
my darkness.
29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
perfect.
33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high
places.
34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by
mine arms.
35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right
hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not
known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
places.
46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my
salvation be exalted.
47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the
violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
PSALM 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the
end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto
the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the
faults.
13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them
not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be
innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
PSALM 20
1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of
Jacob defend thee;
2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of
Zion;
3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him
from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember
upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
PSALM 21
1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how
the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour
them.
10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from
make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing
PSALM 22
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver
them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee,
of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip,
mother's belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a
roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my
vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee
to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the
dog.
21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the
LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among
the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that
go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his
own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
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will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
PSALM 24
1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in
O Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
glory. Selah.
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5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my
the way.
9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
his way.
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as
great.
12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the
and afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of
my distresses.
18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me
PSALM 26
1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted
thy truth.
4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
dissemblers.
5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with
the wicked.
6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar,
O LORD:
7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all
11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be
PSALM 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is
fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I
may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the
beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the
secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round
about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will
sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon
thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my
salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will
take me up.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path,
because of mine enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the
PSALM 28
1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou
be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands;
render to them their desert.
5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the
operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
supplications.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him,
anointed.
9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and
PSALM 29
1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
strength.
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the
of majesty.
5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD
young unicorn.
7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
ever.
11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
bless his people with peace.
PSALM 30
1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made
3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast
weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
helper.
11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast
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me in thy righteousness.
2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my
art my strength.
5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O
LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered
vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side:
while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away
my life.
14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
mercies' sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee:
let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things
that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before
the sons of men!
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride
of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of
tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
PSALM 32
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,
when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they
shall not come nigh unto him.
7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they
come near unto thee.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the
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4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in
truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the
men.
14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
inhabitants of the earth.
15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
famine.
20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his
holy name.
22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in
thee.
PSALM 34
1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my
mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear
4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all
my fears.
5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were
not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him
trusteth in him.
9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that
fear him.
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek
the LORD.
12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall
be desolate.
22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of
PSALM 35
1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my
hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
persecute them.
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which
he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.
10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which
deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and
the needy from him that spoileth him?
11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I
knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I
humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own
bosom.
14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I
together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and
I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
their teeth.
17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that
magnify themselves against me.
27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
found to be hateful.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy
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green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land,
bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise
to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD,
coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright
conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall
be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of
many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
upholdeth the righteous.
18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they
consume away.
21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints;
they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
talketh of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him
when he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to
inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the
deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
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long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no
soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from
thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine
seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day
long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that
no reproofs.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me:
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that
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1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will
age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is
altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou
makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is
vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy
be no more.
PSALM 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my
cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned
up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more
than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of
me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they
are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to
help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after
my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that
wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
PSALM 41
1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in
time of trouble.
2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be
blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his
enemies.
3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou
perish?
6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart
devise my hurt.
8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he
PSALM 42
1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after
thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come
in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his
countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the
hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy
and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of
my life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go
within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health
of my countenance, and my God.
PSALM 43
within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my
countenance, and my God.
PSALM 44
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what
them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm,
and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name
7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
Selah.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth
heart.
22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted
ever.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and
our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto
the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
PSALM 45
thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible
things.
5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.
8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the
virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall
therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
PSALM 46
Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath
Selah.
PSALM 47
1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of
triumph.
2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the
earth.
3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
feet.
4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob
trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
sing praises.
7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
understanding.
8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his
holiness.
9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people
of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he
is greatly exalted.
PSALM 48
1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in
5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and
hasted away.
6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in
travail.
7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy
temple.
10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell
PSALM 49
1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
shall be of understanding.
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
ever:)
9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish
and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their
own names.
12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the
sayings. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them;
and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their
beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he
house is increased;
17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
light.
20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts
that perish.
PSALM 50
1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth
from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he
himself. Selah.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify
thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
High:
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and
thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and
set them in order before thine eyes.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces,
sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before
me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy
sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear
when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden
within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit
from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy
free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be
praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou
delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks
upon thine altar.
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deceitfully.
3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak
righteousness. Selah.
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away,
and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of
the living. Selah.
6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in
PSALM 53
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and
there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath
scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put
them to shame, because God hath despised them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God
bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel
shall be glad.
PSALM 54
3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after
6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for
it is good.
7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath
PSALM 55
a noise;
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of
the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are
overwhelmed me.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly
Selah.
8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against
me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of
God in company.
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell:
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but
I will trust in thee.
PSALM 56
1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting
4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not
for evil.
6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they
people, O God.
8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are
11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do
unto me.
12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver
my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
PSALM 57
1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth
in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these
calamities be overpast.
2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things
for me.
3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of
him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and
his truth.
4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set
on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and
their tongue a sharp sword.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be
they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen
themselves. Selah.
7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give
praise.
8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will
awake early.
9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee
clouds.
11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be
PSALM 58
so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth
bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like
the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as
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men.
3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered
against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help
me, and behold.
5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake
heathen in derision.
9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my
defence.
10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my
even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be:
and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth.
Selah.
14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a
not satisfied.
16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in
the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my
trouble.
17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and
the God of my mercy.
PSALM 60
1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been
hear me.
6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
Edom?
10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God,
PSALM 61
1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is
enemy.
4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of
generations.
7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth,
perform my vows.
PSALM 62
be greatly moved.
3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be
slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they
delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and
my refuge, is in God.
8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before
a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if
PSALM 63
1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for
thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water
is;
2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the
sanctuary.
3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise
thee.
4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy
name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my
night watches.
7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower
11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him
shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
PSALM 64
enemy.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the
both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be
wounded.
8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all
1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be
performed.
2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied
with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of
our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of
them that are afar off upon the sea:
6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded
with power:
7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and
tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it
with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn,
when thou hast so provided for it.
10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the
furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the
springing thereof.
11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop
fatness.
12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills
PSALM 66
2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the
greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they
be heard:
9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be
moved.
10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is
tried.
11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our
loins.
12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through
fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my
vows,
14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I
was in trouble.
15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense
tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of
my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his
PSALM 67
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine
all nations.
3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the
6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own
PSALM 68
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him
before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let
upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his
holy habitation.
6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which
are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of
Israel.
9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst
published it.
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in
Salmon.
15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of
Bashan.
16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to
thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the
LORD God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even
fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and
unto thee.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of
silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out
old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and
is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
PSALM 69
1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully,
are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid
from thee.
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be
ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my
sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered
my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
mother's children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches
my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of
the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable
time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy
salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be
delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow
me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of
mine enemies.
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but
I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to
righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him
with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing
PSALM 70
1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.
2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let
Aha, aha.
4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let
PSALM 71
thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my
fortress.
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the
youth.
6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that
8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the
day.
9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my
strength faileth.
10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for
my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my
hurt.
14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and
more.
15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation
not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power
to every one that is to come.
19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done
side.
22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my
God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul,
for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my
hurt.
PSALM 72
1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the
king's son.
2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with
judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills,
by righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children
him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and
the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be
praised.
16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the
mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city
shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as
long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call
him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
wondrous things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh
slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the
wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued
could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:
increase in riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands
in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every
morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the
generation of thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them
my right hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me
to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth
PSALM 74
1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke
the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion,
wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the
thick trees.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
of thy bosom.
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
earth.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to
mighty rivers.
16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the
PSALM 75
1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up
up the horn:
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof,
all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the
PSALM 76
3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword,
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and
Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
wrath shalt thou restrain.
11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round
about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of
the earth.
PSALM 77
1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he
speak.
5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
more?
8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for
evermore?
9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his
Aaron.
PSALM 78
mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them
known to their children:
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children
which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their
children:
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of
generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit
was not stedfast with God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned
law;
11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table
in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his
people?
21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was
salvation:
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened
habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own
desire;
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in
trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned
in his covenant.
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did
not stir up all his wrath.
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth
in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy
One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered
field of Zoan.
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they
frost.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from
inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
his testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they
Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he
enemy's hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth
given to marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
lamentation.
65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty
perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not
69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which
sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to
PSALM 79
1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple
the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the
earth.
3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem;
and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him
be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood
of thy servants which is shed.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their
PSALM 80
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
be saved.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
we shall be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
the river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they
thy countenance.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of
PSALM 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with
the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on
none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in
PSALM 82
gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the
wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and
needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the
wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
PSALM 83
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O
God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the
inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes
possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
PSALM 84
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:
herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of
hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising
thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are
Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be
and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
PSALM 85
1 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back
to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger
to all generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace
unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may
PSALM 86
1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up
my soul.
5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in
supplications.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer
me.
8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are
alone.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted
me.
PSALM 87
2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of
Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me:
behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her:
PSALM 88
1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the
grave.
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man
thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all
faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer
about together.
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine
acquaintance into darkness.
PSALM 89
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I
David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all
generations. Selah.
5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy
among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to
hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and
shall be exalted.
18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our
king.
19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have
laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the
people.
20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed
him:
21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall
strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness
afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock
of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the
earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity
with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before
me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful
thine anointed.
39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
neighbours.
42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast
the ground.
45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered
men in vain?
48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
PSALM 90
of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is
past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in
troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the
unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning
thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be
children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and
establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands
establish thou it.
PSALM 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under
wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the
thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot
against a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the
PSALM 92
1 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto
deep.
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of
9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall
ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like
a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in
flourishing;
15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no
unrighteousness in him.
PSALM 93
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their
PSALM 94
proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the
workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine
heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of
ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the
his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright
in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which
frameth mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the
refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut
them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them
off.
PSALM 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the
land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It
is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into
my rest.
PSALM 96
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation
people.
4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be
heavens.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in
his sanctuary.
7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people
righteously.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with
his truth.
PSALM 97
1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be
glad thereof.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and
4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
his glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
remembrance of his holiness.
PSALM 98
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things:
his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness
Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
a psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
PSALM 99
1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the
cherubims; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered
them.
7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies,
PSALM 100
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and
not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with
PSALM 101
1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of
them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
person.
5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that
dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that
PSALM 102
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline
thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned
as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat
my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad
grass.
12 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance
thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their
prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people
appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they
shall be changed:
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall
PSALM 103
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy
name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children
of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous
in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
commandments to do them.
19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
his pleasure.
22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless
PSALM 104
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou
away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench
their thirst.
12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his
the conies.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
down.
20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of
God.
22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them
evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou
in due season.
28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked
PSALM 105
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his
works.
3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek
the LORD.
4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
chosen.
7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for
an everlasting covenant:
11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your
inheritance:
12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and
strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom
to another people;
14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried
him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and
Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of
Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
against his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
their kings.
31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all
their coasts.
32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees
of their coasts.
34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that
without number,
35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit
of their ground.
36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their
strength.
37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was
upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the
night.
40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
gladness:
44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the
ye the LORD.
PSALM 106
1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for
remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the
sea, even at the Red sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might
13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
the desert.
15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
soul.
16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the
LORD.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the
company of Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the
wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
eateth grass.
21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in
Egypt;
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the
Red sea.
23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses
his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he
should destroy them.
24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
word:
25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of
the LORD.
26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them
in the wilderness:
27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
commanded them:
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of
their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the
land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring
cry:
45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented
according to the multitude of his mercies.
46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
captives.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the
heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to
everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
PSALM 107
1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed
6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered
goodness.
10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound
sunder.
17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near
their destructions.
21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
waters;
24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
ground;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that
dwell therein.
35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground
into watersprings.
36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare
increase.
38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and
her mouth.
43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall
PSALM 108
1 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing
answer me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
Edom?
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O
PSALM 109
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are
opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right
hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not
let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a
fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me
they shaked their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast
done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
PSALM 110
1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make
of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for
his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the
head.
PSALM 111
1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the
uprightness.
9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his
PSALM 112
1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that
with discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in
everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in
the LORD.
8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his
teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
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evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the
heavens.
5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven,
the dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his
people.
9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful
PSALM 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of
strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that
lambs?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence
fountain of waters.
PSALM 115
1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy
pleased.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
see not:
6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
smell not:
7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
trusteth in them.
9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
shield.
11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and
their shield.
12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will
14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your
children.
15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth
silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
evermore. Praise the LORD.
PSALM 116
12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward
me?
13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the
LORD.
14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his
people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of
people.
19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O
Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
PSALM 117
2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the
PSALM 118
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy
endureth for ever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for
ever.
5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and
me?
7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall
fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my
salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the
21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my
salvation.
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone
of the corner.
23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and
be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee,
exalt thee.
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
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1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
commandments.
7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have
thee.
12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
riches.
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy
word.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
thy law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from
me.
20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments
at all times.
21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from
thy commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy
testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did
thy word.
26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy
statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of
thy wondrous works.
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according
graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before
me.
31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to
shame.
32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt
enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
I delight.
36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou
me in thy way.
38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be
ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have
loved.
48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I
caused me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened
me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not
declined from thy law.
52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have
comforted myself.
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy
words.
58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not
forgotten thy law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy
righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that
65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto
thy word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
word.
68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy
precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy
statutes.
72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold
and silver.
73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me
is my delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me
82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
thy statutes.
84 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute
precepts.
88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the
thy servants.
92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have
perished in mine affliction.
93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast
quickened me.
94 I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider
thy testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is
exceeding broad.
97 O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep
thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught
me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than
honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous
judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto
thy word.
108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy
precepts.
111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they
114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments
of my God.
116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me
judgments.
121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine
oppressors.
122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress
me.
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
righteousness.
124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me
thy statutes.
125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy
testimonies.
126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy
law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above
fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be
them.
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding
commandments.
132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to
precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy
statutes.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not
thy law.
137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and
very faithful.
139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have
is the truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy
statutes.
146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
thy word.
148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in
thy word.
149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
law.
151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast
law.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
to thy judgments.
157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not
judgments.
165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
offend them.
166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy
commandments.
167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways
thy word.
171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy
statutes.
172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
are righteousness.
173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my
delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments
help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do
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tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee,
Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
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1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will
not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right
hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy
soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from
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1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the
LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the
testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of
David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
within thee.
9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
PSALM 123
1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
PSALM 124
1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose
up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was
our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the
earth.
PSALM 125
1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be
shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon
Israel.
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1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them
that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with
singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great
things for them.
3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
PSALM 127
1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it:
except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of
youth.
5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not
be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
PSALM 128
1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be,
LORD.
5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
PSALM 129
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have
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supplications.
3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the
morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy,
PSALM 131
1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise
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2 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of
Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up
into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty
God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the
wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints
anointed.
11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it;
shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for
evermore.
13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his
habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with
bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall
crown flourish.
PSALM 133
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together
in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon
the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his
garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the
mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even
life for evermore.
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3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
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1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O
peculiar treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all
gods.
6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in
maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the
kingdoms of Canaan:
12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his
people.
13 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O
hands.
16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they
see not;
17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in
their mouths.
18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that
trusteth in them.
19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of
Aaron:
20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
the LORD.
21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
PSALM 136
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy
18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:
21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy
26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
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remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the
songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he
the stones.
PSALM 138
1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise
unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy
lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above
all thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst
shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy
right hand shall save me.
8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O
LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
PSALM 139
knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain
unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell,
of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold
me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall
the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my
mother's womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting.
PSALM 140
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent
man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they
gathered together for war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison
a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my
supplications, O LORD.
7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered
PSALM 141
1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice,
lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works
with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him
reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for
yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear
1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I
make my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest
my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for
me.
4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that
would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my
righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
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is desolate.
5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on
from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee
do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up
my soul unto thee.
9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide
me.
10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good;
PSALM 144
away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the
mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and
destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great
of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an
mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our
our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking
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1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and
ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and
ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness
is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
wondrous works.
6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will
of great mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his
works.
10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
bless thee.
11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
power;
12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
bowed down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat
in due season.
16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living
thing.
17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call
will he destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh
PSALM 146
2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God
is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day
and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all
generations. Praise ye the LORD.
PSALM 147
1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is
outcasts of Israel.
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
names.
5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is
infinite.
6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the
ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp
cry.
10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his
cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind
unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments,
PSALM 148
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him
in the heights.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is
saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye
the LORD.
PSALM 149
1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in
beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged
the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of
iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the
excellent greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the
LORD.
Revelation
CHAPTER 1
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto
his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and
signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of
prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is
at hand.
4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto
you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come;
and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him
that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to
they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation,
and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is
called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which
are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and
unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto
Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being
of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps
with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow;
went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun
shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his
right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels
of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are
the seven churches.
CHAPTER 2
1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he
that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of
the seven golden candlesticks;
2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou
canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say
they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast
and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will
remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes,
churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life,
which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things
saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich)
and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not,
but are the synagogue of Satan.
10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the
devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall
have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee
a crown of life.
11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith,
even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain
among you, where Satan dwelleth.
14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there
them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a
stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto
idols, and to commit fornication.
15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes,
churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,
and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written,
which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things
saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his
feet are like fine brass;
19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy
patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou
with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall
know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give
unto every one of you according to your works.
24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as
have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as
they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.
CHAPTER 3
1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he
that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works,
that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are
ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold
fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a
thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled
their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;
and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his
name before my Father, and before his angels.
6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.
7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things
saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that
openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door,
and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my
word, and hast not denied my name.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say
they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come
and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep
thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to
try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no
and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my
God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which
cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my
new name.
13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the
creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou
have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that
the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and
he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne,
even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.
CHAPTER 4
1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the
first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me;
which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be
hereafter.
2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set
stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto
an emerald.
4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and
upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white
raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and
voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne,
which are the seven Spirits of God.
6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal:
and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four
beasts full of eyes before and behind.
7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a
calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was
like a flying eagle.
8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and
they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him
that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the
throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their
crowns before the throne, saying,
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:
for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created.
CHAPTER 5
1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written
of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book,
and to loose the seven seals thereof.
6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four
beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God
sent forth into all the earth.
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that
twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps,
and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and
people, and nation;
10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was
ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to
receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and
glory, and blessing.
13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and
under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders
fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
CHAPTER 6
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it
were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had
a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering,
and to conquer.
3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second
given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they
should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat
on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A
measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny;
and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the
him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto
them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger,
and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony
which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy
and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on
the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was
said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their
fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were,
should be fulfilled.
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree
and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men,
and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and
every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us
from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to
stand?
CHAPTER 7
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of
the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not
blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal
of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to
whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we
were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of
the children of Israel.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed
twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed
twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe
number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which
elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and
worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and
thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for
ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are
these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me,
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day
and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell
among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall
and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes.
CHAPTER 8
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven about the space of half an hour.
2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them
censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer
it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the
throne.
4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of
and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and
lightnings, and an earthquake.
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared
themselves to sound.
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled
with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain
burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea
became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had
life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from
heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the
rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part
of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters,
because they were made bitter.
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was
smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so
as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third
part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of
heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the
earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,
which are yet to sound!
CHAPTER 9
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the
earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out
of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were
darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and
unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass
of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men
which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that
they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the
torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and
unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their
faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as
the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses
running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in
their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the
bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the
Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more
hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four
hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of
men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred
them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the
heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths
issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and
by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails
were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues
yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood:
which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with
a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were
the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot
about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up
those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth
heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that
therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there
should be time no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall
and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the
angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little
book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy
belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up;
and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it,
my belly was bitter.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood,
saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them
that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure
it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread
under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall
and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in
this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of
their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to
smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and
shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which
spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer
their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and
make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two
prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon
them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of
heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh
quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in
heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of
our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their
and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great
power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time
of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give
reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that
fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which
destroy the earth.
19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was
seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings,
and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
CHAPTER 12
the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be
delivered.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a
great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast
them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his
throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred
and threescore days.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in
heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into
the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused
them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to
the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto
you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short
time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished
for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the
mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his
mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make
war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of
God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER 13
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of
the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet
were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his
deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the
beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the
beast? who is able to make war with him?
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two
months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to
blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and
tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names
are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the
faith of the saints.
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he
causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast,
whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down
those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying
to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the
beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that
the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as
would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and
number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six
hundred threescore and six.
CHAPTER 14
1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an
hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their
foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers
harping with their harps:
3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and
before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song
but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from
the earth.
4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are
virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God
and to the Lamb.
5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the
hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of
the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any
man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his
forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is
poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and
in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever:
and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his
image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the
are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit,
that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one
sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in
his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud
voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the
time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and
over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle,
saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of
the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the
vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came
out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a
thousand and six hundred furlongs.
CHAPTER 15
1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels
having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them
that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over
his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass,
having the harps of God.
3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the
song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God
Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou
only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy
judgments are made manifest.
5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle
plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded
with golden girdles.
7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven
golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and
from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the
seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
CHAPTER 16
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels,
Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and
there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark
of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it
became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the
sea.
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and
Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou
name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented
not to give him glory.
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast;
and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for
pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and
of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of
the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and
keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew
tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there
came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying,
It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there
was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth,
so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of
the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to
give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone
about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the
plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
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1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials,
and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee
the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and
the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in
her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY,
with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered
with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will
tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her,
which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out
of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the
earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from
the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is
not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are
other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short
space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is
received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the
beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength
overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that
are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the
whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall
hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat
her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree,
and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be
fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven,
having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the
great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the
hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with
her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath
double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so
much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a
queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and
mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong
is the Lord God who judgeth her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and
lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they
shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas
that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment
come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her;
pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine
wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most
precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense,
and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and
horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee,
and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and
thou shalt find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine
linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious
stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every
shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as
trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying,
wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that
had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she
made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and
prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and
cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city
Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and
the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all
in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy
sorceries were all nations deceived.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the
Lord our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the
great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and
ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and
ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called
unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are
the true sayings of God.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See
thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the
testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit
of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he
that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his
smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and
gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and
the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on
them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and
against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon
the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls
were filled with their flesh.
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1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the
seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a
little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years
such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God
and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed
quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle:
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the
camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from
God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire
and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be
tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from
whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no
place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of
life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged
every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the
second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall
be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things
new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God,
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars,
shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:
which is the second death.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the
seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying,
Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of
the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south
breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and
four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was
all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the
second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte;
the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the
eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was
of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the
Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of
it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall
be no night there.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth,
there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her
fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the
nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of
the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their
foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall
reign for ever and ever.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the
Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants
the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of
heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which
shewed me these things.
9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep
the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and
he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give
the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the
city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and
the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and
morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth
say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him
take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall
add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out
of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly.
to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your
purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some
fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to
of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as
God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and
their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and
creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working
that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of
their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are
not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in
them that do them.
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things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to
repentance?
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto
thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto
themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while
accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou
commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law
you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou
judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men,
but of God.
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7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have
before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified
unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the
of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the
circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father
Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not
transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the
promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law,
but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us
all,
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and
calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy
seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body
now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the
deadness of Sarah's womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to
him;
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him
that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for
our justification.
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1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for
the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for
the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by
his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed
them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the
offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift
by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may
abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer
therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus
as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that
are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered
you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now
ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that
man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she
is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married
to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who
is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by
the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,
and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid.
But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is
good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but
good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good
I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not,
that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with
me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the
mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who
but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit
of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the
in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after
the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the
God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but
children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for
for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the
will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and
how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God
that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation,
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my
glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of
God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh
Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah
good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand,
not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and
that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and
the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to
the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were
unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children
of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the
children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness:
because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left
us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not
1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they
might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about
that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That
not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ
down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with
ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for
the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how
shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and
bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord,
God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into
all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke
you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will
anger you.
20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that
sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my
1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am
not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;
myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image
of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of
slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not
hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and
but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to
provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the
diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their
fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the
what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be
wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of
the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest
be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou
which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed
out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now
God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto
him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is
among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but
to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure
of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members
teaching;
8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it
with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with
cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave
15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that
weep.
16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the
men.
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place
unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him
drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
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1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power
then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt
have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that
which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the
minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet;
and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in
this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out
1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is
him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own
master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able
to make him stand.
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth
every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that
regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth,
eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to
the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die,
we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he
nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of
Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this
rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his
brother's way.
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is
charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing
1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and
the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is
written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing
unto thy name.
10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye
people.
12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he
that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye
also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish
one another.
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you
in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to
me of God,
16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might
be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in
hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and
deed,
19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of
God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully
preached the gospel of Christ.
20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ
to you.
23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great
Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is
also to minister unto them in carnal things.
28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them
and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your
prayers to God for me;
31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea;
and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the
saints;
32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may
1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church
which is at Cenchrea:
2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye
assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath
been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not
only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-
salute you.
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid
them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their
own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of
the simple.
19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad
therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is
good, and simple concerning evil.
20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus
1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was
wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab,
and continued there.
3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her
two sons.
4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the
one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there
about ten years.
5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman
from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how
that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and
her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return
unto the land of Judah.
8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to
her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with
the dead, and with me.
9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the
house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their
voice, and wept.
10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy
people.
11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with
me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your
husbands?
12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have
people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou
lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD
do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her,
pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved
about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for
empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified
against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in
law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came
to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
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field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the
reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto
Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the
reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD
bless thee.
5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers,
said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the
country of Moab:
7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the
reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from
the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go
not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by
my maidens:
9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after
them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee?
and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the
young men have drawn.
10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and
said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest
take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed
me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine
husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land
of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not
heretofore.
12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given
thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to
trust.
13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that
thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine
handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat
of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the
reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was
sufficed, and left.
15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his
young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and
reproach her not:
16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and
leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had
saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that
she had reserved after she was sufficed.
19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to
day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge
of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought,
and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the
LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.
And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next
kinsmen.
21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt
keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my
daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in
any other field.
23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end
of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
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1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not
thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the
man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place
where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay
thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
6 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that
he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly,
and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and
handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a
near kinsman.
10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for
thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning,
inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou
requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous
woman.
12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a
perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's
part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the
part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.
14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before
one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman
came into the floor.
15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it.
And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on
her: and she went into the city.
16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art
thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he
matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the
thing this day.
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1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold,
the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such
a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye
the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother
Elimelech's:
4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the
inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it,
redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for
there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I
will redeem it.
5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of
Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead,
to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar
are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house
like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do
thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar
bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this
young woman.
13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in
unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which
hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be
famous in Israel.
15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher
of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better
to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became
a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of
Jesse, the father of David.
18 Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better
than wine.
3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as
chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love
more than wine: the upright love thee.
5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents
looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made
me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where
thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that
turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth
by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds'
tents.
9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in
Pharaoh's chariots.
10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains
of gold.
11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the
smell thereof.
13 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all
of Engedi.
15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast
doves' eyes.
16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is
green.
17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his
fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me
was love.
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of
love.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace
me.
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by
the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the
behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through
the lattice.
10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds
tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come
away.
14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places
of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet
is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our
17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my
beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of
Bether.
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broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found
him not.
3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said,
my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought
him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived
me.
5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by
the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of
smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the
merchant?
7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are
the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for
the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with
the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals,
and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
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1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'
eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from
mount Gilead.
2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which
came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is
barren among them.
3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy
look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the
lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast
ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is
thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk
are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of
Lebanon.
12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a
fountain sealed.
13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits;
Lebanon.
16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my
garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into
his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
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myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the
lock.
6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself,
and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could
not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me,
they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved,
among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that
thou dost so charge us?
10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten
thousand.
11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black
as a raven.
12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters,
thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices,
the lilies.
4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem,
whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among
them.
7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw
her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they
praised her.
10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon,
and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of
Amminadib.
13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look
upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of
two armies.
CHAPTER 7
1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of
thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters
of grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs
thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the
smell of thy nose like apples;
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that
goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine
flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud
forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of
pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
CHAPTER 8
when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be
despised.
2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who
would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice
of my pomegranate.
3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should
embrace me.
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor
beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought
thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for
love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof
are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it:
if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly
be contemned.
8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do
for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if
must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to
faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after
godliness;
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised
and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order
the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had
appointed thee:
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful
selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy
lucre;
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy,
temperate;
9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may
teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The
Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they
and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is
defiled.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him,
being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
CHAPTER 2
charity, in patience.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh
holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good
things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their
men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the
deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful, and hating one another.
4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward
man appeared,
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
Saviour;
7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs
and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition
reject;
11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being
condemned of himself.
12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to
come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently,
1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the
LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith
the LORD of hosts.
4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have
cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil
ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto
me, saith the LORD.
5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for
ever?
6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants
the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned
and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to
our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is
the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the
LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he
stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him
were there red horses, speckled, and white.
9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked
with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and
said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro
through the earth.
11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the
myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and,
behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of
hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities
of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and
ten years?
13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with
saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for
Zion with a great jealousy.
15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease:
for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with
mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line
shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through
prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort
Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these?
And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah,
Israel, and Jerusalem.
20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a
LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven,
saith the LORD.
7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of
Babylon.
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me
unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the
apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be
a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath
sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will
1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of
the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O
Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not
this a brand plucked out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before
the angel.
4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him,
saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said,
Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe
thee with change of raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a
fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of
the LORD stood by.
6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if
thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt
also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that
stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit
before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth
my servant the BRANCH.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one
stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof,
saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one
day.
10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his
1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a
and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and
his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are
upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and
Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word
of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by
my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with
shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me unto you.
10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall
rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those
seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the
whole earth.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive
trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two
olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil
out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these
1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying
roll.
2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a
flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten
cubits.
3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the
face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on
this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as
on that side according to it.
4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into
the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by
my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall
consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me,
Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth
forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a
the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came
out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like
the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and
the heaven.
10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these
bear the ephah?
11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar:
and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
CHAPTER 6
1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there
came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains
were mountains of brass.
2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot
black horses;
3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot
spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the LORD of
all the earth.
6 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north
country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward
the south country.
7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to
and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro
through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold,
these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north
country.
9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day,
and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;
11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon
the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow
up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear
the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest
upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to
Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple
of the LORD.
15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the
LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the
LORD your God.
CHAPTER 7
1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of
the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month,
even in Chisleu;
2 When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and
LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth
month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
4 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying,
When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those
seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for
the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your
heart.
11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and
not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations
whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man
passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
CHAPTER 8
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great
the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and
the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old
women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in
his hand for very age.
5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in
Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth
and in righteousness.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that
hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were
in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid,
that the temple might be built.
10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for
beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in
because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his
neighbour.
11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the
and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their
dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these
things.
13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the
heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and
ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you,
when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I
repented not:
15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem
truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your
gates:
17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his
neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,
saith the LORD.
18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and
the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth,
shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts;
therefore love the truth and peace.
20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that
pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations,
even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go
with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
CHAPTER 9
1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and
Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the
tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though
it be very wise.
3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as
very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the
king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of
the Philistines.
7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his
abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he,
shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron
as a Jebusite.
8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army,
because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and
no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with
mine eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having
salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an
ass.
10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from
Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace
unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and
from the river even to the ends of the earth.
11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth
raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee
as the sword of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go
forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and
shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour,
and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as
through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the
altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock
shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
CHAPTER 10
1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall
make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in
the field.
2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a
lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went
their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished
the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of
Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him
in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the
LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the
house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have
mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for
I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart
shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad;
their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them:
me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.
10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather
them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and
Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.
11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite
the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the
pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall
depart away.
12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are
spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come
down.
3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is
spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is
spoiled.
4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their
own shepherds pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD:
but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into
the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I
will not deliver them.
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the
flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the
other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed
that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh
of another.
10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might
price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver,
and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might
of a foolish shepherd.
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit
those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that
is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the
fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall
be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up,
and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
CHAPTER 12
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which
stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and
formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah
and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all
people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all
the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with
astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes
upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with
blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The
fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall
devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and
Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory
of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not
magnify themselves against Judah.
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the
house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all
house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of
Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the
apart.
CHAPTER 13
1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and
that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no
more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean
spirit to pass out of the land.
3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then
his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt
not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father
and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he
prophesieth.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be
ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall
they wear a rough garment to deceive:
5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man
hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the
house of my friends.
7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that
is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two
parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them
as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my
name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say,
The LORD is my God.
CHAPTER 14
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in
city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and
half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people
shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as
which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall
cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and
there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove
toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of
the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled
from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the
LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be
day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be
light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward
the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one LORD, and his name one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place,
from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner
gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter
destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all
the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume
away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the
LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the
hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his
neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the
heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and
apparel, in great abundance.
15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as
this plague.
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the
the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even
upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no
rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the
heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall
be like the bowls before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto
the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of
them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the
Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
Zephaniah
CHAPTER 1
1 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi,
the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days
of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the
heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the
wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this
place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops;
and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by
Malcham;
6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that
the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid
his guests.
8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I
will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are
clothed with strange apparel.
9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the
threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there
shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the
second, and a great crashing from the hills.
11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are
cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search
Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their
lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do
evil.
13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a
desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they
shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth
greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry
there bitterly.
15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day
men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall
be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in
the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the
fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them
that dwell in the land.
CHAPTER 2
2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff,
before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of
the LORD's anger come upon you.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought
drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the
Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of
the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds,
they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down
in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away
their captivity.
8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the
gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place,
even all the isles of the heathen.
12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy
Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the
nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels
of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the
thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her
heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a
desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by
her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
CHAPTER 3
2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she
trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening
every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the
unjust knoweth no shame.
6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their
streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that
there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so
their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they
rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I
all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the
shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie
down, and none shall make them afraid.
14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice
thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee:
thou shalt not see evil any more.
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to
he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over
thee with singing.
18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly,
her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them
praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather
you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the
earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.
Table of Contents
Introduction
MINISTERING THROUGH THE SPIRIT
HIS LIVING TABERNACLE
GOD’S PRINCIPLE FOR PROTECTION
NO HOLIDAYS FROM SOUL WINNING
A CAUSE WORTH MORE THAN LIFE
YOU RADIATE HIS BEAUTY
HE’S YOUR EVERLASTING FATHER
IT MATTERS HOW YOU THINK
A MINDSET OF THE WORD
IT MATTERS THOSE YOU ASSOCIATE WITH
DAILY BLESSINGS IN HIS NAME
THE GREATER ONE IN YOU
FOLLOW THE DIVINE PLAN
IT’S A FORMAT; NOT A PRAYER
LIGHT IN A DARK WORLD
GIVE NO FOOTHOLD TO SATAN
PREACHING THE WORD
CHRIST-INSPIRED WORLD VIEW
TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PROTECTION
TRUST THE EXTRAORDINARY STRATEGIST
DISCERN THE BODY OF CHRIST
DON’T WORRY ABOUT TITLES
PLANNING IS IMPORTANT
SANCTIFICATION OF THE MESSENGER
THE CHAMPION OF PEACE
PREACH WITH CLARITY
SPEAK HIS WORD…NOT YOUR IDEAS
THE KINGDOM CULTURE
IT’S GOING TO BE A GREAT PARTY
DON’T GO IN THEIR DIRECTION
PRAYER OF SALVATION
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